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reporter: you ve already seen the former staffers from former president obama filing in. to some degree, a reunion, not just for the staff but also the president and the former president and obviously the president was the former vice-president as well. eight years together serving in the white house, obviously a close relationship, a very deeply personal relationship, one that s had its ups and downs, but there s no question throughout the roller coaster the two have remained friends and remained in contact since president biden took office last year. this will mark the first trip back to the white house for michelle obama since she left office on january a tradition, one that has been on a pause, at least for the last decade since george w. bush and laura bush had their portraits unveiled by president obama. president trump decided not to. we don t know why. but both the former president and first lady will have their portraits unveiled all for the former presiden ....
operatives who defected from the kremlin s secret service agency. plus, a veteran las vegas investigative reporter found stabbed to death outside his home. the move today that may put police one step closer to his killer. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead, and striking new details about what exactly donald trump took to mar-a-lago. one of the documents that fbi agents recovered during their search of the florida resort described a foreign government s nuclear capabilities. that s according to the washington post, which goes on to say, quote, some of the seized documents detail top secret u.s. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them, unquote. donald trump s lawyers once again trying to deflect from any serious national security implications here. instead, decrying what they described as leaks about the investigation, which one might observe is a curious ti ....
peter: good evening, bret. this report makes a practical conclusion when refugees did not tell the u.s. accurate information about themselves, then officials were not able to check to see if those people were actually on terror watch lists. we know this happened dozens of times and this report dropped on a day that felt kind of like a family reunion here at the white house as hundreds of former obama staffers came to see patriots unveiled of the former respresident and first lady. the country is better off than when you took office. peter: is the country safer? review of massive afghanistan evacuation officially called operation allies welcome finds we determined some information used to vet evacuees through u.s. government databases such as name, date of birth, identification number and travel document data was inaccurate, incomplete, or missing. we were told that wasn t possible. i will absolutely assure you no one is come in to the united states of america ....
into the impact the supreme court s abortion decision could have on the november midterms. congressional democrats grow more optimistic about their chances to hold the majority. next hour, former president barack obama returns to the white house joined by michelle obama, her first trip back to the white house since she left there in 2017. it s the official unveiling of their white house portraits. we begin with justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, paul charlton and tracy wallner. ken, to you out of the gate. this is a significant development. walk us through what new we are learning. pete he , the post is saying there was a document referencing nuclear capabilities. they are aren t saying whether it s classified. no criticism. these are hard details. it s hard to know from this article how significant this document actually is. there are think tank reports that discussion countries nuclear defenses. the story goes into what we knew about the sensi ....
the historic heat wave and an obama biden reunion, why the former president and first lady are returning to the white house this afternoon. we begin with new developments in the investigations into donald trump and his allies. people familiar with the matter tell the washington post the documents seized by the fbi during a search of trump s mar-a-lago estate last month included information about a foreign government s nuclear capabilities. nbc news has not independently confirmed this reporting. the justice department declined to comment. as the post wrote in its piece, quote, some of the seized documents detail top secret u.s. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. and that quote, documents about such highly classified operations require special clearances on a need to know basis, not just top secret clearance but a trump spokesperson tweeted the washington post continues to serve as the propaga ....