trump wins. so i think think that we have to reach a conclusion as soon as possible. it s going to be a close race. should he step aside? at this point i think he has a strong campaign and a strong message to voters. more mixed responses on capitol hill about president biden s candidacy as the list of democrats calling for him to step aside continues to grow. we ll have the latest on that in just a moment. meanwhile, the president will try to calm fears about his mental fitness for the job with a news conference today, an event that could determine the fate of his campaign. and this all comes as the president has been meeting with world leaders at the nato summit to shore up the alliance s commitment to ukraine and its defense against russia emphasis invasions. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, july 11th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. it is a big day, and we will begin here. president biden will face-off lat
fox news alert. we begin with continuing moment by moment coverage of day eight of former president trump s new york criminal trial. this is the faulkner focus. hello. happy friday. we have a lot of news packed in for you this hour. court got underway last hour. a loss hat gone on so far. david pecker ends how he started on the witness stand. right now trump s team continues their cross examination. pecker to remind you is the former ceo of american media. his testimony this week mostly focusing on a quote, catch and kill scheme to buy stories about his then friend donald trump without publishing them effectively keeping them hidden. atactic he used for other celebrities, too. separately bragg s team accused former president trump of violating his gag order four more times. that s in addition to the ten claims already made, by the way. prosecutors meantime want the judge to fine trump and hold him in contempt for every one of those. a hearing on the gag order is set for thu
millimeter mortar rounds landed inside the u.s. embassy compound in baghdad. gillian: iran-backed forces hit 75 times in the last two months. we will bring you developments as they come in. my son has done nothing wrong. i trust him, i have faith in him. my son did nothing wrong. i did nothing wrong. did not do a single thing wrong as everybody has investigated. one single bit of evidence, not one little tiny bit to say anything done was wrong. john: well, president biden has defended his son for years, but now new legal trouble has emerged for hunter biden. nine federal charges for alleged tax crimes. good friday afternoon to you, i m john roberts. nice to spend it with you. gillian: you as well, john. gillian turner in for sandra. this is america reports . three of the nine charges are felonies that carry up to 17 years in prison if convicted. according to the indictment filed in california by special counsel david weiss, hunter failed to pay nearly $1.5 million in
pause in the war. yesterday, hamas released 24 hostages while israel released 39 palestinian prisoners. and new video is showing dramatic reunions on friday, like nine year old ohad wound or. his mom grandmother ruth e. coming face to face with their loved ones after being held captive. relatives are saying that the former abductees are doing as well as can be expected. what is a good shape for a nine year old after being in some prison cell for nine months? the way i see is, the doctor said that they are exactly where they should be, under the circumstances, okay? so, we have to give them time, of course. but we are optimistic, a lot of love and a lot of patients, you know? recuperating and coming to terms with the new reality that has happened. indeed. well, the ron asher and her daughters, aviv and roz, they were also released and reunited with their loved ones, while relatives of the am still being held or questioning widespread global protests in support of palesti
he s immediately banned from competing in triathlons which he s taken up since retiring from bicycle. he said i have been notified usada intends to dredge up discredited allegations dating back more than 16 years to prevent me from competing as a triathlete and try to strip me of the seven tour de france victories i earned. these are the same charges and same witnesses the justice department chose not to pursue after a two-year investigation. these charges are baseless, motivated by spite and advanced through testimony bought for and paid for by promises of anonymity. lance armstrong has never tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs before, but the doping agency said they collected blood samples in 2009 and 2010 that were, quote, fully consistent with blood manipulation, including epo or blood transfusions. what do you make of that? first of all, i don t think saying you ve never tested positive as an athlete really means anything. we ve heard that with marianne jon