their martha s vineyard home we ll have the full report. but we begin with explosive new testimony that will give new insight of just how involved president biden might have been with his son hunter s overseas business dealings. senior national correspondent kevin corke joins us live with what s to come on capitol hill. good evening kevin. reporter: good evening jonathan. hunter biden would dial in his father and then he would put him on speaker phone, back when he was the vp, into meetings with his overseas business partners. now, that is according to testimony. expected before congress this week from devon archer, the first son s former best friend. archer is scheduled to testify to the house oversight committee about the meetings that he apparently witnessed. that, again according to him, were attended by joe biden, either in person or via speaker phone when hunter would call his father to introduce him to his foreign business partners or prospective investors. we re a
grandchildren for years, the president now says jill and i only want what s best for all of our grandchildren including navy. he says it s a family matter, not politics but far from the first time joe biden, career politician who s been in d.c. half a century at the center of controversy. symbols and scandals started at the beginning, take this for example from 1988, biden was running for president. what law school did you attend and where did you place in that class? i think i have a much higher iq than you, i suspect. i went to law school on a full academic scholarship. the only one in my quest of a full academic scholarship in the outstanding department at the end, i graduated with 3 degrees from undergraduate school. that wasn t the only awkward moment. plagiarizing speech after speech ending his campaign after three months so fast-forward to this kat from his 2020 presidential bid. somehow if you re poor, you cannot do it, poor kids are just as bright and talente
little attention, new allegation s involving hunter and his father, some corroborated, some debunked, some disputed have surfaced and now the house speaker is actually embracing the idea of an impeachment probe and since there s no way the democratic senate would do that how should the press handle this? is it payback for the two trump impeachments? revenge for the trump indictment s? does it reflect a growing confidence that whistleblowers are correcting it to the white house miss deeds. it may just be an effort to damage joe biden before next year s election, in which case that will depend on just how much can be proven. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. president biden joked that with inflation declining, the republicans are going to have to find a new issue against him. maybe it ll impeach me because it s coming down, i don t know. i love that one. but mccarthy shift on impeachment has totally reset the media conversation. i believe that we will follow th
the lead starts right now. behind closed doors trump s legal team sitting down with jack smith. what trump himself is saying about that meeting and his own defense. plus, minority leader mitch mcconnell back on the senate floor today epiafter freezing in front of reporters mid-sentence. sources tell cnn the 81-year-old has fallen three times this year alone, not just the one time that was publicly reported. and the emergency warning from america s largest power grid as extreme heat settles in over one of the biggest cities in the country. welcome to the lead. i m kaitlan collins ipfor jake tapper today. we start with our law and justice lead. no indictments expected today from the grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election. that s according to sources from the district court in washington. grand juries are secret and it s not exactly clear what this means for the special counsel s investigation. but this news comes just hours after donald trump s leg
law enforcement in washington is ramping up security tonight ahead of what they believe could be a new indictment against donald trump next week. and barricades are going up outside the courthouse in atlanta where trump is under investigation for 2020 election interference. so we re going to dive into next week s news tonight. also tonight presidential hopeful will hurd just got booed for saying this donald trump is running to stay out of prison. and if we elect i know, i know. i know. i know. listen, i know the truth. the truth is hard. we ll have much more on that in a moment. also, michael cohen is here. the former president s one-time lawyer knows very well how donald trump operates and how he gets his staffers to do his bidding. and if you re headed to the beach this weekend chances are you could see a shark. record ocean heat is pushing hungry sharks closer to the shore like this one spotted near a crowded beach in florida . there s a lot going on tonight, s