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
everyone s votes? absolutely we are. and in fact, our department has been working hand in hand with the clerk s association and we have been giving presentations and making people feel assured that they re going to be safe and protected. we re giving my department is giving advice to those clerks as to what to do in a wide array of circumstances and we ll be sending out information to all the police departments, just as we did in 2020, whether these are local, county, or state police. as to how to handle any disturbances or disruptions at the polls. all right, attorney general dana nessel, thank you so much. also in our politics lead today, president biden announcing new executive actions on climate change earlier today. taking steps to try to boost alternative energy production and increase funding for communities currently facing extreme heat. this move comes after president biden s legislative attempts to address the kries were roasted by west virginia democratic
these words into formal official government actions through the appropriate proclamations and executive orders and regulatory power that a president possesses. so the president there just walking right up to the edge of that national climate emergency. you may ask, what is the difference? is it simply semantics or more? it actually is more. declaring a former emergency would open the door to more funding and essentially clear away some of the bureaucratic red tape and allow the white house to do much more addressing climate. it would also send a signal to the rest of the world that the u.s. is still focused on climate change. there are questions, of course, after the lack of action in congress. so clearly, the white house saying this is the first step of many. the question is, will anything in congress ever move? we re now three and a half months before the midterm elections. jeff zeleny in massachusetts, thanks. let s bring in former obama senior adviser, david axelrod.
capturing the wind energy. i have been saying this three years. i think jobs. climate change, i think jobs. the president voised his frustration at congress without specifically mentioning senator joe manchin of west virginia, who effectively torpedoed broader legislation. part of the build back better economic agenda, citing concerns of rising inflation. the white house says today s executive actions would create a wind energy area in the gulf of mexico, covering 700,000 acres with potential to power more than 3 million homes. and target 2.3 billion dollars in funding for communities most affected by the scorching heat, including providing cooling centers and air conditioning to low-income americans. these modest steps are the first of many, officials said, as biden seeks to take the reins of the climate kries in hopes of showing the world the u.s. is still serious about meeting its goals. climate change is an emergency, and in the coming weeks i m going to use the power i have
$16 trillion version to combat climate change earlier today. it targets the fossil fuel industry. calls for 100% renewable energy by 2030. there are steep cuts in investments and the solar grid. and the creation of 20 million new union jobs. the focus on unions is providing a new shift for another sanders policy, medicare for all. many unions have made concessions on wages and work rules in recent years to protect those health benefits. so sanders is promising a tradeoff if he enacts his medicare for all plan if elected president. sanders says he would require companies with union health care plans to keep coverage for anything not handled by medicare for all. and he says, he would require those companies to pass on any savings in their health care costs to the union workers. we are talking green new deal. you re looking at perhaps the