soon will probably get some photos? t to good morning to you. the judiciary committee less than an hour we will see the former special counsel testifying after durham testified behind closed doors with the intelligence committee congressman mike turner says he got information from durham that could be helpful to fix the problem within the fbi. here is what he told you this morning. mr. durham is identified to the issue if there was misconduct under the fbi and department of justice reviewing the issue pursuing donald trump imagine those two years we lost as a country and what happened to the trump presidency as a result of the basis allegations this is misconduct and political bias the other aspect of what we are worried about at the fbi. reporter: we expect durham to arrive people are lining up outside the room this will be his first time testifying into crossfire hurricane examining the origins in the justification of the fbi probe donald trump and his alleged context wi
being with us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we are following breaking news this morning. charges have just been filed against hunter biden, the son of the sitting president has agreed to a plea deal for two tax misdemeanors and a separate gun possession charge that will likely be dismissed. we ll have more on the latest in just a moment, including new reaction from the white house. plus, more breaking news, save the date for the start of donald trump s federal trial. august 14th, this year, as in less than a couple of months from now for that classified documents trial to start. also ahead, the race against time to find a submersible lost in the middle of the atlantic ocean. five people set out to the wreckage of the titanic deep underwater, but according to the coast guard, there is only enough oxygen in the vehicle to last to until thursday. what we know about who is on board and the search efforts currently under way. we begin with
now with elycia menendez in for alex. reporter: the bread and butter of conservative media for years now has been hyping up the investigation into president biden s adult son, hunter biden. it s never been seen to end. they used it to create asymmetry that didn t really exist between trump s alleged crimes and what they speculated was the crime ridden biden family, and so long as this case was open and the investigation was behind closed doors, they could really make it whatever they wanted it to be. and even though that was the case, even though republicans have been dining out on this hunter investigation for years, they also have been up in arms about how it hadn t finished yet. they were aghast that trump was indicted before hunter. they wanted hunter s case resolved immediately. well, today we have some closure in that case. today we got the news hunter biden is expected today enter a plea deal for two tax misdemeanors in that investigation. he s also expected to strik
because together, we rise. and on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. the bread and butter of conservatives in the conservative media for years now has been hyping up an investigation into president biden s adult son hunter biden. but it never seem to end. the investigation, which was open in 2018, under trump s justice department, has been used as a black box of sorts by republicans. they use it to create a symmetry that didn t really exist between trump s alleged crimes, and what they speculated was the crime ridden biden family. and so long as this case was open, and the investigation was behind closed doors, they could really make it whatever they wanted it to be. and even though that was the case even though the republicans have been dining out on the hunter investigation for years, they also have been up in arms about how it h
trial diversification which means his charges gets dropped if he doesn t do drugs. this plea deal actually goes against justice department guidelines on the tax and the gun charge. this isn t a plea deal. this is a cover-up. hunter biden s attorney says the case is closed. this was an investigation into fara violations which is now you register to work with a foreign government if you are an american citizen. money laundering. again, five years and what they came up with is two misdemeanor tax counts. that s the resolution we have is that mr. biden is going to take responsibility for failing to timely pay his taxes for those two years? is this the end of it? my understanding is that we are done. jesse: they are done because the prosecutors never even cracked open the laptop. the laptop has evidence of money laundering, bribery sex trafficking, wire fraud. foreign lobbying crimes kickbacks and racketeering. almost as if the laptop wasn t a part of the investigation wel