a way on the line here. paula reid, thank you so much. gloria borger, and carrie cordillera still one day after a surprise visit on capitol hill, hunter biden is in california now set to appear in federal court on charges of tax evasion. we re going to take you there live. plus house speaker mike johnson facing a hard right revolt over the spending deal with senate democrats. i would be once again barreling towards a government shutdown? we re going to speak to a government supports a shut down unless they re major changes to water policy. and bill belichick parting ways with the patriots, and nick saban retiring from alabama. what comes next for these two legends of the game? we have that coming up, on cnn news central.
his lawyers have from this entire case, as a politically motivated and manufactured allegation. now trump says when you say don t go outside of these things, we have a situation where i am an innocent man. they are he s referring to the restrictions that the judge tried to put on any participation he may have. he said quote, i ve been persecuted by someone running for office, referring to the district attorney who did promise to investigate trump when she ran for office. he s insisting that i have to go outside these bounds. here he s making restrictions the judge wanted to put on him. i want to bring in our colleague kara scannell who is right next to me. carrie was in the court earlier for oral arguments. kara, you called it, you knew that trump couldn t get through the day without participating in some way. is a surprising? nothing in this trial has been surprising. it changes and it doesn t happen. it doesn t surprise me at all that the judge allowed trump to