well, you know what i how i feel about your father. and i know how he feels about you, lawrence. thanks, alex. have a great show. thank you. andrew weissmann will join us in our first segment tonight to discuss the latest discovery of classified documents involving former vice president not named joe biden. so, far no republicans, exactly zero republicans, have called for a special prosecutor to investigate mike pence s possession of classified documents, discovered two years after he left office. but we begin tonight with future defendants. those were the key words spoken today in a georgia courtroom by fulton county district attorney fani willis. she was in the courtroom today to protect the rights of future defendants, who are the focus of a report written by the special grand jury that fani willis empaneled to hear evidence of a possible election crimes committed by donald trump and others in georgia in an attempt to overturn the last presidential election. th
father. if he could see what we are thing we have ever done. sowe ve got one of e of what that guest is just from your twitter and i m excited to see your interview, maybe you are tears, and i know my dad would be thrilled just at his hand over that we do every single night. he sure would. well, you know what i how i feel about your father. and i know how he feels about you, lawrence. thanks, alex. have a great show. thank you. andrew weissmann will join us in our first segment tonight to discuss the latest discovery of classified documents involving former vice president not named joe biden. so, far no republicans, exactly zero republicans, have called for a special prosecutor to investigate mike pence s possession of classified documents, discovered two years after he left office. but we begin tonight with future defendants. those were the key words spoken today in a georgia courtroom by fulton county district attorney fani willis. she was in the courtroom
putin responsible for recent attacks in ukraine. but how? the lead starts right now. a global response as russia bombards ukraine with mass missile attacks for a second straight day. what the president just said about the aggression in an exclusive interview with jake tapper. also this hour, another cnn exclusive, one on one with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. his take on republicans chances of winning a majority in the midterms, plus the one question he refused to answer about donald trump. and the worst is yet to come. the new recession warning as top economists also predict exactly when the economic downturn will hit. hello and welcome to the lead. i m john berman in for jake tapper. we begin with world leaders pledging to stop russian president vladimir putin s reign of terror in ukraine. an emergency debate today at the united nations and the g7 heads of government including president joe biden on an emergency call with ukraine s president today, vowing
investigator reporter and bob woodward of the former president. some of it was played on cnn earlier today but what you ll hear tonight has never aired. from 2016 through 2020 woodward taped his conversations with the former president. he will be releasing all 20 of these conversations on the 25th of this month as an audio book titled the trump tapes which runs for more than eight hours. cnn has obtained a copy and what you ll hear tonight is striking. it speaks to who he was as president, who he is as a person and how completely intertwined the personal and presidential were for him and probably still are. something that s not just apparent in what he says but even more so in how he says it. something the printed word just can t fully convey. the conversations also speak directly to some of what the former president is now being investigated for. namely how he views classified material and a president s responsibility for safe guarding some of the countries deepest secrets a
of this month as an audio book titled the trump tapes, which runs for more than eight hours. cnn has obtained a copy. what you will hear tonight striking. it speaks to who he was as president, who he is as a person, and how completely intertwined the personal and presidential work for him. and probably still are. something that s not just apparent in what he says, but even more so and how he says it. something the printed were just cannot fully convey. the conversations also speak directly to some of what the former president is now being investigated for. namely how he views classified material. and a presidents responsibility for safeguarding some of the country s deepest secrets. that s why these conversations, which have never been heard before, are so significant. cnn special correspondent jamie gangel has an exclusive tonight. she joins us with some of the audio. what stands out to you the most? i think as you said is hearing trump say these words. and you re in the r