lives matter protests in atlanta was included. it shortens the video by six seconds. he is standing by the song and the video and blaming cancel culture for the controversy. his record label says that the protest footage was removed due to third-party copyright issues. cnn tonight starts right now. good evening, welcome to cnn tonight. the grand jury is expected to meet in a couple of hours in the election interference case.

rudie freeman and heard daughter suffered with threats to their lives after rudy giuliani and others made false accusations about the vote tampering. will he face consequences? hunter biden thought he had a deal and then it fell apart. the judge questioning whether the deal was constitutional. the x-files comes to congress, three retired military veterans testified at a hearing on ufos. they say they are a national security problem demanding that the government stop keeping them under wraps. they would see ufos on a daily basis, objects like this.

we hope you get that excited about this show. let's begin with a dramatic day in court for hunter biden. when the judge refused to accept a plea deal for the president's son. >> reporter: hunter biden walked into the federal courthouse expecting to put a five year investigation behind him, instead he left with his plea deal hanging in the balance and pleading not guilty to the charges. the judge scrutinized what was covered under the terms. that revealed a disagreement

between prosecutors the immunity but hunter's lawyer said they thought it was more expensive. they came back and agreed to the narrow immunity deal but that agreement did not work either after the judge questioned if it was constitutional. the judge said it was not straightforward and she questioned whether it was constitutional. after more than three hours the judge told biden that she was sorry but she could not let him plead guilty to a deal he did not understand so she is giving both sides 30 days to break the case. >> let's talk all of this through with are great guest, elliot williams, john avalon, and political commentator scott

jennings. did the judges objection have to do with the terms of the deal or does she have a problem with it under the law? >> all of the above. we talked about this yesterday, judges can not approve plea agreements if they think something does not smell right. the whole point is to ensure that the defendant's rights are protected and he knows what he is pleading guilty to. the whole point is that she felt perhaps the gun diversion thing set him up for future prosecution that would violate his rights as a defendant. i have never seen it happen before. often they will send you to a back room and say you do not seem like you are fully in

agreement and you can usually go to a conference room and work it out. i never had a plea agreement get blown up like this but it can happen. >> i want to ask you scott, hunter biden has been under investigation for five years, what else can they find? do you think there is more there? >> part of what was going on today i think is this concept that he may still be under investigation for his foreign business dealings. i think he walked in thinking he would be protected from all of that and that is not the case. from a republican perspective there is more hunter biden to know. that is why republicans are talking impeachment inquiry because they feel like they

need extra tolls to get to the bottom of the pedaling. from a republican perspective there is a lot more. >> the presidential candidate chris christie tweeted tonight about hunter biden, saying i have seen enough, we need special counsel that has jurisdiction over any and all biden family investigations. appoint a special counsel that will investigate with confidence and independence. >> chris christie is trying to shore up his right flank with this. we need to remind folks that weiss is a trump appointee that oversaw the investigation into hunter biden and he has disagreed with the reports of whistleblowers. what happened today is a blowup of something that had been long planned and it is unusual. these charges are about taxes, it had nothing to do with

foreign influence peddling, that is a separate topic but apparently they are all conflated. >> the question was, is there more to learn and i think republicans think there is more to learn and he is still under investigation. that is the connection between him and the president. did you enrich your family or follow registrations? that is a separate matter. >> totally separate yet they thought that it was somehow intertwined. >> the judge made this decision, i assume they are working this out? >> they will take up to 30 days to brief the issues and write some memos to the judge. we will see. >> i am tired of talking about this until we see something new.

you know i am right. the grand jury in the trump case is expected to meet tomorrow. >> what is the story? >> it is happening tomorrow supposedly but we were expecting the grand jury together yesterday and they did not, where are we now? if they meet it does not mean there will be a indictment tomorrow. >> not necessarily but in order for there to be a indictment prosecutors need to get to a grand jury and present evidence. i think what we will be watching to see is if they meet, our prosecutors there and is there a indictment but it could be imminent after they get together. let's talk about rudy giuliani. i want to go to you. he has conceded that he made defamatory statements about these two election workers in georgia. ruby freeman and moss, watching

them testify was hard to watch, their lives were put in jeopardy, they were being citizens and doing the right thing with their job. he has now said this. >> ruby freeman and shea moss and one other jenna meant quite obviously passing around usb ports as if they are vials of heroin or cocaine. it is obvious to anybody that is a prosecutor that they are engaged in criminal activity. >> i wanted to remind people that it is not true in these two women suffered because of it, he is saying he is protected by free speech, is he? >> this is about defamation. this is demonization and public

scapegoating. what giuliani alleged today is baseless. i worked with him many years ago. there is very little to no resemblance to the person i worked for, he was one of the most respected prosecutors. he said this is about stopping discovery which would be a mess in the case of rudy giuliani but it is a concession in effect that all of those accusations made publicly were lies. >> what can they do about it? will he face some sort of punishment? >> i think he might. he is trying to minimize how much trouble he can get in by owning it. the problem is, that is potentially evidence and other lawsuits and he admitted to a

central part of what would be a defamation claim that you admitted you were lying. it is a bizarre strategy to be candid. >> it is about containment, he is trying to contain the damage for possibly financial and other reasons. >> by the way they are not public figures. humble servants of our electoral system, it depends on people like these women to show up and volunteer and make little money to execute the elections and be treated the way they were was a abomination. whatever can happen to him, he deserves every bit of it. they are not public figures. >> they are now unfortunately. >> it is his fault and it is unfair and there needs to be consequences. >> we will see what happens there. next, warnings from three built military veterans from

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a matter of seconds, do whatever it wants and leave and there is nothing we can do about it. >> if it is something else it is a issue for science. in any case it is a concern for flight safety. >> thank you so much for joining us tim. i want to hear your thoughts and whether or not you think ufos are a serious national security threat. >> that was discussed, all three of the gentlemen came forward and said they thought they were. i differ on that. ezekiel saw the wheel in the old testament, we have known about these for quite some time. if they have the technology

similar to what's being seen in the videos, defy the laws of physics and can withstand those g forces, those of the videos you are doing great, they could do us in if they want to. sorry, my lights went off. if they have this kind of technology they could have done us in a long time ago. i am more worried about our government and pentagon who continuously stonewall us with this committee. we were not allowed to get down to talk to one of the people testifying today about things he talked about and we are not allowed to say it in public

because of security concerns. the pentagon says they do not exist yet they change the name to uap's and i believe they are lobbying for more money to study these. in my opinion, i think the transparency issue, they need to turn loose what they have. they have the department of defense studying this for years and when they show us the file it looks like swiss cheese. you cannot make heads or tails about what is in it. >> you are talking about all of the reductions, i want to talk about the video that was released by the pentagon in 2021 and we are hearing different things now that take this further. the pentagon never said yes we believe there are aliens but now they are saying there are

unidentified flying objects out there were you a piece but he testified based on his own experience, he believes the government is in possession of potentially nonhuman spacecraft, do you believe that? >> yes i do, i have talked to too many people. there is too much evidence out there and too many veterans have come forward and even citizens. i had congress talk to me about the issue of their sightings. jimmy carter and president ford both had sightings. there is too much evidence. we believe they have these craft, it is probably handed off into the business community. i tell you this, i actually presented a amendment to the

reauthorization bill that just said, if they airline pilot says a uap or a anomaly in the air, in the report to the faa, they have to issue it to congress. the intelligence community blocked the bill. i was not allowed a hearing on it. it was not even voted on. we have elected bureaucrats telling congress what to do. this committee today was bipartisan. i was proud of my democratic and republican colleagues that asked these questions. it is something the american public deserves to know. >> for decades, there have been questions brought up by civilians but they have always been said that they are nuts or just making this stuff up.

now they are talking about this and we are seeing evidence of it. i want to quickly ask you, because i am a journalist, about hunter biden. his deal blown up by the judge, prosecutors and the defense usually have their stuff together when it comes to putting the plea deals together, where do you see all of this going? >> i think it is another nail in the coffin but it does not seem to affect things. in my opinion the justice department is very aloof right now. they need to get their act together. the judge obviously executed their option and through the horrible plea agreement out. if that was in tennessee, i have seen people get stronger punishment for a traffic violation.

he literally walked on a gun charge and i think they are realizing what is going on in these committees and i think they are paying attention to it and the judge realizes there is more to this and this is a bad deal. >> would you vote for impeachment when it comes to joe biden? >> from the evidence i have seen i would. you are talking 10 million, money from china -- >> there is no evidence -- even though there is no evidence that we have all seen that was put forward from the congress and gop, that there are very clear ties between hunter biden's business dealings and joe biden. >> let me correct you on the fbi's informant, not the

republican or democratic informant, the fbi's informant was the one that was notified of the damning information and it goes on and on. what are they paying these millions of dollars for. the grandkids are getting tens of thousands of dollars, what are they getting? they always talk about trump, president trump was selling tough stakes, what is hunter biden selling? nothing but influence. >> could he be selling it without his dad knowing? do you know what i mean? >> president biden changed his story once again today, first he said he never talked to me about this which to me is absurd. i talked to my dad about everything.

my business, political life and love life, and then his dad says we did not talk about that business, it is just too much. tens of millions of dollars. if they paid that money to the trumps, you would be asking where is the quid pro quo and this is just the reality of what is going on and the money laundering is pitiful. >> i want to be very clear congressman, nothing has been made public yet, that shows us all of this. when and if it is, we would get back to you and we would love to talk to you if you have the evidence to show but at this point the public has not seen any hard evidence. >> they are accusing trump of

doing what biden actually did, 10 million in bribes and they fired a guy. you can follow the money. >> right but it has to be proven, there has to be some proof. >> what was the dossier on trump? it was all hearsay and here you have a fbi document showing that. we can sit here and argue about it, i get it, you have your base and i have mine. >> i do not have a base, i am a journalist. >> let's be honest, if you were foxy would be on the right but you work for cnn so you are on the left. >> i am not. again it has to be proved with my politics and with joe biden.

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tonight questions about the health of senate minority leader mitch mcconnell after he stopped talking midsentence and froze for about 30 seconds during a news conference. here is that moment. >> we are on the path to finishing the nda this week, there has been good bipartisan cooperation. in a string of --

>> do you want to say anything else to the press? >> that was hard to watch, 10 minutes later mitch mcconnell returned to the podium to answer questions saying i am fine. one of the aides said the senator felt lightheaded. the doctor is with us again tonight. when you sell this moment play out, what were your concerns? >> i found it concerning, there is no question there was some sort of neurological event that happened. it happened just before 2 pm this afternoon. it was 25 seconds before somebody came to ask the

senator if he was okay, 32 seconds standing at the podium unable to speak. he was moving his arms and legs but clearly something happened. 12 minutes later he came back and said he was fine. we still do not know if he has seen somebody about this but this is the kind of thing you need to get checked out. there are a few things that come to mind, dehydration or something like that, fighting off a infection or a medication interaction. what is known as a tia, a mini stroke, that is something doctors may want to rule out or even a mini seizure. back in march he had a significant fall. he had a concussion and broke a rib. after a brain injury which is

what a concussion is, people could have consequences including seizures even months later. whatever it is he needs to get this checked out so they can figure out that it is not something bad and prevent it from happening again. >> i was surprised to see that he did not go to the doctor immediately after. should he have at that moment? >> yes, most people know, if there is a concern about stroke for example, one of the big things, even though his symptoms seemed to resolve, you worry it can happen again and it can turn into a more severe stroke if they are not adequately addressed. that is something i think everybody learns when it comes to these symptoms.

time is important in terms of preventing it from happening again. we are learning more about lebron james, what happened to him suffering a cardiac arrest during basketball practice earlier this week. what do you know now? >> there is a couple of details we learned today. a couple of months ago, as a prospective plunderwent screening tests including a transthoracic echocardiogram as well as a ekg. a echocardiogram they put a ultrasound on the chest and they are looking at the heart including big blood vessels. seeing if there is any anatomical problem at the heart. he had this done a couple of months ago. we heard that it was normal. he also has a ekg which is just

looking at the electrical patterns in the heart. at least the snapshot ekg from a couple of months ago we are told is also normal. if you add to that, that he was in the icu but let out quickly, that is another good sign. that means he was stable and he did not find anything unnerving. these are all good signs, they still have to figure out what happened which probably means putting a longer-lasting ekg monitor to look at the electric pattern of his heart over a long period of time to see if there are abnormalities. the picture is increasingly looking better for him.

the last couple of days in terms of getting out of the icu quickly, they paint a better picture. >> i love the great hopefully he will be able to get back onto the court again soon. there is a growing crisis in israel following the prime minister's judicial overhaul, a number of army reservists say they will not serve. i spoke with a number of them. that's the power of febreze small spaces.

israel's supreme court announcing it will not issue a injunction against a controversial wall passing this week. it strips their power to veto decisions whether or less they are displayed >> joining me now is the cofounder of brothers in arms and the former lieutenant colonel of the is really defense forces. you were among the protesters, can yo u elaborate? >> we were in the streets for

six months and you describe it well. the government is doing a judicial overhaul and wants to gain endless power. with a series of laws that freeze the government from the court's legal review. this is unreasonable and makes israel not democratic anymore. it is a steep slope from democracy and that is why we were in the streets for six months. it is across all of the people in all organizations. the public in israel is very afraid. to your question, israel's

security is based on the reservists. in israel the army is the army of the people. we are a small country with a lot of external threats. as the army of the people, we swore to serve a democratic country and we see that this basic contract between the people and the country is broken by the government. >> is a powerful statement that a contract to serve a american company has been broken by the government itself. they are ultimately responsible for all of these crises, why? >> this really are he would not

go away. they will not go and serve a dictatorship. it is so basic. people cannot understand what is happening but dictatorships start with this, we go to lunch, is really have a phone the person we go to about this is the prime minister. he is the one responsible for breaking the contract by the peoples of the government and he must stop. >> for explaining all of this to us, i lived in 2012 have a

great one. >> we really feel we are in a crisis from the inside. that is why we are defending our country. we will be right back.

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am not. doctor that lisa's with no other option. >> your own listening to and. while border crossings remain high, there have been fewer arrests in recent weeks. still republicans are laying the groundwork for potential impeachment proceedings. let's discuss it now. he is the member of the foreign affairs committee. can you tell me what is happening at the southern border? >> what you see is that border crossings have gone down 70% since the end of title 42.

the biden administration has tried a few things. first they offered a way for people to apply for asylum from their home country before making the trek and they also approved the application that was having problems at the beginning. we are also seeing republicans taking barbaric actions in the treatment of asylum-seekers. greg abbott has put death traps . they also put out barrel traps with netting that people get caught in. on top of that he instructed troopers to not offer water to anybody. those are the kinds of headlines and policies you expect from north korea, not the u.s. >> some of the border cities

run by democratic mayors are saying we also need help. they do feel >> i would say they are right. they have legislated billions in trying to be helpful and improve the situation on the border. some of the aid has gone directly to the cities and counties including my hometown of san antonio that was seeing thousands every week. a judge or, leaning on the measure to drive down border crossings. they do remain high but they have plunged since title 42 was lifted may 11. former congressman of texas

henry stands by the controversial policy. listen to what he said. >> i support the policy. >> policy is something i supported, i hope it will probably go up to the supreme court and i hope they will look at it favorably. >> you have been a opponent of the presidents silent policy, should they hear the case? >> i disagree with what is considered a transit van and the trump administration put it into place.

or if you back credible fear and where people will stand in terms of silent. a lot of americans will not even drink the water in mexico. yet at the same time we are supposed to consider that asylum to seekers, a safe place. we have heard over and over again that there is a problem with the immigration policy. it goes is fixed.

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