All right. Good evening to you. I am Sarah Sider and this is CNN Tonight. There are

significant developments in major legal cases involving former President Donald Trump

and Hunter Biden. The U.S. Attorney investigating President Biden's son is elevated to special

counsel status after plea talks broke down and a possible trial looms. And the judge in

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Trump from publicly disclosing sensitive information. She says his right to free speech is not

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I wish we could start with Randy MC, but we are starting here. The Attorney General has

announced a special counsel will take over in the Hunter Biden investigation. It's not

someone from outside the system. It is the same Trump-appointed federal prosecutor who's

been overseeing the case for five years now. This is all because the settlement, both

Hunter Biden's lawyers and the prosecutors had agreed upon in his tax evasion and gun

charge case, fell apart when the judge rejected it. I want to turn right away to senior

crime and justice reporter Caitlin Polans. She is here with us now. Can you give us a

sense of what all this mean and what happened, Caitlin?

Well, Sarah, there is a messy situation that the Attorney General, Mayor Garland, had

to solve somehow on a lot of fronts, politically and legally. And what happened is that there

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