white house is expected to brief shortly and will likely face a lot of questions about hunter biden s art dealer who is right now speaking behind closed doors. that is happening with lawmakers today. the deposition before the house oversight committee is part of a larger investigation into the biden family business dealings. john: they came to hear from the soho gallerist, who has featured things from the first son in at least two shows. we will ask what was learned today coming up. this indictment of the administration s attitude toward public disclosure and toward full transparency. there s just a lot we need to know and frankly, there s a lot that our enemies are noticing about our lackadaisical attitude toward the chain of command. i can t find anyone to tell me what was wrong and how ill he was. was he sedated, was he under was he unconscious. sandra: key questions at this hour as just a short time from flou we will now we will hear from pat ryder, the first br
and i thank you. good to be back with you on this second hour of msnbc reports with jose diaz-balart. it is 1:00 eastern, 10:00 a.m. pacific. i m in today for chris jansing. what happens today in a d.c. courthouse could be one of the most important days yet for the former president. donald trump s lawyer facing off against jack smith s special counsel team about the durability of trump s presidential immunity argument. it is now in the hands of three judges, but could this case as trump s lawyer put it open pandora s box? a president has to have immunity. and the other thing is i did nothing wrong. and the two top figures in this case, special counsel jack smith and judge tanya chutkan have now both been victims of swatting. what does that mean for the safety of public officials as we head into a busy 2024? plus, the pentagon s investigation into secretary of to hide his hospitalization from even the white house as more lawmakers on capitol hill call for his resignation.
also on the programme. the latest developments in the middle east. including the funeral of a hamas deputy leader in lebanon. thousands of people were there. prince andrew and bill clinton are named in files relating to sex offenderjeffrey epstein. we ll look at what we ve learnt. and ai terrorism, stethescopes and keyboard keys. all in our weekly look at artificial intelligence ai. decoded is coming up. plenty of elections around the world this year. now know a bit more about what could be happening here in the uk. rishi sunak says the general election is likely to happen in the second half of this year . he didn t rule out it happening earlier but says his working assumption is later this year. opposition labour party leader keir starmer says sunak is squatting in downing street for months on end . here s our political editor chris mason reports. can i welcome to you this morning, rishi sunak, the prime minister? mansfield in nottinghamshire a town the conservatives
alexey navalny found, the jailed russian opposition leader who had been missing for two weeks suddenly turns up. we ll show you where he is, and what his legal team is saying without the siberian penal colony where he sing with kept. and migrants are making their way to the uv index and antony blinken with his comments. and many are skipping their drugs to indulge in their holiday favorites. we ll talk to an expert if that s a good idea. and we re following these developing stories all coming in here to cnn news central. vladimir putin s most favorite critic is found alive in a siberian critic after the questions of his whereabouts. he missed two court appearances but nalvany s lawyers saw him in a remote penal colony and he s doing quote, quite well. known as the polar wolf, the prison is some 2,000 miles from where nalvany had been held before. his year long s protest of putin was a film and hbo documentary that won an oscar. and we have the latest now from london.
He explained to cnn why he decided to leave new york. This is a quote from him. He said, its just feeling that it is my duty, its my calling. Of course, he is one of many of the reserves to have join up to fight, and go with their country, following this devastating attack from hamas on saturday. We will continue following, it all here on the source. Thank you so much for joining me tonight. Cnn news now with abby philip, starts right now. There are the sirens, going off. [sirens] im just gonna step all the way slightly, so that we can try to get our camera, and make sure that we have a little bit of cover here. [sirens] but again, this is just constant, every ten, or 15 minutes it seems, you hear the sirens, and you dont have a huge amount of lead time, honestly, to get to a shelter. Strikes are underway, at this hour, after a bloody and fiery day of retaliation in the war between israel and hamas. Israeli troops right now, amassing near gaza, for what is promising to be an unpreceden