Polling that come out, both the national polls and the swing state polls. Are generally telling the same story right now, they re telling a story that vice president kamala harris is doing significantly better against donald trump than president biden had been doing in his campaign. That is comparatively good news for the democrats. They are, apparently, better off now with harris as their candidate than they were before the switch from biden to harris. That said, in absolute terms, the polls, national polls, and the swing state polls, broadly speaking, don t really give either party a reason to celebrate right now. Vice president harris may be doing better than biden was against trump, but it doesn t mean that she is clearly winning against trump. It s basically a tie between the two candidates right now. And that produces all sorts of interesting dynamics to watch for, when it is this close, little differences between the candidates and their campaigns can make a very interesting not
here, like rebuked this call to redirect money to defund this bill system. incarceration and policingi don it is a real political goal. they are not differing positions, i never said we would take funds from police. directing to the consent decree to hire and promote and train more detectivives and impelements laws on the books, never said i was going to cut the police budget. ashley: here is more on the budget. good morning, later this morning, new chicago mayor brandon johnson will be sworn in with no small task, figure out how to stop crime in the city. brandon johnson will need to learn to support police. he says his policies will go after the root causes of crime. chicago police report murders are down slightly from this time last year, but are in the hundreds. motor vehicle thefts are up 130%. just yesterday, a gang went after 10 people in 30 minutes. police are still looking for the suspects, adding to the violence, this past weekend, 25 were shot and six died.
good morning everyone. welcome, caitlyn is off. anger fear and frustration at last night s cnn town hall. a railroad ceo coming face-to-face with residents after a toxic train wreck released a toxic chemicals in their town. and a tv journalist shot and killed at a murder scene when learn about the shooting spree that left three day including a child. and the grand jury investigating donald trump is going deeper into his circle. but we begin with the train disaster in east palestine, ohio. and pete buttigieg is going to the scene. just hours from now federal investigators are expected to release their preliminary report as to why the train derailed and burst into an inferno. cnn analysts the video of the train leading up to the wreck. sparks flying from the wheels indicate they may have been overheating and the train slowed down dramatically but kept going for 20 miles before going off the rails. it raises the question, did the engineer realize something was wrong? and in
accountability for the failures that horrible day. this week in no smart part due to the reporting of shimon revealed the school district police department hired a former state trooper under investigation for her actions during the mass sacre, i should say lack of actions during the massacre and shimon uncovered this video of her on the day of the massacre talking to other officers. listen. reporter: an officer asked if her children attend rob eloquent men starry. her response. do you have kids in there? my son is in daycare. he s not old enough. i saw you yeah, no, no. if my son had been in there, i would not have been outside, i promise you that. she said if her son had been inside the school, quote, i would not have been outside. i promise you that. so last night we learned there officer has been fired by the school district. fired the day after shim mon ha tried to get answers why she was hired in the first place since she was under investigation. the studen
they thought releasing it helped their case? also, urgent warning, the u.s. urging americans to leave ukraine immediately. the warnings of a possible russian attack as ukraine prepared to mark its day of independence. plus, explosive whistleblower claims in a cnn exclusive. the man who was head of twitter security says your data on the site is not safe and security problems at twitter are so grave, they re even a risk to national security. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with politics lead and damning new details in the battle over the classified documents trump and his team took to mar-a-lago. we re learning officials from the national archives directly told donald trump s legal team in may that they were so concerned about what the trump team had taken with them and how those documents were being stored at mar-a-lago that top u.s. intelligence agencies had been called in to do a damage assessment, as in damage to national security. now, to be clear, t