Deepening ties. I'm Lee Silasera Fox News. President Biden hosting

Japan's prime minister at the White House for a state dinner this evening.

Earlier the two tackled a range of topics in a one-on-one meeting.

Japanese Prime Minister Kashita Fumio and President Biden are elevating military cooperation

and enhancing interoperability and planning between the nation's militaries. The president says

Japan is also joining a network of missile defense with Australia.

And are purely about defense and readiness. It's not aimed at any one nation or a threat to the region and it's not aimed at any one nation or a threat to the region and it doesn't have

anything to do with conflict.

Still both leaders say they discussed easing tensions with China and North Korea.

Tomorrow the President of the Philippines joins President Biden and Prime Minister Kashita for a summit on freedom of navigation in the South China Sea. Boxes, Jared Halpern at the White House, a third attempt by former President Trump to delay his

hush money trial has been rejected by a New York judge. Trump's lawyers

had asked the trial be put on hold indefinitely while they fight to remove

him and challenge several of his rulings.

This is a former Trump organization executive has been sentenced for lying under oath.

Alan Wieslburg, the former chief financial officer for the Trump organization has been

sentenced to five months in jail in a perjury plea deal. He was charged in March

with five counts of perjury for lying under oath multiple times about the

values of former President Trump's

properties during the New York Attorney General's civil fraud

investigation. Sentencing lasted just minutes and Weisilburg who was 76 was

immediately handcuffed and taken into custody.

Fox is Tanya J. Power.

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