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
i would not hold my breath for success on appeal. she might win a few points, but i dont think she s going to get a significant reduction in her sentence. you talked about how the russians like symmetrical trades. viktor bout, he s a threat to the international order. a drug smuggler, weapons smuggler. paul whelan is falsely accused of spying and brittney griner had less than a gram of cannabis oil. surely there must be two russians in americans prisons who are closer in symmetry to paul whelan and brittney griner in the charges than viktor bout, no? of course, there are. if you re talking about substantive symmetry, we don t have that in any kind of exchange here. they will say it should be two for two. it s unfair for us to give up two for only one that you re sending back to us. so i think that s absolutely right. but they, again, i think they feel they have a lot of leverage because we really want to get whelan and griner home, and rightfully so, and i think their