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President Joe Biden acknowledged that Congress will need to scale back his sweeping economic, tax, and social spending agenda from its recent $3.5 trillion target figure. Meanwhile, his chief climate envoy John Kerry lauded corporate actions on climate, amid concern that the shrinking package won’t contain promised carbon cuts and climate provisions....

York times, knocked her down. another defendant is accused of calling her a traitor. those are among the newer cases. theres also progress in some of the older cases. one of the largest and most prominent cases against the oath keepers. one of those far-right groups accused of conspiracy in the january 6th attack. prosecutors told the judge they had secured three plea deals against accused oath keepers. and have productive plea discussions with many of the others. then we have our first trial da...

In the 80s. thank you for being on the show. >> good morning to you. god bless you today. >> thank you. i have to start by noting nbc news reached out to the district attorney here for comment. did not get a reply. he did say in a statement his directions to deputy d.a.s on withholding plea orders, which includes an order to memorialize any plea discussions with you, are about, quote, ensuring the office makes consistent evidence based decisions on avoiding false claims of racism. he says he too...

Case like this, before they apprehended the person they just dont want a signal of who it is. so that is why theyve probably redacted it in this case. >> so a federal prosecutor, your old job, today told the court that theyre in very what they call very preliminary plea discussions with at least some of these accused coconspirators in the 16. what does very preliminary mean? >> it means they dont want to be bound by. it means theyre starting to talk to the defense lawyers. its a very common thin...

False label oath keepers who are charged with a criminal conspiracy to attack the capital on january six and some of them have now begun plea discussions with prosecutors which means they could become cooperating witnesses against a coconspirators and possibly reveal more coconspirators in their plot. people like roger stone who hung around with so-called oath keepers should be very worried tonight. thats next. welcome to allstate. ♪ ♪ you already pay for car insurance, why not take your hom...

To 16. its the largest of the conspiracy cases. theres a smaller conspiracy case against members of another group called the proud boys. so these are the cases that are farthest ahead and one of the things i would note is today during a hearing in the oath keepers case, the government said the lawyers for the government were beginning to discuss possible plea negotiations with some of the oath keepers, and, you know, with all of these cases, hallie, nearly 500 cases, the government will have to ...

People manafort, corsy. i dont know corsy, but he refuses to say what they demanded. corsi is front and center in the mueller probe, and wow, does he have a story youll want to hear? >> glad to be back with you again. >> the rejected plea agreement and his willingness to spill the details landing him on muellers bad side. >> my attorneys said that special counsel wasnt very pleased. they said well take it from here. >> draft court filings into he received in plea discussions shed light on how a ...

Too. alex, thanks very much. new insight into what robert muell muellers team new. cnn obtained documents showing how stone allegedly sought damning information and e-mails from the wikileaks founder julian assange in an effort to influence the campaign. >> sara murray is with us and had a rare sit-down with him. walk us through these key revelations. >> this is interesting because these new e-mails that are in this filing. they show, you know, corsi seeming to alert roger stone that dirt was ...

Wikileaks founder, julian assange, and corsi says he was offered a plea deal on one count of perjury. so lets get straight to analysis. cnn legal analyst paul cowan is with me. so if hes rejecting this deal, what now? >> well, first, you have to analyze, is there really a deal? he says mueller offered him a deal. i dont see any independent confirmation of that. and i wonder about it, because, remember, hes testified before the grand jury under oath. he was interviewed by federal investigators in...

1-800-help now. new insight into plea deal in the russia probe. a close associate of roger stone telling nbc news that hes in talks to cut a deal with robert mueller. of course, he says he was questioned about the wikileaks release of john podestas hacked e-mails. >> if he had knowledge and transferred that information to the trump campaign, that could be big trouble for all those individuals, including the president. >> joining me now, criminal defense attorney ashleigh merchant. good morning...