White house, which the president should be coming in shortly. Griff. Thats right. Lawrence. William. Pete. Good morning. And i think we can take you maybe back to that live shot of Marine One sitting in rehoboth beach, delaware. Thats where any moment now we expect President Biden to board that for about a 55 minute flight. He will be flying back here to the White House, where hes expected to join Vice President harris in the Situation Room for a meeting with the u. S. Hostage negotiation team. He was expected to depart promptly at 8 00. Obviously, its a few minutes after. Thats why were keeping eyes on it. The meeting scheduled in the Situation Room, expected to begin at 915, for the team to try and find ways to secure the release of the remaining 101 hostages. Now yesterday, President Biden released a statement following the killing of the six hostages, saying this, quote, it is as tragic as it is reprehensible. Make no mistake. Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes, and we will ke
how can you not feel any sympathy or any empathy towards them like that? i am not going to worry about people that their only worry in life is to be re-elected. so, no sympathy, but he said he does not believe that people should have gone in. by the way, he was not there, so that will be one of the things the defense he was not there on january 6th. he had been told not to come in because he had been arrested for something else, a judge told him to stay out of washington, d.c.. thank you very much. see you in an hour. appreciate the double duty today. cnn this morning continues right now. let s finish this job. i know we can because this is the united states of america. there is nothing, simply nothing we cannot do if we work together. there you go. good morning, everyone. top of the hour. glad you are with us on cnn this morning. he is running again, president biden making it official this morning. plus, the united states considering sending troops into sud
the bureau seized his passports. cbs anchor norah o donnell tweeting according to a doj official, the fbi is not in possession of former president trump s passports, trumpet accuse the fbi of stealing it, three passports during the search of his mar-a-lago home. the orangemen is forced to correct the record with his spokesman posting the email that backs him up, proving the agency removed his travel documents from mar-a-lago and would be returning them. media is also ramping up their good versus evil game. and i would say to our friends who are watching us today, vote as if your life depends on it, if kevin mccarthy threatened the possible next speaker of the house, threatened an attorney general, and says, you d better lay off trump or else are we going to survive this? i don t know. the hopeful part of this is that america does have resilience and we do get over moments like this. and remember how this raid was urgently needed to protect national security? turns
Fox news alert. Minutes ago the defense for donald trump rested and the former president will not be taking the stand in the new york versus trump trial. The final witness for the defense was shot down. I mean every time he opened his mouth according to people in the courtroom, there was either a challenge or a reaction from the prosecution. And then the judge shut him down. What is really going on inside that courtroom . Whats really happening here . Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Court is now in a break until 2 00 p. M. Eastern. So we have some time to digest what just happened. The drama unfolding from the very moment in this trial especially when Michael Cohen was on the stand, four days of him. The prosecutions star witness who lies as he breathes. And when he left, it was all added upon by the fact that he admitted to stealing 60,000 from the Trump Organization. That happened yesterday. Cohen confessed to stealing the money from the Trump Organization while
To a verdict avoiding Government Shutdown . Ken paxton, he just survived his Impeachment Trial and the threat of being removed from office over allegations of corruption. One of the states Impeachment Managers joins me to explain what happened at todays senate vote. Im Simone Sanders townsend, and i have something to say. We begin with seismic developments this week on capitol hill and in highprofile legal investigations. The latest . A filing from Special Counsel john smith in the Election Interference case against former president donald trump. Smith has asked the judge to grant an order narrowly limiting trump from making public statements about the identities and testimonies of witnesses. As well as any disparaging or intimidating statements about any party in the case. Including attorneys or court personnel. Just hours after that filing was unsealed, trump ranted against jack smith on his social media platform. And during his campaign events, calling the Special Counsel, quote unq