i m taking charge of my cholesterol with garlique. president biden sending a critical message on the world stage. democracy can still prevail. he is trying to assure allies the u.s. is back while slamming trump for what biden calls phony populism. it comes as the president prerms for his critical one-on-one summit meeting with putin a day away. plus the fbi issuing a chilling warning to lawmakers that qanon is more emboldened than ever. and get prepared and may be prepared to get more violent. and the chairman. judiciary committee to investigate the secret subpoenas. let s bring in john avalon and max booth, from the council on foreign relations. when an american president travels abroad, they usually focus on promoting democracy around the world. today we saw president joe biden trying to assure the world that democracy is alive and well right here in the u.s. is it? it is under threat. you hesitated. yeah. it s a good question. we shouldn t try on gloss over. yeah
president biden sending a critical message on the world stage. democracy can still prevail. he is trying to assure allies the u.s. is back while slamming trump for what biden calls phony populism. it comes as the president prepares for his summit meeting with vladimir putin now just a day away. plus the fbi issuing a chilling warning to lawmakers that qanon is more emboldened than ever and may be prepared to get more violent. and the chairman of the house judiciary committee announcing an investigation to the justice department s subpoenas of the two top democrats, journalists and even trump s white house counsel. a lot to discuss. let s bring in now cnn s senior political analyst john avlon and max boot, a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. good evening, one and all, or i should say the both of you. john, i m going to start with you. when an american president travels abroad, they usually focus on promoting democracy around the world. today we saw presid
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roger stone openly calling for insurrection violence. one democratic congressman says what happened in two pennsylvania districts will tell us everything about which party controls the house next year. we begin the hoyer with hurricane ian and florida now bracing for its arrival. the cat 3 storm on a direct path for the sunshine state. already packing maximum sustained winds of 115 miles per hour. ian expected to strengthen over the next 24 hours. local officials making urgent pleas for people to evacuate. the storm did make landfall this morning in cuba. heavy rains and winds hammering the area. forecasted storm surges up to 8 feet. the current track puts ian s center ten miles from st. pete. if that holds true, it will be the closest path to tampa for a major hurricane since 1950. carlos suarez live on the ground outside tampa. first let s get to the weather center and cnn s chad myers. the 11:00 advisory came in and the american model came in in the past ten minutes.
plus this hour live near russia s border where russians try to avoid putin s war on ukraine. going there next. the new lawsuit. the challenges president biden s plan to cancel student loan why what it could mean if you thought you would get the loan forgiven. welcome to the lead. hurricane ian barrelling toward florida. it is a category 3 storm meaning ian s winds could reach up to 129 miles per hour. ian is expected to strengthen into a category 4 storm later tonight with winds up to 156 miles per hour. as it churns over the warm waters of the gulf. mandatory evacuations are in effect. airports in tampa and orlando will be shut down. today the governor is warning people should expect to lose power once the storm hits and it could be days or longer before power is restored. parts of cuba lost power today with ian slamming into the western part of that country earlier. already the outer bands of ian are lashing the southern tip of florida in the keys as you can see in th