Bret okay. Thank you. Good evening. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, Hunter Biden pleads guilty to charges of avoiding tax payments, Jury Selection was scheduled to begin instead. Lawyers for the president s son requested to change hiS Plea, surprising prosecutors who urged the judge to reject the new course of action. The case follows his conviction in delaware on Gun Charges for which he is still awaiting sentencing. We head to the courthouse in downtown Los Angeles Jonathan Hunt reports on how this case developed through the day, changed. Good evening, jonathan. Good evening, bret. Just about 30 minutes ago. We wrapped up what has been an extraordinary day with Hunter Biden walking out of the courthouse here. Having pled guilty to all nine Tax Evasion and Tax Fraud related charges. As he walked out, he said nothing. He held hands with his wife, melissa, and he left it to his Lead Attorney Abbe lowell to splain why he changed hiS Plea to guilty. Listen here. Hunter decided to enter h
was to go another way to new york? absolutely. there is still a lot of uncertainty but a lot of crypto currencies are crip tour companies are taking this as a big win. crypto. as securities they need to be registered. unlike normal commodities, though are subject to a lot of regulations but it does not to be registered in the same way. so what the us regulators were saying in the courts was, look, they have done all of this business, dealing with $1.3 billion in these unregistered securities are now the judges said, no, they are not considered unregulated securities. that is not only a big win for raffle but other crypto currencies elsewhere. there are lots of crip to currencies engaged in this battle. simeon, that is my whiny do not go voice. i only found out this today, this is your last business broadcast. you are going off to india to be a news correspondent. i am indeed. iwill india to be a news correspondent. i am indeed. i will be the next south asia correspondent f
the first time it has opted against a rise in more than a year. fed chairmanjerome powell said the bank was still waiting for evidence that inflation was slowing decisively. so what might be in store? to talk through what s at stake i m joined by francis 0h, asia pacific chief executive at qraft technologies. a warm welcome to the programme. argue with the economists, the bookies that predict that inflation will actually be coming down to around 3%? actually be coming down to around 396? actually be coming down to around 396? ., ~ , ., ., ., around 396? thank you for having me, es, this is interesting because it would take a long time to see the 3% level could be achieved. we are still waiting and see for extra detail but right now the call of economists is about 3.1% of cpi data thisjune, which is also substantially different from the previous three months in may and i think the query strategy is that the cooling down of the cpi, and the fed looks like it will be changing t
were back live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. us diplomatic personnel and their families are now safely out of sudan as the african nation descends into increasing violence. they were airlifted to neighboring djibouti and a dramatic overnight evacuation about 100. us special operations forces carried out a daring mission today, the u. s embassy in khartoum is closed. and the decision to evacuate personnel comes after a week of heavy fighting between sudan s military and arrival paramilitary group more than 400 people have been killed, including one american, the state department says there are about 16,000, potentially as many as 19,000 americans in sudan. most though, are dual nationals and our correspondents are well positioned here. and overseas to bring you all of the angles of this developing story. let s go to cnn s sam kiley live from djibouti. he s gonna be there in just a moment. let s begin with cnn s oren liebermann . he s over at the pentagon o
shelby county commission just voted to send justin pearson back to the tennessee state house. his colleague justin jones was reinstated monday. both were protesting for gun reform after three kids and three school staffers were shot and killed by someone who legally bought the weapons and used them to murder school children and teachers. and both lawmakers were expelled from the state government for speaking out republicans said it was because they lacked decorum on the house floor. the backlash to the gop decision has been so intense, it s only helped to fuel the debate on guns in tennessee. and now the southern states governor is actually pushing for some gun reform. governor bill lee signed an executive order on tuesday, strengthening background checks, and he s now calling for gop state lawmakers, the same ones who expelled pearson and jones to pass a red flag law let s first listen to justin pearson. guilty of not expanding health care. guilty of not giving us educatio