they thought releasing it helped their case? also, urgent warning, the u.s. urging americans to leave ukraine immediately. the warnings of a possible russian attack as ukraine prepared to mark its day of independence. plus, explosive whistleblower claims in a cnn exclusive. the man who was head of twitter security says your data on the site is not safe and security problems at twitter are so grave, they re even a risk to national security. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with politics lead and damning new details in the battle over the classified documents trump and his team took to mar-a-lago. we re learning officials from the national archives directly told donald trump s legal team in may that they were so concerned about what the trump team had taken with them and how those documents were being stored at mar-a-lago that top u.s. intelligence agencies had been called in to do a damage assessment, as in damage to national security. now, to be clear, t
and welcome to our hannity this friday night. we start with this fox news alert. israel s ground operationsright havel s ground operationsright now expanded. we have large explosions, artillery, tank fire and even possible bunker buster bombs that have been heard and see n nonstop all night long, as the idf has now confirmed the expansion of operations. in other words, the ground no other words, the ground officially begun. now, here with a verciallyy own you know how here is acr description of how things wentin earlier tonight, just how this all got started from our very own yang s. take a listen. clearly, something is happening tonight and we continue to cite the israeli military and what they ve told us, and they ve told us they are conducting expanded ground raids into gazia . we don t want to speculate ors call this for what it could be because we need to wait and we need to be patient here. but this is, unlike any other night we have covered, we ve been out here for t
on the eve of its independence day, and the u.s. state department sent an urgent message to any americans in ukraine, get out now. let s go right to cnn s david mckenzie in the strof the action in kyiv. you asked ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy about foreign military aid today. what did he have to say? well, jake, this is very important to the ukrainians because as this war drags on and they are stuck in these defensive positions all across the front line, that aid is really crucial. i asked president zelenskyy how important is it that the world is still focused on the plight of ukrainians? here s his answer. translator: we need to be clearly aware that as soon as the world becomes tired of this war that s going to be a great threat to the whole world, and anililating ukraine, so we re grateful for any kind of assistance. we need more of it, that s true. almost $3 billion or up to $3
president nixon participated at greater lengths in their impeachment inquiries than this president, who has directed his executive branch to simply not participate at all. and he has had every opportunity to engage in good faith and has chosen not to. and instead has released these outlandish letters by the white house counsel all in my view in an attempt to obfuscate from the fundamental egregious nature of the president s conduct that ultimately undermines our national security. look, i ve never lost faith that congress is coequal branch under article i would ultimately take the steps necessary to hold this administration accountable, discharge our oaths. congressman joe neguse of the house judiciary committee. the speaker of the house versus the president of the united states is just one at the strof the impeachment saga. and the house tried to
break the news about president trump to give them dirt on joe biden, the exact plot that has now led to these very serious impeachment proceedings against the president. now as they go forward on serious footing, the washington post editorial page appears to have done it again. once again it s from columnist david ignaceous, and we ve got something new here. in his latest column he raises the prospect this scheme currently at the strof the house impeachment investigation may have been round 2 for president trump and ukraine. he may have done this exact thing once before with ukraine, before he did it this time and got caught. before volodymyr zelensky was elected president the president was this man. according to usa today in 2017 after trump was elected, his government hired an expensive lobbying firm in washington to