definitely had an impact on degrading and disrupting the activities of some of these groups. clearly they have decided to keep conducting those attacks. and now it s had lethal consequences for american troops. we will weigh a set of options. the president will respond appropriately. the attacks need to stop. what is the legal basis? the constitution, commander in chief, the self-defense of our troops. the president has authority that take the action he needs to protect our troops and facilities overseas under article 2. the president faces a great deal of political pressure here at home with the republicans, for example, calling for direct strikes on iran. does the president feel that pressure, and how much does that pressure weigh on his decision making? the pressure the president is feeling, if you want to call it that, is to make sure that we can continue to protect and defend our national security interests in the region. first and foremost, his mind is solidly,
the wire. the u.s. has 10 days before it could default on its debt. president biden returning to washington from an all important meeting with kevin mccarthy in the coming hours. it was a bountiful trip to the g-7 for ukraine s president heading home with military aid as the bloody battle for bakhmut reaches a critical stage. plus a historic mission, spacex and saudi arabia s first female astronaut into space. a message to the world live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. did to have you with us, with the g7 summit now behind him, he was president joe biden s back in washington to face his most pressing issue right now. the impasse over the u.s. debt ceiling. in the coming hours, president biden will meet yet again with house speaker kevin mccarthy to try and strike a deal on raising the country s borrowing limit. mccarthy says he had a productive phone call with mr. biden as the president was returning from japan on sunday. there is only about
jesse: hello, everybody. jesse watters along with judge jeanine pirro, jessica tarlov, dana perino, and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. it s the greatest economic system the world has ever seen: capitalism has lifted billions of people out of poverty, allowing us all to enjoy a better and more prosperous living standard than our grandparents. well, not under joe biden. but a woke san francisco democrat is now blaming capitalism for the homelessness crisis that is ravaging his city. dean preston represents the disastrous tenderloin district, a cesspool of open air drug markets, retail theft, and homeless encampments and report of the accounts for around half of the city s homeless population. he seems to think all of this dk is because of our free markets. i think what you are seeing in the tenderloin is absolutely the result of capitalism and what happens in capitalism to the people at the bottom rung, the biggest driver of why folks a
good evening. next for joining us. we begin tonight with breaking news. new federal charges against the president s son hunter biden. they have not yet been made public. we learned of their existence just before air time and do not know the details, only that in addition to being the second set of charges he is facing, anything to do with the president s son is potentially significant, all the more so during a presidential campaign. hear with the latest cnn legal affairs correspondent paula reid. pa paula, what do you know about these charges? good evening, anderson. our colleague evan perez breaking the news that the justice department has filed a new criminal case against hunter biden. we don t know the specific charges because the court documents are not yet public. just a few weeks ago, we broke the news that the special counsel appointed to investigate the president s son david weiss has been using a los angeles-based grand jury to gather evidence about hunter biden s
out front next, trump s courtroom campaign. the former president lashing out as he appeared at his fraud trial in new york. now he s preparing to take the stand in his own defense. former trump white house counsel ty cobb is out front tonight. federal prosecutors have filed a new case against hunter biden. details ahead. kamala harris s husband doug emhoff lashing out about anti-semitism and genocide. al franken is out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. trump s court campaign. the former president was in new york to attend his new york fraud trial today. he s been at that one a lot. once again seizing the opportunity to make this about the election. this is a political witchhunt. this is meant to influence an election. this is third world country stuff. this is banana republic stuff. i should be in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina. i should be city shouldn t be sitting in a courthouse. it s all a distraction even though he did choose to skip another deb