Counsel to look into the investigation against the president s son, hunter biden. Lucas tom lynnson has the latest on this story. Reporter it was just a few weeks ago that hunter biden thought he was minutes away from freedom are from any further charges. Of course, that thats not what happened. The plea if deal fell apart, and now it could be going to trial, according to federal prosecutors in a filing yesterday. A Special Counsel has been named. Mr. Weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigation and to continue to take the steps he deems appropriate independently are. Based only on a facts and the law. Reporter that Special Counsel, david weiss, of course, has been investigating hunter biden for the past five years now and negotiated with what many republicans call a, quote, sweetheart plea deal. President biden left the white house yesterday for the beach, he did not take any questions before Boarding Marine Wunsch the president one. The president has long main
The British Government says it will deliver a series of warnings to israel if it doesnt allow more aid into gaza. Lord cameron said there was dreadful suffering inside gaza and pointed out israel is the occupying power. He was speaking in london before meeting benny gantz, a member of israels were cabinet. The situation is member of israels were cabinet. Tue situation is very member of israels were cabinet. Tte situation is very bad member of israels were cabinet. Tte situation is very bad because member of israels were cabinet. Tte situation is very bad because weve been pushing for this aide to get in. We had a whole set of things weve asked the israelis to do. I have to report to your lordship s house that the amount of aid in february was about half of january. Patients need to run very thin. Starting with the meeting i have with benny gantz when he visit the uk. ,. ,. , with benny gantz when he visit the uk. ,. , uk. That meeting has not happen. Of course the offensive uk. That m
israel says it is expecting 14 hostages to be released today, but a list provided to them by hamas only has 13 names on it. in exchange, israel is prepared to release up to 42 more prisoners. cnn has learned that no americans are expected to be released today. under the deal, israel is freeing three palestinians from jail for every israeli hostage allowed out of gaza. but palestinian officials are warning of what they call a possible crisis in the deal. they say israel is not following terms of the prisoner release deal as it relates to sin yourity. the truce also allows the flow of humanitarian aid into gaza. more than 70 aid trucks entered gaza today through the rafah crossing carrying food, water, fuel and medical supplies. cnn is covering the developments. we ll start with kaitlan collins. so, we have seen one day of a successful exchange, several more to go. what are we expecting over the next few hours? officials in israel are hopeful but not confident because they kn
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This brings me to the topic of todays proceedings. I would like to recap my recollection of the timeline in which these events played out. I testified about all of this at length in my deposition. In july, i became aware of a hold being placed on obligation of the State Departments military financing or fmf and dods usai fund. In meetings i heard the president directed the Office Of Management And Budget to hold the funds because of his concern for corruption in ukraine. Let me say at the outset i have never discussed this or any other matter with the president and never heard directly from him about this matter. At a senior level meeting i attended july 26th chaired by National Council Security Leadership as in all other interagency meetings on this topic of which i was wear, the
national Security Community expressed unanimous support for resuming funding in the u. S. National security interests. At the July 26th Meeting there was also a discussion how ukrainian anticorruption efforts