con congresswoman ilhan omar off the house foreign affairs committee. the lead starts right now. my leadership and voice will not be diminished, if i am not on this committee for one term. my voice will get louder and stronger. republicans key committee, b comments that omar has meat critical of israel. some using anti-semitic tropes. comments for which he has apologized or ones she retracted. the minnesota democrat and only muslim refugee in congress asks today, how might this look to the rest of the world? plus, a despicable act. a young new jersey politician shot to death just steps from her own home. was she targeted or was she a victim of random violence? but first, russia ramping up strikes against ukraine, with warnings of a larger offensive on the horizon. cnn is in one town hit more than 70 times in just one day. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. russia s renewed offensive against ukraine may already be beginning. that s the assessment of volodymyr ze
started six years ago, we have not seen a successful, major federal corruption prosecution using these laws of any high ranking powerful public official. now, congress can fix it. they can come back, pass new laws, they can say, we intend that for it to be broad. but they have declined to do that. you criticized u.s. attorney general merrick garland and how he failed to go after trump. although we don t know what the future will look like. garland could have gone right for the jugular, instead, he poked at each individual capillary. so, basically, you re saying he went for the foot soldiers and not the general. he had to go after the foot soldiers. they ve done a good job of that. the proud boys, the oath keepers. i would call them maybe, like, the major half step up. but merrick garland is fond of the saying, we start at the bottom and work our way up. it sounds good, but that s not how good aggressive prosecutors