Visit home served served. Com. Im Natasha Bertrand at the pentagon. And this is cnn closed, captioning is brought to you by Sokoloff Law Mesothelial more victims call now 30 Billion in Trust Money has been set aside. You may be entitled to a portion of that Money Call 1808, 1808592400. Thats when 8085920400 is cnn Breaking News we start this hour with Breaking News in to cnn. The judge in former president Donald Trumps Hush Money Criminal Case has postpone his sentencing until after novembers election. Judge juan marchan, noting that the upcoming president ial election in his decision, this is something he considered in his decision to delay sentencing with us. Now we have Cnn Correspondent kara scannell, cnn national correspondent kristen holmes, cnn chief national Affairs Correspondent jeff zeleny. And we have Defense And Trial attorney misty marris thats with us. Kara, to you first, tell us more about judge Marshawns Rationale here on delaying the Sentencing But Judge Marshawn Lays
Prosecutors and flipped to pleading guilty on all nine of his federal tax charges yesterday. He said he didnt want to subject his family to more pain and embarrassment. Perhaps theyve seen the youtube videos, too. The sentencing for this case is set for december 16th. That will be soon after the sentencing in his gun case. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Hunter biden faces many years in prison in the Tax Evasion Case particularly. President biden vowed he would not pardon his son. And the White House seemed to double down on what the president said yesterday. I can say that it is still very much a no to the questions that ive gotten about if the president is going to pardon his son. I dont have anything else. Can you comment a commutation would be on or off the table . Thats a no. Harris he is exposed to 17 years by pleading guilty. He could have leverage and get it down. Some people dont have big doubts whether or not biden would keep that precampaign promise bec
A key hearing in trumps federal Election Subversion Case gets underway. Its the first since prosecutors revise their indictment last week following the supreme Courts Landmark ruling on president ial immunity. Earlier this year on the left side of your screen you will see whats happening in court coming from our reporters in the room. Lets get straight to cnn, chief legal Affairs Correspondent Paula reid shoe. Shes outside the courthouse for us. Paula, what are we expecting . Oh, good morning, jim. Today is all about how to move forward in this case after the Supreme Court issued an opinion that really limited what prosecutors can charge former President Trump with and which evidence they can introduce in this case. Now there are no cameras in federal courts, so we are relying on our team of reporters inside to provide us with updates. Also, the former president is not in attendance today. He that appearance has been waived. But what we expec is that Judge Tanya Chutkan, let me tell yo
Pass a specific decided for ive been appointed by numerous Justice Departments to investigate cases and prosecute them if necessary, where there might be a conflict of interests, Molar Being also another recent one elie, i just want you to explain to our viewers when i started reporting from the White House many years ago, there were independent counsel now there are Special Counsels. Whats the difference . Exactly right. So we had a law on the books of federal law from 1978 to 1999, creating the position of independent counsel. And we had a good number of them. The most famous or infamous one of those was Ken Starr in 1999, that law lapsed. It had a legislative sunset that was such backlash over the Clinton Impeachment that congress just said, lets let it die in its place in 1999, arose the current set of Special Counsel regulations. Under those regulations, weve seen robert muller, Jack Smith, robert hurr, david weiss, as kara noted, who has prosecuting Hunter Biden right now. And th
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