Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. The first guilty plea in the Georgia Election case for efforts to steal electoral votes. This guilty plea from a Bail Bondsman scott hall, one of 18 codefendants carjack chad alongside donald trump. Plus a fight over the home of glamorous actress Marilyn Monroe. Should this home be protected as an Historic Site or should it be knock ed down to make room for new red hot real estate. And leading this hour, the odds of a Government Shutdown are now higher than Willie Nelson taking a tour of a. M. Dam. One day until the government runs out of funding and theres no clear path to a solutions. A lastditch measure failed in the house. 21 republicans crossed over to vote with democrats, eeb House Republican leaders say they are in the dark about where to go from here. Its up to the speak er. Its not including active duty troops or any of their families. On average, federal workers earn between 55,000 and 65,000 a year. Average pay for an Army Staff Sergeant
former attorney general of the united states bill barr is speaking out rather bluntly about his post-election rift with former trpresident trump. bar was seen as a trump loyalist to help his former boss but now eight months after the election, he s speaking out against trump s claims of voter fraud. we won the election twice. as former president trump continues the lie about the 2020 election. we have the crime of the century which i consider to be the election of 2020. reporter: his former attorney general is now speaking out against him. in a newly released book excerpt written by abc news reporter, barr saying he suspected trump s claim of widespread election fraud were all bs. my attitude was, it was put up or shut up time. if there was evidence of fraud, i had no motive to suppress it but my suspicion wa there was
going? i mean that. i truly wonder, but i also bet that it has been better than the one that british prime minister theresa may just endured. she is now facing calls to resign today after her party was dealt a huge blow at the polls. was her relationship with president trump a factor? plus, house speaker paul ryan says president trump is learning as he goes. does that explain everything? will that be a good enough excuse for the special counsel? the new line of defense republicans are offering the president now.
was visiting president trump at the white house. that was not so long ago, as you can tell. now, her future is suddenly in question after an election stunner in the uk. in a major upset, theresa may s party lost its majority, losing seats when they were pretty confident they would actually win more of a majority in the end. so, what does this all mean? cnn s international correspondent, phil black, is right outside 10 downing street for us. so, phil, fill us in. reporter: so, kate, it wasn t supposed to be this way. it didn t have to be this way. theresa may called this election because she thought she saw an opportunity. she was well ahead in the polls by about 20%. she wanted to increase her majority in parliament and thought this would do just that, but her lead was continuously eaten away. and the vote yesterday and the result from that we know, her conservative party no longer holds a working majority in the british parliament. it s what s known here as a hung parliament. and so
majority of 100, maybe 150 seats. but during the course of the campaign, she showed she was not the person that she presented herself as being, a strong and stable leader. she made lots of mistakes. she was terrible in the media. she looked kind of robotic. and the contrast with jeremy corbyn, who really enjoyed campaigning, was dropping jokes, seemed to be authentic he had nothing to lose. he had nothing to lose, which is why he was relaxed, but nonetheless, the contrast was there, and it looked like theresa may was going to be taking people s houses away in order to pay for social care. there were lots of mistakes in that campaign. it set a gold standard about how not to have a campaign. that is not a good review of how things went. steven fielding, i appreciate your time. thank you so much. thank you. amazing times we live in right now. so, any moment now, president trump is expected to break his silence after the james comey hearing, speaking live after, of course, th