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
potential defendants. all right, sara murray, thanks so much. this morning, cnn was told that the trump campaign raised more than $2 million last night at that post arraignment post arrest fund-raiser at mr. trump s new jersey golf club. sources say apart from the former president s comments on camera, to guests he complained about the indictment, praised himself for his handling of the indictment, and also asked guests what they thought of his court appearance. i want to bring in cnn s jeff zeleny. a trump aide said they re now confident in what they see as their playbook moving forward. they certainly had experience with this now. first in new york, and then in miami, and it gives the sense that sara was just reporting that they expect georgia is coming. so there is a classic playbook of the former president, seeking affirmation. he, you know, arrived in the versailles cafe in the cuban
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
neighborhood, little havana, in miami. he was appearing with supporters are. most people charged with these serious crimes, of course, might handle this differently. but this is his it is his playbook. the question is, now he has melded the courtroom with the campaign trail and he is reveling in that, but there is a sense out there of is this adding to trump fatigue or not. we don t know yet at this point if this playbook is working for him in the long term, but in the short term, they think it is, and the fund-raising is one example they point to. it is interesting, though, because now that the indictment is public, some of the people that were very critical of it have changed their tune. at least to a degree. take a listen to former vice president pence. he sounds very different today than he did just a week ago. i had a chance to review the indictment over the weekend. and this indictment contains a