good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m josé diaz-balart, and we begin this busy hour with hunter biden s felony gun trial. the defense rested without calling hunter biden to the stand. moments ago the prosecution called an fbi agent back to the stand for a rebuttal. joining us now, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian outside the courthouse. also with us, david henderson, a civil rights attorney and former prosecutor. ken, what s the latest from the courtroom, and what can we be expecting today? reporter: good morning, jose. the prosecution has now rested, but not before that fbi agent provided devastating testimony about evidence of hunter biden s drug use the day before and the day after he purchased that handgun on october 12th, 2018. some of this evidence had already been in, but then there was some new evidence where she talked about geo locating his phone to a 7-eleven in wilmington, delaware, and also introduced eviden
from a free suchi deal. hello i m christian fraser in london, laura trevelyan is in washington. in america the optimism is returning. this week the fed upgraded forecasts for growth, the economy is gaining new momentum, and joe biden says the us will cross 100 million vaccinations tomorrow, well ahead of schedule. contrast that with the picture here in europe. while president biden tries to reignite american exceptionalism, europe is floudering in a third wave of the virus; the vaccine rollout anything but exceptional. tonight the french prime minister announced paris and 16 french regions will return to lockdown for a month, from midnight tomorrow. rome and half of italy s regions are already in lockdown, germany is in the grip of a third wave the number of new cases growing 20 per cent in the past week. the who says 20 thousand people are dying every week across europe, with the virus now sweeping east. we have now seen three consecutive weeks of growth in covid 19 cases.
message to the world from the hallowed shores of normandy. well, never saying the word trump. the president implicitly warned of the threat. he believes his election your opponent poses to us democracy as for donald trump, he s using his guilty verdict on 34 counts to rile up his base on the campaign trail as some swing state voters tells cnn don t care about what happened in that new york courtroom and i ll go one-on-one with the former house speaker, nancy pelosi. she is in france for d-day commemorations and will weigh in on the president s message overseas and all of the drama with her congressional colleagues right here in washington i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics first up, a presidential complete from the cliffs pointe-du-hoc, where american soldiers turned the tide of world war ii, 80 years ago. today, joe biden is asking the american people to honor the legacy of those heroes gather here today just not just to honor those who showed
the sitcom with that music but i move on. #:00 a.m. on the east coast. tuesday, june 4th, this is fox & friends. years in the making. president biden is finally set to take executive action at the border he visited twice in his life. ainsley: and dr. fauci is grilled on capitol hill. that there was a push to down play the lab leak theory. not on my part. really? really? wow. steve: wow, really. and talk about a hero s welcome. american d-day veterans getting big cheers from children, school kids in normandy on the 80th anniversary of their liberation. lawrence: we love to see it. the greatest generation. the second hour of fox & friends starts right now and, remember, mornings are better with friends. brian: fox news alert. president biden expected to take executive action on the border crisis today. lawrence: unilateral move after years of inaction would allow him to partially set down the processing of migrants seeking asylum. ainsley: griff jenkins
Welcome to bbc news. President trump has become embroiled in a bitter battle with the american legal system, after a federal Appeals Court refused to reinstate his travel ban, on people from seven mainly muslim countries, entering the united states. It was a judge in seattle who had originally put a temporary stop to the policy, and tonight the president Tweeted Saying just cannot believe a judge would put our country is such peril. If something happens, blame him. Our north america correspondent nick bryant has more. The rush to reach america. Arrivals from mainly muslim countries making it through immigration after an Appeals Court rejected a move by the Trump Administration to reimpose its travel ban. So, impromptu celebrations at us airports, and relief for those looking to head across the atlantic. Tonight, Atjfk Airport in new york, this family from iraq finally made it into the country. They have spent two years obtaining us visas, and have packed up their lives in iraq. The emb