and shared this quote, this is what i get for telling my son guide to smile at the camera. for his little brother, i have to say that s the most storable thing i ve seen in awhile. we could all use it in terms of how we think about our politics. thanks to the panel, thanks to you for joining us some kasie hunt, cnn news central starts president biden now calling donald trump, a convicted felon, the first time he called them out that way. and what that now signals for this new phase of the presidential election in breaking overnight, i will not be intimidated. attorney general merrick garland near outrage after attacks by republicans were learning new details about what he plans to save before them. this morning. and it is light he virtual strip club tiktok facing you accusations that it enables the sexual exploitation of children zaraa is out today i m john berman with kate bolduan. this is cnn new sim and on. him, president biden laying out a new line of attack again
parents appreciated we have much more news and newark new central starts right now. lay about to start part laying out its case against hunter biden in federal court this morning. opening statements are about to start, any expect called to the stand including three romantic and i will not be intimidated. that s part of the message that attorney general merrick garland is about to send a republican lawmakers the ag fighting back in a new way today against the continued attacks against him. and attacks is department is out to get donald trump and the perfect example of why bring your kid to work day is a risky endeavour. dad says, smile for the cameras and the child hits it out of the park. i m kate bolduan with john bourbon, sarah sliders out today. this is cnn news central very shortly hunter biden will arrive at a delaware courthouse for opening statements in his federal gun trial. there are new details this morning about how prosecutors plan to use very personal testimo
right this morning and explosive new lawsuit against tiktok has now accused the social media app of creating a virtual strip club for children. the suit was filed by utah s attorney general who claims that tiktoks livestream it not only allows the sexual exploitation of minors, but it is connecting innocent victims to predators in real time. seen as clare duffy has the latest love is claire, what are you learning? right? so this lawsuit specifically does take issue with this livestream feature on tiktok called tiktok live. and that s where users can host live videos, interact with comments and with viewers in real time. and the platform also allows viewers to send monetary gifts, which are often represented by colorful emojis to the users hosting live streams. now, often you ll see a livestream are offering a shout out or in other incentive, if somebody sends them a gift. but this lawsuit claims that those kinds of incentives where users are performing for real-time, for money
documentary. you ve seen the quote unquote poster for it there. it also sounds like it s narrated by tom cruise, but it s not real at all. they actually utilize ai to emit to fake his voice. is part of russia s real disinformation campaign. microsoft also has a new report out on this, and it said it says the film is linked to two propaganda groups inside russia called storm 16, 79 and storm 1099 is an example of what intelligence experts see as an increasingly frantic effort by russian operatives. all of this in an attempt to scare people away from the olympics games after the ioc banned russia from competing, only allowing in russian athletes to take part in the games as neutral athletes because of russia s war in ukraine joining me right now is john hall quest. he s achieved analyst at the google owns cyber security for mandiant with a deep expertise on global cyber threats, john, thank you so much for coming in. i was looking through the report from your company as well as the cnn
say shows hunter biden using drugs and around drugs at roughly the same time time that he bought that gun in october 2018? that s of course the heart of this case. it s against federal law for a drug user or a drug addict to buy or possess a firearm. but of course, john, is this true in any trial, there are two sides to this story and the defense will also get a bite at the apple. they ll get their opportunity to to make opening arguments to the jury. the judge, i will be honest in the last few weeks in the run-up to the trial, she has made their job a little bit tougher, taken away some key arguments that they wanted to make taking away some key evidence that they wanted to introduce. but they have focused in some ways on the text of the statute. there definition of addict in there he was not so clear and they think they may have one or two pathways to an acquittal. john, it all kicks off nottingham here at the federal courthouse in wilmington, delaware. of course. it s joe biden