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
everyone. i m laura coats. this is cnn tonight. you just saw banks bust. there are fears about what could be happening overseas as we speak and how that could affect us all. we ll have more on that later in the show. plus, the president of mexico blaming the united states for the fentanyl crisis, charging lawmakers haven t done a thing about it. what is being done about the fentanyl that s killing thousands and thousands of every single year. there is news out of the full ton dcounty grand jury investigation of president trump. remember this call trying to overturn joe biden s victory in the state. so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. well, apparently, there is another call as well, and one only the grand jury has heard. now you re really interested. we ll tell you about it in a moment. a lot to talk about with my panel. obama white house senior director, communications director, p
hemisphere ripped through madagascar twice and now heads to mozambique for a second time. it to mozambique for a second time. , ., , ., ~ time. it may have broken the record as time. it may have broken the record as the time. it may have broken the record as the longest - time. it may have broken the record as the longest lasting| record as the longest lasting cyclone in history on record. it has been named tropical cyclone now for 33 days. a named tropical cyclone. hello and welcome to bbc news. we start in the us, where regulators have shut down silicon valley bank one of the major lenders to tech companies and start ups in what s the largest banking failure in the us since the 2008 financial crisis. our north america tech correspondent james clayton has been explaining how it happened. well, this is one of those days that will go down in silicon valley history and it s certainly one of the most stressful days for silicon valley founders in modern times. we ve spok
take hold. scott, you have been here talking to people who have been gathering, you know, since the queen died here at buckingham palace. and really all around. why is it so important for them to be out, especially tomorrow, you know they are gonna be out there? yeah, and in huge numbers, and you know, i ve asked this question a lot, and you can put people in a lot of different categories. number one, there are people who say they want to witness history, they want something they can tell their grandkids. there are people in a another category who are sort of the royal waters, the people who got all the jubilees, all the birthdays, all the celebrations that you can imagine, all the funerals. and then there are the folks as well who generally seem to have some deep admiration and respect for this woman. or maybe, some sort of family connection at. well maybe they met her for five minutes three years ago. our for instance, i spoke to one american man yesterday who came all
from that day where we re going to run out of weapons that we could supply to ukraine, and we have to make sure we don t ever reach that day, and the way we do it is first of all open up new categories of weapons we can give to ukrainians. we have longer range artillery we could provide to ukraine that we in the united states haven t done so far. so that s another category of weapons. and we could also put our defense ministry on a war-like footing. we haven t done that thus far. it would be more costly for the united states government, but we could ramp it up. evelyn farkas, thank you so much. always good to see you. presidential candidate will herd, republican congressman of texas, is here next. so what would be his fratagy to become a front-runner thin 2024 race? let s talk to him about that next. you ve made something that people find invaluable.