Report. Thank you so much for being with us this afternoon, jessica. Thanks for having me sitting in the chair, come back tomorrow. You do the same but dont go anywhere because the leader, jake tapper starts right now cnn Breaking News welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper and we were falling Breaking News out of new york. Of course, were day and Donald Trumps hush money trial. The defense rested right now in court, theres a meeting to determine what the judge will tell the jury next week before the jury begins debilitating the deliberating. What will no doubt be a monumental verdict one way or the other in the very first ever criminal trial of a former President Trump himself is at this court meeting. And well bring it you all the updates coming up, but leading this, our israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joins us live from jerusalem a day after the historic decision by the International Criminal court in the hague to seek Arrest Warrants, not only for the three top leaders of th
The chair recognizes the gentleman reporter from georgia, mr. Johnson, there. Attorney general garland, great to see you. Thank you for your service in the nation. And the nation watches as the republicans have no answer to why they want to focus and obsess on hunter biden receiving 2 million for maurice my after serving on a board that he said he was not qualified to serve on but yet the saudi arabians gave 2 billion to Jared Kushner who conducted middle east strategy for his dear old father, donald trump, he got 2 million for something that he is not equipped to do, which is investment banking. So republicans looking at hunter biden instead of Jared Kushner, americans do not understand how that could be. They also are increasingly alarmed about the fact that republicans in control of the house only seem to have three objectives. One, is to impeach joe biden, number two is to shut down and get rid of kevin mccarthy, and the third is to shut down government and a subset of that is to d
The chair recognizes the gentleman reporter from georgia, mr. Johnson, there. Attorney general garland, great to see you. Thank you for your service in the nation. And the nation watches as the republicans have no answer to why they want to focus and obsess on hunter biden receiving 2 million for maurice my after serving on a board that he said he was not qualified to serve on but yet the saudi arabians gave 2 billion to Jared Kushner who conducted middle east strategy for his dear old father, donald trump, he got 2 million for something that he is not equipped to do, which is investment banking. So republicans looking at hunter biden instead of Jared Kushner, americans do not understand how that could be. They also are increasingly alarmed about the fact that republicans in control of the house only seem to have three objectives. One, is to impeach joe biden, number two is to shut down and get rid of kevin mccarthy, and the third is to shut down government and a subset of that is to d
The turner recognizes s the gentleman from georgia. Five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Attorney general garland, great to see you. Thank you for your service to the nation. And the nation watches as republicans have no answer for why they want to focus and obsess on hunter biden receiving 2 million from burisma after serving on the board he said he was not qualified to serve on. But yet, the saudi arabians gave 1 billion to Jared Kushner who conducted middle east strategy for his dear old dad, donald trump. He got 2 billion for something that he is not equipped to do, which is investment banking. And so republicans looking at hunter biden instead of Jared Kushner, americans dont understand how that could be. They also are increasingly alarmed about the fact that republicans in control of the house only seem to have three objectives, one is to impeach joe biden. Number two, is to shut down is to impeach or get rid of kevin mccarthy. And the third is to shut down government. And a su
Welcome to the lead, im jake tapper. And we start today of course with our world lead. And a new warning about the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in gaza. Today u. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken returned to israel after meeting with multiple allies throughout the middle east. Trying to get a humanitarian corridor open for innocents to evacuate from gaza before israel ramps up attacks on hamas. Right now israel is pointing the civilians toward the Southern Gate into egypt, known as the Rafah Crossing which is still clowes. Video shows dozens families including babies waiting next to locked gates. A u. S. Government memo showed more than 250 u. S. Citizens in Southern Gaza waiting for the crossing to open. And earlier reports suggested that it was the Egyptian Government to open the gate when i pressed Jake Sullivan on this issue yesterday, he blamed the closure on on altogether different group. The egyptians have in fact agreed to allow americans to depart to get safe p