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
investigation in the house referred eastman to the justice department for prosecution. presumably that referral along with whatever the fbi found on eastman s cellphone has been passed along to special counsel jack smith. he s yet to announce any results of his criminal investigation into january 6th. and we are also awaiting charging decisions by fulton county district attorney fani willis. he s testified before her special purpose grand jury last summer. shortly after january 6th he wrote an e-mail to former trump attorney rudy giuliani in which he said and i quote, i ve decided i should be able to pardon this, if that is still in the works. that does it for us tonight. i ll see you again tomorrow. way too early with jonathan lemire is up next. many of them nikki haley is at 2%. she hasn t cotton because everyone knows she s highly overrated.