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along with joe, willie and me, we have pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of "the washington post," eugene robinson. and president emeritus of the council on foreign relations, richard haass, back with us this morning. >> he somehow becomes even more distinguished. >> he does. >> amazing. >> erudite is the word that come comes to mind. >> yes. willie, well get to the whistleblower that comer couldnt find, and then must be humiliated, as they found him in the southern...

they thought releasing it helped their case? >> also, urgent warning, the u.s. urging americans to leave ukraine immediately. the warnings of a possible russian attack as ukraine prepared to mark its day of independence. >> plus, explosive whistleblower claims in a cnn exclusive. the man who was head of twitter security says your data on the site is not safe and security problems at twitter are so grave, theyre even a risk to national security. >> welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper....

Likely somebody, as we look at these picks, somebody who is younger, who would be on the court for decades to come. and when it comes to the democratic base, weve covered it on this show, there has been in some lanes, in the progressive lane, this push to get justice breyer to do what we anticipate him doing, retiring. groups on the left have said, it is time while democrats have power. and making the choice, when he has faced headwinds on where the economy is, inflation, the fight against the p...

Bidens agenda. progressive nina turner lost to establishment candidate shontel brown. trumps gop pick, mike carey, won his race. cnn chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny is with us now. big takeaways. what are you seeing from these races? >> the big takeaways are that president biden, his agenda was at the center of this race, the democratic one in cleveland. we saw shontel brown embracing it. she said, look, send me to washington to help advice president bidens agenda. nina turner...

Monovalent action he expects to be thrown out? >> no, i actually dont. i think its a very political calculation. he plans to run for governor of new york and he would like to be in the progressive lane. he wants to be the frozen choice. when you do things like in this is what progressives say they want. im actually very worried that patients are not going to push back on it i think they are going to foiled afternoon get their kids vaccinated because de blasio is making them. we havent heard a wo...

Coming up in races in a couple cities. there was a race for d.a. in philadelphia where there was a question about whether concerns about crime would be over riding for voters. they didnt turn out to be the way that people who were concerned about crime had hoped they would be. it not clear what that would mean here. its unsurprising this is new york coming out of a pandemic and mass sive shut down and the levels arent the same but have increased year to date, particularly shootings so thats a fo...

York city but hed course and attended the debate as fighting crime is a central issue for his campaign. >> no one on this stage can tell you that they have put their life on the line to save new yorkers. nobody else can do that. i can say that. >> reporter: the candidates were asked if police reform meant taking guns away from officers. four of the five candidates said no, they would not but when press pressed, here is how maya wiley responded. >> im not prepared to make that decision in a debat...

In the meantime, we move onto the other news tonight. elizabeth warren dropping out of the race for president, speaking outside her cambridge, massachusetts, home today, revealing her decision, promising she will stay in the fight. the democratic contest now a two-man race, but warren said what she said today about endorsing when it comes to bernie sanders and joe biden. and hillary clinton making news tonight, as well. what she said about biden. heres abcs mary bruce. >> reporter: closing out h...

Well in the first three states and the establishment would freak out? they view him as the only selectable candidate, and his views being unappealing to moderate voters. that would create a moment of crisis. and there has been reporting in atlanta that barack obama might weigh in against bernie sanders if it got to that point. so that would be the moment of crisis. spun earlier there was a column about a dilemma for bernie sanders and elizabeth warren, because they play nice out there, but at so...

Opponents are talking about. you know what? were going to have the american people behind us. we will have congress behind us. >> one of the great complaints we hear here. you hear from the sanders wing is nobody ever says, you know, he does well but they think hes just in this progressive lane. look. i thought he had his best performance that ive seen in a while. and he owned it in a way that elizabeth warren didnt. and you could see. im curious to see how does -- what does she do now? >> berni...