committee. the lead starts right now. 14 pages, trump gives the january 6th committee an earful as the panel tries to legally compel the former president to testify. but he never addresses the million dollar question. plus, debate night in one of the most competitive senate races in the country, the high profile republican help that herschel walker is getting after weeks of dealing with an abortion scandal. and cnn on the record with one of the three jurors who voted against the death penalty for the gunman behind the parkland massacre. i m brianna keilar in for jake tapper. we begin with president trump s response to the january 6th committee. in a long letter posted to his social site, he makes no mention whether he will comply with a subpoena. in this, trump reairs a lot of grievances and repeats claims about winning the 2020 election. he blames democrats for failing to protect the capitol on january 6th. he bashes the committee for what he calls very poor television rat
Colorado, people are interested in him, he would be a way out of the box choice, but a governor would be probably a better bet for the democrats. i think they are in for not only a bad 2022, but to me it looks really hard for me to understand how they would turn it around by 2024. it feels, it sure feels that way, doesn t it? barack obama already serviced his two terms, but he s emerged to weigh in on some of the biggest policy issues at the moem, which former presidents don t normally do. do you see any significance in that? i think part of the thing we re dealing with now is we ve never had so many former presidents still living. jimmy carter hasn t been president since niangy and he is still with us. although he doesn t comment on foreign policy as much as he used to, he ll weigh in once in a while. president obama is a young man. he s got this netflix deal, a spotify deal, and he takes um bring at the idea that jo biden says he s the most progressive
People are dying. this is what is just astounding about this is death is happening. you know, tim, there s a debate going on about how you treat the unvaccinated, and i can t read stories about young moms and dads dying and leaving orphans without feeling extreme sympathy and empathy. they are the end of this disinformation food chain and, of course, people should go out and get better information. the purveyors of death don t just say fine, let s do it. it is in some ways a way out of the box republicans have locked themselves into. nicolle, look, i think that s exactly right. i have nothing but sympathy for the unvaccinated, the family members of people who died. you read these stories there s one in time magazine just over the weekend, and your heart just crumbles reading about these things. and this is where it coincides
And president biden and his team not to have a joint press conference but to do it this way which is how we ve done it in the pass under previous presidents as well. so once you get past the public spectacles, you know, i think there s obviously a lot of continuity in the things the russians want and continuity in what we want. president trump did want to pull the russians over to the u.s. side against china and also iran. that wasn t really going to happen, but we can also see that president biden and his team have got a strong focus on how do we deal with china? i think we all recognize that you can t put russia in a box because russia will shoot its way out of the box. you can t disregard russia was russia will make sure you pay attention to it. what we re trying to do here continuously as the united states going back now until 2010 was china starts its rise after the great recession. try to figure out how we can at least manage the confrontation with russia so we can focus on china
Court s orders are being complied with. let me bring paul callan into this conversation, another one of our legal analysts. pall, what do you make of this decision by the judge to go ahead and release kim davis? i think the judge is looking at a situation where you have he s worried about the free exercise of religion concept and the public maybe not understanding the constitutional rule he had to deal with and i think he s trying to offer her a way out of the box she s put herself in but i agree with jeff completely. if she goes back to that office and does exactly, by the way, what she said before she was going to do and this is not allow marriage certificates to be issued to gay couples because remember, her public statements have been that these certificates are issued under her authority and she was not going to permit it. now if she returns to that conduct she ll be marched right