crimes he was arrested for? the lead starts right now. a mere few hours after he was arrested and arraigned, donald trump told donors this i hadn t had a chance to go through all the boxes. it is a long tedious job. takes a long time. which i was prepared to do, but i have a very busy life. can prosecutors use this admission against him? plus, an up close look at front lines of ukraine s counteroffensive. we had to evacuate to the shelter now because apparently the guys fear there could be aviation bombs coming in fairly soon. you can see the situation here is still very kinetic, a lot of shelling is still going on. the items ukrainian troops say are key to defeating the russians. and if inflation is supposedly easing, why does it seem every trip to the grocery store is getting more expensive? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our law and justice lead. despite donald trump launching a growing number of baseless attacks on special counsel jack s
china, it is important he has a conversation, but he lets them know that we re going to be firm in protecting our allies and our assets. china has been watching russia s invasion of ukraine as a potential playbook as china threatens its independent neighbor taiwan. both putin and president xi see any western military aid as a provocation. how does the u.s. bolster taiwan s military defenses without igniting a larger conflict? at you alluded earlier, i spent 20 years in the military, five years at war. i fought in two wars. i want to do everything we can to prevent another war. and a big part of that is getting ahead of it. one of the things i think we re seeing or learning from the ukrainian conflict is the ukrainians, as strong as they are to fend off these the russian aggression, it would have been a lot better if we would have given them the tools they needed to be successful ahead of the invasion. so i think that s part of what we can do is ensure that taiwan has a the resour
and there has been some military aid packages that have already been agreed to, already passed in congress, and signed by previous presidents that still have not reached taipei. that s a good start. get taiwan the military resources it needs to fend off communist china. speaking of u.s. national security in china, two chinese nationals were arrested for intruding, for trespassing at trump s florida mar-a-lago resort, the same resort where the fbi found troves of classified documents stored unsafely, unsecurely insecurely. how upset, how disturbed, how distressed were you to see the images and read the indictment? jake, this is dangerous. when we have a country that does not protect classified material, it is dangerous to national security of the united states and others. and it disturbs me that you have elected officials like president
court of law. but it is more of just the way elected officials are handling classified material. that worries me. that concerns me. the manner in which the house intelligence and the senate intelligence committee are dealing with things, we got to get back to blaming one another and utilizing political wins and getting back to protecting america, protecting our national security interests, protecting our allies abroad, that starts with ukraine, that continues with taiwan, and any other of our allies abroad, a big part of that is protecting our national security. and we have to take it more serious. republican congressman tony gonzales of texas, navy veteran, thank you so much for your time today. appreciate it, sir. thank you, jake. some prices are dropping, others are still soaring. what is behind the pain in your wallet when you go to the grocery store?