biden is old. he s not as articulate as he once was. i m going to run and win again. he may not be the best choice to take on donald trump. are you sure you are being honest with yourself when you say you have the mental and physical capacity to serve another four years. you have to pick the strongest candidate possible and every day he delays in making that decision makes it more difficult. joe biden is running against a criminal. it should not be even close and there is one reason it is close and that is the president s age. do you have questions? all the data shows the average datagram out there in the 14 million of them that voted for me still want me to be the nominee. john: president biden facing what could be the most consequential week of his career as more lawmakers in his own party car on him and to end his reelection campaign. in a short time from now we are expected to get reaction from the white hou when the briefing gets underway. that will be
joe walsh is back with us this morning. joe, aside from afghanistan this week which of course has been a massive story. there were also big developments involving the investigation into the attack on the capitol earlier this year in january. house minority leader kevin mccarthy made that threat to telecommunication companies saying if they complied with records request from the committee doing the investigating when republicans are in the majority he said they would not forget. joe, we have now learned he s among the lawmakers whose phone records the panel is requesting that these telecommunications companies reserve. kaitlan, mccarthy is nervous. jim jordan is nervous. these republicans are nervous. no doubt about that. but i m struck again the language mccarthy and marjorie taylor greene and jordan and the rest of them used threatening these private companies. the government is going to come after you. man, this is not the republican party i belonged to. this is trump s p
remnants of hurricane ida battered the northeast with record-breaking rain and historic and deadly flooding. at least 46 people have now died across six states. many drowning in their homes and cars. more than 20 million people remain under flood warnings this morning. the threat of flooding from rising rivers is expected to continue into the holiday weekend. and officials say that more than 500 new yorkers had to be rescued from flooded roads, buildings and subway stations. the new york police department even had to make a water rescue in central park. at least eight tornadoes touched down in pennsylvania, massachusetts and new jersey. at times reducing homes to nothing but splinters. and now, the clean-up and damage assessment begins. we begin this morning with cnn s polo sandoval who is live in hard-hit bound brook, new jersey. polo, hey, what s going on? and what are you seeing over there? reporter: kaitlan, good morning to you. that nearby river is slowly it s stil
homes simply gone. cnn s pete muntean is where an ef-2 tornado struck in pennsylvania. pete, what kind of damage are you seeing? reporter: ana, the officials here are describing this damage as devastating after the ef-2 tornado came through here only less than 48 hours ago. governor tom wolf just finished updating folks here and said that there were hundreds of calls for water rescues. the issue here is not necessarily just flooding, although that has been widespread throughout montgomery county where there have been three deaths, maybe a fourth death that we were just learning of. governor tom wolf of pennsylvania joins me now. governor, what s the priority now that we are more than 36 hours away from when the storm passed through? what s the focus? the focus is on cleanup and getting people back to their normal lives as quickly as we possibly can. you can see given the magnitude of the devastation, that s a big, big job. there are a lot of people working, as i said in m