bush, a. do. ron is accused the group of carrying out terror attacks on are running and soil in the last few days around has launched similar strikes against targets in iraq and syria. losing the band out is a senior fellow at the cato institute and specializes in foreign policy. and civil liberties. i asked him earlier, what around is trying to achieve? might think iran is trying to do to that? it is says it's ranking out at organizations that it views is organizing terrorist attacks within. and 2nd, i suspect it's trying to demonstrate the other regional parties as well as united states that it has an ability to do targeted strikes after the fashion frankly, of the united states and some other countries. but this is really an extension of military power that we haven't seen from german before. that it's quite significant loss, but doesn't. why is this happening now? my guess is the larger contracts with the war as garza reps of israel and has ball going to war us bombing the booth. these mil

six sources familiar with the investigation tell bunch bowl news cofounder, jake sherman, the justice is conducting a criminal probe into missouri congresswoman cori bush for misspending. >> here's what our colleagues were able to report overnight. the house sergeant in arms, josÉ, was served with a grand jury subpoena yesterday. the house clerk read this aloud on the house floor feet away from me when they talked about a democratic lawmakers use of hiring private security, and jake sherman is reporting according to his six sources that that democratic lawmaker is cori bush, and she married her security guard last year, and this was somebody on her payroll in the years prior to her wedding, and she's the target of the investigation. republican leaders in the house, including this morning a couple moments ago refused to touch this issue and are leaving this clearly in the stands of the justice department. cori bush's office has refused to engage with us but we will bring you the latest as soon as we have it, josÉ. >> thank you. >>> up next, another state considers removing former presi

jake tapper: you were on george w. bush's short list for the supreme court. you're not some raging liberal. is that fair? michael luttig: totally fair. jake tapper: michael luttig is a highly respected conservative retired federal court judge. luttig did not hear any of the trump fraud cases, but he and his colleagues did analyze more than 60 of them. michael luttig: we reviewed each individual claim and decided that there was nothing that would have changed the result in a single precinct, let alone a single state, let alone nationally. jake tappeper: ahead.. rusty bowers: you'rere asking me to dodo somethingng that's against my oath, and i'm not-- i'm not going to do that. jake tapper: donald trump puts the squeeze on state house leaders s across thehe countr. donald trump: it's going to have a big impact on tuesday if you guys don't get this thing straightened out fast. laying] rusty bowers: we're in my office. this is the speaker's office. jake tapper: it's not every day a state house politician gets a call from a us president but that's what happened to

according to jake sherman of punchbowl news, congressman stefanik, a former george w. bush staffer and paul ryan aide, walked into a closed house republican meeting, waving a rasmusal poll which is notoriously right wing leaning and proclaimed trump the winner of the nomination and probably the election, stating all house republicans should bend the knee to their emperor. these people are so committed to trump, he's been able to get two of his super pacs funded by donations from his working class fans to pay for his legal defense to the tune of $50 million according to two sources who spoke with "the new york times." we talk about this every day. but it's not really surprising that everyone within his party is making his re-election their only priority. congressional republicans have completely capitulated to him and given up on their primary professional responsibility, which is delivering tangible things for an evenly divided america that really did elect joe biden in 2020. yet, what have house republicans accomplished with their majority? they have launched an impea

. >>> and democratic congresswoman cori bush under federal investigation for allegedly misusing campaign funds and hiring her husband for security. >>> welcome to the lead, i'm jake tapper, and we start today with our world lead. president biden says he has decided how the u.s. will respond to the deadly drone attack on american troops, as peer has grown on capitol hill that retaliating against iran could lead to a wider war in the region. the white house has not publicly blamed any one specific group for the attack in jordan the killed three u.s. soldiers and wounded more than 40 others. president biden did say today that iran does deserve some of the blame. >> i do hold them responsible in the sense that they are supplying the weapons to the people who did it. i don't think we need a wider war in the middle east. that's not what i'm looking for. >> today president biden spoke with families of the three soldiers killed in action. sergeant william rivers, specialist kennedy sanders, and specialist breanna moffat, all of them from georgia. specialist moffat was just 23 years old. her pare

bush expanded to this beast we see now. they have a stranglehold on elite media. you see national security guests coming to jake tapper and it's it is kind of like ranging from b- all the way to b+. successful in his way to circumvent this [indiscernible] but then trump was trumpeted could not build a movement and was handicapped by his own choices. the point is, if you have to sell realism, you have to speak a language people understand of trade-off, not that of ethics or values. talk in terms that most people would understand because we would not care about fighting there because it is not our country so that [indiscernible] sell realism and language and language in media that reaches out to the crowd of normal people. that's a way to frame the debates. the second is the prominent bureaucracy. there's no way of putting it. they are an enemy in a way. i'm not technically a libertarian, but they were right into thousand one and they have been consistently right about this thing. it's a system. i know someone who is an acquisitions expert and she was there in afgha

bush expanded to this beast we see now. they have a stranglehold on elite media.ou see national security guests coming to jake tapper and it's it is kind of like ranging from b- all the way to b+. successful in his way to circumvent this [indiscernible] but then trump was trumpeted could not build a movement and was handicapped by his own choices. the point is, if you have to sell realism, you have to speak a language people understand of trade-off, not that of ethics or values. talk in terms that most people would understand because we would not care about fighting there because it is not our country so that [indiscernible] sell realism and language and language in media that reach out to the crowd of normal people. that's a way to frame the debates. the second is the prominent bureaucracy. there's no way of putting it. they are an enemy in a way. i'm not technically a libertarian, but they were right into thousand one and they have been consistently right about this thing. it's a system. i know someone who is an acquisitions expert and she wa there in afghanista

. >> yeah, jake, they're feeling really good.e expecting to hear from trump in about 30 minutes, maybe before that. just, now an indication that he's likely on his way. we just saw almost an entire congressional delegation walking in, byron donalds, matt gaetz, mike waltz, all here to support the former president, obviously all of them have come out and endorsed the former president, been here campaigning, crisscrossing the state as a surrogates. but i do want to talk about one thing john just mentioned, this idea of trump not being able to get suburban women, suburban voters. they are aware of that. and what they did in iowa's try to expand the electorate to essentially favor donald trump. and they did that by using data that they collected since 2016, going through anyone who ever showed any interest in donald trump, went to an event, gave some money, they've reached out and saw if they had caucused before. if they had not caucus, they made list of people they could caucus for donald trump. and then they recruited 2000, or roug