breaking news hello everyone. thanks for joining me on. alison chemla, radha, and for fredricka whitfield, we have an exciting program for you today because within the next half an hour, we expect to witness the first ever boeing starliner spacecraft launched from cape canaveral, florida to the international space station. this is not a practice run this its launch has to american astronauts on board but officials and spectators are holding their breath a bit because this mission was already postponed a few times, veteran nasa astronauts, butch wilmore and suni williams are on board. and boeing is trying with this to compete with its rivals space x as nasa tries to collaborate with private industry partners. if successful, suni williams would become the first woman aboard any crewed test flight like this years of work has gone into this moment and it has not been without setbacks, as i ve mentioned. so let s bring in space and defense correspondent kristin fisher. she
business if you ever miss an episode of the lead, you can listen to the show once you get your podcasts happening now, breaking news, hunter biden s historic guilty verdict on three felony gun charges, becoming the first child of a sitting us president to face conviction we re getting new reaction from the defense team. the special counsel, the first family, and the trump campaign, plus new tails, new details are emerging from donald trump s probation interview that could weigh on judge juan merchan, sentencing decision. what trump told officials about a firearm, he didn t turn over to police he s after his indictment. and what that means potentially, now that he s a convicted felon also tonight, secret audio recordings to taken by a liberal activist are raising new questions about the neutrality of the us supreme court. justice samuel alito s comments about religion are raising eyebrows welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m will blitzer
are in the cnn newsroom. hi everyone. i m jessica dean in new york, and we begin with breaking news in a major bloated israel s emergency government. just a day after prime minister benjamin netanyahu celebrated the rescue of 400 inside gaza israeli opposition leader and war or cabinet member benny gantz announced he s resigning from the government back in may yan s gave netanyahu an ultimatum, calling for a plan to end the war in gaza bring all the hostages home. or he said he would quit. well, that deadline came yesterday was of course, the same day israel s military conducted a special operation to rescue those hostages this from gaza. and today, we re learning new details about that surprise mission cnn s paula hancocks is live in tel aviv. she s been tracking the latest developments and paula, let s start first with what s happening inside the israeli government. how is prime minister netanyahu responding to this well, jessica, he has already effectively asked ga