de niro to try to change the subject? you can see the look on the biden campaign staffers faces. they knew it was a bad idea. they didn t want to be here. somebody as central command everything is going down the tubes for joe biden. i hand it over to carolyn leavitt. you heard a desperate and failing and pathetic harris: we ll pull back from that. jason miller, an important voice. the senior advisor for the trump campaign. what you saw there were dueling campaign events. you first saw robert de niro, who was mixed in with some lawmakers and then behind him were a couple of the police officers who testified in court about january 6th and were actually responding to that as officers. then robert de niro seemed to get into it with a reporter who asked about the testimonies of people at that january 6th and some of that hadn t told the truth and so on and so 4th of july. de niro dropping his usual bad language. sorry about that. in the meantime jason miller comes out and an
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
558999, or visit home serve.com i m more liebermann at the pentagon and this cnn welcome back today in the hunter biden federal gun trial, the prosecution rested its case and the defense left open the question if hunter biden himself would take the stand also at the courthouse today, first lady jill biden, there for support, hunters daughter they only took the stand. president biden s sister, valerie, is also there and his brother james, who is set to testify, but was never called. cnn s paula reid. it s also at the courthouse i think one thing is going into the day when the family members start to testify what was going to be the response? on the defense witnesses naming biden s testimony today, there s heart-wrenching yeah, it really was in let s give her credit. right. she s the child of an attic to anyone who s been through that experience as how difficult it is and then have to go inside a federal courtroom and testify about
You should question the credibility of. But instead, they focused on what the actual charges against Donald Trump are. And they were the falsification of business records. And Donald Trumps attorneys making clear to the jury that Donald Trump did not commit a crime and this was an issue over a Business Ledger and Donald Trump, in fact, as the Ledger Shows was just paying michael cohen, not to reimburse Stormy Daniels but for legal services. All of this will lead to tomorrow when David Pecker is expected to take a stand again. Notably also the Gag Order Hearing tomorrow morning. The prosecution has asked the judge to punish Donald Trump for violating the Gag Order. Notably when Donald Trump left the courthouse today, what did he do is this he attacked one of the witnesses, michael cohen. This will come down to the determination of Judge Merchan over whether Donald Trump actually violated the Gag Order and any consequences that may follow. Vaughn hillyard, thank you so much. Joining us n
Should be keeping front of mind every single day as he tries to get back in the white house. It is absolutely the blueprint for where they would start to try to complete the unfinished business. Right . Of the first term. If donald trump returns to the white house. That is where this case comes from. Right . The tawdriest Case Imaginable coming from the grossest and pettiest personal failings. All the while revealing a huge serious problem for this country that we have not yet reckoned with. A Core Problem for our protection of the Rule Of Law. A Core Failing of the Rule Of Law for which not nearly enough people have gotten in trouble. We got lots more to get to. Well talk to somebody who was at the courthouse today. Just ahead. Stay with us. E today. Just ahead. Stay with us