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and she broke barriers as the youngest woman in congress. now, almost three decades after she left public office, this fighter wants to get back in the political arena. welcome to the lead. i'm kasie hunt in for jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and another major development in what has been a monumental week for january 6th investigators. the latest twists, more missing text messages from the period leading up to the capitol attack. according to the "washington post", texts from donald trump's acting homeland security chief, todd wolf, and ken cuccinelli, or m.i.a. depa...

Us. Heres what were watching. Thousands of homes are without power as Tropical Storm ophelia lashes the coast with strong winds and heavy rain. We have a look at the cities in the path and the impact well see throughout the day. Its quickly hurdling toward a shutdown as talks have broken down over a deal to fund the government. How federal agencies are preparing and the talks happening today to try to keep a shutdown happening. Hollywood writers and executives will meet again today to try to work out a deal to end the Writers Strike that has paralyzed the industry for months. What will it take...

Looking at that -- now, when you have an internal review, that can understandably make everybody inside nervous about where will that land? will they try to assign blame somewhere? will they try to find a scapego scapegoat. some people have suggested is this a hunt for a whistle-blower? well, the whistle-blower one no longer detailed to the white house. so not physically an employee here any longer. it seems certainly the inquiry on capitol hill has been less focused on whistle-blower one. so it could be one of those situations where the white house is trying to find some of its own answers an...

Night. remember, you have not just pence, you have pompeo, a big delegation going to ankara, probably leaving tomorrow to get there by thursday. >> it sounds like deals have been cut before the united states delegation has even gotten there. hans, stick around. fw garrett, on the capitol hill side of things, let's start with turkey and then go to the investigation. today is the first day a lot of lawmakers are back. what's your sense what they think they can do to turn this situation around, or realistically do they think it's too late? >> reporter: the feeling is you can't put the genie back ...

Th. >> this is thehis way of saying okay, i'm going to get more. >> i will say from the capitol hillside, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has been telling him he should accept whatever comes out, that, and as he wants to move forward, this needs to be cleared off the decks. i was texting with a couple republicans during his remarks, and most of them said, are you surprised by this? they expected this to some degree, and i will note that several of them also told me, this is going to the floor. this sblg goibuilding is going floor one way or another.