for a missing titanic sub, the u.s. coast guard acknowledging it needs more equipment. and the vessel running out of breathable air and france now sending an underwater robot for the mission. plus a utah woman accused of killing her husband and then writing a children s book about dealing with the grief, now wait until you hear how she s trying to get the courts to obtain money from his business. and leading this hour, the plea deal and the president s son, new federal court filings show hunter biden will plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors and that he struck a deal with federal prosecutors to resolve a felony begungun charge. and the department says the investigation is ongoing. we start with evan perez and also laura coates. hunter biden will plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors and he truck a deal with the gun charge. walk us through. bottom line is that his lawyers tell us that prosecutors are going to recommend that he serve no time, no jail time for pleading guil
good morning, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in london. we re following breaking news right now, out of russia. major historic breaking news. president vladimir putin facing the greatest threat to his authority since he first rose to power some 23 years ago. putin is accusing his one-time ally, yevgeny prigozhin of an armed rebellion, his words, armed rebellion, prigozhin says his forces have taken control of key military facilities in voronezh and rostov-on-don region. he threatens to move on to moscow if russia s top general and defense minister don t meet with him. listen to this. translator: again, we came here, we want to receive the chief of general staff shoigu, and so they are here, and so they are here, we will be located here, blockading the city of rostov-on-don, and we will go to moscow. president putin calls the actions by prigozhin a betrayal, his words, and a stab in the back to the russian people. he
likely averts time behind bars and gives hunter probation instead. he may have to pay a fine. some in the media defending the president s son while attacking republicans in the process. republicans have been trying to stir up conspiracy theories left and right. one after another have been disproven. i suspect we will have lots of howling from the g.o.p. house republicans are going to keep this up. they ve decided to go all in on this as a way to keep the republican base enthusiastic. these are criminal charges. republicans will call them a slap on the wrist. you re already hearing a lot of shouting. oh, sweetheart deal. oh this, oh that. this is not a sweetheart deal. it s a good deal and i think it s a good deal for hunter biden. dana: hunter s lawyer calling this matter resolved and taking responsibility for these mistakes but the d.o.j. an hour later said the investigation is still ongoing and the republicans are vowing to plow ahead on investigations into th
potential human remains. reporter: quite right. exactly, jake. and also questions about whether or not something like this could have been prevented. again, this all happening this morning when these officials who were running this massive search, at the time search and rescue operation, the remote operated vehicle that was down on the ocean floor early this morning at 8:55 a.m. came across that debris field. right now what they are doing is the r.o.v.s are still there on the ocean floor, still trying to map the ocean floor, still trying to figure out exactly what is down there in terms of debris. the coast guard earlier today, the rear admiral gave his assessment of exactly what happened and in addition to that a deep sea expert weighed in on exactly what was found. we found five different major pieces of debris that told us that it was the remains of the titan. the initial thing we found was the nose cone, which was outside of the pressure hull. we then found a large de
i m christine romans. cnn this morning starts right now. good tuesday morning, everyone. we are so glad you re with us. i m so thrilled to have my buddy all the way from atlanta, victor blackwell, good morning. good to be with you. back in the day we used to get to sit next to each other. we were young. i was wrinkle free. i m glad you re here. there s a lot of news to get to. five things to know this tuesday, june 20th. a rescue operation for tourist submersible carrying five people who paid to see wreckage of the titanic. the u.s. coast guard one of multiple teams scouring the atlantic ocean trying to locate the vessel thousands of feet below the surface. donald trump offers up a new defense of why he didn t turn over those classified documents. he said he was too busy. a tropical storm brewing over the atlantic is expected to strengthen into a hurricane by tomorrow. we are tracking where that s headed. the texas senate is expected to set the ground rules in t