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good afternoon. two hours and counting until david weiss has to meet this deadline for house republicans to answer questions about the hunter biden probe. i think we can say with confidence he won t meet the deadline. the reason we can say this with confidence, he said so himself in a letter to republican house judiciary chairman jim jordan late last week. i want to read party of it. this is from weiss to jordan. he said in his letter last friday to jordan, the donald trump appointed u.s. attorney quoted a prior letter from june where he wrote clear cheer. a few weeks later, trace, how judiciary chairman jim jordan wrote to weiss asking him who told him to sign that letter. jordan doesn t believe that weiss called the shots in the probe. he think us it was doj. jordan believes this based off of the testimony of irs whistle-blower shapley who investigated the hunter biden tax probe since 2020. he s been on the record numerous times say he saw weiss complain that ....
challenge that could change the internet forever. and alex murdaugh s son takes the stand testifying for the defense in his father s double murder trial. that is what we are watching this hour. thank you for being here, everybody. i m kate bolduan. president biden is preparing for a huge moment, and he is in poland and about to deliver a major speech to mark the one-year anniversary of russia s unprovoked war in ukraine. where biden was yesterday making surprise trip to kyiv where he pledged support for ukraine really no matter how long it takes. biden s speech comes today after vladimir putin himself made his own major address from moscow. and putin is staying true to form and accusing the west of igniting the conflict and condemned the west and nato allies for supplying weapons to ukraine and announced that russia is going to suspend their participation with the s.t.a.r.t. treaty with the u.s. now, we will start with the big moment with kaitlan collins where the p ....
with every crime imaginable if we make that move happen. what we know about pat cipollone s upcoming testimony. then president biden and vice president harris just called the wife of brittney griner who s being held in russia. we ll speak with the family of another american detained in russia for years. what they want to hear from the president. welcome to the lead. i m erica hill in for jake tapper. we begin with the deadly july fourth shooting in illinois. police now saw the alleged gunman seriously contemplated a second attack two hours away in madison, wisconsin. that s where officials say the suspect ended up evading police for hours after escaping the crime scene in highland park. escaping dressed as a woman to blend in with those fleeing for safety. that attack took seven lives. the seventh person identified today. 69-year-old eduardo 35-year-old irina mccarthy and her husband, kevin mccarthy. jacquelyn sundheim. 88-year-old stephen straus and nicolas tol ....
he was read his miranda warnings, offered attorneys, et cetera, he went into details about what he had done. he admitted to what he had done. reporter: the county sheriffs office also revealed that there were red flags about the shooter well before monday s mass killing. in april of 2019, police were called about a suicide attempt of his. five months later, a relative contacted police after the suspect threatened to quote kill everyone in the family. but still, he was able to obtain the illinois equivalent of a gun license in 2020. today the prosecutor tried to explain it. there was never a firearm restraining order. that s what i had used the term red flag. that type of order mr. crimo has never been involved in that type of order. that s an order where family members and other individuals can go to a court and ask that somebody have firearms taken and not be allowed to piurchase firearms. that did not happen in mr. crimo s case. cnn security correspondent, jos ....