Republicans vote to kick 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 removing Omar from a key committee blaming comments that Omar has made critical

of Israel.

Some using anti-Semitic tropes, comments for which she has apologized or ones that

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 in her SUV 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.

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Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper, and we start today with our world lead Russia's

renewed offensive against Ukraine may already be beginning.

That's at least the assessment of Ukrainian president of a Lodemir Zalinsky earlier today,

as a barrage of missiles rained down upon two key Ukrainian cities just ahead of the

one-year anniversary of Putin's brutal invasion.

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