democratic officials. republicans are demanding more answers from president biden over his handling of classified material, but the white house says those answers do not exist. we ll explain. in ukraine, hope of finding survivors is fading after a reportedly russian missile sliced an apartment building in half on saturday. we re live with the latest. on capitol hill, a battle is brewing over the debt limit. the deadline to raise is two day was. congress isn t in session, so what happens on thursday? and a new policy goes into effect today for miliary veterans in crisis. how it could help millions. we begin this morning with the arrest of a failed republican candidate accused of being a master mind behind a series of shootings at the homes of democrat you can lawmakers. police took him into custody yesterday calling the shootings politically motivated. back in november, he lost his race for state representative and complained the election was rigged. police say he confro
Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. The first guilty plea in the Georgia Election case for efforts to steal electoral votes. This guilty plea from a Bail Bondsman scott hall, one of 18 codefendants carjack chad alongside donald trump. Plus a fight over the home of glamorous actress Marilyn Monroe. Should this home be protected as an Historic Site or should it be knock ed down to make room for new red hot real estate. And leading this hour, the odds of a Government Shutdown are now higher than Willie Nelson taking a tour of a. M. Dam. One day until the government runs out of funding and theres no clear path to a solutions. A lastditch measure failed in the house. 21 republicans crossed over to vote with democrats, eeb House Republican leaders say they are in the dark about where to go from here. Its up to the speak er. Its not including active duty troops or any of their families. On average, federal workers earn between 55,000 and 65,000 a year. Average pay for an Army Staff Sergeant
questions about it. what about pretending to be your chief of staff? i didn t know about that. know they corrected, but i wasn t notified until a later date. did you speak to him about it? yeah. i didn t know about it until a later date unfortunately. it seems like there s an unlimited well of stuff. are republicans feeling any pressure to do or say more about santos? mccar thu s osture is that he thinks that if he pushes santos out now, he will have to push out any republican with any allegations against them. i think that s going to become a less and less tenable position. this is somebody who had a staff member or whose staff member impersonated the chief of staff. these are very serious allegations. to be fair mccarthy did not
candidate mccar thu is already lining up community heads and an election is set for june 19th. a small town mayor dropping a load on the lawn of the political opponent now being asked to step down. they say the mayor smeared the town s image. he tossed the bag full of, well, you can guess fill in the blanks because he was against caneer s plan for a dog park. world cup fever reaching the outer limits of faith. the german astronaut showing off their 0 g s move bicycle kicking and goalie diving. they will tune into the world cup. tensions rising a bit when the united states and germany pafac