leader. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. thanks very much for watching aaron erin burnett outfront starts right now president s son and who are the witnesses that will be called. plus breaking news, trump s appeal to have fulton county s da removed from his case has a eight and this date means everything for whether this case happens before the election. and ukraine claiming it used western weapons to strike inside russia. so will retaliate investigative journalist christo grozev, who is on russia s wanted list is my guest tonight. let s go out front good evening. i m erin burnett outfront tonight. we begin with the breaking news. biden has a jury, the 12 jurors who will decide hunter biden s fete have all been sworn in. they have been given their instructions, and we are now just hours away from opening statements and biden s federal gun case where he s accused of lying about being on drugs when he bought a gun. the judge wasting no time saying her courtroom o
be a risk for airplanes. scientists say there s no way to know happening now, breaking news rural trial. i m gun charges with opening statements, knowledge the expected tomorrow morning. we re breaking down the legal issues and the political stakes in this unprecedented prosecution of a sitting president s child also tonight, new evidence of the trump campaign profiting off of the former president s historic criminal trial and can the trump camp reported get raised a combined total of 141 million along with the republican national committee last month, in a huge boost in fundraising and chaos erupts as a republican-led house panel grills, dr. anthony fauci about his role in the us response to covid with gop flames if thrower marjorie taylor greene going on the attack and refusing to address fauci as dr 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. let s get right to the breakin
eighth, not that i m watching donald trump s historic hush money trial is now in the hands of jurors who already are making requests to rehear testimony from two key prosecution witnesses. former trump fixer and lawyer michael cohen and former national enquirer boss, david pecker. they also want to review the judge s instructions after about 4.5 so far, we re breaking all of this down and what it might reveal about a potential verdict 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. there s more breaking news in the trump trial tonight. i knew wrangling over which portions of testimony will be read back to jurors based on their request to the judge. were following all of these dramatic developments with deliberations now underway on the unprecedented criminal charges so just against the former president of the united states cnn s kara scannell is outside the courthouse would be y
97% of burning uv rays. it s light, but it s working hard like me, neutrogena ultras yourself on screen. i m zachary cohen and washington. and this is cnn hello and welcome to cnn special coverage of the closing arguments in former president donald trump s criminal hush money trial. i m wolf blitzer in washington alongside abby phillip, who s outside the courthouse in new york a very consequential de, as we enter the home stretch of this truly historic trial korda s out now for lunch following a morning of blistering closing arguments by trump s defense team on surprisingly, trump attorney todd blanche made the case that payments made to michel cone the heart of the prosecution s charges were not illegal abbe over to you that s right. well, a blanche ripped into potential pivotal testimony delivered by trump s former fixer and personal attorney repeatedly calling michael cohen a liar, whose words should not be trusted, and the claims that the alleged tryst between trump
led up to this. unless than 24 hours. attorneys and donald trump s criminal hush money trial will make your final case to jurors asking them for the first time in our nation s history, to either convict or acquit a former president we ll break down what you can expect. plus millions of americans are under a severe weather threat this memorial day, a storm system that killed at least 21 people this weekend moves across the country. we re tracking and israel s prime minister are calling an airstrike on a camp in rafah, quote, a tragic mistake after 45 palestinians are killed according to gaza officials many of them women and children. does the attack cross president biden s red line we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here. this is central so tomorrow is a big dick. the jury and former president donald trump s hush money trial will return to court after nearly a week long break and closing arguments will then get underway. both s