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. i m jake tapper. we start with our law and justice lead. the first public reaction from former president donald trump in response to cnn s blockbuster reor thing, since matched by the new york times and washington post, in his classified documents case. mr. trump refused to directly answer questions about a recording now in the hands of federal prosecutors where trump is said to be talking about classified materials he kept in his possession after leaving the white house. but the former president did go after those investigators with his usual complaints of being a victim of a witch hunt. in moments i ll be joined by trump s former lawyer, tim parm tory who left the legal team a few weeks ago and played a key role in the classified documents investigation. first, we ll start
new intelligence just china is giving military aid to. russia even as it pushes a so called peace plan to end the war in ukraine. what happens if china makes this move, and how the nice case for spawned? president biden giving the strongest indication yet that he is close to announcing his reelection campaign. i ll talk to lincoln project cofounder rick wilson about who biden s republican opponent will likely be. plus s george santos drinking some truth serum when he admits he is a terrible liar? the freshman congressman is back again in the headlines, for potentially lying to a garage. all of that in moors coming up. and a good sunday morning to you. i am katie phang. three current u.s. officials are telling nbc news that china is considering sending lethal military aid to russia and the form of artillery and ammunition. this would be a dangerous and dramatic escalation to an already brutal war. ukraine has also been pushing for the united states to supply f-16 fighter jets,
i hope when this is over the prosecutor who did that will face disciplinary action. whose privilege are they trying to pierce? yours? the president s? they were trying to get through your attorney-client privilege? yes. this was during my grand jury appearance. remind me why you were there. i was there to talk about the searches that i had organized and oversaw, which is all of the ones we spoke about earlier, bedminister, trump tower, the second mar-a-lago and then the downtown palm beach ones. even though i was there for that very specific purpose, they kept trying to go into totally impermissible areas. and when i refused to answer those questions, they would turn and make totally impermissible statements to the jury. and how did the judge respond? there is no judge in the grand jury. i forgot. this wasn t a sealed proceeding.
which have been described as top secret and important to national security. isn t that in and of itself problematic, the idea that this is a place of business, other things are in this storage facility? i don t know who had access to the storage facility. i don t know who had access to mar-a-lago. it s a place of business. thousands of people are going in and out of that place of business. who knows who had access or looked at those documents? so, first of all, it was a locked storage room that s in a facility that is under secret service protection. should it be in that facility as opposed to a nara-rented facility in downtown palm beach? no. that s why we went to the house intel committee and said and the senate intel committee and said, this is something that needs to be corrected. nara should have gotten a facility. gsa should never have brought these things to mar-a-lago to begin with.