behind us, end quote. not really. our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer. he s in the situation room, actually he s replaced by alex marquardt today. i ll see you soon. happening now, donald trump brushes off questions about a report you heard first right here on cnn, that is, federal prosecutors now in possession of audiotapes undercutting trump s defense over retaining classified documents. we re also getting reaction from one of the former president s previous attorneys. in the senate the debt ceiling deal could come to a final vote as soon as tonight. even as members of both parties raise serious concerns. majority leader chuck schumer telling senators, they have to stay in session until the bill passes. and russia says that regions near the border with ukraine have suffered dozens of attacks in just the last day. the kremlin condemning international silence over the recent strikes on russian territory. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and
thought about it. and isn t it the thought that counts? the wall street journal has just reported that the doj made that decision for two reasons one, because biden s attorneys were being good old boys and girls and, quote: cooperating and, two, they wanted to avoid complicating the investigation. now, why does biden get to search his own classified records while donald trump gets his house raided by the feds? legal scholar jonathan turley makes the most sense of it saying, quote: the president has a host of people who regularly handle classified material so why use the lawyers? the answer appears the same as in the case of hillary clinton s email control. hillary clinton can erase 33,000 emails and joe biden can move these documents around. it s what the democrats do. they control what gets out to the public. and it s why we re only finding out about this now three months after the first batch of documents were found in joe biden s chinese funded think tank. now, if this h
across the suspect s vest. martha raddatz with late reporting. don t here in france, authorities investigating a possible terror plot. the suspect, authorities say, a former member of the russian military. detonating a homemade bomb at a hotel near charles de gaulle airport in paris. president biden arriving in france to honor world war ii veterans here in normandy. the president will speak about defending democracy around the world. he will meet with president zelenskyy, and tomorrow, he ll sit down for an exclusive interview with us. tonight, back in the u.s., the major cities on the east coast bracing for potential flash flooding. storm concerns from washington, d.c. to philadelphia to new york ci city. the race for president tonight. the breaking headline involving donald trump. his gun permit revoked because he s now a convicted felon. and the news coming in on the georgia case, put on hold indefinitely. also tonight, hunter biden s gun trial. his ex-wife and e
pending an appeal. trump and seven co-defendants argue that d.a. fani willis should be disqualified over a romantic relationship with a lawyer formerly on her team. tonight, the appeals court halting the case, pending its review. the hearing tentatively set for october 4th. a decision likely after the election. we turn now to hunter biden s felony gun trial. his ex-wife and a former girlfriend taking the stand for the prosecution today. here s abc s terry moran. reporter: on day three of hunter biden s trial, the women from his past were called to testify, as prosecutors tried to prove he lied about his drug use on an application for a gun in 2018. kathleen buhle, hunter s ex-wife, told jurors about the day in 2015 she discovered he was using crack. i found a crack pipe in an ashtray on the side porch of our home, she said. but that marriage was over years before hunter filled out this gun background check in 2018. so, prosecutors put zoe kestan on the stand, his former girlfrien
year. president biden s first term, he signed into law some amazing pieces of legislation, biggest investment in mental health in a generation, strengthening gun background check, investing in infrastructure, bringing advanced manufacturing back to this country through the bipartisan c.h.i.p.s. and science bill, reducing prescription drug prices, there is so much for a democrat facing election in 2024 to run on that some of the provisions you just referenced in this deal i don t think will be an issue at all. one of the things that is still being discussed is defense funding. do you think that the senate majority leader, chuck schumer, should commit to passing more defense funding after this bill gets passed in order to address those concerns about and insufficient, some believe, pentagon budget? well, we are about to see a counteroffensive begin in ukraine, and our president has been forceful and strong in his support of ukraine, so too have senator schumer and mcconnell. we will