politics, family ties. president biden embraces son, both littered, literally and figuratively at first three felony convictions we ll look at the fallout for the first family and the biden campaign. plus david axelrod is here to talk about whether his party needs to do more to reach out to discipline republicans, especially so many progressives turning away from biden over the war in gaza and the rent is too high the cost of housing is still sorry. that s a big reason why so many americans feel badly about the economy, despite new state that overall inflation is slowing down i m on a rod when for dana bash, let s go behind the headlines inside politics first up, we re tracking the fallout of a hunter biden guilty verdict. present some biden is on his way to the g7 summit in italy this morning, after a last-minute trip to delaware last night to huddle with this family. the president s son was found guilty on all three federal gun charges. he is facing cnn s kevin lip da
[gears shifting] laura: plus, a.g. garland willing to go to jail to prevent americans from knowing just how senile joe biden is. and an angle fact-check on biden s latest inflation lies. but, first, another 9/11? that s the focus of tonight s angle. you wouldn t think president or cabinet would ever forget hijackers? and they were here right under our noses, taking flying lessons, lax visa policies. national complacency and of course the rest is a tragic history. we let our guard down and it triggered the longest war in american history prejtedding america first was never this administration s priority. their sole priority was and is to facilitate a mass influx of individuals from around the world into our own america in order to change america. and if border patrol by the way tries to stop migrants from crossing. they re terminated. what do you think executive order, is that going to do anything? three years and seven months. [inaudible] does it frustrate you when yo
l tough call. who are you if you look at the latest data? you re probably going to need a, lot of, those purple sprinkles. how this guy really knows his stuff cnn, breaking news and good morning. you were alive in the cnn newsroom. i m sure costa in washington, breaking this morning, hunter biden s defense attorney indicates that the president s son will not testify in his own defense. that means closing arguments could soon get underway in his federal gun trial. cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez joins us from outside the court. evan, how big of a risk would it have been for hunter biden to take that stand it s a big risk jam. i think that s the reason why you had the defense spent the weekend weighing the pros and cons of this one of the things that they wanted to do if he took the stand was to argue that and to tell the jury that hunter biden has been sober since 2019, and so that would perhaps in their view, at least go a little bit of a way of reversing so
while, they re just became thousands upon thousands of people who would attend. there were prizes given for the best costumes. i think it was considered social suicide. if you didn t go tonight, how did drag shows become such a target for the political right? cnn s randy k reports on a new, the whole story with anderson cooper tonight at eight right here on cnn hello, again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m for greek a whitfield and we start with breaking news there s out of the middle east a short time ago, benny gantz, a key minister of the israeli war cabinet, announced that he is quitting the emergency government we live the government the emergency government which heavy are complete we stand together for the campaign for israel, for generations. so in order to get real victory so far, we are going to go elections and at the end of it, we ll have government that will have the confidence of people ganim is resignation marks a pivotal moment in israel
meetings, i billion with a b. we ve got this. honor, got this. i m kevin lived ttac at the white house and this is cnn hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me on fredricka whitfield, new today, emotional moments in israel as four hostages are rescued and reunited with their families after eight months of being held by hamas, the israeli military launching a dramatic raid into gaza to run turn those hostages home. but that operation also left a trail of devastation for several, for central gaza, there were reports of more than 200 killed and the salt and hundreds more wounded also knew today a potential shakeup in israel s emergency government prime minister netanyahu. now asking war cabinet member benny gantz to stay after reports that he and his national unity party would withdraw from the government. gans postpone that news conference set for today after the rescue of the four israeli hostages. cnn s paula hancocks. and priscilla alvarez have been tr