alex thompson, margaret talev, our thanks to both of you. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thanks. >> trump's special hostage envoy says a truce between israel and hamas could come within weeks. this as israel stops the flow of supplies, humanitarian aid and now electricity into gaza. more on this when we. >> come back. >> tell us about accepting bribes. >> the stuff he did that was completely. >> legal destroys democracy. >> i'm still not sure that. >> you're repentant. >> i have nothing to hide. >> if he hadn't been such. >> a. >> he would have gotten away with it. >> they would abuse her. >> on television. >> it was. >> this unholy. >> combination of. >> overwhelming greed and money. >> it's not. >> a bribe. it's trading favors. >> united states of scandal with jake tapper. a new season starts tonight at nine on cnn. >> buying a car is kind of a big deal, but you use the cargurus app. that's a price drop alert. so the deals come to you. oops. big deals right when you need them. car gurus, download the app today. >> so i can take the ste

and alex thompson has very good sources. he was being leaked to by people who were working in the inner circle and knew that it was going to be a disaster if this carried on. and, you know, matt yglesias had a post on slow boring, his substack about a month ago where he said, the only person who can win in 2028 is someone who does a full culpa and throws biden under the bus. and i think that's what is going to be happening. but you have to take some personal responsibility when you're doing that. >> do you think gavin newsom will do that on his podcast? >> you know what? i'm not going to listen to the podcast because i don't care. but i think the title of this book, original sin, should be the name of jake tapper's autobiography because he was part of the original sin. he was a part of the, you know, the ideology that said, we have to cover up for joe. make no mistake, we saw it with our own eyes. he was up close. he was right there. he knew people in the white house. he was talking to people in the white house. and i agree.

alex thompson has very good sources.king in the inner circle, and knew that it was going to be a disaster if this carried on. matt iglesias had a post on his substack a month ago where he said, the only one who can win is someone who does a full mea culpa and throws biden under the bus. that's what's going to be happening, but you have to take personal responsibility when you are doing that. >> dana: do you think gavin newsom will do that on his podcast? [laughs] >> judge jeanine: i'm not going to listen to the podcast because i don't care, but i think the title of this book, "original sin," should be the name of jake tapper's autobiography. because he was part of the original sin. he was a part of the ideology that said we have to cover up for joe. make no mistake, we saw it with our own eyes. he was up close, he was right there, he knew people in the white house, he was talking to people in the white house, and i agree. i think the whole idea that this guy could write a book -- and i've written eight of them -- and tur

alex thompson, national political correspondent at axios and a cnn political analyst, cnn host michael smerconish, ashley allison, cnn political commentator, former white house senior policy adviser, and patrick mchenry, who is, of course, the former republican congressman and speaker pro tempore. welcome to all of you. thank you all very much for joining us on this first day in the arena. and i want to call you, mr. speaker. i do want to start with you on what we've seen, the fallout from this b and this big picture. i mean, the wall street journal, obviously, they are at odds with trump not infrequently, but they are also not a bunch of democrats sitting around thinking about the world. and they had this very stark portrait of donald trump rewriting the world. and they go on to write about how it's really a return to, you know, power to power global politics, geopolitics that is pre world war ii. is that what he's doing and is that good for america. >> well it's pretty republican party world war ii. so this is not this has this has points that that the republican base and the republi

joining me now to talk about all of this, alex thompson, cnn political analyst and national political reporter at axios. ashley allison, cnn political commentator and former director of the biden-harris campaign. and doug heye, republican strategist. thank you all. welcome to the group chat. i'm going to start with alex. i love the weekends because when you come in you hear everybody's talking points from sunday. one after another. what does it mean that they're moving this conversation in this direction? >> well, some of this is about legal justification for it because. >> you know that, again, legal justification. >> yes. because in order to for trump to have the power to unilaterally do these sort of wide tariffs, you have to have sort of a national security or a security rationale for it. that is why they keep talking. i mean, i think they do have a real policy agenda here, but some of it also is the legal justification. >> okay. doug, what i'm hearing is this is not cosmetic. i'm coming to you first. ashley, i'm not forgetting you, but i'm coming to you first because obviously, y

thompson who does not miss. >> he's 30 years to lakes midway through the period sharks on the attack. alexnberg wraparound tyler to fully okay. this 23rd of the year. we're tied at 2. we go over time and then we go shootout. it's one nothing leaves in the shoot up to fully. delay, delay, staffing. ties. the shootout at one sets the stage for fabian's at erland with a chance to win it. and you know what he does about the sharks over a first-place team on the road. 3 to the final snaps. their 8 game losing streak that's how the sharks go. they have these long losing streak so that may get some really good winds of the nice. just yeah and far between. thanks. got >> all right. to wrap things up tonight, a hayward police officer being called a hero after he saved. >> a baby from choking. this was video just released. this is body cam from early last month. the family pulled into the police station parking lot desperate for some sort of help after their 11 month-old started to choke there. they ended up flagging down the officer, emilio gonzalez, who was actually just beginning his shift. he th

thompson is in houston, where health officials now investigating what is at two possible cases. priscilla. so i'm curious, what kind of advice are we hearing from medical experts about this? >> yeah. >> alexossible cases. >> those samples were told by doctor david pearce, who runs the houston health department, that those are at a lab being tested right now, but it comes from them holding a town hall a couple of days ago where they talked to hundreds of clinicians walking them through the possible signs and symptoms. just trying to be proactive. it's why they're hosting this vaccine clinic here today, trying to get folks who may need that measles vaccination vaccinated. as we're watching this outbreak in west texas play out. and i will tell you, i was in west texas earlier this week where health officials on the ground there were even telling parents who have children under the one year mark when that vaccination is typically administered to talk to their doctors about possibly getting it earlier as they are dealing with that outbreak there. and i want to play some of what one of the doctors on the front lines there, doctor anna montanez, had to say about those vaccinations. >> with one d