today inside politics, the gop finds votes to come out on top. republicans pass a crucial bill that assures the u.s. is ready to fight wars, and they did it after putting a deliberate conservative stamp on it. jared kushner under oath, new report ing reveals that prosecutors ask the former president s son-in-law, did donald trump believe his own election lies. and iowa decides in six months. the countdown to the caucuses is on as donald trump decides to play hooky and skip a big summit. his bet, who needs iowa when you have mike tyson. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. up first, kevin mccarthy can keeps the republican family mostly together to win a culture war battle. last hour, the house did its job and cleared a must-pass defense bill. the final vote tally was 219-210. if that seems really tight for a bill that sets military policy, it is. the sennarrow margin is thanks a very heated back and forth over controversial add-ones to the
standpoint. casey jordan, thank you very much. and that s it for me and our special coverage does continue now with laura coates. she s up next live. breaking news, a terrifying manhunt is now over, but there are so many questions that remain. tonight i m laura coates live. there s been now a stunning end to the manhunt in maine. the suspect in the mass shooting that killed 18 people have now been found dead in the woods near lisbon, maine, with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. law enforcement telling cnn s john miller robert card was found in an area from a recycling center at which he d been recently fired. we have no idea how long he d been found or what was found on his body. we don t know if he was found in an area law enforcement already searched and just missed it or he recently was found there anew. had he been on the run? did he have any help evading police for so long? we have a lot of questions, but there will be a press conference again to
i have been in the west wing. a president of the united states crisis facing america. that s thev former presvice president, who is now going after a person who is 38 years old and never held political office.çw does that make them look smaller? does that diminish them by goinñ afterú.ía vivek ramaswamy? experience and being able to serve in the highest office of the country. they pointed that out last night that vivek doesn t have experience in not just politics, but in leadership and understanding the issues. he demonstrated he didn t understand the issues. to your point,s it was fact checked in realtimes, which is one of the biggest complaints about donald trump is it s hard to even keep up with how many lies he spewed. last night it was hard to keep up withd)s those with vitt vek. him being the youngest, it was
subpoenaed or asked for interviews by the special counsel. so this appears to be a large part of what the special counsel is working on now. fascinating reporting. you mentioned that the pattern was a remiender. w porting is pennsylvania and new mexico, we already know that jocelyn benson, and rusty bahhers of arizona. we shouldn t be surprised by i any of this. if indeed the special counsel is following through with the mission that attorney general garland assigned when the special counsel was announced, looking into all the efforts related to the fallout of the 2020 election, efforts to overturn it in the lead up to january 6th, these state players are critical. part of our reporting in realtimes was how these state players actually were the guardrails at the end of the day that prevented dlt dth and his allies from being able to overturn a legitimate election.
the president talks on the only liking unilateral trade deals. when you re america, you re the 800 pound gorilla. countries only feel good when they ban together. i thought that was interesting. listen, but from a perspective of are these guys going to work together, when you compare those two sitting there, you and i have sat in this seat over and over and watched this president and other world leaders. listen, these two speak one another s language. they have a groove together. i agree. he also spoke about north korea, and he talked about how great kim jong-un is being. you must talk about this just for a moment. yeah. did he call him a great leader. he said honorable. honorable. and open. honorable and open. i don t know if you can just in realtimes whether you can ever call him open. it s the most closed society in the world. i don t know about honorable. and you can never possibly call him honorable. first of all, there are currently three americans still