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happening. >> now, breaking news, the judge had donald trump's federal election subversion case just announced the schedule going forward that will allow prosecutors to release never before we're seeing evidence against trump before the november election standby for details on what it could mean for the prosecution of the former president also tonight, trump unveils new economic proposals, including a plan to give elon musk a broad role in the oversight of federal government spending. this as commonly harris is now on the ground and pennsylvania preparing for her high-stakes debate with trump, just five days from now. and the georgia school shooting suspect is formally charged with four counts of murder and we're learning that investigators have found writings about past school shootings in his bedroom welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around

the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room the skis, cnn breaking news, and let's get right to the breaking news on the january 6 better for all election subversion case against donald trump. >> the judge just issued a new order that opens the door for prosecutors to really significant evidence before election day cnn chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid is joining us. he's got details fall a break. all of this down for us and what it potentially means for the case against trump. a wolf. >> this is quite significant because here the judge overseeing this case has just set her schedule, which could allow prosecutors to release. never before scene evidence like grand jury transcripts before the 2024 presidential race. now, this is something that the defense was fighting against today in court. and as we saw in today's hearing, this is just one of many fights

ahead in this historic case. >> it's a total fraud. it was election interference. >> donald trump's january 6 case back in dc federal court today with a fiery and contentious hearing attorneys for the former president seeking an immediate dismissal to the case. we have an illegitimate prosecutor. we have an illegitimate indictment. and we have illegitimate legal issues raised in that indictment. trump attorney john lauro said, the judge, tanya chutkan made it clear that was not going to happen. the trump team sparred with her over a timeline for the case, calling it unfair to introduce evidence this close to the 2024 election, chutkan response i understand there is an election in pending. you have said before and i will say again that the electoral process and what needs to happen before the election does not matter here. and that she was definitely not getting dragged into the election. but there was one area of agreement. the judge must

decide how a supreme court court ruling on presidential immunity affects this case before any trial. immunity is the linchpin here. she said a 6-3 decision in july gave former president's immunity from prosecution for official acts. but not for private conduct. attorney general merrick garland said this week he was confident in special counsel, jack smith. >> i stand by the actions of the special counsel the superseding indictment is an effort to respond to the direct instructions of the supreme court as to how to effectuate a new indictment in an ongoing case while the new reworked indictment remove things like trump's infamous rose garden video. so go home. >> we love you. you're very special it added new details about congress's certification process and what roll vice president mike pence played in it trump's attorneys arguing on thursday that the case should be tossed if the judge

rules communications between pence and trump are immune from prosecution, it tanks the entire indictment. >> laura argued they also intend to raise other issues like the legitimacy of the special counsel so questions about obstruction of justice and january 6 and discovery. but one question that won't be answered anytime soon is when this case will go to trial, it is sort of an exercise in futility at this point to talk about setting a trial date yeah, a trial still a long way off in this case. a sources close to this matter told me that they expect this case will make at least one more trip back up to the supreme court because there's going to be a lot of litigation about key evidence and whether that that is covered by the supreme court's opinion about presidential immunity and whoever loses is expected to want to fight that all the way to the high court. will they take it up? that's unclear. >> wolf, paula reid reporting for us. thank you, paula, very much. i want to get some more on this breaking story. our legal and law enforcement experts are with us and laura

coates. let me start with you, so we could soon see never-before-seen evidence that the prosecutors are going to release about trump in this election subversion case, what sort of materials do you think we're talking about? >> well, we're going to have information about the allegations to support the charges. remember, they have not actually changed and still the same four, but the underlying notions of how they're going to support it outside of what they believe to be possibly immunized testimony, statements that were made to encourage lawless activity conversations they were outside of the realm of what our core constitutional arguments and duties as well. and we're not going to hear it all. there might be some there are still going to be sealed. we're going to have information to support what the underlying issue is. and really if you're the prosecution, you're looking at the defense and saying, be careful what you wish for. you just might get if you want us to do a full evidentiary are on the papers discussion of what is official and what was not. here you go you know, it's interesting also, andrew mccabe that prosecutors have until september 26 to submit the evidence for judge chutkan to review.

>> what kind of factors do you think she will have? reviewing whether to make this specific evidence all of it or some of it, public, will that decision essentially letting the prosecutors go first was a core one to the fight that we saw play out in court today. >> trump's team quite reasonably wants to slow this down. what's that? >> put discussions and motions and possible avenues of appeal in front of that part of the case, where will be deciding, sorting through the evidence and deciding what charges stay on, what charges don't the decision by the judge today was one it's sending a clear signal that no, she's going to go right to the evidence and that will likely compress those issues in a way that they all get appeal that once, which again, is consistent with what the problem i securities are seeking that she's making it clear that the upcoming election is not going to have an impact on her decision. that's absolutely right. and i think that's consistent with what you're hearing from the prosecution as well. they are not worried about the election. they are worried about getting

as much of this case done as pot as they as they possibly can. in the next few months and of course, president trump, former president trump is looking at it very differently. he wants to keep as much of this case out of the public time. just since before the election. and so we'll see them fight over those. >> it'll be a big fight. and bill brennan is with us, donald trump's attorneys. they're clearly likely to try to prevent this evidence from being made public, especially before the election, right? >> they will wolf and they'll have the blanket of the united states supreme court decision on immunity, which basically holds that anything done in a presidential capacity is immune. anything that's done while president is, it's like a rebuttable presumption that it's immune and if it's a private act, clearly private act, maybe not immune but i'm sure that they're going to push as much as they can into the top pile, which is fully immune. and if they're successful than it will be dismissed again, does it will go to trial. >> if this never before seen evidence is made public potentially, it could have a negative effect on trump going

into the election, right? i mean, it's a little bit counterintuitive when the court says the elections really not an issue in this case. and of course it is the calendar pages make it an issue, but then to release this material during the election season seems to bring the election into a bot will say, we do know that the former vice president mike pence, laura, at some of other white house aides, spoke to the grand jury in this specific case potentially what they said could be explosive and remember the role that they are putting pence in now in this new indictment versus the previous one, it's more about him being the president of the senate, less about being the running mate and second in command to president trump. >> the reason they're doing so was trying to compartmentalize the conduct they president and the conduct of a candidate who is trying to continue to campaign, having him as the president of the senate is far removed from the actual vice presidency of the united states. another point though, it is, think about this. you're

going to have the defense saying that, look, jack smith has tried to weaponize the government. they're trying to interfere with the election by even prosecuting donald trump by highlighting it at all. you're trying to hurt the other hand, they want the judge to say focus on the election, focused on the politics, because that's the only way that justice can be served. these two things do not have the same mechanism for the judge and the judge rejected it and saying, i'm not concerned with that calendar. it's been 11 months since we've had any hearing in this case. and in that amount of time, a lot has changed, but one thing is not she still a trial judge over a current indictment which are seeing our guys. >> thank you very, very much. thanks to all of your important note, laura, of course, will be back later tonight, 11:00 p.m. eastern to anchor her show. laura coates live and just ahead, kamala harris lands in pennsylvania to go deep into debate preparation right now is donald trump proposes giving elon musk's influence over the federal government if he were elected and the hunt for a motive in a georgia high school mass shooting. what

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a national emergency declaration to increase domestic energy supply and essentially lower gas prices to below $2. talking about dirt cheap gas obviously something i think that voters care about when they go to the polls because they are paying so much more at the pump, other things he talked about tackling government regulations, creating a government official since the commission that was originally proposed by mosquito. and that muscat agreed to be a part of it withdrawing unspent funds and from the biden administration, adding sweeping tariff reps. on more imports that's very important because economists have said they believe that would actually create more inflation. donald trump arguing it would create less inflation decide who you want to believe there. again, these are campaign promises, also embracing cryptocurrency, something that he has done throughout his campaign now saying he wants to make america the capital of crypto and hit point. but of course, because it is donald trump, he also went off topic. you talked again about his various court cases and said that he was being politically persecuted at one point in class playing that

he might do the same to democrats as in, bring them to court as what it sounded like he was saying, if he were to be re-elected, take a listen she and her party are censoring speech, weaponizing the justice system and trying to throw their political opponents me, in jail. >> this hasn't happened i didn't do that too crooked. hillary, i said that would be a terrible thing, wouldn't it putting the wife of the president of the united states in jail, and they always have to remember that two can play the game you can play the game. >> obviously they're implying that if he was elected, he might take action of some sort against democrats are kamala harris. it was not completely clear, just of course, as we always say in these kinds of situations, there is no evidence that the biden administration or democrats are behind. all behind these cases all right. >> kristen holmes, thanks very, very much. i want to get to the

harris campaign right now, the vice president kicking off rather intense debate preparation in the key battleground state of pennsylvania, where she will face off against trump on tuesday as her running mate, governor tim walz, is out there campaigning painting on the ground as well. i want to bring in cnn's priscilla alvarez. she's joining us right now. priscilla. why has the vice president harris decided to do or debate prep in pennsylvania? >> well, wolf sources tell me that this is a strategic play because it allows the vice president to prepare and what is a critical battleground state in over the course of the next few days, also, make stops across the community. now you see tim walz there. he is already also campaigning in erie, pennsylvania. this is a state that is top of mind for this ticket. so in addition to her being there for her prep, he is there as well. now, of course, this approach is one that resembles that a former president barack obama, who also took his debate camp outside of washington. and of course it's not the first time that the vice president is

preparing over the past month. she has put together for a small team of advisers who have been preparing her already for this upcoming presidential debate, including with mock debate sessions and a stand-in for former president don donald trump. and when i've talked to sources about what this prep looks like, they tell me that she is keenly aware of the types of strategies that the former president might employ and preparing for those moments. but her allies also telling me that they want her to knock it to roped into that and to also make sure that she is articulating a vision for the country and using it as an opportunity to present a stark contrast with her republican rival now. and we do also know that the debate rules have been said. of course, this was the debate over the debates, and that's going to include that the microphones are going to be turned off as each candidate is speaking, though there will be opportunity at that potentially turned on for certain exchanges. of course, that will also factor into her preparation. wolf, they've worked out the rules apparently, i priscilla, thank you very much personally. >> well, alvarez reporting, i want to bring in our political

experts right now and meghan hays, let me start with you, vice president kamala harris is heading to pittsburgh today for final debate prep, as we've been reporting, she's intentionally pared back her travel to prepare for this debate. we saw what a poor performance did biden campaign. the former biden campaign, how critical is it for her to have a very good night this coming tuesday. >> okay. i don't think that we should put a lot of stake in the debate. i think it's an important showing. i think it's the next step in the campaign. i think that she needs to she's reintroducing herself to the american people. a lot of people still don't know where she stands on different policies. so this is another opportunity to do that and also go head-to-head with former president trump. it also creates an environment where she can create a contrast between the two of them and they're different and they're different approach and their different styles and draw some contrast in the character where i don't think it's critically important, like it probably wants to president biden, but i do think it is an important step moving forward in the campaign. yeah. >> i think you're right there shermichael michael singleton is with us as well. sure.

michael trump reportedly told fox news is sean hannity, that he's approaching the debate with harris, the same way he did with biden and will quote, and i'm quoting him now, let her talk. harris is a very different opponent than biden is that the right strategy? what do you think? >> i mean, i think so. i think the vice president has to answer wolf how her economic plans will be paid for what's her plans to address the immigration crisis and the border, and also how she plans to bring a resolution to the conflict between israel and hamas. i think the former president needs to approach this debate with discipline, but also with certain surgical precision in how he draws a contrast to meghan's point against vice president harris on how he will be the better alternative to address the plight that so many hard working class people in this country are currently facing. >> meghan trump laid out his economic agenda and rather great detail in new york earlier today, a day after harris did so new hampshire in our new cnn poll of six key

battleground states voters now say they think trump can better handle the economy that harris can the economy is the number one issue in this campaign. how does she turn those numbers around? >> look, that poll was done before his speech today and before her speech the other day, two days ago. so i do think that as they're continuing to play out more specifics, i think american people will see the difference. i think that, you know, somebody who wants to have tariffs that will household cost $2,500 a year. and also somewhat and he wants to align themselves with aylon. moscow is very anti-worker and very anti the middle-class. i think that those start things will start to come clear. and just like we're talking about what the debate those are opportunities for the vice president to draw that contrast and draw the difference. and i think that's the way you turn it around is continuing to talk about what's your policies are different from the former president's sure, michael elect trump, of course, always likes to tout how good the economy was, what he was president. but in a note from goldman sachs and they say trump's trade policies would cause america's economy to

shrink while saying harris is proposals would grow, the economy is trepid risk of falling behind on a key issue like this. >> oh, if i do think from an economic perspective there should be some rican, some consideration if you are reconsideration in terms of how we approach trade with china is tariffs necessarily the best approach i would perhaps beg to differ, and i would ask the former president to reconsider some new strategies however, wolf a cannot be negated that the vice president also has some very serious issues with her economic policies. let's talk about price controls. for example, in implications of that can the federal government even do that constitutionally? i think you could see a series of legal challenges there. let's also talk about the vice president wanting to tax unrealized gains and the implication that could have on startups. let's take many of the tech startups that were sent in the country. if you're taxing some of the goods or products that they have built, yet they are cash short that would have serious implications on those companies ability to continue to grow and expand.

and so while i understand what goldman sachs stated, and their documents, i read through them, i don't know necessarily agree with trump. i think they're right there, but i also think we cannot miss the fact that the vice president also has some very, very troubling economic policies that may not be felt as quickly. an immediate such as trump's tariffs. but in the long run would be detrimental to entrepreneurs in this country. >> interesting, meghan trump made some rather bizarre comments about commonly a harris and israel today speaking to the republican jewish coalition, watch and listen you not give israel become, if she becomes president israel will no longer exist what did you think? because obviously there's no basis for him to say this about kamala harris, that israel will no longer exist if she's elected president i mean, that's his fault. >> false. it's just patently false. there's just no evidence of that. she has stated over and over again that israel has the right to defend itself. she will do everything

to help with that security, adjust like the administration has also it's interesting because her husband is jewish. obviously this is something that's very personal to her. so i just i mean, it's just it's just, very false. i just don't understand where the former president is coming from. >> where do you think shermichael? >> i mean, look, i think the vice president has a real issue on her hand with a certain constituency within the democratic party who i wouldn't say anti-semitic wolf, but at best probably anti-zionist. i mean, i think that's pretty clear from the college protests we saw before the summer. and we may see some of those protests return and so if the argument is that you're seeing this level of anti-zionism rhetoric arise within the democratic party among younger americans, i think that's a very accurate and fair point to stake to make rather. and so it does begs the question, if that is rising and the vice president needs those voters in order to run, when does she placate to some of them? and does that diminish our support for israel in the long run? >> all right, shermichael singleton and meghan hays to both of you. thank you very much coming up. there's

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not forget just yesterday, we broke the details about the jackson county sheriff's department african yeah, i tip when you're trying to investigate an apparent talk about a school shooting, they talked about young man in jackson county. he then transferred to this county this year for school. >> it was after that may conversation that apparently the father of the suspected shooter decided the purchased the weapon as a holiday gift. >> so he was talked to a may of 2023. we believe the gun was purchased in december of 2023. and then after all that this shooting happened so. >> god has become before you tonight, we come before you with humble parties as the winder community grieves the killing of two students and two teachers from apalachee high school said that people had to die warning signs about the 14-year-old alleged shooter merge colt gray and his father were questioned by law enforcement last dear regarding several anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting the fbi

atlanta, and the jackson county sheriff's office said in a joint statement that they have received tips about online threats in may of 2023 and track then 30-year-old gray as a possible subject and interviewed him this subject denied making the threats online. >> the father stated he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them. and there was no probable cause for arrest or further action at the time, according to their statement this afternoon, cnn obtained in the incident report from jackson county detailing that interview code express concern that someone is accusing him of threatening to shoot up a school stating and he would never say such a thing. even in a joking manner, jackson county alerted local schools for continued monitoring, but gray later moved to neighboring barrow county where this shooting occurred. that's where law enforcement sources tell cnn, authorities found writings in gray's bedroom. they believe he wrote referencing the 2018 parkland, florida high school

shooting massacre georgia bureau of investigation said the gun used in the school shooting was an ar platform weapon due to gray being a minor. he's being held at gainesville regional youth detention center, but will be tried as an adult the school shooting has been heartbreaking for many, especially those who knew the victims 40-year-old students, mason schermerhorn and christian angulo. why would you shoot innocent people? >> are you know, and he's actually like a sweet person. >> teachers christina remi and richard aspinwall, a former football coach he had away from kids. >> nice is so odd to me now that i talked to him that morning and he said you're like my shirt and now it isn't ever tried them again, one student telling us she feels unsafe to return to school every time i walked in his squad, never thought anything will happen to me like that's honestly a place i've honestly felt protected now, i don't even want to be in the hallways alone yeah. >> well, if you can understand how tough this is on the kids and all day long, we've seen

hundreds of people arriving to this flag out in front of the school to pay their respects. the ones who were lost here, once again that's bringing you that breaking news that it's believed the father purchased his weapon as a holiday gift heartbreaking for so many in this community. >> holiday gift for her sun, what a decision that was. alright, thanks very much. ryan young reporting for us. i want to get some analysis right now. cnn, law enforcement analyst charles ramsey, john miller are joining us in. john, how significant is this new revelation we just gerard, that the father purchased this gun, ar-15 type assault weapon is a holiday present for his teenage son well, there is no way that his teenage son could have gotten this gun himself and there's a reason for that. >> you have to be 18 in georgia to purchase a gun and the the idea of the what it was, it's not the winchester you'd go target practicing or deer hunting with your dad with its it's basically an assault weapon developed for the

military and s.w.a.t. teams, the other piece, wolf is not just a what it is, but the when it was this was a time in the middle of an extraordinarily tumultuous divorce with allegations and counter allegations between his father and his mother, arrests and charges of vandalism and actually introducing a weapon into an adolescent who is a troubled kid in a troubled home is something that you would really have to ask yourself as a parent. is that the right thing to do and is that the right time to do it? but that story has told itself? >> yeah, good point. charles ramsey is with us, chief ramsey, you're the former dc police chief? former police commissioner in philadelphia? we saw the parents of the michigan school shooter, ethan crumbley held accountable for their son's actions. could we see something similar happen in this case? >> i hope so. because what i'm hearing now that it's totally irresponsible. >> what the father did. now,

remember law enforcement knocked on his door and told him that they had received tips that the son was planning some kind of school shooting now the police. didn't have enough to take it much further than that but that alone, if that were you, if that will, your child don't you think he'd start paying a little bit of attention to what they're doing. and you certainly wouldn't go out and buy an assault weapon form. it is absolutely crazy. in my opinion. there's no excuse. and if anybody should be prosecuted in a case like this, it should be this particular father. there's just no excuse for it. >> it's interesting john, to charles is point what do we know about why officials didn't take action then when they first got wind that he was mulling over the possibility of some sort of school shooting when the jackson county sheriff got that information for the fbi and went to the home they interviewed the father who said

we will go shooting together, but he does not have access to these guns. they're locked up. in other words, he can't get them without me at least that's what they recorded in their report as what the dad asserted. and as for the threat to shoot up the school which was posted online and reported to the fbi by a number of people the child denied he did it. the father said colin said it wasn't me and the jackson county sheriff determined what i think a number of agency would have determined as we can't prove who was at that computer or behind that threat and we don't have an arrestable situation here. but they did remind the father about the caution. they talked to other agencies. but that's where that's where it ended. >> so chief ramsey, what are the next steps in this investigation? >> well, i mean, they're going to continue to dig deeper to find out more about this individual. i believe they'll start to focus more on the father what he knew when he

knew it, how secure were those weapons in the home? >> did anyone other than the shooter know that he was planning something like this? >> i mean, there had been a rumor that there was a call earlier where not only with that high school be targeted, but for other high schools would be targeted. i don't know if that's legit or not, but they've got to track and trace all that down i don't see where the police at the information they added at the time could have done much more than what they did. >> but i do think that we've got to take a look at the parenting that took place in light of that, it just makes absolutely no sense to me. that if someone knocks on your door, whether you think it's true or not and tells you that someone made now allegation your son could be a school shooter. >> you rewarded by going out buying an assault weapon i don't think so. >> and so they need to take a real close look at that one. >> you got to learn the lessons, make sure it never happens. again, chief ramsey, thank you, john miller. thanks

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who is seeking to remove his name from the north carolina ballot. that could be delayed the dispute highlighting the state's role as a battleground that could determine the race for the white house. >> we've been preparing really for the better part now of a year-and-a-half, the trump and harris campaigns are shifting into high gear crunch hi more, it's literally go time. >> both the voters are voting north carolina is one of seven states where both candidates are investing most of their time. north carolina. thank you very much. >> back in north carolina and resources. i'm here partying and vice president kamala harris. it's the only state on the 2024 battleground map. former president donald trump carried four years ago. but it was his slimmest victory, less than a point and a half and recent polling points to another close race in november, north carolina historically has always been a two point state for the last couple of election cycles and will continue to see that frequent visits, large investments in advertising and a robust ground game, the harris campaign is seeking to

turn the state blue for the first time since 2008. >> that's why our infrastructure of 26 offices across the state, over 230 staff knocking on as many doors as we can also critical now, voter education as absentee-by-mail requirements here have changed drastically with to witness signatures and a photocopy of an i.d needed plus ballots that now must be returned by election day. >> you know that absentee ballots are about to go out and north carolina republicans, including trump's own campaign or promoting voting by mail. even as trump himself continues to falsely criticize the process, mail-in voting is totally corrupt. get that through your head, just last week his campaign and the rnc launched an online tool to help pennsylvania supporters vote by mail. >> as trump said in an interview, mail-in voting shouldn't be allowed anytime you have a mail-in ballot, there's going to be massive fraud. >> republicans in north carolina state, the mixed messaging isn't a problem

here. >> president trump's have been very clear, specifically in when he's come to north carolina, we call that clear he has when he's come to north carolina, he's told people have a plan, whether again, that's by voting, by mail, voting in-person early are on election day, voters in the other battlegrounds and the rest of the country are set to join north carolina and casting ballots either by mail or in person in the coming weeks before that. and eager north carolina voters is poised to kick it off for everyone. >> they're just going to get that ballot back to me as quick as they can, so they can say i was first so when will those 130,000 or so absentee valid? >> let's that have already been requested. go out. well, that's up to the courts. the judge today actually denied robert f f. kennedy junior's request to have his name removed and all those ballots we printed, but she did issue that 24 hour pause. so he has the opportunity to appeal the state board of elections has told these counties that they can start singing them out

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russian president claims his preferred candidate was joe biden, but he was it's removed from the race and he recommended all his supporters to endorse ms harris. well, that is what we will do to we will support her and also she laughs so expressively and infectious, sly that it means she's doing well putin's comment drew a sharp rebuke from the white house. >> mr. putin, nauta, stop talking about our elections period. we would greatly appreciate it if mr. putin would stop talking about her election and b, stop interfering in it. >> former president donald trump also quickly jumped in posting on truth, social, quote, president putin would much rather see comrade kamala harris in office as he strongly said, it could put and be using reverse psychology and publicly supporting kamala harris. >> do i think he prefers a candidate? do i think prefers trump? probably. >> but what he really prefers is for us to be more at each other's throats. >> so he's playing against each other, which somebody's time for years. >> this comes as cnn learns the identity of a tennessee-based

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understand who's paying them in 2016 and 2020, officials say the russian election meddling campaign against the u.s. >> involved hacking and releasing emails to embarrass politicians and establishing dummy accounts to spread disinformation how much has that campaign evolved since then, it's evolved significantly, but that's why the tenant thing was so sophisticated and smart is found real americans. americans who are influential, who have massive audiences and they were trying to manipulate that platform analysts, bret schafer says he's worried going forward. >> is that whatever election meddling activity the russians have been doing that the u.s. has caught that they could be doing ten times more of it that has not been caught he likens it to trying to catch drug smuggling across the southern border. wolf. all right. brian todd reporting, brian, thank you very much. and just ahead it a surprise move, president biden's son, please? he's guilty to all federal tax evasion charges. why a sentencing could have major implications kamala harris

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a deal with prosecutors. this is again, let unilateral plea. he pleaded guilty to three felony counts for tax evasion, six, misdemeanor counts for failing to file and pay his taxes on time prosecutors spent a couple of hours reading all 56 pages of this indictment, going through all of the salacious details about hunter biden spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on escorts sports, and private sex clubs in the end, what the judge did here, mark scarsi, he asked hunter biden, do you agree that you permitted every element of every crime and hunter biden said, yes. your honor and afterwards, the judge asked him for each individual what do you get whether he pleaded guilty? hunter biden said he did. now, he's facing 17 years. wolf, when he is when he is sentenced on december 16 see what happens after that. evan perez. thank you very much. i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. thanks

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