today on inside politics, exclusive new cnn reporting about an immunity deal for a fake bear of electors. new details that make clear the trump special counsel s january 6th investigation is picking up speed. plus, joe biden hardly ever says it, donald trump wants to steer clear of it. mike pence wants to put every single republican on record about it. one year after dobbs erased roe, abortion is front and center in the 2024 campaign. and damning if true, accusations against the justice department. irs whistleblowers bullet point how they say the do j block ed the hunter biden investigation at every turn. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. up first, jack smith plays hardball. cnn s new exclusive reporting breaking right now. it takes us inside the special counsel s investigation into the insurrection. the big takeaway tromwhat cnn is learning, federal investigators are getting important questions answered about the trump plot to overturn the 2020 elec
it s 4:00 in the east. a stunning comprehensive brand new piece of reporting that really amounts to a first drafrt of history for merrick garland s justice department a piece of reporting that answers questions we ve been asking for years now questions that have dogged doj for many many months why did it take so long for d.o.j. to investigate? the first formal step into probing the campaign to overturn the 2020 election. the criminal inquiry now into the fate of electors did not take place until april 2022 more than a area after the insurrection and well after the january 6th select committee had begun to uncover a complex multipronged plot and democracy with donald trump in the driver s seat. the washington post is reporting in the immediate aftermath of the january 6th insurrection, acting u.s. attorney michael sherwin, senior justice department officials and paul abbate quashed a plan in the u.s. attorney s office to directly investigate trump associates for any links to
trump-appointed prosecutor. tonight, one of donald trump s gop rivals says the former president just admitted to obstruction of justice on national television. we re following the fallout from trump s first tv interview since his indictment in the classified documents investigation. and the search for the missing titanic tour submersible is growing more urgent. the coast guard warning the five people on board have less than 40 hours of oxygen left. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitser is off. i m alex marquardt. you re in the situation room. we do begin with the legal ramifications for hunter biden after his newly announced plea agreement with the justice department and the political implications for his father, the president. our correspondents are all standing by at the white house and on capitol hill. first cnn s senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid. paula, what more are we learning about this deal on th
good evening, sounds like it s time to check the latest rules on right in ballots for the new hampshire primary. bring a pan, if you are a democrat. back in 68, when the new hampshire primary became a giant event because jean mccarthy went up there and challenged the sitting president, lyndon johnson, the sensation was, mccarthy won. he got more than 40% of the vote. but lyndon johnson won, and his name was not on the ballot. it needed to be written in. so who knows. who knows. lisa murkowski will tell you, are right in ballot is fine by her. so, alex, before you go, i m a little concerned. i have governor gretchen whitmer booked for the show tonight, but that was done before i read jennifer palmieri s vanity fair profile of her. have you read this? i saw it, i got an alert about it, i m a big fan of jennifer. great. but when you get, i don t know, 50 words in it says, and this is jennifer palmieri s reporting, so it s real, it s true, she says, whitmer does not
53 year old son, hunter biden, agreeing to plead guilty to the tax violation of paying his taxes late. not paying his taxes on time. hunter biden paid the taxes in full, he just didn t do it fast enough. and, hunter biden agreed, with the u.s. attorney in delaware, who was appointed by donald trump. that he did agree that he did not tell the truth when he applied for a gun permit. hunter biden signed a form saying he was not addicted to drugs, at a time when he has publicly confessed, including in his book, that he was addicted to drugs. the u.s. attorney, appointed by donald trump, has decided not to prosecute hunter biden for falsely filling out the gun license application. as long as hunter biden remains on good behavior during the terms of the probation. he will likely receive for the tax misdemeanor, that he will plead guilty to. no court date is yet set for when hunter biden will plead guilty. many legal observers today have said that under similar circumstances, a tax