is expected to spend the night on monday in anticipation of his tuesday arraignment. it goes something like this. i want you to assume that the 2020 election concludes with biden beating trump. in fact, in my hypothetical biden beats trump by the exact same numbers that biden did be trump. in the electoral college is 306 to 2 32 in the popular vote percentage. it s still 51.3 to 46.9, meaning joe biden garnered 81 million votes and donald trump 74 million only in my alternate universe. trump accepts defeat. there s no perfect call to brad raffensperger. john eastman. he never gets near the oval office . mike pence is not leaned on. no alternative slates of electors are ever assembled. january, 6th. it passes like any other day. there s no rally. there s no storming of the capital. and on january 20 donald and melania trump. they attend the biden harris inauguration. there, there. he s not happy about it. he s grumpy. but he s physically there. and as a matter of fact, when th
Well as want, she ran away after a little sightseeing. She stopped to munch on some grass and the circus folk caught up, loaded or onto a trailer and took her back to the show. No harm done, apparently, you can follow the show on x set to lead cnn if you ever miss an episode, alia, you can listen to the show when you get your podcasts the newest continues on cnn with wolf blitzer. Right next door. No place id like to call the Situation Room. See you tomorrow happening now, Speaker Mike Johnson says, the house will vote on foreign aid bills for ukraine, israel, and taiwan this saturday the speaker, moving ahead, despite deepening anger among conservatives and new threats to take away his gavel for Us Senate Democrats move quickly to dismiss the Impeachment Charges against the Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, the historic trial coming to a close after just a few hours. Also tonight. Very disturbing warnings from Boeing Whistleblowers accusing the company of putting out de
That are populated by iran, Islamic Revolutionary guards, quds force, which is the Paramilitary Arm there are, there are some other options. The former head of the mossad is israels former spy agency a couple of hours ago, also said the Israeli Cabinet is considering targeting Iran Nuclear Infrastructure which would definitely be an escalation i think they are considering a lot of the options and probably trying to take an action that makes him look serious. But not get them into a complete allout war. Of course, though the every single one of these things that you say, i think anybody watching is fearful you think its just a small escalation, but none of these things really are. Were in unchartered territory seth. Thank you so much. Thanks erin thanks for joining us. The lead starts now cnn Breaking News welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper. We start this hour with Breaking News and what we do just heard from House Speaker mike johnson live right here on the lead just minutes ago, he i
Ys, the House Willote foreign aid bills for ukraine israel, and taiwan thi saturday. Thepeaker moves moving ahead, Despi Deepeni Andrew Ong Nservatives and new threats to take away his gavel in the senate, democra moved Quicklto Disss the Impeachment Charges against the Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayors the historic trial coming to a close after just a few hours. Also tonight. Very disturbing warnings from Boeing Whistleblowers accusing theompany of putting out defective airplanes while engaging in a quote criminal cover up. We have details from their alarming testimony up on capitol hill welcome to our viewers here in the United States and Around The World. Iwolf blitzer, a urine. The Situation Room our coverage begins tonight up on capitol hill, where Speaker Mike Johnson is staring down a conservative Revolt Volley to put critical foreign aid bills to a vote. Despite republican hardliners pushing to oust him. Cnns Melanie Zanona is up on capitol hill flores. Melanie, wha
Facing a potential revolt from his farright flank over his plan to bring three different foreign aid bills to the floor this weekend . Its a move his fiercest critics say, could ultimately cost him the speakership. But Speaker Johnson tells me hes not worried about what could happen. Hes going to do what he thinks is right. Even if the bill gets democratic votes this is very simple. Im operating with the smallest margin in us story. I have a o ve margin oy. So in order to getomhing into this underlying package, we have to havthe tes in the orida pass aule. I dont ha all mrepublicans who agree on that ru. And a rule on the floor or is that it requires a couple of democrats ls Speaker Johnson explaining why there isnt. A tougher border measures this legislation as many House Republicans want there to be coming up anjust moments. E of those republicans, coressman chip roy of texas, is goi to ta to ushe said today hes passed the point of giving gra to the speaker. Whats hiresponse to what