cheering on the red sox soon. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. never do you see a federal court hearing involving donald trump, but today we heard every single word. the lead starts right now. challenging the order. the former president pushing back on federal judge who put limits on what trump can say and where he can say it. ahead, take you inside the courtroom and why today s hearing mattered so much. plus, anger in israel. the heated exchanges with families of hostages kidnapped by hamas. and protesting boss moves. hundreds of employees at tech giant openai threatening to quick over firing of their founder and face of the company. welcome to the lead everyone. i m in for jake tapper. we start with a remarkable day in one of donald trump s four criminal cases. federal courts do not allow live cameras, but today we got to hear live audio in the federal election subversion case. the former president facing charges that include conspiring to overt
officials say hostage negotiations are getting close to the end. plus, president biden marks his 81st birthday as voters express concerns about his physical and mental fitness. the age debate intensifying with a presidential election now just a year and weeks away. welcome to our viewers. wolf blitzer is off today. i m pamela brown. you re in the situation room. and we start with a tense day in court with donald trump s legal team trying to persuade judges to throw out a gag order against him. let s get to evan perez. evan, the judge has expressed skepticism today. a lot of skepticism, pamela. these judges were grappling with an unprecedented issue. you have a criminal defendant who likes to speak out on social media and his political rallies. he s also one of the leading candidates for president of the united states. so one of the things the judges were grappling with was how do you protect jury yors and their personal information? how do you stop threats against a judge
Im not the expert sally son. Tucker barnes, erin como, theyre our sdmerts morning. Erin whats going on. Hey, well, ill tell you what, tucker will have a look at forecast in a second and as you make your way out good news 270 earlier crash involving tractortrailer cleared by falls road and heavy residual delays linger past father hurlry boulevard and look at metro blue line delays to Largo Town Center earlier malfunction to king street. Impacting green line and yellow rush plus. Full look at traffic and forecast coming up in the next few minutes. Back to you guys. 7 00 starting top story. Shockwaves reverberating after james comey is fired. It took comey and everyone else by surprise. Live from capital hill now. Good morning. This was a shock here at fbi headquarters. No doubt. The agency itself is now being run by comeys deputy. As far as comey himself he certainly angered both democrats and republicans at times during his tenure here at the fbi. Timing here was such a surprise. What a
Im not the expert sally son. Tucker barnes, erin como, theyre our sdmerts morning. Erin whats going on. Hey, well, ill tell you what, tucker will have a look at forecast in a second and as you make your way out good news 270 earlier crash involving tractortrailer cleared by falls road and heavy residual delays linger past father hurlry boulevard and look at metro blue line delays to Largo Town Center earlier malfunction to king street. Impacting green line and yellow rush plus. Full look at traffic and forecast coming up in the next few minutes. Back to you guys. 7 00 starting top story. Shockwaves reverberating after james comey is fired. It took comey and everyone else by surprise. Live from capital hill now. Good morning. This was a shock here at fbi headquarters. No doubt. The agency itself is now being run by comeys deputy. As far as comey himself he certainly angered both democrats and republicans at times during his tenure here at the fbi. Timing here was such a surprise. What a
Kierein in the storm center. We saw those winds gusting 50, 60, even 70 miles an hour last night. Theyve been up all the way over the last 12 hours. Now beginning to calm down a little bit. We could still see gusts up to around 40 miles an hour or so. Right after sunset it will quickly calm down. Take a look at these winds. These were winds last night between 9 00 and about midnight last night. 66 miles an hour in re begagan national. Current wind gusts down into the 20s and 30s range. Well see occasional gus miles an hour but the wind is really starting to come down. Thats why our wind advisory will most likely be allowed to expire at 6 00. You can see who it involves here. Across towards parts of the Eastern Shore as well, the wind has been a huge factor over the last 1824 hours. Were still tracking storms includie ining one that will pa just to our south on wednesday. Many people cleaning up the mess in their yards as power crews work to restore electricity. Kristin wright is live i