the lead starts right now. this hour, hunter biden is going into court, donald trump is coming out of court, we are following it all. the lead starts right now. donald trump gets a second chance, he is allowed to speak at the closing arguments in his civil fraud trial. what you said and why a judge and then shut it down and one day after hunter biden s shop appearance on capitol hill, he is now back home in california facing federal charges. and now, the first lady, his mom, is weighing in. and a stunning rise in public officials targeted and dangerous swatting incidents, that s when hoax 911 calls report fake violent crimes to get a police response and possibly real police violence against innocent victims. i am going to speak with a republican who has faced threats and ask them what needs to happen for these cases to stop. [ music ] welcome to the lead, i am jake tapper. we start with the final moments of donald trump s civil fraud trial, playing out right now in a
americans can rest assured that our banking system is safe. did the government s actions actually make the system healthier? i ll ask democratic senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts.ollides plus, close encounters a russian fighter jet collides with a u.s. drone over the black sea. we know the intercept was intentional. we know the aggressive behavior was intentional. vladimir putin gets ready to welcome chinese president xi jinping at what could be a pivotal moment for the war while the top 2024 candidates no longer see supporting ukraine as a vital security interest. the greatest threat to western civilization today is not russia it s probably more than anything else ourselves. is the party ronald reagan now embracing isolationism i ll ask republican mike rounds of south dakota and a call for protest. former president donald trump claims he will be arrested and calls on his supporters to protest as he faces the possibility of an indictment in new york city
minutes every year to how much time she needs to spend on me but i strongly recommend more than two minutes in the makeup room. yes. i, mean i need a lot more minutes with every passing year. i am eventually gonna need them to start with the snowplow when they start. seeing them react under pressure to how we have not prepared for this at, all we had no idea, will pull it together it really is plenty in their hands. we work with very, very amazing people and working on the stress makes them value the. more congress not here tonight because she had to run off but i mean i could go on with, this it is like watching a sergeant at work and rushing is not supposed to be part of surgery except emergency surgery, obviously. we saw just give her an extra minute. someday, lawrence you and i we will get together and we will do a horror franchise where we show people what we look like. no, we want. no we won t. nope. not going to do that. nope. and we ll have it radar. nop
plus, russia s military falling apart. soldiers revolting against commanders calling themselves sacrificial lambs as the battle between russia s army and the private military wagner group spills out into the open. and hundreds of migrants trying to storm the u.s. southern border. frustration with biden s policies boiling over. this is the u.s. boarder you re looking at and we ll tell you what s happening there. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, bank crash. stocks of dozens of regional banks across the united states plunging to record lows today. the situation so volatile that trading had to be completely stopped, halted for roughly a dozen of those banks. here s just a few to show you what happened in the hours they were even opened for trading. first republic bank, 66% lower at one point. western alliance bank corp, 60% lower. pac west, 34% of its value gone. first horizon, about a quarter of its value erased. it was a head-spin
did somebody actually rely on these payments and lose money as a result? if we cut through all the bluster, this is one of donald trump s defense stronger points here. this is not your typical fraud case where somebody was ripped off or somebody made a representation to investors and the money was taken or even a bank case where somebody made a false statement, got a bank loan, and defaulted on it. what trump s team argued is these are sophisticated multimillion dollar banks, they did their own diligence, they willingly maybe as loans, they got repaid, and i got repaid with interest. legally speaking, if there was still fraud, if the numbers were vastly inflated, you could still hold up on some of the counts, including the count that the judge already ruled in the judges favor on. yet, thanks to both of you, we really appreciate it. as trump today uses a new york courtroom as a campaign platform. other republican candidates are actually campaigning in iowa