i m fredericka witfield in new york today. with just weeks before key 2024 election contests take place, president biden is hitting the campaign trail this weekend amid new legal distractions hovering over his son. on friday, the president kicked off a campaign swing out west just hours after his son hunter biden was indicted again. hunter biden is now facing new federal tax evasion charges. prosecutors accuse him of a four-year tax evasion scheme and spending millions of dollars on things like drugs, escorts and exotic cars. if convicted on all nine criminal counts, he could face up to 17 years in prison. the charges come as house republicans continue to pressure hunter biden to testify in a congressional hearing and prepare to vote on a resolution to authorize an impeachment inquiry into president biden. cnn s senior white house reporter kevin liptack is with us. how is the white house responding to hunter biden s latest charges? reporter: certainly there is no more sensi
hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield in new york today. so with just weeks before voters head to the polls at key 2024 election contests, president biden is hitting the campaign trail amid new legal distractions hovering over his son. on friday the president kicked off a campaign swing out west just hours after his son hunter s latest indictment. hunter biden is now facing new federal tax evasion charges. prosecutors accuse him of a four-year tax evasion scheme, and spending millions of dollars on things like drugs, escorts and exotic cars. if convicted on all nine criminal counts, he could face up to 17 years in prison. cnn s senior white house reporter kevin liptak is in los angeles where the president is fundraising. kevin, has the president said anything about these indictments? reporter: no, he hasn t, fredricka. he seea few times but the president is fairly tight lipped on this. what the white house says is that the presiden
national attention. late last night the state s supreme court ruled to temporarily block kate cox s attempt to obtain an emergency abortion. cox says her unborn baby has a fatal genetic condition that results in the baby not living more than a few days outside the womb. that s according to the lawsuit she has filed against texas. cnn s camila bernal is following this story. how big of a setback is this for her? reporter: it s very significant, fred, and that s because kate cox is 20 weeks pregnant at the moment. she s just 31 years old. as you mentioned, her fetus has a fatal genetic condition, and she says the complications of this pregnancy have essentially put her life in danger, and she says not only is her health at risk here, but she also says that her future fertility is also at risk if she doesn t get an abortion. so that is why she sued the state of texas asking for her to be allowed to get a legal abortion in the state of texas. a judge in the state granted that a
it s not just me for things. we have lost 2018, 2020, 2022, norad way that never came. we got trounced last night in 2023. no lie there, of course, true to form, that republican running against trump did not blame him for the losses. no republican on that debate stage on wednesday dared to really take on the albatross named donald trump, not in front of an audience of republican voters. so that is hopeless. good people who like things like respecting election results and rule of law and not attempting coups, now had to assume that republicans cannot or more likely will not step out the threat of trumpism in their party [interpreter] . a red wave never materialized for republicans, which is good news for democracy in the 2022 midterms and republicans really did get trounced this week, which is even more good news for democracy. the leader of the republican party has recently been posting memes of the u.s. capital on fire with the words, i am coming back to clean up the mes
it s not just me for things. we have lost 2018, 2020, 2022, norad way that never came. we got trounced last night in 2023. no lie there, of course, true to form, that republican running against trump did not blame him for the losses. no republican on that debate stage on wednesday dared to really take on the albatross named donald trump, not in front of an audience of republican voters. so that is hopeless. good people who like things like respecting election results and rule of law and not attempting coups, now had to assume that republicans cannot or more likely will not step out the threat of trumpism in their party [interpreter] . a red wave never materialized for republicans, which is good news for democracy in the 2022 midterms and republicans really did get trounced this week, which is even more good news for democracy. the leader of the republican party has recently been posting memes of the u.s. capital on fire with the words, i am coming back to clean up the mes