808 to 14000 welcome to the lead. Im Jake Tapper this hour, a new interview with a republican who says hes worried that hell be on the public end and these lists, if Donald Trump gets reelected and even musing about whether or not he might need to flee the country, blossom. Stunning failures by the us Secret Service detailed in a new report from the lawmakers investigating the first now to assassinate Donald Trump, an allegations that so many of those failures were not only called preventable, but The Agency has not done anything to address them in leading this hour, a brand new update just in to cnn as Hurricane Helene Gains Strength in barrels toward the united states with landfall expected tomorrow. Its a massive update lets get straight to Meteorologist Chad myers and Cnns Hurricane Headquarters and chad, you tell you tell us this is pretty serious it is. Now were up to cat four. We are category four Hurricane Making Landfall in that big Bend Area of florida. And i know theres not
Has the details from Los Angeles. Evan, what do we now . Well, this was a bit of a Surprise Gambit that we had in court here, just about 20 minutes ago here in Los Angeles Dana Hunter bidens attorneys asked for him to enter an unusual plea. Its called an Alford Plea where Hunter Biden would accept whatever punishment that judge doles out, but he maintains his innocence and instead of Pleading Guilty, hes maintaining his or is attempting to maintain his innocence. Of course, as expected the Justice Department does not does not agree with this and they objected in court to this request from Hunter Bidens attorneys and now the judge has called for break for a couple of hours while he considers what steps to take next. Now this is unusual as you pointed out as i pointed out, today, obviously was the first day of Jury Selection and this trial this is a Hunter Bidens second time going on trial earlier this year, he was found guilty on gun charges in delaware. And these charges have to do wit