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
who may have tried to intimidate star witness before she testified. the loved ones of the uvalde shooting victims are sick of waiting for answers. we re sitting here just listening to empty words. that s all it is. empty words. my sister died protect ing her children, her students. sd why the mayor claims he can t tell them anymore. welcome to the lead. we begin with our politics lead. breaking news as we follow the repercussions from cassidy hutchinson bombshell testimony. we have the very latest. reporter: witness intimidation has become a serious focus of the january 6th select committee. cnn has learned both instances the committee presented as examples of possible witness intimidation during the hearing on tuesday were directed at their witness, cassidy hutchinson. he knows you re loyal and you re going to do the right thing when you go in for your deposition. i think most americans know that attempting the influence witnesses to testify untruthfully presents
also tonight, there s growing frustration inside the biden administration right now, as the kremlin refuses to engage with a u.s. offer to exchange brittney griner and paul weelan for a russian arms dealer. i ll speak with a key white house official john kirby. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to cnn s exclusive new reporting on the u.s. justice department s criminal probe into january 6th. federal prosecutors preparing to fight in court to force former white house officials to testify about their conversations with then president trump. our senior crime and justice reporter kaitlan po lance helped break the story here in the situation room. this could be the clearest sign yet that justice department is honing in on trump s efforts to prevent a peaceful transfer of power. walk us through your exclusive reporting. well, wolfe, evan perez and i are learning from several s
that releasing their full reasons for searching mar-a-lago would cause, and i quote, significant and irreparable damage. the justice department now urging a judge not to unseal the affidavit that justified the fbi search over the mar-a-lago home. a document, according to the d.o.j., that serves as a road map to the ongoing investigation including who federal investigators are talking to. saying that it includes, and i want to quote this one, highly sensitive information about witnesses, including witnesses interviewed by the government. that is, witnesses, not witness, witnesses, plural. according to the former chief of the justice department s counter intelligence section who oversaw the investigation of hillary clinton s handling of classified documents, that plural, witnesses, means multiple people told tell doj there was still classified information at mar-a-lago. multiple people. i m going to speak to david in a moment. the justice department also is arguing that redacti
christina, let me start with you with nuts and bolt, where do things go from here and what we re seeing in the market so far. that had been a question mark. i guess i should reference your song. i saw the sign. they saw the sign the fed was going to hike. the markets are reacting positively at the moment. the dow is up 1%. you re seeing the nasdaq in positive territory. the s&p 500 in positive territory. the concerning point is jerome powell, the chair fed is speak and they changed course and became more aggressive once they received the inflation data we got last friday showing our prices have climbed 8.6%. that s the highest we have seen since 1981. because of that big jump in inflation, the fact it s continuing to climb higher, the fed needs to get more aggressive and seems like they are most likely going to continue on this trajectory even a month from now. that will have a trickle effect on the economy. he s still speaking at the moment but here is what he had to say