seed.com to order. now news. night, with abby phillip week nights at term eastern on cnn you are in the scene and newsroom. i m jessica dean in new york, and we are following breaking news out of the middle east today as israel welcomes home, four hostages rest this morning from gaza during a special military operation. all four were kidnapped by hamas from the nova music festival during the october 7 attacks. that was eight months ago. they include 22-year-old almog meir, jan, 25-year-old noa are argamani, 2020, 7-year-old, andre cause levin 41-year-old, shlomi ziv andre in shlomi were working as security guards at the music festival and you may remember noa argamani from this horrific video from the october 7 attacks, where we saw her screaming as a mosque fighters drove away with her on a motorbike israel saying this morning s rescue mission took place at two separate locations in central gaza near refugee camp palestinians. they re described the raid as hell on earth
and she s so amazing thanks so much for joining us this afternoon. it ll be sad to say goodbye to pat sajak, but you can say hello to jake tapper is the leader starts right now the themes of the 2024 race today, democracy and revenge, the lead starts right now starkly different messages from two starkly different men, president biden s warning about democracy on the world stage, while donald trump to gain much more personal approach, plus a dramatic turn in the hunter biden gun trial defense scrapping. it s witness list on some level, leaving one major question about the case, yet to be answered. and the judge presiding over one of the most consonant sequential cases in america described as isolated in an experience with judge aileen cannon is really up against as she takes on the criminal classified documents case against donald trump welcome to the lead. i m phil mattingly info jake tapper. it s friday. we start with our world lead and president biden today drawing on the
joining us. you thought it was over but not. a potentially huge development in trump s new york trial but, first, they can t stop him. that s the focus of tonight s angle. laura: five months from election day and the list of democrat failures continues to grow by the day. now, it s friday, let s have some fun and quickly categorize them in chronological order. first, the biden team and their press homeys thought they could use jan 6 to intimidate trump supporters and scare away all the independents. history is watching, just like history watched three years ago on january 6th. whether insurrectionists stormed this very capitol and placed a dagger in the throws democracy. laura: dagger. trump left office on january 20th if you can t remember. insurrection u.s. government without weapons? okay. well, of course, democrats using jan 6th thought a second impeachment trial would do him in. according to the reuters ipsos poll, fewer one in five said they watched multiple hours
thanks for joining us. biden on the cliff. that s the focus of tonight s angle. it was a beautiful somber setting in france to commemorate the 80th anniversary of d-day today. the few remaining world war ii vets on their final mission. the biden team hoped that the president s remarks would resonate with voters back home, showcasing him as a reaganesque figure who would unite americans and the rest of the world behind his vision. but, the speech they wrote for him merely demonstrated how muddled, unserious, and unrealistic their thinking is. first, the biden folks seemed to think that they can convince us that russia and ukraine poses the same existential threat to the west as germany did in 1944. we will not walk away. if we do, ukraine will be subjugated and will not end there. ukraine s neighbors will be threatened. all of europe will be threatened. in their hour of trial the allied forces of d-day did their duty. now the question for us is in our hour of trial, will w
decline in biden s america. a pregnant woman brutally beaten by a mob. another lady came to me and dragged me through my hair. i start screaming. she starts pepper spraying me right in the face. laura: dumb criminals caught on camera. this is really, really dumb robbers right here. look holding the wall. it s mind boggling that just fire hydrant will be stolen. like out of all the things to steal. laura: plus, disney back with latest woke release. this is i would say arguably the gayest star wars. [laughter] considerable margin. [laughter] are you excited about that? but. laura: but, first biden declines, america declines that s the focus of tonight s angle. joe biden is in france tonight for the 80th anniversary of d-day and whenever is he overseas, we, as americans, collectively admit it, hold our breath hoping that when he gives his speech on democracy, he doesn t embarrass by speaking like he does back home. fall, that fall he decided to look,