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
the republican party has become too extreme. so former jeb bush adviser tim miller has been recommending for about a year, he s very anti-trump, the democrats should be using wedge issues against republicans the way that republicans generally effectively do when they control the house and senate against democrats. an example, king yesterday miller said when democrats acted in the house to codify, make the law of the land the same-sex marriage legalization. which ted cruz and others have said they think that supreme court decision should be overturned as well. 47 republicans in the house voted for it, which is a lot of republicans, even though obviously more voted against it, 157 republicans voted against it. now, the u.s. senate, they re trying to see if there s enough senate republicans to vote for it. do you think that s an effective strategy? i do, i think again, for democrats, painting the portrait of a republican party that has gone way off to the right, and that is so consume
don t think the country needs or wants a shutdown. today mark mekler jabbing back, maybe i m one of those yahoos. i think it s crazy to take anything off the table. i think cantor is making this mistake. in alaska, joe miller s everything is unconstitutional theory of government suffered two more blows. a federal judge in michigan ruling the mandatory enrollment portion of the affordable health care act is allowed under commerce clauses. also yesterday miller confirming that in the past his family received assistance from federal medicaid. assistance like federal unemployment benefits miller wants to deny everybody else because he thinks they re unconstitutional. sharron angle s juice is spoils. two leading nevada republicans, the wife of the state s former republican governor and state senator bill raggio endorsing harry reid. raggio who defeated angle in a 2008 primary calling her
vancouver organizing committee millions of dollars perhaps to replace those tickets. more about the weather now. the international ski federation says today s men s olympic super combined race has been postponed because of heavy snowfall. they now say it will happen next sunday, february 23rd. postponements on the alpine schedule as you know have been common with the mix of warm temperatures. there s been a lot of fog, there s been snow, there s been rain. it has weeked that havoc on those events especially this week. the women s downhill training also set for tuesday today has been canceled, as well. no immediate word on a possible reschedule for that. so let s review what all this means. that means bode miller will not ski today. yesterday miller won a bronze medal as i m sure you saw making him the winningest skiner u.s. history. he was within 0.09 of a second from actually winning the gold.