katelyn polantz, thanks very much. lauren fox. thanks to you as well. let's discuss this and more with the former attorney general of the united states, alberto gonzales, attorney general. what's your reaction to hearing? at least so far? what the attorney general merrick garland is saying, his forceful defense of the us justice department i think one of the primary responsibilities for the attorney general is to protect the department to protect the department's reputation to make sure that the american people have confidence in the integrity of the work of the department. >> and so he's doing the absolute all right thing, quite frankly this notion, quite frankly i find ridiculous that there would be some level of coordination between the department of justice and what happened in new york believing department of justice going to want to be as far away as possible from that prosecution. and so i'm not surprised that's where the democrats went with this but nonetheless, i can assure you something with respect to the department of justice, and i once wor

let's bring in cnn's katelyn polantz, who broke the story. katelyn. what else you're learning about this, there was a hope that he, for him that he would be in this sort of more comfortable if you will, federal prison yes. >> sarah, steve bannon and his lawyers, not only wanted or thought he would be going to a minimal security, minimum security prison, a prison camp. so one that doesn't have major walls where the inmate it's are protected in a different way, not as they're just not as contained there in the way that a prison, a low security or other prison in the federal system would be but see bannon is going to be going to a low security prison in danbury, connecticut instead. that's because he has pending charges against him. he's awaiting a trial in new york trying to fight those charges relating to charges about defrauding investors in a foundation that he was taking part in that case is ongoing. it may mean that he may have to be transferred to another detention facility, perhaps rikers island in new york when that trials ongoing. but sarah, th

has obvious political implications as well as president joe biden seeks reelection in november, katelyn polantz got here the sad the sitting president on trial in another criminal case with big political implications, they ridiculed my struggle with addiction. hunter biden's addiction and purchase of a gun in october 2018 is at the heart of this case. the justice department accusing him of lying on gun purchasing forms they're required him to a test. he wasn't addicted to drugs a special counsel brought the case last year after a prior deal fell apart in dramatic fashion at his plea hearing. >> i'm here today to announce the appointment of david weiss as a special counsel on monday, jury selection begins potentially a challenging task in his hometown of wilmington, delaware, federal prosecutors plan to highlight a part of his memoir where he writes about struggling with drug addiction around the time he bought the gun, i return that fall of 2018 after my most recent relapse in california with the hope of getting cleaned through new therapy in reconciling with halle, neither happened and they ha

more now from cnn's katelyn polantz in washington the u.s. >> supreme court on friday decided that the way that the justice department charges january 6, rioters has to be limited that there has to be specific thick intent and language that the justice department uses when it brings cases against these reiner's for felony obstruction. many rioters hundreds even were charged with obstruction of the congressional proceeding on january 6 of 2021, and they were taken to trials. some of them pled guilty, and many have been sentenced. there's only a couple remaining cases in the system where those people continue to serve those sentences. and so now with this supreme court ruling, there's gonna be a lot more work for the justice department to do. these cases are very likely to go back to the trial judges now and be revisited in different ways within two hours after the supreme court ruled on friday about these january 6 riot or cases, a federal judge in dc, who sits at the trial level, told the defendants under her right hitters that they would need to be re-sentencing. so she's going to put

down from the classified documents this case last year, cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz is closely following. >> it all in katelyn, i mean, judge cannon has known to take a drastically different approach at these hearings. now now this new reporting that is really highly unusual. >> i think it's fair to say it. what do we know? >> unusual from the start, omar, but today it is going to be a hearing in fort pierce. donald trump is not going to be there personally, but judge cannon is going to have a hearing in this case about how donald trump wants to challenge the validity, the power of the special counsel himself and his ability to bring this case against donald trump, which was charged a full year ago. it's going to be an odd hearing because she's also going to be hearing today from people that aren't even part of the case, just third party law professors, scholars, people that want to have a say before the judge so that's happening. you don't see that very often, if at all in criminal cases at the trial level and it almost appears that judges recognize the judge cannon

katelyn polantz. thank you. >> were now three days away from the first presidential debate right here on cnn and president biden is really putting the spotlight on the issue of abortion ahead of thursday's showdown with former president trump today, the biden campaign, launching a new tv ad directly blaming trump for the supreme court's decision overturning roe v. >> wade. that's ruling, of course, that came down two years ago to the de right now biden and his hunker down at camp david, where he's been preparing for the debate all weekend trump. meantime, we're told is holding informal policy discussions with advisers and allies. let's go live now to the white house with cnn's kayla tausche. so kilo walk us through this biden pushed to prep for the debate well, bores abortion is going to figure prominently on the debate stage on thursday night with the biden campaign long believing that is the issue as, it is exemplary of what they see as their opponents attempt to take away rights across the board fr

let's get details from our senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn polantz, kaitlan. what's behind these changes? >> well, judge aileen cannon, she is reconfiguring that schedule for the late june hearings that she had said she was going to have four days of hearings. now, she's going to have three and they're gonna be different than what she wanted to do before part of this is because there's a lot to do. and judge cannon, it seems very wanting to have everything argued in person before her in that courtroom in fort pierce, florida. well, if that doesn't happen in every case, a lot of judges just make decisions based on legal arguments on the papers, but not judge cannon. what she's going to be doing at that three-day hearing stretching at the end of june, she's going to be hearing about a gag order prosecutors want to place on donald trump limiting his ability to speak about law enforcement while he awaits trial. she's also going to be hearing an a day and a half of arguments around the constitutionality of the special counsel's office, the office of the department

. >> let's turn now to cnn's katelyn polantz, who has been following this hearing. kaitlan, it did get a little bit fiery house specifically to the attorney general respond to these allegations surrounding donald trump's first criminal trial? >> well, he said it wasn't it was the state prosecutor in new york that did it and he used some pretty sharp words, especially for an attorney general that really doesn't get into political knife throwing that often. he said that the justice roman does not control the manhattan district attorney that brought at successfully convicted that case against donald trump. that the manhattan da made their own decisions and is completely independent. so we really was defending the justice department's independence from other cases now, this was a situation where garland was able to put a little bit more out there on the offensive where he's defending the department more broadly, his own department, law enforcement officers there and calling things that donald trump is saying such as about the manhattan da's case against him and that rep

a lot of question marks, yet again, will lots going on indeed, katelyn polantz, thanks very much still to come. donald trump, i getting a fundraising boost out raising president biden there for a second month in a row. thanks to a surge in donations after for his criminal convictions stay with us, urine, the cnn newsroom the most anticipated moment of this so let and the stakes couldn't be higher. >> the president and the former president, one stage two, very different visions for america's future. the cnn presidential debate thursday night at nine live on cnn. and streaming on max. i brought in a juror, max protein with 30 grams of protein. those who tried, he felt more energy and just two weeks here, i'll take that ensure max protein 30 grams protein one prim sugar, 25 vitamins and minerals, and a new fiber blend with a prebiotic carney is awda. it's gotten me. i saw them. that's what i got. igneous carnegie got to me carnot. well, with more flavored gotten me car whether you do get yourself for hiring a pro today, let's paint. maybe repair exclusively at the home depot your skin is

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cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz has more, caitlin isabel and viktor. this is a major ruling from the u.s supreme court on the january 6 rioters. and how the justice department can charge them. so the attorney general, merrick garland, when the ruling came down, he said he was disappointed because what the supreme court did was limit how the justice department is able to bring felony obstruction cases against rioters. so at the beginning of this very soon after the riot, the justice department use this felony obstruction of a congressional proceeding charge against rioters to really bring the hammer down on people who weren't necessarily violent we were taking some extra steps inside the capital to contribute to what happened there. the riot inside the building now the u.s. supreme court says those charges need to have more specific language and showing what these writers wanted to do too. struct and have the intent to obstruct documents evidenced other things that were used during that congressional proceedings. so it's not cutting out the cases altoge

cnn's katelyn polantz has details the u.s. >> supreme court on friday decided that the way that the justice department charges january 6, rioters has to be limited that there has to be specific intent and language that the justice department uses when it brings cases against these reiner's for felony obstruction. many rioters, hundreds, even were charged with obstruction of the congressional proceeding on january 6 of 2021, and they were taken to trials. some of them play a guilty and many have been sentenced. there's only a couple remaining cases in the system where those people continue to serve those sentences. and so now with this supreme court ruling, there's gonna be a lot more work for the justice department to do these cases are very likely to go back to the trial judges now and be revisited in different ways within two hours after the supreme court ruled on friday about these january 6 rioter cases, a federal judge in dc, who sits at the trial level, told the defendants under her right hitters that they would need to be re-sentencing. so she's going to put those on the calendar. re

sarah, one thing is clear more hearings means more delays. >> katelyn polantz.nk you so much for your reporting outside the court there that for us this morning, jon are happening now, parts of iowa underwater after suffering catastrophic flooding heavy rain has rivers at heights never reached before, which has forced evacuation is 22 counties now under disaster declaration the river rose to historic levels that we've never seen here before. he had it's hard to deal with that much water it's it's a monumental undertaking meteorologists, alise rafah joined us now with the latest what are you seeing out there? >> elisa we still have flood warnings in effect, john, for parts of southern minnesota going into south dakota, including including sioux falls and then into northwest iowa. >> warnings go down the missouri river from sioux city, to omaha because not because we're still finding rain falling, but because the scrounge just so waterlogged, the rivers are aggravated still rising in some spots because we got ten to 15 inches of rain and parts of south dakota in n

lauren box, katelyn polantz. thank you. both very much for all this reporting. we're going to continue to monitor this hearing that as you can see, is beginning. we'll be watching it throughout the hour. we'll bring you the attorney general's opening statements when he begins speaking. >> okay. also happening right now, opening statements in the trial of hunter biden and we just learned that one juror has been dismissed, will bring you the latest from there birth. >> we have schreiber, so get nine on cnn everybody wants super straight, super white teeth. they want that hollywood white smile. news censored in clinical white rights two sheets, whiter teeth and 24/7 sensitive your production. i think it's a great product. it's going to help a lot of patients imagine a future where plastic is not wasted. >> but instead remade over and over into the things that keep our food fresher our families safer and our planet cleaner to help us get there america's plastic makers are investing billions of dollars dollars to create innovative products and new recycling technolog

katelyn polantz. thank you so much for all of that reporting for us this morning. omar. >> all right. a lot to talk about with me now, to help talk about all of this, is defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, shan wu. i'm all right. shan, where do you want to start here? let's start with helene cannon, because obviously we've got the two reporting that to federal judges urged her to give up this case. i mean, how unusual is have you have you ever seen that? >> it's really unusual, even the fact that we're hearing about and these are the backroom back-channel conversations is very rare i mean, i've worked for federal judges and two things to note, i think omar first if the chief judge speaks to you, it's not that they have direct supervisory authority in that sense. but there's an enormous amount of deference is given to the chief judge and for them to express that opinion to her and for her basically two bowed off is really a very unusual situation. then let's start with the fact that the chief judge took it upon himself to speak to her this notion that sh

so let me get back to katelyn polantz doing excellent reporting on all of this. >> today's hearing. kaitlan, as you know, is just the start of a flurry of legal arguments in this case. we're expecting more key hearings next week. tell us about that. >> yeah. there are several more days is ahead with judge aileen cannon in that courtroom monday and tuesday more arguments on monday, the prosecutors do want to have the judge of tried to convince the judge to put limitations on donald trump's speech, so-called gag order, because they believe that he's speaking so much about law enforcement and spending misleading formation about them in a way that could harm them, either as witnesses if they were agents that took part in the search of mar-a-lago or just generally be very harmful to the fbi, the justice department that trump rhetoric continues. they're asking to change his release conditions, so something even more than his happened in other cases. but that's the centerpiece of what the arguments will be on monday afternoon. there's other arguments going to be they're going to be happeni

scenes katelyn polantz has more on that. so talk about what judge cannon ordered in terms of this hearing about jack smith's legitimacy as special counsel yeah. >> so anderson, this is a hearing that she's having over the course of three days in late june and she's going to be looking at different things on the table before her. not all of those things there's one they're often brought to judges get hearings. but in this case, she does want to have a day and a half of hearings about the constitution melody of the special counsel's office criticizing the special counsel and it's calling it illegitimate. that is often invoked in political circles. but when that question gets before judges in the modern era of special counsel's offices, bringing criminal cases. it's failed over and over and over again. judges have said no special counsel's are legitimate, but judge cannon, she wants to entertain quite a bit of arguments on this. she wants to have the day and a half long hearing and then on top of that, she's making this very un

. >> i'm katelyn polantz at the federal courthouse in washington. >> and this is cnn close captioningby guilt visit guilt.com today for up to 70% off designer brands, it has a design is like your heart racing had inside a prices new every day, hurry. there'll be gone in a flash. designer sales that up to 70% shop guilty.com today well, i've got various newspaper cuttings, but also photos with mrs. t log, with actually was uncompromising in her dislike of socialism and communism and that's what drove her. >> it look so young and innocent. my job was really to make sure that ten downing street worked well for the prime minister maga margaret thatcher knows that it's not just politics that dictates the key moves in the cold war margaret thatcher was fascinated by intelligence part of it was the glamour but also she'd liked to collect as much information as possible and intelligence was one of the sources when the government, there was a special box in number ten in which there would have been regular reports of anything which became known about soviets activity in uk mi6 has a very big s

. >> i'm katelyn polantz at the federal courthouse in washington. >> and this is cnn. >> you could buy a used car for what it's costing some homeowners to maintain their houses in an entire year. on average, us homeowners are now paying more than $18,000 a year. we're talking about cost beyond the mortgage like home maintenance, insurance, property taxes, utilities, and these costs are often overlooked when you are buying a home, a new study by bank rate shows expenses tied to homeownership have jumped 26% since the pandemic. here to discuss is jeff ostrowski, an analyst at bankrate, a geoff great to see you. i mean, it's hard enough to try to afford buying a home and a lot of our producers started doing the math on their home costs and expenses in a year. so everyone is in agreement and it's just costing everybody a lot more. so walk us through some of the expenses. why is it beyond trying to afford buying a home? there are all these other expenses you have to make an account for yeah. >> that's one of the things that surprises me even as a longtime homeowner, it's just how much i spe

. >> but there are signs that she's skeptical about the special counsel's request see cnn's katelyn polantz is in fort pierce, florida for us, we're also joined by cnn senior law enforcement analysts, andrew mccabe, kaitlan, judge aileen cannon appeared skeptical of a gag order for donald trump today. tell us about that. >> wolf. >> much of the questioning from judge cannon this afternoon of the prosecutors was how they would be able to link the threats of trump's supporters toward the fbi and federal officials, law enforcement, to the words of donald trump himself. so the justice department has come to the court and is arguing here. the donald trump has created an environment around his supporters that makes a significant imminent and foreseeable danger for the law enforcement officials that are part of the fbi. they've used examples of a man who fired a nail gun into an fbi office another person who was threatening and fbi agent. and so pulling that all together, they're saying to the judge please limit donald trump a criminal defendant, limit his speech and ensure the safety of the law e

attorney general merrick garland, and to disparage the investigations into the former president, katelyn polantz is outfront live in washington to begin our coverage tonight. and caitlin, i mean, this was a five-hour intense hearing. garland standing firm, but one of the key reasons since he was there is because republicans want him to release audio of biden's interview with special counsel in the classified documents case. and so far we've got a transcript from the doj that's it. no audio. and i know to begin, you've got some new reporting on this tonight. >> yeah. aaron. right now, there is a fight on capitol hill today between merrick garland, the attorney general, and the republicans who want this audio tape of joe biden sitting down for this interview over two days with special counsel robert hur, about the classified documents he had in his possession ended up not being charged, but that's not where that fight is. on its own. it also exists in court. there are more than a dozen media organizations as well as to write leaning groups the heritage foundation and judicial watch, who are suing

katelyn polantz for us, we are seeing some arrivals of the principal players in this case, as you said, live pictures from outside the courthouse right there, caitlin paul, let's thank you very much let's talk about all of this right now, joining us right now, defense attorney and former prosecutor randy is ellen brandy. >> thanks for coming in. what do you think of the case against hunter biden just to start off, it is not a factual case. it is a legal case. in other words, it's kinda tough to contest that it didn't possess a gun that i didn't fill out an application. and at some point in time i was a drug addict. those it is a legal right now to be a drug addict in possession of a gun, it is illegal to lie on the application that i'm not a drug addict. however, courts have been coming down lately saying, wait a second. now we're in the second amendment. does it say? that you can have a gun if you will, once a drug addict, i don't know if you're a drug addict now, not a drug addict now. and right now because of that, hunter biden's case is not going to be one at the trial court level.

so ditch the old way of selling your car and say hello to the new way at carbonic, i'm katelyn polantzt the federal courthouse in washington. >> and this is cnn breaking news. >> now, israel appears poised to formally agree to president biden's three-stage ceasefire plan for gaza while at the same time maintaining the freedom to keep fighting. that's according to a statement just released. let's bring in cnn national security correspondent kylie atwood, live in amman, jordan, where secretary of state tony blinken continues as diplomatic trip kylie, what can you tell us yeah. >> well, listen, this statement is incredibly noteworthy because it is the prime minister's office coming out in this paper statements saying effectively that he is on board for the proposal let president biden laid out ten days ago, this three-part plan to try and bring to close this war. now, notably, there are some parts of this statement that don't exactly reflect the plan that president biden laid out, but the fact that the prime minister's office is coming out with this statement and saying this now is it's n

cnn's katelyn polantz is joining us now on this. all right. tell us what's happening here. >> well, about six hours give or take of arguments before judge aileen cannon today. and it was an unusual argument in that it was a long time spent on a question that other judges have looked at in some didn't even hold hearings on. but judge cannon, lifetime appointee, she can do what she wants. she wants to have this hearings. you wanted to hear from outside? parties, law professors, both on the liberal and on the conservative side about this. and it boils down to this question. and this is what we're getting out of listening to those arguments today. it boils down where she keeps asking questions of how did this actually work with merrick garland, appointing special counsel, jack smith. >> and how much oversight is there within the department of this special counsel? >> trump's team has argued a bunch of different things here. and some of those conflict in different times that there's not enough oversight of smith that he's too much of an inferior of

he faces back to you katelyn polantz there. thank you for that report.nn legal analyst, former federal prosecutor, jennifer rodgers, joins me now. jennifer. good morning. thank you so much for being here. >> we did see the judge overseeing this trial deal, hunter biden's defense, a couple of setbacks yesterday, they blocked one of their expert witnesses and they're excluding some evidence that the president's son hoped to use. >> what do you make of those rulings and how do they set the stage for jury selection to begin today yeah, those are tough rulings for the defense and listen, they'll just have to roll with it. >> but of course it'll be an appellate issue, particularly ruling about not allowing them to put in this physical form and argue that there's a difference inke on it. the person who's supposedly looked at his id didn't put the put the information on the form at the time of the sale that's something they could have used to argue that there were problems with other parts of the form when they recorded his statements out, his status, for exampl

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got a nice got to me the end politically, joining me now cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz, and cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez and what will we see today? well, we have about 250 prospective jurors who were inside the courthouse right now, alice, and they're being led through a series of questions including any political activity that they've been involved in, any knowledge, personal knowledge about the bidens. they are being asked whether obviously whether they can put aside any of their political beliefs to judge this case, to have this case be judged fairly. those are the big big questions we anticipate that this is gonna go fairly quickly talking to the lawyers of the last couple of days. they thought they could get a jury there today or tomorrow morning and this trial could go on for about a week. so we'll see how quickly that that happens. but right now though first lady, jill biden is inside the courtroom. she's there to support a hunter biden. of course, this is a case that has loomed large for the family from all political standpoint and of course, fro

trial date anytime soon based on all of the things that this judge still has to work through katelyn polantz. thanks, john, his now former federal judge, nancy gardner bestselling author and former federal prosecutor, jeffrey thuban, and cnn legal analyst, norm eyes and geoff how unusual is this for judge cannon? and then to first of all, let's talk about the allowing third parties in this whole way. >> she is conducted this case is wildly totally crazily unusual, and the allowing of outsiders to participate in a de and-a-half hearing that most judges would decide on briefs or maybe give ten minutes aside to argue is just a another illustration that she is trying to kill this prosecution. that's the only conclusion you can draw. no other judge in the federal system that i'm aware of would treat these issues, anything like what she's trying to do, judge gertner, i mean, you've been critical of judge cannon's handling this case for quite some time. what he make of her opening up the debate over jack smith's authority to some of trump's outside allies? >> well, let's step back. what she's effec

katelyn polantz. thank you so much for us. >> a major win for victims of domestic violence as the supreme court rules on a second amendment case, in a nearly unanimous decision, the justices upheld the law that bars domestic abusers from owning guns. the lone dissenting voice was justice clarence thomas let's turn now to cnn legal affairs correspondent, chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid polo. walk us through that justification for this decision from the court bohr's a major second amendment ruling here from the high court effectively ruling that like all other rights, this second amendment has limits now here are the chief justice john roberts. >> he said the court had no trouble reaching this eight to one decision, writing quote, our tradition of firearm regulation allows the government to disarm individuals who present a credible threat to the physical safety of others. and it's that word, tradition that's really key here. boris, because in this opinion, they take time to analyze and reco

. >> i'm katelyn polantz at the federal courthouse in washington. and this is cnn some more breaking news tonight to shootings in atlanta one at a downtown food cord this afternoon left 23 people wounded. >> and while please run that scene, they got word of shots fired on a transit bus just a few miles away, which turned to a bus hijacking than a police chase onto the interstate. finally, when that ended, police made a grim discovery. more now in all from cnn's ryan young begin around 43911, call about gunfire and a hostage situation on a bus when officers arrived to investigate the bus takes off and the chase begins from above, you can see the county bus swerving uncontrollably through rush hour traffic and atlanta dangerously moving in and out of traffic through city streets and onto the highway where elana police officers desperately tried to get the bus pulled over. >> our initial call was of a gunman on on the bus that was holding hostages and possibly there had been a discharge of a weapon that was the initial nine will one call that call disc

let's get the e latest now from cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz caitlyn, we could see up to three days of arguments from the defense team trying to get jack smith removed. this is highly unusual, right? >> well, we will see three days of arguments and it is unusual how much time judge cannon is devoting, not just how much time she's devoting to these challenges of jack smith and his it's appointment, his funding as the special counsel's office within the justice department, but also how many people she wants to hear from. you never see that in a criminal case at the trial level before a judge like this. but here, judge cannon is going to this afternoon hear from law professors. people have nothing to do with this case, arguing for and against the special counsel. and the other thing that is really interesting about this, and the way judge cannon is handling it is cheap pushing things off in this case, she's having hearings like these. she's hearing some other very important parts of this case. two, on monday and tuesday as these hearing stretch out over the next co

let's go straight to katelyn polantz. she broke this story and caitlin, i mean, this is a significant development. not at all. what bannon was hoping for or frankly seemed to be expecting? >> no, not at all. abandoned. no erin? not at all. what steve bannon was wanting here. he had expected and his lawyers had expected that he's non-violent. he had not had any prior convictions, so maybe he would go to a prison camp very minimal security in the federal system that's not what's happening. he's being told now by the bureau of prisons that he will be going to a low security prisons. so he's behind the wall is what they call it. it's different than a camp. it has more confines for the inmates that are kept there also, violent offenders can be kept in a low security prison, like the one bannon is going to be reporting to in just a couple of weeks in dan danbury, connecticut but aaron, the reason is because all of this is complicated by a case seat bannon is facing in new york where he's going to trial on this accusation of def

defense arguments aimed at derailing the prosecution of the former president rejoined by cnn's katelyn polantz, was in the courtroom in fort pierce, florida, also with a cnn senior legal analyst, elie honig first to uk. let's take us inside today's hearing this was a hearing this afternoon that was are rare occasion in the hearings that judge aileen cannon has had many times for two reasons. >> first of all, she showed her hand and second of all, it didn't go particularly well for donald trump's defense team. that is not how a lot of other hearings have gone for them. even when judge cannon ultimately doesn't rule in their favor in this one they're team was arguing to judge cannon that the search warrant that the fbi and just department used and went to court to get approval of two years ago was signed off on by a judge, that that was invalid and that it should cause the entire case or a lot of the evidence that was seized during that search of mar-a-lago, all of that should be thrown out. and judge cannon, she just was buying it. she said at the very end of the hearing, wulf, i have a hard ti

. >> i'm katelyn polantz at the federal courthouse in washington. and this is cnn in the aftermath of the capitol attack on january 6, donald trump was viewed as a pariah among many in his party and then after a lackluster performance in the 2022 midterms, many top republicans pointed the finger back at trump, but now his grip on the gop is once again, is tight as it ever has been this past week, trump back candidates one in primaries across the board, continuing a larger trend, this cycle, not a single federal candidate would trump's endorsement when has lost their primary race than in washington, there was quote, notice sent i'm told when trump met behind closed doors with house and senate republicans, including past critics like gop leader mitch mcconnell. >> but a key test of his power will come tuesday in virginia, where the hard right leader of the house freedom caucus, bob good, we'll try to fend off a prime primary challenge from state senator john maguire. it is maguire who holds that treasured trump endorsement why in no small part, becaus

indeed, katelyn polantz. thank you very much. let's break all of this down with our legal and political experts and tim parlatore, let me start with you. you're former trump attorney you predicted that trump sentence will be less than a year and served at the notorious manhattan oh, should we run question for you? i want to get your reaction. first of all, to the special counsel, jack smith's latest request for a gag order in the classified documents case. what do you think? >> i think that prosecutors have generally been overusing gag orders with when trump a gag order is something that's really very rarely used in only for a very limited purpose. they're presumptively unconstitutional because it's a prospective restriction of free speech rights it has to be done to protect the integrity of the proceedings. and to simply ask for a gag order because you don't like that. he said something that turned out to be false. i think that they would have to tie that to some kind of a specific threatened even if you look at what he's saying

. >> katelyn polantz, thank you so much. >> so there are new developments just in on hunter biden's federalrial, just minutes ago, hunter biden's attorneys tried to get several photographs excluded from evidence, and the judge rejected the request. let's go over to cnn's paula reid, who's tracking all of this. paula, what just happened? >> well okay we have this update from inside the court, and if you're wondering why i'm holding a sort of crumpled piece of spiral bound notebook paper it is because of course there are no cameras are allowed inside federal courts. we're relying on our colleagues inside to take notes and then run them out to us. and the most recent an update we got is we were expecting opening statements. so to begin by now, but they're a little bit delayed because they were still at the time of this note waiting for some jurors to show up. >> while we were waiting for these additional jurors to arrive at court, they handled some of these outstanding questions about evidence. >> and here the judge said that she would allow in this photo that hunter for a defense attorneys we

. >> expecting some fiery wars this morning on capitol hill, katelyn polantz, thank you very much also this morning, opening arguments are about to get underway in the trial of hunter biden, and we've new word on one who will testify and how prosecutor there's plan to make their case against the president's son and a suspect in the gilgo beach serial killings is expected to be indicted on another murder charge. >> now the details about a new search, and we're investigators were looking she was declared dead by the workers at for nursing home. two hours later, an employee at a funeral home realizes she is still breathing, we'll bring you that sometimes the best thing you can do with intelligence is share with you he and his secret is betrayed. >> its bullet to the back of the hand secrets and spies, a nuclear gain sunday at ten on cnn, winning bond on this project. >> i asked mark, do you want here's an idea let's ask markham that's good now now, lunch, a couple of ones were the people with all the answers get all the answers asked. markham accountants and advisers this is a freemium ha

trump and other high level targets such as hunter biden, cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz is here to explain. can let's start with this upcoming hearing how exactly is all this going to work? >> yeah. so at the end of june, jake, there's gonna be three days of court hearings before judge aileen cannon in fort pierce, florida at the federal courthouse. and one of the things that she's adding on the calendar is something that the special counsel's office asked for very recently to put a gag order on donald trump to limit his ability to talk about the law enforcement involved in this case. she's going to hear arguments on that. so that's now on the calendar, but jake, it gets a little beard with what else she's going to do. and that's not just me saying it. that's what every lawyer i have talked to in the past 24 hours about what the judge is doing here has been saying, including people close to the trump team, she's giving an aisle full day and a half now for there to be arguments over the legality of this special counsel's office is jack smith, a prosecutor who's able to ev

. >> i did i'm katelyn polantz at the federal courthouse in washington and this is cnn in just the last six years, 346 people have lost their lives and plane crashes involving boeing 737 max jets 346. also in that time frame, countless issues involving these jets, including a massive hole on the side of a plane in midflight whistleblower after whistleblower has come forward to accuse the company of cutting corners. and tonight, that company ceo says that they are quoting far from perfect. david calhoun, he struggled to answer questions during a senate hearing and he started off by apologizing to families of victims who were seated behind him in the room they were holding up signs and pictures of their loved ones in those crashes i would like to apologize on behalf of all of our bonus associates spread throughout the world past and present for your losses i apologize for the grief that we have caused and i want you to know we are totally committed in their memory work and focus on safety for as long as long as we're employed by boeing again, i'm sorry nadia balle around was on that in th

>> cnn chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid and cnn senior crime and justice reported katelyn polantz joining us now with more on the decision of what happens next. so paula first walk us through this decision this decision today, this impacts potentially hundreds of people who have been charged in connection with january 6, and the attorney general issued a statement today saying that the justice department will take appropriate steps to act on this opinion today, but they also tried to downplay the percentage of the fourth 1,000 pieces they have brought. that will be impacted here. but like i said, we're talking about hundreds of people who could potentially be able to go back into court and challenge either than being charged with obstruction or having been convicted an already incarcerated on that charge. the other outstanding question here is how this could potentially impact the case against former president trump basis to charges of obstruction. now what is widely expected that the special counsel will seize on language in this opinion that differentiates the kind of conduct th

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