jake tapper blasted for questioning disabled veteran g.o.p. congressman brian mast, a republican from florida, who lost his legs fighting for democracy abroad, although i don't know about his commitment to it here in the united states. >> katie: tapper later tweeted that the senator is a hero, but stood by his criticism. i want to get to aoc first, then jake tapper and the congressman. should we look at aoc's endless instagram story feeds that she does, instagram lives, for misinformation -- >> jesse: i would hate to be in charge of aoc's instagram all day. no thanks. when she says she wants to reign in, that means she wants to regulate conservative speech on talk radio, the internet, and television. has anybody checked when the last time a government had to destroy people's individual rights in order to protect them? doesn't usually go well. does she want politicians, paid liars, to decide what's true and what's not true russian mark when have liberals trusted the government? you are saying after vietnam, the wnd fiasco, the dossier, the "chi

he delivers the not-fake news every weekday on his show "the lead" on cnn, please welcome jake tapperwell, how are things in washington, okay, or is everyone frazzled. >> pretty bad. it's pretty horrible. yeah. i know i was supposed to be on to the show wednesday and i apologize for that. >> jimmy: yes. >> i don't know how much of the news you get out there in los angeles but president trump and his team decided to incite a u.s. attack on the capitol that resulted in at least five deaths so i was unable to break away. >> jimmy: that's more important to you than chit chatting with me, see, we get all our news on tmz here so we don't pay attention to that kind of stuff. by the way, congratulations, i know they doubled the length of "the lead" to two hour from one hour. do you get paid twice as much now? >> damn it, i told my agent. no, i don't. but i will say on a serious note that it has been great working for cnn. i joined cnn in 2013, it's been great the whole time, but especially during this year where we had a president who was working so hard to make truth and facts and decency in

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i'm jake tapper in washington. >>> the state of our union is facing a perilous start to 2021. we are beginning the year with the pandemic at its most alarming level yet. december was the deadliest month of the pamed ndemic so far in t u.s. 4 million vaccines vr adminisha administered and not close to the goal of 20 million. with 3,000 americans dying every day what are the president and rps focused republicans focused on? saturday, 11 republican senators said they would vote against counting electoral votes in congress next week calling for, quote, an emergency ten day audit of emergency returns despite there being no evidence of widespread voter fraud. the group is following the lead of senator josh holly who says he will formally object to biden's decisive win. zero. senator ben sasse of nebraska slammed holly and others of the caucus saying, adults don't point a loaded gun at the legitimate government. mitt romney said on saturday i could never have imagined seeing these things in the greatest democracy in the world. ambition so eclipsed personal? we invited each of the 12

jake tapper has made a joke of himself and a lot of people can understand at this point he's not to be taken seriously when he holds his relationship with veterans forward in order to defend himself in situations b like this where his partisanship creeps through. it's insulting, it's offensive. what to expect at this point? it's absolutely laughable and at least we can be grateful that in the next couple of weeks, we won't have to see them regularly in airports across america as they shut that network down. >> laura: i want to just mention mitch mcconnell for a moment. i guess he could have tried to reconvene the senate before inauguration, it's so ridiculous but he's not doing that. there is still some sense that he could be triedns after e leaves office, do you see that in the way, shape, or form happening and why on earth would mitch mcconnell even entertain that given the absurd and embarrassing spectacle today on capitol hill? >> i can't imagine mitt romney is that persuasive to mitch mcconnell to get him to do something so idiotic and dumb. maybe he's going to tee it up so chuck

i know who jake tapper is.ave no personal animus for him but to pretend like i recognize he gave his legs on the battlefield but he doesn't care about democracy is the kind of cheap shot from a partisan posing as a journalist. >> trace: he said you are a hero for your service and i'm grateful as i've said before and yes, i question the commitment to democracy of anyone who spread election lies, signed onto the deranged texas a.g. lawsuit and voted to commit sedition. you were not just asking questions. tried to back it up and went full throttle all over again. >> he can't resist. also someone should give jake tapper an education. they can't seem to get it right. there it is in the tweet he starts out with the fawning language, a lot of us have gotten it over direct message from jake tapper. and then he goes into his partisan nature of the attack which you can't even question at any level what happened in the election. you can't question whether we should look into it and you certainly can't defend the president

. >> cnn jake tapper getting a major backlash those comments.for his freedom in afghanistan. he voted against president trump's impeachment but he's been critical of what he calls the president's lack of leadership. after his initial comment, tapper later tweeted, "representative mast is a hero and has my respect. as much as i honor veterans in my coverage and more, does not mean those who served to undermine the very democracy they fought for did not try to undermine democracy. congressman mast responded earlier today. >> my commitment to democracy, to my country, is unwavering. i love this place so much it literally breaks my heart to see the divide that exists in it. i love our democracy. for all of our problems, there is no government i would rather be a part of anywhere in this world. to strengthen that and keep it strong, we have to ask those questions. >> dagen: michael goodwin joins me now. a fox news contributor. i read you religiously michael goodwin. in terms of what jake tapper said, you can criticize what the congressman said, but w

i'm jake tapper.se democrats are currently planning to introduce articles of impeachment against president trump as soon as tomorrow for inciting the terrorist mob that caused death and destruction inside the country's capitol. joining me now is the man who may become the most important and powerful politician in america. he will be the crucial swing vote in a new 50/50 senate as the most conservative democrat, west virginia democratic senator joe manchin. senator manchin, thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me, jake. >> i want to ask you, how are you and your staff doing? this mob left five people dead, including a capitol hill police officers. they attacked your workplace while you were all there. are you okay? is everyone okay. >> jake, thank you, we are all fine. the day before, we knew -- we all know something could happen and it could be very, very dangerous. i didn't have anybody come in, just my chief and i drove in the morning. we were the only ones in our office. i went ov

i'm jake tapper.s a hoard of maga terrorists climbed and crashed their way onto the capitol, maryland's republican governor larry hogan says he had the national guard from his state ready to go in. but he could not get the clearance he needed. one of the many baffling and stunning security questions coming out of this deadly attack. republican governor hogan joins me now. the president incited a domestic terrorist attack on the u.s. capitol. five people have died, including capitol hill police officer brian sicknick. does president trump have blood on his hands? >> there is no question in my mind that he was -- he was responsible for inciting this riotous mob, that this was an insurrection. you know, they stormed the capitol and threatened to kill the vice president and put the lives of people in danger. and he had a huge part, a huge role to play in that. >> and i think a lot of people out there don't necessarily understand how close this was to a mass casualty event with members of congress and the

jake tapper needs to apologize and admit what he said was wrong. brian mast went out and worked out with wounded warriors. brian lost two legs for this country and to question his love and commitment to this country, when you literally lost his two legs and some fingers of the bomb squad technician fighting for our freedoms. he's the kind of person that makes this country great. he is an american hero and jake really deserves -- he needs to apologize and drop it. >> martha: representative steve scalise, thank you for being here tonight. joining me now, our fox news contributor's. you are no longer in office. is this still the republican party or the trump party, when you look at these numbers? clearly the pressure that was on these members to vote the way they did in both of these cases? >> i think there will have to figure out a way to synthesize the two. i think you have to have term policy is that without the twitter account. you have nikki haley and tom cotton, and you have others that are authentically conservative but they have a member at co

jake tapper. we begin today with breaking news. moments ago, a top georgia election official, one who is a long time republican, went down a list of president trump's baseless, even unhinged election fraud claims and debunked, refuted, rebutted every one of them. gabriel sterling, frustrated at the lies spread by president trump and his allies. >> i will admit when i listened to the audio of the phone call and the president brought it up again, heard it on a radio ad again today, i wanted to scream. i did scream at the computer and screamed in my car, shredding of ballots going on is not real, not happening. no one is changing parts or pieces out of dominion voting millenial machines. secretary raffensperger doesn't have a brother named ron raffensperger, that is not real. the president tweeted that as well. let's see, such a long list. >> it is a long list. sterling's outrage is in response to the outgoing president of the united states who was recorded browbeating sterling's boss, georgia secret

then you have fake jake tapper sinking to his new low attacking a g.o.p.brian mass actually questioning this man's patriotism and military service because he wouldn't go along with the democrats' impeachment sham. take a look. >> what you're saying right now is relevant because congressman biomass, a republican from florida who lost his legs fighting for democracy abroad although i don't know about his commitment to it here in the united states. >> sean: really, jake?nt how about an apology for that? now with reaction, congressman matt gaetz along with fox news contributor, we played you earlier, you are a fireball onew the house floor today. you may get badge of honor, t im hoping you get it. it would be good for book sales. >> he has more patriotism in his fingernail than jake tapper has in his entire existence, but we see an unprecedented cooperatioe between big tech, big media, bie corporations, to silence those who believe in the american first agenda. i agree with you, if we are going to fight back it cannot be with liz cheney as thehe chair. i can r

when we come back, fake jake tapper hits a new low. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sean: fake jake tapper, fake news cnnor attacking patriotism, military service of amputee veteran, republic congressman brian mass. here's what fake jake said yesterday. to speak of what you're saying is relevant because congressman brian mass, republican from florida who lost his legs by the way funding for democracy abroa. i don't know about his commitment here in the united states. >> sean: here with reaction florida congressman brian mass, i've known you for some time and congratulations on all your success that you're doing. thank you for what you've done for all of us. i think i know you well enough, tell me if i'm wrong. if he apologize, would you accept a question mark >> yeah, i would accept it and tell him seriously. as i said on twitter to some degree, i lost my leg so that you, the ceo of twitter jack dorsey, corporations, you could say whatever you want. i didn't lose my legs for this. so that you can silence whoever the heck you want and that's a major difference. >> sean: you know, i met so many people who'

"the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. on this final full week of the trump presidency and the effort to remove president trump from office, even before these final nine days run out. today, an article of impeachment against president trump has been formally introduced by democrats in the house, charging the president with, quote, incitement of insurrection, the deadly attack by trump supporters on the u.s. capitol last week. a vote this week could make president trump the first president in the history of the republic to be impeached twice. of course, president trump was not alone in inciting this deadly attack. before the attack came, incitement and before the

cnn's jake tapper asked one of biden's senior advisers if the president-elect is prepared to work with lawmakers who denied his legitimacy. >> reporter: 2/3 of your former col leegts in the republican caucus, including kevin mccarthy, including a whole bunch of republicans you probably considered friends voted for the lie, voted to disenfranchise millions of voters from arizona and pennsylvania after the terrorist attack. how are you going to work with those people? >> well, look, at the time you definitely look at them with the side eye. what we have right now, the disaster, we have so many families hurting, so many people dying. we don't have the luxury of picking who we're going to work with and who we're not. we're going to advance our agenda. anybody that wants to help us, we want their help. if we have to go at that time alone, we will but we don't want to. >> these are american people dying and can't put food on their table and can't pay their bills. >>> president-elect joe biden is ready to hit the ground running after his inauguration. he plans to unveil a sweeping immigration

i'm pamela brown in for jake tapper.own/cnn or tweet the lead at cnn. our coverage continues right now. >>> welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. we're following breaking news. president biden on his second full day in office, unveiling his pandemic economic relief plan at the white house a little while ago. he signed two more executive orders aimed at easing the suffering of millions of americans saying -- and i'm quoting him now, we will not let people go hungry and we can't let people lose their jobs. he also said the actions don't replace the $1.9 trillion relief package he's seeking from congress. and he says the country must, and i'm quoting right now, act like we're in a nati

"the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we start today with potential good news in our health lead. third coronavirus vaccine could be authorized for emergency use in the u.s. in a few weeks. top line j & j vaccine was 66% effective, less effective from pfizer and moderna but dr. anthony fauci points out the johnson & johnson vaccine is 85% effective against severe disease and in the trial kept nearly everyone from ending up in the hospital from covid. >> there were essentially no hospitalizations or deaths in the vaccine group whereas in the placebo group there were. this tells us we have a value-added additional vaccine cand candidate. >> there are other advantages. it is cheaper, only requires a single shot and only basic refrigeration. no vaccine has yet been authorized in the vaccine for use by anyone under 16 but there's more news. today, dr. fauci addressed when that could change and when kids could start to get vaccinated, the new variants of the virus are also causing potential problems as athena jones now rep repo

"the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper.irus vaccine could be authorized for emergency use in the u.s. in a few weeks. top line j & j vaccine was 66% effective, less effective from pfizer and moderna but dr. anthony fauci points out the johnson & johnson vaccine is 85% effective against severe disease and in the trial kept nearly everyone from ending up in the hospital from covid.

"the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin today on this final full week of the trump presidency and the effort to remove president trump from office, even before these final nine days run out. today, an article of impeachment against president trump has been formally introduced by democrats in the house, charging the president with, quote, incitement of insurrection, the deadly attack by trump supporters on the u.s. capitol last week. a vote this week could make president trump the first president in the history of the republic to be impeached twice. of course, president trump was not alone in inciting this deadly attack. before the attack came, incitement and before the incitement came, votes to commit sedition. before votes to commit sedition, months of lies about the election. now cory bush has introduced a resolution to expel the lawmakers who sought to invalidate the election results. that's two-thirds of the house republican caucus of the she specifically mentions ted cruz, josh hawley and congressman mo brooks

a gop source telling our jake tapper that now about a dozen senators might object to biden's win? at more do we know about this? >> fred, a source tells jake that as you mentioned, roughly a dozen gop senators are considering joining senator josh hawley who is the first and so far only senator to come out and confirm he will object in the efforts to overturn the election results on wednesday when a joint session of congress will occur and vice president pence will preside over the certification of those electoral college results. now some of the names on the list of those considering joining this effort are fierce defenders of the president like senator marsha blackburn, senator ted cruz. but it could show just how sharply divided the president has made the party as he pushes during the final days of his presidency for some extreme or some outlandish legislative demands and for, of course, overturning the election results even though we can't stress enough there's no evidence and no basis for doing so. and dozens of courts from state to the federal level all the way to the supreme

welcome to "the lead" with jake tapper. they received a draft of the impeachment on president trump that the democrats plan to introduce on monday. the draft article, incidents of insurrection, which ended in death and destruction. a violent terrorist attack by his supporters on the u.s. capitol resulting in five dead, including a u.s. capitol police officer. minutes ago, president-elect biden said he is focused on his agenda. he is leaving impeachment up to congress. kevin mccarthy said today that impeaching the president would only, quote, divide our country even more, end quote. keep in mind kevin mccarthy has been leading the charge to divide the country with these unhinged lies about the election. even after blood had been shed and the capitol ransacked by terrorists, he supported the effort by the deranged conspiracy theories. president trump has no intention of resigning. sources say the plan is for president trump to leave washington, d.c. for mar-a-lago in 11 days on january 19th. the president said he will not att

jake tapper is right about you.hese people who said that you were racist, and the like they were right about you. when you are going along with this joke of an impeachment, with no process no, research, no evidence, it's one of these things where i just think you are insulting the very voters you need in order to build a coalition that can move forward. any politician looking at this has to understand they're not rejecting a president, he is leaving office in a couple of days. they are rejecting the voters who supported him. ainsley: he is a the publisher not the publicist. he is the co-founder. steve: when he comes on the program is he kind of a publisher, yeah, absolutely. ainsley: he is the co-founder of the federalist. but next week the senate because mitch mcconnell has rejected that emergency session the senate will meet on the 19th the day before inauguration. steve: if nancy pelosi hands the articles over to him. ainsley: that's true. she hasn't done that yet. a lot of people are saying push them over there

i'm jake tapper. we begin with breaking news. any american citizen thinking that republican senators might have finally reached their limit with donald trump after mr. trump incited a terrorist attack on the u.s. capitol, resulting in five deaths, including a capitol police officer, well, i have bad news for you. they apparently have not. a short time ago, u.s. senators were sworn in for the second impeachment trial of now former president trump. senators raising their right hands, swearing to be impartial jurors and each lining up to sign an oath book, as they consider the sole article of impeachment, charging mr. trump with inciting that insurrection at the u.s. capitol. the trial is slated to begin two weeks from today on february 9th. moments after all the senators took their oaths, republican senator rand paul of kentucky raised a point of order, to question whether it is unconstitutional to try an ex-president. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell voted in favor of paul's motion, though it did ultimately fail with five re

it got even weirder when jake tapper was like, "go on." [ laughter ] it would've been fine if cnn didn'tthis music ♪ i'm sorry. let's -- let's go back play the clip. >> i got out of the shower i got a dog, a little pup, dropped a ball in front of me and -- for me to grab the ball and i'm walking through this little alleyway to get to the bedroom. and i grab the ball, like this, and he ran and i was joking, running after him to grab his tail he slid on a throw rug, and i tripped on the rug he slid on. not -- not very exciting story [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i love that he says it's not an exciting story, after he's already told the entire story nothing to do with the shower. midway through, kamala squeezed joe's arm like he was embarrassing them at a cocktail party. it's like, okay, sweetheart, okay, that's enough about the story about the -- the shower and the dog and the ball okay [ laughter ] we're going to go. okay that's enough. meanwhile, here's some news about president trump. tomorrow, he's hitting the road for an important trip. watch this >> president trump heads to georgia tomorro

welcome to "the lead" with jake tapper.draft of the impeachment on president trump that the democrats plan to introduce on monday. the draft article, incidents of insurrection, which ended in death and destruction. a violent terrorist attack by his supporters on the u.s. capitol resulting in five dead, including a u.s. capitol police officer. minutes ago, president-elect biden said he isoced

watch journalist glenn greenwald call balls and strikes on cnn's jake tapper.they really do believe only they are responsible enough to disseminate information to the public and everybody else is essentially too stupid or too dishonest to be responsible enough to have the abilities to disseminate information that is the same network that spent four years, maybe five years, telling americans that moscow had infiltrated control of the united states government because of sexually compromising videos they were using over president trump to completely deranged unhinged conspiracy theory which there was no evidence. elizabeth: so this is after cnn's jake tapper said if you want the facts come to us. your reaction to that? >> it's ridiculous. i couldn't agree more with glenn greenwald's statements. ing of these are all private companies. they can operate as they please but i would argue that a cultural environment that bans the open exchange of ideas on a wide enough scale can be just as damaging as state censorship and let's not forget there are some elected official

i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is facing a perilous start to 2021. we're beginning the year with the pandemic at the most alarming level yet. december was the deadliest month of the pandemic in the u.s. so far. and the race to vaccinate americans are stumbling out of the gate. more than 4 million vaccinations have been administered. not even close to the goal of 20 million shots by the beginning of the new year, and with around 3,000 americans dying every day, what are the president and congressional republicans focussed on? undermining the results of the election. leading the republican party to a state of turmoil. saturday 11 republican senators said they would vote against counting electoral votes in congress next week calling for an emergency audit despite there being no evidence of widespread voter fraud. the group is following the lead of josh holly who says he will object to the decisive win, despite zero credible evidence. ben sass of nebraska slammed holly and other members of the caucus saying, quote, adults don't point a loaded gun at the

i'm jake tapper. we begin with breaking news. any american citizen thinking that republican senators might have finally reached their limit with donald trump after mr. trump incited a terrorist attack on the u.s. capitol, resulting in five deaths, including a capitol police officer, well, i have bad news for you. they apparently have not. a short time ago, u.s. senators were sworn in for the second impeachment trial of now former president trump. senators raising their right hands, swearing to be impartial jurors and each lining up to sign an oath book,

jake tapper had this to say about senator cruz and others. >> out of somebody like this get treated in this. obviously he is a jerk and one could argue that he should also be a codefendant in the sense that he was also responsible for pushing something that maybe they didn't incitement their contribution to this that it could be overturned on january 6. they played a role. >> now we see the same thing over there. blaming the senator but it's like okay, take a look. >> he is responsible for cops getting murdered, he's responsible for everything that we saw, he was at the forefront and of course he is shameless. he is still shameless about all of that. he has not apologized to america. even the people that taught him, they are ashamed of him. >> on down, joe, in and out through the nose and the mouth. meanwhile that the so-called journalists over there, where they out there condemning the riots, calling them for what they were, leaving many dead, officers that were injured, brick-and-mortar, bricks and frozen water bottles, rocks, pelted police, taking over city blocks, burning down poli

we must be radicalized because if only we listened to jake tapper and msnbc, we would be on board with their views. so the trump supporters not going along with their nonsense convinces them that dangerous extremism is at work. >> laura: we saw what happened with the patriot act after 9-11. msnbc's frank wants more domestic spying now. >> there have been domestic terror bills. they get shot down and cited with the valid privacy occurrence. -- concerns. they jump from passing a law to we don't want people spying on americans. i say that's wrong. we can do this right. >> laura: do you trust the government to start another domestic spying apparatus? when everyone voted for the nice guy biden, he is like the grandfather figure, he will fix covid. this is what people voted for? really? >> yes. you hit the nail on the head early. this is a dangerous move in a direction you could criminalize and demonize members of the armed forces. what is the criteria? you voted for trump? it won't be drawn on something that gives people the benefit of the doubt. i think it's a bad move. >> laura: i saw onl

stuart: jake tapper never pressed him on that of course. ashley. ashley: nope.d to it, finally condemning the violent riots on the west coast. watch this. >> peaceful protests are a cornerstone of our democracy. but smashing windows is not protesting. neither is looting. stuart: well she only condemned the riots after being asked a question, why the white house has been silent on them for two weeks. brian kill immediately will deal with that. >>> hundreds of millions of dollars in dark money helped joe biden pave his way to the white house. those donations are untraceable. we don't really know who supported him but we've got a report on it, coming up. these days, it's okay to do some things halfway... but taking prescriptions shouldn't be one of them. so cvs has a proprietary search tool that looks for savings. plus free delivery. get a free prescription savings review at cvs. stuart: in advance of earnings reports we have big tech names, markets first of all, i got a little bit of green. nasdaq is up 27. not a huge move. show me microsoft, apple and facebook. m

i'm jake tapper. we begin with the politics lead in the final eight days of the trump presidency. today as he faces his second impeachment, he's claiming his remarks before a crowd of supporters were, quote, totally appropriate. they were, of course, not. the president spread election lies for months, essentially pouring gasoline on the nation. and then the morning of the attack, the president lit the match, inciting the mob, demonizing the congress and even his own vice president and directly encouraging the furious crowd who would do anything for him to go down to the capitol and, quote, fight like hell. >> we're going to have to fight much harder. when you catch somebody in a fraud, you're allowed to go by very different rules. we're going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country. so, let's walk down pennsylvania avenue. you'll never take back our country with weakness. you have to show strength, and you have to be strong. we fight like hell. and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. >> and t

bi may be every two weeks jake tapper will say something that some "why" questions are democrats and say so objective. >> our job is to probe and you can do that adversary early but with civility. he was asked the three following questions. should trump remain in office, should pens attend the inauguration, will you prosecute trump officials. if you don't understand the journalistic approach, there is in between coverage.tw you should see the unguarded moments and it comes clear that some media just despise and looked down on half the country. >> these people are a society of losers. >> the credulous boomer rube that backs donald trump, that donald trump is a smart one and dollar elitist. >>th they're going to go back to the olive garden and the holiday in their staying out in the garden marriott. they are going to have some drinks and talk about the great day they had in washington. >> laura: sorry, anderson vanderbilt. >> as you and shelby steele were saying, this is dehumanizing. these are the people who talk about justice, decency, civility.ci this is not the road to unity, this

. >> while the president's former chief of staff john kelly is so disgusted, he tells our jake tapper that he would vote to invoke the amendment and remove the president. >> i think, jake, that the cabinet should meet and have a discussion. i don't think it'll happen, but i think the cabinet should meet and discuss this because the behavior yesterday and the weeks and months before that have just been outrageous from the president. and what happened on capitol hill yesterday is a direct result of his poisoning the minds of people with the lies and the frauds. >> if you were in the cabinet right now, would you vote to remove him from office? >> yes, i would. >> in comments that are sure to enrage the president, kelly goes on to call him a laughing stock who's lashing out. >> when the guardrails were off, it's very predictable he'll be doing the kinds of things he's been doing. and of course he's enraged because he's lost an election. he's a laughing stock now. and he's striking out. but again, someone needs to help manage him. and i don't think those people took up the task when i left

here cnn jake tapper. >> i think it's safe to say that it's one of the most right radil speeches we've we saw the determination and compassion of joe biden. >> laura: wasn't really compassion when he called half the country racist or nativist? here's cnn dana nash. >> that's not what this is about. speak out the was so sincere and that sincerity matches the time and the moment. >> laura: how much will sincerity raise middle-class wages. we know the answer on that. cnn john king. >> and was a dark pessimistic view of where we are at the moment. >> it's a giant challenge, but what a powerful beginning. >> laura: well, all the funding would open for her peers up to criticism and "the washington post" media columnist sullivan issued the warning. the media can be glad for the biden white house's return to normalcy, but let's not be low. when you read beyond the headline, her real intention becomes obvious. there's a difference between holding power to accounts and grandstanding. it's the latter that gave rise to ridiculous dust stops and overplaying of the email scandal during the 26 campai

i'm jake tapper. we begin today with the 45th president's final 44 hours in office. trump will soon leav

from him, the least. >> let me read you something that john kelly said just in the last hour to jake tappere said the cabinet should meet and have a discussion. and discuss this because the behavior yesterday and in the weeks and months before that has been outrageous from the president. tapper said if you were in the cabinet right now would you vote to remove him from office. john kelly, yes i would. do you think there is support there from john kelly's former colleagues in the cabinet? >> i 100% agree that that is the way the cabinet should vote. and there are fewer than 300 hours left in the administration and a third of the people don't have follow up appointments confirmed by congress and they have the world's worst boss and what do they have left to lose except to vote this way. at the same time he and the folks who are in the cabinet, through they're lot in with this guy and this is not a surprise. yesterday is not a surprise. as a guy who campaigned on beating up reporters. this is a guy would tweeted in may when the looting starts, the shooting starts with respect to black lives ma

jake tapper. coverage on cnn continues right now. >>> welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." we're following breaking news. top georgia election officials debunking completely president trump's election conspiracy theories after his truly shocking call to the secretary of state of georgia demanding he find the votes to overturn the democratically held results. in a scathing point by point take down awhile ago, one clearly highly frustrated election official said the trump team has intentionally mislead the state, senate, voters, and people of the united states, closed quote. also breaking now, president-elect biden campaigning in georgia now for the two democratic challengers in tomorrow's critical senate runoff election that will determine which party controls the u.s. senate. we are following breaking pandemic news. the u.s. death toll topping 352,000 people with more than 20.7 million cases and deep concern now about the

i'm jake tapper. we begin today with the 45th president's final 44 hours in office. disgraced and twice impeached president trump will soon leave washington, d.c. he leaves washington with the lowest approval rating for a first-term president since scientific polling began. and for that historical achie achievement, he is leaving as the city struggles with the virus he failed to contain. he is leaving with parts of the city looking like a war zone because of threats of violence he incited and lies he spread. we have long since passed a peaceful transition of power. there are dead bodies as a result of the president's deranged belief that he won the election that he lost, and the conspiracy theories that he and his enablers on capitol hill and in maga media continue to propagate. this is what it looks like in 2021, at the end of the trump era. some 25,000 members of the national guard protecting the capitol, all because of the fear that other americans, president trump's supporters, will harm their fellow americans. some of them far-right extremists, with whom preside

state of the union team for the great first two weeks and to jake tapper for building the team and the state of union brand over the last five and a half years and welcoming me so graciously as co-anchor. jake will be back in this chair next sunday, so please continue. the news continues right now. >>> this is gps, the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria comes to you live from washington, d.c. today on the show, in ten days we have gone from a climate change denier in the oval office to this. >> we have already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis. we can't wait any longer. we see it with our own eyes. we feel it. we know it in our bones. >> i'll talk about biden's decision to put the climate crisis at the center of american foreign policy with john kerry, his special envoy for climate. >> no one nation can do this alone. >> also, there is anger on the streets of russia. from st. petersburg to moscow to vladivostok and many places in between. and it is directed right at president putin. should he fear the

leading the impeachment push against president trump had an emotional interview with my colleague jake tapper devastating loss of the final day of 2020, the death of his son tommy, just 25 years of age. just days later in the deadly capitol riot, the congress mapp worriy -- the congressman worried that he and other family members may be injured or killed by the angry mob. >> well, tommy was a remarkable person. um, he overwhelming love for humanity and for our country in his heart and really are, for all the people of the world. we lost him on the last day of that awful year. 2020. and he left us a note which said, please forgive me. my illness won today. look after each other. the animals and the global poor for me, all my love, tommy. and that was the last act in a life that dazzled anybody who came in to contact with tommy. i feel him in my chest when we went to count the electoral college votes and it came under the ludicrous attack, i felt my son with me. and i was most concerned with our youngest daughter and my son-in-law who is married to our on other daughter who were with me that da

. >> when asked by cnn's jake tapper he blamed the media for focusing on it essentially calling it old >> as a doctor, doesn't that bother you, you have to even spend any time discussing this? >> well, i think -- it bothers me this is still in the news, i worry we don't get the information to the american people that they need when we continue to bring up something that was from thursday night. i think the president made it clear that physician hs to study this. i think i've made it clear that this was a musing. >> study what? study ingesting disinfectant into were the human body? her milk toast answers gave life to really bad advice from trump. and keep in mind, the cdc had to put out a warning on ingesting din infectants after a spike in calls to poison centers. later in june trump bucked all advice and held a rally in tulsa risks likes to see a big crowned chanting his name and he said this. >> so i said to my people, slow the testing down, please! >> but when asked if he had actually asked the administration to slow testing, birx backed the president up. >> no, he did not tell me t

yesterday fake news, fake jake tapper tweeted "it wasn't today's events that distinguished bad people from good people, that moment has long passed." i guess you're right but not the way you think. perhaps some self-reflection on your networks five years of lying, hysteria, conspiracy theories, slanders, smears, might do you some good. last night, fake jake's colleague at the ever so prestigious anderson cooper had his own grievances -- according to anderson the real horror from yesterday's chaos was that some of the pro-trump protesters will go back and celebrate at an olive garden and to spend the night at a holiday inn. the thought -- take a look. >> it's' stunning they are going to go back to the olive garden and the holiday and they are staying at and the garden marriott and they are going to have some drinks and they are going to talk about the great day they had in washington and they did something and stand up for something and they stood up for nothing other than mayhem. >> sean: it's called the hilton garden inn, courtyard by marriott, i've stayed in a ton of them, my kids w