reports. hunter biden s federal gun trial racing toward its conclusion after we just learned he will not testify in his own defense. we re live at the courthouse in delaware where the jury could get this case today. plus, a crucial step in donald trump s path towards sentencing. the pre-sentencing probation interview set for today and what that will look like. tears of joy as four hostages freed from hamas after nearly 250 days are reunited with their loved ones. new details on the heavy price paid for achieving this rescue. good morning. it is 10:00 eastern. thanks so much for joining us. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with breaking news from a courthouse in delaware this morning where we just learned hunter biden will not take the stand in his own defense in his federal gun trial. so we could see this trial now reach its conclusion quite quickly with closing arguments likely beginning today, meaning the fate of the president s son could possibly be
But lots of people like trump. They say hes authentic. And authenticity was big this year. I talked about it with rebecca burg of real clear politics and david greenberg, author of republic of spin. This concern of authenticity goes way back. In the 20s this was the age of baa, bally who, they wanted to show themselves human. Hoover was out there fly fishing. Warren harding do all kinds of posing on the white house lawn with Albert Einstein and helen keller and whoever they could get to do a photo op. Rebecca. Well, i see a lot of parallels between those historical examples and today. I think of scott walker riding his motorcycle around New Hampshire wearing his motorcycle boots to the first republican debate. Obviously it didnt pan out very well for his campaign, but thats what he was trying to get at there. And it works . It does. So what we see in polling is that voters actually do care about authenticity and their president ial candidates. There has been polling shown voters care m
Ive learned quite a lot. I, too, w like to associate as myself with the remarks of our chair about how enraged i think we all are when we hear some of the things that weve heard today. I think that just leads us all want to go forth and make sure we do everything we can to cooperate with you to minimize these issues that are out there, if not eliminate them entirely, and i do agree, too, that the role of the internet no doubt has been really important in magnifying the problem multiplying the problem perhaps in many instances, too, so thanks for being here today and i want to thank the chair again for having this hearing. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Mr. Ryan, thank you again for being here. We really appreciate your leadership. Appreciate your commitment to this country and our kids. We join you in that effort, and we look forward to continuing our relationship in that dialogue you spoke of and doing everything we can so that families can build better lives for themselves. With that, se
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