the guilty verdicts. and sensational testimony and evidence in the hunter biden s federal gun trial. as prosecutors introduced his infamous laptop and illegal drug photos found on it. standby for details on the first witness to take the stand against the president s son welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, a urine the situation room the skis, cnn, breaking news we begin with breaking news. president biden sweeping new executive action on immigration. now, just hours away from taking effect, we re tracking how this move may him illegal border crossings. and the us presidential election seen as david culverts and san diego at the southern border with mexico. but first let s go to c cnn s priscilla alvarez. she s over at the white house worse, priscilla, a major moved by the president on a hot-button issue in this rematch with donald trump well a major. move wolf with huge ramifications at the us southern border as migrants wil
and quite frankly, i think it s in the campaign s best interest to leave the gag order in place because he gets a lot more support from saying, hey, i m not allowed to talk then he would if he were allowed to say what he has to think about michael cohen. i m just going to hear anything that we didn t expect let s see what he says that the upcoming debate with biden to assuming that gag order is still in effect, let s see how that plays out. guys. thank you very, very much. le william tim parlatore. appreciated coming up. fiery exchanges between the attorney general of the united states, merrick garland and republicans who accuse him of weaponizing the us justice department will go live to capital hello, plus, the prosecution s evidence against hunter biden as his past use of illegal drugs takes center stage. in his trial on gun charges the, athletes, in aw are pushing the limits of what is capable ready to show how good i am. i trained all over
districts about whether they support donald trump is still a number of them said they do. some of them sidestepped the question and criticize the verdict, but wouldn t say directly, colleague congressman one it says khamanei of arizona, but i also asked the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell today about whether he still is 100% behind donald trump. he said that this case should never have been brought. he says the believes this convictional be overturned on appeal, but he would not say if he supports trump interesting man raju reporting frehse bono, with thank you. not a hunter biden s trial on federal gun charges, the laid-off witness who will return to the stand tomorrow morning. we are told after the first day of testimony focused on evidence of the drug addiction the president s son battled for years cnn s paula reid has details on this report in this report from wilmington, delaware hunter biden back in court today for the second day of his criminal trial on federal gun ch
publishing world to make it easy for you, call 80563 0741 there s breaking news. we re following right now, attorneys for donald trump, if just asked judge juan merchan to terminate the gag order in his hush money case. now that the trial is over as bringing cnn s kara scannell like cara, tell us about this new request. yeah. well, so trump s lawyers are saying that since his gag order was put in place to protect the proceedings, now that those proceedings to trial is over, they re asking the judge to terminate it. they wrote in a letter that was sent to the judge yesterday and made public today. now that the trial is concluded, the concerns articulated by the government and the court do not justify continued instructions on the first amendment rights of president trump, who remains the leading candidate in the 2024 presidential election. and the american people, they said that the reasons are even stronger now for lifting it because some of these witnesses in the case, michael coh
i don t i think that they would be much better off to focus on the constitutionality of it. that gag orders, any any order that restricts your free speech is presumptively unconstitutional, except in very narrow circumstances. to protect the integrity of the proceeding in defamation cases, once something has already been proven false, you can have an injunction against repeating the same statement but to try to do this because of politics or the campaign. i don t think that that s a great argument. they should really focus on exactly what it just said the proceedings are done. most gag orders expired the moment that the jury is sworn in because as soon as the jury is sworn in, then they have been ordered not to review the media. therefore, public statements can no longer affect them the same way that it would prospective jurors. so most gag orders and there this gag order went on further because of the intimidation of witnesses which would impair their ability to testify at the trial