the fbi director on defense. the lead starts right now. are you protecting the bidens? absolutely not. the fbi does not hold on. you won t answer the question. the fbi, christopher wray on the hill questioned by some of his harshest republican critic. calling for a culture shift at the fbi. and more promises for ukraine but president zelenskyy is not getting the thing he really wanted, entry into nato. why not? plus, taxpayer beware. it s not just uncle sam getting your data, the report out today on who else can see your most sensitive tax information. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we start with that explosive battle on capitol hill. republicans released a tsunami of accusations and attacks against the fbi and its trump-appointed director christopher wray accusing wray of weaponizing the bureau against conservatives, lambasting the bureau s participation in last year s search of trump s florida home. american speech is censored, parents are call t
investigate donald trump. i think it s time members of congress act more responsibly and that the american public perhaps doesn t necessarily listen to what members of congress say. if it sounds crazy it probably is crazy, and i trust law enforcement to do the right thing. republican congressman ken buck of colorado, thank you so much, sir. good to see you again. thank you. this week in 2018 former president trump stood next to vladimir putin in helsinki and told the world he believed russia s intelligence over the united states . five years later president biden has just landed in the same city. his warning to the world as putin keeps up his relentless war in ukraine. plus the reported spy led by chinese hahackers. we re back in a moment. [ tapping ] y you put the boom-boom into my heart intuitive sit-to-start in the all-electric id.4.
well, there is nothing qui well, there s nothing quite like a bit of cloak and dagger, especially on a wednesday hump day morning. this one, though, centers on the killing of a top al qaeda leader in yemen just over a year ago. it seems the lady in his life and a cia spy led to his downfall. abc s brian ross has the details. reporter: he evaded the u.s. for years, but a new report says anwar al awlaki s downfall may have been linked to his wife s shopping list for pantene shampoo, nivea deodorant, dove soap, and other items not available in yemen. we have sent other people before and nothing really suited her taste, he wrote as he sent the list to someone he thought was a trusted al qaeda aide. but the trusted aide now says he was a spy. in an interview with a danish
spy. now we know that that initial kernel of data that led to her, well, we don t know, but we can connect the dots. somebody working in cuba who was an expert in the coded messages that cuba smiles used to send the american secrets home, that would be the kind of person who might notice a detail like what kind of computer that suspect suspected excuse me, that suspect was used to send home those messages. and that information is credited with wrapping up ana montes at the pent gone. this spy is credited with leads of kendall myers at the state department. this spy led to a huge kneltwork
well, there is nothing quite like a bit of cloak and well, there s nothing quite like a bit of cloak and dagger, especially on a wednesday hump day morning. this one, though, centers on the killing of a top al qaeda leader in yemen just over a year ago. it seems the lady in his life and a cia spy led to his downfall. abc s brian ross has the details. reporter: he evaded the u.s. for years, but a new report says anwar al awaky s downfol may have been linked to his wife s shopping list for pantene sham pop, nevea, dove soap, and other items not available in yemen. we have sent other people before and nothing really suited her taste, he wrote as he sent the