hiss rival office holders killed. the lead starts right now. one city, four homes, each one shot at. police say who the man was who orchestrated the attacks, they say he wanted to cause injury or death and the apparent targets were his democratic rivals. plus, trading in on the biden family name, house republicans ready to investigate presidential son hunter and presidential brothers jimmy and frank biden for trying to use their access to the now president to try to make money. where does the investigatory trail begin? well, cnn is investigating. and, how did two passenger planes end up on a collision course? could this very serious question impact your next flight? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and the white house counsel s office desperately trying to explain why the biden white house has repeatedly given the american people incomplete, late information about president biden and his staff s handling of classified documents. both
the ukrainian energy company, considered my last name go. do of things that would have happened in my life if my last name wasn t biden generate joe biden s brothers referenced him in their private dealings. frank biden has invoked his brother in trying to convince local officials to approve his projects. like in sunrise, florida, where he told the city in 2015 to trust his venture. not because of frank, but because of the honor of being the brother of a guy i think we all know and love. reporter: and in 2021, at a gathering of medical professionals, he made this pledge. the bully pulpit that i have as a result of the privilege of being associated with my brother joey. and i ll do everything in my power to support you, to get the job done, to get federal dollars to your research. reporter: frank biden told
like even though he touched on a lot of the same talking points we ve heard, it was vivid, it was energetic. i know the campaign sort of billed this as a homecoming extravaganza. but how do you read what you saw last night? when i was inside the arena as a reporter in sunrise, florida, last night, it was evidence that president trump was seizing on his own grievances and sharing them with his political base ahead of the 2020 campaign, reassuring them about his own political standing, trying to rally them to his side as he faces down these impeachment proceedings. and he used that vulgar language, those colorful phrases, to try to rally them to him. yeah. i want to show kind of one example of the, let s call it colorful. i mean, the president knows his audience. he did a mocking sort of play acting of impeachment. he mocked joe biden last night. but he also added this, which i think is new to his repertoire. they said, he went into the
i m not showing you anything that i shouldn t be showing you. the authorities released this photo. so no one gets any ideas. neither the authorities or we are going into great detail about the devices, themselves, about how these things are made. you obviously see in the photo a sill lind cylinderical container, wires out of each end, what appears to be the face of a small clock. the package is addressed to former cia chief john brennan. his name is misspelled. president trump has called mr. brennan, who s dedicated his life, frankly, to public service, quote, a very bad guy. he actually doesn t work for cnn. the return address is debbie wasserman-schultz. formerly the dnc in sunrise which is also miss spelled, florida. the bomb was taken to the new york police department s facility in the bronx. and, again, as pam mentioned from there, it goes to quantico, virginia, where the fbi will study it. i want to talk more about the many roads that could lead investigators to whoever did this.
evidence. as pam said, they re all said to be similar. this happens to be one that came here to cnn. authorities released the photo. i m not showing you anything that i shouldn t be showing you. the authorities released this photo. so no one gets any ideas. neither the authorities or we are going into great detail about the devices, themselves, about how these things are made. you obviously see in the photo a cylinderical container, wires out of each end, what appears to be the face of a small clock. the package is addressed to former cia chief john brennan. his name is misspelled. president trump has called mr. brennan, who s dedicated his life, frankly, to public service, quote, a very bad guy. he actually doesn t work for cnn. the return address is debbie wasserman-schultz. formerly the dnc in sunrise which is also misspelled, florida. the bomb was taken to the new york police department s facility in the bronx. and, again, as pam mentioned from there, it goes to quantico, virginia,