and hunter biden checked no. but as he's prepared to admit today, he was using drugs before, during and after the purchase of that weapon. so, he provided misleading information to the federal government at the time of the purchase. something that as barb was saying is -- there is a criminality question there, but it is rarely brought as a charge. >> mike memoli, michael schmidt, barbara mcquaid, thank you so much for being with us this morning. >>> our coverage of hunter biden's plea agreement continues. up next, we'll get reaction from capitol hill and break down the political fallout to all of this. we're back in 60 seconds. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. >>> 15 past the hour. we're following breaking news of president biden's son hunter, who is in court, still in court this morning, to enter a guilty plea on two misdemeanor tax charges. just last night, house republicans urged the judge to throw out his plea agreement. nbc's ali vitali

high stakes for hunter biden and for his father, joe biden. there has been a lot of shenanigans going into minimizing any penalty for many years of tax let's call them irregularities. alleged tax evasion. now it will come to a head this morning. >> dana: former federal prosecutor is here and james freeman from the "wall street journal" with reaction. we begin with jonathan turley, fox news contributor. a big moment we've been waiting to see what will happen. i think in the last few days people thought well the judge will accept this and move on. is that in question this morning? >> well, it can be because of the trouble last night where the court gave hunter biden's legal team a deadline over an alleged ethical violation. they were accused by the clerk apparently of misrepresenting who they represented in order to get material removed from public access. material damaging to hunter biden on the record. it's not clear how the court will react to that. it doesn't necessarily change the plea bargain but it could delay matters. in all likelihood,

hunter biden out of this.walk into a courtroom with a deal in your head that you thought you were getting, it's very important that you get it ironed out what exactly that deal means because of potential legal exposure. >> this is the most important deal to make. forget about buying a house or a car, this is 100 times more important. especially if you believe you worked out a deal that will likely spare you prison time, as in this case. it's up to the judge. to so the number one question i would have if i was the defense lawyer, the deal is he's going to plead guilty to these two misdemeanors. . we're going to divert the gun charge. but what happens with the other stuff that's been swirling for five years? if you don't have a straight answer on that, you don't have a deal, the judge is right to not accept it. >> standby for a minute. let's bring back our senior correspondent evan perez. if you will just take a step back and look at all of this now, where does this leave things in your mind? where are we now if

the one in hunter biden's taxes? > i have not. >> when were you made supervisor to the investigation of mr. biden operation fund? >> january of 2020. >> by your estimate, at that time, when did you initially believe that the evidence was sufficient to request physical search warrants in california, arkansas, new york, and washington, d.c.? >> special agent ziegler draft the affidavit in april or may. that was when i -- had that search warrant. >> of 2020? >> 2020. >> it was a short time after that you begin to illustrate that career officials at the d.c. oj were dragging their feet regarding the next steps in the investigation. is that correct? >> yes, that is correct. >> two months later in june of 2020, you came to the belief expressing as such in communications with the irs leadership that if normal procedures had been followed, did these search warrants would've already been executed. is that correct? >> yes. >> was that within the typical timeframe for the self imposed investigative pause did the doj historically

in hunter biden. because he sold access to his father, the big guy. you americans out there may have a compromise president in your white house. you should certainly be concerned. mr. zigler how did the irs investigation regarding hunter biden begin, tell us briefly sir. >> it was a review of bank records regarding another investigation i was working. >> is ancillary to another criminal investigation? is that correct sir? >> corrects pickwick sure criminal investigators that correct sir? like that is correct. >> that is correct. thank you very much investigator hashapley and september 3, 2020 meeting with the prosecution team for the hunter biden case assistant u.s. attorney leslie wolf told your team there is more than enough probable cause hyfor the physical search warrat of the guesthouse at the formerm president of delaware's residence for hunter biden stayed for a time. did u.s. attorney leslie wolf confirm your investigativeiv effort that you had sufficient probable cause for search? >> yes she

but i wonder how, you can describe how the lawyers on each side, hunter biden's lawyers were reactingis null and void. we're not on board with how it is playing out right now? >> well, right, that's right, jim. when the hearing started it seemed like business as usual. everything was going as planned. the deal was on. then, as the judge sort of scrutinized the specific provisions of deal, and asked some pretty challenging questions to both sides, she sort of teased out that hunter biden's team and the justice department weren't actually in the same place on a key question of whether or not he could be charged with future crimes related to some of his foreign work. at that point, like you mentioned, the deal seemed to be off. they asked for a recess. they tried to get together. receive an agreement. they did come back and told the judge, basically, that they were all good. ready to move forward, they had settled their disagreements. and that's when she took the reins. she had concerns, still remaining, specifically about the provisions of the deal to resolve the felony gun charge that

this was in an email obtained from hunter biden's laptop. hunter biden confirms. ice president biden is coming december 7th through ninth biden has officially visited uae u.s. tax dollars for to -- withhold he lied about this during the campaign. he specifically said it wasn't true. sir enough -- if you have any questions about whether he buys them, generate 23rd of 2018 he brags about it years later. ladies and gentlemen, the american people, that's the scheme. that is the proof of concept. they replicated it again and again because they never thought biden would be president. no one did he is our president. and because of his, actions because of him selling policy decisions to adversaries abroad for personal gain, he is vulnerable. he is vulnerable. it's a vulnerable cause of it. we are not here to prosecute hunter biden. we care about our country's national security and whether the president can compromise. that's why we are here. that's why we're here. . with that, i yield back. the >> chair recognizes carlee from virginia. >> thank you, mister chairman, thank

meanwhile, this is karine jean-pierre moment ago at the white house on hunter biden. >> hunter biden is a private citizen and this was a personal matter for him. as we have said, the president, the first lady, they love their son and they support him as he continues to rebuild his life. this case was handled independently as all of you know by the justice department under the leadership of a prosecutor appointed by the former president, president trump. so for anything further as you know, and we have been very consistent from here, i would refer you to the department of justice and to hunter's representatives who is his legal team, obviously, who can address any of your questions. >> sandra: ok, that briefing is ongoing, she's likely to get pressed further and take more questions from the media on what is happening there at that federal courthouse and we'll certainly get back to the briefing room as that happens. but first, karl rove, former chief of staff and fox news contributor. great to have you here. as we have had a lot of legal analysis in the first half hour here, political

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they want to keep this story in the headlines, even though it's entirely about hunter biden. hope springs eternal among republican lected officials that they will find a nexus to joe biden that they can use against him in 2024. >> brendan buck is with us, garrett. worked with two previous speakers. what do you think about not only this development but how it fuels what kevin mccarthy has been trying to do to get some momentum behind, under pressure from certainly the right wing members of his caucus, to start an impeachment inquiry, something not very popular with the senate? >> look at the situation in two ways. the house republicans were alleging that hunter biden was let off the hook on his foreign business dealings. i think now we know that's not necessarily the case. you would think that may take wind out of their sails. i imagine they will look at it differently. they will say, hunter biden is still being investigated for these business dealings. as long as this is hanging out there, they will continue banging that drum. even if no further charges are brought, they will

biden. a lot about hunter, not a lot about joe biden. hunter biden, i want to remind the majority, is not the president of the united states. i want to point out that no biden family members hold government positions of any kind. this is of course in stark contrast to the trump crime family. the majority convenient glazes over trump's family foreign dealings. the trump family of course were a actually appointed to government jobs. so where is that investigation? they were in the white house. and i think chris christie, one of the republicans running for president, said it best. this is his quote, not mine. the grift from the family is breathtaking. it's breathtaking. jared kushner and ivanka kushner walked out of the white house and months later get two billion from the saudis. you think it's investing genius or because it was he was sitting next to the president for four years and doing favors for the saudis. these are quotes from a man that has none trump and the kushners for year. they were making policy under like hunter biden. the b

this is not just hunter biden. as long as we're saying hunter biden, we forget everything else. again, hunter biden did step forward and say i did not feel taxes in two years and yes, this gun charge i'll take responsibility for. now, i love the fact that we're so much in love with the irs. in fact, speaker mccarthy said when he was elected on the 15th vote that the first bill that he would repeal funding for is the business that would provide for 87,000 additional irs employees. my, don't we love the irs. we're just going to cut their budget. in fact, there's a member of this committee who on their own website said that they're proud to have voted to strip away the plan to empower the irs with additional funding. so i'm going to get back to those two words again about keeping it rule. i think we have to do that. i just think mr. shapley, two quick things. did hunter biden in any way in your knowledge -- not hunter. did any of his children receive money? yes or no. >> i think special agent zeigler -- >> yes or no. >> special -- >> either one. yes or no. >> thanks for your questi

their testimony about the doj, fbi, irs investigation of hunter biden confirms the committee's findings, that there is nothing normal about the biden families business activities. the white house and democrats would have americans believe that this is based on five views of conspiracy theories, but we have facts, and new evidence is uncovered, revealing the corruption. they have put themselves first and americans last. we will continue to provide the answers, transparency, and accountability that americans demand and deserve. with that, i yield to the chairman, jason smith. >> thank you. we are charged with ensuring that the tax code is enforced fairly. are they the president only believes in making taxpayers pay their fair share if they don't share his last name. these two courageous whistle-blowers provided my committee with devastating testimony, showing that the government is not treating all taxpayers equally and the doj and the irs gave preferential treatment to the president's son during a criminal investigation into his taxes. these individuals in front of us today are credible

and hunter biden put him on speaker phone and he spoke in some form or another, addressed hunterassociates. we don't yet know, though, bill, whether that maybe happened without then vice president biden being aware that he was on speaker phone. that part of this has not been confirmed yet, but these pieces are moving hot and heavy and very fast right now. >> bill: the interview, john turley, you are right about that, and what dan goldman, the democratic congressman from here in new york representing the lower east side of manhattan was suggesting, dads talk to their sons all the time and regardless as to whether or not they are sitting at a table with multi-million dollar business deals on the line or not, it's hard to say who you know is on the other end of the phone, suggesting that this was all innocent. how archer answered those questions is really anybody's guess, gillian. keep in mind, he and hunter biden go back decades and they have done deals all over the world, not just in washington, d.c., but places like kazakhstan, ukraine, china, some of the bigger players we believ

the judge asked hunter biden, you did know that you owed tax money, right? biden said, yes, your honor. martha? >> martha: yeah. that has been brought together for this second plea deal. you owed $100,000, you didn't pay, that can be part of this agreement, she was not happy with the gun agreement, that deal may go by the wasteside. the form asks if you are taking drugs and he was not forthcoming about the fact he was during that time period. it leaves open room for further jeopardy for him. one big question i've asked all along is how was he doing all of this business with ukrainian and russian and other country's companies without having fara? the foreign agency allow him to do this work. that is what paul manafortgot slammed for, he had not registered as a foreign agent. this question has been swept under the rug. people have gone to prison for that. >> emily: martha, it is emily, as we approach presidential election around the corner and you, one of our top political analysts, our question involves how you feel this will be spun and how the party and left

the one in hunter biden's taxes? >> i have not. >> when were you made supervisor to the investigation of mr. biden operation fund? >> january of 2020. >> by your estimate, at that time, when did you initially believe that the evidence was sufficient to request physical search warrants in california, arkansas, new york, and washington, d.c.? >> special agent ziegler draft the affidavit in april or may. that was when i -- had that search warrant. >> of 2020? >> 2020. >> it was a short time after that you begin to illustrate that career officials at the d.c. oj were dragging their feet regarding the next steps in the investigation. is that correct? >> yes, that is correct. >> two months later in june of 2020, you came to the belief expressing as such in communications with the irs leadership that if normal procedures had been followed, did these search warrants would've already been executed. is that correct? >> yes. >> was that within the typical timeframe for the self imposed investigative pause did the doj historicall

i went to's discuss with you payments made to hunter biden and the biden family.rats and left wing media are saying there's no evidence but let's get into the evidence mr. zigler. out to direct you to pages 99 and 100 of your transcript. how much money did hunter biden in his associates received from the remaining company you identified? what's that amount from romania at the approximate total transfer from romaniapr company would have been 3.1 million to everyone purposely put white milling and how much did hunter bite his business associates received from state energy limited to the robinsoner llc? looks total transfer from state energy hk to rob walker was 3 million. >> 3 million per was there what whether the thousand dollar payment from cfc infrastructure hunter biden's professional corporation?ma >> yes sherman. >> a proximally how much was transferred to hunter biden's business associates through hudson west three? >> a total transfer> some hudson west three to everyone it was 3.7 million. >> 3.7 byy how much might hunter biden's business associates receive

>> i think president biden foolishly gave himself no wiggle room when he was talking about hunter biden and business dealings whether or not he was involved. turns out there is millions of dollars flowing and actual evidence that this was with possibly joe biden's knowledge and it turns out at the public library you can't pick up a form or schedule for call girls and millions of dollars from an energy company if you file your taxes. i defer to andy whether it's a common or likely thing that happened with the lawyer here misrepresenting herself. he knows more than i do about that. what i would say it seems like there is so many shady coincidences that happen to happen to hunter biden. >> dana: we have some movement on the scene here. a black s.u.v. pulled up and we expect hunter biden any moment. let's watch and see if it's him and his lawyers entering the courtroom today. bear with us for a moment, mary kathryn and andy mccarthy as we wait for this moment as hunter biden is expected to plead guilty to tax charges. there you have him. that's hunter biden entering the court there in wilmi

is - hunter biden and his dad potentially bein- hunter biden and his dad potentially being in_ hunter potentially being in legal peril.— being in legal peril. except as another issue _ being in legal peril. except as another issue with _ being in legal peril. except as another issue with regards i being in legal peril. except as another issue with regards to | being in legal peril. except as - another issue with regards to hunter biden, you talked about the president being a family man but there's been a lot of focus particularly in the new york times about his fourth child that hunter biden asked, which she is paying child support to, he's paying child support to the monday sunak mother. yet the president only talks about six grandchildren. he doesn't it recognises another grandchild. i wonder if this undermines the family man image he has cultivated. i wonder if this undermines the family man image he has cultivated.- man image he has cultivated. i don't think it does- — man image he has cultivated. i don't think it does. i— man image he has cultivated. i don't think it does. i thin

this isn't the big hunter biden story anymore. this is about the president, joe biden. hunter's business partner is set to testify before congress. miranda devine, she is telling us archer witnessed dozens of phone calls between hunter biden's foreign business partners, foreign nationals, where joe biden was looped into the meeting on a speakerphone. to impress hunter's clients and seal the deal. he swore he never once spoke to his son about his foreign business dealings. biden actively participated and lied about it to the american people over and over again as a candidate and a president. this is not a story about private citizen hunter biden. joe and hunter are tied at the hip on all of this. hunter recently lived at the white house. he got secret service detail. he got a federal motorcade and the secret service even rented a $30,000 a month house next to hunter when he lived in malibu, california. biden refuses to offer protection for robert f. kennedy jr. who is 20% in the polls despite serious threats against him and prior assassinations of his father and his uncle

he references that he knows the media calls it the hunter biden investigation, but in comer's words, it's the joe biden investigation. that says the quiet part out loud. it's something that the white house has known from the moment that republicans got the gavel here that they were going to be in the cross hairs through the lens of the president's son. and this trial that we're seeing play out in wilmington is yet another moment to give republicans to talk about the investigations into hunter biden and now it seems they'll even continue to ramp up the pressure to speak with the prosecutor in this case, david weiss as well. >> ali vitali, thank you, and thank you for breaking down the news in the last hour. we're staying on top of the hunter biden case but we have more breaking news that's going to affect millions of american families. the fed is making moves to cool inflation. how a rate hike today could affect your bottom line. we'll be right back. ct your bot. we'll be right back. who needs that much more tide? (crashing sounds) everyone's gonna need more tide. it's a mess out there

not a good day for hunter biden. tuned for more of that on fox news this afternoon. >> neil: hunter biden plea deal not a deal. not done. not even close. the drama goes on. i'm neil cavuto. fox on top of a deal that was signed, sealed, almost delivered until the judge had a problem with both sides. have you been talking to each other? shared notes with each other? because right now this is lying. what happened and what to make it with griff jenkins.

hunter biden never worked in the west wing.s not part of the inner workings of the white house at any time in the same way that jared kushner or ivanka trump were. when you look at even just the financial resources that the trump family has been the beneficiary of from questionable sources and questions about how they arranged those financial dealings, it completely dwarves anything compared to hunter biden. so the fact that they're willing to look the other way while donald trump's family has done that which they are accusing hunter biden of doing just tells everyone that there's really no substance there, that it's just political theater, that it's a 2024 mechanism, just as kevin mccarthy once said that the benghazi investigation was designed to take down hillary clinton's presidential cam pane, this is the same thing they're trying to do with hunter biden in trying to take down joe biden. it's kind of wash, rinse, repeat the republican playbook. i think it also kind of illustrates the fact that their policies, their extreme

i mean, joe biden was hunter biden's business partner. affic with hunter biden asking for keys for his father because they operated in the same office space. and a lot of this has been corroborated by this new fbi document that we have, the 1023 with the same information about how they were funneling money through different bank accounts and the issue is not hunter biden. the issue is whether, as vice president, joe biden was selling influence or changing american foreign policy for the sake of his son making the family tens of thousands of dollars, which he did and the biden administration or the obama administration was asked about it because burisma at the time was such corrupt company. >> josh, it is certainly on the political calendar an imopportune moment. full swing. not hoping to focus on hunter biden's criminality. >> the timing isn't good but marie makes a good point if voters are focused on ethics or corruption trump has a whole lot of baggage on that front as well if he is the republican nominee. look, i think biden's bigger co

burisma hired hunter biden. they have extraordinary fees and joe biden admitted that he took that action. we have to wait to see on the details, but the ukrainian prosecutor, i heard that before but i'm not seeing any details to support that. host: do you see details that there was evidence that the prosecutor was investigating burisma? guest: absolutely that is very clearly documented. the prosecutor himself said so. host: homer, shreveport, louisiana. democratic caller. caller: i am a disabled vet. i don't understand why we are raising so much jane about -- cane about hunter biden. he doesn't know nothing about the border and [indiscernible] trump got a whole bunch of [indiscernible] the republicans got a whole bunch of it to. they are not running for nothing. they ought to deal with the people. why with all this money just -- for something that is not necessary. and they will find something to deal with the public. host: ok congressman? guest: again, it is about hunter biden's activities with the vice presiden

ha work is into hunter biden. it speaks to the point that for republicans having the power of the gavel right now allows them to really equivocate between the idea that donald trump is under multiple investigations, multiple indictments as we wait for the third indictment this summer for the former president. they're trying to equivocate those tangible charges and nchgss with the investigations they are doing loosely on the house judiciary and weaponization front into hunter biden trying to connect them to president joe biden. all of this is an attempt to muddy the waters and just attach the word investigations to both candidates for the likely front runners in 2024, nevertheless, you're hearing from people like senator ron johnson who are saying they're happy about the way this plea deal has been derailed. congresswoman lauren boebert saying mark my words saying the biden crime family will go down as the most corrupt family in american political history. again, i think it's really important to underscore that eve

attorney's office could not stand by it and hunter biden removed his plea. when joe biden's department of justice and hunter biden's criminal defense attorneys sit down at a table, those are not adversaries negotiating, those are co-conspirators strategizing to pull a fast one over on the american people. i'm interested to see what the department of justice does next. i would assume, since they had a criminal defendant willing to plead guilty, they will move swiftly to a trial of hunter biden on these charges and potentially the other charges related to his crooked foreign business dealings. >> sandra: on the gun charges specifically, this was the exchange in the white house that john and i just mentioned with karine jean-pierre a few moments ago with a reporter. listen. >> president biden spent most of his political career working on gun laws, on gun reform. does he believe that someone who is charged with possessing a firearm illegally should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law? >> so, here, i'm going to be -- i think i know where this question i

that's the reason why people bought into devon archer and hunter biden. nections, no other products. it was simply joe biden and access to the white house. that's why this is one of the biggest scandals in the history of the united states' presidency. elizabeth: yeah, it is corruption on an industrial level. i mean, devon archer testifying that then-vice president biden brought the most value to the biden family brand, that the value of adding hunter biden to places like ukraine's burisma's board was the brand. >> yeah. and, look, in a previous interview even hunter biden admitted that he wouldn't have gotten these roles except that he was, the fact that he was a biden. and what is key here is to tie the flow of money. because that's what happened is, the money started flowing by the millions and millions of dollars. north of $10 million, some people have said $40 or 50 million. but that's why the department of justice is morally bankrupt. they have of this evidence. they've had the laptop for years and years and years. they've had all of this evidence, an

burisma hired hunter biden. have extraordinary fees and joe biden admitted that he took that action. we have to wait to see on the details, but the ukrainian prosecutor, i heard that before but i'm not seeing any details to support that. host: do you see details that there was evidence that the prosecutor was investigating burisma? guest: absolutely that is very clearly documented. the prosecutor himself said so. host: homer, shreveport, louisiana. democratic caller. caller: i am a disabled vet. i don't understand why we are raising so much jane about -- cane about hunter biden. he doesn't know nothing about the border and [indiscernible] trump got a whole bunch of [indiscernible] the republicans got a whole bunch of it to. they are not running for nothing. they ought to deal with the people. why with all this money just -- for something that is not necessary. and they will find something to deal with the public. host: ok congressman? guest: again, it is about hunter biden's activities with the vice president ac

hunter biden's plea deal back on. biden attorneys are in court after agreeing to a slimmed down agreement covering tax crimes, drug use, and gun possession. it follows the near collapse of the deal. let's go straight to capitol hill and manu raju. what are you hearing from lawmakers? >> reporter: republicans and democrats still taking in all of the details. many of them are in hearings and catching the news as it's ub folding by the minute. the house committee, i talked to some of the members who are focused on what's going on now in the hearing room. but the question for the house republicans is how they plan to explore and dive into this plea agreement that seems to be back on again between the president's son and the justice department. they have contended all along that this initial agreement, in their view, was a sweetheart deal. this came from a wide range of republicans on the committee, as well as others in the senate. one of the big questions will be what they plan to do about the u.s. attorney in this case,

archer was on several different business ventures with hunter biden. t watched the interview, archer told him that hunter used his dad's influence to help sell the brand. damages -- i want to play in from dan goldman. they down played the phone calls. watch this. >> like any -- many people, huntser spoke with his father every day and would often put his father occasionally on to say hello to whom over he happened to be caught at dinner with. mr. archer clarified that was sometimes people that they were having -- they were trying to do business with and sometimes friends or other social engagements. >> so over the weekend, the doj see i can't the southern district of northern published a document asking a judge to choose a sentencing date in the near feature. archer was convicted of more than a $60 million fraud scheme in february of 2022. he was sentenced to a year and a day in prison 18 months ago. republicans are saying why is doj asking for this prison date to be set now before he does this transcribed interview? jim jordan and jason smith sent a let

and marjorie taylor greene fires it up, alleging hunter biden violated the mann act, bringing prostitutes across state lines. plus, more evidence joe biden met with hunter biden's business partners despite the president's repeated denials. and biden's scary new bid to stop inflation destroying his polls, get dozens of state a.g.s, the doj, the usda, the ftc, even hud to go after grocery stores and the meat industry. and a renewed push in the nat to ban congress -- in the senate to ban congress stock trading again puts in focus the timing of trades by nancy pelosi's trades around legislation. i'm elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ ♪ elizabeth: staying on the story, veteran irs agents still testifying. two whistleblowers light up congress testifying about political abuses of power inside the doj and the fbi to protect joe biden, a case so serious and egregious it required search warrants. but the whistleblowers say doj officials blocked them and busted down multiple felonies into misdemeanors for hunter biden. edward lawrence has the update, and he's live at the whi

the white house press team is focused on diverting attention away from hunter biden's legal woes. they're all in this afternoon over what is on bidenomics. bryan llenas joins us from auburn, maine where he's covering the president this afternoon. hi, bryan. >> hi, gillian. a bullish president biden spoke from this textile factory in auburn, maine. he boasted about how bidenomics has increased gdp stronger than expected, lowered unemployment and led to more manufacturing jobs. the president signed an executive order called invent it here, make it here, which incentivizes american products and making them in the u.s. the president made clear that he believes bidenomics is a strength for his campaign, not a liability. he took a shot at republicans. >> earlier this week, the "washington post" suggested republicans may have to find something else to criticize me for. now that inflation is coming down. maybe they'll decide to impeach me because it's coming down. i don't know. i love that one. >> but harvard economist larry summers blamed biden's policies for 40-year high inflation is cal

the only thing it says about it hunter biden was sitting with his father. it does not say anything about discussing any business. mr. shapley you also set a new testimony that the agents were t prohibited from suing leads related to joe biden in the bigeye in the agents did that anyway. they were interviewing rob walker all. >> they did not use the word bigeye but they asked about it in the text. >> to recall rob walker actually said in response to that he was not aware joe biden was ever a part of anything that he and hunter were doing. >> that's what the witness said. >> then you describe the lunch what we talked t about earlier where joe biden came to say hello at the four seasons hotel to lunch he was having with csc executives. what you did not talk about is what rob walker said the origination of the lunch was. and you testified that hunter told his dad i may be trying to start a company are trying to do something with these guys. >> let me ask you something that doesn't sound like joe biden was involved in whatever hunter biden was doing with the eoc

> polling backs up that viewpoint, most americans don't really care with what's happening with hunter bidenigations into the biden family overshadowing the presidential campaign and you're heading into iowa later tonight and tomorrow's annual lincoln dinner which a number of republican hopefuls including donald trump are expected to attend. >> yeah, that's a big deal. so so far we've seen a few of these combats, cattle calls if you will where although republican candidates have been there for the most part, a lot of times they've been spread across two days and this is all the field minus chris christie essentially skipping iowa. he knows it's not worth his time is literally what his campaign says, minus him they're all going to be there. they're all going to be on separate rooms in the back to, i guess, avoid any awkward interactions. both trump and desantis will be there. we'll have everyone else there. this is really a time, i guess, to read the room and to see how people who attend state party events in iowa, because it is a sold out crowd, you know, 1,550 or so people, how they're goin

not a good day for hunter biden. stay tuned for more of that on fox news this afternoon. >> neil: hunter biden plea deal not a deal. not done. not even close. the drama goes on. i'm neil cavuto. fox on top of a deal that was signed, sealed, almost delivered until the judge had a problem with both sides. have you been talking to each other? shared notes with each other? because right now this is lying. what happened and what to make it with griff jenkins. it fill apart so fast. what happened? >> it did. good afternoon. what was remarkable, i've covered court cases for years. i have never witnessed anything like this. we watched this plea deal fall apart. mind you, this is a pretty simple tax evasion case, two misdemeanor charges. but i'd did fall apart indeed. there was confusion, contention. hunter biden left not happy. did not for did his legal team talk to our cameras. we're also getting the only sketches because there's no cameras inside. we didn't bring our phones in there to drop information out. we saw the judg

they are trying very much to move beyond hunter biden. they realize they have beaten that issue to death and they are trying to move to joe biden and link him to some of the deals because they think maybe that is the thing that could get this to break out of the right wing cul-de-sac. amy: last question. the headline of the piece you cowrote, "what does the fbi have on hunter and joe biden?" ryan: that was about this 1023 document that was all the rage on the right and that chuck grassley has since released publicly. this is a document that the fbi produces when somebody comes to them with information. you could produce a 1023 later today if you call the fbi and said you had information. it doesn't mean the information is verified, and it doesn't include any analysis. what it was, was a confidential human source saying they had met with a senior official, and that senior official said that hunter biden was basically shaking them down for extra money, claiming that he was splitting his fee with joe biden. the problem, even if you believe th

hunter biden is not the issue and republicans shouldn't go after hunter biden. on that matters is the president. the president misled the country, i call it a lie when he said he never discussed business with his son. the other question did president biden financially benefit from the deals? we know from texts, records and statements made by former business partners that president biden did financially benefit. so hunter biden equals evidence. he equals texts and phone calls and photos. that is what republicans need to focus on. evidence that ties to joe biden, not the son's behavior, but the son as proof of what is tied to joe biden. that's where this investigation must go. >> harris: it's interesting. why would that plea deal put immunity information so far down? one of my guest said page 15. why would they want to shield him from the phone calls and text messages looking into republicans on the hill, what happened behind the scenes with the president and were we as a country compromised because of any of those deals? on the republican side good news for donald

at the time, hunter biden was on the board of burisma. kickback scheme right then and there and jake sullivan was speaking on behalf of joe biden on his plane. that is what i witnessed and i told that to the fbi and they have not acted on it, i sent that information to david weiss. they are doing an investigation and i said, i know of an instance where joe biden and hunter biden collaborated in a kickback scheme. they did not want to hear about it. >> todd: despite what you said and universe of evidence out there, dems continuing to beat the drum that there is no evidence. take a listen. >> would you support impeachment inquiry into president biden's involvement in his son's business deals? >> no, we are investigating this on this committee with hunter biden, there is no real evidence that the president was involved. >> no showing of president biden engaged in any wrongdoing, why would we want to impeach him when there is no wrongdoing? >> not that democrats don't have evidence, republicans don't have evident and want to impeach without ev

deal. >> hunter biden is a criminal. there's no doubt about it. >> that tells you the court has serious concerns about other potential charges here and also the scope of the deal which seemed outrageous from the beginning. >> would you support an impeachment inquiry into president biden. >> no. >> hunter biden's legal woes critics al seq. ler rate the push for impeachment inquiry. >> why would we want to impeach him. >> they want to do impeachment without evidence. >> it's absurd. seems impeach joe for participating. >> the crane's boom fell 45 stories and the 65 tons of concrete it was carrying broke off. nobody was seriously injured. >> this could have been much worse. >> the federal reserve raising key interest rates by a quarter percentage points. the 11th hike since march of last year. pushing them to the highest level in 22 years. >> we can afford to be a little patient as this unfolds. >> do we have the bodies of the pilots. >> biologics came. >> has something to hide even a spacecraft. >> human or nonhuman. >> no

attorney's office blocked or at least slow-walked the investigation into hunter biden. w, courtesy of the house oversight's committee's investigation we now know that at least one top attorney in david weiss' office had close, personal and professional ties to the biden family. huh meet alexander mackler a 2014 grad of william and mary law school. the school reports mackler's linkedin page appears he has spent years working in the delaware's attorney's office including the months when whistleblowers in the office took up an investigation of hunter biden. but was he really that close to the bidens? i mean, come on. i mean, this is just not at all. he was just the press secretary for senator joe biden. he has just the legal counsel for v.p. joe biden and in 2010 he was only the manager of the late beau biden's for delaware's a.g. all before joining weiss' office as they were kicking off the investigation into hunter biden and it gets even better. mackler worked on the biden-harris transition team in 2020 and he even helped the biden administration create its, wait for it,

after a tumultuous day in court, hunter biden left with no plea deal, after a federal judge said she not ready to accept it. joe biden's son arrived in federal court today prepared to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and to strike a deal to avoid a felony gun charge. after a five-year justice department probe, it was predicted he would emerge unscathed. >> i'm 100% certain that at the end of the investigation, i will be cleared of any wrongdoing. >> reporter: instead, the judge wanted to know if the investigation was over. prosecutors told her it was ongoing. then the two sides could not agree if hunter biden was at risk of additional charge it is he took this deal with. that, the deal was derailed. eventually, hunter biden's team agreed he was not shielded from further charges, and the deal seemed, for a moment, back on track. but then the judge raised questions about the gun deal. is this even constitutional, she asked? and she said she was not ready to sign off on the deal. the hearing ended with hunter biden pleading not guilty. the courtroom drama providing another ope

but it's a headache for hunter biden and a headache for president biden as well.risten: i want to ask you, to what extent do voters look at the families as a whole? there are certainly democrats saying, hunter biden is not on the ballot, which is absolutely true. those of us who have children know that we can't control everything our kids do. but to what extent do you think voters do somewhat hold the parents somewhat responsible or at least influence how they view the person if their child was going through something like this? >> i think most voters who have children recognize that you can't control them after a certain age. so what hunter did in his adulthood was not something that president biden as a dead control -- dad could control. was there any influence imposed by the president or influence attempted to be imposed by hunter? that is something we will have to wait and see about. i would also point out that when you look at jared kushner and how he left the white house, and then was able to have a $3 billion fund with the saudis, when you look back at jama

hunter biden may have jinxed the deal. jason smith filed a brief with the judge, entering into evidence irs whistle-blower testimony. are you really going to let this guy off easy? his attorney called the courthouse clerk today and pretended to be a republican attorney and told the clerk, loops, we did not mean to file that whistle-blower stuff, can you strike that from the record? hunter biden's lawyer made a phony phone call to the court and tried to remove the whistle-blower testimony. he called and impersonated the opposing lawyer. this is a republican attorney chris clark -- never mind, that brief, that was an accident. good day. was this his sugar brothers i idea? this sounds like the caper you cook up when you are on cocaine. we should call the court house and pretend we are the other lawyer. democrats call this a clown show and hunter biden's lawyers are making prank calls two of the judge. you can get disbarred for that. this is so brazen. he thinks he can get away with anything or his legal team is panicked and h

if hunter biden has broken the law he should be held accountable. i don't think he is being differently any different than anyone else. never any evidence that joe biden has compromised his office. >> now again, the agenda for today four hours of this closed-door transcribed interview. one hour for republicans. one hour for the democrats. back to the republicans and back to the democrats. we aren't expecting many members to be here today. i was told that jim jordan, the chair of the judiciary commission who would lead a potential impeachment inquiry that he will be here and in 3 or 4 days we expect to get a transcript of this interview. dana. >> dana: chad pergram on the hill. thank you. >> bill: that sets the plate for us now. who is devon archer, the former best friend of hunter biden. he claims that then v.p. biden was on the phone with hunter biden during some of these foreign business calls including the alleged speakerphone conversations that happened, according to some, often. back in 2018 as chad just referred convicted on two fell fees for d

and hunter biden's lawyers over a gun charge.deal, straightforward, not so much. let's bring in democratic senator from nevada now, jacky rosen, a member of the senate arms services committee. i have a lot i want to talk to you about. let's start on the breaking news today. you're reaction to hunter biden's not guilty plea? >> thank you for having me today. and what i want to say is this, nobody is above the law. and there's a trump-appointed prosecutor. we know the department of justice. i feel confident that they're going to have a fair and thorough process, and we'll see that through to the end. but what i'm really concerned about and i know what we're going to talk about is we're going to start voting on the national defense authorization bill this evening. we're going to talk about the safety and security of our nation and that senator tuberville and his extreme views are putting our nation at risk by holding up key military promotions across every single branch of service from his extreme views for not wanting women to trav

but this is another solicitation from hunter biden, and he refers to the bidens, plural, and they are best at doing what the chairman wants. i think that's very concerning to our committee because this is a chinese communist party owned entity. this is of concern to our national security, and i did not know, in closing, if you had any information with respect to that, there appeared >> with respect to those messages, it was something we needed to follow up on, and that was one of the major deviations, that investigators asked to follow to take some investigative steps to review vet, and it just was not supported. further delving into what that means, i simply cannot do. >> i can promise you we are not going to stop until we understand what he fully meant by a bad message to a chinese communist party official. >> can i say something about that? thank you for that question. there was a long what that message contained in that that was only a portion of it, so what we can do or go back, turn that over to the committee. they can vote to release it, and then that information can be availab