politics, family ties. >> president biden embraces son, both littered, literally and figuratively at first three felony convictions we'll look at the fallout for the first family and the biden campaign. plus david axelrod is here to talk about whether his party needs to do more to reach out to discipline republicans, especially so many progressives turning away from biden over the war in gaza and the rent is too high the cost of housing is still sorry. >> that's a big reason why so many americans feel badly about the economy, despite new state that overall inflation is slowing down i'm on a rod when for dana bash, let's go behind the headlines inside politics first up, we're tracking the fallout of a hunter biden guilty verdict. >> present some biden is on his way to the g7 summit in italy this morning, after a last-minute trip to delaware last night to huddle with this family. the president's son was found guilty on all three federal gun charges. he is facing cnn's kevin lip dag is tracking it all from the white house. so kevin, the white house press or create just address the issue of a possible commutation for hunter biden for the first time? hi, what did she say? >> well, she didn't rule it out. she also didn't rule it in. and what creon chomp pure told reporters on air force one was that she hadn't spoken to this to the president about this idea of commuting hunter biden sentence. she did point out that sentencing hadn't happened yet, and she pointed back to the president's very definitive they've comment from last week when he said that he had ruled out a presidential pardon for his son. so this is still a question that i think is hanging over this verdict a day after it happened, you are seeing the biden family starting to pick themselves up from this very dark moment and return back to work. we just learned in the last hour that the first lady, jill biden, who had been attending this trial for the last week or so. we'll resume her campaign travel beginning tomorrow to a number of battleground states. but i think if you want to see what's in the president's head, if you want to get a sense of where his mind at the best place to live look at those images from yesterday in wilmington, delaware as the president was stepping off, a marine one greeting his son hunter for the first time since that verdict was rendered with a smile, with a hug. this is really the strategy that the president has employed for so long. when it comes to his son's legal issues is to draw him close, not push him away really kind of banished the sense of shame or stigma. and that does, i think speak to some of the anguish that the president has been feeling behind the scenes for his son's well-being, for his whole family's well-being. another president is on his way now to the g7 in italy. he is joined on air force one by some of his granddaughters. those would be hunter biden's daughters. so certainly that family dynamic very much at close hand, even as the president continues his day-to-day job as president, this is quite a stacked summit. there are a lot for these leaders to address principally among them, the war in ukraine. but of course, the looming potential return of president trump to the g7, if you were to win in november, i think is at the back of everyone's mind as they gather their on the italian coast, manu, all right, a lot to dissect kevin lip deck at the white house. thanks for that. my panels with me now let's cnn's priscilla alvarez, lisa lera, the new york times, and she's also the co-author, the new book, the fall of roe, the rise of a new america, and cnn's alayna train. >> good to see you guys. you just came back from wilmington this manning for the show. thanks for you. jazz for us. well, thank you for that. >> it was interesting. the calculator haitian of the president to be seen with the sun last night giving them a hug in the aftermath of this felony conviction, he didn't have to do that. they could have done this in private, decided to do it in public. what is behind that? why that was thinking no clear indication that he's going to keep his son close. a few things sources tell us that the possibility of the president going to wilmington was floated late monday night. it became it was finalized after the verdict was reached. not only did the president rush back to wilmington, the cameras were there. they caught the moment that hunter biden and his father embraced and had a moment before rushing off to the private residence where they huddled over the course of the evening. so clearly, the president, he wanted to be there for a son that has been what he has said over the course of this trial. in fact, in his statement yesterday if you read it closely, it's really framed through the lens of a father, not a president. he talks about the resiliency of the sun going through this addiction. and within the white house, within the campaign, this has been a sensitive and adult issue. of course but when we also talked two sources within the campaign for them, it's business as usual. they think that voters have already baked in their minds what they think about the hunter biden trial. it's not to their mind's going to sway any voters. therefore, they're going to continue on the path that they're on. of course, there are still more trials and leave go proceeding to come but certainly for now, it is. this is, this is at the end of the de, a father who had to come to a sunset. yeah. but, you know, as you mentioned, where the middle of the political season, there's a decision in a calculation behind every thing. it was a decision to be seen. but as priscilla notes, they don't believe there'll be any political backlash on the president, least not yet yeah, look, this this has been a grueling and deeply emotional thing for the biden family. >> this is of course, a family that's been marked by tragedy. that's quite close. it you saw that on full display in this trial. i mean, there were tears. it was really emotional testimony but look, the name of the show's inside politics the politics of this. >> they also think while it may not move voters, they, i have talked to several sources inside the campaign and sayyed the democratic party, who think it is good politics or better politics for the president to be seen as a supportive father, to be their supporting his son, who has dealt with but these issues of addiction, like so many americans have dealt with issues of addiction and that he will get credit in some voters minds for showing up in that way. so i think it is both personal but also, of course, as you point out, political, it's really interesting that trump, he adds yeah, been talking about where's onto a wears on. remember they that was the whole campaign mantra in 20, 2,000 bindings in the center of the investigations on capitol hill. here he is convicted of felonies and don't tropos or nothing. >> that's why we only saw statement from the campaign and it didn't even really mention the hunter biden's conviction and it was from a spokesperson, wasn't from how it was from a spokesperson and it said that it's a distraction from the real crimes of the biden family. luck. >> it is a difficult situation for donald trump himself because as we know and he discussed this on hanadi earlier this week, he comes from a family that has struggled with addiction. donald trump has been very public about that. and so in some ways, i think the former president is a bit sympathetic toward hunter biden, however, that doesn't mean he's going to stop attacking hunter biden overall for what the republican party has really made a target to show that the biden family is corrupt now, i will also say the other side of that is it does take a little bit of the wind out of his campaign sales when it comes about talking about his own conviction because the key thing that he has been saying over and over again that is playing very well with voters as well. is that this is a two tier justice system, that they're only prosecuting donald trump, having the president's son be convicted does hurt that argument. of course, that's not going to change. well, look, it's messed and in 2020 donald trump did go after president biden and hunter's issues at the time, and that moment during that debate, we're on the cusp of another debate. it resonated because it ended up being the president, president biden. now, ecology and the difficulties of struggling with a sign with addiction and the campaign looks at that as a very strong moment that he could relate to american in perhaps one of the reasons why that trump has not said whole lot is that republicans have been all over the map in the reaction i spent a lot of time talking to love republicans, the speaker, the house, that it was an appropriate we had thing for him to be convicted. others said it was not appropriate, and some dabbled in the idea of some conspiracy mongering i don't think anybody should be prosecuted for that infraction. >> there millions of felons in this country just waiting to be arrested because there are millions of marijuana users. >> and what they got hunter biden non was lying on a gun form. that would be like getting jobs free, dahmer for littering. it just seems like a prosecution as of a near for the real devious conduct okay. >> so for the real deviates kind of course, there's nothing had been proven that joe biden has done anything cropped with, has been part of the republican impeachment investigation that has not led to any sort of effort to impeach him yet because they don't have the votes statement proven what they've been looking out for. this is what steven miller's do you senior adviser to trump wrote on x yesterday. he said doj is running on election interference for joe biden. he says he goes on to say why? because all the evidence would lead back to joe doj is joe's election protection rag get there all over the place. >> yeah. look, i think sometimes with campaigns it matters what they say, but it also matters what they don't say. and the trump campaigns sort of broad silence except for the one statement speaks volumes here and the reality is this is a complicated political issue for them me cause some thomas asieh. you shouldn't even prosecutor they believe in the second amendment and gun issues, and obviously there are a lot of strong supporters of gun rights that vote republican. so that's complicated the addiction issues are complicated. there's a lot of americans dealing with addiction. >> and i also think they didn't get the headline they wanted, which was is it would have been better for them in some ways to have a hung jury because they could have said it's an unfair system. >> instead they gotta headline where hunter was convicted, hunter biden, and also that doesn't link anything that went on the trial to the president so while i think miller statements will help rally the republican base in the mega-base who are with trump. anyhow, it's not that kind of thing is not going to break through to voters who the small sliver of voters who may be undecided or people who were on the fence about how it's not going to get them the mass support that they could have ran width, gotten those other two scenarios. >> in some are still saying to tear justin system and some saying that doesn't undercut the idea of a so-called your justice. and this is what jason rho khuza'a republican strategist for the chair of the michigan gop, set to political yesterday, it throws a bit of sand in the gears of people, suggesting the biden depart from a justice has been engineering, engineered to go after trump won feature of the modern republican party is ignoring facts that don't support the argument in sometimes embracing the conspiracy theories that do i think i think that's pretty fair. i think that's why this case is very difficult for them to handle you laid it out perfectly their biggest i mean, i will say from being on the ground specifically, i talked to so many voters at these trump rallies, some of them who say one of their driving issues for wanting to vote for the former president is because of all the charges he is facing. so this really does under undercut their key argument. i think that's why you're seeing the silence while you're not hearing much on this because we know donald trump is going to continue to run on being persecuted political opponent. he's continuing to fund raise insane amounts of money after that guilty verdict in manhattan a week or so ago. and so that is so quarter their campaign and they do not want to draw attention to the fact that the president's own son was also found guilty. boats on the biden administration, both sides seem to be willing to move on. >> rates, leave the voters. the voters thing. >> all right, coming up in contempt. >> house republicans are poised to hold the attorney general in contempt of congress. are live from capitol hill next five good things. >> 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last vote series, marjorie taylor greene said that if republicans vote against moving forward with this contempt resolution, that they're going to have explain themselves to gop voters. i also talked to anthony d'esposito who is a moderate republican from a swing district who told me that he does plan to supported. so that gives you some indication that even people who have tough free elections coming up in november, they're leaning to vote and support this bill mono obviously will be watching at 3:30 republicans arguing they have to move forward with this because they want the audio tapes released from special counsel robert hur's interview with president trump mono yeah, america calls as he would not do that because it would jeopardize how they do future investigations when they bring people behind closed doors, lauren fox. thank you for that report and last names, primaries proved donald trump's still has a strong grip on the republican party. candidates endorsed in multiple states, walked away with victory. that includes south carolina congresswoman nancy mace she overcame a primary challenge backed by former house speaker kevin mccarthy, who of course she voted to depose some other biggs wins last night, sam brown secure the gop nomination, and then nevada senate race after trump sided with gop leaders. this is to support the army veteran in that marquis race. and in a ruby red district in ohio, republican michael rulli, one a house special election, but he did far worse than trump did in that same district four years ago. >> democratic strategists simon rosenberg tells politico, quote, when the choice of maga and other alternatives are presented to voters maga underperforms polling. >> so let's dig into that. >> is that actually accurate? >> so this is what happened here last night in this ohio special election it's a red district of very red desert. trump wanted by almost 30 points in 2020 last night, the republican candidate just ten points. so what does it, what does it tell us? one thing that it could tell us is trump does better with voters vote infrequently, then voters who vote frequently. this is what registered color voters versus people who did not vote in 2020, donald trump in battleground states up six points among all registered voters, up 17 points among people who did not vote in 2020, meaning they are not very frequently. so at least i shouldn't. democrats be as hardened as maybe simon rosenberg says they should be. >> well, simon rosenberg has the democrats big o meister that says, look we all, all of us who follow politics and read these tea leaves. we love special elections. we think they give us unlock clues. the predictive clues of the universe they're not a bad barometer. i think they can tell us some things about the environment. we have seen that democrats have over-performed in elections since president biden won in 2020. so there is a bit of a trend line there. but the reality is, people are going to be voting. next 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