i like the governor, the lieutenant governor of south carolina. and henry mcmaster has turned out to be a great, great person. i put her over there, but much more important to me because henry mcmaster was great, always great. and people love him in south carolina, and i got him to be governor of south carolina. that was a very big thing to me, and i put her in that other position. that s donald trump trashing his former ambassador to the united nations and then offering a down right strange explanation for why he appointed her in the first place. you heard the former president talk about haley s poll numbers and new data showing his own are slipping a little bit. we ll dig into that in just a moment. plus we ll get expert legal analysis on the plea deal for hunter biden as we re learning more about the terms agreed to by the doj and the president s son. also ahead the latest on the search for the missing titanic tourist submursable after canadian aircraft detected unde
now with elycia menendez in for alex. reporter: the bread and butter of conservative media for years now has been hyping up the investigation into president biden s adult son, hunter biden. it s never been seen to end. they used it to create asymmetry that didn t really exist between trump s alleged crimes and what they speculated was the crime ridden biden family, and so long as this case was open and the investigation was behind closed doors, they could really make it whatever they wanted it to be. and even though that was the case, even though republicans have been dining out on this hunter investigation for years, they also have been up in arms about how it hadn t finished yet. they were aghast that trump was indicted before hunter. they wanted hunter s case resolved immediately. well, today we have some closure in that case. today we got the news hunter biden is expected today enter a plea deal for two tax misdemeanors in that investigation. he s also expected to strik
because together, we rise. and on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. the bread and butter of conservatives in the conservative media for years now has been hyping up an investigation into president biden s adult son hunter biden. but it never seem to end. the investigation, which was open in 2018, under trump s justice department, has been used as a black box of sorts by republicans. they use it to create a symmetry that didn t really exist between trump s alleged crimes, and what they speculated was the crime ridden biden family. and so long as this case was open, and the investigation was behind closed doors, they could really make it whatever they wanted it to be. and even though that was the case even though the republicans have been dining out on the hunter investigation for years, they also have been up in arms about how it h
we re live with the latest. plus, taste the expletive out of the blue, a january 6th rioter who bragged about using a stun gun on police learns his fate from a judge. and the race against time in the atlantic, with less than a day s worth of oxygen inside a missing submersible, more ships are rushing to a search area two times the size of connecticut, hoping to find five people alive. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to begin right there with the latest on the search and rescue with nbc s kristen dahlgren, we don t know for sure how long they may have breathable oxygen. we know yesterday it was 40 hours, now we re probably down to 15 if that was right. but clearly from the press conference we just heard, this is 100% search and rescue still? reporter: yeah, absolutely, chris, and as for that question about how much breathable air is on board, they wouldn t field that today, they said there were a lot of factors that play into i
you get a fair shake. why would i allow a hostile network and allow people that are polling at zero, polling at zero, one is zero with an arrow left. why would i allow people at 1 and 2% and 0% to be hitting me with questions all night. i don t think it s fair. that was former president donald trump s noncommittal answer on debating the other republican candidates because of their polling numbers when new data shows his own are starting to slip amid his federal indictment and the possibility of another indictment for january 6th coming this summer. the numbers are starting to slip, and you look at the people outside the hard core republican base, republicans and even independents leaning republican. you get outside of that to swing voters, to independents, to everybody else. something like 85% of those voters. i think he needs to drop out of the race right now. we ll have more on that ahead. also ahead, we re learning more about the plea deal for hunter biden as the