and what they think must be done to protect muslims and choose here, as well as what they think about what s going on in israel. i ve made my positions clear. i want to hear from them. so it s gonna be an interesting conversation, since i have both of them on to express their views. this is gonna be good. i ll be watching, rev. take it away. thank you. thank you, simone. and good evening, and welcome to politicsnation. tonight s lead, election count down. , election count down today marks exactly one year until the 2024 election, a new polling from the new york times paints a grim picture for president biden s reelection prospects. donald trump, the twice impeached, repeatedly indicted former president s pulling ahead of biden in five of six key battleground states. even as he heads back to court tomorrow in his new york fraud trial. i ll talk to biden s campaigns, communications director ahead. but first, there s also an election on tuesday, with abortion on the ball
leadership of our intelligence community in speaking with a unified accurate voice about national security threats. he is putting your colleagues in an untenable position and hurting the national interest in the process. you must find a way to make that clear to him. educate him. in other words, do the impossible, do what no one has ever been able to do. no previous president has ever publicly attacked all of the heads of america s intelligence gathering agencies and all of the people working in those agencies. that is what donald trump did today because the 42-page report of the worldwide threat assessment presented to the senate yesterday by the heads of those agencies is actually the worked product of everyone working in those agencies. the title of the document is worldwide threat assessment of
gathering agencies and all of the people working in those agencies. that is what donald trump did today because the 42-page report of the worldwide threat assessment presented to the senate yesterday by the heads of those agencies is actually the worked product of everyone working in those agencies. the title of the document is worldwide threat assessment of the u.s. intelligence community. the work of thousands of people went into that document, including thousands of people who were not being paid for some of the time that that document was being produced because of the trump shutdown of the government. this is one of those days where we try to reach for the language that will place this event in history. we try to find the words to convey the enormity of the abhorrent behavior the president displayed, and when we try to find those words now, we fail
our national security and preserve u.s. power and influence abroad. i believe it is incumbent on you, director wray and director haspel to insist on an immediate meeting with the president to educate him about the facts and raw intelligence underlying the intelligence community assessments and to impress upon him how critically important it is for him to join you and the leadership of our intelligence community in speaking with a unified accurate voice about national security threats. he is putting your colleagues in an untenable position and hurting the national interest in the process. you must find a way to make that clear to him. educate him. in other words, do the impossible, do what no one has ever been able to do. no previous president has ever publicly attacked all of the heads of america s intelligence
criminal investigation into his campaign team s alleged or potential contacts with russia. do we need to find out what trump knew and when he knew it to understand this question of intent to cover up a crime or commit a crime? well, certainly democrats will want answers to that. democrats will want this to be dug into as much as possible. and critics of trump would say, you know, this is a man who is, you know, very independent and does not really go to bat for other people, so why is it he was trying so hard to bend over backwards for flynn? that s what the critics would wonder is why was he pushing comey repeatedly on that? what is it that flynn knows? you know, what were trump s interactions with flynn about? and did trump tell him to talk to the russian officials? all right. we re going to take a very short break. when we come back, stonewalling congress. today the heads of america s top spy agencies and top law enforcement agencies refusing to