Bret okay. Thank you. Good evening. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, Hunter Biden pleads guilty to charges of avoiding tax payments, Jury Selection was scheduled to begin instead. Lawyers for the president s son requested to change hiS Plea, surprising prosecutors who urged the judge to reject the new course of action. The case follows his conviction in delaware on Gun Charges for which he is still awaiting sentencing. We head to the courthouse in downtown Los Angeles Jonathan Hunt reports on how this case developed through the day, changed. Good evening, jonathan. Good evening, bret. Just about 30 minutes ago. We wrapped up what has been an extraordinary day with Hunter Biden walking out of the courthouse here. Having pled guilty to all nine Tax Evasion and Tax Fraud related charges. As he walked out, he said nothing. He held hands with his wife, melissa, and he left it to his Lead Attorney Abbe lowell to splain why he changed hiS Plea to guilty. Listen here. Hunter decided to enter h
Hostages in gaza. He s asked for forgiveness, but ruled out new concessions to hamas to secure the release of those still being held. His comments came as intense street protests over his handling of negotiations entered a second night in israel, including these demonstrations outside his office injerusalem. Lucy williamson has more from jerusalem. Israel s protesters and their prime minister are old acquaintances. Calls for a hostage deal have brought long established opponents onto the streets, but the shooting of six hostages in a gaza tunnel last week has broadened this movement, they say. And the mass demonstrations in tel aviv last night were a turning point. I think the news of the six hostages, the fact that they were alive and murdered right before they could have been saved, that broke it. After last night s mass protest, people are back on the streets again. There are growing public and political demands on israel s prime minister to make a deal, but benjamin netanyahu, prot
In gaza. He s asked for forgiveness, but ruled out new concessions to hamas to secure the release of those still being held. His comments came as intense street protests over his handling of negotiations entered a second night in israel, including these demonstrations outside his office injerusalem. Lucy williamson has more from jerusalem. Israel s protesters and their prime minister are old acquaintances. Calls for a hostage deal have brought long established opponents onto the streets, but the shooting of six hostages in a gaza tunnel last week has broadened this movement, they say. And the mass demonstrations in tel aviv last night were a turning point. I think the news of the six hostages, the fact that they were alive and murdered right before they could have been saved, that broke it. After last night s mass protest, people are back on the streets again. There are growing public and political demands on israel s prime minister to make a deal, but benjamin netanyahu, protected by
His comments came as intense street protests over his handling of negotiations entered a second night in israel including these demonstrations outside his office injerusalem. Lucy williamson has more from jerusalem. Israel s protesters and their prime minister are old acquaintances. Calls for a hostage deal have brought long established opponents onto the streets, but the shooting of six hostages in a gaza tunnel last week has broadened this movement, they say. And the mass demonstrations in tel aviv last night were a turning point. I think the news of the six hostages, the fact that they were alive and murdered right before they could have been saved, that broke it. After last night s mass protest, people are back on the streets again. There are growing public and political demands on israel s prime minister to make a deal, but benjamin netanyahu, protected by his parliamentary majority, isn t listening. Tonight mr netanyahu defied anyone to ask him to compromise now. These murderer
Bret good evening, welcome to washington. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, Special Counsel jack smith has filed a reworked indictment in his election interference case against former president donald trump, the new filing keeps the same criminal charges but narrows the allegations against the former president following that Supreme Court opinion on broad immunity on former president s. So what about this . What goes on from here . Correspondent david spunt has details from the Justice Department tonight. Good evening, david. Bret, good evening to you. This is the new indictment of president donald trump, the former president still has the same four core charges from when he was indicted last year. But, as you mentioned, it narrows some of the language. The language is a little bit tighter and it takes out mentions of certain people that Special Counsel jack smith felt that he could not move forward if he wanted to be successful in court. Something else to point out, a brand new grand j