according to politico, hunter biden's attorney chris clark, warned the doj, president biden would be fact witness in any criminal trial. putting him on the stand against his own justice department could cause a constitutional crisis. doeses anyone think that joe biden somehow was not kept abreast of this? come on. if the threats hunter biden made in his what's app message, this is the intimidation tactic that joe biden would agree to. and as andy mccarthy pointed out, it is another example of biden family corruption. >> you have big, bad 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 origi

i don't think it's a coincidence at all that chris clark is writing to weiss and saying hey, we wouldut the president on the stand at a time when he is making a decision about whether to let these burisma charges go. so i think that's very significant. the other thing that i think really stands out to the investigators is that this march than anything points out there should have been a special counsel earlier in the investigation. at that point they should have immediately appointed him one. >> laura: also you, the idea that we discovered the president is using these pseudonyms to communicate the jrb, whether it's acronyms or pseudonyms to disguise his identity. why do you that if it was just a friendly conversation between father and son? that also gives more credence to what your client and the whistleblowers said all along. this needed to be delved into seriously by objective prosecutor were no political ties, none. >> absolutely. what you see, instead, looking at the information that senator chuck grassley has put out there from unrelated whistleblowers is that when this informat

and chris clark was the chief architect of the plea deal when it fell through in open court. lowell, someone who has represented bill clinton and jared kushner, on the case officially, he's been involved in other matters involving the president's son. the reason hunter's team is saying chris clark left is because of a rule in delaware prevents him from being hunter's attorney if he would be a witness in a future case. this filing suggests that hunter's team may have a problem with how this plea deal fell apart and chris clark would be a witness. that's how they are spinning it. >> john: david spunt, thank you. >> gillian: former president trump and 18 others are named in the georgia grand jury indictment. they have to august 25th to surrender to authorities in the state. fourth indictment against trump, alleged attempts to overturn his election loss in the state. jonathan, the sheriff says the former president is going to be booked just like any other defendant. what do you make of that? >> well, in theory that would mean he would have his mug shot taken at the fulton county

chris clark is gone. whether he will be a witness or not, he fumbled the deal okay?al, it was meant to try to get out of what they were doing in front of a savvy federal judge. i don't know what will happen. what i do know is this. congress will not be able to get any information. they responded to congress' demand and said they're actively working to identify the information that congress is seeking but may take a moment or two. it's not going to happen. >> martha: i just want to play one of gary shapley -- just to remind people. gary shapley looks -- and zeigler looks smarter and smarter all the time as this unravels. they came to congress and said, look, here's what's going on with david weiss. so play the number 3, guys, in the call for about what he anticipates will eventually happen with all of this. watch. >> attorney weiss, attorney general garland will be sitting before these committees one day and will have to admit despite all of their problems, the fact is that this case was presented to two presidential appointed u.s. attorneys in d.c. and california tha

the letter from attorney chris clark warned prosecutors that president biden now unquestionably wouldfact witness for the defense in any criminal trial. house oversight chairman james comer demanded the national archives turned over documents. >> we learned when he received e-mails pertaining to ukraine, his son, hunter, i was copied on them, which we always heard the white house said hunter biden wasn't an employee of the government or any part of the government. >> there's the revelation that david weiss once work with president biden's late son, beau. that's raised eyebrows among some republicans saying that weiss will produce results. martha? >> thanks, mike, very much. so irs whistle-blower gary shapley's attorney mark lytle joins me again now. good to have you with us. what is your reaction to this that came out over the weekend? big stuff. >> thanks, martha. thanks for having me on today. my overall reaction with this information that has come out from the politco and "new york times" articleses is that david weiss has to go. he cannot be the special counsel in this case. every

i mean, that is a heavy-handed threat that came from chris clark.heart deal, kind of not a surprise on that one. amber with's got a question for you. >> tom, thanks for being here. on this point about david weiss being pinted the special counsel in the -- appointed the special counsel in the midst of this investigation, there's been a lot of speculation as to the timing of that. and an obvious point is that weiss can't be subpoenaed now, apparently, in this probe. he is now protected by this status. do you think that is the reason that he was given it? >> well, that's something the justice department's going to allege that, oh, there's an ongoing investigation, we can't talk about it. of course, they talk about ongoing investigations all the time, so that's a big lie. the other piece of false information that they put out there suggests that congress can't ask questions about ongoing investigations or people involved in ongoing investigations. and there's no immunity under the law in the constitution that protects justice department officials from h

the way hunter's team is framing this is that chris clark may be a witness in an upcoming case about this plea agreement falling through. according to a delaware code of conduct rule, an attorney that will be a witness in a future case cannot currently be an attorney. that's why clark is out and lowell is in. neil? >> i think i got it. david, thanks very much. tom dupree and katie are here. brilliant lawyers to sort of pick apart both cases. tom, i want your take on hunter biden's lawyers demanding the department of justice honor that part of the plea deal. seems to have been blown up now and nowhere near getting back together. what do you think? >> i'm very skeptical of hunter biden's lawyers argument that this is binding and valid. it was not approved by the judge. although there's some truth that diversion agreements are different than plea agreements, i don't see how they can have a binding agreement if the justice department does ant agree that this diversion agreement is in effect. it's all fine and good for hunter biden's legal team to say we're going to follow the terms of th

politico reporters chris clark warned justice department prosecutors president biden now unquestionablyense in any criminal trial. what followed was a wide ranging plea deal shielding hunter from any future charges. >> you have these big bad justice department prosecutors who aren't supposed to be afraid of anything but they are scared to death to charge him because 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. >> but what republicans call a sweetheart deal fell apart after two irs whistleblowers came forward accusing the justice department of mishandling the investigation. now washington waits to see what special counsel david weiss does next. but his previous work and past working relationship with the president's late son bo is sowing deeper doubts that he can be trusted. oversight chairman james comer pushing forward with his committee's probe between hunter and joe biden and the alleged influence peddling scheme. >> so the biden attorneys know

i call this the chris clark pressure campaign, hunter's attorney.e's some insight into how he pressured federal prosecutors. this was from "the new york times." mr. clark began by telling mr. weiss at his legacy would be defined by how he handled this decision. if his host somehow missed the message mr. clark followed up with a more dramatic gesture. he read a quote from supreme court justice robert jackson who had been a prosecutor of the nuremberg trials and said prosecutors could always find a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone but should never succumb to pressure from the powerful, a quote from the nuremberg trials to get hunter out of this. >> harris: i am starting to really believe those former federal prosecutors and attorneys who have been telling that this was really biden's way of communicating that all the jobs were in jeopardy. phil holloway joined me last hour and said look, they are very afraid of joe biden. i wonder why. why doesn't somebody have their back. they have technically -- they are all whistle-blowe

this is from the attorney chris clark for hunter biden.osecutors have now reached an impasse as it relates to this plea agreement that, frankly, the white house, those close to joe biden had thought would have meant the end of the hunter biden situation. these are the words of chris clark, the attorney for hunter biden. he said the attorney general made clear what was always the case in materials of the authority of the u.s. attorney's office in delaware in this matter, whether in delaware, washington, d.c., or anywhere else, we expect a fair resolution on behalf of our client. this u.s. attorney has diligently been investigating my client for five years, and he proposed a resolution, which we fully intend to pursue in court. it is hard to see why he would have proposed such a resolution if there were other offenses he could have prosecuted. we are aware of none. we are confident my client will have resolution and will be moving on with his life successfully. so that's notable for a variety of reasons because it says what we had understood

lawyer behind the doomed plea deal is out because he, chris clark, may become a witness in this case under the witness rule, inadvisable for mr. clark to stay on this case. withdrawal will not cause a hardship to mr. biden. unable to prove biden benefited from hunter financially trying to prove biden benefited indirectly. here is a text from hunter biden about paying past due bills and hunter writes, my dad has been using most line on this account, which i have paid for the past 11 years. president biden released his tax return and nothing unusual there so republicans are trying to connect president biden to overseas payment through indirect means, no direct evidence of anything like that yet. >> steve: peter, regarding inflation reduction act, which should be called the joe biden get re-elected acts, the white house feels economic numbers are on joe biden's side, right? >> peter: yeah, they saw headlines talking about economic trends generally describing them as bidenomics as a bad thing. the biden white house people said, we're going to embrace this, this is what is happening, put

we need to work in the collective for and one task that i remember from those chris clark in human feces the government could not afford the fertilizer so they were demanding people to bring poop to the school so they could give it to the collective farm and that was my job every afternoon i was looking for human feces to bring to school. and this, by the way, free education, socialist system of free education. free education. and by the time i was 13 years old, i could no longer find any more grasshoppers or dragonflies survive and is actually ironic that i come to america. i was dreaming of eating steak and, you know, eating noodles, pasta. now there's so many leaders talking about the importance of eating insects to save the planet. i'm like, b.s. that they taste horrible, disgusting. i mean, humanity can, you know, get better. we can innovate. we don't have to go back to eating insects. and in new york city, my friends are going to eating this insect energy bar. now i'm like, i'm done with i'm eating all the money in the world i can so surviving like that and day it dawned to us that

investigation into joe biden, by house oversight committee now we understand hunter biden longtime attorney chris clarkithdrew from fram tax case prosecutors blaming hunter team for broken down plea agreement that inaccurate prosecutors reneged on agreement would have given hunter blanket immunity from criminal probes amazing to me david weiss came up with this if he agrees he did not today taxes, then he can get immunity for anything else, it wasn't until judge say it wait a minute aren't you investigating him right anonymous they said "yes" looking at whether or not a foreign agent you put immunity on everything, this is the guy going to run this case the special counsel david weiss came up with that idea to give immunity? >> yeah. i mean this is by design. people think that weiss you know, quick to point out that he was appointed under trump as u.s. attorney. >> he was not appointed i spoke to president trump about this he explained it to me what happened two senators from that state democrats, two scenarios came up said okay. we want david weiss, trump appointed him because us two democrat senators

. >> kristy, the attorney for hunter biden chris clarke made a similar point.his is a quote -- it's hard to see if the plea deal were proposed if there were other offenses he could have successfully prosecuted. so how do you think the hunter biden legal team is feel with what lies ahead of them? >> it's interesting, now there's a special counsel appointment, they'll be waiting to see if there are other potential charges. if there were, money laundering, for example, or other corruption charges, those would be more serious than a misdemeanor tax offense or a felony gun charge while being a drug user where they recommended pretrial diversion. so if there was evidence they had accumulated in the investigation for improper foreign dealings and money laundering, i would have expected this request would have come already, would have come before there was any plea. so, again, it seems unlikely that they have that kind of evidence, but, you know, we'll just have to wait and see. >> do you see any miscalculations here on the part of hunter biden for not just putting thi

hunter's tax and gun trial documents obtained by politico which show the hunter's former attorney chris clarkthis of all cases justifies now that the spectacle of a sitting president testifying in a criminal trial nor the potential for a constitutional crisis. what is interesting is from the threat from hunter's attorney that seem to change the game on the entire deal, it gave them the deal basically. >> absolutely, something new is coming out every single week on this issue and we keep fine mourn and more evidence of corruption and were starting to ask maybe we need impeachment and need to dig deeper, when were seeing a strong earning coming from the defense attorney with the d.o.j. to protect the president and the administration and make this much more political than it needs to be but in addition to that, the sitting president of the united states using pseudonyms and an e-mail to disconnect himself from these e-mails that are supposed to be business but there attached to the government, we need to dig much deeper and it's really concerning that were not calling it out on other networks. c

attorney david-wise, now special counsel, met with hunter biden's defense attorney, chris clark, heree justice department. he said promises and whistle-blower protection from doj suddenly disappeared. >> in just two short weeks, my interactions with m mr. winesheimer said they would like to hear about any wrong doing or any allegations of improper won duct to two weeks later go talk to mr. weiss. >> it's notable, gillian, merrick garland will testify on capitol hill in front of the house judiciary committee and expect this topic to come up multiple times. gillian? >> thanks, david. let's bring in tristin levitt, attorney for gary shapley. thanks for taking time with us this afternoon. david laid out this latest accusation. but it would be great to hear it in your own words on behalf of your client, obviously. we're now hearing this reporting from -- this accusation from your client that he was promised whistle-blower protections, which is an official government status, but then that never came to be, at least not until now. who was the justice department official that you say promised

thing that out to me was carla describe the investigation is ongoing which was notable because chris clarkd weeks ago the entire thing was resolved. that was the word that he had used. what was the discrepancy there? >> the proceedings on july 26 obviously disclosed in agreement. and the disagreement was that we said what we understood the agreement to mean which was what chris said. let me ask you and anyone who's paying attention the following question. what group of experienced attorneys would have their client plead guilty on monday to a misdemeanor believing that the prosecutors could bring a felony on wednesday? so as to what interpretation of the agreement made the most sense? i turn that question to you to answer it. so there's only a few answers to the dilemma. either there was a garbled communication between the sides, possible. it could be somehow the prosecutors thought they were making a statement that they turned out either not to be accurate about or not to be specific about or it could be as you saw in court that they seem to be changing their position as the proceedings we

>> yeah, so this attorney chris clark has been representing hunter biden for years during this criminalon. and biden's team asked him to have permission to be dropped from the case saying he could be a witness because he has firsthand knowledge of the plea negotiations, and the drafting of those plea documents. they're saying he can no longer serve as an advocate for hunter biden, but biden has a large legal team that will not upset the process here in this case as it moves forward now as part of the special counsel investigation. >> all right. thank you so much. >>> cnn is on the ground in hawaii, where there is growing frustration, days after wildfires tore through the island of maui. that's next. baby, only on game nights. you know you are retired right? am i? ya! save 50% on the sleep number lilimited edition smart bed. plus, free home delivevery when you add a base. shop now only at sleep p number. let innovation refunds help with your erc tax refund so you can improve your business however you see fit. rosie used part of her refund to buildn outdoor patio. clin dr. marshall used p

so here is part of what chris clark said in a letter when he said well, listen, if you bring chargesen, we have to put his dad on the stand to testify on his behalf. this of all cases justfies neither the spectacle of a sitting president testifying at a criminal trial nor the potential for a resulting constitutional crisis. clark was saying look, if we put the president on the stand he's going to be at odds with his own justice department, that will precipitate a constitutional crisis. is that how the sweetheart plea deal got crafted? >> well, you know, this is really kind of a hands down case for special treatment in this hunter biden case. i think it shows you the confidence and the arrogance that the hunter biden defense team had in dealing with the justice department, of course under the presidency of hunter biden's father joe biden. they felt confident they could actually threaten the justice department and apparently it was working. we have had other reports that the justice department was ready to let hunter biden off scott free, no charges, no nothing, and it was only after a

the lead attorney chris clark and a close confidant of hunter biden for years. he represented him for years. he is trying to get off this case. he was the lead architect of this plea deal with the department of justice and it fell through in public in the courtroom on july 26th. abby lowell, a washington powerhouse attorney here in the district of columbia, is now representing biden in this case. lowell has also worked with biden before. right side of the screen and clark on the left side with the glasses. hunter's team is well aware of the two tax violations that were supposed to be part of the plea deal but no longer and may go to trial. however, abby, lowell insists a diversion agreement to avoid jail time for a gun charge is already signed by the government and hunter and is valid. in their filing they wrote the defendant intends to abide by the terms of the diversion agreement that was executed by the defendant, his counsel and the united states. the parties have a diversion agreement. we'll see what the judge said. she had big problems with this diversion

. >> john: a couple of things we discovered is chris clark, hunter biden's attorney, threatened the department of justice with putting president biden on the stand if charges were filed against hunter biden. according to this quote that was contained in politico, he said "this of all cases justfies neither the spectacle of a sitting president testifying at a criminal trial nor the potential for resulting constitutional crisis." and then saw as people described it sweetheart plea deal and the "new york times" revealed private correspondence, came to this extraordinary conclusion. earlier this year the times found mr. weiss appeared willing to forego any prosecution of mr. biden at all and his office came close to agreeing to end the investigation without requiring a guilty plea on any charges. but the correspondence reveals his position relayed through the staff changed in the spring around the time a pair of irs officials on the case accused the department of justice of hamstringing the investigation. mr. weiss suddenly demanded mr. biden plead guilty to committing tax offenses. and people say

biden's tax case because of the ongoing legal battle over the plea agreement in the case attorney chris clark says it's likely he'll be called as a witness because he negotiated and drafted the agreement and he said that would violate delaware professional conduct rules biden was expected to plead guilty to the tax evasion charges and settle a gun charge during a july hearing but the deal disintegrated in court. >>> and the football legend is heading back to knoxville but this time, in the classroom instead of on the gridiron the university of tennessee announced this week that peyton manning will join the college of communication and information as a professor. the hall of famer and former tennessee quarterback will join select classes during the year as a featured expert no doubt there will be a lot of demand for those classes >> oh, yes most popular thank you, pippa >>> marathon asset management's chris richards is coming up after the break on why he thinks economists are getting it all wrong when it comes to a soft landing. >>> as for the markets, we mentioned the relief in the ten-year,

attorney and hunter biden's attorney, chris clark. remember, gary shapley, the whistleblower, first to come forward, hold up the red flag about hunter biden's investigation and say listen, this was slow-walked multiple times. shapley's attorney says after he talked, and now they met at the justice department and promises from whistleblower protection suddenly disappeared. listen. >> in just two, about two short weeks, my interactions with mr. wineshiemer went from the office of deputy attorney general would like to hear about any wrongdoing or any allegations of improper conduct, to just two weeks later go talk to mr. weiss. >> on september 20th, john, the attorney general, merrick garland, will testify on capitol hill before the house for oversight hearing, expect hunter biden to be a big, if not the biggest topic of the day. meanwhile, the fight over the proposed diversion agreement to help hunter biden avoid jail time for lying on a federal gun form that, is heating up. the federal judge in delaware who oversaw the failed plea agre

as we first reported here yesterday on this show, hunter biden's lead attorney chris clark is exiting his legal team. according to a court filing clark cannot serve as hunter biden's attorney anymore as he may be a witness in a future case about the plea deal breaking apart. under the witness advocate rule it is inadvisable for clark to continue as counsel. when the plea deal fell through on july 26th ab, abbe lowell walked up to david weiss's team and said quote, looks like i will be involved in the fray, end quote. now he is officially on the team. dana and bill, it might be hard to think. there is a possibility that hunter biden and david weiss may enter into a plea deal in the future. however, that looks very unlikely and murky given the latest language from the special counsel. three weeks ago these guys were very close and now they are very far apart. >> dana: super interesting. thank you for the update. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> dana: brand-new this morning the first edition of the fox news power rankings for the republican presidential primary coming one week before t

the letter reviewed by politco from attorney chris clark warned prosecutors "president biden now unquestionably fact witness for the defense in any criminal trial." a broad plea deal for hunter biden between his legal team and prosecutors was crafted. after criticism of that agreement and questions from a federal judge, it quickly collapsed. leading republicans continue to insist that this is not just about the president's son. >> this is obvious that joe biden abused his powers as vice president for the sole purpose to protect his son, who was receiving millions of dollars from this corrupt ukrainian energy company. this e-mail ties joe biden and hunter biden in to this corruption scheme without a shadow of a doubt. >> there's the revelation that special counsel david weiss once work with president biden's late son, beau. that is adding to the doubts that weiss will produce results. democrats like to point to the fact that hunter biden is under investigation and who first appointed weiss? >> hunter biden's prosecutor, david weiss, is a trump-appointed prosecutor. they have this nonsensical arg

learn more at boost.com/tv >>> hunter biden's chris clark, who we interviewed on the show last month al has stepped down. clark says he anticipates he'll be a witness in any litigation over the failed plea negotiations. biden's legal team claimed parts of the deal regarding the gun charge were still valid, but in a new filing tuesday, special counsel ripped their argument apart, giving house republicans an opportunity to exploit the disconnected. joining me now is nbc news justice report ryan reilly and ryan nobles. ryan, it's good to have you. let's start with reilly. walk me three clark stepping down and why he anticipates he'll be a witness. >> they're really just far apart in where this is going to land. basically they are saying this is not operational because it was not accepted by the judge and to make sure it didn't go on a prosecutorial track, that it's all null and void. what's interesting on the gun charge is it's under significant legal challenges and probably will ultimately found to be unconstitutional. it's essentially a law that makes it unlawful for individuals who ar

so one of hunter biden's long-time attorneys chris clark had asked the judge if he could withdraw fromd now the special counsel, david weiss. at the same time prosecutors are saying today that they don't believe that this deal on a gun possession charge is valid. they say it was never signed off by the probation department and therefore it was not binding, something that hunter biden's team had been pressing. still a lot more to come in this case. but still a legal shapeup and some potential new developments, we'll see, on what the judge thinks of this plea deal. phil? >> kara, to your second point about the latest filing, i know you've been reporting that reading that right now. does that change where you think the dynamics are? >> i mean, right now this is still an issue before the judge. so she has to decide whether or not this plea deal is in effect. both sides have now laid both of their positions on the table, phil. >> all right. kara scannell for us. thanks so much. and thank you for joining "inside politics." kr "cnn news central" starts right after this. ve $700 dollars just b

past with his son that's what were learning in the new letter written by hunter biden's lawyer chris clarkrk warned d.o.j. prosecutors the president biden would unquestionably be be a fact witness in the defense of any criminal trial if there were to be criminal charges what followed after the letter we know republicans call the widescale sweetheart plea deal that eventually fell apart. a lot of suspicion from republican and folks wondering what this was all about it was also revealed over the weekend the special counsel david weiss at one point worked with president biden's late son beau biden when he was the attorney general but under general and delaware and that's raising questions for any republicans out there who were already questioning weiss' ability to be unbiased that's why gop's are trudging along with their own probes house oversight james comer is demanding more from that the national archives handover unredacted records related to then vice president biden and ukraine after they uncovered that biden was sending official e-mails using three different synonyms and hunter was co

the letter reviewed by politico from attorney chris clark warned prosecutors "president biden now unquestionably would be a fact witness for the defense in any criminal trial. trial". a broad plea deal was crafted and then it quickly collapsed and leading republicans continually insisting this isn't just about the president's son. >> look, this is obvious that joe biden becaused his powers as vice president for the sole purpose to protect his son, who was receiving millions and millions of dollars from this corrupt ukrainian energy company, and this e-mail ties joe biden and hunter biden into this corruption scheme without a shadow of a doubt. >> there's also the revelation that special council david wise once worked with president biden's late son beau. prom nathanial hackette democrats like to point to the fact hunter biden is under investigation and who first appointed wise? >> hunter biden is their case in point, even though the hound hunter biden prosecutor david wise is a trump appointed prosecutor. they've got this nonsensical argument. >> today, house republicans issued four new subpoena

the defense counsel, chris clark said, whoa, we're done here, no deal. then it fell apart.ou is, as we wait for the, both sides to get back to this judge on the plea deal -- because she gave them 30 days -- is there any deal that could be structured now in a plea deal with hunter that wouldn't give the american people the impression that there's two tiers it is of justice system and hunter gets the sweetheart deal? >> i'm not sure there really is after what's transpired because even the deal he's getting on the narrow charges in court is really a sweetheart deal. he didn't pay taxes on millions of dollars that he received from overseas. this is not somebody who didn't pay on $15,000 of a small business he had or something like that. this was millions of dollars s and he was allowed to plead to two misdemeanor charges, tax charges that will result in zero time in jail. and at least according to the irs whistle blowers, there was a lot of pressure on the prosecutors to lower the standards, to lower charges. and on the filling out the handgun, you know, background check form a

. >> meanwhile hunter biden is dumping his long time lawyer chris clark after his plea deal fell throughn delaware last month. his new attorney abbe lowell writing this based on recent developments it appears that the negotiation and drafting of the plea agreement and diversion agreement will be contested. it is inadvisable for mr. clark to continue as counsel in this case. we should also note for the record, guys, president biden has yet to comment on the appointment of that special counsel into hunter biden or weigh in on the recent indictments of trump. brian, ainsley, steve? >> steve: he hasn't. all right, griff, thank you very much. coming up ainsley is going to break down the time line of all of the indictments so it puts it in perspective and maybe we need a space crean right for arizona if that does indeed become true. >> ainsley: is it coincidence that every time, you know, we find out more information on joe biden's son on hunter, there's an indictment for donald trump. >> steve: it's coincidence or who knows what it is. so this 100 page report that's going to come out on monda

page letter that has been obtained by politico that was written in 2022 by hunter biden's attorney chris clarkin this letter, politico reports that clark warned doj prosecutors that president biden now unquestionably would be a fact witness for the defense in any criminal trial. so, basically they were saying they were going to put biden on the stand if the doj filed criminal charges. what followed, of course, john, is that plea deal that republicans call this widespread, wide scale sweetheart deal that eventually fell apart. >> you have these big bad justice department prosecutors are not supposed to be afraid of anything but they are scared because they don't want to charge joe biden's son. >> this is what access to joe biden is. why people were willing to pay millions of dollars to get it. that's what the scheme was. >> washington is waiting to see what special counsel david weiss does next but some republicans already doubt his ability to be unbiased, john, and now have to contend with the fact he worked at one point with president biden's late son beau when beau was the attorney general i

according to a court filing, chris clarke cannot serve as biden's attorney anymore as he may be a witnessn a future case. under the witness advocate role it is inadvisable for mr. clarke to continue as counsel in this case. when the plea deal fell through on july 26th. abbe lowell an attorney for hunter in unrelated case walked up to david weiss and his team and said, quote: looks like i'm going to be involved in the fray. now loc lowell is officially one team. >> quite the tensions between hunter biden's team and the government. it is possible there may be a plea deal in the future; however, that looks unlikely and murky given the latest language from the special counsel weiss. these two sides are very far apart tonight. bret. >> bret: what can you tell us about new report about hunter biden paid his dad's bills? >> yeah. this is coming from our fox news digital between a brand new story out tonight. i want to read a text message reviewed by fox news digital from hunter biden to an assistant in 2018. hunter wrote, quote: my dad has been using most lines on this account which i have throu

>> reporter: this his longtime criminal defense attorney chris clark who helped him the entire time andtential witness since biden's team intends to challenge these now collapsed plea talks because clark was involved in the dealings one-on-one with doj throughout this five-year investigation and in negotiating the plea agreements that the judge did not approve, so now they're saying that they want to take him off the case so he can't advocate for biden because they might need him as a witness in a future proceeding, anderson. >> what's the latest on the plea deal negotiations? >> so right now the one thing that both sides agree on is that the tax plea agreement is moot and they should dismiss the charges filed in court that lundeen did not plead guilty to as initially planned. the reason why prosecutors wanted them out they say they want to bring a potential case in a jurisdiction where these alleged crimes took place, either in california or washington, d.c. and it was only because biden was going to plead guilty they agreed to do it in delaware where the u.s. attorney david weiss who'

his son hunter is swapping out his lawyer because that lawyer, chris clark, may soon become a witnesswe are being told, quote: under the witness advocate rule, it is inadvisable for mr. clark to continue as counsel in this case. withdrawal will not cause a substantial hardship to mr. biden. that's republicans so far been unable to prove that president biden benefited financially directly from hunter's influence peddling schemes are trying to prove the president benefited financially indirectly so here's a text between hunter and his assistant in 2019. this is before biden announced a campaign about paying some past due bills. hunter wrote my dad has been using most lines on this account which i have, through the gracious offerings of eric schwerin his partner have paid for the last 11 years. if president biden is not addressed any of this today or tomorrow, there is a chance friday he has some visiting dignitaries. there is going to be a press conference at camp david. so it will come up then as long as suspect who has chosen to ask a question actually asks about it brian? >> steve: o

>> this is hundred biden's longtime criminal defense attorney, chris clark.day, they said he is seeking to withdraw from the case. he could -- because he could be a potential witness since biden's team intends to challenge these now collapsed plea talks. the clerk was involved in the dealings, one-on-one, with doj, throughout this five-year investigation. in a negotiating, the plea agreements that the judge did not approve, they are saying they want to take him off the case and he can advocate for biden because they might need him as a witness in a future proceeding. anderson? >> what's the latest on the plea deal negotiations? >> right now, the one thing both sides agree on is that the tax plea agreement is moot, and they should dismiss the charges that were filed in court that harden or biden did not plead guilty to as initially planned. the reason prosecutors wanted them out is because they say that they want to bring the potential case in a jurisdiction where these alleged crimes took place, either california or washington d.c., and it was only because bi

his client would be protected, he claims the the same official met next day with david weiss and chris clarker biden's attorney in this case. gary shapley was the first person to come forward publicly, hold up his hand and say, listen, i'm a whistleblower, and i see problems with this investigation. shapley claims it was slow-walked. mark weidel says he talked to a top doj official, u.s. attorney david weiss -- now special counsel -- met with the defense attorney at the doj. he also says those promises about whistleblower protection for his client suddenly just kiss appeared. disappeared. >> about two short weeks, my interactions with mr. wine schumer went from the office of deputy attorney general would like to hear about any wrongdoing or allegations of improper conduct to just two weeks later, go talk to mr. weiss. >> the attorney general merrick garland will testify before the house foreign oversight hearing, expect hunter biden to be a big if not the biggest topic of that hearing. liz,meanwhile, the fight over the proposed diversion agreement to help hunter biden avoid jail time on a fe

meanwhile, one of hunter biden's lawyers, chris clark, asked a judge to withdraw from the case as he'sess in any litigation stemming from the failed plea agreement. joining us now from capitol hill is nbc's ryan nobles. good morning. where do things stand today? >> reporter: well, jose, there is no doubt that hunter biden and his legal team are dealing with a lot, special on multiple frons after this plea arrangement fell apart a little more than a month ago. in addition to the back and forth between the now special counsel and hunter biden's legal team, he's also facing a great deal of scrutiny from congressional investigators, particularly house republican investigators in both the judiciary and the oversight committee. the oversight committee in particular continues to release transcribed interviews from biden business associates and also from the investigators that were involved in the look into his finances and his business dealings. and now house democrats are responding to some of the information that house republicans have put out. and they are raising two important points. the

i want to read a statement from one of hunter biden's lawyers, chris clark.says it is hard to see why weiss would've proposed such a resolution, the plea deal, if there were other offenses that he could have successfully prosecuted. and we are aware of none. they say they are confident that when all of this is over, their client will go on and live his life successfully. but in addition to a possible trial, wolf, now weiss have to compile a report about his investigation and his filings. he says he will make the report public. i've also learned that the white house and hunter biden's legal team did not get a heads up about this announcement. >> there had been plans in the works, as you noted, for weiss to actually testify before congress. now does how taste how does today's development -- >> that is the question, wolf. now the justice department is reporting appointed to the point that he has make a report that will offer transparency. i do not know for publicans are going to see it that way. it does not prevent him from being able to testify, but historicall

what they're saying is if chris clark, hunter biden's primary defense attorney wants to testify to theand address the issues i've just spelled out, he can't at the same time act as hunter biden's attorney. it's not that he's been fired. it's not that he's been dropped from the case, it's just that he can't do both. so if he's going to be called to testify as to actually what occurred, he can't also be sitting at the defense table technically at the same time. that's what that motion was about yesterday, and that's what we expect. >> tom winter, always good to see you. thank you. >>> now to an ugly new wave of attacks on america's jewish community. the antidefamation league is tracking what are known as swatting calls, targeting synagogues in 12 states in just the past month. swatting is when someone calls police falsely claiming something horrible is happening, which usually brings a police s.w.a.t. team to the scene creating a frightening, chaotic and potentially dangerous situation. the synagogues were all live streaming religious services when those calls came in. "new york times" r

>> we got a statement from chris clark, one of the lead criminal attorneys representing hunter biden he says the attorney general made clear what was always the case in terms of the office in this matter. whether in delaware, washington, d.c., or anywhere else, we expect a fair resolution on behalf of our client. this u.s. attorney has been investigating my client for five years and he had proposed a resolution which we fully intend to pursue in court. it is hard to see why he would have proposed such a resolution if there were other o teffenses could have prosecuted and we are aware of none. in the end, my client will have resolution and will be moving on with his life successfully. so this statement here suggesting that they still expect that this prosecution will be limited to the tax offenses that hunter biden has >>> of course, that's just their expectation, their guess, because they don't know where this investigation is going. now, also in the court documents, the prosecutors laid out this timeline, where they had given biden's team until today. biden's team had asked to monda

. >> i had chris clark, hunter biden's lawyer on the show after the news of the plea deal. i want to play what he said about whether there was more to come. >> sure. >> is this the end of it? >> my understanding is that we're done. >> the statement from the prosecutor's office from weiss's office said the investigation is ongoing. this is the statement announcing that criminal charges have been filed. it's obviously not the statement about the plea agreement. are you led to believe that that investigation is ongoing, will be dropped once this plea deal is made official? >> i'm not led to believe anything. that's mr. weiss's statement. i think there's going to be a court proceeding. i think there are going to be agreements that are going to come out about the court proceeding, and i think everyone will see what happens once that occurs. >> would you make a deal, though, if you thought there were more charges coming. >> would i make a deal? >> yeah. >> no, i wouldn't. >> so in a statement today he said it's hard to see why he would propose such a resolution, david weiss, if t

. >> this comes as hunter's own lawyer, chris clark , demanded lawyer, chris clark, demanded a fair resolutionf of our client. >> you couldn't make it up, could you? let's speak to the professional professor of international politics at the university college dublin. professor scott lucas. a very good morning to you. thanks for joining us so early in the morning, you couldn't make it up. it just seems as though everybody is trying to is trying to score points off each other and by going for the children and by by going for the children of the president, for heaven's sake , what's going on? can you sake, what's going on? can you explain to us i mean, i think it's really important. >> and as you just noted, that you've got to cut through political manipulation and a lot of political distortion to get to the legal facts of the case, the legal facts are, is that this spring there was a plea bargain presented to a court in which hunter biden would plead guilty to failing to pay taxes. he did pay back taxes and penalties of more than $1 million. but there was going to be a misdemeanour charge for hi

let's bring in msnbc's ken dilanian, what do we know about mark meadows and jeffrey clark. >> chris, both have had bonds set for them at $100,000, and that came after a federal judge blocked separate requests by both men for an emergency stay to prevent their arrests in this case on the grounds that their prosecution should be removed to federal court. now, the question of removal has not yet been decided but the judge declined to grant their emergency request to block their arrests so they will have to go forward with the booking process like everyone else, chris. >> ken dilanian, thank you for that. >>> meantime, security ramping up ahead of donald trump's surrender in georgia. nbc's gabe gutierrez is following that piece of it, hey, gabe. >> reporter: hey, there, chris, over the last few hours, we have had a ramped up security presence here outside of the fulton county jail. several dozen trump supporters have been out here. nothing unruly at this point, but local officials aren't taking any chances. they set up extra barricades over the last couple of hours. we have seen this ent

i think he caught chris dar done and marcia clark unprepared. and as a consequence, that extended his benefit. >> ainsley: trump won't do a speedy trial he wants these all to be. >> he wants to watch the chesebro trial if it occurs october 23rd. you can learn everything about the prosecution's case. >> brian: 9 minutes after the hour. the other story the white house wants to go away with the hunter biden story because it leads right to joe and is picking up warped speed. now we find out it wasn't just a china visit where the vice president's son joined the president, it was about 15 separate visits. in a freedom of information request, they are up to 15 times, which hunter biden be on air force 2 traveling with his dad to these countries. lead from a different exit off the plane, and then meet up and do various things. in fact, there's a quote from a hunter biden email, mexican business partner. listen to this. february 24, 2016, right before the vice president was out the door. we are arriving late tonight on air force 2. in mexico city. we wil