in on the four israeli hostage just rescued from how long her delete starts right now beaten and malnourished that from a doctor who treated the four israeli hostages, rescued from the terror of paris group hamas by the idf, new video of the operation is just in, as we learned details about the mission and the dozens of palestinians killed in the process and former president donald trump meeting today with a probation officer, what we're learning about his virtual hearing coming smack dab in the middle of a 2024 campaign stop. >> but first the breaking news who's in the trial of hunter biden, president biden's son closing arguments are now done and the jury. now has the case cnn breaking news welcome to the lean anja tapper and we start this hour with breaking news. >> we're now in verdict watch as the jury deliberates and hunter biden's federal gun trial. president biden, son faces three criminal charges, two for allegedly lying on a gun form application, claiming he was not on drugs at the time the third charge is for possessing the gun while allegedly using or being addicted to drugs provided could face 25 years in prison if he is convicted on all three charges, president biden said a few days ago that he will not pardon his son if he's convicted. cnn's paula reid is live outside the courtroom in wilmington, delaware, polo. what did prosecutors and the defense focus on in their closing arguments jake. >> i was inside the courtroom earlier today and was really surprised to see how many people were there to support hunter the first three rows of the courtroom on the defendant inside absolutely. packed. there was barely room for the secret service amid his friends, family members, religious leaders who are there to show support. well, i noticed this process security is also clearly made note of it because that is how they started their closing argument. they pointed to the gallery and said those people those people include, of course, the first lady of the united states who's been here almost every day. >> they said those people don't matter. >> they are not not evidenced. so clearly they must have some concern about the impact that show of force could have on their case. but then they moved on to the law itself. and specifically, the most difficult thing they have to do, which is prove that hunter biden knowingly lied when he filled out this form while he was buying a gun, and they told the jury that of course he knowingly lied, he knew who that he was using or addicted to drugs at this time. they've been pointed out the fact that he had recently been to rehab. they said, look, maybe if he hadn't been to rehab, we could by the fact that he didn't know oh, that he had a problem. now, they also took aim at abbe lowell's effort to try to shift some blame to the people working at the gun store, pointing out the fact that a hunter biden is a yale educated hey, did lawyer who shouldn't need someone to explain to him how to fill out a federal form no one abbe lowell, his attorney had a chance to present his closing arguments. he compared process so curators to a magician trying to do some sort of trick on the jury, some sort of sleight of hand. he emphasized that there is no direct evidence of hunter biden used seeing drugs during october 2018. he also tried to undercut the testimony of at least two of his ex-girlfriend, hallie biden. he reminded the jury, couldn't remember specific details about the days she found the gun in his truck. they also tried to undermine the testimony of another woman he dated who provided a lot of the photos in this case of him drugs and drug paraphernalia, but she had no evidence of him using drugs in october 2018. now, prosecutors described the evidence here, jake as ugly personal, and overwhelming. i can tell you from reporting on this over the past week, the evidence has been at times very personal and ugly, whether it's overwhelming. well, that will be to the jury to decide over the next few hours, potentially the next few days. >> and paul, a verdict could literally happen at any moment. now, how has the jury room? reacted to the trial overall, if you can detect it at all the other much more expressive than the jury that we observe for two months up in new york and the trump trial here, they laughed a lot. >> they seem to find abbe lowell quite amusing, but the prosecutors got a few good last two. they were very attentive. they were clearly paying a lot of attention to the evidence being presented, even at some of the slower times i'm more than documentary evidence text messages that they had to enter into evidence. there are paying attention many of them taking notes and i haven't to notice specific specifically with a testimony of night tell me biden hunter biden's daughter. it was clear that everyone had some sort of recognition, but that is an incredibly difficult thing to do for her right to sit on the stand and talk about her fathers addiction. you could tell the way they watched her, the way they responded. they had clearly some compassion for her. and as we know from jury selection of the majority of people in the jury pool pool had some experience either directly or with a loved one, with addiction. so that is of course a huge theme in this trial. and the folks who have been sitting there for the past week so they're clearly taking their job very seriously. i watched them this morning as they followed along line by line, is the jury gave them their instructions, so the rules of the game, as they make this historic fork decision. >> alright, paula reid and wilmington, delaware. thank you so much. let's bring it in to cnn's elie honig, and also biden biographer evan owes eyes nose joins us. elie how long do you think jury liberation deliberations might go? so i've seen juries come back with verdicts as quickly as an hour in a gun case, actually, now that i think of it, and i've seen them take as long as two weeks and what's interesting in this case is it the inverse of your typical gun case because there's a federal category of laws we call prohibited persons law is saying certain classes of people are not allowed to possess firearms usually that's the easy part. person's a convicted felon. person was dishonorably discharged from the military. person is here without legal immigration status. easy then the fight is over. did they have the gun here? it's essentially conceded by the defense, yes. a hunter biden had the gun. what he's arguing about, is there a prohibited persons status was here, was he not an addict at the time? so either the jury's it's possible to get back there, look at each other and say, he's obviously guilty. let's get back out there with a verdict or they could chew on this for several days. we just don't know and elie, the other day you wrote an article with this headline interesting, hunter biden is probably guilty, but his prosecution doesn't make sense. >> yeah. tell me explain that. so prosecutors are not supposed to be automatons. it's not just a question of well, we get the evidence if it equals the crime. hence, we charge, we have to use judgment. and so my i view is based on the evidence here, hunter biden is almost certainly guilty of being an attic while he possessed a firearm. >> but i used the example of when i was a supervisor at the us attorney's offices, someone came to me and said, we had this guy, he was an addict. >> he had a messy family life. he had a gun five years ago. we had it for 11 days. it wound up in a garbage can. no one ever used it or shot it and now it's not a current threat to society. get. so why are we bothering with this case? and i think i wouldn't call this an injustice. i would save that for the real injustices, but i do think it's a shaky and questionable exercise of prosecutorial discretion and avenatti knows how much is this weighing on president biden and the biden family, obviously, first lady jill biden, i think has been there for every day of trial yeah. >> look, there's just no way to avoid saying what it is this is agonizing. it's agonizing for the family. i mean, if you've take this out of politics for a minute, here is the surviving son as joe biden often describes, hunter in a position now facing serious potential jail time, and joe biden has told people over the course of the last couple of years there's that he feels very acutely that his son, hunter, for all of the mistakes that he's made, would not be facing this specific charge, were it not for the fact that he is joe biden's son. so there is an acute sense of personal connection to this. and at the same time, jake, you heard him say the other day that he would not pardon his his son, were he in fact convicted? there are. and the reason he wouldn't pardon is because he is making a commitment to the idea that he is not meddling in federal cases, whether they involve his son or whether they involve his opponent in the presidential election. that's a principle he wants to underline. so on many levels, this is really an unprecedented kind of personal pressure and personal agony for a president. we've simply never seen anything like it. >> an ally prosecutors showed overwhelming evidence during the trial. did the defense do anything to get the jury to side with their argument that this case is based on suspicion of hunter biden's drug use drug addiction around the time he bought the gun in 2018, i think that what the defense our abbe lowell did quite an effective job here is giving the jury illegal hook if they want to reject this chart, right? he threw enough question about welded hunter biden know he was an addict at that very moment. i actually think the evidence is quite clear that he was an addict and he had to have known it. but what abbe lowell is done here is make an essentially an emotional case to the jury and asked the jury to just reject this case as a statement as a political matter, as a personal matter, and if you can make that case and i think he's got a reasonable asked here of the jury. you want to give them a legal avenue to get there. and i think that's what abbe lowell has done with this argument. and we'll say, are they able to decide this case? mechanically? are they going to exercise their human feelings and emotions and evan asna is just a quick one for you before we bid you do a lot of very embarrassing details about hunter biden's life came out in this case. i was shocked to discover i knew that he had cheated on his wife with his dead brother's widow, but i was surprised that he had introduced crack cocaine to her. that was stunning and horrifying what is the feeling among friends, family, and supporters of hunter biden about all of this? >> yeah. i think part of the anguish of this is that in some ways hunter biden had tried to live his addiction out loud. he talked about it. he'd written about, he'd written a memoir about it. he tried to own it as a step towards recovery. and this process because of the nature of it, because of the nature of the charges, the specificity of the moment in time, it has meant dredging up the most really ornate and awful details of that part of his past. and there's just been no way around it. you've seen members of his family sitting in court supporting him, but that means there are also listening to some really agonizing detail yeah, i haven't asked knows. >> thanks so much. elie honig stick with me because we have another big legal case we're following today. of course, donald trump's interview. today with a probation officer. what's likely to come out of this one on one, why? hi, much of it, much of what was said will likely stay out of the public eye. i had a far-right surge in elections oversees might the trend continue here in the united states with the election day only 148 days away. but first the new details, a new video, but weekend raid that rescue four israeli hostages were back in a moment this is a secret, war, secrets and 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number was less than 100. obviously, the fact that these hostages were kept in a population center says quite a bit about the risk inherently pose to the civilians in the area. all of this comes as us secretary of state, antony blinken is visiting the middle east for the the eighth time since hamas invaded israel on october 7, blinken sat down with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is facing increased pressure at home over the war. now, despite the rescue of those four hostages on saturday, a key member of netanyahu's war cabinet, acquit the government yesterday. his name is benny gantz. he accused can you who appearing more about his political future, then the end of the war and the rescue of the hostages. cnn's paula hancocks kicks off our coverage from israel now with more details of how this hostage rescue was pulled off and what those families are saying now that their loved ones have been returned new video from the israeli military shows the rescue of israeli hostages from central gaza it says hundreds of personnel were involved in this rare daytime operation. three hostages locked in an apartment in one multi-story residential building. another held in a flat 650 defeat away in a densely populated neighborhood models of the buildings were built weeks before to train forces this is how israel's hostage rescue mission looked from the ground airstrikes, explosions residents running to find safety. that doesn't have to exist in gaza hostages were flown by helicopter back to israel i'm too emotional reunions with family who had dreamed of this moment for eight months. families who only heard about the mission it's their loved ones were safe i haven't stopped smiling since my el-gamal was for me but the remaining hostages need the deal to get home safely there is a deal on the table we ask the israeli government to move forward with the doctor who has treated the hostages since they arrived, tells me, despite appearing in good condition, all for a malnourished or masses are extremely wasted is damage to some other systems because of that he says they were moved frequently and beaten by their captors it was harsh, harsh experience with a lot of abuse almost every day, every hour both physical, mental, and other types. and that is something that is beyond comprehension. >> dr. paddock also treated some of the hostages released in november and says the psychological damage of these four is significantly worse. >> all of them had faith but losing that faith, i think is where you get to the breaking point. and i'm happy that these guys are here but there are others losing the faith in us anyone kinds residents in nuiseirat central gaza are in a state of shock, struggling to deal with the aftermath of saturday, which neighboring countries and the eu's top diplomat have called a massacre i'm going to mention a bit miss out what this woman says. >> most of those trapped under the rubble of women and children house, there's a filled with displaced people. israel committed a massacre hospital directors and gaza officials say more than 270 were killed hundreds more injured. the idf says there were fewer than 100 casualties. there's no breakdown of civilians versus fighters. but this hospital is filled with women and children some misery is continuing to flourish in gaza. those on the ground still daring to hope that there could be sunday hey it's ever elusive ceasefire. jake alright. >> paula hancocks and television for us joining us now to discuss former israeli prime minister naftali bennett prime minister bennett, thanks for joining us. so the us national security adviser, jake sullivan, has saying that an enduring ceasefire deal between israel and hamas, which would include hostage release his is the only credible path forward for returning remaining hostages. and according to polling, majority of the israeli people agree do you well, the israeli government is agreed to hostage deal and the hostage deal that president biden, that the put forward, and we're waiting for hamas we should note in the eight months since the war started, the idf has rescued seven hostages. they accidentally killed three hostages, more than 100 are still being held captive this mission, which thankfully, it turned out well in terms of the four rescued hostages, it took weeks planning and training and as we know, there were many innocent palestinian lives lost realistically isn't a hostage and as ceasefire, not just the hostage deal, but a ceasefire, really the, the best possible way to get the hostages home well as i. said the commander of hamas, if he is not going ahead with a deal because he doesn't feel enough pressure on him. >> he will will feel pressure when tanks come to kill him or and his leadership, the folks around them. and that's why we have to pursue them as quickly as possible right now. we don't have enough leverage on him because he sees that were being stopped all day and this whole war is being prosecuted only half-heartedly. >> that's why the best way to end this war is for him to understand that at the end is nearing and only then i think we can which the deal. what is your view of the criticism that this hostage rescue saved for innocent israelis, but also cost countless lives of innocent palestinian civilians. >> my response is simple, don't invade israel and kidnapped hundreds of citizens from their beds including children, moms, dads, and then expect that will come in dancing ballet and with flowers to get our people back we sent our best force, the imams, special forces unit, in to release these hostages they were held by the way, not by someone who's considered hamas, but by an al-jazeera reporter whose name is abdallah aljamal so according to the hamas and the gazans, this is a civilian. but do you consider him a civilian, a guy who's holding against their will civilian hostages for eight months so i have to say this is a ridiculous argument, that ridiculous. reprimand month. i am proud of what we did and we would do it again and again if we could. >> so let me ask you about abdallah aljamal al jazeera denies that he worked for them as anything other than a freelancer. or i think he wrote an op-ed or something like that. although he is on the al-jazeera website, so i don't know what the truth is there. he was definitely a journalist. he wrote an article for the palestine or the palestinian chronicle within the last few months but we are waiting for we in the us media are waiting for proof that he was holding these hostages captive i don't think there's any question that he was a journalist, but have you seen evidence that he was holding them captive and can you press the israeli government to share that evidence? >> i assume at a certain point the government will share, but we don't want to burn our sources, but it's funny because two here, al-jazeera denied that he's a reporter when his name is on their website as a reporter is ridiculous. al-jazeera and qatar are terror organizations are terrorist state and of terror organization. the fact that al jazeera still calls itself a news outlet is ridiculous their hands are in blood, and this is not the first time that al jazeera reporters are part of hamas. we've discovered many additional cases. you have to understand we are fighting a population that unfortunately massively supports hamas. we see in every other home, under beds of children, we see peers, we see rpgs. so this is a mix of civilians fins, and a terror group. but i would love to have been able to say that the civilians are hijacked by hamas. but the reality is they elected hamas, they support hamas and they support by enlarge this massacre. not every one of them, but most of them. >> so when we spoke last week, you told me that if benny gantz left the netanyahu government, the netanyahu government would lose legitimacy both domestically and internationally. how big a blow is his resignation and when will there be new elections if at all? >> i don't know when there'll be new elections. we have a fairly complex methodology to bring about elections. i will say that, yeah, it is a blow to the government and benny gantz yesterday and is a announcement. he said that he believes that netanyahu puts his own interests above the country's interests, et cetera. the certainly does not provide that back when for the war, it's something we're going to have to deal with in israel it's my belief that the sooner we can go to elections and get let's say, the backing of the israeli people yet again, the better off we are i've probably bennett, former prime minister of israel. >> thanks so much. appreciate it five americans are thought to be among the 116 hostages still being held in gaza. each have a dual israeli american citizenship. their names are aidan alexander and omer neutra and hersch goldberg polin, saggy deco, han, and keith samuel seagull. i can i'm not sure that psyche decal han belongs on that 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payment to adult film actress and director stormy daniels. >> cnn's john miller joins us now. >> what's the purpose of today's interview? >> what did the probation officer likely asked the 45th president? >> so the purpose of today's interview is for them to prepare a psr or a pre-sentence report for the judge this is basically where the probation department, which could in today's meeting have included the commissioner a couple of senior members, maybe a social worker, but it's where the probation department meets with someone who's going to come for sentencing and they ask questions about family background, financial status, living situation a lot of basic questions which coming from donald trump would have not the usual answers they get from the common defendant, but what they do is they write up their report and they submitted to the judge basically saying is this person a good candidate for what they call community corrections, which means being supervised on the outside rather than in jail or in prison. >> will trump's interview or was trump's interview likely different from the average probation client? do you think who hell? >> yes. and our understanding is that the interview was scheduled for around 330 this afternoon. it can usually take an hour or two, so that interview may still be going on as we speak but the average client, they're looking to ask about family history, his family history isn't the average family history education criminal background. so he doesn't have a criminal background except he will have to explain to them that he has three open felony cases pending in other jurisdictions. since to special counsel, one in georgia what's his employment history? he's always worked for his dad or himself. substance abuse issues, medical conditions financial status. i'm a billionaire. where do you live? in a big tower with my name in bold letters on it in a triplex penthouse. so it'll be unusual that said, this is the manhattan patton da's office. it's the new york city department of probation this will not be the first white collar defendant. they've brought in, who was a millionaire. but it is unusual because it will be the first person they've ever brought in who was a former president of the united states and running to get that job again, right? >> he worked for his dad. he worked worked for himself and he worked for the american people for four years, also? no. >> that's right. >> thanks so much. appreciate it. let's bring vaccine and elie honig aly, how does this pre-sentencing report way into the judges sentencing decision? >> so order narrowly these while psr is pre-sentencing reports can be influential, judges wanted now a bit more about the person. but in this case, what's not known about donald trump. and i doubt jennifer sean is gonna be much persuaded by this. i mean, this isn't decision that he and he alone will make and he has to live with he knows that this will be his mark in the historical record books. i don't think he's going to give all that much credence to whatever probation recommends. i think it's going to be on him when it comes to sentencing. what do you think the defense is going to recommend? what do you think the prosecution's recommend going to recommend so the defense is certainly going to ask for a non-custodial sentence, are going to ask for some combination of probation or a fine or maybe community service, a healthy majority of people convicted of this exact crime do get non incarceratory sentences in new york, somewhere between 70 and 90% i also think the prosecution is going to ask for imprisonment, and i think first of all, because there are aggravating factors here that make this worse in the prosecution's eyes than your typical falsification of records. >> they broke the gag order tensor break and the gag order in his open contempt for the judge and the process. >> the fact that the conduct impacted an election. i also think it's hard for the de is just a practical and political matter to bring this case get the convictions and then say, we're fine with probation. so i expect them guessing, but i expect alvin bragg to ask for some sort of prison sentence it's possible that we didn't discuss this enough because the amount was so miniscule $35 for for 15 designated to the trump campaign against the trump campaign for the biden campaign. but it is inherently unusual and very frowned upon for a judge to have given political donations and then not to have recused himself. >> again, the amount was small, but still is that not grounds for an appeal in and of itself, the judge merchan gave $35 to what? i've always acted blue or whatever $15 of that went to the biden campaign, which is very much against the defendant, judge merchan did get himself what we would technically call a cya memo. he went to the ethics board and gave them the facts and they said, you can stay on. but in my view, we absolutely should have recused himself. he should have removed himself. i mean, it's miniscule out, but judges are not supposed to give any amount. he violated the rules by giving $2 forget about $35. and i would just pose the converse. what if the judge had donated a tiny amount, $35, trump 2020. >> and then was the judge exactly right when people be fine with that, i think people would be going nuts about that the grounds were i don't know that it quite rises to the level of reversal because he got this opinion from the ethics board saying you're okay to stay on if you want, not, you have to stay on, but you can see them, but keep in mind, there's 40 something other judges in that courthouse who never donated and it would have been safer. why don't i mean, what was the ethics board thinking? it seems like why they've given him that this allowance to give money, the ethics boards opinion is mishmash. it is a tour, so page opinion that's very conclusively. they basically say, well, it was a small enough amount and it was more than two years ago to which i would say who cares? >> why does that matter? so we have some breaking news. elie, i want you to react. we've just learned that the jury in wilmington, delaware, in the hunter biden trial has ended deliberations for the day they had the case for about an hour yeah. >> any guesses as to what that means? obviously, an hour is not much of a time to deliberate at all. >> yeah, i guess i'll just say if they had come back within an hour, i would feel like that's probably aaliyah conviction. they probably just said meets the statutory definition of the crime. let's go home so they're chewing on it more than just that minimal amount. and will say, i do want to note this if they end up enough potential home situation where they can't get to unanimity. that's going to take a while to play out. because what has to happen is they have to get to a point where they feel like they're deadlocked, then they have to tell the judge's that in a note, then the judge gives a further instruction what we call an allen charge basically saying, hey, folks, you really need to get to a verdict if you can. so we're not there yet. no what you're there, right? we're nowhere near there, but if we don't see a verdict, next couple of days, i'd start thinking about that all alright, let's, let's go to wilmington, delaware right now. we're paula reid is standing by with the news of the jury going home. >> paula that's all right. we just watched them leave. >> they passed by very close just a few feet away. they all had at home if they had barely an hour to deliberate. so it's not surprising that they're going to head home, were told there'll be back in court at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow to continue their deliberations on these three counts. and this historic case against the president's son. but really no one can know how long it'll take them to reach a decision. >> alright, paula reid, elie honig with the breaking news. thanks to both you coming up next is stunning election results 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the right in europe back in 2016, the brexit movement pulled off a stunning victory and just months later, sottile donald trump back here in the us is this populism part of something in the air cnn's melissa bell explains now how resin micron is trying to call the bluff of those on the right in his country it was an aftershock that rival to the earthquake for sunday nights european election results i will dissolve the national assembly france's emmanuel macron killed his nap national elections as the two main far-right parties took nearly 40% of votes in france we are ready to turn the country around ready to bring france, but back to life already hamstrung without an absolute majority in parliament mccoys looking to tackle the far-right head-on calling for clarity from voters on the country's future but if the far-right and copy their wins on the fridge stage my cool could be facing three years with a radical right prime minister. most likely the 28-year-old jordan bardella. >> well 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