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rejects a deal that israel already accepted all right 5:00 a.m. here in washington, a live look at capitol hill early on this wednesday morning. >> good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us for the first time in american history, the child of a sitting president has been convicted of a crime. a jury in delaware finding hunter biden guilty on all three felony charges, two, for lying about his drug use on a federal background check. a third possessing for possessing a gun while addicted to or using illegal drugs. the verdict ended a very stressful week and a half for the biden family. the trial exposing painful details about the extent of hunter's drug use the president embracing his just convicted sun on a tarmac in wilmington shortly after the verdict was handed down, the president releasing the statement, quote, as i said last week, i am the president, but i am also a dad, jill and i love our son and we are so proud of the man he is today. he added as i also said, last week, i will accept the outcome of this case and will continue to respect the judicial process as hunter considers an appeal reaction came in quickly from across capitol hill. here's a little bit from both sides of the aisle but mr. speaker, you've been saying two tier system of justice for some time. here's the president's son being convicted on three counts that undercut your clients. >> it doesn't every case is different and clearly the evidence was overwhelming here. i don't think just the case in the trump trial. >> i've not heard a single democrat anywhere in the country cry fraud cry fixed, cry, rigged a cry kangaroo court. you don't hear a single peek out of any democrats saying that why we believe in the rule of law all right, journey is down to discuss deaf kite political reporter for axios, stef. good morning to you. thank you so much for being here. good. >> how would you characterize what we're hearing in reaction to this conviction we've got a little taste. >> they're from each side. >> yeah, it's an interesting democrats have certainly been kind of sticking to the talking point that no one is above the law and they've been pretty muted in their response or certainly not rushing to the defense of hunter, right now, they're just saying we need to trust the justice system and on the other side, i think it's been interesting to see how republicans are responding to this because of course, we've heard from some that they are opposed to certain gun laws and they've been using that as one reason. to kind of push back on the hunter conviction here and we've also seen republicans say, yeah, maybe they found him guilty in this situation, but this isn't enough. we've heard from exam, for example, james comer are calling for more investigation into biden family members. so we're seeing them take this and demand more certainly not cheering this very loudly from republicans. >> yeah, i mean, the way republicans are, i mean, in some ways they're they're almost downplaying it. >> this was matt gaetz, who of course has been you know it doesn't exactly. >> shy away from saying inflammatory things. he writes this, the hunter biden gun conviction is kinda dumb to be honest, dbh and then marjorie taylor greene says that what we really should be focused on quote, unquote remains untouched and then she says hunter biden just became the deepstate sacrificial lamb to show that justices balanced, while the other biden crimes remain ignored. she's of course, talking about the sprawling impeachment investigation into the president via some of the business activities of his son that ultimately showed have so far failed to turn up anything extraordinarily incriminating. it does put them in a little bit of a difficult spot when they are saying what they're saying about former president trump's conviction. >> exactly i mean, the reality is this does undermine some of their arguments that they've been making for the past several years, that the justice department, that justice system is biased against conservatives and that trump is a victim of this. and now we have hunter biden, the son of the sitting president, a democrat and a very democratic state who is still being found guilty of federal charges. and so that doesn't quite neatly fit into this narrative that republicans have been spinning four. again since 2015, 2016. and so we're seeing them trying to get around on that. of course. and one of the ways they're trying to get around this is by saying, oh see, this was just to make people forget about how bad the case was against trump. they're pointing to this as no politically motivated, still even now, because again, they need to explain this away. how can if the justice system is so rigged, how can hunter biden still be found guilty in a democratic state so in terms of the president himself, i mean, clearly the statement that they put out focused on his role as a dad, you obviously was on camera when he embraced hunter there after this all came down, he did not go to the trial, but his wife, the first lady, jill biden, attended every single day. >> i mean, what do you hear from sources about how the stress of going through this has affected them as they are the president's campaign for reelection. >> yeah, i mean, there's no question that joe biden cares a lot about his family. it's a very close-knit family and there's no question that that hunters ongoing issues with addiction and then these criminal cases have impacted him. he is invested the fact that we did see him immediately helicopter to delaware to see hunter after this decision came through shows that he is invested in this. the fact that the first lady was there and you know, every every day at this trial, this is going to impact the family emotionally and it's going to impact joe biden as he is trying to run for reelection in a very closely contested race. whether we see this actually impact 2024 is still an open question. there's no polling that indicates that voters are necessarily going to change. there minds around this. but i do think the biggest impact this could have is on joe biden's focus and how he's willing to campaign and whether he's willing to set this aside and really focus on what needs to be done i mean, look like presidential campaign is a crucible and anything that distracts you has the potential to really kind of effect thanks from a very and he's got this trial coming up in september on tax issues. >> han fei, those which is of course very squarely in the political calendar, steph. thank you. i really appreciate you. start us off this morning. thank you. >> alright coming up next here, president biden heading out on another international trip today, plus the southern state with almost a month's worth of rain in a single day more is coming plus the matchup is set to one the most important senate races of the year. >> but bring you that the most anticipated moment of this election and the stakes 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all right, welcome back, president biden, traveling to italy this morning ahead of the annual g7 summit that starts tomorrow, he'll be meeting with the leaders of france and germany both leaders reeling from heavy defeats in recent european parliamentary elections also, prime minister, british prime minister rishi sunak, he is in the grips of a political storm himself as they all face stiff domestic competition and similar challenges to staying in power i will earn your trust and i will prove to you that only a conservative government led by me will not put are harder and economic stability at risk. this is a situation that i cannot come to terms with the rise of nationalists, of demagogues is a danger for our nation. >> what do you think you need to accomplish are that debate stage i have to share ready says, remind people what he says and what i believe what he believed my journey me now cnn's max foster live from london. >> max, good morning to you as i watch this and think about kind of what's unfolding across europe. but also here in the us well, politico wrote it. this way. let's, let's read from it, quote, the three liters or dramatically changing the plot and facing their issues head-on. basically, they argue that the establishment politicians in this case are trying to hold up a global order that is fraying, particularly because of challenges, doesn't totally apply to rishi sunak on the right. but for the germans, the french, and of course, biden here at home with trump it is trying to take on this kind of rising nationalism. how do you look at all of this and what's the conversation like heading into the g7? >> yeah. well, i think rishi sunak is facing the same thing because whilst the left free labor party is expected to win the election, is the fact that the far right reform party is taken so many votes away from rishi sunak's conservative party. so while he is on the right and the other toura, center-left, they're all in the center and they're all facing a real threat from the right. the idea, i think bringing things forward, macron and sunak bringing on these elections much earlier than people expected. biden going into the debates many people expected, i think is this the theory that if you appeal to the rational side of people with serious policies, then you'll be able to argue that over a longer period of time before people actually go to the polls. but i think the right is very successfully. certainly here in europe, argue it's a bizarre one because they're basically arguing around cost of living, inflation. people can't afford things. so therefore, you need to hunker down stop immigration, stopped sending money to ukraine, stop paying for the environment, which is that idea of the cost of living crisis has always been an argument. the left you successfully in the past and it's in another right is using it. so many people are seeing it really as a failure of the left in many ways, but it's also a big chunk allen's for the center ground yeah. >> no, it's it's a really interesting way to look at it. i mean, i would also say, i mean, one of the things that is big picture different here and challenging is the security situation, right? i mean the there's an isolationist tendency to the trump situation here. >> in the the us that quite frankly, really affects how the us will interact with nato, european security. >> i mean, there are russian warships doing drills 30 miles off the coast of florida that the us military is monitoring right now. and of course there's discussion about how this fits into the recent us decision to allow us weapons to be used across the border with russia. all of that kind of looming over these leaders as they meet know absolutely this is probably says more about russia, doesn't it? >> this these ships than it does about the us. russia showing its global presence and it's coming through on everything, isn't it? whether right. but they've been trying to undermine they've been trying to kind of there's evidence that they've been trying to encourage and stoke some of this race wing political activity to try and split the west and reduce the security power across the board of the west now, yeah, it's all about creating divisions in the west so they can fill that vacuum with their own or authority in these ships are really a visualization all of that certainly in terms of isolationism, it does come into the right-wing debate here in europe as it does into america, because it's the, question about, do we support ukraine or do we not support ukraine? >> do we focus our own internal issues? so it all plays into the same thing. so certainly in terms of putin's and she's wider strategy to assert themselves and fill the vacuum on the global stage. the right-wing helps because it brings all the western allies into a more national frame of mind if you like, and less involved in international affairs are very interesting. all right, max foster for us my than london max are 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