room. i ll see you tomorrow morning 11:00 a.m. eastern for cnn newsroom back 6:00 p.m. eastern minister for the situation room until then, once again, thanks very much for watching erin burnett outfront starts right now affect his sentence, as well as who was in that room. plus a secret new recording tonight of supreme court justice samuel alito. this is the former republican governor christie todd whitman breaks her silence about the man that she had publicly supported an introduced to the united states senate. does she now regret backing alito? and it s the hottest stock of a planet. a little known company forcing apple today to play catch up we have a special report. let s go out front and good evening i m erin burnett outfront tonight. the breaking news, former president trump, just wrapping up an interview with a probation officer. this is a first, never an american history has a former president had to sit down with a probation officer because the former preside
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
today closing arguments underway in hunter biden s federal gun trial i ll after we learned that the president s son will not testify in the case, why did the defense decide not to put him on the stand? a verdict could come as soon as today, plus former president trump does yet another thing. no former president has done before meet with a probation officer it s a standard part of the process ahead of his sentencing. next it s month we ll talk about what comes next and happening now, a high-stakes meeting in israel, the us secretary of state s sitting down with israel s prime minister pushing for a ceasefire after idf forces rescue four hostages in gaza. an array that reportedly killed hundreds of palestinians were following these major development i ve been stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central we start with breaking news, closing arguments are now underway in the hunter biden trial after calling three witnesses to testify on friday, the def
washington and this is cnn welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. this hour, the dramatic new video of the rescue mission we say four israeli hostages over the weekend showing the very moment to three men and a woman were found alive ahead. this brief moment of unity for those leading the charge and how has quickly turned the political upheaval for israeli prime minister netanyahu as he drives his government intact. plus a race to watch in nikki haley s backyard, south carolina s congressional this pick one, donald trump, lost his primary race in that area. and now he s endorsing a woman challenging know now he s endorsing congresswoman nancy mace, but she is being challenged he is donald trump s endorsement in nikki haley s backyard hurt or help? i ll ask her. she ll be here on the lead. the challenger. we start this hour with the breaking news. the jury in hunter biden s federal gun trial is done for the day after deliberating for about an hour. cnn s evan perez is outside t
former president trump was a steamroller in the white house, and it landed an insurrection on the steps of the capitol. if we can t shake our addiction to strongmen, to those utterly convinced of their own greatness, there will be many more like spitzer in positions of power posing even bigger threats to our fragile democracy crusaders wanting their portraits on the walls of history. every governor of new york has the chance to be immortalized in a painting that hangs in the new york state capitol, a self-directed monument to his or her own illustrious legacy. all of them are there all but two. the first served in the early 19th century and left no likenesses behind. the second.is eliot spitzer. there was testimony from a haley bind biden. she s her name is haley biden because she was married to hunter biden s brother sadly died. beau biden and then and then hunter went out with her. so she s the ex ex-girlfriend and the widow and i know she just she testified that whe