Begins now. Martha good Afternoon Everybody im Martha Maccallum and this is the story. We are waiting right now for hunter Bidens Tax Trial to come back from a quick breakin Los Angeles. This is kind of bizarre the more we learn about whats going on here. This morning he offered to change his plea to guilty. His lawyer dropped that bombshell on Day One of Jury Selection which was supposed to be Today And Tomorrow and opening arguments all set for monday as far as the group does government new. And then this. If charge the president s son with dodging more than A Million dollars in taxes and a big nono filing false returns. All that could add up to 17 years in jail the jail if convicted prosecutors say instead of paying taxes this period he spent his money among other things on Adult Entertainment and various women in Adult Entertainment. Some of this is just raising quite a few questions. Lets go first to our Chief Correspondent on the Scene Jonathan Hunt live at the courthouse. What w
marked classified that was found had been intermingled with press clippings, clothing and other nick knacks. questions about what the former president was doing with 11,000 documents that were recovered. the federal district court released the catalog while she makes a decision on whether to appointing a special master. william barr called it a waste of time and a red herring. he also said loud and clear that his old boss brought this on himself by taking what did not belong to him, refusing to give it back and he seemed to suggest perhaps obstructing justice with his legal team deceiving investigators. i think the driver on this from the beginning was, you know, loads of classified information sitting in mar-a-lago. people say this was unprecedented. it s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club, okay? and how long is the government going to try to get that back? they jawbone for a year. they were deceived on
waste of time and a red herring. he also said loud and clear that his old boss brought this on himself by taking what did not belong to him, refusing to give it back and he seemed to suggest perhaps obstructing justice with his legal team deceiving investigators. i think the driver on this from the beginning was, you know, loads of classified information sitting in mar-a-lago. people say this was unprecedented. it s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club, okay? and how long is the government going to try to get that back? they jawbone for a year. they were deceived on the voluntary actions taken. they then went and got a subpoena. they were deceived on that. they feel. and the facts are starting to show that they were being jerked around. and so how long you know, how long do they wait? the answer, as we now know, was more than a year before seeking a search warrant. the former attorney general had more
actually turned over to the january 6th committee. that s when they started putting in that earlier request. one thing to pay attention here is that meadows has actually been working with the archives on a different level as well. that s something we learned through this reporting. for about a year, because he is one of trump s designees to the archives. so he was called by another designee last summer, a year ago, to try to help get trump to give these records back to the national archives. so kind of a weird position for him to be in, turning it over and then also he was trying to help with the trump angle of this. and the timing of this. is this a coincidence? what do you know about that? well, that s obviously the big question here. now, we have one source familiar with the matter who says that this is totally a coincidence, that the search had nothing to do with meadows decision to turn over these correspondence. but another source, who is also familiar, said it could be a co
him to be in, turning it over and then also he was trying to help with the trump angle of this. and the timing of this. is this a coincidence? what do you know about that? well, that s obviously the big question here. now, we have one source familiar with the matter who says that this is totally a coincidence, that the search had nothing to do with meadows decision to turn over these correspondence. but another source, who is also familiar, said it could be a coincidence but we did get far more after the search than we had ever gotten before with this request. all right. interesting. i m sure there will be more reporting from you and your team on this very subject. kristen holmes, thank you very much. perspective now from senior analyst elie honig. who served as a federal prosecutor for the southern district of new york. also cnn legal and national security analyst carrie cordero, she is a former counsel to the assistant attorney general for national security. carrie, first, j