see the above-average temperatures well into triple to territory. all thanks to this heat dome that is suppressing cloud, allowing for maximum sunshine overhead and that means we bake underneath that heat dome triple-digit heat for palm springs, phoenix sacramento, and to las vegas. and guess what? it doesn't stop here no break, not even summer yet. >> i think i can ever remember when summer starts, but i'm just going to say not yet. here are already there. it's great to do, derrick. thank you so much. >> a, new are xena new central stress now what will donald trump tell his probation officer? they meet today, talk about are to store first for a former president, hunter biden's federal gun trial could go to the jury today. hey, and we could learn any minute while they're hunter biden will choose to testify and brand new trial data on a combination covid and flu vaccine. a first of its kind when might it be available? sara is out, i'm john berman with kate bolduan. this is cnn new sec the president's son hunter biden just arrived or federal court courthouse once again in delaware and the first-order of business and really the most anticipated order of business today is to find out if he will take the stand in his own defense. >> chord is not just minutes away from resuming hunter biden is facing charges related to a 2018 gun charge. >> he's pleaded not guilty. sorry, 2018 gun purchase. >> and he has pleaded not guilty. if he does not take the stand, then closing arguments may soon begin. cnn's evan perez is live outside the courthouse for us, evidence seems pretty stark either or today, either his legal team says it's going to get ready to take the stand or things really start wrapping up yeah absolutely cate we just saw a hunter biden arrived a short minute or a couple of minutes ago. >> he had a lot of family members around him, including the president's sister and brother. there's this is going to have obviously a full courtroom right now with family members offering his support offering their support rather, the defense has raised the prospect that 100 for biden could testify on his own defense, but this is a risky proposition for this defense the prosecution has already warned essentially that if he takes the stand, they're going to bring up a number of things, including his navy discharge allegedly for testing positive for drugs about a decade ago as well as his tax charges and the fact that he had admitted guilt as part of a plea agreement that fell apart spectacularly last summer. here in this very courtroom fence wants to argue, in part that he has been sober since 2019 and so that's part of what they would like to to bring to the jury. now, again, it's very at this point unlikely that this will happen. the risks are very high for hunter biden if he takes the stand but he has been very, very forceful in trying to do a very public defense of himself over the last few months against republicans and there is some feeling around him that he believes he is his best advocate. we'll see in the next few minutes whether the defendant takes it's a stamp. >> remind people of how things also ended on friday. it was even more, it was more emotional and personal testimony, even coming from biden's daughter right? >> namely, naomi biden testified on friday and really it was tearful. it was very powerful, emotional testimony and part of what she was brought here to do was to blunt some of the impact of the testimony of hallie biden, who is a hunters brothers beau biden widow, who he was also in a relationship with after the death of his brother and one of the things she told prosecutors, the most important thing she she brought to the until the trial was the allegation that she believed he was doing drugs, that he was addicted to drugs, and struggling with his addiction in october of 2018. now that's when he bought the gun. he bought this garden. and had it for about 11 days according to this case, according to prosecutors and that's what this case is about. prosecutors say that because hunter biden was addicted to drugs, that he lied on the government form that he used for this to fill out to buy that firearm. and they also say that by possessing it while he was an addict, he also broke the law. he is facing these three charges. again this hour. we're going to find out whether he actually takes the stand evan. >> thank you so much. it's great to have you there, john. all right. with me now cnn legal analysts, criminal defense attorney joey jackson. joey evan says extremely unlikely. hunter biden will take the stand. we could learn any minute if he doesn't, why not? >> because it is just the risk is too great, john, good morning to you. now, here's the way it goes. what you always want to do as defense attorney is prepare your client for that eventuality. how asking them questions, furthering your narrative, and then you mute that, mute them by cross-examining them giving them the pressure of what it would be like in the courtroom. but here's the problem number one, when you look to doing your cases of the defense, the first thing you look for is raising the spectre of reasonable doubt. >> the case becomes without your client testifying, have you raised that spectrum? you have to examine here. have they done that defense has shed a lot of light on at the time of this it's purchase. was he addicted then was evidenced presented to the court and to that jury with respect to what he was doing at that time? yes. prosecutors have shown that he was addicted in general. have they shown he was addicted them? the other issue is you're then attacked and cross-examination with collateral issues. what am i speaking up? it's not so so much that he cannot that is hunter biden get on the stand and advances narrative with respect to addiction, advances narrative with respect to the dark moments. but then you're cross-examined not only factually with respect to what the case is about, what you were doing, who you were doing it with the drugs you were having, you were ruining people's lives, but other issues you heard evan whereas speak to the issue of when he was in the military discharge, what does that have to do with it goes to your credibility. it's just not an advisable thing it changes the equation, puts too much focus on him and then final point, john, it then opens up this other pandora's box. what pandora's box, after you testify, guess what? prosecutors say, judge. i'd like to rebut that testimony. we're going to bring more witnesses. and it just gets too messy. leave it where it is. i think the defense has done a lot with respect to reasonable doubt, make your arguments to the jury, but then again, john, expect the unexpected that reasonable doubt seems to be over the issue of whether hunter biden was literally on drugs the moment that he signed that form, saying that he was not on or addicted to drugs, correct. >> so yes. now, what will happen is just to be clear, it's not even that the forum says that right at this moment, are you addicted? the defense is trying to really narrow the timeframe, saying prosecutors, you've shown our client was drug addicted for sure i think the fence will also say you're shaming him as a result of that. why we shaming an addict should we be up lifting, getting people? how are we really dragging people into katia milli eight them based upon this the defense is saying in the 11 days that he owned that weapon, have you demonstrated then that he's been on drugs, don't tell me about text messages about him sleeping on cars a day after another text that he sent with respect to him using show me someone who saw him using drug. can you do that? prosecutors? and if you don't, the defense will say it's not enough. the other issue jhanas you know, trust me because i don't know what i was doing at the time. he was in a deceptive state of mine. and as a result of that, you can't 20 seconds left, assuming that we're going to closing arguments shortly. the prosecution, though, knows that the defense will do that. so what are the defense prosecution said? i think what they do is they continue to lock him in. >> i think we're going to see in closing arguments the pictures of him. and really humiliating pictures and what he had in what those pictures in terms of paraphernalia, i think they'll 0.2 witnesses that talked about his addiction and et cetera. i think they'll say prosecutors that he knowingly knew what he was doing. he did it anyway, and that we're not here to shame anyone what we're here to do is to hold a person accountable who lives on the form. defense's narrative, john, far different than that, of course, what will ultimately the jury decide? i think will know soon and they could get the case by the end of the day. joe jackson great to see you this morning. thank you also this morning, donald trump has a meeting, a meeting with his probation officer ahead of his sentencing. >> that's coming next month. so this is standard procedure for anyone convicted of a crime, but it's absolutely anything but standard obviously, when it comes to the historic conviction of a former president, the meaning will help decide trump's punishment after he was found guilty of all 34 charges in his new york trial seen as john miller has new reporting on all this. john, we also know that trump's attorney, todd blanche is going to be present for this meeting. it's kinda leading me to wonder what's normal about this and what's definitely not normal. about all of this so it is not unusual for an attorney to ask to be present and when they ask, it's generally granted. >> but just about everything else is unusual. i mean, the probation department is going to want to go through what they call an intake process. now, the other day spoke to new york city's commissioner of probation, juanita holmes, who said she could not discuss the trump case or any specific case, but walk me through the process and what commissioner home set is the interview is family history, education, criminal background, donald trump will have to tell the probation department what they already know, which is he has three other open felony cases that are that are pretrial right now. employment history, he's worked for himself his whole life substance abuse, not an issue. they're medical condition financial status, living conditions. i have a triplex triplex spent out in a building with my name on it he may have questions for them. can i vote? yes. while on probation what are the conditions be when do i have to report? how often it'll be? >> a routine experience for the probation department on one hand and very strange on another it also we're talking about someone who is convicted, who has secret service protection as well. i mean, you done a lot of reporting on kind of the coordination that's necessary between secret service and all other forms of law enforcement around just the trial, around the trial. what does that how do you throw the secret service protection into all of this? what does that do well, for today, not much because it's going to be a virtual meeting via zoom or something like that. >> but the conditions of his probation the secret service, will be with him all the time the probation department could call them in as witnesses. if there's an alleged violation and i think one of the first things that's going to come up are a travel. if you're going to travel and by the way, if you're a presidential candidate, you're going to travel. you need the permission your probation officer. and number two, i don't live in new york. i mean, i have a building here in an apartment, but i'm a florida resident. can i get my case transferred to florida? i think that's going to be likely request and the answer is it can happen. one probation, one states probation can transfer to another state for supervision. if that's where the person lives, and then there'll be some administrative stuff such as a convicted felon in new york state they're going to ask him for his dna and he's going to have to give that they can do other things like unannounced home visits to check on his living conditions that probably would be unlikely in this case, but, you the rules will be the same for him as anyone else. >> john. thank you so much. always getting your insight on this all of these things is always so interesting and important. thank you. something so normal and also so completely abnormal about this whole thing. ever you just we've seen all along, but such stark the secret service could be called as witnesses to find out if he's violated his probation. just as the founders intended, you'd like to very like that. let's say the least this morning, secretary of state antony blinken traveling in the middle east as the political turmoil there reaches a peak a major us city partially shut down after it got him file large scale cyber attack overnight and it is like a battlefield, new details on a fire that was jumping from boat to boat inside i don't harbor devastating and sudden power of tsunamis. >> it happened in faraway lands and it's easy to think. it can't happen here if one hits home, will we be ready? 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>> hi gate, i think what we learned by by what the hostages have been saying during that weekend since they were rescued, is that once again, there's a very different mo, that hamas has in different cases of different hostages, some of them are in the tunnels, some of them are in houses of families who are affiliated with hamas, with hamas guards and according to the place that those hostages are being held they get different treatment and for example, no alga money was held hostage and rescued, said that she was held with the family. that was that had quite a lot of money. so the conditions were better than other hostages. and this family i used her as a cleaning lady and told her told her to clean the house, to clean dishes, to make food, which is something that we haven't heard from other hostages and i want to ask you about tony blinken and what his mission now is as he's gonna be landing because this is where kind of all of the focus will be quickly shifting. >> but also even before that jake sullivan, biden's national security adviser has been on since the operation and asked what the impact of the rescue operation would have on the hostage and ceasefire negotiations he basically said it's hard to say. they haven't heard yet from hamas and he doesn't know what are you hearing about this so i think it's interesting because in previous cases for example, when israel started its operation in rafah or in cases that are even before every time that there was some sort of a big blow hamas immediately said that it's freezing the negotiations. >> there's nothing to talk about and that's it. it did not say this in this case. so i think this is one interesting point. another interesting point is that three of the hostages were rescued, were men who are supposed to be released in a second phase of that deal in return for a big number of palestinian prisoners who are serving life sentences the fact that there, they were rescued took a lot of leverage from hamas and was a big loss for each sinwar because a lot of those prisoners that he wanted to release are people that he worked with together in prison so i think the message that hamas get out of this operation also is that every day that passes it could lose even more leverage. and therefore, maybe now could be a good time to cut a deal and what then do you think is a conversation between tony blinken and benjamin netanyahu? tony blinken and benny gantz especially after gantz just leaves the war cabinet. i mean, it is really new kind of reality that they're facing right now yeah. >> so blinken, obviously it's going to push again for the hostage deal. and this is mainly also in his visit to cairo that he just finished and another visit to qatar that is going to have later this week but i think that there are also so many other issues on the table, mainly how does the biden administration is going to deal with the curr