editorial report. i m paul gigot. and we re counting down to cnn s presidential debate, the first of two, which is set to take place in atlanta on thursday. president biden is at camp david this weekend preparing for the showdown as a new fox news poll finds him in a tight the race with donald trump leading his republican rival 50-48 among registered voters. that s within the margin of error but represents a 2-point gain for the president from last month even as questions continue to swirl about the president s age and ability to serve a second term. is so how crucial is next week s faceoff to putting those concerns to rest? let s is ask wall street journal columnists and fox news contributor karl rove. if welcome, karl. so i want you to start out with that fox news poll. this would suggest i know it s the only one poll, but this would suggest with some other evidence that there s been some movement towards joe biden since the felony conviction of president trump. do you
paul: welcome to the journal editorial report, the federal trial of hunter biden is underway, the first son is facing three felony count stemming from his purchase of a gun in 2018. prosecution rested its case friday after calling hunter s ex-wife and former girlfriends to testify about his drug use during the period in question and introducing his infamous laptop into evidence facing a bruising election campaign remounts against donald trump. president biden told abc news he will accept the jury s verdict of his son is convicted. will you accept the verdict no matter what it is? president biden: yes. have you ruled out a pardon? president biden: yes. eric: let s bring in dan heninger, bill mcgurn, bill, how strong is the case against hunter? the case is very strong. three felony counts, lying about being a user, lying to a licensed gun dealer, possessing a gun illegally. he had 11 days, he would have more if haley biden hadn t founded and gotten rid of it. eric: yo
What he says in private conversations. He thinks this is an unfair attack against his presidency. But that these probes have expanded, mushroomed to different veins, different associates of him. There hasnt been any wrongdoing proven, of course, so far, but its kind of gotten hotter and hotter over the past few months and that frustrated the president. He also gets frustrated when these senators are trying to take some of his autonomy away. He wanted to determine the bill on russian sanctions and exactly what would happen. He wants to be able to fire mueller if he chooses to do so. He says he doesnt want to, but he says if i have that option, i might want to take it. And he says he doesnt like being backed in a corner. So you see him really getting frustrated by these different measures. The latter point about mueller, theres a sanctions argument, well get to sanctions in a moment. The latter point about mueller, the president said hes not going to fire mueller and theres a period indi
these challenges start moving up the court systems as they viewed this as a very clear challenge not just on the policy merits or the political merits. thank you so much. coming up, the lies told on fox admitted by fox chair rupert murdoch. plus, hear how the network chairman often gave the upper hand to the chief election liar himself. but first, on dangerous ground, the up close look at booby-trapped land that russians left behind in one town as ukrainian forces kick them out. and later, the battle stories from an american world war ii veteran soon to be portrayed in a tv show brought to you by tom hanks and steven spielberg.
even in part, you d thank them. you don t say, why didn t you bring me all the way out? majority leader chuck schumer and others agree with you, they pushed the president to make it $50,000, but they ll take what they have in front of them. sam stein, how much did the president grapple with this decision? he made the promise on the campaign trail, but he does know that it is not just republicans who have criticisms of this. it s a lot of working people, democrats, independents who feel like they re footing the bill. right. the question is, how much did he grapple with this? a tremendous amount of grappling. yeah. this was, you know, more than a year and a half in the making. continuous disagreements within the white house. the president getting frustrated at leaks around this stuff, hearing from different stakeholders, an intense, internal debate about what to do on the policy merits. sort of out of the blue, to a degree, a quick decision.