President Joe Bidens son, Hunter Biden. Hell be in Court Today in delaware facing Gun Charges. Its the first time the child of a sitting president has faced a Felony Trial and is being closely watched ahead of the 2024 election. This morning, we want to hear your thoughts on the v. Robert. Phone lines are split. Republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Independents, 2027488002. You can also send us a text. That number, 2027488003. If you do, please include your name and where youre from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media at x, on facebook. Another week, another Highprofile Trial to draw our attention. This is the headline from reuters, Hunter Biden criminal trial begins in the aftermath of the trump conviction. Tom hols is a reporter on that story, and hes in Delaware Today to cover that trial, joining us via phone. Tom hals, good morning to you. Tom hals, you with us this morning . Well work on getting Tom Hals on the phone with you, but were hearing from you, our vie
newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we start this hour with the breaking news. the white house says a toddler, a 3-year-old toddler is among one of the nine americans and 200 others currently being held hostage by hamas following that deadly attack more than a month ago in israel. let s go straight to cnn senior white house reporter kevin liptak in delaware. this is just a heartbreaking development. what more can you tell us? reporter: yeah. this news coming from the white house in a readout of a phone call that president biden held with the amir of qatar. qatar has been acting as a broker in these talks to get these hostages released. the president conveyed his unequivocal condemnation of the holding of hostages in gaza, including this 3-year-old american toddler, whose parents were killed in the hamas attacks in israel on october 7th. so we don t know many details about this child, but he is one of potentially as many as 10 americans who are being held
Unwanted, the poorly bred, those yearning to be free, and we will do whatever the hell we can to make it if were given a chance. It is the exception among us who doesnt have that in their blood. Remember who we are because who we are is the key to what we are and why this country has always been great. Thats our closing argument. Thank you for getting after it with us tonight here. Ill see you tomorrow night. D lemon picks it up from here. Its a great closing argument. Number one, lebron james talked to me about the kids being separated at the border. Again, hes saying thats not who we are. Number two, when you said that and talked about summer camp, you reminded me. I saw your wife this weekend. Didnt you pick up one of your kids from summer camp . She was in chicago, and she won best actor in her level of character she had. You know whats sad . I asked a guest a while back, do you think that its possible that some of these kids will never be reunited with their parents . The guest sa
A recap of the days news. The idea that somehow this is floating out in the ether somewhere in orbit far away from the central focus of this investigation is just not true. Those lines of investigation are open. And this is a man who has shown himself willing to do some fairly dodgy work for people supported by the kremlin abroad in the ukraine. And thats one reason why hes standing in court today. And this is just the beginning and again, one of two trials. The first of two trials for Paul Manafort this summer. So this is and the first one as far as the russia investigation. Listen, theres they have to go a long way, as you said. Theres a long way to go, and april, the judges name is ts ellis. He banned any mention of President Trump, russia or collusion from the courtroom. I mean, that may be, but the trial is no doubt weighing on this white house. It is definitely weighing on this white house, don. From my sources, theyre saying
the white house is very concerned. They are trying to
A look at the days top news and headlines. Is glaring right at him, does not look like he is really blinking much, just waiting for him to look over as far as i can tell. Gates has not looked over, but only one person, the Defense Attorney between them, it is really interesting, because at one point today gates was trying to explain how it is that he would help Paul Manafort, his old boss reduce his tax bill by doing things like faking a loan or making income look like colognes. And apparently in 2014 when the tax bill came it was higher than manafort was expecting, emailed to rick loyds, i just saw this, not happy, wtf, he has spent most of the time on the stand explaining how he figured out his taxable income, wired from overseas, and to wire money from overseas to highend retailers for fancy suits or construction
projects, they needed A Little Bit More of a paper trail, but gates said that he falsified invoices. The mueller team is asking a lot of questions about consultancy agreeme