defense today. the lead starts right now. might there be a breakthrough? after months of tuber vville blocking military promotions. the secretary tells cnn in an exclusive interview this blockade by tuberville has become a threat to national security. and major questions for the secret service today as the agency says it s closing it s case and that they could not figure out who dropped a baggy of cocaine inside the white house. plus one of california s premier hospitals facing a new federal civil rights investigation into its alleged treatment of pregnant black women. welcome to the lead i m jam tapper. we re going to start with our world lead. president biden today made quite the bold statement about putin s bloody war against ukraine. putin s already lost the war. putin has a real problem. how does he move from here? what does he do? there is no possibility of him winning the war in ukraine. he s already lost the war. that stunning assertion from biden at a new
we re gonna discuss lord of the flies. another hour of velshi, begins right now. good morning, and this sunday august 14th, i am velshi, it s been a week since the fbi has conducted mar-a-lago, as donald trump tried to branded, and we learned it is the third time that we know of, that representatives of the american government have to go visit former president trump s west palm beach hideaway, where he has been stashing a highly sensitive documents, that belong to the united states. back in january, the last archives collected 15 boxes from mar-a-lago, after they realize the trump administration, some things they never handed over. during that first round of retrieval, were documents that were marked classified. this was just a small sign of things to come. we know that this past spring, the department of justice quietly subpoenaed donald trump for any and all remaining records that he had in his possession. it s an important point, trump keeps talking about a raid, where the
episode then obviously the next night it s well-known fox did fire tucker carlson. so your client, mr. epps, at least he was a big believer in donald trump. he was there because he believed in the stop the steal cause and all that. he used to watch fox or maybe he still does. i don t know. but has any of this caused him to rethink all of these people including that particular tv channel and all the lies they tell? i mean he has now been victim and seen up close how reckless and how little they care about truth and facts. ray is an unlikely villain for the right-wing and for fox. as you said he was a trump supporter. he was there on january 6th because he believed what fox had been saying about the election being stolen. he now questions that, sure. and he questions many of the things that the right-wing media and fox and its personalities have spewed about others because
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agency was doing its job. i m more convinced that the fbi did what my fellow citizens wanted them to do when they got if information they got and it has nothing to do with donald trump. shepard: the republican congressman attended a highly classified briefing. in other words, he has all of the information after reports that the fbi sent an informant to meet with trump campaign advisers because of their suspicious contacts linked to moscow. john roberts is back with us from the north lawn. draw gowdy was specific about this. he was. you think trey gowdy, an ally of this white house. the president quoted him extensive this morning about another issue. you think if he said there was no evidence that the fbi was spying on your campaign, the president would say somebody that i know and trust and value his word said there s no spying so we ll say there s no spying. listen to what sarah huckabee sanders said at the press briefing this afternoon. gowdy was in the briefing.