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
have a critical decision to make on this program. we re going to do our best to bring you access to the candidates as they re available. last night we kicked off our town hall series in termsale of the election seasonri and tha all important caucus state oftef iowa. we did iormet with former president donald trump . now the president s state after show for a considerable periodsw of time and took a lot of questions from town hall parties, events. take a look. and i want to talk about issues first, because those are the real issues that impactpactp people s lives. there are other issues. i ll askeopllives. about, but it to start with what matters. peacd and butter issues, peacet and prosperity. and and the future drive electin ,in my opinion. so we have a border thatcont, is out of control. why woul wd they open upgn the border? do you think this was by design? do you think by the end of this year, joe biden, by estimates, will have allowed in estimat se a half million i
it is google allowing federal government to monitor g-mail or messenger and what s app? remember the big scandal under george w. bush monitoring e-mails, elon said the federal government is doing that actively in private communications. todd: such a revealing interview. part two is tonight. you re watching fox and friends first s, i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier, in for carley shimkus. elon musk warns of ai and he gives us information on what he s working on now. good morning, jackie ibanez. part one of the interview with tucker carlson and elon musk aired last night. musk called for stricter regulation of artificial intelligence. listen. it is dangerous to the public. when you have things dangerous to the public, like say food and drugs, we have the food and drug administration and the federal aviation administration, the fcc, we have agencies to oversee things that affect the public. where they could be public harm. and you don t want to come up and be
left as gop 2024 hopefuls flock to the weekend event. the chief correspondent, jonathan hunt, is live with the very latest on what the candidates have to say. good evening to you, trace. at times today it seemed the nra convention was more an audition room for the republican presidential primary season. the headsliner by any measure was former president donald trump who called himself the mows pro-gun, pro-second amendment president in history and he said in a second trump term the emphasis would not be on gun control, but on mental health and in a not so veiled reference to the nashville shooting last month he said he would order a particular focus. upon my inauguration i will direct the fda to convene and it s going to happen quickly to convene an independent asked panel to investigate whether transgender home on treatments increase the risk of extreme depression, aggression, speechen violents. i think most of us already know the answer. trump s former vp, mike pence,
the latest on the biden administration s response. hey, lucas. before leaving ireland last night president biden spoke to reporters in dublin about the leak of classified information. i ve instructed the department to make sure that they get to the root of why he had access in the first place, number one, and number two, to focus extensively on the extent to which it all occurred. there s no way to predict how long an investigation will take. i don t think it s going to take very long. i think we re getting to the bottom of it quicker. now more leaks of highly classified information has been discovered. u.s. intelligence agencies were made aware of additional four chinese spy balloons in addition to the 4,000 chinese craft that made the odyssey over the u.s. before it was shot down. over a million have top secret clearance, the pentagon is looking how many in addition to the leaker had access to the military s joint wide intelligence communication system better known by