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president biden s son, hunter biden. he wanted to plead guilty before the plea deal fell apart in dramatic fashion. the hearing appended to be going smoothly before the judge questioned whether the agreement met and mr. biden would be immune from prosecution from other crimes. related to representing foreign governments. when a top prosecutor in the case that it would not, chris clark, originally hesitated and then said that the position would make the agreement null and void. the judge asked the two sides to change the language from the broad scope and it would grant mr. biden on his business dealings. he pleaded not guilty today to two misdemeanor tax charges well the tax lawyers worked on a revised deal. if he goes through, he will reverse his plea. for the family and president joe biden, it is a another dramatic twist in the presidents sons legal troubles. that is where we start today with some friends from the new york times. mike, i know you have been covering thi ....
good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. the former president is pushing ahead with his bid for a second term as special counsel jack smith is gathering new testimony and evidence of the 2020 election interference investigation. that is quite a split screen. tonight was in new orleans raising money for his 2024 campaign, while in washington there is no sign today of the grand jury hearing the election case, but the jurors are expected to meet again in just two days from now. i want to share what trump said about the case earlier tonight. any thoughts on the upcoming possible indictment? i don t know anything about it. we have a crooked nation. you don t like the guy who was concerned about two indictments. we are legit, we have corrupt people running our country. he doesn t know anything about, it all and let me remind you. donald trump has already been indicted into criminal cases. the house for the special counsel s focusing on february 2020 white hous ....
people brace for another potential indictment of donald trump, it could come today, could come in two days. it could come in two weeks. the secretive nature of these proceedings means your guess on the time of any indictment is as good as ours. we do know for sure that while the grand jury hearing evidence and testimony in the january 6th investigation has been meeting on tuesdays and thursdays, so far they have not met today. you don t know what that means but we share it anyway. in the meantime jack smith appears to have already navigated his way through many of what could be primary witnesses in potential criminality in the lead up and on january 6th. take richard donohue who we mentioned an essential voice related to the prosecution of the aftermath of the november 2020 election. what trump told him to do is to essentially fraudulently overturn a u.s. election without any evidence. he wanted his ceo jay brass to publicly, quote, just say the election was corrupt and ....
a $787.5 million settlementing but this time it s hitting even closer to trump. rudy giuliani admitting in a court filing that some of the most brazen lies and claims he made about election fraud were false, they were lies. giuliani was acting as a lawyer for donald trump at the time. the lies at issue centered around two election workers, ruby freeman and shea moss. giuliani alleged they had committed crimes. he lied repeatedly on camera. earlier in the day, these two were engaged in another apparent voter fraud in which they were passing out usb cords, which were being used apparently, you know, to infiltrate the croed dominion voting machines. ruby freedomen and shea freeman moss and one other gentleman quite obviously surveillance help tishsly passing around usb cords as if they re viles of heroin or cocaine. it s obvious they re involved in surreptitious activity. false information, because it was lies. those games by giuliani were false in addition to having v ....
the special counsel is asking about yet another oval office meeting involving donald trump. the lead starts right now. a new cnn exclusive, what did donald trump say behind closed doors. the oval office meeting about election security that has the attention of the special counsel. the new reporting you ll see only on cnn. plus see you in court, mr. president. the strong response from the government an texas as the border heats up. and protests go into the night as the overhaul aft supreme court court powers. welcome to the lead, i m bianna golodryga. in for jake tapper. we start with a cnn exclusive. we learned jack smith is scrutinizing another oval office meeting in regard to the efforts to over turn the 2020 election. prosecutors have asked about a february 2020 meeting in which former president trump praised the work done to secure the upcoming presidential election. and the expansion of the use of paper ballots and security around vote tallies. that is ....