Earned more than a billion dollars. Thank you for hanging out. Im omar jimenez. Cnn this morning starts right now. Good morning, everyone. So glad youre with us. Good morning, phil. Good morning. There was a big game this morning. So i thought it was going to be awesome to wake up at 3 00 a. M. And have an amazing game on. And then it turned out to be the most stressful two hours of my life. And i dont like it anymore. Arent you supposed to be reading for the show. Im totally prepped with womens soccer. Well see how that goes. A lot happened overnight. From politics to gio politics to the womens world cup, of course. Lets get started with five things to know for this tuesday, august 1st. Today could be charging decision day for former President Donald Trump and the federal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. That grand jury will meet just hours from now. And new this morning, Donald Trumps Political Action committee is almost out of cash. It began last year with m
to milwaukee to duke it out in the first presidential debate of the campaign, but several are sharpening their knives to separate themselves from the pack. tim scott is taking a different approach, touting his optimistic message of the future and focusing his attacks on president biden rather than his fellow republicans. ask if his strategy is making enough in-roads coming up. john: the president arriving in lithuania ahead of the high stakes nato summit, he will likely need to shore up disagreements among america s closest allies. sandra, vacation is over, we are all back. sandra: big welcome back to you, john. let s get right to it. sandra smith in new york, this is america reports. president is kicking off the trip with a visit to england where he met with the u.k. prime minister before appearing with king charles at windsor castle. their first meeting since charles coronation. john: his stop in london may be the easy part of the trip as the president s comments
hostages are out of harm s way. they re calling for a cease-fire. also breaking, ukraine s president in washington pleading for aid. are his hopes of getting a deal dead? this as another country is taking a pang ge from the putin playbook. and trump selling his mug shot as trading cards along with pieces of a suit he wore that day. now being accused of breaking the law and how it is paying off for trump. let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front, gaza s tunnels are being flooded. a u.s. official telling cnn this the israeli informed the united states that they are flooding some of hamas tunnels with seawater to flush ott the fi fighters and short tishcircuit infrastructure. they re flooding tunnels where they believe hostages are not being held. president biden could not say whether or not that is the case. i m not at liberty well, there is assertions being made that there s quite sure there are no hostages in any of the tunnels. but i don t kno
capitol hill yesterday as part of the republican inquiry into biden s family businesses. democratic congressman dan goldman says devin archer told lawmakers the then vice president s son would occasionally put his father on the speakerphone during business meetings. here he is. approximately 20 times over the course of ten year relationship hunter may have put his father on the phone with any number of different people and they never once spoke about any business dealings. he says, dan goldman that is, the conversations were casual and included chatting about the weather or just saying hello. but a source tells cnn, archer testified behind closed doors, that hunter biden did sell the illusion of access to his father to washington during these meetings and provided no evidence connecting president biden to his son s former
than that, and does not have to be the case. john: quite a scene, i guess the only thing to say was she was bowing so enthusiastically and pulling his hand so hard she nearly pulled him into a bow. but looked like he was doing everything he could to not go there. mr. secretary, great to catch up with you. thanks for joining us. appreciate it. have a good afternoon, sir. sandra: u.s. attorney in the lead of the hunter biden tax investigation is once again publicly contradicting the irs whistleblower about allegations the justice department is hindering the inquiry into biden s family businesses overseas. david spunt is live at the justice department on this for us. what can you tell us at this hour? sandra, we just got a letter from the u.s. attorney david weiss to lindsey graham, the third time david weiss has contradicted the irs whistleblower. gary shapley, the claims that