flavored time boy the kind of hard news stories you only get here on cnn, who central, thanks for watching the little jake tapper starts right now hunter biden s gun trial just got deeply personal. the lead starts right now dirty laundry aired in courts in the federal gun case against the president s son. today, hunter biden s ex-wife and ex girlfriend took the stand. how testimony about a crack pipe is being used to help build prosecution s case plus massive news and donald trump s federal classified documents case in florida. the judge reshuffling the calendar, delaying hearings, putting a trial date even further in jeopardy. she s also allowing more voices to weigh in on whether special counsel jack smith s should have the case in the first place? with a punishing heats dome pushing temperatures into the triple-digits. a new report shows the world is on a climate wild highway to hell every single person on the planet to be alarmed welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper
what she described him as being very friendly charming. she said he was really chatty. and at one point though, he stepped out onto a balcony in this room to smoke, which she now realizes was crack it. she said he actually blew through that 30 minutes that he had purchased without ever getting that private tab he was asked she said if you wanted to extend the time he declined, but he did invite her to his hotel room. she also declined but he got her number and they met have a couple of weeks later which kicked off this year long relationship all paula reid outside the court in wilmington, delaware. thanks so much. let s go now to capitol hill were house republicans, as we mentioned, have sets a criminal referral for hunter biden and president biden s brother, james, to the justice department. cnn s manu raju joins us live. but mine and what exactly are the allegations against hunter and james biden by these? three house committees? yeah, the republicans aren t alleging that jam
behind closed doors when they came and they were deposed back in february as part of the impeachment inquiry into joe biden. specifically, they re talking about to false statements that hunter biden allegedly made. one james biden allegedly made. they allege that hunter biden testified to a quote entirely fictitious account about an apparent text message involving an interaction with a chinese businessman. also, they say that james biden said that his father did not meet with a biden family associated when they say that they have proved that he did meet with a biden family associate that apparently counter allegedly happened when do biden was not presently united states was actually the was a private citizen at that time. but in this statement put out by these three house committee chairman, they say hunter biden and joe biden made materially false statements and the oversight and the judiciary committee as demonstrated by the evidence presented in the attached referral, the nation sho
there is no proof he was on drugs. the very de he bought that firearm. hunter biden faces not only this trial, of course, but a federal tax trial in california scheduled from september and today while hunter biden was inside courthouse, republicans referred both him and his uncle, james biden to the justice department, a criminal referral alleging they lied to congress during republicans impeachment inquiry into president joe biden first, to the federal gun trial in wilmington, delaware. cnn s paula reid is outside the courthouse. paula, how significant is today s testimony as prosecutors begin to try to build their case will take when it comes to the two women on the stand today prosecutors have them testified to the jury about what they observed in terms of hunter biden s addiction, all his ex-wife did testify that she found a crack pipe in the family home in 2015, chose to testify phi that she never directly observed him doing