The Lead with Jake Tapper

What President Trump told his former fixer, Michael Cohen, on his radio show today. Cohen joins to discuss. Plus, a look at why so many women are rallying around Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts mom on trial for killing her three young kids.
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On the heels of consequential primary race results, some of the big winners join the program. Plus, President Trump says that North Korea has 57 powerful nuclear weapons. Also, an experimental vaccine shows promising results for patients with melanoma.
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172 days in and still no clear path out of the war with Iran. Plus, Minnesota Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison joins to discuss why he’s suing Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
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President Trump’s deadline to make a deal with Iran has come and gone. All he has to show for it is $4 gas, a tax on the Strait of Hormuz, and US troops on record setting deployment. Plus, President Trump says he recently communicated with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un as the president announces he is scaling back military exercises with close ally South Korea.
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When a Russian-born American citizen named Ilya Beloozerov is gunned down by the FBI in 2024, the authorities refuse to say why they’d killed him. CNN’s Isabelle Chapman embarks on a sprawling investigation that takes her from the Mississippi parking lot where he died to Washington, D.C. to unravel the mystery: Why did Ilya abruptly leave his family and his job and head for the border with laptops and cash? Why is there still no official explanation of his death? And maybe most importantly: Was Ilya a spy?
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