parents appreciated we have much more news and newark new central starts right now. lay about to start part laying out its case against hunter biden in federal court this morning. opening statements are about to start, any expect called to the stand including three romantic and i will not be intimidated. that s part of the message that attorney general merrick garland is about to send a republican lawmakers the ag fighting back in a new way today against the continued attacks against him. and attacks is department is out to get donald trump and the perfect example of why bring your kid to work day is a risky endeavour. dad says, smile for the cameras and the child hits it out of the park. i m kate bolduan with john bourbon, sarah sliders out today. this is cnn news central very shortly hunter biden will arrive at a delaware courthouse for opening statements in his federal gun trial. there are new details this morning about how prosecutors plan to use very personal testimo
great point 0.1 quick question. it s all seems to be connected to russia being banned from the olympics. if russia hadn t been banned from the olympics, do you think this would not be happening? i think that circumstances might be a little bit different, but i think this is also an opportunity to strike a blow it at french prestige, right did the host nation is highly tied to highly tied to the, the games and front near the geopolitical situation is really never been worse i discussed i talked about some earlier attacks. those actually happened before the war in ukraine, right? so the situation is as far different now. and there might make them even more likely to carry out an attack. yeah. john whole chris, it s great to see you. thanks so much for coming in. i had for us, there s a new threat also to shut down the government all in the name of protecting donald trump, the republican lawmaker make are pushing for this. we ve got more on that the