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in less than 24 hours, donald trump will make history again. and not the good kind. "the lead" starts right now. the former president donald john trump has arrived in florida for his court date. tomorrow he will be the first person to have held that office
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to be arraigned on criminal charges. we'll bring you the details about what's going to happen in the next 24 hours. growing concern from law enforcement officials in florida about the largest number of trump supporters amassing who could show up at the white house tomorrow as they imply bellicose rhetoric. one of the busiest highways in the united states is shut down in both directions after a section of interstate 95 collapses in philadelphia. how long could it be to take -- how long it could take to repair that road. ♪ welcome to "the lead." we start with our law and justice lead. minutes ago former president trump arriving in miami ahead of his historic court hearing tomorrow. mr. trump is expected to meet with his lawyers tonight and discuss building out his legal
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team with florida-based attorneys. security preparations are already under way at the miami courthouse ahead of trump's arainment tomorrow afternoon. law enforcement officials are rather worried about the potential for large crowds of trump supporters outside the courthouse given what happened on january 6th. francis suarez held a conference to explain how his city is preparing. >> we hope tomorrow will be peaceful. we encourage people to be peaceful and demonstrate how they feel. and we're going to have the adequate forces necessary to ensure that. >> after his court appearance, trump is expected to give a speech. his public comments range so far from attacking the special counsel to pledging to stay in the 2024 race no matter what happens to much worse. paula reid is outside the courthouse for us.
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in less than 24 hours, the former president of the united states will be in that building behind you. what is the scene like right now? >> reporter: right now here, jake, it's calm and there's really not much of a visible security presence here. you can see some film flimsy police tape around me. we are told by a source that the mood is changing and now they are beginning to prepare for the worst. >> the documents -- the whole thing is a witch-hunt. it's a disgrace. it should never happen. >> reporter: former president trump arrived in miami ahead of his historic arraignment tomorrow in federal court. with him was his personal aide and codefendant walt nauta who has been with him in bedminster since the indictment came down. trump will be staying at his doral golf course where he's
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expected to speak with his legal team. >> there are things in here that i think if they have backup for are certainly problematic. >> trump is looking to bring in additional attorneys to handle the florida-based case, but he has had trouble in the past hiring lawyers amid concerns about him paying his bills and firms worrying about alienated other clients by taking him on. in the court of public opinion -- >> if even have of it is true, he's toast. >> reporter: bill barr who helped spin the mueller special counsel findings in trump's favor said the indictment alleging his former boss mishandled classified information is damning. >> he's not a victim here. he was totally wrong that he had the right to have those documents. those documents are among the most sensitive secrets that the country has and he kept them in a way at mar-a-lago that anyone who really cares about national security would -- their stomach
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would churn. >> reporter: but staunch allies on capitol hill like lindsey graham and jim jordan jumped to trump's defense. >> i think the espionage charges are ridiculous. >> if he wants to store material in a box in a bathroom, on a stage, he can do that. >> reporter: on tuesday, the former president will surrender to authorities, be arrested and booked before his arraignment where he's expected to plead not guilty. the case landed in florida where the alleged crimes were committed after a year of prosecutors collecting evidence with a washington, d.c.-based grand jury. but the south florida venue poses challenges. the jury pool is likely to be friendlier to trump. >> because it's mine. they took it from me. >> reporter: and even before trial, trump's lawyers are likely to try to suppress key evidence from one of trump's own attorneys, evan corcoran who testified to the grand jury in d.c. and whose own notes are
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used in the indictment to make the case that trump tried to hide incriminating documentation. he made a funny notion, why don't you take them with you to your hotel room and if there's anything really bad in there, like, you know, pluck it out. tomorrow's arraignment will be before a magistrate judge and this case will be heard by judge aileen cannon. we can expect that trump's attorneys are going to want to revisit a lot of the questions over executive privilege and attorney-client privilege before judge cannon. they're going to argue that the special counsel tried to resolve those questions in d.c. and they want to see those things relitigated. even the trump team doesn't win, that could have the effect of delaying this case. jake? >> stick around. what will the security look like when former president trump arrives for his arraignment in miami. let's talk to john miller and shimon prokupecz. let's start with shimon who is
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outside the federal courthouse in miami. shimon, just a short while ago, francis suarez and law enforcement gave updates on security preparations. we were talking to national security experts here in studio who were shocked at what you were showing in terms of the lack of barricades and just the police tape there given what we saw january 6th, 2021, did these miami experts give any specifics on what they're going to do if anything gets out of control? >> no, not really, jake. they basically just say that we're ready. the miami-dade county officials w we saw them a short time ago, they're asking us where we're hearing information that there's legit concern from law enforcement officials about the number of people who are going to show up here. it's not just because are going to show up here. it's the fact that they're concerned that people who are going to show up here are going to try to start some kind of trouble like we saw on january 6th. and the feelings here are much different, jake, and that's what
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i have found so striking, are much different than what we saw when the former president appeared in manhattan. that could be because of where we are. we're in florida. more supporters here. it could be the nature of the charges, much more serious. but there seems to be this feeling among law enforcement officials that things can get ugly here. that a lot of people will show up and they want to make sure that the local officials are prepared. and when i asked the mayor about this, he said, well, there's nothing to fear, we're going to be ready. a little shocking to hear him say that. i want to give you a look across the courthouse here outside, what it looks like. you talk about really the nonexisting security right now. this could change. when you look around from our drone video here, you could see it's very open area, jake. and so basically right now from everything we're told, now this could change, that there are no plans to put any kind of metal barriers down like we have previously seen. and then, jake, you could also
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see, here's that yellow tape all around the courthouse. i think you can see there, this is the entrance into the courthouse. this is where people go in. this is where the media is gathered, presumably, from everything we're told, that the supporters and protestors will be allowed to gather. we'll see how things change as the hours go by and as we get closer to tomorrow. but honestly, jake, there is some real concern here over the security preparations and this intelligence that officials are getting on the number of people who are going to show up here tomorrow. >> john, walk us through what donald trump will have to do when he arrives at the courthouse. >> well, when he gets there, he's going to become in the custody of the fbi. so that's the arrest process. so secret service will deliver him there. he'll come in through a garage entrance. he'll go up through the building. they'll introduce him to the fbi agencies. they'll tell him he's under
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arrest, and then starts a very bizarre process, but not the first time for this former president, this will be the second time in as many weeks as he's been booked, but they'll go through a several-page form that they'll have to fill out with his pedigree, photographing him for the mugshot, fingerprinting him. they'll have to take a dna swab using a q-tip in his throat to take that swab, and then once all of that is out of the way, he'll have a place to sit with his lawyers until the case is called before the magistrate which should be shortly thereafter. the wild card here is after the magistrate says he's free to go until the next hearing is, what happens outside? right now the plan is he leaves the way he came through the garage entrance and goes back to the airport and flies to bedminster where he may have a gathering there. but it's still up in the air as to whether he's going to step
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outside and either address the press or address the crowds, which as shimon factors in, is the kind of thing that could change the tenor and tone of the event. so that's something that is still being worked out by staff and aides and something that's going to make a difference. >> a lot of differences between new york and florida. in addition to the sunshine laws, in addition to the jury pool, shimon, florida's gun laws are pretty lax compared to new york which has much more restrictive ones. are there concerns, shimon, about protesters who might show up armed? >> reporter: yeah, that is certainly a concern because the laws here are so different. and that is definitely a concern, jake. the governor here signing laws and giving more freedom for people to carry weapons. you can't open carry here, technically, but certainly
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there's a lot more freedom when it comes to carrying weapons. and that is something that law enforcement is certainly concerned about. i don't know how much law enforcement here in florida may be concerned about it. there's a different tone, right, between what people here on the ground are feeling and thinking versus people outside of here who are seeing the intelligence, who are reading information about the people who want to come here. they seem to be more concerned about what could potentially happen here versus the people who are actually on the ground here in charge of the security. so something is not kind of coming together here and i think that's a little concerning. >> all right, shimon prokupecz and john miller, appreciate both of you. thanks so much. why bringing charges against trump in florida might end up proving problematic for federal prosecutors. plus a closer look at where the boxes were stored in mar-a-lago and when they were moved. donald trump has not been arraigned yet but his indictment is having a big impact on the
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2024 race. how his republican opponents are responding, including some new reactions this afternoon. stay with us.
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welcome back to the lead. we're learning more about the locations of the boxes that contain classified materials inside mar-a-lago and just how close they were to the public. let's bring in elie honig. it provides a disturbing time line of the movement of the documents throughout mar-a-lago. >> jake, these documents went on quite a journey which actually begins in washington, d.c. one important mystery that the indictment addresses is when these boxes were getting packed up in the final days of the white house, the indictment alleges, donald trump knew about that and oversaw it. there was some question before by some of his supporters, why would he be involved in the packing, the indictment alleges he was involved in that. documents get shipped down to florida, to mar-a-lago. and the first place they are stored is in this room, in the white and gold ballroom and, yes, that is a stage, that is where they are. and the indictment is, again, a little bit ambiguous. it says they were regularly
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events, weddings, fund raisers -- >> we see tiktoks and stuff held in this. donald trump shows up and gives a speech. >> exactly. what the indictment says, this room was in use at the time that they stored those documents there. next they get moved temporarily to a business center and then they land in, yes, that is a bathroom and, yes, that right there is a toilet, that is a shower, that was their next destination in a place in mar-a-lago called the lake room. and then finally, and this is really the most important place where they land, these documents are moved to a storage room. there's one incident in the indictment where one of the attend dants goes in and finds classified documents. they're blurred out. but highly classified documents spilled on the ground and the indictment says this is the storage room right here and it says it was accessible by a hallway which you could get to by the pool patio. this is the pool right here and it was often kept unlock. this becomes a locust for the
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obstruction charges. they get a subpoena, they move the boxes inside the stroorage room. but in the day before the lawyer appears, trump has 64 boxes pulled out and only 30 returned. when the lawyer did that review, 34 boxes of documents were missing. >> just a reminder, this is a hotel and resort. >> it is. >> this is not a presidential enclave. it's a hotel and resort. stick around. i want to bring become in paula reid. our justice team is learning new details today about why jack smith decided to bring the charges in florida where you are versus d.c. where we are. >> reporter: jake, this is always been a big question for this case. when you bring charges, you have to bring them in the proper venue. there has to be some connection between the alleged criminal conduct and the location, the court where you're bringing a case. and in this case we know that
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the grand jury was seated in washington, d.c. so pretty much this entire investigation happened up in washington. but really the only true connection to d.c. is the fact that these records belong to the federal government which is of course based in washington, d.c. so eventually prosecutors realize that most of the conduct happened down here at mar-a-lago so they had to bring the case down here in florida. that poses challenges for prosecutors. there's a chance that trump's lawyers are going to want to relitigate the privilege questions before the trump-appointed judge who will oversee the case. >> while prosecutors now face a potentially less friendly jury pool in florida as paula just noted, this has also caused problems for trump, because now he has to find lawyers who have passed the bar in florida. >> once you get someone to do that, they can then make a motion called prohock, for this
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case only, to admit the other person. what you do in a case like this, you will hire someone called local council. someone who just knows the turf there, who can speak to the jury in the type of language that they're used to hearing. so it will be really interesting to see is he going to base the defense out of new york lawyers like he usually does, is he going to team them up with local lawyers, but he needs the local input. >> one of the most damning parts of the indictment were the notes and testimony from trump's own lawyer, but now that these charges in florida and not d.c., can trump's team try to get that testimony since it has to do with conspiracy thrown out? >> reporter: well, i think we can expect they will try, jake. i'm told that one of their strategies going forward is they are going to argue that the special counsel tried to litigate a lot of these questions about attorney general
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privilege and executive privilege in washington before a friendly judge so they could get friendly rulings. they're going to try to argue that these issues should be relitigated down here in florida in front of the judge overseeing this case, judge aileen cannon. it's unclear if they're going to be successful in this. but what this could accomplish, even if they don't win on the legal merits, this could delay this case. as in any trump case, he always wants to delay all court proceedings but especially here as he's running for the presidency and likely wants to try to push this as close to the election as possible so it's unlikely a trial will be held before the election. >> explain, by the way, because this is very complicated to a layman such as me. i'm a humble caveman. but the idea that trump's own lawyers, his notes were -- that jack smith, the special counsel, was able to get them and use them against his client. i would think all of that would just be protected by
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attorney-client privilege. >> you're right as a starting point. normally when an attorney and client interact, they're communications are privileged. however, a prosecutor can breakthrough that privilege if he can show something called the crime fraud exception. meaning those conversations are evidence of some sort of ongoing crime involving at least one of the parties and here it appears it's trump, not evan corcoran. paul is right, this will have to be relitigated. doj went to a judge who was handling the grand jury and the judge agreed, you've established the crime fraud exception, so you can use this information in your investigation. but, a, we have a new judge here, and, b, it's a different we. now the question is, can we admit this as evidence at trial in front of a jury? they're going to have to relitigate that as doj. but it will help them that they won the first time. >> quibckly, how would they kno about this? did he say something to them? >> they would have to piece it together from outside sources,
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they could use things that evan corcoran gave to them spending the outcome of this situation. if they had basic information -- that's part of the reason social security so difficult. you need some way in to break that -- >> how would they have any idea. it's fascinating to me. thanks to both of you. cnn was inside trump's doral property when the former president arrived just minutes ago. we'll take a look at that moment next. 're reinventing our network... for total confidence and complete control.. ♪ ♪ fast. reliable. perfectly orchestrtrated. the united states postal service. ♪ move it! ♪
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>> reporter: jake, we were inside waiting in the lobby and the secret service was there as well. they pushed everybody back to one side of the lobby and then they were going to bring in donald trump to the side where the secret service was. eric trump was standing in the lobby as well waiting for his father. we got video of that. there were a couple of trump -- two trump fans dressed out in all of the maga gear, wearing the hat, make america great again, et cetera, and there was one guy dressed as uncle sam. the rest of the people in the lobby were just guests of the hotel. the whole crowd really totaled maybe ten people and these people said, well, i guess we hear the former president is coming, we're going to wait and hang out. they weren't there just to see him. then his motorcade arrived. they gave us about a five-minute warning. they pushed us all a little bit further back. his motorcade arrived. he came in with a huge group and wave today the group, everybody
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doing okay, everybody in the crowd who was there to see him yelled we love you, we love you. and that was it. then he disappeared through that side of the lobby where we did not have access to with his son eric and followed by a large group of -- a large group of people as well. didn't come over to the people who were there to see him. his mood seemed a bit -- he seemed a bit somber. he wasn't his usual big smile with the wave to the crowd. he seemed a little low key for donald trump, jake? >> he's got big meetings in terms of his legal strategy and also picking his legal team. thanks so much. donald trump railed against the 37-count federal indictment during a pair of campaign appearances over the weekend. >> witch-hunt, witch-hunt, scam, hoax. it's called election interference and they're doing the best they can with it. >> among his 2024 republican opponents, most seem to be siding with donald trump and condemning the criminal charges.
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let's discuss, jeff zeleny, let me start with you, notable exceptions to the people siding with trump and criticizing the department of justice, chris christie, asa hutchinson, both of them slamming trump, urging voters to take the charges seriously. others are trying to walk this fine line of not going into the charges specifically, but just saying in general, they don't like this. but nikki haley, well, take a listen to her. she seems to be changing her tune a bit. >> if this indictment is true, if what it says is actually the case, president trump was incredibly reckless with our national security. more than that, i'm a military spouse. my husband is about to deploy this weekend. this puts all of our military men and women in danger. it's reckless, it's frustrating and it causes problems. and you know we're looking now, this is the second indictment. we're looking at possibly a
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third indictment. >> so that's not what she said out of the gate. but that is -- that is, i think, what she actually thinks. >> i mean, it seems like it of course. on friday, she called it prosecutorial overreach. what has happened since friday? a few other people have spoken out about it. one is bill barr. and he, you know, calls it like he sees it. at least most people who have known him say. her words follow that. but, look, there has to be -- there's an audience in the republican party, in the republican primary elected for people who do not like this. so i think that she's probably playing to some of that audience there. it's interesting because in the last indictment some of the candidates went the other way. they were crimitical out of the gate and they were slapped back. they reverted to supporting him. we'll see if others join her in the support here. i think she also went on to say there could be another indictment and another indictment, so she continued on the -- the republicans i've been talking to both in iowa and new
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hampshire today, you know, they voted for trump in the first place, they believe this indictment is very serious. most people are not going to read the indictment, i get that. any early polling, we have to wait and see how this settles in. >> it's interesting, ron desantis, jamie, ron desantis said something along the lines of why is there such a different treatment. hillary clinton gets off and donald trump gets indicted. and then he said if i did what hilary did, i would have been court-martialed in a new york minute. but it's also true, therefore, that if he did what donald trump did he would have court-martialed in a new york minute. what his position? >> i don't know that he knows yet and to jeff's point, let's see what the polling says. they are sticking their toe in the water here. but i do think it's important to reiterate what former attorney general bill barr said. because he was forthright. he said if even half of it is
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true, he's toast. it's a very detailed document -- indictment, and it's very, very damning. but he's not running against donald trump. >> in a new cbs news poll after the indictment came out, trump leads desantis by nearly 40 percentage points. 61-23. all the other challengers far behind. tim scott, mike pence, nikki haley with 4, 4 and 3%. when you're that far down, including, by the way, ron desantis, don't you need to take a position about an indictment that is by bill barr's own account pretty serious? >> i think that it is quite clear that people have to actually take him on and make the argument against him if they're going to beat them. and we're seeing a little bit of that with nikki haley. some others are just so cautious, so afraid of alienating potential supporters
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who still like donald trump and still rally around him as though he's a victim. >> ashley, play a game with me right now. what if ron desantis had been indicted. how would donald trump be treating him? what if nikki haley had been indicted? how would donald trump be treating her? >> he would be going straight after them. he would be calling them criminals. he would be saying lock him up, lock her up, just like he did to any other opponent he often has. and i think it's interesting that the race is still a long way. and so people are hedging their bets. but, you know, nikki haley, tim scott, mike pence, your poll numbers haven't moved by sticking with donald trump. so maybe try a different strategy to see if there is a part of the electorate that says, oh, i do want someone who has the encourage to stand up to this bully. but donald trump would be all over this. he's -- he attacks some of them now and they haven't been indicted. >> he attacked ted cruz's dad for being a part of the kennedy assassination.
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it doesn't need to be grounded in rally. writes this about the trump indictment and the race, legally his path to avoiding conviction has never been narrower. politically, his path to the nomination looks wider than ever. one would think that it would -- there would be some sort of correlation and causation there. >> there is not. very simple. when he said the famous line about he could shoot someone in the middle of fifth avenue, it is appears to be true. i just want to say, talk a little bit about his attacks on both jack smith, the special counsel and the justice department. he goes on truth social and posts on a regular basis things like this. he called special counsel jack smith a terrorist, a slime ball. he called the justice department the gestapo. he is all -- done everything he could to undermine the justice department, to undermine the rule of law and everyone of his
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base, they appear to be sticking with him. >> on that note, jeff, the new poll shows 7% of likely republican voters say the indictment has given them a worse view of trump. 61% say it won't change their opinions. by the way, 14% say it gives them a better -- it gives them a better view of donald trump. >> he's got those votes i think. >> exactly. look, i mean, that's among people who he can't do anything wrong. once people get a better sense of what is actually in the indictment and the argument from nikki haley about the military argument, my husband is about to be deployed this weekend. this is not just another, we talk about the boxes and things, what's in the boxes is what's important. what's inside the boxes in the bathroom is what's important. i think once this filters through, i'm not suggesting that people are suddenly going to abandon him, but i think there will be a more diversity of thought on the republican side.
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>> what are you hearing from republicans? >> well, the one interesting thing, it's reflected in that cbs poll, is that a lot of republicans, they don't want to hear trump defending himself or talking about this case. they're just sick of all of the drama. now this would be back -- you and i go back long enough that we remember the days of clinton fatigue in the 1990s. you wonder whether there will be at some point be something of a trump fatigue where people decide they're tired of all this drama. >> what do you think? >> not for certain people. but i do think -- look, i'm a democrat and i think, you know, no, there's no question about that. but i actually believe in the american electorate and i believe even in -- republican voters even though we don't agree on many issues, that to jeff's point, once more of this information comes out and people really understand what was at stake here, people will start to turn their backs on trump. >> we'll see. thanks to all for being here. tonight, join anderson cooper for a cnn republican
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presidential town hall with chris christie. we're going to have more on the upcoming trump arraignment, but first, one of the buzzsiest sections of i-95 collapsed in philadelphia. both sides have to be demolished. what does that mean and what are commuters supposed to do until then? ♪ open talen and raise the jar to gelato made from scratch. raise the jar to flavors from the world's finest ingredients. and now, from jars to bars. new talenti gelato and sorbetto mini bars.
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turning to our national lead. traffic chaos in pennsylvania in the great city of philadelphia after an overpass on i-95 collapsed in northeast philly. the road was damaged by a burning tanker truck. traffic in both directions of the heavily traveled highway has to reroute. today officials said the southbound side of the overpass which did not collapse is also compromised and will have to be demolished. pete buttigieg says the federal government is pitching in too,
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but -- >> just to be clear, swiftly is not going to be overnight. we're talking about major structural work. >> major structural work needed. danny freeman joins us from philadelphia. how long are we looking at before the overpass can be cleaned up and rebuilt? >> well, jake, i think you heard right there. secretary buttigieg said it's not going to be overnight. i think the firmist time line that we have is from governor josh shapiro said it will be some number of months. but the governor said he was signing a disaster emergency declaration which will basically free up some $7 million in emergency funds to speed up this process. but, again, jake, like you said, they still need to demolish the southbound lanes behind me on i-95 before they could even begin to start thinking about rebuilding. that will take a couple of days at least. it's going to be a mess over here for at least a couple of weeks if not months.
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>> what's the cause of this? >> we got new information just a few hours ago from state officials as to exactly what happened. it was the question that we've been asking for the past 36 hours. basically state officials say that a tanker truck driver was driving northbound on i-95 on sunday morning. they tried to get off this exit where we are right now. they took the curve and lost control of the truck. the truck fell on its side and ruptured and the truck was carrying 8500 gallons of gasoline. we just got word from pennsylvania state police a little while ago that one body was discovered in that wreckage. we have more information as to how that entire incident played out now today for you. >> what's the economic impact going to be? this is going to really -- i can't even imagine what's going to happen for commuters or for truck traffic. >> yeah, jake, listen, the pennsylvania department of
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transportation -- excuse the sound here. the department of transportation said 160,000 vehicles go through this portion of i-95 every day. about 14,000 are truck drivers. there's going to be an impact on commercial business. the reality is, there have been ways to get around. 295, the jersey turnpike. one of the larger impacts business-wise is going to be here in this area. these streets are just not used to having so many large trucks coming this way and some of the folks who work right by where this crash happened, they say they're worried about their own commutes to work, how they're customers are going to get back and forth. that's the impact we're seeing immediately right here. >> danny freeman, thank you so much. ukrainian forces are seeing wins in their counteroffensive but there are some losses as well. that's next.
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. in our world lead, without actually confirming its long-anticipated spring offensive is under way, the government of ukraine says its forces are retaking some russian-held territory. as cnn's fred pleitgen reports, these modest successes are taking a significant toll on ukraine's western-provided tanks and armored vehicles. >> reporter: ukrainian military video purporting to show strikes on russian positions behind the front lines as kyiv says its forces have dramatically ramped up their offensive operations, taking several villages over the weekend in the southeast of the country. this drone video, the ukrainians say, showing their troops
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sweeping a settlement and taking several prisoners. the same unit displaying ukraine's flag after the battle: they tried to push us back with their artillery, this soldier says. we mentioned to slowly lip rate the settlement, one house of another. while ukraine says it's attacking the russians in several areas of the vast front line, kyiv remains coy about whether the long-anticipated large-scale offensive has really begun. the head of ukrainian military intelligence releasing this video of himself just sitting at his desk with a message plans of silence. the russians say they're holding the lines in most areas. this defense ministry video allegedly showing a russian chopper destroying ukrainian reconnaissance vehicles. they've destroyed germane made
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leopard tanks and u.s. denoted bradley infantry fighting vehicles. as russia's defense minister shoigu hands out medals, the battle continues. wagner boss yevgeny prigozhin refusing to abide by a defense ministry decree to sign a contract with the russian army saying his mercenaries are more efficient that regular troops. unfortunately most military units don't have such ef fish say he says, he says because shoigu can't manage military positions well. balancing the rival factions in his war machine, a tall task for vladimir putin as the country celebrated russia day. putin urging people to keep supporting his war in ukraine while calling it a difficult time for his country. russia is based on faith and
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people he said, people who go from victory to victory basing all their lives on faith, faith in victory, faith in justice, faith in russia. jake, russia's faith is being tested. in the past week alone they took back seven settlements not only the south of the country, the east of the country as well. the ukrainians saying they made significant gains over the past couple days in the bakhmut area, also. >> fred pleitgen, thanks so much for that report. also in our world lead today, the u.s. state department confirming yet another american citizen has been detained by the russian government. images of the arrest of rock band manager travis leake showed up in russian media late last week. u.s. embassy officials were at a court hearing saturday when leake was arrested on drug charges which he denied. he appeared on anthony
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welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper.
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prurp is in miami ahead of his planned arrest tomorrow. tonight he's going to meet with lawyers at his doral miami resort and attempt to bring new legal help on board, according to sources. tomorrow he's expected to surrender at a federal courthouse in miami downtown where he'll be booked and hear the 37 counts related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents. the city of miami is bracing for crowds to show up in support. the justice department has hoards of blistering evidence. let's get right to cnn's evidence venn perez in miami. walk us through how this might play out similar to what we saw in new york two weeks ago. >> reporter: the former president will be facing a hearing with his co-defendant, walt nada. we know the former president will be brought into the co