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
was in a car crash in 2018, a fatal one. prosecutors are using these texts to set up a story of how a new jersey businessman, joseph uribe, would eventually brought hi menendez with a mercedes benz. this vallow s testimony yesterday that the fbi was surveilling senator menendez at morton s the steakhouse in washington, dc. that s an expensive steakhouse here in dc, right off l street. i think it s whereby menendez, attorney revealed a menendez would frequent eating there excuse me, about 250 nights a year that s a lot of stake. menendez was asked about this when entering court this morning hey, good morning. your body talked about morton a great place. it s a great steak house. put that on your yelp review. morton s that federal corruption trial also impacting our politics lead on tuesday, three-term new jersey democratic congressman andy kim
easily won his party s nomination for the us senate seat, currently held by senator menendez kim, one roughly 74% of the vote. if p wins in november, he would become the first korean american ever elected to the united states senate and hear what his now it s congressman andy kim. congressman. thanks so much for being here. congratulations on your victory. you were the first democrat in new jersey for call to call for senator menendez to resign after he was indicted senator menendez it said he will not run for reelection as a democrat. but on monday he filed to run for reelection as an independent in a statement he said, quote, it does pleases me to have to go this route thanks to overzealous prosecutors, but i will do what must be done to continue to uphold my oath of office for my constituents. unquote. so it s not clear if he s going to stay in the race, if he s convicted. but but what is your reaction to him filing to run as an independent loci as he said, his oath of office, i too
republicans and democrats who either participated in meetings with biden or briefed on them contemporaneously, including administration officials and other democrats who found no fault and the president s handling of the meetings, most of those who said biden performed poorly where republicans, but some democrats said that he showed his age and several of the exchanges unquote i m not not sure when the last time you spoke with president biden, but what s your reaction but i certainly know my experience it on somebody that work with i work at the white house when he was vice presidents in a lot of experience engaging with them, you know, ten years ago, i have encounters with him here in this work. it s not every single day hey, but my encounters with him, he s somebody that s been very on top of the work that he s been doing. he showed a lot of of mastery over the issues that we were dressed discussing, especially a lot of foreign policy issues, which is something that i work on a lot