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Charades. these are very complex issues. theyre steeped in 1,000 years of history as it relates to ukraine. theyre very steeped in the nature of the russian state that putin runs. its a singularly unique state that is tailor made and molded to his autocratic style. he has i atable of advisers consisting of a few folks who run the security apparatus, the fsb, the svr, the military and the gru, and then youve got some oligarchs thrown in. so you take putin out of that system and it becomes almost ...

The federal investigation is far more broad, looking at a much wider cast of characters. there is overlap in terms of the witnesses. brad raffensperger and other state officials have spoken to investigators in both investigations. one key difference, though, is if former president or any of his allies are charged at the state level, state convictions are outside of the scope of any possible presidential pardons. >> shan, we know how powerful for a prosecutors that the tool of having audio tape c...

The "titanic," pieces of the wreckage recovered by the site were brought ashore by st. johns newfoundland. they will study for insights into why the sub imploded. all five people onboard were killed. theres new fallout over the plea deal that saw the presidents son, hunter, avoid prison time. an irs whistle-blower is speaking out, and so is president biden. gabe gutierrez now with the latest on that. >> reporter: tonight president biden is emphatically denying he was present when his son hunte...

Of a mob boss. using the big guy and the big guys friends as leverage, little scary. the white house denied bidens involvement and want to know that he was high on crack when he sent that text but joe seems to think its one big joke. take a look. >> i started off without you. i stole a lot of state secrets and things shared. >> so we are clear its documented in a 2020, 1023 form joe biden accused by well paid fbi force taking foreign bribes from ukranian foreign national when he was vice-preside...

Imitation of a mob boss. i am vito corleone, and if anything should happen, my song hunter. >> okay. using the big guy and albig gul the big guys friends as leverage. ooh, little scary. now, of course thite hous, white house, they deny bidens involvement in any and all of hunters deals. b and hunters lawyers, they want to knot and waw that he was rea, really high on crack when he sent that text. >> but joe seems to think its one big joke. take a look. joke. i started off without you andedf i saw...

Tell us how you are able to target the areas where crime and gang activity and weapons are concentrated. >> good morning, thanks for having me. we are simply looking at the weapon offense data and the heat maps that overlay with some of the most violent areas throughout the city of atlanta. we simply pour resources, tools and personnel within those areas, specifically surrounding some of our convenience stores within those hot spots and then we find particularly which targets were looking for wi...

White house state dinner 2 days after hunter himself pled guilty to federal tax crimes. asked about this yesterday, president reiterated never had anything to do with this somes for business daily. also underpinned those crimes. listen. >> mr. president, (indiscernible) ♪ >> 2017 whatsapp message iris whistle blower testimony from gary shapley, use his dad as leverage in negotiations with a chinese business executive. now, the second whistleblower you mentioned has come forward. a gentleman wh...

Because of its effectiveness. >> no question. so, the public story is that prigozhin peacefully ended his advance towards moscow, has taken a deal to go to belarus, and some of his forces are going to sign up with regular russian army units. and prigozhins going to live safely in belarus. do you buy that deal? >> well, jim, maybe i spend too much time in intelligence, but this whole thing -- this deal, to me, is kind of fishy. that all of a sudden prigozhin stopped, turned left, or turned back, ...

Standpoint an extension of washington. i just wonder whether it was a deal, or somehow behind the scenes, putin exerted some form of leverage over prigozhin that caused him to fold. this is an unanswered question. >> so much in this deal, we dont understand, is there? and crucially, weve only been hearing about it from the belarusian or russia sides but prigozhin has not told us what the deal was that he signed up to. >> yeah, look. i think the former director of national intelligence is spot-on...

>> what level, though? >> its an unusual relationship to say the least between lukashenko and putin. lukashenko is highly dependent on president putin, but whats been notable in the last two months or so is in addition to this deal that lukashenko is having credit for getting brokered, he got putin to agree to put tactical nuclear weapons in belarus, and claimed the transfers started. putin himself last week was saying that russia had started those transfers. so it a certain extent, theres an od...