the president s son will plead guilty to federal criminal charges. the lead starts right now. hunter biden strikes a deal on a felony charge and agrees to plead guilty on two misdemeanors, the criminal prosecution the president s son now avoids, as the republicans blast the deal calling it a slap on the wrist. a trial for donald trump set to begin in less than two months as the former president argues his own defense of sorts on national tv. these boxes were interspersed with all sorts of things, golf shirts, glclothing, pants, shoe many things. many things. and the urgent underwater rescue mission running out of time as the coast guard estimated 40 hours left of breathable air for the crew on board the missing sub. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we start with our law and justice lead. hunter biden has struck a deal with federal prosecutors one that the legal teams hopes keeps the president s son out of prison. he ll plead guilty to two misdemeanors for fail
six? the boss. fifteen? titan turkey. number one? the philly. oh, yeah, you probably don t want that one. look, i m not in charge of naming the subs. in our law and justice lead an initial trial date has been set in the federal criminal trial of donald john trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents. judge cannon putting the case on a speedy track with trial date set for mid august as of right now. right before the first republican presidential debate. his campaign for president is
with judge cannon noting the parties could push back the trial start date because of the complexity of the case and issues related to the classifies information. the iran attack plan, you remember that? ready, it wasn t a document. reporter: trump denying news report he flaunted documents he knew were classified related to iran in the summer of 2021 at his bedminster golf club in new jersey, even though according to the indictment he was caught in a conversation admitting it was hi hi highly confidential and classified. these boxes were interspuersd with golf shirts, clothing, pants, shoes iran war plans? not that i know. there was no document. that was a massive amount of papers and everything else talking about iran and other things. and it may have been held or may
abbey cnn also asked republican voter for their first choice preference for president. trump still dominating the pack, but if you look at the numbers trump is down 6 points while desantis is steady. and pence has gone up a few points. everybody else is still in single digits. what s more significant here in your view? the fact he s up more than 20 points or the fact that his numbers are going in the wrong direction? i think at this moment the trajectory of this for trump is probably not headed in the right direction. that s mainly because this is not the end of the story in terms of trump s legal woes. we could be looking at at least one, maybe two other criminal cases he s going to have to face. not to mention a trial in the new york case. potentially given the date that judge aileen cannon put on the table. a trial in the federal case. so the news is not going to get
unabated and his constant comments about the case could very well be used by the prosecution. reporter: the former president answering questions in his first tv interview since he was indicted on 37 federal charges including conspiracy and retaining national defense information. why did you have this very sensitive national security defense documents? in my case i took it out pretty much in a hurry, but people packed it up and we left. i had clothing in there, i had all sorts of personal its in there. much much stuff. i have every right to have those boxes. this is purely a presidential records act. this is not a criminal thing. reporter: trump s claims are untrue and he s charged criminally with aileen cannon setting a tentative but swift schedule. with a trial date in fort pierce, florida set for august 14th. that date will likely change