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several democratic officials. then a new discovery about a revolutionary weight loss drug. patients say it actually helps curb other addictions such as smoking or drinking. welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. we start with our law and justice lead. the first public reaction from former president donald trump in response to cnns blockbuster reor thing, since matched by "the new york times" and "washington post," in his classified documents case. mr. trump refused to directly answ...

principal on this kind of case. thats coming up later. we will learn things. we will fact check. i invite you to stick around for that. thats later. the speech you may have heard about is landing tonight around 7:00 p.m. eastern, inside of an hour. president bidens first ever address from the oval office. we have heard him from the white house before. this is a thing we in journalism and white house junkies keep track of. this is in the views of the biden team, a positive that they a...

Russias invasion began. Today President Biden is set to meet with the families of two americans detained in russia, paul whelan and Brittney Griner. A humanitarian crisis at the southern border, political games are being waged with human lives as we learn more about how dozens of migrants arrived in Marthas Vineyard and how the community is coming to their aid. The Boil Water Advisory in jackson, mississippi is now lifted after a water crisis lasted nearly seven weeks. But will residents drink i...

4:00 in new york. happy friday. it is a very busy day of news here with the disgraced twice impeached ex-president subpoenaed today, and donald trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election that he lost. also in the news today, trump ally steve bannon has been sentenced to four months in prison behind bars for his refusal to comply with the subpoena from the january 6th select committee. a member of the committee, democratic congresswoman zoe lofgren will join us in a few moments. we ...

were declassified. on that subject overnight, trump offered a, frankly, odd defense. >> if youre the president of the united states you can declassify by saying its declassified. even by thinking about it. because youre sending it to mar-a-lago or wherever youre sending it and there doesnt have to be a process. there can be a process but there doesnt have to be. youre the president. you make that decision. so when you send it, its declassified. i declassified everything. >> he seems to...

response to that ultimatum from the special master. when he said he might have no choice but to accept the governments claims that 100 of those documents are classified, if trumps team doesnt step up with the proof that the former president declassified them. and thats really something that trumps legal team has resisted repeatedly asserting both in person and in court and in legal filings. so we saw a filing last night and they said that they might have to save any evidence of declass...

that would be the end of it. so he said the burden was on them to decide if they would put forward any position that these documents have been classified. and the former president has said it publically, but not an argument that his attorneys have made yet. and his lawyers said that they hope to push that issue down the road because it also raises the stakes of how would they support that, it could involve affidavits, witness statements, sworn statements under oath which could become a...

russias invasion began. today president biden is set to meet with the families of two americans detained in russia, paul whelan and brittney griner. a humanitarian crisis at the southern border, political games are being waged with human lives as we learn more about how dozens of migrants arrived in marthas vineyard and how the community is coming to their aid. the boil water advisory in jackson, mississippi is now lifted after a water crisis lasted nearly seven weeks. but will r...

between policy, human rights, and yes, the trolling politics of the maga era. ron desantis is trying to cruelly exploit and use human beings as a type of prop for a trolling political points a well as endear himself to apparently people who in public call the shots with what this supposedly mighty powerful governor does, because he is the most powerful person in the state of florida in the government system, but apparently he has bosses that outrank him there, and they dont live in flo...

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