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now, if i got in trouble i would hire abby lowell. having said that it's got to pass the smell test and do you really think that the prosecutors are going to stand up in court on the fly and say, we want to give this guy immunity the rest of his life as if that was something they decided to do on their own and the defense wasn't going to accept it? i mean it just makes absolutely no sense. what the protestors cures did was they gave him immunity for everything. so, what's the point of the special counsel? and yet we appoint in guy or joe biden appoints this guy special counsel. abby lowell is convinced there will be no new evidence. i don't know how lowell knows that because they're finding new bank accounts but the truth is that at least donald trump with the mueller special counsel went outside of the government and it involved him. it involved him and the idea of his being a putin puppet or russian asset. joe biden would never go outside of the government and get a mueller to investigate himself and his son. so joe biden insisted o

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 agreement inside the courtroom in wilmington, delaware. david weiss is the special counsel investigating the case. he just sat in the courtroom a few feet away from hunter biden and was prepared to enter into this plea deal. the case will move toward trial in washington, d.c., california or both. that filing from hunter biden's team came out on sunday and the j

abby lowell, by the way, there's no smarter guy in washington that abby lowell.her he will be a witness or not, he fumbled the deal okay? they inserted the real deal, 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 w

abby lowell, a power house d.c. attorney that represented bill clinton, jared kushner is on the case officially. he's been involved in other matters involving the president's son. 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

and we will be back with hunter biden's lawyer, abbe lowell, in one minute. so stay with us.ash.com, online auctions since 2009. this playstation 5 sold for only 50 cents. this ipad pro sold for less than $34. and this nintendo switch, sold for less than $20. i got this kitchenaid stand mixer for only $56. i got this bbq smoker for 26 bucks. and shipping is always free. go to dealdash.com right now and see how much you can save. >>> joining us now is hunter biden's attorney abbe lowell. good to have you here in person. >> it's nice to be here. >> so let's start with why this plea kdeal hit the impasse. >> if you read about what happened on july the 26th or were in court, you have to ask yourself why. and there are only a few possibilities. remember, it were the prosecutors who came forward and asked if there was a resolution possible. they're in charge of figuring out the form, the document, and the language. they did that. and so the possibilities are only, one, they wrote something and weren't clear what they meant, two, they knew what they meant and misstated it to counsel

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host: we have plenty of calls waiting for hugo lowell. let's go to new york city on the independent line. caller: good morning. i have a quick comment and a question. my comment is it's the scheme, because a lot of people believe this is the effect of the attack on the capital but what jack smith is looking at as the scheme. he is trying to nullify the trump victory and with an elaborate scheme with attorneys like rudy giuliani who i believe is one of the co-conspirators. in terms of, i have a question. donald trump is looking at probably, if you look at the charges come he's looking at life in prison considering he is almost 80 years old. the question that i would have to you is, jack smith, the doj would have many witnesses as well as evidence that has not yet been presented. they don't bring cases like this loosely and the question i would have is because i heard your guest say this might go all the way up to assist the supreme court. most likely, the appellate court would rule in favor of the prosecution assuming the prosecution wins.

and hugo lowell is a reporter in -- at the guardian.ing up, we go to tennessee to speak with democratic state lawmaker justin jones. he was expelled earlier this year and then reelected by voters for protesting gun violence at the capitol. this week, republican lawmakers attempted to ban the public from bringing science into the capitol around a special hearing on gun violence. stay with as. -- stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: "make you proud" by madeleine kelson. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we end today's show in tennessee, where the republican-dominated legislature started a hectic special session this week on guns and public safety. this comes amid mounting anger in the wake of the covenant school shooting in nashville in march, which killed three children and three adults. as hundreds of protesters rallied at the state capitol to demand lawmakers take action to stop gun violence, republicans started the session monday by imposing a ban on signs. this led to a dramatic confr

this was something that abbe lowell was asked about earlier today. >> hunter biden went to georgetown the board of directors of a bank, was on the board of directors of amtrak. this is somebody who went and worked at an international law firm. people forget that this is not the person who's simply out there having people write no checks for no reason. people have been doing this for millenia. and the most important point is that it's not improper and it's not illegal. >> it is very washington, though, and we should make clear there has been no direct tie to the current president at this point. no investigation has shown that. but the idea of -- you had the last name and therefore you do x, y, or z or you're retained for x, y, and z amount of money. >> abbe lowell is on hunter biden's attorney. what they are concerned about now is that this is still an ongoing issue in the u.s. legal system. this is something that i think what is the most frustrating part for them, what we've heard from them is that they thought this was about to be resolved. hunter biden walked into court to have his

hugo lowell, political investigations reporter with the guardian.me now is the former democratic congresswoman val demings of florida. she previously served as the house manager during trump's first impeachment. she is now an executive fellow at the bipartisan policy center. great to see you again. thank you for being with us this morning. i have been wanting to talk to you because you have been involved in how this has all gone down. and now, to see both of these charges, the federal charges, the jack smith case, and then the much bigger 98-page georgia conspiracy indictment, i want to get your sense of how this is all playing out, and whether you think these charges make sense given everything that you know about what happened on january 6th? >> well, good morning. it is good to be back with you. and, look, to even think about a former president of the united states facing four indictments, to be facing charges under the racketeering statute, that was unimaginable until donald trump and his enablers came along. i remember when we were complicating

we begin this morning with their first guest, hugo lowell, the political investigation reporter withuardian. joining us this morning before the arraignment later today. thanks for making time to come in this morning. you have covered a number of the cases, the january 6 cases

jeff: i think it was still lowell -- stanley lowell if you had to do this to the enemy how would you operate? alone, on the sole mission and what he say? john: when level was v.a. to bush. she gave a couple of his aides a test and he said if you were stranded on an enemy beach and there were guards he needed to take out. what weapon would you want to have with you? he walks around washington dc thinking about the weapon and he submits an answer which is silence, fleshless pistol and they thought that's what you would need. that is one of the weapons that they create and it turned out to be useful. this pistol created during world war ii the messiah used it for several seconds. jeff where their silencers on weapons? john: yeah, the early months. 0 this is for janet and john. does your protagonist continue after the war and if not, how do they adapt going to civilian life? janet: after marguerite went to russia where she was in prison 10 months. she went on to the far east and she was in japan where the japanese wanted her to spy on the chinese. the chinese wanted her to spy on the rus

. >> john: hunter has swapped out his lead attorney with abby lowell. david, appears the two sides are growing further and further apart on this. >> very far apart, john and gillian. it's amazing, not even three weeks ago on july 26th in wilmington, david weiss was sitting feet away from hunter biden and his attorneys, things were cordial, at least at the beginning getting ready to enter the plea deal, now things have fallen apart and growing further apart. the filing that just came in, david weiss says first the government did not reneg on the previously signed plea agreement as he asserts. hunter biden's attorney's says the gun charge, he was accused of lying on a federal form is valid, it was signed by both parties. the defendant, his attorneys say they have a binding and bilateral diversion agreement. weiss's team says it's not valid, even though it was signed as biden's attorneys suggest. and to reiterate the withdrawn agreement is not in effect. and chris clark was the chief architect of the plea deal when it fell through in open court. lowell, so

jonathan, what we heard on sunday from hunter biden's lawyer abbe lowell who i'm sure have you knownn the d.c. area for a long time. a great lawyer. when hunter biden would call his dad and put his dad on speaker phone, that was what a loving father would do. and i thought about that question because peter doocy asked the president about hey, when you would get your dad on the-when you would talk to hunter on the speaker phone, about business and he goes i never talked about business. well, now abbe lowell is admitting that joe biden and hunter biden talked to his business associates on the speaker phone. >> i agree with abby when my children fleece foreign i always get on the phone. >> ainsley: beach house in delaware. >> you know. the problem here is the moving of the goal post. you know, and the contrast is, of course, extraordinary. trump is being indicted for everything short of ripping a mattress label off. >> brian: that's next. >> yet, the department much justice seems to be waiting for a virtual confession from the president in order to bring an indictment. it's a very weird

abbe lowell an attorney for hunter in unrelated case walked up to david weiss and his team and said,uote: 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 through gracious offerings of eric meaning eric shearn have paid for the last 11 years. according to our digital team original laptop as we have been reporting continue to remain in federal custody. bret. >> bret: all right, david. thank you. up next presidential candidat

leading off our discussion tonight, hugo lowell, who covers donald trump and the justice department for the guardian. he was at the courthouse here in d.c. for today's hearing. hugo, great to see you. what was your impression of judge chutkan's first hearing in this case? >> i think that theme was no nonsense and no politics, and the judge made that very clear throughout the course of the hearing. the one thing she kept returning to was, you know, trump is now a criminal defendant. just because he is choosing to run a campaign does not mean that supersedes his requirement that he abide by a protective order or abide by his release conditions so that he won't be engaging -- my chill will rise to the level of witness intimidation. you saw this reflected in the order she handed down. she did grant and the trump lawyers request to have sensitive material kind of support in a kind of bucket as opposed to non sensitive material, which he can't disclose. -- he could disclosed to such an extent that it's difficult to really see it as a win for trump at all, in fact i think most points the speci

joining me now is hugo lowell, political investigations reporter for the guardian.so good to see you, my friend. good morning. your latest reporting, hugo, is about how some of trump's allies and georgia could potentially be indicted along with him. i was just talking about that with respect to it being a legal case. what can you tell us about who these people are, and the roles they played with respect to the election interference scheme? >> so, the case in georgia is again a particularly expansive based on everyone we spoke to adjacent to the fulton county d.a.'s office. by the sounds of it, there's gonna be a case in rico. but there's gonna be a bunch of stand-alone crimes. the difference in georgia, some of the stand-alone crimes led can be indicted separately, they are also what we call qualifying crimes under the rico act, then that can be forwarded into a racketeering case as well. what we are trying to see is one of the biggest qualifying crimes that exist in georgia, continue to trespass, could be one of the crimes that voted trump and is love alice can be

i think lowell has a point. he has been investigated for five years.ot the case, all right. but we assume that we included the 2014, '15 possible violations and they decided not to bring them. if nothing new has merged in terms of facts and the law and the new special counsel has decided to bring new charges when the one thing that has transpired was this sort of political maelstrom that it was a sweetheart deal, it feels as if this is not the way special counsels are supposed to work. it doesn't feel politically insulated. in fact, it feels politically fraught. so i think the big question is will weiss now try to bring new and different charges even when they had been. you're right. there was this, it's a kind of a cliche. the investigation is continuing but the sense on all sides was this really had wrapped it up and if that's now being unwrapped with no new facts or law, it's a little unsettling. >> and harry, i think chuck rosenberg, your colleague, and fellow contributor was questioning whether the special counsel was necessary in the case. he sai

. >> reporter: we caught up with her on the courts at lowell park in west oakland. the celebration over the weekend with zendaya, the actress who helped update the site. >> i know how beautiful the people are in this city and we do deserve to have nice things. >> reporter: mariah was the women's premier basketball association's player of the year. she's proud to be part of a league that brings together diverse and talented women. >> a lot of us have lives outside basketball when for so long it was basketball and then everything else. >> reporter: as the city prepares to lose another professional franchise, she's honored to help keep the community cheering on impressive athletes, giving them one more reason to have pride in where they live. >> the fact that this is happening now, this is what our ancestors prayed for. so to be part of that, to have been a district attorney in this county, to serve the people directly and now be able to grow that footprint even more i know is a part of my call. >> would love to see them. >>> that's it for the news at 5:00. cbs news ba

we want to continue our conversation with hunter biden's attorney abbe lowell.et's pick up on where we left off before the break. >> because i know we were a little rushed. so, to answer your question squarely, people should keep in mind that while mr. weiss' title changed last week, he's the same person he's been for the last five years. he's a republican u.s. attorney appointed by a republican president and attorney general who had career prosecutors working this case for five years looking at every transaction that hunter was involved in. so whether it was tax or the gun or possible any other charge, if anything changes from his conclusion, which was two tax misdemeanors and a diverted gun charge, the question should be asked what infected the process that was not the facts in the law. >> or new evidence. are you confident your client won't face new criminal charges? >> i'm confident that if this prosecutor has done what has been done for the last five years, then the only conclusion can be what the conclusion was on july 26th. it's new evidence. there's no n

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harvard acknowledges it is ashamed that in 1920, one of the presidents, ent lowell, decided there were too many jews and they were go start asking questions on the application that would allow them to take into effect character. the notion that bears at all on the way harvard's t admissions process, which uses a 40 person admissions committee that meets and decides each application and discussion has any resemblance whatsoever to the racist, anti-semitic polic of a single harvard president, is insubstantial, as the courts >> o aut the amicus brief and to autarvard, there are multiple amicus briefs filed by asian american organizations and one that is particularly i think powerful, filed by 1240 scholars of asian american experience and hnicity. alof whom not only opined but ci studies showing that asian americans as a group repses the world's population -- with respect to harvard, to say t was evidence in the case is an understatement. the distourt found -- i'm quoting pagof the joint appendix and it is reiterated by e court of appeals on page 80 there was no evidence ofhat discriminat

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not impeachment but an inquiry and i think that would do well in the courts but we know that abby lowell, hunter biden attorney wraps up the house of representatives in court as quickly as possible and the house given the moves over the last couple of days has got to go and have a the vote on the floor of the house. is there going to be an impeachment and i think that's going to be compelling by a judge to enforce a subpoena by saying the house is needing to investigate these things. >> folks in the republican majority, slight as it is are citing things for which joe biden and jim jordan in the house judiciary committee and not early intervention program peachment hearings -- impeachment hearing ands why not do it the right way and the democrat didn't do it and president trump the first time around and they didn't do it that way and why not investigate first and charge later. >> the consent of the requirement in the constitution and that's a senate prerogative, but edwin piece, the former attorney general wrote eloquently for the heritage foundation saying there's a so equal opportunity

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we know lowell, the hunter biden attorney will wrap up the house of representatives in court as quickly as possible. i think the house, given move over last couple days issue has got to go vote on the floor of the house. is there going to be impeachment inquiry? i think that would be compelling to a judge to enforce a subpoena by saying the house needs to investigate these things. >> trey: all right, you raise a fascinating point, difference between filing articles of impeachment, be clear, folks in maj majority are citing things for which alejandro mayorkas or fill in the blank need to be impeached and jim jordan have not had impeachment investigation hearings, have they? i get democrats didn't do that with president trump last time around. why not investigate first and charge later? >> jason: i agree with most of what you are saying, finish the investigation, that is why you do impeachment inquiry. there is consent requirement in the constitution. edwin meis, former attorney general, wrote for heritage foundation and said there is co-equal opportunity to appoint somebody and to dismis

take a listen to abby lowell one of hunter biden's attorneys. he spoke last night with kaitlan collins. >> it should not change the outcome. who could say they have been the subject of such a painstaking investigation looking at every nook and cranny in which the conclusion was two tax misdemeanors and a gun case to turn into anything else? there's been no evidence or fact that wasn't uncovered a week ago that will be uncovered tomorrow. >> so, in his view, nothing is really changing. i got to tell you, fred, a lot has changed. if they cannot reach a plea deal, then a trial may be in order. instead of misdemeanors, it could be felonies, a much more serious situation for hunter biden. fred. >> thank you so much. so this new twist in the hunter biden investigation means his case could stretch on for months and could complicate his father's reelection bid. let's bring in priscilla alvarez at the white house. the white house didn't get a heads-up this move was about to happen. what has been the response? >> reporter: the white house did not receive

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. >> aishah: that is hunter biden's attorney, abby lowell, dismissing concerns over his client's business dealings saying it's too hard to explain. special counsel make headway in their investigations, nothing but crickets in the biden documents probe. any major developments at all in that case? >> i spoke to a source, aishah, who says robert herr was at the justice department for meetings, not unusual but notable given this high profile investigation into a sitting president. remember, he is the man looking into classified documents found at multiple properties connected to president biden. the penn biden center in d.c. and in wilmington home in garage, these comments in january. >> i think you are going to find nothing there, no regrets, following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do, exactly what we are doing. there's no there there. >> they were found near his corvette. meanwhile, there are reports that herr's team is negotiating a sit-down interview with the president, perhaps signalling the big interview, usually toward the end of the probe. the president and his son hav

they intimidated every one of our witnesses, the biden legal team, abby lowell and company have morehan crossed the line of witness intimidation. you saw what the legal team did in the delaware court, trying to intimidate another person to take something off of the web site. there's example after example of obstruction but laura we're going to continue to move forward with this investigation. >> laura: yeah. the question is, what are they trying to hide and, you know, trying to -- i think everyone knows what this is, even if there's not a check that went to joe biden, whether expenses were covered for his home or he's just happy his son is getting all this money. i mean, we all kind of know what this is. but, congressman, we look forward to that testimony and i's going to give you the heisman not going to do it but we look forward to it anyway. congressman thank you >> joe biden's true priorities, what are they? are they on the home front or somewhere else? my angle discusses that. you don't want to miss it next. for colon cancer.♪ ♪it's time to use my voice,♪ ♪i've got a choice, mor

. >> joining me for an exclusive interview is one of hunter biden's attorneys, abby lowell.nk you for being here. when did you find out about the attorney general's announcement? >> i think all of us found out about the time you found out which was somewhere between midmorning and the time the attorney general spoke and while we didn't know that was going to happen given what was happening it wasn't a surprise to see where it went from here. >> i am assuming what you are referencing is how the legal team and david weiss are trying to privately negotiate a plea deal. were you surprised that trent fall asked to be made special counsel in the middle of that? >> i think the point of surprise, not quite right. here's what people should focus on, caitlin. what happened today as a practical matter is not much different than what was the case yesterday or three weeks from before. the attorney general and mr. weiss have been set for weeks. he had all the authority he needed to bring any charge that was merited at any time that was appropriate in any place that made sense. and so, the

counsel for hunter biden abbe lowell, thank you so much.d? >> i think the last thing to say is you started your segment by pointing out that the judge the to do what he did in delaware which was to dismiss the two misdemeanor tax charges the late filing for what we call there's no venue. but i think what people then who leave this segment today ought to remember is that if the special counsel were to do anything now other than refile those same tax misdemeanors in a jurisdiction that has venue, then people should ask themselves the following question. after five years and all the things that were investigated, if anything changes in what happens next, then people should ask if has to be something other than the facts or the law that has been infecting the process at this point. >> all right, abbe lowell, thank you so much. appreciate you being here. jonathan lemire, i've got to give the right credit, the trump right credit. they have played the refs masterfully on this, constantly saying hunter biden, hunter biden, hunter biden. and we've t

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one of hunter biden's attorneys, abby lowell, was on news shows over the weekend where he was asked about going to trial on it. he was on cbs "face the nation" yesterday. here is what he said in response to that question. >> it's not inevitable. >> you're trying to avoid one? >> yes, we were trying to avoid one all along, and so were the prosecutors who came forward to us and were the ones to say, can there be a resolution short of a prosecution. they wanted it, and maybe they still do want it. >> so biden's lawyers there saying they are still interested in a plea deal. of course, with weiss elevated to special counsel, that indicates a decision or potential negotiation on that seems now a bit far from now versus how we seemed so close to a deal just last month. jim. >> and now it's a special counsel investigation. kara scannell in new york, thanks so much. >>> next, an update on evan gershkovich, the american held in russia. the u.s. ambassador meeting with him today. >>> the connection between air pollution and dementia when cnn returns. what do we always say, son? liberty mutual custom

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 the first gop primary debate that will air ott fox news. here you can see former president trump leads the pack by a wide margin. for endorsements by elected officials and the clear frontrunner in the overall power rankings. joining us for a deeper dive jessica tarlov and kayleigh mcenany, nice to have you both here. the first power rankings. it shows you wha

but i want to play for you what one of the lead attorneys for hunter biden, abbey lowell, what he told colleague kaitlan collins last night. take a listen. >> it should not change the outcome. who could say that they have been the subject of such a painstaking investigation, looking at every nook and cranny, in which a conclusion was two tax misdemeanors and a diverted gun case, to turn into anything else, there's been no evidence or fact that wasn't uncovered a week ago, that will be uncovered tomorrow. >> so he's basically saying that nothing changed but i'll tell you something huge that changed. this case went from a likely plea deal to a possible trial, and they are adversaries now, more charges could be on the table, and everything is different. and here we go. >> if i remember correctly, you are in the courtroom the day this plea deal fell apart, and so this will be a lot to watch, and i know you will be watching it for us. >> thank you very much. >>> the judge presiding over donald trump's election case is setting broupd ris when it comes to what he can and cannot talk about pub

>> look, abbe lowell is very well respected in the white collar community. of course he's going to advocate for his qulint. but don't take my word for it. i mean, this looked lenient going into that plea agreement meeting. but the judge herself kicked it out. she asked the prosecutor, apparently on the spot, have you ever done anything like this before? the prosecutor had to admit, no, i haven't. so i think they went too far. i think they should have been prepared to answer questions. they were clearly unprepared to answer. so you asked what do you think hunter biden, what was going through his head? probably frustrated because clearly his ron artest and the prosecutors were not ready to answer the judge's skeptical questions. that's when she said, i'm not comfortable with this. >> it was a remarkable hearing. the issues that came up were predictable, right? and we are all familiar with plea hearings that fall apart. they don't ever, in my humble experience, fall apart on legal issues that the lawyers could have anticipated. it's usually because a defendant

. >> brian: here is abbe lowell yesterday. >> ainsley: hunter's attorney. >> brian: spoke on friday night, which i found fascinating too. listen to this. >> i'm confident that if this prosecutor does what has been con for the last five years, look at the facts, the evidence, and the law, then the only conclusion can be what the conclusion was on july 26th. it's new evidence. there is no new evidence to be found. what matters is the facts and the evidence. the facts and the evidence that have been pursued by however members of the staff and media looking for any possible connection has shown time and time again it doesn't exist. if the most people that are criticizing the biden family is that when the president calls his son every day and it goes on the speaker phone he says hello to the people in the room, that is not an offense. that is nothing other than a loving father. >> brian: exactly. 20 times over 10 years minimum calling into business deals on going. three times in particular show up in person. he is just saying i love you, dad. and by the way who that kag. >> ainsley: i love to

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his new attorney abbe lowell writing this based on recent developments it appears that the negotiationnd 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 monday, the former president is going to drop it out at bedminster, which is his golf resort just to the west of new york city. and

announcement from the attorney general, merrick garland, today is one of hunter biden's attorneys, abby lowell. abby, thank you for being here tonight. first, when did you find out about the attorney general's announcement today? did you have any idea this was coming? >> i think all of us found out about the time you all started finding out, which is somewhere between mid-morning and the time the attorney general spoke. while we didn't know that was going to happen, given what's happened in the case, it wasn't a surprise there would be some announcement to see where this case and the investigation would go from here. >> i'm assuming what you're referencing is how hunter biden's legal team and david weiss were still privately trying to negotiate a plea deal this week. i mean, were you surprised that david weiss asked to be made special counsel in the middle of that? >> i think, you know, the point of surprise, not quite right. here's what people should focus on, kaitlan, that what happened today, as a practical matter, is not much different than what was the case yesterday or three weeks from b

and one of hunter biden's attorneys, abbe lowell, was on cbs yesterday and he was asked if a trial is >> and you're trying to avoid one? >> yes. we were trying to avoid one all along, and so were the prosecutors who came forward to us and were the ones to say can there be a resolution short of a prosecution. so they wanted it, and maybe they still do want it. >> reporter: jim, it remains to be seen if prosecutors will get there at some point. but as of friday they said they were at an impasse. this elevation of special counsel certainly does not lead you to think that this investigation is going to wrap anytime soon. jim? >> we know you'll be watching. kara scannell, thank you so much. boris. >>> now to some of the other headlines we're watching this hour. officials are trying to figure out what caused a huge explosion in a neighborhood outside pittsburgh. a blast that killed five people and injured three others. three homes were destroyed with at least a dozen more damaged. a doorbell camera captured the apparent moment of the blast. officials say this is at least the third time in 1