on cnn newsroom. hi, everyone. i am jessica dean in new york and we begin with breaking news out of the middle east as israel welcomes home four hostages rescued this morning from gaza during a special military operation all for kidnapped by hamas from the nova music festival during the a6 october 7 attacks eight months ago they include 22-year-old oman, admire john, 25-year-old noa argamani, twenty-seven-year-old, andre kozlov, 41-year-old, shlomi ziv andrii in shlomi were working as security guards at the music festival and you may remember noa argamani from this horrific video from the october 7 attacks we also heard screaming as hamas fighters drove away with her on a motorbike. we know her boyfriend was also kidnapped and it s still being held captive israel says this morning s rescue mission took place it to separate locations in central gaza, your refugee camp palestinians, they re described the raid as how on earth is heavy shelling and artillery fire bombarded. tha
that s tonight on newsnight good evening. i m abby phillip in new york tonight. donald trump loves to be worshiped that much has been clear since he came down those golden escalators. but this week was especially notable because it gave us a mountain of new evidence that he remains idolized by evangelical voters even after 34 felony counts for crimes associated with hush money payments to an adult film actress. the support is ironclad, 80% of evangelical say they support him today let s start with what happened last night in arizona. donald trump held a town hall in a phoenix mega church. now the opening homily called for the crowd to pray over the presumptive nominee, but it was the smite die enemy s message that really rang out loud and clear. listen we do pray for our leaders. but father, if our leaders will not turn to you, if he will not turn to your word, if he will not return to justice, we pray that you would bring those leaders down. all of those people, all those in
is a minimum. we may never know the answer to that and they may never be charged. but i think that we re all thinking more expansively based on these new findings while these details we learned, they are just terrific, but we certainly appreciate you, casey jordan and your insights into this. thank you so much always great to be here. thanks for joining us. the news continues next property now president biden marks 80 years since the d-day invasion by warning that democracy is more at risk now than at any time since world war ii defense secretary lloyd austin is with the president and france and joins us to discuss urgent global hotspots and threats right here at o also tonight, donald trump just returned to the campaign trail for the first time as a convicted felon he s appealing to voters a pivotal battleground state, and playing up the 34 guilty verdicts against him. and former trump adviser steve bannon is lashing out after a judge ordered him to report to prison by jul
continues next on cnn tonight on 360 republican lawmakers attack the criminal justice system. one threatens to defund the government over the former president s criminal conviction, even as trump issues that thinly veiled warning about civil unrest, and he gets jail time or keeping them honest tonight also, de hunter biden s federal trial. the jury has been selected. we look ahead to opening statements tomorrow, and later, dr. anthony fauci, the grilling house republicans gave him over the covid pandemic. and what he gave them back in return. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight, keeping them honest with what looks to be the shape of things to come as the leader of the republican party self-proclaimed rule of law party faces a july sentencing date for 34 felony convictions increasingly, that means republicans are attacking and criminal justice system. they ve longed, claimed to support, threatening to investigate and defunded, even threatening to defund the
news continues now right here on cnn happening now, breaking news, a jury was just selected and hunter biden it is federal trial, i m gun charges with opening statements now expected tomorrow morning. we re breaking down the legal issues and the political stakes in this precedented prosecution of the sitting president s child. also tonight, new evidence of the trump campaign profiting off of the former president s historic criminal trial and the trump camp reporting, it raised a combined total of 141 million along with the republican picking national committee last month in a huge boost in fundraising. and chaos erupts as a republican-led house panel grills, dr. anthony fauci about his role in the us response to covid with gop flame thrower, marjorie taylor greene going on the attack and refusing to address fauci as dr. 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. let s get righ