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anita: amazing that those four were rescued and in good condition. stephanie bennett, thank you so much or on that. also anti-israel protesters are gathering in washington, d.c. to mark if eight months since the start of the israel war as the white house is taking extra security measures. mike emanuel is live in lafayette square where this is all going down and, mike, are the crowds growing there? >> reporter: no doubt about it, anita. good afternoon to you. the crowd at this palestinian rally has a really grown rapidly here in lafayette square with next to the white house. organizers are firing up the crowd right now giving speeches, calling for a ceasefire in the middle east and calling on president biden to stop supplying bombs and military aid to israel. protesters are wearing red pledge to create a human red line surrounding the white house, chants of free, free palestine and biden, biden, you will see, palestine will be free and referring to the president as genocide joe. organizers or from answer coalition writing on x, quote, buses are now arriving ahead of the people's red line national mobilization to surround the white house for gaza. people traveled as long as 16 hours by bus to d.c. to demand an end to the u.s.-israeli genocide. a short time ago we spotted protesters using red paint to create a sign signifying the biden administration has blood on its hands. we've heard a number of people venting anger that the president saw said the invasion of rafah was a are red line and yet israel went forward with the military operation. these protesters say they are the human red line remembering those on the pal stint can side who have died in the past eight months of war. this is the third major pro-palestinian rally in washington since october 7th. secret service has taken additional precautions to make sure things don't get out of hand. president biden, of course, is not here today, but these protesters are clearly trying to send a message to him and u.s. policymakers today. aimee that? anita: yeah, no doubt about that. hopefully, it all stays peaceful. mike emanuel live in washington for us, thank you. griff: thousands of miles away french president macron is hosting pride preponderancen for a state dinner this hour, and that's where we find white house correspondent easter doocy live following all of it for us. hey, peter. >> reporter: griff, this is the event the first lady came back to france for after a going to delaware for a day and then flying back. it is the state dinner town the road -- down the road at the palace. so far everything today has been very is, very scripted by the french hosts. and they have really managed to stay on message, so the talk about the big international news if of the day which is, of course, the daring rescue of those israeli hostages in gaza, was very, very brief. >> i want to echo president macron's comments welcoming the safe rescue of four hostages that were returned to their families in the israel. we won't stop working until all the hostages come home and a ceasefire is reached. that is essential to happen. >> reporter: one very interesting moment came during a coffee if as a president biden told president macron, who publicly complains ab a u.s. trade policies, that he's been herring it from china's xi as well. the president if here is speaking very softly. if. >> my last discussion with xi, he -- [inaudible] >> reporter: a big white house goal this week is to show europeans that president biden takes seriously the threats russia poses to this continent if the u.s. and the e. e.u. don't help ukraine beat russia back now. >> you know, putin's not going to stop at a ukraine. it's not just uni, it's about a hutch more -- -yard line. all of europe europe will be threatened. we're not going to let that a happen. >> reporter: president biden says the events of today have been very moving to him because he says he is a student of french history. griff? griff: peter doocy live in paris, thank you. now let's bring in our political panel. with us today is the america first policy institute chief communications director marc lotter and capital council llc part nebraska jonathan kott. let's dig in and pick if up where peter was and mike emanuel. so thousands of miles separating, you've bot the president for the state dinner right now as we speak in paris while thousands of protesters yet again continue to put pressure on this administration. and we've seen this administration, perhaps, bend a little bit to their will and som if e progressive members of congress. marc, how much of a problem is this, and how fickle do you think these protesters are even though the president's across the pond? >> well, this is a political problem for joe biden. he is so weak, he's seeking re-election, and he can't aboard to lose any of his radical, woke with, progressive-left base. and so he's trying to thread a needle by supporting israel but not supporting israel, calling for a ceasefire while at the exact same time he wants to continue the fighting in ukraine and russia. and the thing about that pro-- protest, there are no maag baa hats there. that's -- maga hats there. that's joe biden's base telling him they have no. maria: for him. griff: marc has a good point. it's a live shot, it's growing, tens of thousands according to the answer coalition's expected number. a lot of speakers there. what do you make of that? >> i think these are fringe members of maybe the democratic party, but i think these people have a misguided approach to what's going if on over there. i wish today they were celebrating the release of the four hostages and maybe calling on hamas to stop murdering innocent people, and then we could actually get down to negotiating a ceasefire. but these people aren't. i would push back, i don't think joe biden's base is the progressive, woke left. joe biden won in 20020 because he was a middle of the road, moderate candidate. it's how he beat a lot of the progressives in the primary. i think when he returns there, that's where his actual base is, and it can grow. i think these people eventually will come back home because, as you said, there are no maga hats there. they're pissed now, in six months this war will hopefully be over -- griff: how? >> at some point israel destroys hamas completely and, hopefully, bring back the hostages like they did today. griff: to marc's point p what we saw i from mike emanuel's reporting is these thousands bussed in from other areas, and there are so many battleground states now, michigan, are from pennsylvania, nevada, arizona, you know? you don't think that you're looking when you look at that live shot, you're looking at a tens of thousands of lost votes for biden? >> i think some of them could be lost votes, but i think if they were smart, they would realize coming home to the democratic party this november if is probably the best place for them to have a voice and be heard. it's not going to be in the trump administration. griff: let's talk, marc, about the commonwealth of virginia. fox news poll, very telling numbers. we can show you with here. now, president biden won by 10 points in virginia in the last election. now tied 48-48. >> and it's not just the fox news poll. there was another poll out i think by roanoke earlier which had this thing in the margin of error. donald trump is blowing apart the democrat coalition, and it's because of joe biden's failures. doesn't matter your race or gender, you can't afford groceries, gas, and the southern border is wide open. so what we're seeing is the map growing in favor of donald trump. and even if he doesn't turn the commonwealth or win new york or new jersey, joe biden has to waste precious time and money trying to secure a state he should have in his column. griff: jonathan, what do -- if you were ad vising president biden's re-election team and you see something like this, what do you tell them? >> i think they have a plan that is going to give a contrast over the next six months when they spend a billion dollars on ads and when when donald trump is actually in front of voters every day like he used to be. donald trump has been off the seat, right? like, networks aren't covering him, he's not on twitter. everyday americans aren't seeing the day cross that was his administration front and center. they will be once he's the nominee and now that he's out of court, he can actually go out and campaign. when they see the contrast between joe biden and donald trump, i think the biden campaign is very happy with that decision come november. 23reu6 griff -- griff: well, here is what virginia's republican governor, glenn youngkin, had to say. >> even having this conversation today, i think, fully reflects the change in view about not only the strength that donald trump would bring to the presidency, but the weakness that joe biden has demonstrated. i do believe that a states like virginia that joe biden won by a lot back in 2020 are back in play. griff: jonathan, this week governor youngkin saying that the state's not going to accept the california emissions standard, going to let that sunset and move back to the national one because he says people are being force fed electric vehicles that they don't want in virginia. do you think the governor's got a point there? >> no. i think the president and his agenda is to move us to a cleaner economy, and he's doing it, and that's what the infrastructure act, that's what the i.a. was about -- i'm sorry r.a -- i.r.a. was about. look, it takes a while for these bills to get implemented. i'd also note the governor has vetoed a lot of other popular bills including rights to contraception and abortion. i think, again, that a comparison will be front and center in if 23406. griff: all right, before we run out of time, we've got to do the vp short list. we've got a handful of names, we can show them to you. you see burgum, rubio, vance, cotton, carson. i want to go to you, marc, because you've been behind the scenes with the trump folks about the -- it looks to me he, former president trump say he's going to announce at the convention. it seems like we're all going to be watching this moment like an episode of "the apprentice." >> i was governor pence and part of his re-election as governor at that time, and we're right on schedule. this is when the vetting materials came out, in may, june. he announced the friday, saturday before the convention. i think he's clearly on track to do that again, and that's traditional for candidates of both sides. and one reason is vice presidential candidates are expensive. they cost millions of dollars with staff, airplanes, building out all of their, all of the events you have to do. and the other issue, number one thing for a vice presidential candidate, don't cost your boss votes, help them get votes. the longer you're on the campaign trail, greater the chance is you'll make a mistake which costs votes rather than gets votes. griff: want to put your money on would have been them? >> they're all great. [laughter] they're all great. griff: final word, jonathan. >> my pick would be j.d. vance. i think he has the support of sort of the maga base, but, look, donald trump is a showman he's a tv guy. conventions have gotten a little boring, he's going to draw this out, he's going to keep our attention and, rightfully, he'll announce if it the first or second night of the cam -- campaign and we'll all be tuned in. he knows what he's doing. griff: and he's got all of us a talking about it, the best political panel in the country right now. [laughter] jonathan kott, mark if lotter, thank you very much. anita, to you. anita: now to this, the question over whether hunter biden will take the stand in his own defense remains on the table this weekend. his defense team says they will have an answer soon. madeleine rivera is live with more on what's still to come in this case. madeleine. >> reporter: hey, anita. hunter biden and his legal team are likely busy mulling over the pros and cons of having him testify. if he does take the stand, prosecutors have suggested they may call a rebuttal witness with. if he does not testify, things could move pretty quickly with closing arguments and jury instructions starting as early as monday morning. friday wrapped up an emotional day in court. hunter's daughter naomi was called up by the defense. she said her father seemed hopeful and great in october 2018, around the time that a hunter bought the gun at the heart of this case. she testified she never saw her father use drugs and saw no evidence of drugs in his truck which she borrowed to move into a new apartment in new york city. but the prosecution undercut her description of her father's optimistic demeanor revealing text messages between her and her father. naomi at a one point telling her dad, quote, i'm sorry, daddy, i can't take this. i just miss you and want to hang out with you, end quote. the defense's argument rests on the premise that a hunter wasn't actually using drugs when he bought the .if 38 caliber colt revolver that he owned for 111 days. while hunt i could double down on that position on the stand, some legal experts belief it's a risky move considering how open he has been regarding his drug use after a his brother beau's death. >> the problem is once you show up and you testify, you're under oath, prosecutors are going to go after a him and cross-examine him to try to get him to commit, to show he's committing perjury, and i don't think you want hunter biden on the stand talking about all the details of his life under oath. >> reporter: defense attorney abbe lowell said he would notify david weiss to tell them of their decision. anita: we will stay tuned for that. madeleine rivera live in washington for us, thank you. >> reporter: you got it. griff: a $20,000 reward is being offered for the safe return of a missing 12-year-old georgia girl. that's coming up next. ♪ ♪ ere's an easier-to-use at home skin tag remover, clinically proven to remove skin tags safely in as little as one treatment. everybody wants super straight, super white teeth. they want that hollywood white smile. new sensodyne clinical white provides 2 shades whiter teeth and 24/7 sensitivity protection. i think it's a great product. it's going to help a lot of patients. her uncle's unhappy. i'm sensing an underlying issue. it's t-mobile. it started when we tried to get him under a new plan. but they they unexpectedly unraveled their “price lock” guarantee. which has made him, a bit... unruly. you called yourself the “un-carrier”. you sing about “price lock” on those commercials. “the price lock, the price lock...” so, if you could change the price, change the name! it's not a lock, i know a lock. so how can we undo the damage? 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