To billions of dollars of their oil money, which obviously theyve been anxious to get their hands on and there will be restrictions. We will talk about that in a second. Lets bring in iranian journalist who is with us but first, we will go to Mark Meredith reporting live on the breaking news from the white house. Mark, what have you learned about this deal . Martha, good afternoon to you. The white house is closely monitoring these developments in iran but confirmation five iranian american detainees have been moved from a prison to iran to house arrest. Some of these detainees have been in the prison and iran dating back several years. A lawyer representing three families of the five detained broke the news with the lengthy Statement Today and went on to say, i hope this will be the first step to ultimate release, this is at best the beginning of the end and nothing more. But they were simply no guarantees about what happens from here. As a lawyer representing some of those detained,
For more information how you can help victims of Hawaii Wildfires go to cnn. Com impact or text hawaii to 707070 to donate. The lead with jake tapper starts right now. A brand new Special Counsel now focused on hunter biden. The lead starts right now. The Attorney Generals surprise announcement. The prosecutor who was overseeing The Hunter Case is now being elevated to a Special Counsel. What will this mean for the president s son . What will this mean for the president . And donald trump might be told to zip it. The judge in the 2020 Election Fraud case signaling that she is going to be willing to restrict sensitive evidence as she tells trumps attorneys the former president s right to free speech is not absolute. And hawaiis catastrophe sadly getting worse. Historic towns gone, homes burned to the ground, 55 lives confir confirmed lost, and that number is sadly expected to climb. Welcome to the lead im jake tapper. And we start with our Law And Justice lead with a new Special Counsel
This is cnn breaking news. This is a live look outside of the federal courthouse in washington, d. C. Grand jurors have been Hearing Evidence today in the Special Counsels january 6th probe. They were just seen leaving for the day and we are standing by to find out if they voted on whether to hand up an indictment for donald trump. Sources telling cnn that the former president and his advisers are right now preparing for a Potential Indictment. Cnns paula reid is joining us now on that. Paula, what are you hearing . Reporter so, we know that the grand jury that has been Hearing Evidence in the Special Counsels investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, they have been seen leaving the building, but one important person stayed behind and that is the grand juror foreperson. That is significant, because that is the only member of the grand jury that is needed to return an indictment. Now, at this point its unclear if they have voted to indict the former president , or anyone
White house was willing and able to censor the truth on social media. Republican president ial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will join us in moments but first to Ashley Strohmier live in the New York City news room with the very latest on this. Ashley, good evening. Reporter hi, trace. Yeah, the Biden White House has routinely denied involvement in suppressing Negative Information about covid19 vaccines on social media. You might recall this exchange with our own peter doocy and then White House Press secretary jen psaki during the summer of 2021. Take a listen. Is there any concern the things youre trying to block or taken down might some day turn out to be we dont take anything down. We dont block anything. Facebook and any private Sector Company makes decisions about what information should be on their platform. Reporter but internal communication between Top White House officials and facebook employees obtained by fox business appears to paint a vastly different picture, even when face
Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments, and we begin with that Court Appearance in florida for Carlos De Oliveira. Nbcs ken dilanian following all the latest developments for us. Ken, break down what happened in the courtroom and whats going to happen between now and next week. Reporter good afternoon, chris. Mr. De oliveira made his first appearance in Federal Court to answer for these charges but wasnt able to enter a plea or have an arraignment because he didnt have local counsel licensed to practice in the Southern District of florida. So he will have to come back and do that. The real significance of this case is not really mr. De oliveira whos a lowlevel employee at maralago. Its that this new Superseding Indictment makes an extraordinary allegation against the former president , alleging that he conspired to destroy evidence that was under a Grand Jury Subpoena. It says essentially he ordered these two lowlevel employees, nauta and deol oliveira, to