The next hour of cnn this morning starts now. Good friday morning. We are watching Hurricane Hilary this morning, a powerful category 4 storm as it barrels towards the west coast. It is supposed to weaken. Thats good news, by the time it reaches the u. S. It is expected to bring heavy rain and maybe flooding to the southwest over the weekend, as we learn fema is running out of money for Disaster Relief after an historic year of disasters. One of Donald Trumps close allies and codefendants was at the Capitol On January 6th with Conspiracisy Theorist alex jones. President biden about to hold summit at camp david to figure out how to counter the looming threat from china and north korea. National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby will join us live to preview this highstakes meeting. This hour of cnn this morning starts right now. Developing this morning, Hurricane Hilary a category 4 storm rapidly intensifying and on its way to the west coast. It is expected to weaken by the time it r
who are celebrating. amal evolve she. we begin this hour wit confirmation of one of the man major lies that the former president told the america people this time regarding his taxes. following a years-long legal and political saga be house weight and mean committee was finally able t secure donald trump s ta returns. they voted to release them t the american public this pas week despite his insistent ally s donald trump s tax returns wer not under audit when he ran fo president the first time the irs did not audit th personal tax returns of donald trump during his first two years in office. this is an important point it s interesting because besid being one of the forme presidents publicly stated reasons for not releasing hi tax returns. the irs has a program mandatin the quote mandatory review o the presidents individual ta returns. that protocol was followed for presidents barack obama and jo biden. dir us did finally follow it own rules of the forme presidents third year
a commercially available lock or whatever lock they had on it, we needed it, no one is being charged with a crime? i don t think that i don t think all of that will happen. i don t think that he will say anything about who will or will not be charged with a crime. i d just be surprised if that conclusion has been reached at this point. i also think that he will if he does go down this road he s going to address why a search warrant was necessary. it may not be in detail. i don t think he ll do anything to out any particular source or sources they had. but i do think that if he addresses this he has to address why they proceeded by way of search warrant and couldn t trust a subpoena to be the mechanism that was used. and then i think he s going to really assure people about the rule of law, about the system that s used, about the probable cause standard, about what a court needs to do, that it s not just the justice department, and assure people. and i think in many ways
988 and press one for the veteran in this crisis hotline is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and there are folks their eagerly waiting to offer help. thank you so much for watching the lead with jake tapper starts, right? now. closing in on closing arguments, the lead starts right now we re less than 24 hours away from the prosecution and the defense making their final pitches to the jury in donald trump s hush money cover-up trial, how strong is the case going into? this final phase? a panel of legal experts and a former new york judge will join the li plus a tragic mistake. that s what israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he s calling the military strike on a refugee camp in gout and rafah, gaza authorities saying it killed dozens, israel insisting its forces, we re going after hamas leaders killer tornadoes at least 21 people dead after devastating storms tore across the central us over the holiday weekend. that s severe weather. now, heading east may disrupt
annual obligations and commitments we are willing to make to one another. nobody is talking about the need for an asian nato. i think it s important to remember, phil, that five of our seven of the united states, five of our search treaty alliances are actually in the indo-pacific region. so we already have a vast network of alliances and partnerships that preexist. what the president is really trying to focus on these two and a half years is shoring them up and revitalizing them because they had not all been treated with the appropriate amount of dignity and respect by the previous administration. you mentioned north korea. i want to ask you about the u.s. soldier who walked over into ran over into north korea, travis king. we heard a north korean version event. my primary question is, from the u.s. side, given the emphasis had administration put on getting americans detained in foreign countries back, could you view travis king in a similar regard given the fact that he went over