You want irony today June 7th is actually clean air day in Canada.

Look it up.

The lead starts right now.

From Canada all the way down to the Carolinas thick, hazy wildfire smoke and gulping much

of the east coast, if wildfires have been burning for more than a month, why did it get

so bad today?

And how long is this going to last, and former President Donald Trump swears he's being

attacked unfairly again and desperately wants you to hear his side of the story, and he's

just released a new TV ad starring some wild animals to make sure you get the message.

All this while former Vice President Mike Pence jumps in the race against Trump and Chris

Christie believes he can be in him both.

I'm going to ask Governor Christie how ahead when he joins me live on the lead.

Welcome to the lead.

I'm Jake Tapper.

We're going to begin today with our health lead as much of the eastern United States

as being choked right now by a dangerous haze of smoke caused by more than 400 raging

wildfires in Canada.

Air quality alerts are out for more than 55 million people across the Northeast, Midwest,

and Mid-Atlantic.

The air is so unhealthy in New York City right now that an actor stopped a Broadway matinee

performance this afternoon because she had difficulty breathing throughout the eastern

coast.

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