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11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart alongside my friends and colleagues ana cabrera here in new york and Andrea Mitchell live from washington. And just in the last hour, the contentious Battle For The White House came to a close. Donald trump is the partys presumptive nominee. It comes as former u. N. Ambassador nikki haley suspended her president ial bid just this morning after trump dominated on Super Tuesday. It is now up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. And i hope he does that. At its best, politics is ab...

welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. this hour, the white house is lamb basting members of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's cabinet. specifically two right wing extremists who are calling for the ethnic cleansing of tony bl some are wondering if the netanyahu administration will have to choose between extremists and the biden administration. and a federal appeals court, a closer look at abortion since roe v. wade was overturned. we have a brand new court filing from donald trump. this time he's going to the u.s. supreme court to try to appeal the decision made by th...

Significant fraud. those voter attitudes are very real, and i hear it every time i leave washington, d.c. >> yeah. who is this aimed at? is it aimed at motivating the base and winning back independents? >> a little bit of both. this is an argument that lands with independent voters. this is an argument that -- it energizes democrats. to your point, it energizes republicans, too. but it really is an argument that we saw time and again in 2020 appeals to moderates, appeals to independent voters, it appeals to those suburban voters maybe not dialled into politics every day but who look up and say...

But then says -- the more they do that, the more enraged independents become. that's what happens, chris. we lost 9 million independents in 2010 that voted for house democrats in 20 on 08 and 2006. we're oning back independents, we're winning back seniors, we're winning back women, because of this excessive ideology, these wrong priorities that house republicans persist in on every single vote of every day. the more they do that, the more there's buyer's remorse. and the more it looks like this could be a wave election again. >> i want to mention president obama, who obviously is on the ticket...

Invest in infrastructure in the skills of our people and also to do it in a fiscally responsible way. i think it's going to be a very high minded speech and it's going to offer some things that will become speeches later in this year. >> marc, you could also factor in inequality. the rich has had it too good for too long and channel his kansas speech, correct? >> exactly. he's going to go with class warfare it sounds which is a problem because look, obama has a problem that he has to fire up his disspirited liberal base but he has to win back independents. those are contradictory problems. to ...