Fmr. Nat'l Security Advisor Plea Deal, New Epstein Orbit Allegations, Missing American in Japan and more
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🗓️ 4 June 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there from CNN. I'm David Rind with the five things you need to know for Thursday, June 4th. |
| 0:07.5 | John Bolton is expected to plead guilty over mishandling sensitive national security information. |
| 0:13.2 | That's according to three sources familiar with the matter. |
| 0:16.0 | Bolton was President Donald Trump's national security advisor during his first term, |
| 0:20.2 | but their relationship has really soured since then, |
| 0:22.8 | and Trump has made no secret that he'd like to see him prosecuted. |
| 0:26.2 | CNN's Caitlin Polance has more. |
| 0:27.9 | What he's alleged to have done here is taken documents or taken notes of documents or briefings |
| 0:36.0 | he was being given as national security advisor in the |
| 0:38.6 | first Trump White House and then emailing them to himself, almost as if it were a diary entry |
| 0:44.0 | and then printing them out allegedly and keeping them in his home after he was fired as |
| 0:49.6 | national security advisor in the first Trump administration. He then wrote a memoir and his home was searched. |
| 0:55.1 | When his home was searched last August by the FBI, they found multiple electronics and |
| 1:01.2 | documents with information labeled secret or confidential or classified, not necessarily the documents |
| 1:06.9 | themselves potentially, but he at very least had these diary-like entries. |
| 1:12.6 | And so his initial case that was charged for 18 counts, he's going to be pleading down to one count. |
| 1:18.6 | According to one source, he has also agreed to pay more than a $2 million fine. |
| 1:23.6 | A conviction on one count of illegal retention of sensitive national security documents could land him up to 60 months in prison. |
| 1:31.3 | All right, coming up, it's going to be a busy month of the Supreme Court. |
| 1:34.8 | We'll get you ready for it. |
| 1:35.9 | Stick around. |
| 1:40.2 | So that time of year again, when the Supreme Court is racing to finish its term before the |
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