the guilty verdicts. and sensational testimony and evidence in the hunter biden's federal gun trial. as prosecutors introduced his infamous laptop and illegal drug photos found on it. standby for details on the first witness to take the stand against the president's son welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, a urine the situation room the skis, cnn, breaking news we begin with breaking news. president biden sweeping new executive action on immigration. now, just hours away from taking effect, we're tracking how this move may him illegal border crossings. and the us presidential election seen as david culverts and san diego at the southern border with mexico. but first let's go to c cnn's priscilla alvarez. she's over at the white house worse, priscilla, a major moved by the president on a hot-button issue in this rematch with donald trump well a major. move wolf with huge ramifications at the us southern border as migrants will have more difficulty seeking asylum as they have done before. >> all of this, of course, coming only weeks before the first presidential debate and ahead of the november election president joe biden took his most dramatic move yet on the us southern border tuesday, as he tries to address one of his biggest political vulnerabilities head-on before november. >> i'm moving past republican obstruction to usually the executive authorities available me as president do what i can on my own to address the border, the sweeping executive action announced by the president shuts off access to asylum to migrants crossing the border illegally when a daily threshold of 2,500 is met, resulting in people turn back to mexico or remove to their origin country on accompany children and select others we'll be exempt. the order amounts to the most restrictive border policy from the biden white house. >> i don't think it is the right direction sparking swift backlash from members of biden's own party who blasted the move as similar to steps taken by trump i'm disappointed that the the president has sort of gone into the same frame as donald trump at a very time when we need to make a distinction between donald trump and joe biden other democrats, including arizona senator mark kelly, struck a more optimistic tone now, with my republican colleagues not wanting to take action on this, we're at this point the white house is taking some steps that i truly believe is going to make a big difference. the measure will take effect at midnight and the american civil liberties union already announced that it plans to challenge the move in court just as they did for the trump era, asylum restrictions, we said that that was illegal when he tried and asylum band that we i think it's very similar to the one that president biden is doing. we think it remains illegal. and so we will challenge that in court. >> officials maintain the move is necessary to stem the flow of migration and say congress needs to act. but republicans argue the action is too little, too late. >> the only question anyone should ask is, why didn't you do this in 2021? why didn't you do this in 2022? why didn't you do this in 2023? why didn't you do this last month or the month before or the month before now, the trump campaign is already criticizing this move by president biden, but it is the same authority that former president donald trump used in 2018 to clamp down on the border. >> and it was eventually the court's that stopped him. now, today, the president drawing stark contrast between him and donald trump naming some of trump's most controversial moves on immigration. but will this move today amounts to one of the most significant policy shifts for this white house on a very difficult issue for them priscilla alvarez at the white house for us. thank you very much. let's go to see you. cnn's david culver right now. he's at the border wall in san diego. david, what will this mean for migrants who are there? >> i can tell you what the folks who are behind this portion of the border wall right here, you see a handful of migrants who have been here a little more than two hours coming in from india. they certainly want the answer to that question. they want to know what that's going to meet and the immediacy. and there's not a lot of clarity. i mean, they're here and they speak to ngos that come out and try to provide some humanitarian assistance. but there's not really an understanding specifically as to what that's going to be for them. certainly in the next few hours. and the midst of this desert like climate heat that they experienced. and we wanted to get an overall sense of how this executive action was going to play out and what reaction, if any, there might be from migrants it really some of the smuggler's that control where they cross here in the san diego sector and you can see some video that we gathered earlier this morning. can see from above a grown drones for you and you get a sense of a few, dozens who come together and then they're going to be processed. and those folks will likely go through the a asylum claims process. and like two then tried to figure out if they can ultimately stay here in the us, but the idea would be that under this executive action, if they hit that 2501 and they come perhaps even later in the day and they've reached that daily threshold that priscilla was talking about. well, those folks would be put into a van and sent right back over into mexico. >> still though, we talked to some people who were making the journey and knowing that this was going to be big news today, we wondered if they had heard about it. >> we met with brian from ecuador. here's what he had to say they don't misunderstand me. >> i quite like the columbia but he's now it's. hot but he says he's got a hurry along because he's going to then continue on to an immigration official, start the process for asylum i've been asking several migrans that we've encountered today. what do you make of the executive action out of them have no idea that this is coming down and it shows you what that really plays into their focus been a day by day and it's very much individualized for these migrants. and we saw that a year ago with title 42 lifting people aren't necessarily betting their future on us policy knowing that it could change at any moment. >> david culver and san diego along the border for us, david, thank you very much for joining us. now, the west virginia now, independent senator joe manchin, senator. thank you so much for joining us as you know, president biden is using the same authority that trump attempted to use to shut off access for us to asylum for migrants to cross the southern border illegally. you believe this is the right move for president biden? absolutely have been encouraging this since last october. the borders, the most serious crisis that we face as far as i'm concerned right now. now we have people coming in to our country that haven't been vetted. we don't know what their purpose is, and we know that there's a lot of illicit trade. this coming also so this is something that had to be done. it should have been done sooner, but i'm happy it's done now. i support the president for doing this. and if all those who have disagreements, whether it's not enough or too much, then he she said down in earnest and try to work through it. that's the problem with washington. nobody wants to work to find a common answer to a very common problem. >> the trump campaign and the republic i can actually committee are slamming the new executive action saying the action taken today won't fix anything. do they have a point? is this more about scoring political points than actually addressing the situation at the border? >> well, it absolutely addresses it basically, it stops so illegal entries between the ports of entry, the ports of entry. now we'll all be vetted. there won't be anyone catch and release. no more paroles from that standpoint. so we're stopping and a lot of the things so much more needs to be done. but you've got to stop this absolutely uncontrolled migration coming in anywhere they want to just to go up to that and turn themselves in. there'll be turned away. now, they come to a port of entry. if we hit the maximum that we can't vet don't know who you are. that stops everything such down. so i think it absolutely does help us get control well, this border to an extent that least we know who's coming and what the purpose and if they have any criminal record behind him, we'd have known that before. >> this is long overdue and i'm glad that happened in mertz. senator, i asked you what it would take for you to endorse president biden. let me play that brief exchange. we have listened to this what does president biden need to do to publicly and formerly when your indoors, well, we have an energy security. okay. we have to get the border secured. a greatest threat we face right now, i've encouraged the president to do a basically a national emergency. you have to have legal immigration, but you cannot allow immigration. illegal immigration taking over your border. he has to step forward on that and strongly so is this the kind of strong action on the border that you said president biden needed to do? >> we spoke back in march. are you now ready, set senator, to make that endorsement? >> let's just say that it helps tremendously, but we still have energy security on fighting that every day to make sure that so we have the energy and contrary to be able to run our economy, defend ourselves and help our allies. also more things we can go into. but the greatest i'm sorry i'm having now is the debt of the nation $34.66 trillion. no one's doing anything about this. and it's going to cause great having we have for the first time, it looks as if we will spend more on the interest on our debt than what it takes to defend and our country is that it cannot be sustained. said we're, we're moving in the right direction what else will it, will it take for you to endorse president biden well, we're moving being in the right direction. let me just say this. this is a big step in the right direction. let's just make sure that we have more of it on trump's criminal conviction. your friend and colleague, republican senator susan collins of maine said this about the verdict, and i'm quoting are now the district attorney you campaigned on a promise to prosecute donald trump brought these charges precisely because of who? who is the defendant was rather than because of any specified criminal conduct. senator, do you agree with her that trump was prosecuted because of who he is? >> well, i guess you could say that hunter biden is being prosecuted because of who he is. i hear so much of this. my main concern is the rule of law makes us it's different anywhere else in the world people have different venues for correction. and if president trump is thing, he's been misjudged the misaligned he trusts me. president trump is not going to spend one day incarcerated. i can assure you he's going to be on the ballot. you have a chance to vote for or against him and he has different venues only in america, only with the rule of law. do you have a way through the process of our judicial system to correct or wrong that might have been done so it has a long way to go everyone's jumping right now and misaligning this thing. i'm thankful for the rule of law we have i want to make sure that we protect protected judicial system and not to be allowed, not allow it to be weaponized. both sides, maybe one a weaponize this can't be done i believe didn't merrick garland is trying to do his absolute best to be non partial on this if that was the case, then how can you say well, it was against the trump's, but it's not but it's protecting the bonds. i don't think so. i think on either side they can basically think because of who they are and their last names as why they might have been brought to this situation that they're in right today. >> senator, as you know, president biden slammed donald trump as a quote, convicted felon over at a fundraiser telling donors his predecessor snapped, his word, snapped after losing the 2020 election, is focusing on trump's conviction. the best way to defeat him absolutely not. >> i, think because he has venues, he might be exonerated. it mightout. so why would we be jumping to conclusions? so i think that's the wrong the bottom from line is, let's these two men are going to be on the ballot. they're going to go to the final november 5 election. and the character of who you'd want to be in sitting in that seat? there's gonna be determined at that time you make your decision. but using all of these other things, start talking about the problems, the border is this going to fix the board? absolutely not. is going to help control the border? absolutely. >> can we do something? >> what's our job as a senator and also as congresspeople shouldn't we be looking at the long game? how do we fix things? are we just using everything is a prompt for the next election. that's why i got so frustrated. i couldn't take it no more. i didn't want to be part of this process and the political parties continued to make you pick a sayyed and drivers i'm going to do everything in my power to six months. i'm here and for the rest of my involvement in the politics in this great country is to bring the country together. they're reasonable we'll responsible middle well, if they have to understand the power they have, start determining and demanding more from the people you send here, open up the primary processes in your states to get better selection and better candidates involved senator mentioned, thanks so much for joining us. >> we of course will walk you back to continue this conversation down the road so much she's going. i appreciate it. >> very well. >> thank you. >> should be with you as well. just ahead 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to terminate the gag order in his hush money case. now that the trial is over as bringing cnn's kara scannell like cara, tell us about this new request. >> yeah. well, so trump's lawyers are saying that since his gag order was put in place to protect the proceedings, now that those proceedings to trial is over, they're asking the judge to terminate it. they wrote in a letter that was sent to the judge yesterday and made public today. now that the trial is concluded, the concerns articulated by the government and the court do not justify continued instructions on the first amendment rights of president trump, who remains the leading candidate in the 2024 presidential election. and the american people, they said that the reasons are even stronger now for lifting it because some of these witnesses in the case, michael cohen and stormy daniels, have made public comments since the jury convicted trump at those 34 felony counts. and also since president joe biden has made comments, and in addition, they say since this presidential debate is coming up later this month, they're asking for the gag order to be lifted. so we're waiting for the judge to respond to this in any way, a spokesman for the court has said that his gag order speaks for itself and representatives for the da's office have declined to comment. well hi, cara. thank you. kara scannell reporting. let's get some analysis, right now from former trump attorney tim parlatore and cnn legal analyst, elliot williams elliott. i want to remind our viewers, we're trump's said about michael cohen is former fixer on friday. listen and watch this i'm not allowed to use his day because of the gag order. but you know, he's just sleazebags everybody knows that took me a while to find out but he was effective. he did work but he wasn't a fixture. he was a lawyer so do you think trump are really does have an argument for ending his gag order when he still attacking witnesses in this case, he has an argument for ending the gag order, but the judge also has an argument for keeping it in place. >> and let's unpack both of them. number one, the judge maintains jurisdiction over his domain in the courtroom until sentencing and can make the argument i meant that for the quote, unquote the integrity of the proceedings, which was the language in both gag orders. the initial one, and then the amended one. there are still legal proceedings going on and he can maintain whatever he thinks it takes to have the public maintain confidence in the proceedings. now, as a practical matter, number one, there's no jury anymore, which was a big basis for the gag order. and number two, even though there's still the same risk of witness harm, there's no more witnesses in practice, and so just because the judge can it's not clear that the judge will lift it. and frankly, i'm quite curious as to how the judge will thread this needle. >> it's interesting, tim, can you heard trump's team say president biden is not speaking out, calling trump a convicted felon, which he did at this fundraiser. and that's a key reason to end. they say this gag order. do you think that argument is going to hold up? >> i don't i think that they would be much better off to focus on the constitutionality of it. that gag orders, any any order that restricts your free speech is presumptively unconstitutional, except in very narrow circumstances. to protect the integrity of the proceeding in defamation cases, once something has already been proven false, you can have an injunction against repeating the same statement but to try to do this because of politics or the campaign. i don't think that that's a great argument. they should really focus on exactly what it just said the proceedings are done. most gag orders expired the moment that the jury is sworn in because as soon as the jury is sworn in, then they have been ordered not to review the media. therefore, public statements can no longer affect them the same way that it would prospective jurors. so most gag orders and there this gag order went on further because of the intimidation of witnesses which would impair their ability to testify at the trial. >> that's also done interesting, how does this trump conduct? >> how does that play into the eventual sentencing is scheduled for july 11? that's not too far down the road. >> so what we in english would call remorse, what lawyers would call acceptance of responsibility is a factor that plays in it. sentencing and a defendant that is not showing this remorse or acceptance of responsibility can be can under the law be sentenced much higher. and now the former president has made a number of sentence, number of statements suggesting over time that he is not accepting responsibility for this. if i were the prosecution here, what's throw this out? it's almost in their interest to have the gag order lifted because you can almost assume that this defendant is going to keep speaking out in a manner that the judge could actually use it. sentencing and saying that this person has not accepted responsibility is still attacking the integrity of the court, and that could jackets sentence up. so what do you want it? >> eliot's absolutely right. i mean, there's a difference between what i want the judge to order my client to do and what it's an attorney would tell my client to do. i think that it is in the prosecution's best interest to allow him to speak so that they could use things as sentencing. and quite frankly, i think it's in the campaign's best interest to leave the gag order in place because he gets a lot more support from saying, hey, i'm not allowed to talk then he would if he were allowed to say what he has to think about michael cohen. >> i'm just going to hear anything that we didn't expect let's see what he says that the upcoming debate with biden to assuming that gag order is still in effect, let's see how that plays out. guys. thank you very, very much. le william tim parlatore. 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department will not be intimidated and calling out gop attacks that his department was behind the new york hush money case that may donald trump, the first ever x president to become a convicted felon. >> that conspiracy theory is an attack on the judicial process itself. republicans firing back, will the department of justice provide to the committee all documents, all correspondence between the department and alvin bragg's office and fani willis office and letitia james office the offices you referring to our independent offices of state. >> i get that. i get that. state. the question is when you will provide all of your documents in correspondence that's the question. it's i don't need a history lesson well i'm gonna say again, we do not control those offices. >> they make their questions you indicate with them not whether you control them. >> do you community? hey, kate, with them and we provide this committee make a request. >> we will refer it to our office of legislative affairs. >> the thing they come in here and you lodge this attack that it's a conspiracy theory that there is coordinated lawfare against trump. >> and then when we say fine just give us the documents, give us the correspondence. and then if it's a conspiracy theory that will be evidenced, democrats said republicans were playing for an audience of one. >> there were about to nominate a convicted felon and they don't know how, to cope with that. the gop taking aim at garland for appointing special counsel, jack smith, who is leading the prosecution against trump in two federal indictments. your first choice? >> i'm not gonna go into the question. did you know him before you picked him? i did not. >> did he ask for the job this is not a job. >> i don't think anybody asks for. that's not that. sorry. no, but that's not the question i asked you. i said, did jack smith, as am not asked me for the job, no. >> garland to date, refusing to comply with the house subpoena for audio of special counsel robert hur's interview was president joe biden over his handling of classified documents in that 388 page report, hurd declined to prosecute biden, citing in part how a jury would view him as a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory, releasing the audio which show cooperation with the department in future investigations. >> republicans accusing garland of protecting biden as they threatened he attorney general with contempt of congress is because doj has determined the president is not mentally fit to defend himself and stand trial for his ghraieb, former president trump is i say again, that's an inaccurate description of mr. hur's report undercutting the gop's criticism is the fact that two sitting democratic congressman and the president's own son, hunter, are facing three separate criminal indictments. >> so you've prosecuted democrats as we speak a hunter biden who is a son of the president, is under trial in delaware. you haven't weaponized the justice department in terms of hiding and protecting democrats, menendez cuellar and hunter biden the justice department follows the facts and the law and this all comes wolf as republicans are grappling with the fact that their nominee presumptive nominee is now a convicted felon. >> i put the question to a number republicans in swing districts about whether they support donald trump is still a number of them said they do. some of them sidestepped the question and criticize the verdict, but wouldn't say directly, colleague congressman one it says khamanei of arizona, but i also asked the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell today about whether he still is 100% behind donald trump. he said that this case should never have been brought. he says the believes this convictional be overturned on appeal, but he would not say if he supports trump interesting man raju reporting frehse bono, with thank you. >> not a hunter biden's trial on federal gun charges, the laid-off witness who will return to the stand tomorrow morning. we are told after the first day of testimony focused on evidence of the drug addiction the president's son battled for years cnn's paula reid has details on this report in this report from wilmington, delaware hunter biden back in court today for the second day of his criminal trial on federal gun charges in wilmington, delaware first lady dr. jill biden, again, attending to show support for her embattled step son in their opening, prosecutors told the jury, we're here because of the defendants lives and choices. >> no one is above the law. it doesn't matter who you are or what your name is. prosecutors also had to address the sensitive and ubiquitous topic of addiction, an issue central to this case. and one that the majority of potential jurors said they had experience with either directly or with a loved one addiction may not be a choice, but buying a gun is defense attorneys tried to shift the focus to a hunter state of mind. >> they have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that hunter knowingly violated the law inferring that a hunter was going through periods of sobriety amid his addiction? >> it could be reasonable for him, did not know he was breaking the law by indicating on a federal real gun buying form that he was not using or addicted to drugs. his defense attorney said hunter didn't have much interest in buying a gun and the salesman lead hunter to guns while he was browsing other items at least one juror was seen dabbing her eyes during the defense opening and during the testimony of the first witness, an fbi agent, the jury heard long portions of hunter biden's memoir, which he narrated detailing his addiction to drugs i possessed a new superpower, the ability to find crack and anytown at any anytime, no matter how hun familiar with the terrain, it was easy prosecutors also introduced electronic evidence, including the infamous laptop and text messages from several devices some of those text messages said to be about his efforts to get drugs and meet with dealers in 2018, were also shown to the jury in one text, hunter allegedly wrote asap, if you can another reading, can you come this way now and a text from another alleged contact two hunters? >> thing. you want ten grams. the jury also saw several images of drugs that the fbi agent testified were found on hunters devices. they also saw the atf form where hunter allegedly lied to purchase the firearm. prosecutors also spent time detailing the large amounts of cash hunter withdrew on a daily basis in 2018, around the same time he purchased the gun at the heart of this case defense attorneys also cross examine this witness about some of that evidence that was introduced pointing out that many of the text messages that prosecutors brought in were actually from 2019 months after this firearms purchase. they age and also conceded that it is possible that hunter biden was not continuously using drugs during the time in question and this cross-examination will continue. first thing think tomorrow. and once this witness wraps up, we expect to hear from hunter biden's ex-wife, wolf, all or read outside the courthouse in wilmington, delaware. thank you very much for joining us now, former federal prosecutor on kush khardori who attended hunter biden's trial today in wilmington. these now back here in washington, just took the train back. thanks. thank chris for coming in. what was it like inside the court today and could you tell anything how the jury was reacting? >> well, you know, it was packed. might there are a lot of people attending. there was a lot of some political activity outside. i was in the overflow room. but by all accounts from people who i spoke to her in the courtroom where hunter biden was the jurors were solemn and respect at full and attentive. they seem to engaged as you would expect, a case of that significance, the prominence of the defendant and some challenging facts for the defense as you know, we just heard prosecutors brought in a lot of what they described as key evidence, including photos of crack cocaine from hunter biden's infamous laptop. >> how much is that strengthen their case? >> well, you look, it's always a bad situation for a criminal defendant when main witness against you is you and that is what the government is attempting to do with the way that it is structured this case, it's no accident that they spent over an hour of their evidence opening this morning when with their first witness playing excerpts from his book, then they moved on to stuff that they had recovered from audio extra the correct audio excerpts that he had read himself. your heard his voice, you heard his voice talking about a tremendously painful and raw experiences in his life. i have to say listening to it felt a little bit like a public flogging on some level, hearing him talk about this in his own words and played back in a criminal case against him but that stuff is potent. it there's a reason why prosecutors emphasize that sort of evidence when it's coming from the defendant's own mouth, it's hard to run away from. yeah. good point. >> the fbi agent on the stands said today and you heard this that there may have been some periods of time between 2015 and 2019, weren't hunter biden was not repeat now not abusing drugs, how significant potentially is that? >> well, look, it's going to be the crux of the defense case as paula alluded to their discuss, there you know, i'm not sure it will have that much power with the jury because it's seems fairly evident from the evidence that we already heard today that he was often on right. addicted relapsing addicted relapsing. it's a very sad story, but i don't think it's terribly compelling to say, well, for these particular week, when he'd just gotten out of rehab, maybe thought he was clean and that's going to make it all go away as you know, prosecutor signal that hunter biden's ex-wife could testify next in this case what will you be watching for it? >> well, look, i think the prosecutors have set up not just a hunter biden's ex-wife, but some of his other sort of romantic partners to testify about his difficulties with alcohol and drugs that seems to be the main purpose of calling these people. some of them were immunized hi is to give them their own interactions and dealings with some of the underlying drugs here that prosecutors disclosed today. and again, this is a situation with prosecutors are really turning his closest of friends and family against him. it's very difficult to get out from under that on cruise khardori. thanks very much for coming in. thanks for taking the train back from wilmington to here in washington just had another state another state charges, allies of donald trump with trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election. we have new details on the case against three men accused of devising a fake elector electors scheme in wisconsin the most anticipated moment of this 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attorney and mike roman, who was a former trump campaign official. all of them are facing a felony charge related to forgery and the complaint really lays out essentially their alleged involvement in creating this fake elector plot in wisconsin and conversations about how you would pull the fake elector plot off to be able to overturn the 2020 election results. the pressure that they were going to put on former vice president mike pence, essentially how they were going to pull this off off. now of course, these are three names that were allegedly involved in the plot in wisconsin. there's one big name that is missing from this complaint, which is donald trump and the attorney general and wisconsin was asked about whether he had ruled out bringing any charges against the former president in a press conference today. listen to what he said as i said, i'm not gonna speak to any specific individual, but the investigation is ongoing and the decisions we make will be based on the facts and 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tonight about president biden's true assessment of his israeli counterpart. today, the president was asked, is benjamin netanyahu playing politics with the israel-hamas war? >> i don't think so. he's trying to work out a serious problem but that comes just hours after the publication of an interview with time magazine in which the president was asked if you thought that netanyahu might be prolonging the israel-hamas war in an attempt to hold onto power biden's reply to that, quote, there is every reason for people to draw that conclusion. >> biden was also asked by time if based on the intelligence he's scene, he believes israeli forces have committed war crimes in gaza his reply the answer is, it's uncertain. one thing is certain, the people in gaza, the palestinians have suffered greatly for lack of food, water, medicine, et cetera. and a lot of innocent people have been killed former negotiator aaron david miller says, this is it's reflective of one of the most tense moments, a boiling point in a relationship between two liters that spanned about for decades, i would say without a doubt the confidence that this president has in this prime minister the trust that is critically important between an american president and israeli prime minister sure. to get things done. i think has been broken. >> just a few days ago, the tensions had spiked again when president biden announced that israel had offered a three-phase proposal to end the war israel is offer a comprehensive new proposal it's a roadmap. >> i've urge leadership is on the stand behind this deal but since that announcement, netanyahu himself has not publicly endorsed that plan, even though it came from his own government, we begin to seem into the outselling to backtrack to keep his options open, trying to save his majority fall, right? members of netanyahu's government have threatened to quit if that proposal is adopted biden also revealed to time magazine what he believes is his biggest point of 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