We're going to try something a little different today.

Welcome to my office.

The lead starts right now.

TSA workers calling out of work at near record levels, causing massively long airport lines,

and it's about to get much worse.

It's a problem caused by Washington, D.C.

So when will Washington, D.C. fix it? We're going to talk about

it all with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, live on the lead ahead. And the Pentagon is

weighing troops to Iran's Karg Island, ground troops, boots on the ground. Why this small

piece of land directly relates to the rising price of gas you're paying right now.

Plus, the remains of a missing 14-year-old girl found in a Tesla, the car's owner, a TikTok superstar, singer-songwriter David with a four.

It's the world's most Googled name last year.

A grand jury is investigating.

CNN is today going to trace the ties between

the singer and the victim. Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper coming to live from my actual office.

We thought we'd experiment, bring you to the desk where I actually work and put the lead together

with my team every day. We're going to have more in that in a sec because we got a lot of breaking news to get to. Not the least of which for you traveling public members out there are the TSA troubles. Workers who have not been paid in weeks, airline passengers facing hours, long lines, transportation secretary. Sean Duffy is getting miced up right now. He's going to join me in moments.

But first, let's talk about the war in Iran, because sources tell CNN that the Pentagon is considering

putting U.S. troops on the ground, boots in the ground in Iran, to take Karg Island. And also to

potentially retrieve or further bury the highly enriched uranium that is under the rubble of the nuclear

facilities that the U.S. bombed last June in the Iranian mainland. Now, there is reportedly

internal debate over what would obviously be a highly consequential decision because of the concerns

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