and concern on capitol hill after mitch mcconnell freezes mid sentence right in the middle of a news conference. good morning, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with hunter biden s federal tax charges still unresolved this morning contrary to almost everyone s expectations. the president s son had planned to plead guilty to tax crimes and resolve a federal firearms charge as well, but the judge s questioning revealed a crucial disagreement between prosecutors and hunter biden s legal team. sara murray has more. reporter: after a tumultuous day in federal court, hunter biden left with no plea deal after a federal judge said that she was not ready to accept it. president biden s son arrived at federal court prepared to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and strike a deal to avoid a felony gun charge. after a five year justice department probe that hunter biden once predicted had he would emerge from unsca
that i would not be whether or not i was going to be subpoenaed or not, and that emphatically i would not have been sitting in this position as being called as a witness, so that s what my text chains show. so no. that we ve never talked about willis and wade having a relationship? not directly you and i, no. we talked about my health. okay. we talked about as i stated before, other things, but not this, no. okay. did you text me about wade and willis taking many trips together? i object i m sorry. there s been an objection. i m going to object as it relates to attorney/client privilege, and i m going to object because i haven t seen the text messages that she s attempting to impeach the witness with, and so he s made all of his representations that he s had zero communications as it relates to the issues that she continues to ask about and that the only information she has from him is through a third party, which would be hearsay. ms. merchan. judge,
this hour, and on the ground frenzy in the state. millions under mandatory evacuation orders. the entire state faces flash flooding. and then record-shattering storm surge, water officials say as high as 18 feet. enough to swallow two suvs stacked one on the other. one official warning if you are caught in that surge, you simply will not survive. let s get straight to our correspondents on the ground binning with beginning with bill weir. what are you seeing and what are you told to expect? reporter: this whole community is really bracing for the worse. the new numbers this morning sunk the pit of the stomach everyone here, trying to think about a 17 foot storm surge. and we re on the back side of the storm and this is sort of the reverse storm surge. locals never see this exposed seabed here. we re looking at crab traps and oyster beds blowing around in the wind with the rest of us here. but of course the water as the storm comes ashore will fill in fast. and we re next
But the point of this, the summit is not perfectly timed but it is important to russia because they have been cultivating these alliances not only looking for commercial activities but also to expand their sphere of influence to foster this anti-western sentiment that they are trying to sort of spread and also to project themselves as a major power which is of course part of the reason why they invaded ukraine in the first place. so very interesting optics here. we ll let you get back to monitoring those comments from vladimir putin. thank you so much. north korea preparing to commemorate the 7 09 annthe arm signing. the celebration comes during rising tensions on the peninsula over the north s increasing missile tests. mark stewart is live in tokyo with more. what can we expect from north korea s celebrations? reporter: good morning.
You can say jesse called you a b and i get to sit there. not really. you can jesse: if you want to switch seats. greg: no, you would do to jail we should do that tomorrow. you d go to jail and pay a fine. jesse: that s true. a big fine. when the pilgrims landed and they had no food, they said son of a we need something to else. and i think bad words were used. john hancock, is that a problem? how about this? the patriots. they re playing the jets. tom brady is talking trash at the defense making the jets defense is. that a problem if that gets picked up on the mic? are they going to fine tom? ridiculous. greg: a sound argument. jesse: i rest my case.