i m okay with it. sorry see you in a week. good morning. you re going caitlin s gone back monday . welcome to cnn this morning. we re glad you re with us on this friday. caitlin is off. let s get started with five things to know for this friday, march 24th overnight, significant breaking news the us launching strikes in syria. after an american contractor was killed in a drone attack. there are five other u. s. service members wounded. the pentagon suspects it wasn t iranian affiliated drone. developing news soon a top attorney, though for donald trump said testified today before the grand jury in the classified documents investigation. the new york times reports that evan corcoran is not intending to plead the fifth utah banning kids under 18 from using social media unless they get their parents permission. it is the first state to enact this type of law today, the united states and canada announcing a deal to turn away asylum seekers at their border, president biden set to
starts right now. today in d.c., national mall expected to be flooding for march for israel. call for ceasefire in gaza. fuel has been cut off. president biden will jetted off to crime-ridden san francisco ahead of face-to-face meeting with president xi. you clean up your house. it was obvious they were cleaning because of optics and not security. donald trump jr. testifies in the fraud trial for former president donald trump. james is beaming and glaring. the protesters. wedge of marchers pusheds into a line of officers in riot gear. officers push back and upon respond with teargas. ainsley: wokeness backfires. many say no thanks to macy s parade many say they have had enough. todd: begin our final hour with this, happening today, 100,000 plus will gather at the national mall to march for israel. ainsley: griff jenkins joins us from the national mall, what is going on? griff: it is a big event. let me give you a look, you can see the capitol thr
down. the united states and nato and a coalition of more than 50 countries standing strong with ukraine, we will not walk away. that was president joe biden pledging not to walk away from defending ukraine as he commemorated the 80th anniversary of d-day. in this next hour biden will meet with ukraine wherein president volodymyr zelenskyy in paris amid russia s ongoing aggression and tensions over the pace of military aid, and biden then later delivering a major speech on democracy. plus we now have a date when israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will address congress as a growing number of democrats and the biden administration have become critical of israel s ongoing handling of the war. and steve bannon has been ordered to report to prison to serve his contempt of congress sentence. we ll discuss why his lawyer brew up over the ruling and how bannon himself responded. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, june 7th. folks, we made it to fri
hallie biden, who s the widow of hunter biden s brother, beau, testified yesterday, describing to the jury the dark years after her husband died of brain cancer back in 2015. hallie biden, who had a relationship with hunter following her late husband s death, described how she started using drugs after hunter introduced them to her and how hunter was sometimes in denial about his own addiction. she also testified about testified about finding his gun in his car. prosecutors are expected to rest their case today. the defense says it may call two or three witnesses, but hunter biden s defense attorney says they have not yet decided if hunter will testify in his own defense. hunter biden faces felony charges over whether he lie on a federal gun form in 2018 that asked him if he was addicted to drugs. he has pleaded not guilty. first lady jill biden plans to attend court today in wilmington since she has no events in france following yesterday s
evidence, right? we put together pieces of reporting based on what what witnesses have gone before the grand jury have told us and our sources across this investigation. it s certainly possible once you start turning over rocks. you never know what you ll uncover right. they have looked into this issue of potential bank fraud or tax fraud. and he had the former president has not been charged. his organization and one of the executives were charged and that so we ll see and it s not even clear that they re going to move forward with a vote on an indictment. we know right now they re regrouping. they re trying to assess how they re going to move forward. it s a great point, because that was that was what they were looking at the first time around under five vans and then walked away from it, but we don t but we don t know what s happening behind closed doors right now. the other thing, let s get to these classified. many things. let s get to these classified documents because you have th