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coup-plotting and pathologically duplicitous ex-president to subvert american democrat see and the process of given the persistent power of donald j. trump in the republican party and the depoched and decrepit party, will end the way it did with wyoming congresswoman liz cheney losing in a landslide. cheney s unforgivable sin in the ice of maga voters and a bunch of other republican voters, too, along with team trump cultivated and blessed the candidate who defeated her when it came to her conviction that trump is nothing more than an existential threat to our republic and cheney acknowledged as much. years ago i won this primary with 37% of the vote. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear.7% of the vo. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear.3% of the vo. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear. but it would have required they go along with the lie of the 2720 election, that i would unravel our democratic s ....
guess they are using the same co flatten the curve. [laughter] but thank god because the stuff i ve watched so far has been so riveting. to hell with that summer vacation to key west, i know what i am doing the first week or 2 of july. yeah. apparently they re going to pursue witnesses and a lot of new evidence. i guess they re not happy with the witnesses they originally cast in this [bleep] show. what a disaster, huh? made the hindenburg look like a fender bender. to make pompeii look like knott s berry farm. that is a weird comparison. apparently they are going to subpoena trump s white house counsel, pat cipollone? i don t know. already talked to these clowns, and what for? local, obviously to salvage the mess they made with their big star. the good news, at least you didn t implicate two body building nigerians. [laughter] seriously, haven t they been through enough? just wish they would move out of my apartment. they take the longest showers. apparently, the commi ....
taking photographs of stairwells and hallways and tunnels and security screening posts. hmm. and then the invasion in ukraine hits home for some u.s. families as two americans going missing while fighting alongside ukrainian soldiers. the growing fear these two americans might now be in the hands of the russians. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our money lead and a major economic news that will in the short term at least make life more expensive for many americans. the federal reserve this afternoon doing something it has not done in nearly three decades. they raised the interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point. this will mean higher costs for mortgage loans and credit card bills and auto loans and student loans. federal reserve chairman jay powell says the hike is necessary to cool economic growth so as to get inflation under control, but that could take weeks if not months, and so many american families are struggling right now w ....
that includes 18 more howitzers on top of what the u.s. has sent in. more than 36,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, and ammunition for the himars system, approved earlier this month. four of those weapons systems, multiple launch rocket systems that can strike at a far greater range. that s about a third of the billion dollars. the other two-thirds is known as the ukraine security assistance initiative and that will go to purchase through direct contracts with weapons manufacturers more weapons for ukraine. that includes two harpoon coastal defense systems, thousands of night vision goggles, thousands of radios so that won t be as fast, but the u.s. s position is the fight in eastern ukraine is an incremental fight. russia, yes, is making gains, but there is still time to get the critical systems in. how will we find out and when will we see this? the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said the training on that advanced himars system for the first group wrapped up ....
deciding their vote. with numbers like that in mind, republican lawmakers are ramping up their attacks on biden s handling of the economy. has no idea how to deal with inflation, has no plan to deal with inflation. all he does is blame everybody else, including putin, for his inflation. even some democratic lawmakers are now urging the biden administration to do more. i support everything the president is doing, but i don t think it s enough. my constituents don t think it s enough. white house aides pushing back on accusations that the president isn t doing everything he can to lower prices. president biden gets up every day and goes to bed every night thinking about what can we do to get a lid on inflation. now, jake, today officials here at the white house are also noting that this is not just a united states problem. it s a global challenge when it comes to higher prices, higher gas prices. of course, they said they don t have anything to announce when i ....