The journal editorial report and i am paul gigot in a Surprise Move attorney general Merrick Garland cities appointing david weiss Special Counsel in the hundred biting probe. Garland said the weiss will be responsible for the investigation of the president son as well as any other matters may arise in weiss, asking to be appointed Special Counsel this week and garland agree saying that it was in the Public Interest to do so in the spring and Wall Street Journal, Colonists Stan Heninger and kim strauss and sedan, what is this mean for the probe it does weiss have some new special powers that he can use and what happens next. Dan i think would happen six of the finest the scope of the plea deal which state may with Hunter Bidens Attorney Sent that is really well i think at the center of this c1 will theyre asking to withdraw it. Dan thats exactly right because it was such a lousy deal and everybody knew that it was the rest slap after all the years of david weiss, it is been investigati
on the financial side. as you know, the rnc is out of money. they re looking for loans themselves. they don t want to support donald trump or be anywhere near him. there is a cataclysm coming in the second half of 2024. you think you might have to liquidate sayings. can i just ask, does a bank loan for things like that? can you get loans pay that? certainly he could get loans if he has the collateral. if he has equity in these properties, these golf courses, these buildings that he owns he could certainly pose those as collateral and get loans. he probably has more cash than people think though. it s been exaggerated how poor he is. my guess is he does have the money to pay the 83 million very quickly. of course he will appeal it but again, if you go 83 plus three 70, that s another 150, that s a problem for most people, alex, no matter how rich you are, that s a big problem. i was going to say. that s not coach trump change. anthony scaramucci, good to see you my frien
a good sunday evening to you. i m jim sciutto, and this is cnn s special live coverage of the extraordinary events this weekend out of russia. moscow s red square blocked off again today after the brief but stunning insurrection that s gripped the world, could perhaps weaken vladimir putin s grip on his country. we should note it s far too soon to know. so much we don t know about what led wagner mercenary group leader yevgeny prigozhin to launch a march on moscow and what convinced him to abruptly call it off. and then, it s said, go into exile. u.s. secretary of state tony blinken today called the whole series of events extraordinary, believes it indicates that cracks are emerging in putin s rule. the very latest now from cnn s sam kiley live from london. sam, we re watching russia closely, ukraine, also events in belarus. any developments to indicate to us what s actually happening right now? reporter: well, jim, i think the most stunning development so far is an absence
questions remain as we are just learning that a top-secret u.s. navy system heard the submersible implode. an experimental vessel is how the doomed suv is described with the oceangate liability agreement. what exactly is the submersible, what is a submersible? is that what ultimately sealed its fate? remembering the five passengers, humans on board, friends and family of the explorers join us next. let s go out front. in evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, a catastrophic implosion. the coast guard confirming that debris from the titan submersible has been found near the wreckage of the titanic. the remote operating vehicle has been searching and it is highly capable. we have been able to classify part of the pressure chamber for the titan submersible. the debris field is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel. the mystery tonight is what caused that catastrophic explosion. we use the word implosion, talking about heavy pressure here. the implo
special counsel jack smith is looking for in the classified documents probe. as with the $5 million defamation and sexual abuse judgment against donald trump, his own words are once again being used against him in a court of law. this time we re of course talking about that stunning february 2021 audio recording. donald trump bragging about a secret document with plans to attack iran at bedminster. to a writer working on a book, the discovery of that recording according to report from the wall street journal we discussed on this program last week, we know was a watershed moment that helped spur doj into pursuing a criminal case against the ex-president. days after his indictment on 37 felony counts, the ex-president claimed this. there was no document. that was a massive amount of papers and everything else talking about iran and other things, and it may have been held up or may not, but that was not a document. i didn t have a document per se. there was nothing to declas