a u.s. drone is down after colliding with a russian jet. the lead starts right now. russian fighter jets intercept an unmanned u.s. drone, forcing it down over the black sea. how will the u.s. respond? plus, 2024 is clearly on. donald trump makes his first election stop in iowa, in the cycle. he takes aim at his first florida competitive, florida governor ron desantis is not officially in the race yet. but first, protecting your money, multiple investigations reportedly launched into the collapse of silicon valley bank, or cbb, as panicked tweets are partly to blame for banks losing $40 million in a single day. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. any moment, president biden is expected to speak in monterey park, california, about efforts to reduce gun violence. he ll also meet with families and victims from one of this year s many, many mass shootings. we ll bring you the president s remarks as soon as they begin. until then, we turn to money lead. markets clo
according to committee vice chair liz cheney, that s just a fraction of the evidence they have related to possible witness intimidation. this morning the new york times reports that trump s political organization and his allies paid for or promised to cover the legal fees of more than a dozen witnesses called to testify in the january 6th investigation. it does raise for some ethical and legal questions about the possibility of witnesses being pressured and the possibility of trump trying to influence testimony that has a direct bearing on him. joining us now is john wood, he was until last week a senior investigator for the january 6th committee, he was a u.s. attorney during the george w. bush administration, he also clerked for justice clarence thomas and he s now running as an independent candidate for the senate in missouri. thank you so much for being with us, counselor. when you were with the committee, what was your knowledge of how the attorneys for some of these
people. i seen a security guard run in the store then i seen the guy go in, army style, bent over, just shooting at people. i heard him shooting at people and i saw three people laying down. i didn t have a phone on me so i was just screaming for somebody to call the police and he came out. he put the gun to his head. to his chin. then he dropped it and took off his bulletproof vest then got on his hands and knees and put his hands behind his back and they arrested him. that s a shame because there was a lot of people in there. just like seeing all of that, like, what was your mind i still don t even believe it happened, actually. that a person would go into a supermarket full of people. i have an aunt in there. i know some other women in there. one woman just had a baby. so hopefully they re okay. but it s a shame and something has to happen because this is ridiculous. this is just ridiculous. it was a white guy. and he was fully prepared, ready to go. yeah. yeah. yes,
from space shuttle columbia as columbia continues to orbit the earth at an altitude of about 150 statute miles. columbia, houston, laurel, you re loud and clear on air to ground one. -the second day, i drive in to work kind of euphoric because another launch, another successful launch. you know, the flight director s office and the mission control center in houston is working with them. they re everything s good. i walked into the analysis lab to start reviewing film from the launch. we started the film at the beginning. [ rockets roaring ] we re watching this liftoff. you see the roll maneuvers, beautiful blue sky. we do the normal review, and we start pointing out all the things that we normally see. and we got to 81 seconds, and then we see this object come off of the external tank area. it moved down, and then striked the vehicle and explode into a white cloud. my reaction was, oh, shit. - you ll always find me sunny side up you ll always find me sunny side
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