cnn s arlette saenz is in ra rehoboth beach, delaware. what more are we learning tonight? reporter: pamela, president biden s personal attorney, bob bauer, released a statement in the last a little over an hour, saying that the justice department conducted a search of the wilmington, delaware, home and found additional materials with classified markings. bauer stresses that this search was done in coordination with the president s personal attorneys, both the personal attorneys and lawyers from the white house counsel s office were on hand for that search. sources also told us that it was specifically conducted by the fbi. and what bauer said is that they opened up the home for this search. that included a search of the living, the working, and the storage areas in wilmington, delaware. i want to read a bit of the statement that gets into exactly what types of materials they were looking through. bauer wrote in a statement, doj had full access to the president s home, in
it is the top of the hour. so glad you re with me today. i m poppy harlow. we re following several major stories. growing worries among republicans over the january 6th committee s damning revelations about former president trump has many openly cheering for other republicans to jump in the 2024 race for the white house. that s even if trump announces he will run. also, anxiety building in the party in circles about the committee s new hearings in september, and what impact they could have on the midterming. more on that in a moment. meanwhile, liz cheney says a subpoena for ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, is not off the table. all of this as today, the governor of georgia is scheduled to testify by video before the fulton county grand jury investigating whether trump tried to interfere in the 2020 general election there. let s begin with my colleague on capitol hill. you have new reporting, melanie, on republicans pushing for other republican
all right. breaking news overnight in ukraine, where a devastating months long battle in the key port city of mariupol, ukraine, has officially ceded control on russia. we ll have more on the deal that is right now allowing the city s final defenders to safely evacuate that steel plant. we ll also go live to buffalo this morning as president biden prepares to visit the grieving city in the wake of saturday s deadly mass shooting. it comes amid new reports about the suspect s alleged plan to turn the massacre into a spree. we will talk to a top member of the white house national security council on that. and it is primary day in pennsylvania. the senate race there has been rocked by twists and turns in the key final days. for the democrats, the leading candidate, john fetterman, is recovering from a stroke. on the republican side, an unexpected surge on the far right from kathy barnette. we ll be watching to see how trump-backed dr. oz performs tonight. good morning
i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. andrea mitchell picks up our coverage right now. right now on andrea mitchell reports family matters, the first lady shows up in court as the jury selection begins for hunter biden s trial, a trial that the prosecution says will include testimony from his late wife and laid brother s widow. the white house is pushing back on bibi netanyahu s saying that he did make the proposal. former president trump railing against his conviction and raising a ton of money and supporters since his verdict. next up, his meeting with propace officer and sentencing next month, just days before the republican convention. i m okay with it. i think at a certain point there s a breaking point. good day, everyone. jury selection has begun in wilmington, delaware, for the first criminal trial of a sitting president s son. first lady jill bide is not in the courtroom along with hunter s wife, his sister ashley and her husband, the president s son
avoided any possible jail time famously fell apart, when a presiding judge rejected the treatment. it could expose embarrassing details of the family s private life. prosecutors say they plan to call as potential witnesses hunter biden s ex-wife and his brother s widow with who he had a relationship after beau s death, as well as a third woman with whom he fathered a child. president biden issued a statement, say i am the president, but i am always a dad. jill and i love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today. mike memoli joins us from the courthouse. mike, you have covered the bidens for years. you know them so well. they have just gone through the ninth anniversary, i believe of beau s death.