With jake tapper starts right now the man trump calls old crow, is flying the coop the leads Ich Mcconnell there with his own 2024 plants, stepping down as Senate Republican leader, though hes going to stay on as a senator from kentucky. The new era of republican politics. Now, loading as a new highstakes restate kicks into gear to replace mcconnell, odds are the winter will likely be an old white guy named John Plus A Monster Wildfire in Texas Exploding at one point burning through 150 football fields a minute charring through land 11 size 11 times the size of washington, dc. Were going to go live on the ground as this fire and wide open land prompts evacuations in its path and President Bidens date with the dr. The report, do any moments after his annual physical welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper. We start with our Politics Lead and the end of an era on capitol hill, senator Mitch Mcconnell, the longest serving Congressional Party leader in american history, announced today hes ste
emerged of aprons speaking abou abortion at an event at morehouse college where she claims fetal heart beats are ge this, manufactured. get there is no such thing is a heartbeat it is as out designed to convince people that they have control over a woman s body . great today. we have doctor nicole and i was not aware there was a conspiratorial plot with doctor in medical technicians, doctors nurses, of which of you are a part of presumably, where doctors are manufactured and we are giving audiophiles when the go into their prenatal appointments. this is absurd in conspiratoria great i hope we hear democrats condemned this again waiting to see what s happening on social media. this was of flat out lie. when you re talking to people especially when you re in politics in your wanting people s votes. people are going to believe wha she has to say. i m going to deliver the truth and point out it is a complete lie, so about three weeks after gestation after consumption, th heart o
heartbeat and they agree there is a heartbeat at six weeks, bu they look at the development of the fetus. i think this is an important issue on the state level as we are headed into all the elections now the gop really needs to get its act together when it comes to this to listen to what the majority of america people want, what they think is reasonable, which is possibly having an abortion up to 12 weeks. six weeks may be very restrictive, if they take that approach, people like stacy abrams are going to get a platform to make ridiculous arguments like this and you re going to have people on the lef supporting her and not even realizing it s not based in fac freight what they need to do is take this issue off the table b being reasonable about it so we can focus on other things, the economy, crime, education, the border, all of the things that our plaguing this country and states right now. ultimately voters will have their say. i took the view that vice president mike pence or two
we re told that s off the table b at this point. the only caveat being a lot of this effort is designed to answer any questions or concerns particularly to three republican lawmakers wavering on kavanaugh s nomination. in theory, one of those lawmakers could push the white house to open that door, but at this point, we re told that door remains closed and that s not an area the bureau is going to go into unless they re specifically asked to by the white house. so i was under the impression yesterday that the probe was expanded by the white house because jeff flake and potentially others made a call and asked the president to do so. does that mean the call was only met a certain portion of the way? did he not specifically ask about those allegations, or did the white house interpret it more narrowly? i think there s a question of understanding the process here that explains that. that s that the fbi began basically with marching orders to talk to four people. that s the initial roun