News in the hunter biden case, the president s son pleading not guilty in his tax case after his original plea deal with prosecutors fell apart. we have team coverage of the minute-to-minute drama in the courtroom. nbc s tom winter is following this for us. also with me, msnbc legal analyst, and former assistant d.a. at the manhattan district attorney s office, catherine christian. washington post congressional investigations reporter, jacqueline alemany, and elise jordan, an msnbc political analyst. thanks for joining us, guys, appreciate it. tom, start us off. what happened? reporter: well, the quote from judge mary ellen, i can t accept or reject in plea agreement after a multi-hour hearing today. the judge essentially saying this agreement that you-all have come up with, i have some legal problems with. i m not going to accept it. i m not going to tell you it s
Saying let s figure out who got the most votes and declare that person president. it was everybody with this new kind of scheme and trick to get around the constitution or to use a technicality of the constitution, and i think we have to sometimes step back and say i do believe there are probably some real, did we break the law questions here, but bigger than that in my mind what does that say about the future of democracy? do we truly believe in it or is it all about win at any cost? the committee released remarkable texts sent to former chief of staff mark meadows while the capitol was under siege he gave to the committee. they came from politicians, fox personalities, even the president s own son pleading with meadows to get then president trump to call off that mob. explain why these texts don t just make for dramatic reading but are materially relevant to your investigation. so it s materially relevant for a number of reasons. obviously we have a trail of
Into the window of their world didn t seem like a lot were saying let s figure out who got the most votes and declare that person president. it was everybody with this new kind of scheme and trick to get around the constitution or to use a technicality of the constitution and i think we have to sometimes step back and say i do believe there are probably some real, did we break the law questions here, but bigger than that in my mind what does that say about the future of democracy? do we truly believe in it or is it all about win at any cost. the committee released remarkable texts sent to former chief of staff mark meadows while the capitol was under siege he gave to the committee, they came from politicians, fox personalities, even the president s own son pleading with meadows to get then president trump to call off that mob. explain why these texts don t just make for dramatic reading but are materially relevant to
Yesterday paint a very different realtime picture. members of congress, fox news hosts and donald trump s own son pleading that meadows get trump to do something as his supporters attacked the capitol. from donald trump jr., he s got to condemn this asap. fox s laura ingram. this is hurting all of us. he s destroying his legacy and then another one that said we tried everything in our could in the objections to the six state. i m sorry, nothing worked. now the committee says meadows must be compelled to share the rest his texts and to testify about why president trump stayed silent for more than three hours that day. let get straight up to cnn s ryan nobles up on capitol hill. ryan, blockbuster so far. the question is what s more? reporter: john, i don t think we should lose perspective here on how significant it is that the house rules committee has now voted out a contempt referral against not only a former member of congress in mark meadows, but this was
Afghanistan veterans of america will make the case that the shutdown is hurting veterans, members of the reserves and their families by cutting off access to pay and to benefits. a 6-year-old boy is dead after drowning on board a cruise ship. it happened on the carnival victory on last day. a caribbean voyage. a deejay saw the boy struggling and passengers tried to help but could not help the boy. i heard all of this commotion. i helped prop the boy s body in proper position so they could perform the cpr. everybody was crying. they had to pull the mother away and the father. the father was next to his son pleading and begging his son to stay alive. drowning on cruise ships do not happen often.