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>> thank you so much for joining me tonight. "cnn primetime" with abby phillip starts now. hi, abby. >> good evening, everyone, i am abby philip. thank you for joining me. this morning, hunter biden woke up thinking he had a plea deal. but tonight, not only is he without one, but he is still under active investigation. now, the president son had expected to plead guilty to tax and gun possession charges after making a deal with the justice department. but the judge today raised some concerns about the deal, calling it unusual and tangled. in fact, at one point, she asked, is it even constitutional? now, prosecutors and biden's lawyers fought back and forth. and eventually, he changed his plea when the judge said that she could neither accept nor deny the deal in its current form. so, now, after thinking a deal could put all his legal problems in the rearview mirror ahead of his father's

reelection run, no less, the politics just got a little messier. it's giving republicans a new reason to keep pounding on their investigations, and to cry foul over the alleged sweetheart deal that the president's son, allegedly, received. now, i want to begin by bringing in former justice department prosecutor joseph moreno, former trump white house associate counsel, may mail-in cnn political commentator maria cardona, and former republican congressman charlie dent. joseph, i want to start with you, because i think this is so confusing, for the average person. usually, you think, it's a plea deal, they've hammered it out in advance, they go into the court. it gets more or less rubberstamp, and they go about your business. that did not happen today. why did this fall apart? but really, why did it fall apart now? >> well, you know, abby, it's funny. because if there was one lesson i was told as a junior prosecutor it was, have your ducks in a row before you get before a judge. and for the idea that -- both sides did not benefit

their side at all -- whether it was hunter biden's lawyers are the prosecutors here -- to go in and to -- you know, there was the question of whether it was lenient, the constitutional point was about whether the diversion was legitimate. but really it came down to a meeting of the minds as to whether or not this was the full scope of the prosecution. could hunter walk out and say, i'm done? and clearly, the prosecutor said, well, no, we are going to keep investigating. there are other potential crimes coming or charges -- and the defense council said, hey, whoa, wait a minute, absolutely not. to see this unravel in front of a judge it must have been an amazing spectacle. what a mess. >> in some ways, it almost seems the judge had hunter biden a little bit of a favor by clarifying. that >> yeah, she said, it doesn't seem, hunter, that you actually know what you are pleading to. so, i can't accept this deal doesn't need to be knowing and voluntary. but what was kind of shocking to me, and i think what a lot of republicans took away from this is that it seemed like, yes, there was the written deal that we all know about.

but was there some sort of unwritten deal? a wink and nod deal about? we're not going to prosecute for other charges? and the judge asked the prosecutor in this case -- have you ever given a similar deal? this sort of circumstance to any other person? and the prosecutor in the courtroom said, no, never. never before. and i think that was this -- what is going on moment. >> what a royal screw up by both the prosecution and the very high priced defense. i mean, not to know the scope of immunity walking in this? could he be charged under foreign agents registration act, fara? they couldn't know that? maybe the -- they need an independent counsel to -- >> yeah, you are raising a good point. christine tweeted today, i've seen enough, we need a special prosecutor who has jurisdiction over any and all biden family investigations. this is a charade. get rid of the u.s. attorney. that is david weiss. and investigate appoint a special counsel who will

investigate with -- and independents -- in some ways, if you are a democrat, if you are the biden white house -- it wouldn't be the worst thing to have an umbrella for all of this stuff, all of these wild accusations about hunter biden and the foreign dealings, and influence peddling, and just have someone independent looking at it all of it at the same time. >> i think what isn't the worst thing, abby, is that this continues to underscore how obsessed the republican party is, focusing on this, pushed by their maga extremists, who have a stranglehold on republican leadership in congress, and how obsessive this is about going after hunter biden. hunter biden is not in office. hunter biden does not work in the white house. hunter biden did not get one vote. hunter biden is not running for reelection. the american people understand that. and so, to me, as a democrat, and as a voter, the more that republicans sickly obsess over hunter biden, and talk about some ridiculous to tear justice system when the special prosecutor's trump appointed,

when the judge is trump appointed, it just doesn't fall on any kind of reality. and i also think that it gives a chance for democrats to underscore and highlight the massive hypocrisy when republicans are trying to talk about the special deal that hunter got, in passing on his family name, and trying to benefit from it, when the trump kids who worked at the white house enrich themselves by billions of dollars through the chinese, through the saudis -- right there in the peoples house. i think this is a huge loser for republicans. and if that is where they want to focus their energies, bring it on. >> yeah, i -- this might shift the feeling, the general feeling, which, i think, you definitely capture, which is, there is an obsession with hunter biden. and i think republicans have been trying to say -- you know, it's not hunter. we care about joe, and we care

about this doj lack of fairness. and when you see today that there is some sort of investigation that hunter biden is scared enough about probably relating to foreign business dealings, and now you've got some questions that bring in the irs whistleblowers. now you can, i think, start shifting that narrative -- >> i disagree -- >> -- no connection, no real connection -- >> but wait -- >> maria cardona, i agree that republicans will overreach on hunter biden. and i know trump guy. but i have to say, after looking at this hunter biden situation, if i'm getting paid 50 or 60 grand amount to serve on the ukrainian gas board -- admittedly addicted to drugs -- i mean, it is smells. it's nothing illegal. but it stinks. it smells of -- it just smells of influence peddling. and, again, i am not saying joe biden did anything wrong. i'm just saying it smells bad.

the average person sees -- the same with the chinese deals -- i'm not going to defend anything that trump -- >> but -- >> i want to ask joseph moreno a question here, about just going back to what happened in the courthouse today -- why is it that the prosecutors would not have been clear about what else is being investigated here? especially if it has to do with fara, the foreign registration part of this which is something more serious part allegation -- why would they have not sorted that out out of -- >> -- conspiracy had, i will say this. >> go right ahead. >> that prosecutors have planned to keep the investigation open -- so, that hunter biden could assert his fifth amendment rights and not be hauled before congress, and the prosecutors not be held before congress, to have to answer, because they can say the investigational still going. the but when the judge picked at that and said, wait a minute, why are we still here? then why are we not putting this off until the investigation is over?

and then she put the prosecutors on the -- at that point, they said, well, they said, yeah, actually, more charges could come down -- i think that everyone was perfectly willing to let the investigation stay open with the hope that it would kind of quietly die on the vine in the next couple of years. when the judge called it out and kind of shone a spotlight on it, now they said, yeah, actually, we are going to keep going and fara is possible. and that made everyone real uncomfortable. >> look, before we -- i do want to move on to something else. but the dye on the vine point is something that transcends administrations here. it was, allegedly, dying on the vine under trump. and now, under biden, and there is still the explanation as to why that happened. i do want to talk, though, about what is going on with our friend rudy to rudy giuliani, trump's former attorney. he is now conceding that he has the same to these two georgia election workers. it is an admission that seems to come at an opportune time, or maybe he is trying to shed some legal exposure here. >> yeah, so, in this lawsuit -- so, these are the two election workers in georgia who were said to have brought suitcases

full of ballots. it turns out they were not suitcases. they were just bins, like, hey didn't bins of ballots. you know, not good. so, they all were settled with one america news, and now rudy giuliani says that he -- that the statements were false and that -- but he didn't admit to a couple of things. he didn't admit that he was negligent in making them. so, i still think you have got to prove that in the defamation claim. and he says he is going to make a first amendment defense, which makes a lot of sense. because in the political process, you have to be able to make political statements. i don't trust the elections. so, he is going to try to make that defense. hey, these ladies brought suitcases full of ballots. does that fall under, potentially, chilled political speech? maybe not. but yes, he seems to be at least shedding himself of the discovery into his emails, into his texts, about whether he made the statements -- false -- >> i want to remind people what was shaye moss testified during the january 6th hearings -- some of those lies. >> i felt horrible. i felt it was all my fault,

like i would have never decided to be an elections worker, like i could have done anything else -- but that's what i decided to do. and now people are lying and spreading rumors and lies, and attacking my mom. i'm her only child. going to my grandmother's house -- i'm her only grandchild. and my kid -- it's just -- i felt so bad. >> you know, it is kind of crazy that it's two years later that giuliani is finally acknowledging the way that he put these women through -- >> and it's so heart-wrenching that these women went through something like that, because of some insidious lies that somebody like rudy giuliani was talking about, only so that

trump could overturn a fair and free election. and i think what that reminds us of is trump can do it again, maybe not with really giuliani rudy giuliani -- but there have others -- have others that will believe that he is going to be cheated if he doesn't, win which i don't think he will. and so who else is going to be, now, going to be victimizing people, like shaye moss and people who focus on trying to run elections? and do, essentially, the work of our democracy? >> if you are giuliani, joseph moreno, and you are looking at the january 6th investigation on the special counsel side of things, starting to wrap up around former president trump, and then you also have georgia, that is still outstanding. what are you worried about tonight? >> i am worried about personal exposure. it's very clear. donald trump has an m o, which

is, that when people are no longer helpful to him, he discards them. that is kind of where i see rudy giuliani right now. and he's not getting any -- not that he has much to give anyway. so, if i was rudy, i would be saying, look, i would be a lot less worried about donald trump, and a lot more worried about my personal exposure, whether it's in georgia, whether it's in new york, or florida, whether it's in washington, d. c., right here. because of the number of different ways that, you know, some of these charges could follow rudy personally -- >> so many of these people who made these false statements, including rudy giuliani, they knew better. they were being told by republicans that, you know, you lost the election. and they had plenty of evidence. the fact that -- now, the question for rudy giuliani is, did he knowingly make those statements that were false? or did he find that out after the fact? but i am sure that these guys were all told that they have evidence that these were not stolen election, stolen votes. >> absolutely. >> now they're going to pay a big price. and a tragic. i knew rudy giuliani when he was a powerful, effective mayor, and to see this man where he is now, it's heartbreaking to see

this. >> all for one person. >> yeah. >> the way in which some of these folks, like ruby and shaye moss were picked out of obscurity, and people posting videos online, and maligned like, this you don't have to have a file of information to know that -- >> their life is destroyed -- >> that it is wrong to do that. but joseph, may mailman, maria cardona, and charlie dent, thank you all for joining us -- anti-vaxxer rfk junior to lead the fda or the cdc. we will have a doctor to respond to that. plus, a serious question tonight about senator mitch mcconnell after he froze, midsentence, and had to be escorted away during a press conference. and chris wallace joins me on how more and more republicans are pouring cold water on the idea of a biden impeachment. blue-sky thinking.

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>> a scary moment today raising serious questions what the health of the senate's most powerful republican. minority leader mitch mcconnell freezing midsentence during his weekly press conference, he was unable to continue. but after nearly 30 seconds, his colleagues then escorted the 81-year-old away from the podium. watch. >> we're on a path to finishing the nda but this week has been

good bipartisan cooperation. and the string of -- [silence] [silence] >>? >>? >> are you okay, mitch? anything else you want to say? or you want to go back to the office? is there anything else you want to say to the press? let's go back -- >> to ahead, john. >> we'll take you back to the office. >> mcconnell's leader said he was fine when question of the incident. joining us now is dr. megan ramy, the deal of yells school public health. dr. rainy, i've watched that video now several times. and every time i watch different parts, his body swaying, his eyes, the way his speech slows as he stops, what

do you see when you watch that? >> so, it's difficult to know for sure what happened without being there. but i noted the same things that you did, abby, that gradual slowing of speech, the way that his eyes stayed still. i did notice that he was still able to walk and move his hands. it really leads me to a couple of most likely diagnoses. one being a mini stroke or transient ischemic attack, the other being a partial seizure. both are serious. and, of course, there are other things as well that could have happened. when i took away most of all is that he needs a good medical work up to figure out what happened. >> and to that point, he stepped away from the podium after that moment that we showed you for about 12 minutes. are you surprised that he then came back? both that he came back and then, also, that he seemed to have resolved, to some extent, and was able to continue the conversation? >> i was surprised that he came back. assuming that this is a new

thing that happened, either a tia or a new diagnosis of partial seizure, with work up, if i had seen him, if i had been there as a emergency physician, i would've sent him to an e.r. to get a full work up. the only reason i can imagine that he came back is that it was a manifestation of something that had already been going on. we know that he had a concussion months ago. concussions can lead to seizures. so, i can't help but wonder if this was something that he was already been experiencing, and that's why he was so quick to come back and not be rushed off to an emergency department. >> that's an interesting point. i want to ask you on a separate topic about republican presidential candidate ron desantis. here is what he said in response to a question about whether he would consider making robert f. kennedy junior his running mate. listen. >> yes, the medical stuff, i'm very good on that. so, that does appeal to me. but there's a whole host of

other things he'd probably out of step with. so, in that regard, it's like, okay, if your president, sick him on the fda he he'd be willing to serve, or 6 am on cdc. >> this is an individual who's well known for spreading misinformation about science, about vaccines. ron desantis there saying he would consider putting him on one of the major federal agencies that deals with public health and safety. what's your reaction to that? >> so, first of, all he is unqualified. it would be like putting a medical doctor in charge of the u.s. treasury. second, as you point out, he's not just unqualified, but he's well known for spreading miss truths, partial truths, and frankly lies about things ranging from vaccines to antidepressants. this is an absolute disservice to the institution of public health, the institutions at the cdc and the fda, who are working so hard to protect the american public. and i also have to say, i know that governor desantis's

language there about siccing on these esteemed agencies that do so much to keep us safe. right now, we need to defend public health workers who are under attack across the country. to even imply that someone like him would be qualified to lead what one of these agencies is almost laughable, to me. >> dr. megan ranney, thank you very much for your expertise on all of that. >> thank you. >> and after two years of everyone predicting a recession, surprise, the fed now says it's unlikely. chris walsh will join me next on how this puts republicans in a pickle going into the election season. plus, remember when donald trump used to rail against mail in and early voting? well, tonight, he's apparently changed his mind. ♪ ♪ ♪ so you only pay for what you need. that's my boy. now you get out there, and you make us proud, huh? ♪ bye, uncle limu.

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>> he's called it a fraud, a scam, a hoax, pick your adjective. but tonight, donald trump is now changing his mind on early and mail-in voting. >> republicans must get tougher and fight harder to cast our votes and get our ballots turned in earlier, so democrats can't rig the polls against us on election day. we cannot let that happen. >> now, obviously, those claims of rigging the polls are not true. but listen to all the years of trump telling republican voters the exact opposite. >> i think a lot of people cheat with mail-in voting. >> the biggest problem we have right now are the ballots. millions of ballots going out, that's the biggest problem.

>> universal mail-in voting is going to be catastrophic. it's going to make our country a laughing stock all over the world. >> the ballots are out of control. >> probably the mail-in voting, you never know when the election is over. >> because they have that long early voting in florida. it's so long. and so many things could go wrong when you had that long period of time, right? >> it shouldn't be mailed in. you should vote at the booth, and you should have voter i.d.. >> lots of things will happen during that period of time, especially when you have tight margins. lots of things can happen. >> you're going to have problems with the ballots like nobody's ever seen before. >> it should be mail-in voting. it should be you go to a booth and you proudly display yourself. >> with the unsolicited millions of ballots that they're sending, it's a scam, it's a hoax. all they wanted to think about was how to steal an election. we discussed it yesterday, you have, where they wanted all sorts of things to do with

mail-in voting. >> now, it's worth noting that many republicans have cited trump's attacks as one of the reasons for their loss in 2020, and their underperformance in in fact, one republican campaign official put it this way too political, saying we can sihe and talk about mail-in voting and use that as an excuse, but that's like an alcoholic saying they're not going to drink gym anymore, just be you're. we have 99 problems, and mail-in voting is one of them. in the wake of house speaker kevin mccarthy's comments on monday where he appeared to be warming to the idea of a biden impeachment, many republicans in both the house and senate have poured cold water on the idea. >> this is impeachment theater. what he's doing is saying there's a shiny object over here, and we're really gonna focus on that, we just need to get all these things done so we can focus on the shiny object. >> i'm not going to vote to impeach a president. i'm not going to vote to impeach anybody, because i don't like their politics. >> i think this is not good for

the country to have repeated but impeachment problems. >> and joining me now to discuss this is the host of who's talking to chris wallace, chris wallace himself. this is, chris, a real problem, i think, for republicans as they go into the next few weeks. do they have even the support of republicans to do something like this? what do you think is behind mccarthy opening the store in the way that he has this week? >> well, there's certainly a lot of support among the right-wing, the freedom caucus, a number of the real hard-liners. but when you get somebody like can buck, who's pretty darn conservative, a republican in the house say this is just a distraction, this is a bright shiny object from all the problems that republicans have, and then you see the total disinterest on the part of republicans in the senate, i mean, you know, the basic question you've got to ask

yourself, abby, is what is the high crime and misdemeanor that they are alleging that joe biden has committed? that's what the constitution says, high crimes and misdemeanors. mccarthy said, well, we've got to have the inquiry to find out. it has a little bit of an alice in wonderland verdict today, trial tomorrow quality to it. you know, i just -- we can talk about, it i suppose they can open an investigation if they want. but if they were actually going to go to the floor and vote, this is a very hard vote, even in the conservative republican run house for a lot of those republicans who actually won in districts that joe biden won. this would be a pretty hard vote for them to take. yeah, and to your point, they have not really been able to show much evidence of anything that's directly tied to president biden. but the other context of this, i think there's the politics of what mccarthy is facing in the house itself. the other part of it is just the big picture here.

this is a republican party going into a presidential election in which the economy, which would've been a big issue, is now leveling off. you have inflation coming down from 9% year over year to 3% year over year. you also have the fed now raising rates, and then saying, hey, we don't know that there is going to be a recession. maybe there won't be. do you think that they have to kind of find a plane be if they cannot run on the economy? >> well, i -- they certainly will have to find a plan b, c and d. that being said, the inflation is down 9% year over year -- the last reading i think was 3% year over year. but when you look at the polls, people still do not think that joe biden as done a good job on the economy. in a recent poll, the monmouth poll, over 60% of voters, republicans and democrats, said they disapprove of the way that joe biden has handled inflation,

in particular. so, there is a sense sometimes people's perception of what the economy is lags by a considerable amount behind what the latest numbers are. now, having said that, where more than a year away from the election. if inflation continues to bump along at 3% or even lower and you don't see us tipping into a recession, that's going to be a harder case to make. there are plenty of other cases though to make against joe biden without impeaching him for a high crimes and misdemeanors, when you don't know what those alleged offenses are. >> yeah, i mean, there are a lot of things between where republicans are now and impeaching the sitting president for high crimes and misdemeanors. i do want to turn out to what you got going on your show this week. a personal favorite of mine, brad paisley, is someone who's sitting at your table. you spoke to him about a recent trip that he made to ukraine,

where he actually performed and met with the troops. let's watch that moment. >> why did you want to write a song that connects life here in the u.s. to what those poor folks are going through over there? >> i was really affected when the invasion first happened a year ago, and change, now. the idea i had was, you know, do we have these things in common? like, is that the way it is in other places? it's just, it really does make me, i think, appreciate what we have more than i ever have in my entire life knowing that it's fragile. >> i mean, you are really personally committed to this, aren't you? >> i really have. and if somebody asked me the other day, how did you wind up, you know, comparing about this that much? the answer is, i don't know. i just was affected so much in the beginning that the next thing you know, this is been the story of my life, write a song, and it winds up leading

you places you never expected. >> i'd love you to just play a little passage, saying here in particular the point you want to make. >> yeah, yeah, i think -- ♪ ♪ ♪ as we wrote it, as a kid from west virginia asking this question -- ♪ ♪ ♪ you know, ♪ ♪ ♪ how are things in california? ♪ ♪ ♪ i hear the traffics just insane ♪ ♪ ♪ plastic people and paparazzi ♪ ♪ ♪ i know all the left coast clichés. ♪ ♪ ♪ but tell me, is there a bar on your corner? ♪ ♪ ♪ were you by each other beers, and solve all the world's problems? ♪ ♪ ♪ same here. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i love that. i love brad paisley's voice. but it's so interesting that he

decided to dive into this topic politically, i would say it's pretty polarizing still. why did he tell you that this is something he wanted to go over there and see for himself and engage in from a musical perspective? >> well, it is controversial, and particularly, you know, a lot of country music fans tend to be on the right side of the political spectrum. and there's some growing doubt and fatigue with supporting the cause in ukraine. you know, paisley said that he has played, he's toured in a lot of these countries in europe

going through something unimaginable. the proceeds, that's the first single from his new album that's gonna be out in a few months, the proceeds from that are going to build homes, the homes that have been destroyed by the russians in their invasion that's been going on for more than a year now. so, he's putting his money where his wonderful singing voice is. and as a favorite of yours, abby, i've got to make you jealous, because throughout this entire interview, he sings a number of songs to us. and you have this personal concert, to be right across the table from him more plus, she lt

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>> i am not a monster. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> that hit-or-miss bad boy of tech. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> are you willing to listen to wise council? >> i will always listen, but i will never take orders. >> that was actor, writer, and director joseph accordant levitt. he's also the founder of hit record, and he penned a piece in the washington post today titled if artificial intelligence uses your work, it should pay you. on july 14th, the sag-aftra union that represents about 160,000 hollywood actors officially went on strike after failing to reach a deal with a hollywood's biggest studios. and a crucial demand for those on the picket line is the future of a.i., or artificial intelligence, and the question of how it can be used to potentially replace the labor of real humans. well, joseph gordon levitt

joins me now. you have a really -- to add to your list of titles, your actor, director, and now author in the washington post -- >> [laughter] >> this piece is a stark warning though -- >> thank you. i'm kind of starstruck to be here. this is a new experience for me, being, like, on a news show. >> yeah, yeah. >> i'm very excited. >> we're here to add here resume. you are adding -- your asking, basically, for a.i. -- basically -- not a, but the companies behind a.i., to pay the people behind all of the content that they put into this algorithm. who do you think should be paid for their work, and how it any of this work? >> [laughter] how would it work? it would be a tall order. but just to the way these a.i. models work is they feed them a ton of trading data, right, we've all heard of these generative a.i. models, the

chatbots, et cetera. they can't actually generate anything until they've been fed all of this training data. and that training data is produced by humans. >> right. >> so, the humans who produce that training data, i think, deserve compensation. it's kind of a simple as that -- >> but it's not just actors and directors, but kind of the camera people, camera folks as well, and who else? >> i think so, because, you know, eventually, they're saying, and i think it's probably true, i don't know exactly how long it will take, but soon enough one of these a.i. tools will be able to generate an entire movie. and you know, that's all of the camera movement, that's all the costumes, that's all the set design, that's everything. and all of the cameras operators, all of the costume designers, all the set designers, their work, their ingenuity, their skill, and their experience is what is being mimicked and sort of matched up by these ais. they could do it without that human labor. and so i think, yeah, all of

those people deserve compensation. >> and someone is obviously going to have to come up with the system to make all of this happen. the tech companies, and even perhaps the studios, will face no incentive to do this, because i have to pay more people. so, how do you envision this happening from a practical perspective? >> it's a really good question. and this is a -- you know, you brought up the strike. i don't know if this is something that labor unions can just ask for and get. i think this is maybe bigger than any single i just hear any single union, or even a couple of unions, like stagger the dga, who are striking in hollywood now. i think this is something that has to happen in washington. and you know, there is an encouraging side of congress in the white house moving towards regulating a.i.. and in my opinion, one of the things that that regulation should address is this issue that big business should not pale to make all this money using a.i. unless they're compensating the people whose data train the. i >> do think it's gonna be

prohibitively expensive to do this? >> well, here's the thing. these companies, what they want to have happen is they want to say, like, wow, we now have these a.i. tools. so, we can cut costs immensely. now, our profit margins go from here to here. and what i'm saying is, well, maybe not. maybe actually profit margins can grow incrementally, and you can keep paying all the people that deserve to be paid for the labor that they put into training their a.i.'s. and maybe it's okay if the growth doesn't skyrocket and the economy doesn't fall apart, because everyone's lost their jobs. >> well, you raise a fascinating set of issues here in this piece. i encourage everybody to read it, because it's really thought-provoking in a lot of different ways. thanks for making us your first cable news appearance -- >> [laughter] my honor, thank you. >> we're honored to have you, joseph gordon-levitt, thank you very much. >> here's. >> and underway right now, senators are up late as democrats hold a top-a-thon on

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