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
Shape. Why all eyes are now on a key race in montana. Trumps Election Interference Case is finally back in court. What the judge is now saying about the timeline is the 11th Hour gets underway on this thursday night. Good evening. Once again, i am stephanie ruhle. Can you believe that we are now just 61 days away from the Election And Campaign donations are still pouring in, at least for Kamala Harris. The Vice President raised more than 300 Million in the month of august. It is over twice as much as the Trump Campaign, which raised also a whole lot of money, 130 Million in the same time period. Today, harris arrived in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. The city will be her home for the next four days as she prepares for her first debate against trump on thursday night. This, as new reporting says the Trump Campaign is changing their strategy. Axes reports trump is scaling Back Campaigning in new hampshire, minnesota and virginia, three states he was targeting just six weeks ago and he is also
Georgia community devastated by a deadly School Shooting. Were learning New Details about the 14yearold suspect. Police say he will be charged as an adult with murder or later this morning, a key hearing in the federal Election Subversion Case against Donald Trump. The first census supreme court ruled he had broad immunity. We are poised here major decisions on how this case moves forward and did Pope Francis just happy his own childless cat, ladies, Moment Kate Bolduan is out. Im John Berman with sara sidner. This is a show so packed. We cant possibly sit down Cnn News central this. Morning. New details from the georgia high School Shooting that killed two students and two teachers. There are new questions about possible missed Warning Signs and were standing by for the 14yearold suspects first Court Appearance. The alleged gunman is expected to face Murder Charges as an adult, officials are now revealing he was questioned about online threats to. Shoot up a school just last year, pol
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