The Lead with Jake Tapper

Iran warns the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed as a tool of pressure against the West amidst the ongoing war. Plus, two attacks on American soil today. One at Old Dominion University that the FBI now says is being investigated as act of terrorism inspired by ISIS. Another attack at a Detroit area synagogue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Projectiles hit four commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the key waterway where global oil traffic has been brought to a standstill by Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The United States has hit ten inactive mine laying boats near the Strait of Hormuz according to President Trump. This as Iran’s chokehold of the straight is becoming more dire by the day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump holds a news conference as the war on Iran enters its second week with no clear end in sight. Plus, it seems increasingly probable the United States killed at least 192 students and teachers at an Iranian school. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The United States and Israeli war against Iran has already seen the deaths of at least 1,200 Iranians which includes dozens of grade school girls, 6 U.S. service members, and 10 Israeli citizens. Plus, the DOJ releases FBI interviews related to Trump sex abuse allegations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump fired Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem after her two heated hearings this week that made him angry, sources say. Plus, updates on the United States war on Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Joint Chiefs of Staff say that the United States will start striking progressively deeper into Iranian territory. It appears that Congress will not stand in the way as the Senate is taking an initial vote to rein in Trump’s Iran war powers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The latest on the war with Iran. How stranded Americans can get out of the Middle East. As Trump pushes ahead in Iran, MAGA backlash grows. Homeland Secretary Noem defends Minneapolis ICE actions in combative Senate hearing. Voters in AR, NC and TX kick off high-stakes Midterm primaries. Plus, what we learned from the Clinton deposition videos and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As the United States continues to carry out strikes against Iran, the war appears to be expanding with the United Kingdom confirming that its base in Cyprus was hit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former President Bill Clinton sat for a closed door deposition with the House Oversight Committee in regard to the panel’s investigation into dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The former president today said he only had a brief acquaintance with Epstein that ended years before his crimes came to light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The two leaked photos that broke the rules. A Republican congresswoman snapped images during the closed door deposition of Hillary Clinton. Plus, a look at the Pentagon’s ultimatum for the AI company Anthropic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More botched redactions, a high-profile name stepping back from his job, and depositions with the Clintons set to begin tomorrow. A look at the continuing steady stream of fallout from the release of the Epstein files. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump heads to the Capitol for his State of the Union address where he is expected to speak on his plans for the economy and for Iran. Plus, an emotional plea in the search for Nancy Guthrie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tens of millions of Americans are under storm warnings with some towns getting more than 30 inches of snow. Plus, United States citizens are urged to shelter in place in Mexico after the killing of a cartel kingpin led to widespread violence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One day after the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, police in the United Kingdom say the search of his former home will likely continue until Monday. Plus, the Supreme Court deals a major blow to Trump’s economic agenda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New images of former Prince Andrew appear to show him duck from cameras. The journalist who conducted the damning 2019 interview with Andrew about his alleged ties with dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein joins. Plus, more revelations in the Epstein files this time entangling two Harvard University researchers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Les Wexner, the billionaire behind Victoria’s Secret, once named as a secondary unindicted co-conspirator in the Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case with notes that there was limited evidence of his involvement, testified today in a congressional deposition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New tributes for civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson, a two time presidential candidate who paved the way for so many progressives and African Americans who came after him. Plus, DNA on a glove found two miles from the home of Nancy Guthrie does not match anyone in the FBI’s criminal database. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More members of the royal family are wrapped up in the Epstein files. Plus, the glove that could give investigators a new break into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie. Also, tracing the toxin that was used to kill Alexei Navalny, one of Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Independent journalist and former CNN anchor Don Lemon plead not guilty this afternoon to federal charges filed after he live streamed a demonstration inside a church in Minnesota last month. Plus, a look at Kathy Ruemmler’s resignation from Goldman Sachs amid fallout from the Justice Department’s release of millions of pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A federal judge shut down Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth amidst his attempts to retaliate against Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, one of six lawmakers who made the video reminding service members that they are not obligated to carry out illegal orders. Plus, the artificial intelligence CEO who has the world doing a double take. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A flood of tips and even more after key photos and video show a masked individual armed outside Nancy Guthrie’s door. Today, the new note demanding bitcoin in exchange for information about who the perpetrator is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The FBI released six still images and three videos showing a masked armed intruder outside the home of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of ‘Today’ show host Savannah Guthrie. Plus, the latest revelations from the Epstein files. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today, Jeffrey Epstein’s convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is in prison, appeared virtually before the House Oversight Committee where she pleaded the fifth and wouldn’t answer questions. Plus, the latest in the search for Nancy Guthrie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What many are calling a new low for Trump, and those are the Republicans, after a video post that included racist imagery of the Obamas as apes. Plus, the FBI surges teams to Arizona in the search for Nancy Guthrie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Law enforcement authorities reveal new details in their search of the mother of ‘Today’ show anchor Savannah Guthrie. Plus, the new jobs report in America shows layoffs way up and hirings way down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The FBI is facing a new lawsuit from Fulton County Georgia one week after its raid, seizing boxes of ballots and other information from the 2020 election. Plus, President Trump’s new warnings to the leaders of Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What happened to the mother of ‘Today’ show anchor Savannah Guthrie? Investigators say they believe she was taken from her home against her will. Plus, facing a contempt of Congress vote, President Bill and Secretary Hilary Clinton now say they are ready to testify about their connections to dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump attempted earlier today to distance himself from the dead pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. A look at the revelations inside the Epstein files. Plus, an urgent search for the mother of Today Show anchor Savannah Guthrie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New Epstein files were released today which include new unverified sexual assault allegations that list President Trump and former President Bill Clinton. Plus, former CNN anchor Don Lemon appears in federal court. He is one of two journalists arrested for being at a protest that interrupted a church service in Minnesota. The charges are setting off a major First Amendment debate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hundreds of 2020 ballot boxes are seized by the FBI. But, why and why was Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, on the ground there? Plus, an attempted jail break at the New York facility holding Luigi Mangione. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One day after calling for a little bit of a de-escalation, President Trump is now accusing the Minneapolis mayor of playing with fire, bucking calls to fire his Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and accusing a Democratic congresswoman who was attacked of staging it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump says he is going to personally oversee an honorable investigation into the death of Alex Pretti, the VA ICU nurse shot and killed by federal agents on Saturday. Plus, Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania joins to discuss how he’s preparing for possible immigration raids in his state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The top Border Patrol official and some of his agents are expected to leave Minneapolis as CNN learns the Trump administration is deeply frustrated with how Gregory Bovino handled the fallout after the deadly shooting of Alex Pretti. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The first phase of the most extreme widespread winter storm the United States has seen in years is starting now. We break down the forecast. Plus, protests against Trump’s immigration crackdown are underway in Minneapolis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Did he try to unfairly take down Trump or was he standing up for democracy and the rule of law? The extreme partisan divide as lawmakers question former special counsel Jack Smith. Plus, a father and son in custody, church protesters arrested, and a fake image from the White House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump now claims he’s one step closer of the United States acquiring the arctic island of Greenland, which belongs to Denmark. Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) joins to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump sends world leaders scrambling as he speaks on Gaza, Greenland, NATO, Venezuela, and more. Plus, a major winter storm is brewing and is threatening snow and ice from Texas all the way to the Carolinas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump sends an extraordinary message to the prime minister of Norway saying that since he did not win the Nobel Peace Prize he no longer needs to think purely about peace in his efforts to take over Greenland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new CNN poll on the economy and foreign policy and everything in between showing that most Americans believe Trump’s job so far has been a failure. Plus, a new round of presidential pardons including one woman getting a Trump clemency for the second time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump is threatening to use the Insurrection Act to put military troops in Minnesota. How far will he go in his immigration crackdown? Plus, what Venezuela’s opposition leader revealed about her face-to-face with Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A majority of Americans are revealing they do no approve of the way the Trump administration and ICE are currently operating. Plus, President Trump is refusing to take military action by the United States off the table in Iran after weeks of deadly protests there against the Iranian regime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jake provides in-depth coverage of the recent resignations at the US Attorney's Office in Minnesota, following the Justice Department's handling of an ICE agent's deadly shooting of Renee Nicole Goode in Minneapolis. The show dives into the protests erupting in Minneapolis, featuring first-hand accounts from the ground. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Minnesota officials just announced they are suing the Trump administration over its ramped up immigration operations in the state. Plus, a growing number of Republicans are pushing back against the White House after the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Another day of tension two days after an ICE agent shot and killed a woman in her car. CNN has now obtained the video captured by ICE agent Jonathan Ross on his phone of the tense moments just before he fired the deadly shots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Growing tensions in Minneapolis after yesterday’s shooting by an ICE officer that killed a 37-year-old woman. Minneapolis officials now say that federal officials are blocking them from investigating the shooting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Crowds are gathering in south Minneapolis after an ICE officer shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in her car as Trump officials and Minnesota officials clash on what exactly unfolded. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The world reacts to Stephen Miller telling Jake that the United States is going to take Greenland. Plus, a new Capitol rally after the deadly riots there five years ago today incited by President Trump who then refused to accept that he lost the 2020 election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A classified urgent briefing to top lawmakers is taking place on Capitol Hill over the extraordinary situation in Venezuela. The briefing comes after President Trump ordered the United States military to conduct unprecedented strikes on Venezuela and capture its leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The fraud allegations are starting to mount as the Trump administration turns its attention to Minnesota. Hear from one lawmaker who says Republicans have a larger goal to cut funding from the entire state. Plus, new video as more protestors take to the streets of Iran Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices