Donald Trump is minutes ago suggesting that Kamala Harris just recently happened to turn black

which must have been big news to her classmates from Howard University.

The lead starts right now.

The former president making other wild claims

that a combative Q&A at the Convention of Black Journalists, a group

with members with whom Trump has sparred and insulted in the past Trump not only

questioning the racial identity of Vice President Kamala Harris, but also

making questionable statements about her being a DEI hire. Plus, two assassinations,

just hours apart, the political head of Hamas, taken out on Iranian soil,

hours after a top Hezbollah commander was killed in Lebanon.

Israel has acknowledged responsibility for one of those killings, but the Israeli

Prime Minister is saying the country has delivered crushing blows to its enemies.

How will all of this impact the hostage and ceasefire negotiations, not to mention

wider tensions in the Middle East.

CNN's Clarissa Ward will join us live from Tel Aviv in moments and

local Pennsylvania law enforcement at odds with the US Secret Service

over what really happened at that

rally where Donald Trump was shot at district attorney and SWAT team

commander speaking out to CNN in an interview you will see first here on the

lead in just minutes.

Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper.

So many, so many news headlines generated

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