joining us is former federal prosecutor legal expert andy mccarthy.ald trump is a defendant and running for president of the united states. where are the boundaries on what a confident can or cannot say pretrial? >> yeah, i don't think we know what they are, trey, for the very reason you pointed out. we went through nearly a quarter of a millennium without this situation, and now it's upon us, and i think anybody who says they know exactly where the boundaries are when you have two constitutional interests rubbing intense each other in ways we have never ken temporal integration plaited before and it's foolish to know it'll come out and the judge that resides over the case that president trump is in in washington this week, tonya drew a line that can't be sustained, which is she said that running for president participating in the american electoral office process is a constitutional right. that has to give way to the dual administration of justice. to me that suggests that the justice part of the administration doesn't think it has to yield to the ot

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i heard andy mccarthy say this. the political overlay to this, you can see it happening. the simple selection of jack smith. jack smith is the guy that was trying to prosecute the very people that were being targeted been the obama irs in the lois learner thing a decade ago. so the selection of that guy shows the political nature of this. as andy pointed out, this is one after the other. the pace they're trying to do it, the way they did it, having anyone else indicted. it's designed to get to court as quick as they can because it's about politics. it's about stopping president trump that went to the white house and did what he told the american people he was going to do. that's why this bond is so strong between his voters and the president because they truly believe -- they believe it because it's true. when the president says they're coming after me because i'm fighting for you, they know it. they know it. today will just reinforce that, strengthen that. i think expand it. >> martha: i think everybody would like to see a justice situation that you can have faith and co

andy mccarthy, former assistant u.s. attorney and fox news contributor good morning to you.d the scoop over the weekend in "politico." if you printed out that article you are 15 pages deep and you can't just crank out a story like that overnight. this had to take some time. what do you read into it? what was going on? what was the result? >> well, i hope what they take from it on capitol hill, bill, is the way that this kind of intertwines with the scheme that they are looking at. it is all very interesting about what happened with hunter biden, why they didn't prosecute him. what they'll do now that the deal collapsed. that stuff is all interesting. but you know in the big scheme, the biden family influence peddling business, people are hand wringing about where is the quid pro quo? was he in business? did they discuss this? in the meantime in the hunter biden case here you have exhibit a of how the scheme worked. you have these big bad justice department prosecutors who aren't supposed to be afraid of anything. they got this guy dead to rights on a 10-year gun felony and t

do you agree with andy mccarthy on this being the most perilous threat to president trump? >> yes only to the point, harris, that there are specific georgia laws that deals with election irregularities. other than that i think this case won't see daylight until after the 2024 election. >> harris: that's really interesting because if that's the case, then it would look a little bit more -- i don't know, does it look more or less political to you? >> no, it's purely political. this d.a., harris, has been campaigning. she is an elected d.a. prosecutor. but she has been campaigning on this. let me give you the reasons why. there are 19 other -- 19 total defendants. they are scattered all over the country. they will have to get to georgia next week. you will hear this continuances. they will get attorneys and basically try to get arrangements to get to georgia. it is going to delay it. the district attorney said six months. i can tell you right now on fox on your program this case will not take place in six months. not at all. >> harris: okay. if you are a trump supporter lookin

. >> harris: i think to bring in andy mccarthy, david and come to you shortly, former u.s.ssistant district attorney and fox news contributor. something our producer sent out, i want to know the importance of it. doj drops hunter biden plea deal case in delaware. >> well, i hadn't heard that, only thing charged in delaware are two misdemeanor tax counts, they have not indicted the hunter biden case, which is why statute of limitations -- >> harris: it can happen, let me finish the sentence and you go with it. the doj moved to dismiss the hunter biden plea deal in delaware. andy? >> they are dismissing nothing, it is two misdemeanor tax pleas, they have never indicted the case, under weiss statute of limitation continue to run, that is reason the 2014 and 2015 evidence is no longer in the case. i will point out defense was willing to wave this to give global plea that would give hunter complete innocence bath. behavior like the burisma bribery and hunter being on the board and other behavior we've seen out of 2014 and 2015, what struck me yesterday reading the new report fro

stuart: andy mccarthy, former federal prosecutor, joins me now.s this election interference? >> i certainly think, stuart, that the goal here is to get uncomplementary or unflattering information about trump out into the public domain in the runup months of the election. i'm sure if you asked the prosecutor, he would say that there were real crimes here. i have real question about that. but i think the political objective here was obvious both from the remarks that he made after he returned the indictment, he spoke for about a three minutes, and for two and a half of it he spoke about the capitol riot which is not something that's charged in the indictment, but it's something he wants to sere into the public view of what he's doing. and obviously he's trying to push the case to trial. and the reason you would do that is to try to get that information into the public domain while people are getting ready to to vote. stuart: if it's a faceoff between trump and the charges against him and biden and hunter and and his age problem, if it's a faceoff be

andy mccarthy is right. nobody at the department of justice is looking at hunter and joe biden for this conflict of interest, these financial crimes. put it together, put it to bed with this plea deal. now it is alive and well. again, the dumbest thing they could have done is what they did do. >> gillian: quick follow up to that, a second left, senator. if they appointed somebody else from outside government special counsel today would you feel more confident in the probe? >> absolutely. as andy said, somebody outside the government without a bias. they have made all of their problems worse. >> gillian: senator lindsey graham thank you for joining us. appreciate it. >> sandra: thank you, senator. 2024 presidential candidate nikki haley. ambassador hayley, great to have you here today, we just heard from mike pence and chuck grassley at the state fair reacting to the news. how are you responding? >> i don't trust it, i don't think the american people trust it, i don't think that the american people trust the

. >> martha: andy mccarthy says it's improper to appoint someone who is part of the government, the whole concept as you want to appoint someone who's outside of the whole situation to be impartial. thank you very much, good to see you as always. let's check in with senior congressional correspondent chad pergram and get the latest on how this is being received on capitol hill. >> republicans called for a special counsel but not david weiss since he can't be nullified plea deal with hunter biden. >> i have some question about weiss doing it because johnson and i sent all of this material we had from the cafe bank with regard to payments that were made to hunter biden, they never did anything with the 1023 document that i got released. >> house speaker kevin mccarthy says biden's doj cannot be used to obstruct congressional investigations or whitewash the biden family corruption. a spokesman for judiciary committee chairman jim jordan said david weiss can't be trusted. his committee expects him to testify. before this, he gave jordan a a list of days he was available but previously john du

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attorney andy mccarthy, george washington university law professor jonathan turley back with us. here is the question, jonathan. i have got what are the rules for running? what are the rules for running for election, changing, disputing elections? we are getting to the heart of this. you heard the former president's attorney who is leading -- the leading man on this. what did you make of that? >> well, part of the question is what the judge will allow the defense to argue when it comes to some of these legal claims. i will have to see but, you know, this is a speaking indictment but it doesn't say very much. it basically says that the president spread disinformation that he should have known that this was not true because people told him that well, other people told him something different. so the question i have after i read this indictment is what if he -- if president trump really did believe this? what if he did believe that he -- that the election was stolen? can you convict him on that belief? and the answer is probably not. if they have to show that he probably didn't beli

andy mccarthy has a piece out called trump can't win.ch sends a pretty clear signal about what he thinks. election interference, riddle me this, jesse. what do you think, he was doing in october coming out and saying, hey, everybody, i just wanted to let you know that we did look into hillary clinton's emails again but now that's closed. go have a nice day. there is a clear line between jim comey walking out on doing that for no apparent reason except loving to be in front of the camera. and hillary clinton -- >> you're making the point that the fbi has entered. now >> my point is that this is not just to punish republicans printer has been "interference on the other side in a democrat who is much more qualified for that job ended up losing. in terms of the comparison to the certification of results in 2016 or what happened there, joe biden never was asked was asked to not perform his duties. no one said hang joe biden. >> oh, my god. the one the house floor and refuse to -- >> not going to a ceremonial party and storming the capital. >>

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jonathan turley and andy mccarthy have analysis. first to chad pergram live on capitol hill. >> republicans say this was about selling influence and the brand. the gop believes it has a smoking gun between the president and his son's business dealings. >> the evidence continues to mount and today we saw joe biden has lied to the american people. he knew exactly who his son was getting those millions of dollars of wires from. >> democratic source says the brand hunter biden was selling was washington, d.c., not his father. but republicans believe the president lied when he said he stayed out of family affairs. that's why some republicans want to launch an impeachment inquiry. >> this is not about revenge politics. what we hear from what devon archer stated, selling a brand, we're seeing hunter biden calling his father to sell that brand. >> democrats heard something very different in the transcribed interview with devon archer. the lone democrat was dan goldman in new york in the room. a key congressional aide during the first impeac

jessica i was just listening to andy mccarthy and he said something. he says a lot of interesting things, but he said something that really caught me in just a moment ago. he said, everyone in america, i'm paraphrasing andy, sees the haste to get these cases to trial on a political calendar. how do you think that reflects on democrats? well i think it reflects fine on democrats because the cases aren't being brought by the democrats. they're being brought by a special counsel. and he's being indicted by a grand jury. he's not being indicted by andy mccabe and peter strzok sitting in a room. and people tend to forget that. and i've heard so much about the potential biases of this judge in dc. look at the judge that he got in florida. he got someone that he appointed who already ruled in favor of him with the special master and then had to be overruled by the 11th circuit. so you know, it's a bit of this and a bit of that, right? like i love the people of south florida. i can't get a fair shake with the people in dc. well don't commit crimes in dc if you

andy mccarthy. first up. former assistant u.s. attorney. let me read one quote and we will go back and forth on this together. here is andy biggs, the representative who was inside the room. he and jim jordan some other attorneys. when you say biden family -- sorry to cut end here. i just want to get a clarification. you weren't talking about joe biden or anybody else. mr. archers says that's fair to say. i don't think about it as you know directly. but it is fair. that is fair to say. honestly, that brought the most value to the brand. what is this edge of the story as you see it right now? >> i think the main thing is how ridiculous it is to talk about whether joann hunter discussed business on these calls that hunter would have in the presence of his business associates. because the business was is access to his father. in the act of having a conversation, they are burnishing the biden brand which is what the people at the table who were there want to see. as archer explains, the business of washington is access. if you are the son of the

andy mccarthy wrote a book in 2019 called ball of collusion. in there he really makes a case that it is obama will politicize is that destroys the integrity of the justice department. it is hillary clinton it figures out she can steal like crazy and no one is going to prosecutor. here is poor joe biden pretties watching hillary make millions and millions of dollars. nothing is being done to her. he thinks maybe that family can get in on it. he is a piker compared to the clintons. the amount they took in one deal over uranium going to rush it was probably $35 million. none of that has ever been thoroughly investigated. biden comes along. he was correct for a long time. the obama justice department and the people who are still there who are obama people were never going to go after hunter. ever. that is why you have this very weird parallelism of anything that donald trump does is terrible. anything that hunter biden does is excusable. the country is gradually beginning to realize how really sick and how really corrupt it is. >> listen to this ex

bill hemmer is here on set and tomi lahren and andy mccarthy on why he says the georgia indictment isrilous threat" that the top gop frontrunner faces, and what is already an extraordinary election period. the likes of which we have

attorney and fox news contributor andy mccarthy. you have followed all of these indictments very closely. obviously there's a lot of tensions on all sides of these equations as we head in to the election season. a big debate coming wednesday night of next week. the president will have had to appear for this arraignment, the fourth one by two days after that event. your thoughts on this, andy. >> well, this is a remarkable indictment, martha. i think you mentioned before, i referred to how perilous it is for trump. i don't think it's as strong a case by any means as the mar-a-largo case. i think it's the most enduring threat for him in that its a state prosecution, so there's a lot of delay that is atendant for attacking the strategy. he could win the election and dismiss the cases or pardon him. that can't happen with respect to the state cases. so, you know, even though the rico charge is obviously the bells and whistles thing and i think that's the political aspect of this indictment, as you get down in to the indictment and the c

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. >> bill: andy mccarthy standing by with the big picture. first let's go to the department of justice and david spunt. could be in for another big week. good morning. >> always a big week at the department of justice. good morning. late last night hunter biden's attorneys filed a new motion in the court in delaware with the judge and said essentially if the government says the plea deal is off and that's what the government said in a filing on friday, so be it. let me read from the filing last night. while counsel for the defendant are still prepared to respond to the questions your honor posed at the july 26th hearing in light of the decision to renege on the plea agreement those issues are mute at this point. they say the diversion program, the gun charge is valid and agreed upon by both parties. weiss begins his first full week as special counsel this morning. the same one who sat in a courtroom with hunter biden three weeks ago and prepared to enter into the plea deal with him. it will move to trial in washington, d.c. or california wher

the only person, as andy mccarthy told bill hemmer and dana perino yesterday. the only business that the bidens have to give was joe biden's access. and joe biden's access. >> ainsley: it's a brand. >> brian: it's not virtual it. walls there from the voice -- from the speaker phone parachuting in 20 times over 10 years to the face-to-face meetings that we know of. joe biden is there. how he could say this is a bad question or lousy question is beyond me. >> steve: listen, whatever peter asked him, he was going to say i never talked business because that's what he told peter, what, four years ago at the iowa state fair when peter brought it up the first time. >> brian: the facts are changing. >> steve: well, you know what? >> ainsley: story. >> steve: one of the important things that, you know, even the white house has come out and they are not denying the fact. peter was talking about the speaker phone. devon archer's testimony you were on the speaker phone talking about business. >> he goes "i didn't talk about business." the president did not deny that he tal

legal eagles john hu, andy mccarthy, john dupree. heard you on another network calling this whole thing a sham peer i want to start with john because you have been urging a need for a special counsel fear now that we have one, what do you say? >> i'm glad that affirmative justice finally made this choice, it almost comes two years too late because as we get more information from the hill, it looks more and more like president joe biden is at least a witness, if not more in an ongoing federal investigation. we also saw the ongoing investigation means the plea deal many were complaining about with hunter biden is now down the tubes. there is an upside and a downside for the biden administration. the upside is now they can say any kinds of claims there is a two-tier justice system, now we have a special counsel for hunter biden and one for donald trump. they have a response now for people who are making demands about politicized justice, just shift that all over, it is all in the hands of a special counsel now. the downside for the bide

supreme court as andy mccarthy said. and i think it is very important to understand that the american public especially republicans don't like the way that president biden has weaponize all of the legal arms of government to go after the former president. this is not some third world dictatorship. this is not some banana republic. this is america. and at the same time, we are saying hunter biden for and protected by joe biden's justice department. we are seeing joe biden himself not having to answer questions about tens of millions of dollars taken from ukrainian oligarchs and chinese businesses and remaining interests. we need some answers here. >> trace: yeah, and we are hoping to get them on wednesday night. chuck devore, jessica millan patterson, thank you both. >> thank you. >> trace: much of southern california is dealing with remnants of hurricane hilary which dumped record rain and an earthquake also rocked socal and we felt it. she of course but it turns and had his life with more on the aftermath. jonathan, goo

andy mccarthy has yet to be wrong.ould trust his opinion on this. >> kayleigh: he has been on this. great thread on his twitter, or x, i should say. going to the details. there were a lot of them. this is when he isolated that stuck out to be quite a bit. "new york times," two sentences. while mr. biden's legal team agrees irs agents affected the deal, his lawyers have contended to the justice department by disclosing details about the investigation of congress, they broke the line should prosecuted. the guy is getting hunter biden the sweetheart deal, saying don't prosecute our client. prosecutor was implores. i thought this white house, go read their statement of the policy, the administrations supports h.r. 2988, that's a bill that would modify and expand whistle-blower protections for federal employees. they support whistle-blowers except maybe the ones looking into the son of the president. >> the whistle-blowers expose the land by hunter biden's attorneys which was to just bury this under the rug. once the whistl

attorney andy mccarthy. >> in the hunter biden case, here you have exhibit a of how the scheme workedu have these big bad justice department prosecutors who aren't supposed to be afraid of anything that got this guy dead to rights on a 10-year gun felony and tax evasion charges and they are afraid to charge him. they don't want to charge joe biden's son. this is exactly what access to joe biden is. this is why people were willing to pay millions of dollars to get it. that's what the scheme was. >> harris: phil holloway is here now, former assistant district attorney. phil, how shocked are you that at one point they wanted to put president biden on the stand? were they seeing what the rest of the country was seeing for a heartbeat and changed their minds? what was happening? >> this shows why influence pedestrian plunge is such a big deal. there is a reason why the lawyers for the defense threatened the prosecutors with the name joe biden. that shows what the purchasing power of that name is. they bought themselves, if you will, a sweetheart deal because it is a threat. it is a threat

elizabeth: so, congressman, what he's just saying, andy mccarthy. this is right around when obama was dealing with potential war. it's right around when russia invaded crimea. but hunter goes to russia to make millions from a russian oligarch, goes to kazahkstan, an ally of russia, to make money from an oligarch there, goes to ukraine to make money from an oligarch there. this is the biden family making money right when the obama white house, andy, was dealing with a war involving russia. >> yeah, that's right, liz. i understand why the congressman's attention was grabbed by the $20 million figure, and i point out he'll say it before i do, i'm sure otherwise, but they've just scratched the surface here. there's a lot more digging to be done. this figure could end up getting higher. but the numbers that grabbed my attention were 2014 and 2015 and the words tick, tick, tick. because as i've been screaming to anyone who will listen, there is no indictment in this case. the biden justice department has never filed an indictment with respect to either hu

attorney andy mccarthy says smith has a pretty high bar to meet prosecuting this case. >> can can he prove that trump believed the things that he was saying notwithstanding all the evidence to the contrary. but even if he could get over that hurdle which i think is daunting, i do think you have the problem that he has extravagantly stretched these statutes. >> reporter: and, liz, we're learning more about the judge who will preside over this trial. her name is tanya chudkin, a 2014 obama appointee to the bench and handled several january 6th cases, delivering some of the hasherrest sentences. finally -- harshest sentences. local law enforcement are ramping up security ahead of the former president's appearance here tomorrow the at 4 p.m. liz, back to you. elizabeth: griff jenkins, thank you so much. let's welcome back former federal prosecutor andy -- and monica crowley. thank you so much for joining us tonight. monica, let's first talk about the timing of the trump indictments. there's a lot of discussion about this. larry kudlow has covered it. it comes immediately, a lot of these

back to martha maccallum and bret baier and andy mccarthy, john yoo. martha, we talked about the enormity of this. i wouldn't say blase about it. first alvin bragg indictment. this is the third time, probably not the charm for the former president. could be a fourth time here. he knows the drill. i think we as the viewing public know the drill. >> yeah, i'm not sure that any one gets use to the part that he just wendt through, which is the standing up and having to magistrate in this case read through the charges against him and the time he would have to serve if he were found guilty on any of these counts. the first one is conspiracy to defraud the u.s., which is interfering with a proceeding. fine up to $250,000 or both. it goes on from there. in some of these cases, the conspiracy charges, not more than 20 years. there's a lot of time that could add up here. i'm not surprising that he looked stoic during that period and he took it seriously. what strikes me as interesting as i watched this play out, neil, is the court of public opinion. if you take

i think most people if you read andy mccarthy yesterday, again, a very conservative former prosecutor, will agree that the conduct is abhorrent, and, yet, he as well as jack goldsmith who similar has never been a trump defender, in fact, he's been openly hostile to what donald trump has done to the presidency and constitution, also is concerned about the political impact down the road, the political scar tissue of all this, so i have a question for you, maybe you can help explain this. their concern and my concern also, it's not that trump got indicted, it's that he got indicted in one of the most democratic counties in the state of georgia and does beg the question, what happens if -- i was just checking this, holmes county, florida, northwest florida went 87% for donald trump, what happens if for some reason a county prosecutor decides to prosecute a democratic president in the future brings the case there where 87% of the population voted for donald trump and then holds that president or ex-president to account for activity and, again, i foe people are saying, oh, but donald trump

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and as andy mccarthy pointed out, it is another example of biden family corruption. >> you have big,ad justice department prosecutors, they got this guy on 10-year gun felony and tax evasion and they are afraid to charge him. they do not want to charge joe biden's son. this is what access to joe biden is. this is why people are willing to pay millions of dollars to get it. that is what the scheme was. >> everyone gets it, including hunter biden's attorneys. make sure you are protecting or enriching the family. they would have gotten away with this entire sweetheart deal if not for the pesky whistleblowers. new york am toos reporting weiss wasn't originally going to require a guilty plea on any of the charges. this is mind boggling. his position changed when irs officials accuse the doj of hamstringing the investigation. what upon has when you get in the way of protecting the biden family like the whistleblowers? hunter biden's lawyers told the doj by disclosing to congress, the irs agents broke the law and they should be prosecuted. joining me now is attorney for whistleblower gary s

and as andy mccarthy pointed out today, it's just another example of the biden family corruption. >>ou have these big, bad justice department prosecutors who aren't supposed to be afraid of anything. they got this guy dead to rights on a 10-year gun felony and tax evasion charges and they are afraid to charge him. they don't want to charge joe biden's son. this is exactly what access to joe biden is. this is why people were willing to pay millions of dollars to get it. that's what the scheme was. >> laura: everyone gets it. including hunter's attorneys. use the biden name, just make sure you are either protecting or enriching the family. they would have gotten away with all of this, this entire sweetheart plea deal if it wasn't for those pesky whistleblowers. the "new york times" reporting over the weekend that weiss wasn't originally even going to require a guilty plea from hunter on any of the charges. mind boggling. but his position changed around the time a pair of irs officials on the case accused the doj of hamstringing the investigation. what happens when you get in the way of

john yu, to you first, andy mccarthy said the following, i want to see if you agree on the backside. >> there is no special investigation and there is no biden investigation. the special counsel regulations, what makes a special counsel special is that you are a lawyer who is brought in from outside the united states government. not just outside the justice department, outside the government. >> what do you make of that argument, john? >> andy is right about the regulation. the regulation does require that the special counsel come from outside the government, but the justice department ignored that. the durham investigation conducted by john durham. what's more important is who it is and whether they're going to conduct a real investigation. that plea bargain has fallen apart. the house have shown more facts that real investigations should take into account, like how much was president biden involved with discussions between hunter biden and his foreign business par partners. that'll be the true test of whether there is a real special counsel investigation and whether the new special

have been potential and three we've now seen, most of our best legal experts, jonathan turley and andy mccarthyt's not unexpected and being met with presidential powers and what are presidential powers and what is crime. stuart: the first primary debate is august 23rd and moderating with brett baer and you want trump to debate. it's an extraordinary opportunity to stand up in front of americans and extraordinary opportunity for him to turn to the challengers and to put questions to them as well. >> it's a moment to reach out to independent voters and very strong support among the hard core supporters and independent voters are why you see the numbers at 43-43 between trump and biden is that's why he's get ago opportunity to make the argument that i can be that general election candidate and i can win. >> we have a fantastic team and i'm proud to be parking lot of it. stuart: are we watch you this afternoon, the story is the name of the show at 3:00 p.m. eastern and >> this is the first tv reaction to what we saw come out yesterday. >> he has said doing this you can't be the president again. >>

to participate in his own legal battle, this one and the other three indictments, you saw what andy mccarthy said, this carries legal peril. leo terrell didn't agree with that because it will take so long to see what they have and hear from the witnesses. >> brian: and leo terrell thinks the documents is hardest to beat. >> harris: we'll see what happens. if this goes beyond 2024, past the primary and past the general election. i don't know if it interferes, we don't know yet. >> brian: we'll be talking about the case, georgia, documents, whatever you want, alvin bragg issue not talking about the border or economy. >> harris: what happens to other republican candidates, too? oxygen sucked out of the room. >> cheryl: six months is out of the question. they all say this is insane with size and scope of the case that six months will happen. we're talking 2024. the other, they all said the reason there are so many defendants alongside the former president, their hope is to get one of them to flip on president trump. >> kayleigh: what brian said is very important. the basement strategy, that was

i want to go to andy mccarthy to dissect what we've gotten from this transcript. andy, i appreciate all of your help yesterday, my friend. extends to this story today. and andy, the one thing that is very clear, i take no sides in this or see it through any prism for or against the president or his son, but it's clear to me at least, that devin archer, when he he referred to the brand, he's talking about the combination of joe and hunter biden. when asked on that subject, he said yeah, that's fair to say. obviously that brought the most value to the brand. it was hunter biden and him. he went on to say, we would discuss having, you know, an understanding of d.c. that was a differentiating component of us being able to raise capital. again, i'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, my friend, but that shows the clear building of quid pro quo. >> yeah, that's right. if there were an actual investigation that was being conducted by the justice department, that's exactly the way they would be looking at it, neil, a bribery investigation. the fact is, there is a biden fami

if you look at it legally -- listen to jonathan turley and andy mccarthy.e network all day today. i thought they said some things i agreed with. they said something that made me learn. one take away i had was this is what federalism allows states to do to enforce their laws here. do your point what you said is exactly right, judge. his state of mind. if they had evidence showing a state of mind is different than when he claims, he will have -- >> you don't think this is totally over the top? everything he states makes sense except it's all nonstop. we know this is designed to banish and isolate and destroy a political outsider who predicted this. chuck schumer. don't mess with -- intel agencies. don't mess with the intel agencies. they will arrest your team and keep it off the field. >> you not think he has done anything to deserve any of this? >> he is probably one of the most troubling consequential figures in history. no, he doesn't deserve any of this. >> why didn't they indict him until he announced he was running for president? give me a break. >> i w

andy mccarthy in national review pit bluntly.here could not be a more serious blatant conflict of interest in a situation in which the president's justice department is conducting an investigation of the president's son that implicates the president and in potentially impeachable conduct. the conflicts of course don't end there. remember what one of the irs whistleblowers testified to. >> the justice department allowed the president's political appointees to weigh in on whether to charge the president's son. i watched the united states attorney weiss tell a room full of senior fbi and irs senior leaders on october 27, 2022, that he was not the deciding person on whether charges were filed. that was my red line. >>. >> laura: and garland as appointment is even more devious than that. for weeks members of the house and numerous ingraham angle guests have been calling on weiss to testify before congress. his appointment to this role means that he's potentially now protected against having to testify until he releases his report. >>

andy mccarthy said this, to indict on such a theory in a manner that quite literally intrudes into aresidential election is worse than irresponsible. the editors at the national review wrote this trump indictment should not stand. it is a terrible think they are doing to our country. the only civil rights that have been violated are my civil rights and those of the countless people that died in and have been persecuting -- biden and the communist have been persecuting. they are people that do not get it. they are vicious. and they are smart but we are smarter and we are tougher than they are and we are going to take it back. we have no choice because otherwise we are not going to have a country left. the reason this is happening is simple, joe biden is the most incompetent and at the same time most corrupt president in history of the united states. the biden crime family was taken in money from china, ukraine, russia and so many other countries and now every time more biden didn't corrupt annex exposed, his henchmen indict me -- not every time more biden corruption is exposed, his he

if you listen to andy mccarthy and jonathan turley they look at this and said where's the there there, the additional there there in this indictment and perhaps it's yet to come. >> steve: more to come tonight at 6:00 p.m. eastern time with special report program,. >> ainsley: thanks, bret. >> steve: i know you are probably wearing tennis shorts. >> ainsley: he has fun golf pants. follow him on instagram. >> brian: he will not reveal. >> ainsley: on instagram, he won't tell us what he is wearing right now. >> brian: tell us right now. >> steve: 8:13, right behind me i can hear carly. >> carley: can you feel my presence? hovering. got some news to get to, starting in ohio where police are still in a standoff with two suspects who they say are holding two people hostage in a semi truck outside of dayton. officers reportedly removing a person from the truck after firing shots. they believe the suspect stole the truck from a gas station earlier this morning after leading officers on a chase when they pulled over in a van. >> carley: fox news alert, number crews responding to an 18-wheeler

andy mccarthy to weigh-in on this. s away from yet another big indictment. what do you make of it? >> well, this one i think is a diceyer one legally, neil. in terms of the politics of it, which i think is what is going to -- certainly in the front of former president trump's mind, i think will be in the front of everybody's mind. the objective here frankly is to get this case indicted and try to push it to trial next year because democrats and the biden justice department and what is the outfit that appointed jack smith, they like the idea of playing out the whole post election scenario, not just january 6th as david said, but all of the activity from the time of election day through inauguration day. they like the idea of presenting that to the voters as we get to another election. the politics of that works well for them. >> neil: how do they coordinate all of this? not that they have to share outlook calendars. if you're looking at proposed trial dates and all the rest, you have this one next may that the. and his p

i wonder what andy mccarthy thinks of that. at he's saying is it's different when you're a former president. it is what it is. he could be facing convictions, but he won't be looking at jail. what do you think? >> well, he also said, neil, there's alternatives to detention like home confinement, which is not being in a penitentiary. >> neil: if home were confined to mar-a-largo, that's not too bad, right? >> you have to think not what is great for trump but what is best for the country. to have a former united states president in a federal penitentiary with the security concerns that that would involved, that will be unacceptable to a lot of people. i'm one of them actually. >> neil: i'm curious where this goes. the time being, it's a matter of shuffling these pieces and cases that if you're donald trump and his lawyers, you want to push it off until after the election. we're getting a sense from bill barr that a couple of these, the federal cases, the jack smith case can move forward as planned before the election. is that doab

andy mccarthy last hour. hunter biden's lawyer threatened to put president joe biden on the stand in his son's defense. according to "politico" the first son's legal team vowed to put the president on the stand and talked to prosecutors about biden's plea deal. haven't heard this before, aishah. >> it's a stunning report from "politico." it comes from the 32-page letter, a letter written by hunter biden's attorney back in 2022. take a look at this. "politico" reports clark was warning prosecutors that president biden now unquestionably would be a fact witness for the defense in any criminal trial if there were to be a criminal trial, right? what followed, of course, was that wide scale what republicans call sweetheart plea deal that eventually did fall apart. on top of this, bill, it was also revealed over the weekend special counsel david weiss at one point worked with president biden's late son, beau, when he was the attorney general in delaware. that may sew further doubt for republicans that weiss can be

and also, some of his strongest defenders like andy mccarthy wrote this piece that got taken up. >> greg: i have two other people at the table. >> jessica: i know. i'm so rude. i cut off everyone constantly. i don't know how everyone can deal with me! >> greg: apology accepted. dana, is it normal to announce you know what is in somebody's heads. that's what we're arguing about it right now. >> dana: that's why this is so interesting. you can think that it's horrendous and terrible behavior and is there a crime committed? you can read this indictment. like i did last night, all the things they are listing, is that illegal? he was trying to persuade congress to change their position. like well, everyone has a right to try to persuade congress. you can disagree with how he did it. you can think it's abhorrent. is it illegal? and the other thing is i think about this -- the other piece which is i can't remember which charge it is. i guess fraud, the fraud piece, so george w. bush in 2000 and 2004 dealt with democrats who said he didn't win the election. did anybody try to arrest them? no. no

those dates of those payments, those have already fallen by the wayside and time barred as andy mccarthys has said repeatedly that he was never prohibited from taking this case to other jurisdictions or bringing charges in other areas, so why did he need the special counsel designation then? >> that's exactly the point. i think the whistleblowers are correct. i think that all of this culminated into such political drama and political pressure that the attorney general felt he had to come out now and formally designate him as special counsel. i think everything up to this point would be swept under the rug. but still, this is like the fox guarding the hen house. weiss is the one who slow walked this the whole time. what business does he have being appointed the special counsel now? we really needed somebody different but particularly someone from outside the department of justice who can come in and be truly independent. >> expecting a different result from the person who has done nothing but favors for hunter biden and the biden family at this point is the definition of insanity. new rea