and she s so amazing thanks so much for joining us this afternoon. it ll be sad to say goodbye to pat sajak, but you can say hello to jake tapper is the leader starts right now the themes of the 2024 race today, democracy and revenge, the lead starts right now starkly different messages from two starkly different men, president biden s warning about democracy on the world stage, while donald trump to gain much more personal approach, plus a dramatic turn in the hunter biden gun trial defense scrapping. it s witness list on some level, leaving one major question about the case, yet to be answered. and the judge presiding over one of the most consonant sequential cases in america described as isolated in an experience with judge aileen cannon is really up against as she takes on the criminal classified documents case against donald trump welcome to the lead. i m phil mattingly info jake tapper. it s friday. we start with our world lead and president biden today drawing on the
our panel, but he s all of you for joining us. i m crazy. how don t go anywhere seen in central starts right now cnn breaking good morning, everyone. and we do have breaking news. president biden, just moments ago speaking as he is sitting alongside ukrainian president zelenskyy ahead they critical bilateral meeting that they are now. that s now taking place right now. they re both in france as we know, the president has been there to mark an honor the greatest generation, the 80th the anniversary of d-day. and he has been making the connections of the threats to democracy and freedom back then and the direct line to the threats to democracy and freedom today, pointing directly to russia s invasion of ukraine as the example, let s talk about what the president just said though. first, we have seen and senior white house correspondent, kayla tausche. she s the traveling with the president. stick with me, kayla. let s listen first to president biden you so much as i said ye
president biden s message at normandy today freedom isn t free and democracy is not guaranteed. the lead starts right now world leaders take the stage marking 80 years to the de since d-day. but it is the current conflicts that are top of mind, ukraine s war with russia israel s war with hamas, both entering new territory today, one of president biden s top advisers, admiral john kirby we will join us from france plus steve bannon ordered to report to prison by july 1. bots donald trump s former chief strategist thinks he can fight this with time i m on the clock for an appeal all victory to maga. we re going to win this. we re going to win at the supreme court. and more importantly, we re going to win on november speaking of election day, now, less than five months out is the entire republican party ready to fall in line behind donald trump? i ll ask virginia governor glenn youngkin s, who will be here on the lead? welcome to the lead, i m, jake tapper today, world leaders
sanity with cortisone tan fur bug bites, poison an iv and other honoring their sacrifice while attempting to safeguard peace for the future. president biden in france commemorating the 80th anniversary of d-day, while potentially critical moments loom in the middle east and ukraine. and new charges for a suspect it did serial killer prosecutors charging rex heuermann in the deaths of two more women. but the latest development could change the police timeline of the murders expanding it by nearly two decades 40,000 man, those were the days, right? the market is on a losing streak and some people are pulling their money out. we re going to ask the financial expert, you should do the same we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central it is, the top of the hour and we re tracking the latest developments in gaza where an israeli airstrike killed dozens of people and injured a number of others at a school run by the unit
now that s a great idea, nailed it good morning. you were alive in the cnn newsroom, america hill in for jim acosta 80 years ago today, the course of world war and democracy changed forever president biden joining other world leaders at this hour as they mark this milestone anniversary of d-day, the allied invasion of normandy. you see there of course, the french president emmanuel macron, as well as ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy. this morning, mr. biden meeting with a handful of the last remaining us veterans stormed those beaches, are parachuted behind enemy lines. as the men today, they re all around 100-years-old, making this anniversary, especially poignant as a world pays tribute to this greatest generation the man who, fought here became heroes. not because they re the strongest and toughest job or fiercest although they were. but because they re given an audacious mission knowing everyone on the new the probability of dying was real. but they did it anyw