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
absolutely not what the law is. jason, you sound a little frustrated. welcome to my world. appreciate to you and elie honig. thank you very much. as america s top dip ll spe congress who was once stationed at guantanamo bay when he was in the navy. stay with us. they got world class bakers to develop their tastiest bread yet.t. this t truly makes the subway series a dream team. you know abobout that chuck. yeah, i was the bread of that teteam too. try the subway series menu. their tastiest refresh yet. [typing] you were made to act spontaneously. we were made to help plan accordingly.
records act, which is not even mentioned in this ridiculous 44-page indictment, under the presidential records act, which is civil, not criminal, i had every right to have these documents. so, jason, you re an expert on the presidential records act. you worked at the national archives. is what he saying true and why isn t the presidential records act mentioned in the indictment? well, the president is simply wrong. the records that were taken to mar-a-lago are the american people s records. the presidential records act was passed by congress to change prior practice where presidents had their records as personal and they could take them home. but every since ronald reagan, presidents have been govern governed under the pra and it says when joe biden was inaugurated, when he was sworn into office, those records were in the legal custody of national archives. president trump had no right to take a single document to
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