Ordering House Committees to open a formal Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden. Hes accusing the white house of A Culture Of Corruption. Even members of his own seem to be divided on this decision. Plus, 19 defendants in one courtroom on trial all at once. How can you make that work . Fulton countys District Attorney facing a deadline of today to explain to a judge how she plans to make it happen. At the same time, lawyers for former President Donald Trump are fighting the case trying to get most of the charges against him thrown out. And armed and dangerous. In pennsylvania, police hope theyre closing in on a missing killer, but after a sighting overnight and a standoff with a homeowner, they now know he has a rifle with a scope. Theyre warning people to stay inside as they mobilize some 500 officers to hunt him down. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. Another bitter chapter has kicked off in washington. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy is green lighting an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden focusing on republican accusations of bribery and corruption from bidens time as vice president. Today i am directing our House Committee to open a formal Impeachment Inquiry into president joe biden. This logical next step will give our committees the full power to gather all the facts and answers for the american public. Its exactly what we want to know. This is something that republicans on mccarthys right flank have wanted for months and they have threatened to Strip Mccarthy of his speakers gavel if he didnt move on this. But its something gop moderates could have major cost for them. Lauren fox is on the hill. We have jeff zeleny here in studio with us. This push has been building for months. What brought this to a head . Yeah, this actually moved much more quickly today than anyone anticipated. We expected the House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy would announce on thursday that this was supportive of this Impeachment Inquiry, but then he announced it today around 11 00 a. M. Hes arguing that this is going to empower his Committee Chairman who have been working on these investigations to get more information. He also pointed out a series of what he views as A Culture Of Corruption from the biden white house. But we should note that there is no direct link at this point, nothing that these committees have uncovered to this point that shows a direct link of joe biden benefitting from Hunter Bidens foreign business dealings. This comes at a critical time for House Republicans as they are trying to find a consensus around funding the government. Its also not clear that the announcement today that mccarthy made is going to satisfy those on his right flank who have been threatening to oust him now for several weeks. Heres matt gaetz just moments ago on the house floor. The path forward for the House Of Representatives is to either bring you into immediate, total compliance, or remove you pursuant to a motion to vacant the chair. And matt gaetz argued during that floor speech that opening this Impeachment Inquiry was just a baby step and warning that the motion to vacant was still very much on the table, warning it could come up on a daily basis if mccarthy does not give into his right flank. So there are so many moving pieces at this point and the House Of Representatives is expected to vote tonight at 6 30. But this is quite the opening to what is going to be a very long week in the house. Certainly is. Jeff, we should be clear, there are divisions in the gop, there are divisions between the senate and the house. A lot of senators gop senators are not on board with this. And you even have some republican members of the house who are on board with it who seem to be illustrating some concerns, like nancy mace. Lets listen to what she said. The inquiry, my understanding, gets us or will assist us in getting joe bidens bank records. Theres no doubt based on the evidence that ive seen, whistleblowers, et cetera, theres no way that any of this happens without joe biden. And so if that is a tool in the toolbox we can use to get more evidence for the american people, then im going to support it. The problem is, how do you avoid doing an actual impeachment . And, you know, that puts a lot of seats up at risk, particularly for republicans who won biden districts. That is the web that we will weave if he move forward on it. The weab they might weave. Its a complicated web and a thorny one. 14 months before the next election. If impeachment as our forefathers intended was for, you know, a major deal, not just to look at a president s bank records. Thats interesting there, the mindset of wanting to go halfway but not all the way. There are divisions among House Republicans. There are divisions between House Republicans and senate republicans, all the while this is really wrapped up in so much else. What Speaker Mccarthy is trying to do first and foremost is save his speakership if he would not have done this, the right flank is exposed in a major way, also as lauren was saying, a busy month shaping up the budget. What was supposed to be happening in september and will still be happening is getting some type of deal on these spending bills. He also needed to do that to protect his right flank. So, you know, this is going to be an unchartered territory, really, in many ways. But it doesnt really feel like a full Impeachment Inquiry which we have seen several of just in our short time here. Yeah, its a trend. How does joe biden how does his campaign, how does the white house counter this. Theyre saying theres been no evidence, no shred of evidence through all of these investigations into the House Committees that any wrongdoing has been committed. Well see about that. Long term they think the politics of this is good. Look, this is something that no president s wants to be under. Any time theres an investigation or an inquiry, you dont know how this is going to end. This is something that a white house likes to control events, they cannot control this event. So they can call it politics and it may be that, but who knows how this investigation will unfold. Its a cloud of suspicion even if they dont find something that he doesnt want to be under. Jeff, thank you so much. Lauren, thank you as well. Boris . We want to pivot to georgia now where former President Donald Trump has asked the judge to toss out all 13 counts hes facing. Theres a deadline today to explain to the judge how she plans to try all 19 defendants at the same time. As of now, at least two defendants are going to be tried together next month, but plenty of legal fights are under way to figure out which others, if any, will join then. Nick valencia is in atlanta tracking the details. What should we anticipate for fani willis fani filing today. Shes going to show how she expects to try all of these defendants. She faces, though, a very, very daunting task. Last week we learned that a trial against these 19 codefendants could take at minimum four months and require at least 150 witnesses. And you remember the special purpose grand jury, they heard from 75 witnesses who testified, so thats more than twice as many. And that process took seven months. What the District Attorneys office is saying is that these 19 need to be tried together because their charges are effectively linked together and that they go to this overarching conspiracy of trying to keep the former president in power. We mentioned these challenges, though. These codefendants are going a variety of different directions, some that are want a swift trial, others asking for a delay, the former president s want to get their indictment quashed all together and you have some like the former Chief Of Staff who are trying to get their case moved from State Court To Federal court. And the judge brought up challenges and the scenario that would be presented if a federal court hands down a decision while a state trial is under way in georgia. So the 11th circuit could take any idea of how long to weigh . As long as they need to. Right. It could potentially even optimistically be a sixmonth turnaround for the 11th circuit to come up with a decision, right . Yes, sir. If its a fourmonth trial, were sitting at a point where we presented the entire states case, maybe the jury has returned a verdict, but we cant enter that judgment of conviction until the 11th circuit comes to a decision. Is that the scenario were playing out here . Willis responded to this in part in a motion saying that a decision against the mark meadows, the verdict in the state trial would come down by a decision is reached for a federal court. So this is part of the defense that were going to see later laid out in this deadline. Were also heard last week that some of the witnesses are victims, boris. The das office saying they dont want to retraumatize these victims by having them testify in multiple cases. A lot that were expects to see here later today from the District Attorneys office. The Election Workers that were accused of all sorts of malfeasance that turned out to be completely false and fabricated. Thanks so much for the reporting. Turning to the worst setback by far in the nearly two week long search for an escaped murderer west of philadelphia. Danel danel danelo cav can they is armed with a rifle with a scope. The call was received from a resident indicating a short hispanic male, no shirt, and wearing dark pants, had entered his garage while the homeowner was in it and he grabbed a rifle that was leaning in the corner of the garage. The homeowner drew a pistol and fired as he fled with the rifle. It was in the garage. State police have set up this Search Perimeter believing the killer remains in that area. One School District has closed, several others are moving all outside activities inside as a precaution. Danny freeman is in chester county, pennsylvania, i wonder how residents are reacting. This is not the first time that police have said that they have a cordon, a perimeter around where they believe him to be. Now hes armed and i warned what their confidence is in the police now. Reporter thats a very fair question and weve been standing at this intersection here of route 23 and route 100. This is the northeastern most section of the perimeter and you can see behind me, these roads entering the perimeter are closed off. But were standing at a gas station where there are a lot of residents milling about, going to fill up their tank and they have voiced frustration to us that, once again, this man, Danelo Cavelcante twice last night, but still no capture. Folks are on edge because of that. Let me talk about the updates that we learned a few hours ago in that Press Conference with state police. The first thing we learned is that there was a sighting last night actually at 8 00 p. M. That was when police got a report from a woman who was driving by the area that police had been searching for a couple of days, near the area where cavalcante ditched the van. Police said the woman Saw Cavalcante crouched down on road. They didnt find him, but they found footprints and his shoes. And last night he entered an open garage, spotted a. 22caliber rifle equipped with a scope and a flashlight. But the owner was in the garage, he opened fire at cavalcante, he was able to escape and took that rifle with him. Why Police Believe hes armed and extremely dangerous. Lets listen to how the police are thinking about cavalcante after this new development. Take a listen. Hes killed two people previously. I would suspect that hes desperate enough to use that weapon. We have considered him dangerous right from the very start. It changes nothing. We have always considered him to be a risk. We just now absolutely know that he has a weapon. Now a few important details here. Police do not have any reason to believe that cavalcante was injured that brief shootout. The other thing that was brandnew that came out of this Press Conference is that cavalcante, according to police, knows where he is in this area. Initially when when he learned that he dropped off this stolen van in this area, it seemed like a random location, but now police says he knows where he is and he has been in this area before. And the last thing ill note is that Pennsylvania State police, they were asked if anything has gone wrong during this investigation. So far, the police saying, no, nothing has con wrong. We believe hes still in this county. Day 13, not captured yet. Armed and dangerous. Back to you. Nothing has gone wrong but they lost him twice. Danny freeman, thanks so much. New video shows kim jongun in russia meeting with officials there. Washington issuing a new warning to north korea ahead of kims expected meeting with Vladimir Putin. Plus, time running out as the United Auto Workers union and the Big Three Automakers work to negotiate a contract. Almost 150,000 workers could strike friday if theres no deal. Well speak to two Union Members about their demands ahead. 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So this is new video just in today, it shows kim jongun in russia ahead of his expected meeting with Vladimir Putin. And you can see kim sitting with a senior russian government official. This is coming after kims heavily armored train stopped at a russian station just over the border from china. It is unclear when kim and putin will be holding this closely watched summit. But we do know what putin wants for this meeting. Hes looking for ammunition for his war in ukraine. Kim jongun wants everything from satellite and Missile Technology to hard cash and food in return. U. S. Officials deeply concerned that the two leaders could be striking an arms deal soon. Paula hancock is in seoul with more on this. Do we know where kim jongun is now . Reporter well, as far as we know, hes still heading north. We dont have an exact location. Because we dont know for sure exactly where hell be meeting Vladimir Putin. There are rumors and speculation that it could be a little farther north at a space launch center. This is an area that Vladimir Putin will be going to that area. He said so at his Eastern Economic forum to staterun media saying he had a personal agenda. Clearly that could be where they are going to meet. But we still dont know exactly when. What we do know is that it will have a military focus. We have heard from the kremlin spokesperson saying its going to be a fullblown visit with talks between two delegations which will touch upon quote sensitive issues. We know that the Defense Minister will be part of that delegation. And we have already seen from footage with kim jongun that his main Military Person who is the leader of the Missile Program in north korea is with him as well. Hes sanctioned by the u. S. And the u. N. So we know it will have a military focus. Earlier this morning, we heard Vladimir Putin speaking pretty glowingly of russias relationship with china. How does that relate to what were seeing as a growing alliance between russia and north korea . We did hear from Vladimir Putin. He met with the chinas chinas vice premier on tuesday and he said, quote, relations have reached a very high level. Of course this is all a derivative of what has been achieved in the political spear adding that the results are more than good, they are excellent. Theres a closer relationship between russia and china, the same were seeing between russia and north korea. And what we heard from south korean intelligence just last week was that they believe when the Russian Defense minister was in