By a convicted felon, and possession of a weapon with an obliterated serial number. He has an extensive criminal history including possessing a weapon of mass destruction, a machine gun. Just Yesterday Routh was able to get within 500 yards of mr. Trump, armed with a semiautomatic rifle, just two months after the former president was shot in another attempt on his life. All that is raising big questions about the level of security around the former president. Hes not the sitting president. If he was, we would have had the entire Golf Course surrounded. Because hes not, security is limited to the areas the Secret Service deems possible, but the Secret Service did exactly what they should have done. They provided exactly what the protection should have been, and their agent did a fantastic job. Mr. Trump was unharmed after the Secret Service spotted the Rifle Scope hidden in the bushes while trump was on the Golf Course. This was in the perimeter, the bushes on the perimeter, the agent o
this is america s late news, fox news at night. and breaking tonight, president biden appears to have made a key campaign decision instead of running on his record the president is choosing to villainize republican voters accusing trump supporters of being enemies of the state and the media has his back calling trump a monster, a dictator and calling republicans a cult. the senior national correspondent kevin corke is live in dc with the biden campaign s latest controversial comments. good evening. reporter: evening trace, critics are calling the president s rhetoric dangerous and divisive saying it proves when he famously said he d bring the country back together he was lying. and now here s the plan say analysts. with low poll numbers a teetering economy soaring food and gas prices, not to mention a border crisis and multiple international conflicts that are costing american taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars they still say it s smart politics to focus on the so-ca
welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. this hour, the white house is lamb basting members of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu s cabinet. specifically two right wing extremists who are calling for the ethnic cleansing of tony bl some are wondering if the netanyahu administration will have to choose between extremists and the biden administration. and a federal appeals court, a closer look at abortion since roe v. wade was overturned. we have a brand new court filing from donald trump. this time he s going to the u.s. supreme court to try to appeal the decision made by the colorado supreme court to remove him from its 2024 ballot for engaging in insurrection. let s get right to cnn s paula reed who is here with me. paula, i know you have a big stack of papers that you just printed out, but what can you tell us about this appeal? two weeks ago, the colorado supreme court removed trump from the ballot. that decision is on hold, because previously, the republican p
sites used by iran-backed mil militants. the pentagon says it s payback for attacks on american troops who are increasingly being targeted in the region. here s cnn s pentagon correspondent oren lieberman. reporter: rising tensions in the middle east with u.s. fighter jets carrying out a series of strikes in iraq against taiib hezbollah. mourners leading a funeral procession through the streets of baghdad as u.s. central command said the strikes likely killed a number of militants. president joe biden ordered the strikes after katayyib hezbollah, recognized by the u.s. as a terror organization, claimed responsibilior an attack clurring three u.s. service members, one in critical condition. the national security council said the president places no higher priority than the protection of american personnel serves in harm s way. the united states will act at a time and in a manner of our choosing should these attacks continue. u.s. forces in iraq and syria have been targeted a
inbar hyman died while being held captive by hamas. her family says she was a gifted artist, full of love and joy for life. let s go straight to alex marquardt. prime minister netanyahu just spoke about all of this. obviously just the devastating news about the tragic killing of these hostages, it must be reverberating all across israel. what more can you tell us? it really is. it s being deeply felt, and prime minister netanyahu expressed what so many israelis are feeling, that these men were so close to freedom after more than two months in captivity, they were, as netanyahu said, we are so close to embracing them but he went on to say, we cannot turn back time. now, perhaps notably, prime minister netanyahu did not take responsibility, while his defense chief did say that the military is responsible for this. prime minister netanyahu emphasized that he believes it was military pressure, the military operations by the idf in gaza nathat got the first rod of hostages out,