securing peace amid two major current international conflicts were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here. cnn news central right now, the jury and hunter biden s federal gun trial continues to hear testimony from a key witness. prosecutors just called the police officer who it s responded to a report that hunter biden s gun had been thrown away in a grocery store dumpster in 2018 before that, hallie biden, who was bo biden s widow, who then dated hunter biden after beau s death testified for hours describing how she found and got rid of the gun. she also went into detail about her own drug use while she was dating hunter biden, cnn s paula reid is outside of the federal courthouse in delaware paul catches up what s the latest here it s been quite a day here in wilmington. hallie biden just got off the witness stand and she has been by far the most significant witness for the prosecution because she was able to share her observat
president biden s message at normandy today freedom isn t free and democracy is not guaranteed. the lead starts right now world leaders take the stage marking 80 years to the de since d-day. but it is the current conflicts that are top of mind, ukraine s war with russia israel s war with hamas, both entering new territory today, one of president biden s top advisers, admiral john kirby we will join us from france plus steve bannon ordered to report to prison by july 1. bots donald trump s former chief strategist thinks he can fight this with time i m on the clock for an appeal all victory to maga. we re going to win this. we re going to win at the supreme court. and more importantly, we re going to win on november speaking of election day, now, less than five months out is the entire republican party ready to fall in line behind donald trump? i ll ask virginia governor glenn youngkin s, who will be here on the lead? welcome to the lead, i m, jake tapper today, world leaders
keep us posted throughout the afternoon. the battle for election delegates kicking into high gear today in the state of maine. republican voters have been kaw cu caucusing there for weeks and tonight we find out the winner. let s go to shannon travis where mitt romney and ron paul are campaigning today. so what s the feeling as to how these caucuses just might turn out? yeah, i mean the feeling about how they might turn out, ron paul seems to have a bit of an edge there. you remember, fred, that while the other candidates a few weeks ago were campaigning in florida, ron paul packed up his v-neck sweaters, packed up and headed north. he s got a lot of young supporters here and libertarian supporters here. not so fast. mitt romney is saying obviously he s a favorite son of new england, former massachusetts governor, and he came here with an 11th hour appeal. today he did something for the first time appearing at a caucus site and has been very involved in republican circl