You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im in washington. We begin this hour with news that the Florida Republican party has scrapped its own loyalty oath requiring candidates to pledge support for the partys eventual nominee. It is a promise donald trump has flatly refused to make all along. It is seen as a major defeat for trumps closest rival in his own state, Florida Governor ron desantis, and a big win for donald trump. Meanwhile, as trumps legal woes consider to pile up, the judge has been asked to place a limited gag order on trump. They want to continue to block his ability to make continuing attacks in the federal case. Trump still leads the republican pac by more than 40 Percentage Points in the lowest cnn polls. Jeff, were about four months from the iowa caucuses. Youre at a key event tonight in des moines. What do you think well hear tonight . Reporter jim, the rest of the republican rivals will be gathered here on stage one by one reaching out to evangelical voters. A key consti
First, Special Counsel david weiss, much criticized for his handling of the Hunter Biden Case, now kind of slips in under the wire here before the time runs out accusing the president s Son Of Illegal Gun Procurement given that he was on drugs at the time. These charges could hold a hefty maximum jail time, a first time offender. The max would be 25 years in jail. Hunters lawyers claim the agreement that could have kept him out of prison, they say it should still stand and no doubt they will continue to argue that. Weve got all of this Breaking News ahead. Were going to take to bill mcgurn of the Wall Street Journal, Andy Mccarthy is here and clay travis and Matt Whitaker. First to david spunt who has been Breaking News on this all afternoon. Lets go back to him for the latest. Good afternoon, martha. We knew this indictment was coming soon because Special Counsel david weiss office said in a filing a couple weeks ago they intended to indict before september 29. We didnt know it would
the partnership between the u.s. and vietnam. white house correspondent peter doocy is with them on this trip. good afternoon. we ve learned that president biden and china s xi who way back, have not communicating since november. that means that china flew a spy craft over the u.s., president biden ordered it shot down over the waters near south carolina, and still, nothing. and for president biden, it sounds like that s kind of a letdown. president biden, has president xi s absence impacted the summit? would be nice to have him here, but something the president really wants to do here is reform the world bank, give 70-plus developing nation a place to go for loans so they don t wind up on the hook, owing banks in beijing ultra high interest. this isn t about buying anything off today, it s helping provide through multilateral development banks like the world bank and imf, high value and transparent loaning opportunities for lower and middle income countries, many
this issue will destroy new york city. destroy new york city. and an nbc news exclusive, what secretary of state antony blinken told our very own richard engel about a possible meeting between putin and kim jong-un. and we begin the hour with the latest on the legal drama surrounding former president donald trump. the judge overseeing the georgia election interference case says he remains very skeptical of a plan by prosecutors to put all 19 defendants, including trump, on trial next month. prosecutors told a judge a trial for all the defendants would take about four months and feature 150 witnesses. two of trump s co-defendants in the georgia election interference case kenneth chesebro and sidney powell will go on trial together on the 23rd of october. they hope to be tried separately, but the judge denied their motions. meantime, the former president told radio host hugh hewitt he would be willing to testify in his own defense, but it was unclear which case he was tal
support about to start debating a resolution to open an impeachment inquiry into president biden this hour, despite providing no evidence that the president was at all involved in his son hunter s questionable business deals. a day after president biden sharply criticized israel s prime minister netanyahu, for the first time, mr. biden meets in the white house with hostage families today along with overwhelming general assembly vote in favor of a cease-fire in gaza adding international pressure on israel to do more to limit civilian casualties. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell on a big day on capitol hill here. house republicans are going after president biden and his son hunter, pushing an impeachment inquiry against the president. the house is debating and it today, despite having no hard evidence linking the president to his son s foreign business dealings. on capitol hill this morning, hunter biden slamming the impeachment inquiry, defending his father, despite