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john: begin america reports with form president trump under investigation by the justice department as the agency appears slow to act on the current president s son, with one republican senator now alleging a cover-up. john roberts in washington. good to be with you again. sandra: we made it to wednesday. i m sandra smith in new york. washington post reporting the justice department is looking into the former president as part of a criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. the post says phone records of some trump officials have been seized and witnesses have been questioned before a grand jury. john: as iowa senator chuck grassley accuses the fbi and d.o.j. for trying to bury the dirt they have on hunter biden. jacqui heinrich is live at the white house with the latest on the hunter biden investigation. rich edson, how deep does the investigation go? john, the justice department is investigating the attack on the capitol and phony electorat
your son, hunter, is on trial , and i know you can t speak about an ongoing federal prosecution. but would you accept the jeannie rhee jerry soutcome no matter what it is? have you ruled out a pardon for your son? john: president biden making it clear he will not pardon his son if he is convicted in the federal gun trial as prosecutor s rep of the case and the gents put the first witnesses on the stand. the court in a lunch break right now, but we are learning the president s brother, james biden, is expected to testify, and naomi has already taken the stand. sandra: we will bring you a live report on that and just moments. we also have an all-star lineup to take us through today s proceedings. jonathan turley, mercedes colwin, and mark eiglarsh are all on deck. they could have brought the case seven years ago. it s only when you run for office they bring cases. right after the announcement of this, more campaign funds were given to this campaign then any campaign, they
Ukraine. Western leaders are meeting and it is part of a new push to bring peace to the conflict. It comes as russian backed rebels gain ground in the east. And officials seriously consider arming ukraine for the first time. The president is reviewing all of his options. The secretary of state offering a strong hint that the u. S. Could send weapons of war to ukraine. In its year long fight against prorussian separatists. Among those is the possibility of providing defensive assistant. To ukraine. And those discussions are going on. Also in kiev, the leaders of france and germany they presented ukraine with a new peace plan, that they will also deliver to moscow. The last round of talks collapsed last month after just four hours of negotiating. The fight hike this recent attack has devastated the region. Each side blames the other for the rising death toll. The u. N. Says it now exceeds 5,000, and more than 12,000 have been wounded. Fighting has turned homes into rubble and emptied onc
South carolina officer Michael Slager behind bars this morning, charged with murder. The threeminute video capturing the shooting death of walter scott over the weekend. When youre wrong, youre wrong. Taped by a bystander, it reveals the 33yearold officer shooting scott in the back. While he ran away. In the immediate aftermath of the shooting police said officer slager stopped scott for a broken taillight in North Charleston. Through an attorney officer slager described a scuffle, claiming the 50yearold fought for his taser, and he felt threatened. In this video you see what could be a taser fall as scott takes off, running away as slager fires eight times. Shots fired. Subject is down. Hes got my taser. While hes lying facedown, the officer handcuffs scott. Next slager jogs back to where he fired his gun and picks up something. Perhaps the taser, but from this video its not entirely clear. Back by scotts body, he drops the small black object. Then moments later, he picks it back up.