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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
it, with a republican primary dominated by an ex-president who has centered his candidacy around his legal woes, look no further. this morning donald trump, fresh off a decisive win in the iowa caucuses, was at a federal courthouse in manhattan as the defendant in a second defamation trial brought by the writer e. jean carroll. this time there s no question of whether trump defamed her. judge kaplan has ruled trump is liable for remarks he made in 2019 mocking carroll s claim that he sexually assaulted her in a chance encounter at a department store dressing room in the 1990s. and trump is not allowed to dispute carroll s account. the question now is how much a jury should award e. jean carroll in damage for those comments. opening statements are currently under way. we ll have a live report from the courthouse when the trial wraps from the day. so far, donald trump was in the courtroom. alongside his lawyer, alina habba, as well as e. jean carroll and her attorneys. the firs
. it s 4:00 in the east. happy friday. it is just ahead of the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that completely up ended women s health and american politics. of course we re talking about the supreme court ruling overturning roe v. wade and eliminating abortion access and abortion rights for millions of american women. looking back it is hard to understate the legacy of that dobbs decision. first there is, of course, the rulings near immediate impact on women and reproductive health care in america. the new york times reports this. in the year since roe fell, 20 states enacted laws banning or restricting abortion, forcing a rapid shift in the country s patchwork of abortion access. at least 61 clinics, planned parenthood facilities, and doctors offices stopped offering abortions in the last year. most were in the 14 states that banned abortion outright, but the uncertainty surrounding laws in several other states also caused providesers there to shutdown. all of it h
the breaking news this morning, stunning evidence in the hands of prosecutors obtained by cnn exclusively, an audio recording of former president trump saying that he did not classify secret information in his possession, and a special investigation leading up to the former president leading up to an indictment of a former president for the first time in history. and seeing where this transcript fits into the indictment of former president trump, and a seven-count indictment, and we think, and we are saying we think, because we have not seen it yet. we are watching this federal courthouse in miami to see if it is unveiled when it is released. and he says that he is an innocent man, and lashing out against the charges coming, and that was last night. this morning he told fox news that of course he would be pleading not guilty. we have the historic moment covered from many angles and the exclusive angle from paula reid, and donald trump on tape with a secret document in ha