also new this morning, surrounding new details surrounding former president trump s efforts to overturn the election, a georgia district attorney tells 16 so-called fake electors they are now targets of this ongoing criminal investigation in fulton county, georgia. it is a notable escalation. we ll explain why. and it comes as another election denier just secured the republican primary for governor in maryland. trump-backed candidate dan cox known for encouraging former president trump to seize voting machines will face off against the democratic nominee there in november. let s begin with the single text exchange that the secret service has provided to the january 6th committee, our justice correspondent jessica schneider is with us. just one back and forth, that s it? that s it. the committee members here continue to be dissatisfied with the secret service response. what we learned from this letter overnight, obtained by jamie gangel, the inspector general requested a m
aide said after an abrupt end to his closed door testimony. and the united kingdom generally known to be prim and proper, but this time it seems like it could be a drag-out fight to be the uk s next prime minister. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in the politics lead on capitol hill. members of the january 6th committee are preparing for tomorrow s primetime hearing. the hearing is expected to cover the actions or lack thereof of former president trump during the three-plus hours that rioters were storming the capitol and the president s activities were unknown. but as committee members try to get to the bottom of the past attempt to teal the election, our democracy remains under attack by the same forces. let s start in wisconsin. cnn affiliate wism reports that donald trump called the top lawmaker in the wisconsin state assembly, republican robin voss, and asked him to overturn the 2020 election results. when did that call happen? that call happened las
piece of legislation, the vote 51-50 for the inflation reduction act and a sweeping 700 plus diamond bill on health care, prescription drugs and climate with all 50 republicans voting against and vice president kamala harris breaking the tie. if the house passed the bill later this week as expected, democrats would have passed a landmark piece of legislation as described by the washington post as quote one of the most consequential pieces of economic policy in u.s. history and it comes at the string of legislative victories for joe biden as the times put it, capped off an extraordinarily productive run for a congress better known for its paralysis and it included passage and the first bipartisan gun safety legislation in a generation and a huge microchip reduction to bolster american competitiveness with china and a major veterans health care measure. a series of successes was all of the more sweet for democrats because it came with the political benefit of republicans maki
it s called christ of the ozarks. christ of the ozarks was the subject of a huge a suspiciously huge fund-raising operation by gerald l.k. smith. he died in 1976, but that statue still stands 1 in arkansas toda. but gerald l.s. smith is about to have another moment in the public eye because what he really wanted to be remembered for, even more than that statue, was a nationwide movement that he tried to build, a movement that he named and that he led and that he promoted tirelessly and that he wanted to outlive him forever. the motive behind the term christian nationalist is easy to define and simple to interpret. we believe that the destiny of america in relationship to its governing authority must be kept in thein hands of our own peopl. we must never be goonchd by aliens. we must keep control of our own money m and our own blood. in other words, we must remain trueor to the declaration of independence. that is nationalism. woe believe that the spiritual symbol of our s
forgiven. he is no longer a famous figure. but in his day, he was a famous fish guy. a preacher and political figure. at one point, he ran for senate in michigan as a republican. in 1944, he ran for president against fdr. he ran for the ticket on the america first party, which he had founded. gerald l k smith did not go far with that bid or the bid as a republican. either if gerald l k smith, is remembered for anything, today it is probably mostly for this, this is a statue that he erected in arkansas in the 1960s, it is called christ of the ozarks. crisis of the ozarks was a suspiciously huge fund raising operation by gerald l.k. smith. he died in 1976. but that statue still stands in arkansas today. but gerald l.k. smith is about to have another moment in the public eye. because what he really wanted to be remembered for, even more than that statue, was a nation wide movement that he tried to build. a movement that he named and that he lied and that he promoted charsley. an