Good morning. 11 00 a. M. Eastern. 8 00 a. M. Pacific. I am Jose Diazbalart. We begin this hour with Breaking News. New York Prosecutors are expected to hold a Press Conference this hour after combs was arrested last night by federal authorities on three counts, Racketeering Conspiracy, Sex Trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. Prosecutors write, quote, for decades sean combs, the defendant, abused and threatened and coerced women around him to fulfill his sexual desires and protect his reputation and conceal his conduct. Before the indictment was unsealed, an attorney for combs said hes innocent and plans on pleading not guilty. Lisa ruben, msnbc legal correspondent, with us as well. Chloe, you are down at the courthouse. What are we expecting to learn about the Charges Today . Reporter hey, there, jose. In about 30 minutes we will hear from the u. S. Attorneys office. They will be holding a Press Conference down The Street. According to mark, one of the attorneys
i m erica hill in new york. explosive evidence, gruesome, internet searches and trash bags filled with dna. we ll begin with those chilling new details all emerging from court just a short time ago as a missing mother s husband is now being held without bond on a murder charge. prosecutors telling a massachusetts judge exactly what they believe happened to ana walshe. it is believed that brian walshe dismembered her body. jason carroll is live outside the courthouse. criminologist kacey jordan here. first, we did learn a lot this morning about what prosecutors say brian walshe did in the days both before and after ana walshe as reported missing. you were in the courtroom. what did prosecutors reveal? right, and very specific detail i was seated just behind the prosecutor there. she took out her notebook, erica, and was flipping over page after page reading a long gruesome list of allegedly some of the things that brian walshe had googled in the wake of his wife s disapp
after his time as vice president. sources tell cnn that it is possible that more searches elsewhere may happen. also that the white house is shifting into damage control. sources say president biden is growing frustrated by how the saga has played out. he cannot escape the questions about the timing of publicly disclosing the classified documents when some of the first pages were initially discovered in november. once again, today, the president chose not to take reports questions. [ inaudible ]. cnn s mj lee is at the white house. a spokesman for the white house counsel is defending the communication and strategy so far. tell us about that. yeah. victor and alisyn, we just wrapped up a lengthy phone call, a press call, with reporters ta that the white house counsel s spokesperson held trying to offer a robust defense of how the white house has handled all of this so far including sort of the timing of the disclosure of information and sort of the decision to wait to d
faced an avalanche of resignations of top cabinet members over the last 48 hours following multiple scandals for his government though he didn t directly mention those in his departure speech. have a listen. and i want you to know how sad i am to be giving up the best job in the world. but them s the breaks. johnson giving no timetable for when he will leave office, saying only that it will be announced next week. let se bring in nic robertson who is live outside downing street. how will this work? what happens next? and how quickly could there be a move? the immediate sense of what is happening is being played out right behind me right now. cabinet members walking in for a cabinet session with boris johnson. the attorney general walked up the street, just gone through the door. she s already put her hat in the ring to be one of the contenders to become next prime minister. she just smiled when a colleague asked her that question. boris government is now a caretaker pr
Vegas casinos. Places tens of thousands of Dollars Worth of bets in recent weeks. But why he did this, they simply have no clue. They know he has been acquiring weapons over the past several months. He has bought at gun stores in nevada, possibly outside the state as well. That part of nevada he is from, mesquite, is right on the border. So he could go to other states to try to buy weapons and have them sent back to the gun dealers in nevada 20 do it legally. But The Big Question here is how did he acquire automatic weapons. Youve heard the sounds on the videos of these rapid shots. Machine guns are illegal in the u. S. But its possible to buy conventional semiautomatic weapons, meaning they fire every time you pull the trigger, but just one round and convert them. But that Conversion Process can make the weapons illegal. So the authorities are trying to figure out how he managed to get
his hands on these automatic weapons. He had some of those in the room. He had Sniper Rifles with sc