politics, family ties. president biden embraces son, both littered, literally and figuratively at first three felony convictions we ll look at the fallout for the first family and the biden campaign. plus david axelrod is here to talk about whether his party needs to do more to reach out to discipline republicans, especially so many progressives turning away from biden over the war in gaza and the rent is too high the cost of housing is still sorry. that s a big reason why so many americans feel badly about the economy, despite new state that overall inflation is slowing down i m on a rod when for dana bash, let s go behind the headlines inside politics first up, we re tracking the fallout of a hunter biden guilty verdict. present some biden is on his way to the g7 summit in italy this morning, after a last-minute trip to delaware last night to huddle with this family. the president s son was found guilty on all three federal gun charges. he is facing cnn s kevin lip da
l tough call. who are you if you look at the latest data? you re probably going to need a, lot of, those purple sprinkles. how this guy really knows his stuff cnn, breaking news and good morning. you were alive in the cnn newsroom. i m sure costa in washington, breaking this morning, hunter biden s defense attorney indicates that the president s son will not testify in his own defense. that means closing arguments could soon get underway in his federal gun trial. cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez joins us from outside the court. evan, how big of a risk would it have been for hunter biden to take that stand it s a big risk jam. i think that s the reason why you had the defense spent the weekend weighing the pros and cons of this one of the things that they wanted to do if he took the stand was to argue that and to tell the jury that hunter biden has been sober since 2019, and so that would perhaps in their view, at least go a little bit of a way of reversing so
that anyone could manufacture and sell these key component parts of an ar-15 to anyone without a serial number and without a background check. it could lead to an explosion in the number of ar-15s out on the street. reporter: to prevent the judge s words from becoming case law the government cut a deal. even though he admitted illegally selling ar-15s, he could go free and the entire case could go away if he shut down the business and obeyed the law for a year. the atf had been proceeding in a way that was illegal. thinge ing agency was rewriting rules. reporter: federal prosecutors argued the intent of the law was to keep it out of the hands ent them. he considers his client a victim
right. thank you, rachel. thanks, lawrence. one of the democratic presidential candidates has purchased advertising time on tomorrow morning s fox and friends. now, that will make sure that donald trump actually sees that democratic presidential campaign ad. we will show you that ad at the end of the hour, and we will be joined by the democratic presidential candidate who has decided to invade donald trump s tv watching tomorrow morning with that ad. and donald trump s new top cop enforcing immigration law is named cuccinelli. the cuccinelli clan is a relatively recently arrived italian immigrant plan that now has one of their members at the top of the enforcement of immigration law in this country. and he is rewriting the statue of liberty, and he is rewriting rules that allow people to stay
ad. we will show you that ad at the end of the hour, and we will be joined by the democratic presidential candidate who has decided to invade donald trump s tv watching tomorrow morning with that ad. and donald trump s new top cop enforcing immigration law is named cuccinelli. the cuccinelli clan is a relatively recently arrived italian immigrant plan that now has one of their members at the top of the enforcement of immigration law in this country. and he is rewriting the statue of liberty, and he is rewriting rules that allow people to stay in this country, and he seems to have no idea, no idea, what the cuccinellis and people like cuccinelli, with names like cuccinelli faced when they were trying to get into this country. they faced people like ken