operatives who defected from the kremlin s secret service agency. plus, a veteran las vegas investigative reporter found stabbed to death outside his home. the move today that may put police one step closer to his killer. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead, and striking new details about what exactly donald trump took to mar-a-lago. one of the documents that fbi agents recovered during their search of the florida resort described a foreign government s nuclear capabilities. that s according to the washington post, which goes on to say, quote, some of the seized documents detail top secret u.s. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them, unquote. donald trump s lawyers once again trying to deflect from any serious national security implications here. instead, decrying what they described as leaks about the investigation, which one might observe is a curious time to
debunked conspiracy theories about voting machines. he spreads so much disinformation about the 2020 election, he got this cease and desist letter from dominion, the voting machine company, saying you are knowingly sowing discord in our democracy, all the while soliciting exorbitant amounts of money. he s appeared on steve bannon s show and with the my pillow guy, mike lindell. we did see evidence it was connected to the internet. there is no evidence any voting machines were connected to the internet in the 2020 election, but he s still asking republican poll workers to check. there s a little icon on the bottom right-hand corner. what i m trying to do is see whether or not these machines are indeed connected to the internet. he refused to speak to cnn, but the other leader of the training, sheryl konstantino, did. you re training these people to be undercover spies. that s the words you were using. i m wondering why. well, first of all, if you remember in the el