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Health and human services. look at the field of people trying to replace him. look at this. 18 candidates, all lumped in together in the same primary, regardless of party. if anybody clears 50% of the vote, that person will win the seat outright. if not, the top two candidates will compete in a runoff. the game here is that a bunch of republicans could win. theyre all slugging it out. but democrats have mainly coalesced around john ossoff. the report has him pulling away from everybody at 43%. h...

But stiemsma reometimetiemsmomr early. he has been to the right of president trump. we saw that at one of the first briefings he did in brussels. to the right of the president talk about how there wasnt the ability to cooperate with the russians. the russians were somehow involved on that chemical weapons attack of april 4th. they provide a fair amount of circumstantial evidence. whether or not mattis says and accuses russia of being behind or in any way involved is a key threshold and a key tri...

Miscalculations. >> before i go to colonel jacobs on this horrendous subject of barrel bombs but its germane its in the news, we have to talk about it. lets hear one of the two times sean spicer took this up. this is sean spicer from the podium on barrel bombs today. >> the sight of people being gassed and blown away by barrel bombs ensures that ife see this kind of action again, we hold open the possibility of future action. if you gas a baby, if you buput barrel bomb into innocent people, i th...

Welcome back to "the lead." im jake tapper. lets turn to the politics lead now, the start what have could be the most critical week for commander in chief trump on the world stage so far. the president is facing a full plate of geopolitical crises and military maneuvers, as we mentioned earlier. the world is waiting to see if his tomahawk missile strike on a syrian air base will lead to a more clear policy and strategy and what the threshold might be for further u.s. military engagement in syria...

On between the chinese and american officials has gun. investors are looking forward to janet yellens speech later today and bank earnings, poppy. >> new york state is making college tuition free for students. this sounds a little bernie sandersish. >> yes. >> what can you tell us about what this means? whos going to be paying for it? >> taxpayers are paying for it. hundreds of thousands of new york students. the working logic is college has become what high school used to be. the governor of ne...

And giving john money seems a way to potentially do it. that will give us a sense of whether or not democrats are so energized against trump that theyre going cocome out in numbers in places that we dont normally see them. >> thank you. going to you and isaac here. the vessel for democratic hopes and dreams, what do you think? >> theyve got the best chance there. hes running in a district that trump won but not by very much. and in kansas it would be a much bigger split, i guess from the general...

Jennifer. i thought we were going to have jennifer griffin. im sorry. this is my fault. that was my fault, not the producers fault. a lot of activity over the weekend, and then we had this today from sean spicer, white house press secretary. when the press was trying to figure out, what is the threshold for further action. >> i think the president has been very clear there are a number of lines that were crossed last week. hes not going to sit down. we saw that in the last administration. they d...

And the missile test, the head of the missile forces wasnt there. indicating problems there. you put that together in a short period of time, it means the regime is fluid. kim jong-un has a low threshold because his power may be slipping. >> and what does the u.s.s. carl vinson mean being there? >> we need to do something to bolster the south korean public. theyre nervous about the american commitment. clearly were trying to do -- walk that line. kim jong-un sees that as provocative. so do the c...

>> do you believe they should though? in the spirit of working together, in the spirit of bipartisan cooperation in the senate, especially something like the supreme court, should the democrats restore the 60-vote threshold? >> we have to have a broader conversation about how the senate works. the fact is en we had a 60-vote majority for presidential appointees and district court judges, republicans abused that privilege. half of the filibusters of district court judges happened during obamas ti...

Secretary of state rex tillerson attending the g-7 summit in italy trying to rally other countries behind the american plan for addressing syrias long and bloody civil war. tillerson is also expected to discuss the situation in syria when he visits russia later this week. and neil gorsuch formally sworn in today as an associate justice of the supreme court. his swearing in coming three days after he was confirmed by the senate. this was an unusual confirmation process where senate republicans ...