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