been proven at times to be a lie, proven at times to be consistently false, he s consistently able to make that and get republicans, his rivals to rally around that this is the top of the hour, 2:00 in new york city, and we are going to take a pause, just for all of us to take a breath and remind you of what s happening here donald trump is now inside of the courthouse in lower manhattan. we expecting him to walk down that hallway, where you see that heavy security presence. he is going to go into a courtroom for an arraignment we re told it s likely to be around 30 charges. we do not know what those charges are. we do not know if they re going to be read aloud in court. we do not know how many pages this indictment will be. but we know that donald trump by now, presumably, has been fingerprinted. and he is under arrest as we talk about the implications of this day, politically, neil cottier, let me ask you about the legal argument we make here, in some cases we ve already
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
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
approach. it s not looking at the totality of what needs to happen to be able to address are for concerns. when i talk to people, whether republicans or democrats, everyone wants and orderly process. but that includes making sure we take steps to be able to hire more immigration judges. we have only 682 immigration judges as a country and 3 million pending immigration cases those are tangible things where we can take addressed uveal to get rid of this backlog manages challenge. so what we deserve to have is a comprehensive approach, something that makes sure that we re not taking on the kinds of actions as well as rhetoric of donald trump there s a big story in the wall street journal that says president biden, according to democrats and republicans, who have met with him privately, is showing signs of slowing and slipping behind closed doors the interviews were with