physicians mutual hi, marla signs at the white house and this is cnn it s wednesday, june 12th, right now on cnn, this one already about his guilty verdict drama in the desert. a maga republican in nevada snubbed by donald trump. now he s trying to fight back police in atlanta chasing a hijacked plus through rush hour traffic before making a deadly discovery on boards is pretty wild and senate democrats asking republicans to join them as they prepare for a vote on protecting ivf all, right 6:00 a.m. here in washington alive. look at the white house homes wednesday morning. good morning, everyone. and kasie hunt. it s wonderful to have you with us for the first time in american history. the child of a sitting president has been convicted of a crime. a jury in delaware finding hunter biden guilty on all three felony charges as members of the biden family, including first lady jill biden sat in court to hear it, read his father, president biden was not in court, but afterward, h
jason: we re back with tiffany smiley, she s a candidate for the united states senate from the great state of washington. it s fourth of july weekend. you and your family have sacrificed a lot for country. but share with others the story of scotty and what he went through and what this country means to him, to you and to your boys. yes, thank you, jason. you know, for me and scotty, we want to know in 10, 20 years that our three amazing boys who were all born in different cities across the united states, that they have a country worth losing their eyesight for. and that s why we re in this fight, you know? scotty lost his eyesight negotiating with a suicide car bomber in iraq in service to our country. but our family will never stop. we ll never stop standing up for what s right. scotty is also very much still a part of this campaign and our efforts here in washington state to get washington back on track,
jason: we re back with tiffany smiley, she s a candidate for the united states senate from the great state of washington. it s fourth of july weekend. you and your family have sacrificed a lot for country. but share with others the story of scotty and what he went through and what this country means to him, to you and to your boys. yes, thank you, jason. you know, for me and scotty, we want to know in 10, 20 years that our three amazing boys who were all born in different cities across the united states, that they have a country worth losing their eyesight for. and that s why we re in this fight, you know? scotty lost his eyesight negotiating with a suicide car bomber in iraq in service to our country. but our family will never stop. we ll never stop standing up for what s right. scotty is also very much still a part of this campaign and our efforts here in washington state to get washington back on track, so it s team smiley s. and we
fundamentally i hope people understand this is the reason that, a, we needed to get out of afghanistan, and b, we need to be much more aware of the limitations of military power to protect us from threats. i guess the last thing i would say is we do have to remember, you know, we d just had the attack on the airport. right. you know how vulnerable that target was and the threat stream was enormous in the morning leading up to that strike. and if there had been a car bomber you have all those people surrounding the airport. you would have had hundreds of casualties. so i understand the urgency, but it points out just how difficult these things are and why we need to be, you know, a lot, lot less willing to use this tool. so to that last point relative to this happening in the wake of our 13 u.s. service members being killed in that tragic attack, how much pressure might that incident have put on our leaders to do something about it? i mean, you can imagine the
but ms berman s is the only one to be proven. this is bbc news a reminder of our headlines. the us military admits a drone strike in afghanistan last month against a suspected car bomber killled ten innocent civilians including seven children. after australia, the us and britain agree a new security partnership france recalls its ambassadors to washington and canberra. in west africa, the trade in illegal, fake pharmaceutical drugs which can pose a real danger to public health has been a problem for a long time. but now, the independent intergovernmental body, the world customs organisation, is leading a global operation with local authorities to crack down on the trade. the bbc was given exclusive access to one operation in benin. hannah gelbart reports.