afghanistan s capital city to show you what life is now like under taliban rule, and asking afghan leaders about a known terrorist who lived in their midst. plus, what may be a silent spread of polio. the virus detected in new york city waste water. why health officials fear hundreds of cases may be out there. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start today with our politics lead and an avalanche of major developments when it comes to trump s attempt to overthrow democracy. giuliani has been informed he s a target of whether trump and his allies tried to break the law and overturn the election in georgia. he s scheduled to appear before the grand jury on wednesday. this news comes hours after a federal judge ruled lindsey graham of south carolina must testify before the very same georgia grand jury. graham s legal team had been arguing that graham did not act inappropriately when he phoned georgia election officials after the 2020 election. georgia secretary of
presidential election results in georgia. and cnn is on the ground right now in afghanistan exactly one year after the taliban takeover of the country now plunged into poverty, how women and girls are once again subjugated to unforgiving rule. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. new charges tonight against the pennsylvania man who said he wanted to kill to kill law enforcement personnel. the latest in a very disturbing wave of threats following the fbi search of former president trump s mar-a-lago estate. cnn national correspondent kristin holmes is working the story. reporter: days after the fbi search of former president trump s mar-a-lago home, new graphic threats to the fbi revealed. courts showing social media posts against federal law enforcement by a pennsylvania man. quote, my only goal is to kill more of them before i drop. one quote read, if you work for the fbi, then you
fbi search of former president donald trump s home. now we are learning more about the events leading up to that search. two sources telling cnn, in june a trump lawyer signed a letter saying all documents marked as classified had been given back. that s what they re saying. but monday s search revealed mar-a-lago was still harboring top secrets, removing 11 sets of top secret gdocuments. we now know the justice department has probable cause to investigate three possible federal crimes, violations of the espionage act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. as of now no one has been charged with a crime. trump s first line of defense was to suggest that the fbi may have planted evidence while in his home. nobody has presented any evidence of that. plan b involved claiming that trump had declassified documents before the fbi seized them that the espionage act does not hinge on whether documents are classified. so the latest move is to blame the gov
espionage act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. no one has been charged with a crime that we know of as of now. this just in, the democratic chairs of the intelligence committee and the oversight committee and the house have written a letter to the director of national intelligence saying they want a damage assessment, and briefing regarding these documents recovered from mar-a-lago, and of course trump and his allies are of course spending and peddling wild conspiracy theories about the fbi search at mar-a-lago. the theories range from ridiculous and laughable to down right dangerous. cnn s daniel dale joins me now to talk about this. trump is saying all the fbi and the department of justice has to do is ask for these documents back, and there would have been no problem at all. all they had to do was ask, and that post on his truth site. does that align with what we know? it does not at all align with what we know, jim. we know there was
reporter: we ve learned from multiple sources that the person is ricky shiffer. we are trying to find out what kind of connection he has with right-wing extremist groups. what happened was at the cincinnati field office of the fbi. he walked in there, according to our sources, armed with an ar-15 style rifle and nail gun and tried to breach that office. an alarm was sounded. he was pursued by law enforcement not just on the federal side but local and state as well. there was a standoff for several hours in a rural area of ohio which ended when law enforcement tried to have nonlethal ways of bringing him in, tried to negotiate with him, but then he was killed in the standoff when none of that was working. like you said, we have come across a user account on donald trump s media site, truth social, bearing the same name and authorities have not confirmed it is his account but we have one source telling josh campbell there is a government i.d. matching the same picture. in at