like jack sleeping z, knowing your finances are in order, go to facet.com to get your free score today like, it s hard good morning, everyone. you are alive and cnn newsroom on allison camera, radha in today for jim acosta, we are following several breaking stories of this our hunter biden is back in court and the, first witness in his federal gun trial is on the stand plus the new wall street journal article on president biden s fitness for office how the white house is responding and you are looking at live pictures from nasa. in this hour, boeing will make its third attempt to launch two astronauts aboard its first-ever starliner rocket to the international space station. we will bring you the launch live but first witness testimony is underway on de three of hunter biden s federal gun trial yesterday, prosecutors used biden s own words against him. they played portions of an audio book of his 2021 memoir i possessed a new superpower the ability to find crack in any to
congressional leaders, biden, quote which appears slower and has shown quote, signs of slipping. cnn s arlette saenz. is that the white house are let how is the white house respond? i well, alice and the white house is forced forcefully, pushing back on the report from the wall street journal accusing republicans who spoke to the journal of simply playing politics it s now the reporter say that they conducted these interviews over several months speaking without 45 people, republicans and democrats who either have been in meetings with president biden or had been briefed in about those meetings, the reporters also said that the majority, most of the criticism of biden in these meetings did come from republicans, including on the record, comments from former house speaker kevin mccarthy, who white house aides have been quick to point out, has actually praised biden s negotiating abilities in the past. now, the white house in a statement from a spokesperson, andrew bates said, quote
if talking to anybody who s trying to manage the immigration system, it is so frustrating to them how unclear all of the rules are, what a mess it is, how they are constantly being told one thing and that another thing happens, to watch congress squabble over this and blame each other while they continue to not fix it is very frustrating. if steve: has been broken for decades and just as with the previous discussion over what s been going on overseas, he is trying to fix it in a pragmatic way. just a couple of things on this. first of all, it s a perfect example of what we were talking about earlier, the point you made in response to ridiculous julian castro about the president s negotiating abilities. as a direct result of the president negotiating. he said i m going to put tariffs on unless you start doing something serious about immigration, everybody totally freaked out. he did it and it totally worked,
brian: so you agree when governor bobby jindal says we have to stop bag stupid party, you agree with that? no, i think he was stupid for using that term because that term is so obnoxious and so good for the other side that he should not have used that term because that term is going to be living now with the republican party for a long time, and they re going to have his face on television saying it for the next four years. i thought it was a really look, i speak ill of their negotiating abilities. i speak ill of certain things, they make mistakes. but i want to tell you, i thought that term used by the governor was a disgrace and he shouldn t have used it. i thought it was very demeaning to the republican party. whether you like the job they re doing or not, it s going to be used for a long time against the republican party. gretchen: but you don t obviously, because you do it yourself, you don t disagree with calling out republicans when you feel like they need to improve on