versus wade. tonight the texas attorney general is threatening to go after her doctor. we re following new images coming out of gaza, as israel is rounding up what appears to be dozens in a mass detention, all stripped down to their underwear. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. we begin with the breaking news tonight, as the justice department has now filed a new criminal case against the president s son, hunter biden. we just got the details of this nine-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury. according to the special counsel, david wise, the president s son engaged in a four-year tax scheme. evan perez broke this story. evan, walk us through what we are seeing in these nine charges. this is a 56-page indictment that has been returned by a grand jury in los angeles, which is where hunter biden lives, just outside of los angeles. we re talking about three felony counts, felony tax counts. six of these counts are misdemeanor tax counts. and what pr
this morning starts right now. this breaking overnight, hunter biden is facing nine new criminal charges as federal investigators say he avoided paying $1.4 million in taxes, instead spending that money on an extravagant lifestyle, how high the political cost may be for his father. donald trump set to testify monday in his new york fraud trial after calling it a disgrace to america. why his own lawyer is telling him not to take the stand. plus, shots fired outside of a synagogue before the first night of hanukkah, what the suspect said just before he was arrested. cnn this morning starts right now. it is friday, we re so glad you re with us, i m poppy harlow, with phil mattingly in new york. the 2023 campaign trail is running through the courthouse or courthouses, hunter biden facing nine new federal criminal charges, accused of failing to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes, in 2016, through 2019. and instead spending his money on things like drugs, escorts, pornogr
trial. a trial that threatens to upend his personal fortune and real estate business. the former president could take the stand in his own defense on monday, but today the court is hearing from an accounting expert who described new york attorney general s letitia james claims of fraud as meritless, saying, quote, my main finding is that there is no evidence whatsoever for any accounting fraud. this is trump s first appearance since an appellate court reinstated a gag order barring him from talking about the court staff on social media. while the clerks are off limits, trump didn t waste time renewing his attacks on the judge arthur. a case that is absolutely 100%, there s not a judge in the country that wouldn t have given us a total victory, but there s not a judge in the country that would have even taken this case. this is a witch hunt, and a very corrupt trial. the attorney general sits here because she knows that she has a judge that no matter all the evidence, that
right now, donald trump is in court. he is preparing to take the stand to be the star witness for the defense next week, but going in to be an observer today, not staying quiet. yes, what can we tell this morning from the fallout of the republican debate last night? and what did trump have to say about it in court today? and a gunman kills three people on the unlv campus, and new details of the suspect who we have learned is a former processor. with john berman and kate bolduan, i m sara sidner, and this is cnn news central. right now, donald trump is sitting in on his civil trial in new york, and an observer today, and preparing to take the stand again, himself, on monday, but he is not staying quiet. attacking the case, the attorney general and declaring victory before he entered the courtroom today. on the line, donald trump s brand, and the penalty of $250 million, and we go to brynn gingras who is outside of the courtroom, and what has been happening today? yea
it is 4:00 new york. it is not every day that a former president of the united states is in a courthouse. much less as a defendant in the case that threatens to bring down the entire brand that he used to propel himself into office in the first place. today, donald trump was back in court in the $250 million civil fraud trial in new york. before walking in, trump lashed out as he so often does at the judge, the trial, at the new york attorney general who brought the lawsuit. he did not mention judge engoron s clerk, who has been a frequent target of his, he remains under a gag order that prohibits him from talking about court staff. inside the courtroom, accounting expert eli bartov took the stand and testified that in his expert opinion the attorney general s claims of a years long pattern of fraud, manipulating the values of trump s real estate assets were baseless. there is no evidence whatsoever for any accounting fraud, he said. dold trump was reportedly visibly pleased.