server room at trump s mar-a-lago, the same servers storing the security surveillance video from trump s resort. this as mr. trump s lawyers meet with justice department officials today. then, come on in, the water s fine. the 2024 race set to grow by three more candidates as governor nikki haley lands her sharpest blow yet on the republican front runners. plus military fighter jets going super sonic when a private plane doesn t respond while flying near the nation s capitol. investigators are trying to figure out what went so horribly wrong. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper, apologies for my voice. we start today with the law and justice lead and serious questions as to whether donald trump could face his first federal indictment ever. today, lawyers for the former president met with justice department officials here in washington for 90 minutes, a possible sign that special counsel jack smith s investigation into how trump handled classified documents and whet
to the battlefield, to the russians. they know how to spread the russians out. they know how to strike deep. they are not going to use u.s. munitions to do so. they have respected our request to avoid doing that. there s no reason to believe they will not continue to respect that. so, the ukrainians are doing exactly what they need to do. congressman wenstrup, turning to your new bill, the afghan allies protection act, this would extend the special immigrant visa by five years, provide an eligibility exemption for those injured or killed in the line of duty and authorize an additional 20,000 special immigrant visas. it extends and expands a program already in place. how urgent is this need, do you think? i think it s very urgent. i think it s actually later than we would like, because you have so many people, as you mentioned, that are waiting to hear. this is a promise that we made as america, that you work with us, and you will have the opportunity if you fulfill all the guidelin
so this is all a mess. so, first the employer mandate delayed a year, and then all these waivers and exemptions. now you re pointing out for some there s an eligibility exemption, if it s too expensive, you can check a box and say i don t have to have obamacare. what s left to the law? just well, virtually nothing. what we re saying is people who have had their insurance before obamacare came into play and are keeping their insurance, you re fine. but everyone else is in a situation where you have actually been given a notice and lost your plan. now you have an option to skip the individual mandate for a year, and this is sort of publish this is basically saying, we re pushing the law back a year, and it s an unbelievable concession for an administration that refused to offer that concession specifically ahead of the government shutdown. they had the opportunity to do this just before the government shutdown, and republicans could have accepted it and the government would have ne