hill he s facing a grilling from republican about the origins of covid-19. also today for the first time in history, the son of the sitting president of the united states is on trial. jury hey, selection now underway in hunter biden s federal gun case and history is being made. mexico elected its first female president claudia sheinbaum. we ll have a live report. hello, i m wolf blitzer in washington and urine the cnn newsroom happening. now up, i m capitol hill republican lawmakers are turning up the heat on the man who led the us government s response to the covid pandemic dr. anthony fauci faces more questions on that response and the origins of the virus that killed nearly 1.2 million americans. dr. fauci will also face questions about email exchanges involving one of his top advisers a subpoena from the republican-led committee turned up emails were dr. david borons appears appears to be trying to avoid public record laws cnn s lauren foxes up on capitol hill for us,
we re on the california coast and this is cnn happening now new developments in israel s war with hamas. he is really prime minister benjamin ateneo disbands his war cabinet the ivf is not clarifying what it s calling a quote, tactical pause plus, the house speaker mike johnson, heads tamara logo in florida to meet with former president donald trump what s on the agenda as they look ahead to the november elections? and evacuations are underway near los angeles right now, as firefighters work to contain a very fast moving wildfire. hello, i m waffling sir, in washington and urine, the cnn newsroom we begin this hour with the israel hello, hamas award knew this morning, there s really prime minister benjamin ateneo is dissolved. his war cabinet, the move comes just days after a senior member of the work cabinet resigned in a show of very dramatic vote of no confidence in the ten you and a strategy for the war in gaza. meanwhile, israel has begun what it s calling a tactical p
june 27 at nine live on cnn and streaming on max cnn breaking news. i m wolf blitzer in washington and we begin this hour with breaking news closing arguments based soon get underway in the federal gun trial of hunter biden. take a look at this. this is video of the president s son arriving at court earlier this morning, just a short time ago. his defense attorneys arrested there case and announced that he will not take the stand to testify in his own defense cms senior justice corresponded evan perez is outside the court for us in wilmington delaware. evan, what are the jurors likely to hear in these closing arguments well, what if we expect that those closing arguments are going to get underway? any time now? and what jurors are going to hear first from the prosecution is that there s a mountain of evidence. there is a volumes of evidence showing that hunter biden was using drugs around the time that he bought this gun back in october of 2018. now, the fence has been focu
that really both sides of the aisle have an interest in going hard against hunter biden, the republicans, obviously are very determined to prove that he s committed wrongdoing. democrats though, want to show that they re neutral and unbiased and have no real reason not to not to not to go very hard against them. i do think if this was not such a charged situation, he might get a different deal. they might have gotten a deal more along the lines of what he had originally negotiated. but that s not where he s at. and i think it ll be can just see kind of how this all on winds in the months to come, it will be interesting indeed, we re not, on ariadne nika ackerman to both of you. thank you very much. and still i had this our a spokesperson for israeli prime minister benjamin, a tiny says president biden only presented what they are calling a partial outline of a potential ceasefire deal and any claims he has agreed to a us proposal are not true.
this is not an israeli proposal is being inaccurate to say the least. well, as the prime minister, prime minister new ten, jal barack denying that this is an israeli proposal because when president biden made the announcement at the white house on friday, he made it clear sure. this was israel s latest proposal so netanyahu is not denying it like that, but he says and he said, today at the hearing of the foreign relations security committee in the knesset, that president biden only referred to parts of the proposal when other parts of the proposal he did not mention in here his speech in a tanya was referring to one clause specifically, and this is the clause that says that on day 16 of the implementation of the deal, israel, hamas are supposed to start a negotiation over the next phase and over what is called the cessation of hostilities and in those negotiations, each side can bring his own a positions and