could high level negotiations be an explanation of this new surge in military activity? plus, news you can use about forgiving student loans. cnn is asking what exactly is the rollout plan to relieve millions of dollars in student loan debt? senator elizabeth warren will visit the lead as well to respond to the criticisms of biden s plan. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we ll start with breaking news. just moments ago, a judge ordered the release of the mar-a-lago after date. but with the redactions proposed by the justice department. the affidavit is the document that outlines why prosecutors thought they needed to take the step of searching the home of a former president and why they believed there was probable cause that crimes had been committed. let s get to jessica snyder. what did the u.s. magistrate judge bruce rhinehart say in his decision? reporter: the judge here acting with remarkable speed. less than four hours after the doj submitted their redact
he now faces an additional count of willful retention of national defense information. and an additional obstruction of justice count. the super ceding indictment charges trump with two new counts, based on allegations that he attempted to delete surveillance footage at mar-a-lago in summer of 2022. the inside comes just hours after trump staged a last ditch effort to avoid being indieted in smith s other investigation, trying to overturn the 2020 election, culminating in the riot at the capitol on january 6th. the president s lawyers sitting down with special counsel jack smith at smith s office in washington, the meeting lasting a bit more than an hour. trump himself later describing the meeting as productive, saying his team told smith in detail that i did nothing wrong, was advised by many lawyers, and than an indictment of me would only further destroy our country. it s been 11 days since trump received a target letter from the special counsel, a clear indication an indictment
about a possible indictment. sources say donald trump himself is even posing questions about it to his inner circle about whether or not he s going to get indieted. that s right. we knew he had been grilling his attorneys on whether or not they believe he would be indicted, expressing skepticism that would happen. but we have learned these conversations have expanded to members of his inner circle, asking what do they believe the endgame is going to be? do they believe he s going to be indicted? many sources say it s because he is concerned. one of them noted to me, while of course donald trump has been in legal peril before, even when he was president, this time did feel different, and potentially more dangerous, particularly given that he doesn t have that same legal protection he had in the executive office. gabby, part of the effort to get the documents back included using fedex to deliver letters from kim jong-un. tell us about that. i obtained an email from a
anything, and he keeps changing his story, though, and every time something comes out in the reporting he discovers a new batch of texts that show that he really didn t know anything in advance. look, we can t parse all the facts because we don t have all the evidence that mueller does. but it is very clear that there are way too many coincidences here that don t add up that stone is going to have to answer for at some point i think and we ll just have to see what form that takes. i ll tell you one fact we can parse. roger stone lies all the time. he s been a pathological serial liar through his many times throughout his entire career, though. going back 40 years in politics. roger stone lies about everything. that s the one north star, home truth about roger stone. i actually am kind of tired of this story. i m to the point where he s going to get indieted and then we re going to find out what the whole evidence tells us. but all of his assertions now are utterly worthless and com
he is very good at going on tv and tweeting and making videos of him saying i didn t know anything, and he keeps changing his story, though, and every time something comes out in the reporting he discovers a new batch of texts that show that he really didn t know anything in advance. look, we can t parse all the facts because we don t have all the evidence that mueller does. but it is very clear that there are way too many coincidences here that don t add up that stone is going to have to answer for at some point i think and we ll just have to see what form that takes. i ll tell you one fact we can parse. roger stone lies all the time. he s been a pathological serial liar through his many times throughout his entire career, though. going back 40 years in politics. roger stone lies about everything. that s the one north star, home truth about roger stone. i actually am kind of tired of this story. i m to the point where he s going to get indieted and then we re going to find out wha