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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, we ll get to the whistleblower that comer couldn t find, and then must be humiliated, as they found him in the southern district of new york. oh boy. oh no. a spy or something like that. we ll get to the details in a little bit. seriously, the gang that couldn t shoot straight, they keep getting the political gun, aiming it right at their foot, right? it s absolutely crazy. willie, last night, of course, midsummer, one of the most fun annual traditions, not joey chestnut eating nathan s hot dog eating contest for the 16th time. 16th time, you have to love the guy. the home run derby last night, how exciti ....
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, they re even a risk to national security. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with politics lead and damning new details in the battle over the classified documents trump and his team took to mar-a-lago. we re learning officials from the national archives directly told donald trump s legal team in may that they were so concerned about what the trump team had taken with them and how those documents were being stored at mar-a-lago that top u.s. intelligence agencies had been called in to do a damage assessment, as in damage to national security. now, to be cl ....
Way no one else has, people like what they hear, but they wonder, what is the path to the nomination? how are you looking at this as you build slowly and, first of all, have to qualify to get to the first debate? are you confident you ll be on the stage? yes, i m confident we ll be there. i think we ll have good announcements this week in that regard. look, we all got fooled eight years ago into this idea by all of us, me, marco rubio, jeb bush, john kasich that there was was establishment lane and then a more progressive lane. somehow, like the ncaa tournament, willie, we d advance in the brackets to face the winners. by the time we were done fighting with each other, donald trump had won the nomination. it was over. to me, there s only one lane. donald trump is at the head of that lane. if you want to win, you have to go through him. so, you know, i think all of the other folks in this race, some of whom i have great respect for, some less respect for, the fact is if they think ....
Saying nadler is senile or half dead. he pushed back saying he s just fine, that s ridiculous. he s not going to comment on that, but it s gotten nasty. there s another incumbent house democrat in risk of losing a seat, mondaire jones. he faces a crowded progressive field in an entirely new district where his name is not as well known. right. this is another result of this messy redistricting process. mondaire jones was elected two years ago to represent a district just north of the city, parts of westchester county and rockland county, but because of redistricting, he chose not to compete against one of his freshman colleagues. instead, he moved to this newly drawn tenth district, which is lower manhattan, really politically active dwistrict, bt he s competing against a dozen other candidates. several running in the progressive lane, which is what he styled himself as. so even in recent days he s been lamenting that they re kind of, the failure to consolidate means we don t really ....
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, we ve 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 pandemic with the omicron surge lately. when you look at the approval ratings, the latest one at 39%, the potential political piece that plays out for the president, tell us about that. one thing the president hasn t had a lot of trouble with or pushback on is his judicial nominations. ....