republicans are demanding the fbi handover internal documents at noon today. a whistleblower claims those documents will show then vice president biden accepted money for policy decisions and we re waiting to learn whether or not the fbi has indeed met this deadline. republicans also announcing explosive new information about the biden family business dealings during a news conference a short time ago. they say information obtained from a subpoena by the biden family, financial documents show that the family received millions of dollars in foreign cash. and reveals that hunter set up more than 20 different companies, 15 of them after his father became the vice president. watch. instead of being honest with the american people, president biden is claiming since the 2020 election his family has not received money from china. that was a lie. in 2020, and he continues to lie to the american people now. the committee is concerned about a complicated, suspicious network of over 2
the magic wall. let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, trump s lawyers talking. cnn confirming that the fbi interviewed two of trump s former lawyers. the former white house counsel pat cipollone and deputy patrick philbin. they are the two most senior trump officials to be interviewed in the criminal investigation of trump s handling of classified information. this is a significant development. obviously cipollone and philbin know a lot. they were trump s point men for dealing with the national archives. investigators, of course, asked questions about how 15 boxes of teeshls ended up at mar-a-lago even after, even after they said they returned everything. team trump did. according to the new york times philbin had been working to return all the documents since the national archives realized any of them were missing. it was trump, though, who resisted. several advisers telling the times that trump would say, quote, it s not theirs, it s min
fights criminal contempt charges. and summer sand and shark infested waters. enhanced technology is on the hunt where sharks have been on the attack. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with breaking news in our politics lead. president biden s approval rating hitting a new low in cnn polling. take a look. only 38% of people approve of the way joe biden is handling his job as president. 62% disapprove. this dismal number comes as president biden returns from his middle east trip. the white house touting the trip a success, saying the president renewed support for the region and set expectations that gas prices could steady in the coming weeks. but those successes in some quarters being overshadowed by this moment, biden fist bumping saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman, who the u.s. says is to blame for the slaughter of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi in 2018. biden trying to brush it off from reporters upon his return to the white house.
visit sends a strong signal, bipartisan support for ukraine. it s not clear whether the meeting took place today nor whether the delegation is actually still there in kyiv. this is the second visit by a group of u.s. lawmakers in two weeks time. cnn correspondents are covering the latest developments. what are you learnin ing about s delegation to ukraine? i was to emphasize what you said which is we re still getting a lot of details about this visit from mitch mcconnell, john cornyn. we re not sure if they are still in kyiv, still meeting with zelensyy. it s likely this took place already. pelosi led a delegation two weeks ago to ukraine. this is happening as the senate is trying to pass a bipartisan bill. the problem here, noticeably missing from this delegation is senator rand paul, republican from kentucky is holding up this legislation while senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer have worked with their party and most of the party in support. senator
Attacks. Wolf . Brian, thanks very much for that report. And to our viewers thanks very much for watching. Erin Burnett Outfront live erin Burnett Outfront live from israel starts right now. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com outfront next, Breaking News. New Video Tonight showing a rocket fired from gaza, Exploding High Above gaza city. The video was taken just before the explosion was seen at the hospital. And it comes as the United States has new intelligence assessments on that blast. Plus tonight, a chilling phone call. Im going to talk to the parents of two children who were taken from the Music Festival here. The daughter called her father frantically screaming as they were under attack. And youll hear her harrowing call. We have a Special Report of A Sprawling Underground Tunnel System in gaza. The idf calls it the gaza metro packed with explosives, some tunnels possibly 40 feet deep inside the ground. Lets go outfront. And good evening. Welcome to a very special edition of outf