to be at his civil fraud case today, so why did he show up? the lead starts right now. if the microphone was on the former president repeatedly found that claiming his civil fraud cases in the way of his 2024 campaign. plus, this jamie is here to talk about not just trump, not just kevin mccarthy, but house speaker mike johnston, and her fears for what the u.s. might look like in 2025. plus, the one thing she agrees with donald trump about. it has to do with his assessment of kevin mccarty. and that shocking new investigation. the threats to public officials, lawmakers and election workers. who is making them and why? welcome to the lead. we start this hour with former president donald trump attended his new york civil fraud trial today while his rivals are out on the campaign trail. this is just a witch-hunt. i should be in iowa and new hampshire, i shouldn t be sitting at a courthouse. i don t have to sit here. actually doesn t have to be there. for trump this is a camp
decision, how do you control so no one else that s not a human being can make those firing decisions. these are all things being developed as we speak. one consistent point, jessica, that age is already here. it is here now. and before we let you go, i also want to ask you about u.s. aid, both to israel and ukraine. but specifically the ukraine aid seems to be somewhat in limbo, both of them need to get over the finish line. what are you hearing on that front? yeah, the irony of this, and i hear this from lawmakers in both parties, is that large ma majorities in both parties, the senate and the house, want to pass both israel and ukraine aid. there is a small population, particularly among republicans in the house, who are standing in the way. the leadership won t bring this to the floor. so negotiations are under way to get over that. they ve been focused in the senate where you would have a combination of things. ukraine, israel, but also new measures for border securit
lawrence: that s what we re doing this morning. look they have a cool sign for us. [cheers] lawrence: what s up, guys? what s up? [cheers and applause] what s up? it s alpharetta, georgia, baby. you know if you are going to show up to georgia, you better bring the entire team. [laughter] [cheers and applause] is it was an incredible debate last night about liberty and freedom vs. human decay on the streets between gavin newsom and the governor from the free safety florida ron desantis. and it was right here in alpharetta, georgia. we decided we were going to have breakfast with our friends this morning. [cheers and applause] lawrence: to see what they thought about it. i can t wait to talk to them all. a lot of interesting opinion already before the show even started, guys. i will send it back to you all in new york. brian: don t go anywhere, lawrence. we need to speak to you. brian: first off how much power do you have? he decides fly and i m staying. pick a dine
inside the memoir are a ton of revelation, including this one, to perk up the ears of prosecutors and jack smith s office. cheney reveals mccarthy told her two days after the election he talked to trump and trump acknowledged he had lost the 2020 election. he needs to go through all the stages of grief, he said. cheney writes, she thought to herself those stages seemed to involve tweeting in all caps. we all know what happened after the election. donald trump fights desperately to overturn his election defeat. kevin mccarthy enabled him every step of the way. liz cheney says about the current speaker, cheney recounts how johnson pressured members to throw out election results from four states trump had lost. when i confirmed with him the flaws in his legal argument, he would say something to effect of, we just need to do this one last thing for trump. according to cheney, that effectively became the republican party ice agenda. here s what happened just before the capitol was
in this segment. so before we go to break, we ll be getting into one of those. first i want to give you the latest with the middle east. the israeli cabinet is meeting on the very big question of whether or how to extend a pause in the fighting in the ongoing conflict with hamas, and they re racing against a deadline, because that pause s according to the deal that was struck, basically over, terminated if no new deal is reached tonight. officials from the u.s., israel, qatar, egypt, they ve all been in talks today. there s a lot of forces that want to make this step possible, especially considering with any deal you say, will it work? will both sides participate? innocent people have been freed according to many of the people in the region, so when you look at the scenes of some of these people being reunited, you can see why many people want this to continue. the last two hours hamas released 14 hours, including an american. that is if you re counting many of them younger