trump s reward, the big lie, the former president is giving greg abbott a resounding endorsement for pushing the voter law in the united states. trump writes and i quote him greg abbott is a fighter and a great governor for the incredible people of texas and is all in on election integrity. grant new power to party and poll watchers and cut back sunday morning voting which happens to be when many black church goers head to the polls. the entire motivation around this law and why this is happening now is trump s lie. listen to the texas republican who s guiding this bill through the texas house. the constitution commands the legislature to pass legislation and punish fraud and preserve the ballot box. see here is the thing. this only works if your premise is a lie and fraud. here is the republican secretary of state from texas and her top department talking about the election. despite the challenges presented by covid-19, this election was a resounding success. despi
he worried about? let s go outfront. good evening, i am erin burnett. trump s lies fuelling new fear of violence. qa qanon s new favorite messaging could inspire the attack of the wake of the january 6th insurrection. that app is called telegram. it is a hotbed of dangers conspiracy theories and lies about the election, including of the ridiculous idea. it is hard to come up with the right adjective to describe this but ridiculous works. that trump is going to be president again. according to maggie haberman s report, trump told his people that he s going to be president again. it should be that he could simply be reinstated that a new inauguration date is set. and biden is told to move out of the white house and biden should move out of the white house and president trump moving right in. . election of 2020 is going bye-bye. donald trump is back in office in august. what did i say? absurd fantasy and dangerously deranged. trump appears to not only buying the m
good evening, i am erin burnett. rudy giuliani is not backing down. trump s attorney says it is all politics. obviously the assistant u.s. attorney hates me and they hate trump which is the whole thing to believe that i am some kind of russian agent look at my career and my background and career. here is what we do know thus far. the feds are looking into whether rudy giuliani illegally lobbied on behalf of ukrainian officials while he was trying to dig up dirt on joe biden. this is a serious charge. on its own it could carry up to f five years of prison. they also can have the right to prosecute. so this is pandora s box. he s right about one thing, he did once have a very impressive career and then a stunning s stooping downfall. in a situation like this and tragedy and a lot of anger and hatred. i ask the people of the city not to have those feelings right now for ever. the days since this devastating attack led him to be called america s mayor. he s the mayor of
i m erin burnett. out front tonight, the breaking news. she s out. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene has officially been removed from both the education and budget committees. those key committees. but only 11 republicans made a move for her to lose that position. only 11 republicans holding her accountable for her fringe conspiracy theories and dangerous rhetoric. these 11 include adam kinzinger and brian fitzpatrick. they joined 219 democrats who vote today strip greene from her assignments object the education and budget committees. let me just do the math for you. what that means is that 199 republicans looked the other way when it came to punishing greene for her bigoted and deranged comments and views. they represent nearly every state. they include kevin mccarthy and liz cheney, the number three house republican. these elected officials gave greene and these comments their stamp of approval. the so-called plane that crashed into the pentagon, it s odd, there is ne
that are populated by iran, islamic revolutionary guards, quds force, which is the paramilitary arm there are, there are some other options. the former head of the mossad is israel s former spy agency a couple of hours ago, also said the israeli cabinet is considering targeting iran nuclear infrastructure which would definitely be an escalation i think they are considering a lot of the options and probably trying to take an action that makes him look serious. but not get them into a complete all-out war. of course, though the every single one of these things that you say, i think anybody watching is fearful you think it s just a small escalation, but none of these things really are. we re in unchartered territory seth. thank you so much. thanks erin thanks for joining us. the lead starts now cnn breaking news welcome to the lean. i m jake tapper. we start this hour with breaking news and what we do just heard from house speaker mike johnson live right here on the lead