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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...

two women ukrainian soldiers who are on the front line at the combat zone. good day. im andrea mitchell in new york. a major win for the justice department last night after a appeals court ruled that president trump has no claim to the documents seized at mar-a-lago. two trump appointed judges and one obama appointee said that he had no claim to those documents clearing way for the investigation into the former president. trump on fox last night seemed that somehow he could magically...

unique classified documents were seized by federal agents during the search at mar-a-lago. that raises serious questions of possible perjury by trump lawyers or others who signed letters to the fbi that they had turned everything over after a subpoena in june. most remarkably, the justice department lawyers included this extraordinary image. an fbi photo of top secret documents and other classified documents on the carpet of the former presidents home office. the government says invest...

a u.n. inspection team arrived today at europes largest nuclear power plant to assess damage and shelling. this is vladimir putin. laying flowers at the casket of mikhail gorbachev. he will not attend the funeral. i will speak to senator jack reed coming up shortly. in alaska, crossover appeal beats out star power. the first alaskan native to win statewide and the first woman to win the seat. one of five races moving in democratic favor. a state of emergency continuing in jackson, ...

Vladimir putin is to stand up to him and that is what the ukrainians are doing with tremendous courage and we should do everything we can to support them. >> i want to talk about another issue close to your heart and that is the situation with afghan special migrant visas. this is for afghans as you know who served with the u.s. military or the u.s. government there and now often face severe threats from the taliban. the bill is going to get a vote that you have to run to. this omnibus spending ...

We can and we should and we must fix that. our officed issued a report talking about the siv program and what we need to do to make sure it works better for people under threat and we need to do things like reauthorize it permanently so people are not waiting on the last-minute agreement to ensure that they could continue to have their application reviewed. we need to provide resources to ensure those people waiting years to try and get out of the country and get to the united states in safety, ...

>> congress is racing the clock and they are racing the weather. they need all the senators to agree to finish this massive spending bill before they can go home before that storm hits and get home for christmas. the package would fund the government through next fall and includes a fix to the electoral count act, prompted by donald trumps attempt to overturn the election. more aid to ukraine and the expansion of the afghan siv program, but not the afghan adjustment act. explanation in a moment....

Shes visited afghanistan many times. one of the big highlights from the report is the log jam for translators to obtain approval. the chief of mission has to okay from the state department, but only 11% of the current applicants have it. so why the hold up? most of them dont have papers because passports were burned by the embassy when kabul was falling. but they were left without any kind of credentials to prove they work for the state department. >> youre right. thats one of the major reasons ...

Frustrated that nobody is held accountable. why doesnt the state department say, you know what? we did a really good job on this and that. i know that they feel good about how many people they got out at the end there. we failed on this front and that front. for that reason, we have reassigned this person or this person is no longer played because its their job to receive the siv program. there were failures in prior administrations. why is there no one held accountable for what happened, which ...

Nine months going back to march of 2020. the program was basically in a stall. within two weeks of taking office, we restarted the siv process in kabul. on february 4th, one of the first executive orders issued by president biden directed us to immediately review the siv program to identify causes of undue delay and find ways to process siv applications more quickly. this spring i directed significant addition at resources to the program. expanding the people in washington processing application...