know, it occurs to me, we have a belief that there's a permanent democracy and no country has that. i go back to victor orban because he is the new play thing and chachki of tucker carlson who did a interview that one said gave a deeply unsettling glimpse in to the true nature of the auth on oritarian future. >> we have an example that somebody, or a country, which is based on traditional values, on national identity, based on tradition of christianity could be successful or sometimes even more successful than a leftist liberal government. >> orban announced that he will be president for life for the next 20 years. i wonder if you can have a conversation with our next attorney general that seems reluctant to use the power that he has to hold the former
because things are so far off track, true american patriots may have to resort to violence to save our country. robert jones, the auth of the end of white christiandom, and pub lusher of the lucid newsletter and response to the abuse of power and they both join me now. robert, starting with you on the polling, so when i see polling like that i feel wigged out but i am a little skeptical of polling people's ideologies, right, because people say a lot of things depending how you phrase things. there is this question of, like, what are you measuring in there. make the case that this polling is getting at something real in the believe symptoms of the people that are responding. >> thanks. i think that's probably a legitimate question. we thought long and hard about
beatsing the previous record of 28 hours, 50 minutes in 2013. their average speed, 103 miles per hour. we're not pulled over and stayed up only four times the entire auth,025 mile an hour trip. >> you were pulled over? >> i don't know. >> have you hevr an encounter with law enforcement while driving 100 miles per hour and you weren't mulled over? >> i don't generally drive 100% rr. howard stern has wait to get people to say shocking things. - do you have a box of video tapes, film reels, or photos,
i've got one more little bit of this that i want to read you tonight where the author grapples with the question of anonymity and staying in this administration despite this view of this president. we're going to do that when we come back and also bring into the conversation somebody who has been a senior administration official who's been in the room with other presidents talking on issues this serious who can hopefully give us some, i think, context in terms of whether or not these very stark warnings from this anonymous author are as dangerous as this author makes them seem. we'll be right back. s this auth makes them seem. we'll be right back. performance comes in lots of flavors. there's the amped-up, over-tuned, feeding-frenzy-of sheet-metal-kind. and then there's performance that just leaves you feeling better as a result. that's the kind lincoln's about. ♪
lot of republicans from when trump was a president rnl candidate have had concerns about him on foreign policy. they have not liked the fact, particularly, that he is broken with republican, at least part establishment orthodox that's supported the military interventions that went on in iraq, that went on in afghanistan, in syria. this was a major clash for years between president trump and john mccain. i think in that regard a lot of these republicans sort of have never quite felt good about him on foreign policy, use of military force, his desire to bring home troops and sort of what they see as kind of a geopolitical move that they clearly don't like. >> there are others, really powerful others who are jumping on board here. removing u.s. troops is happening led by the auth authoritarian autocrat is about
a supreme court decision that could decide how votes are counted for generations to come. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin with the second round of candidates to get their chance. you'll see biden and bernie, the top two candidates in national and most states polling. joining them are a group of elected officials. some of the, shall we say, wildcard contenders? the lineup and how they will stand is auth-- cnn's jeff zeleny reports on what the candidates saw last night that may have someone in the second round reconsidering their strategies. >> reporter: joe biden and bernie sanders side by side for wound 2 of the democratic
at least 82 people now confirmed dead in wild with fires across california. about 700 are still unaccounted for. auth authorities say that the rain my help to end the wildfire, but it could hamper the search for victi victims. the national weather service has issued a a flash flood warning for parts of northern california through friday and there is growing concern that large amounts of rain could even lead to mudslides. today, massachusetts becomes the first state on the east coast with a retail store that sells marijuana and congressman joe kennedy, the massachusetts democrat is using the occasion to call for pot to be legalized nationwide and he wrote on twitter, from health care to criminal justice the failures of the nation's prohibition on
official in the new york times. top members of the administration denying auth authorship calling it deceitful and moronic. the president reading the denials and having them printed out and delivered to him. the white house closer to finding out who the author is. the administration has a dozen names on its list. >> melania trump weighing in and calling it cowardly saying he or she is sabotaging the country. she cited the importance of the free press. senator rand paul offered this stunning idea. >> i think if you have a security clearance in the white house, i think it would be acceptable to use a lie detector test and ask people if they are talking to the media against the policy of the white house. >> an idea from a civil libertarian. the president in billings, montana.
have continued to washington. the auth are on of the boston globe investigative piece jana winter who was the current globe spotlight fellow. i want to applaud your work and make clear that i thought it was a great report. i just have mixed opinion. i want instinct to be honored by law enforcement, but i don't want them on a fool's errand. do you think we can do both? >> i would like to think so. i mean, what we know now at this point is obviously there's been a lot of outrage, bipartisan outrage, i would note, which is pretty rare since the story of ours published last weekend and congress was briefed on thursday and ntsb officials said yeah, we've followed 5,000 u.s. citizens who are not under investigation or suspected of any crime and not on any terrorist watch list and 5,000 since march and they have zero threats. they found nothing. they found no one that merited any follow-up and no suspicious
effective. i don't remember my dad doing that. she was a rule maker and she did have high expectations for keeping things neat and just basic rules, and she would let us know and we had met those rules and she would never let us think we were any different or better than others and she was -- she just kept us grounded. >> it's a very emotional time, but i will tell you one thing, when barbara bush, john, everybody listened. >> indeed. especially her sons. jamie, thank you very much. >> joining me now, carl anthony the story and the auth are on of more than a dozen books about first ladies. you sat down for an interview with barbara bush back in 1994. what do you remember most about her? >> well, that there are few moments where we had -- i wouldn't say disagreement, but i asked her about people who were independents and she said, oh, that's a cop-out.