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
close call, jake and even judge mcafee in his opinion, originally finding that there were some problems, but didn t require her disqualification. judge mcafee wrote, we are untethered to precedent here, which means we ve never seen a situation quiet like this. i don t personally believe that they made a strong enough showing of a direct financial conflict of interest as zach laid out in the trial court and judge scott mcafee and the trial court agreed he came to the same conclusion, but i do think it s significant. that judge mcafee found that there were significant issues with whether de willis s testimony was truthful judge mcafee said that in his ruling and he found that fani willis had made improper out-of-court enbo this case, including erracist and judge mcafee raised concerns about that, so it could also be that the court of appeals, it s concerned with those issues of the case. it may perhaps in addition to or perhaps beyond any financial conflict of interests, zach quickly,
let s start with this upcoming hearing how exactly is all this going to work? yeah. so at the end of june, jake, there s gonna be three days of court hearings before judge aileen cannon in fort pierce, florida at the federal courthouse. and one of the things that she s adding on the calendar is something that the special counsel s office asked for very recently to put a gag order on donald trump to limit his ability to talk about the law enforcement involved in this case. she s going to hear arguments on that. so that s now on the calendar, but jake, it gets a little beard with what else she s going to do. and that s not just me saying it. that s what every lawyer i have talked to in the past 24 hours about what the judge is doing here has been saying, including people close to the trump team, she s giving an aisle full day and a half now for there to be arguments over the legality of this special counsel s office is jack smith, a prosecutor who s able to even bring a charge in feder
on my body. i take kunal term wreck because it helps with healthy joints and inflammation support why cuno has superior absorption compared to regular turmeric kunal, the brand i trust i m alex marc board in washington and this is cnn we re back with our breaking news, a georgia appeals court has indefinitely paused that georgia election subversion case against donald trump cnn s zachary cohen s back with me along with federal prop, former federal prosecutor elie honig. elie what is the significance of this decision? and isn t normal? well, jake, first of all, as a practical matter, this means that the chances that this case gets tried before the 2024 election have gone from low to essentially zero at this point, the court of appeals, what they ve done is they ve granted the appeal of the defendants, donald trump and several other defendants motion to disqualify the da fani willis based on conflict of interest because we had a long hearing and try a mini-trial about this a few mont
going back over text messages that have already been asked about yesterday. but when his ex-wife took the stand, i was in the curve from jake. they were sitting up straight, they were leaning and so far i could barely see the witness on the stand now, she was not on the stand for very long, but once the girlfriend got up there and she started testifying about these luxury hotels they were in the sketching drug dealers she would encounter these fancy dinners. i mean, they were wrapped, they were very attentive to her testimony, which is good because her testimony about the fall of 2018 could prove to be critical here. and that girlfriend that ex girlfriend, zoe casten, was asked how she met hunter biden, presumably prosecutors hope this story, this tawdry story bolsters their case yeah, this tells you kicked off her testimony explaining the origin story of their relationship. she testified that she met him in late 2017 at a gentleman s club in manhattan. she said she was just about