one person who used to work for donald trump and one person who is willing to speak out against them. spoiler alert, they re not the same person. plus, speaking as a current republican front one or, we have brand-new reporting on two separate investigations into the twice impeached ex president. and will head to florida, they that currently looks every bit the picture of a trumpian dystopia thanks to trump s own closest competitor, governor ron desantis. then i ll call to order today s meeting as a velshi banned book club, featuring a very important book by a very brave offer who s been targeted for his work. not just by a book banners, but by the taliban. velshi starts now. good morning, it is saturday during the third, i m ali velshi. if you can believe, if the iowa caucuses which kick off the republican primary season are only about seven months away. the candidates lining up to be the 2024 republican presidential nominees have been filling up for the past couple of mont
next hour, change that. the lead starts right now. president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy meeting in a matter of minutes. what s on and what s off the negotiating table as mccarthy insists he needs to see a deal this week to avoid default. plus a new name in the 2024 presidential race. i m running for president of the united states. i m america. tim scott setting his sights on the white house and his gop backers hope the senator from south carolina can be the one to beat trump and then biden. and a not guilty plea in the murders of four idaho college students and the gag order keeping information secret in this case. welcome to the lead 37 i m jake tapper. can they make a deal? in the next hour president biden and. kevin mccarthy will meet face to face at the white house as the united states careens towards an economic ka catastro that only those two can prevent we re ten day was from the u.s. potentially running out of money to pay its bills. that c
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is the first person to take on permanent washington. in 2017 donald trump dropped on d.c. like a nuclear bomb. the president was finally telling the bureaucrats who pulled the levers of our government. permanent washington then hit trump with everything they had. investigations impeachments, and leaks the useful idiots in the press who cost play like they speak truth to power but, instead, carry the water for the powerful. 2020 comes around and they hide under hunter biden s laptop right before an election only pulling back the curtain after joe biden slips into the white house. now trump s back on the campaign trail, promising, in fact, in ed the ukraine war within 24 hours. no says permanent washington. so a district attorney in new york that almost no one has heard of cobbles together a frankenstein prosecution to take down his party s biggest political enemy. the two star witnesses a disbarred lawyer and a porn actress. both with a lot to gain. stormy daniels is getting r
gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight o er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say does that star spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave will: powerful storms across the south bring heavy rain, wind and flooding. it killed ten people including three in alabama. this doorbell camera capturing the system barreling through a backyard. rachel: four dead and kentucky were several tornadoes touched down. 420,000 are without power in the state. that s a huge chunk of the one million outages across the country. in the upper midwest, snowfall in michigan creating dangerous conditions on the roads. pete: a serious situation in southern california. communities in the san bernardino mountains are buried. one resident writing help me in the snow