the guilty verdicts. and sensational testimony and evidence in the hunter biden s federal gun trial. as prosecutors introduced his infamous laptop and illegal drug photos found on it. standby for details on the first witness to take the stand against the president s son welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, a urine the situation room the skis, cnn, breaking news we begin with breaking news. president biden sweeping new executive action on immigration. now, just hours away from taking effect, we re tracking how this move may him illegal border crossings. and the us presidential election seen as david culverts and san diego at the southern border with mexico. but first let s go to c cnn s priscilla alvarez. she s over at the white house worse, priscilla, a major moved by the president on a hot-button issue in this rematch with donald trump well a major. move wolf with huge ramifications at the us southern border as migrants wil
and quite frankly, i think it s in the campaign s best interest to leave the gag order in place because he gets a lot more support from saying, hey, i m not allowed to talk then he would if he were allowed to say what he has to think about michael cohen. i m just going to hear anything that we didn t expect let s see what he says that the upcoming debate with biden to assuming that gag order is still in effect, let s see how that plays out. guys. thank you very, very much. le william tim parlatore. appreciated coming up. fiery exchanges between the attorney general of the united states, merrick garland and republicans who accuse him of weaponizing the us justice department will go live to capital hello, plus, the prosecution s evidence against hunter biden as his past use of illegal drugs takes center stage. in his trial on gun charges the, athletes, in aw are pushing the limits of what is capable ready to show how good i am. i trained all over
felony counts. and also since president joe biden has made comments, and in addition, they say since this presidential debate is coming up later this month, they re asking for the gag order to be lifted. so we re waiting for the judge to respond to this in any way, a spokesman for the court has said that his gag order speaks for itself and representatives for the da s office have declined to comment. well hi, cara. thank you. kara scannell reporting. let s get some analysis, right now from former trump attorney tim parlatore and cnn legal analyst, elliot williams elliott. i want to remind our viewers, we re trump s said about michael cohen is former fixer on friday. listen and watch this i m not allowed to use his day because of the gag order. but you know, he s just sleazebags everybody knows that took me a while to find out but he was effective. he did work but he wasn t a fixture. he was a lawyer so do you think trump are really does have an argument for ending his gag order when he
witnesses in this case, he has an argument for ending the gag order, but the judge also has an argument for keeping it in place. and let s unpack both of them. number one, the judge maintains jurisdiction over his domain in the courtroom until sentencing and can make the argument i meant that for the quote, unquote the integrity of the proceedings, which was the language in both gag orders. the initial one, and then the amended one. there are still legal proceedings going on and he can maintain whatever he thinks it takes to have the public maintain confidence in the proceedings. now, as a practical matter, number one, there s no jury anymore, which was a big basis for the gag order. and number two, even though there s still the same risk of witness harm, there s no more witnesses in practice, and so just because the judge can it s not clear that the judge will lift it. and frankly, i m quite curious as to how the judge will thread this needle. it s interesting, tim, can you heard