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Pair of legal bombshells here in washington today that could have huge ramifications for the 2024 election. Last hour, attorney general Merrick Garland announced a federal prosecutor who is raiding hunter biden has been Special Counsel, at his question. David weiss requested the status change. Garland did grant that. This comes just a few hour after trumps lawyers and Special Counsel prosecutors appeared for the first hearing in the election interference indictment. A key ruling could come down at any moment. Were on top of this. Lets star with the hunter biden news. Kara, tell us about this s...

putin's rule now says he was not trying to topple the russian leader. it's the first time we're hearing from yevgeny prigozhin since he ordered a sudden stop to an armed rebellion just 120 miles from moscow. plus, what did the u.s. know and when did it know it about the plan to topple putin? the chairman of the senate intelligence committee mark warner joins me live in minutes. and ron desantis lays down a big marker on immigration, the florida governor says he will finish what donald trump started and build that wall. i'm dana bash, let's go behind the headlines and "inside poli...

today on "inside politics," negotiators are racing to try toex tend the tempt the prayer truce between israel and hamas. with just hours left before the current deal expireses. a top official tells cnn he's hopeful they will be able to continue this pause. it comes as we are standing by for hamas to release the final group of hostages as part of the current deal. cnn is covering this past-moving story from all angles. i want to start with wolf blitzer in tel aviv. it's nice of you on again on yet another critical day. >> a very critical day indeed. israelis are very nervous. they wan...

Republicans that lunter biden was getting a special deal, he was being treated differently, this will give the assurance there's greater independence here, separate from the justice depa department, which is under the biden administration. >> kara, if you were stand by, i want to get to the white house, where arlette saenz is. whenever something developed with the department of justice, the white house obviously going to painstaking degrees to try to stay out of it. they don't generally get a heads-up on this kind of thing. what are you hearing from the white house? >> reporter: this is the sa...

Commenting further. it's clear this is a new phase for president biden, who has sustained -- or facing sustained pressure from republican lawmakers about his son hunter's business dealings. there's also a threat about impeachment inquiries into president biden, so we might see further reaction from the white house, which so far said they did not have any heads up. >> capitol hill is exactly where we have to go next. arlette, stay with us. lauren fox is on the hill. republicans how would when they learned of the plea deal. they were also asking for repeatedly a special counsel in this probe. no...