robert wolf standing by for us. first, we go to griff jenkins. he s over at the courthouse. hi, griff. good afternoon, gillian. in a trickle of events leads to us believe that this grand jury and the special counsel may be near ago decision on whether or not to bring any charges. former president trump has taken to social media to talk about that meeting with his attorneys and jack smith. here s let me show you on truth social what he wrote. he said my attorneys had a productive meeting with the doj explaining in detail that i did nothing wrong. was advised by many lawyers and an indictment of me would further destroy our country. no indication of notice was given during the meeting. do not trust the fake news on anything. it has been an interesting day. now, if we go back though, this all started july 16 when trump s defense got that target letter. sources confirming to fox news that there were three federal charges that the president, former president could potentially
prosecutors confirmed that he is still under federal investigation and this all comes after the two virus whistleblowers testified the politics influence the doj s decision, throughout the bided and been dissented investigation welcome the troubled is. there pretty hunter and his former associate kevin archer is expected to set the closed-door testimony of the house oversight committee tomorrow, and former director national intelligence, click joins me now i should also a formal acting u.s. attorney from the great state of texas and spray to see you mr. radcliffe. you bet katie could be with you sweetie was a big week and we saw something very unusual the words of this federal judge take place. the plea deal completely fell apart and we are now in this position where looks like the department of justice, under president joe biden colluded essentially with hunter biden s attorney, to get him to steal and the judge simply read through it and found some things that she thought
we are awaiting any new developments to come out of delaware where moments ago the president s son, hunter biden told a federal judge that he intends to plead guilty to tax charges. what we are told will happen next. new this morning rudy giuliani concedes he made statements about election workers that were not true when he falsely accused them of committing fraud in 2020. plus terrifying moments in new york. look at this, as a crane collapses and then crashes into a building before falling on to the sidewalk below. several people were hurt. i m rahel solomon with john berman. a new hour of cnn news central starts right now. all right. we are getting new information from inside the federal courthouse in wilmington delaware where huntered bien and his team along with federal prosecutors are before a federal judge working out this plea agreement. where hunter biden has agreed to plead guilty to two federal misdemeanor tax charges and there s also a deal to re
he was working with and potential investors. we re told on the last point that his close friend and business partner, they re not good friends anymore, devin archer is expected to testify to that on monday. jason chaffetz and andy mccarthy join us in moments. we also have the accusations of the bribely scheme that surfaced in that 1023, which as you remember, the fbi couldn t find it, couldn t release it. strange when you look at this, right? it was finally released to the public. so why were they withholding this? and sitting on it, it appears. speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy has clearly opened the door, a very big step and no doubt one that he doesn t take lightly. here he is moments ago. watch this. right now you have a president that told you and every other american that he s never talked to his family about business and never got a dollar from china. you now know that is not true. you have a president, while vice president, that got 16 out of 17 payments from rom
we begin with new charges in the trunk classified documents case, he is now being accused of attempting to delete surveillance footage at his property. the department of justice has announced an indictment to tr trump s classified documents case. he now faces an additional charge and two new additional counts of obstruction. he is accused of asking a staff member to erase camera footage in an attempt to obstruct the probe into classified documents that wound up at his palm beach resort. some news of the charges came as he awaited a third indictment today by a d.c. grand jury. his campaign has said jack smith has no case. tonight, the president as firing back, accusing the justice department of abuse, saying if i were not leading in numerous polls i was not going to be the republican nominee, it would not be happening. he is not the only one facing new charges. his associate faces to new obstruction counts. the indictment names a third defender. he is the head of maintenance