to tap into an authority that former president donald trump tried to use when he was president at something democrats decried and eventually it was struck down in the courts. but certainly this comes as biden in this trial trying to show he is doing more when it comes to border security at a time when republicans have tried to paint him as weak on the issue. okay. arlette saenz. thank you for the reporting from the white house thank you all for joining us this morning. i m alison camera radha, our next our of newsroom with wolf blitzer starts now you are in the cnn newsroom. i, wolf blitzer in washington. we re following the breaking news up on capitol hill right now, house republicans have been grilling the attorney general of the united states merrick garland. that s about to continue. merrick garland is being asked about supposedly spreading baseless let s conspiracy theories that have been going on. and the justice department is using alleged lawfare. this is what repub
news continues now right here on cnn happening now, breaking news, a jury was just selected and hunter biden it is federal trial, i m gun charges with opening statements now expected tomorrow morning. we re breaking down the legal issues and the political stakes in this precedented prosecution of the sitting president s child. also tonight, new evidence of the trump campaign profiting off of the former president s historic criminal trial and the trump camp reporting, it raised a combined total of 141 million along with the republican picking national committee last month in a huge boost in fundraising. and chaos erupts as a republican-led house panel grills, dr. anthony fauci about his role in the us response to covid with gop flame thrower, marjorie taylor greene going on the attack and refusing to address fauci as dr. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, a urine the situation room the skis cnn breaking news. let s get righ
Not just a friend, just a good guy, a friend for a very long time. Thats what the president said. And the two of course do seem particularly close in photo after photo. Here they are greeting the tesla ceo, elon musk, in the state dining room as trump signs an Executive Order about the oil pipeline industry. And this, trump speaking on the phone with vladimir putin, and who is there . Steve bannon. And then when they worked together in the white house, check this out, their offices, steps apart. In fact the only person who sat closer to the president of the United States than bannon was President Trumps soninlaw, jared kushner. Even the official chief of staff, reince priebus, sat farther away from President Trump. And of course as trump knows well from his real estate days, power is all about location, location, location. Slamming bannon, though, was only part of the white house operation today. The Press Secretary tried to rip the book itself and its author, Michael Wolff. Could you