judge there would be defense motions filed surrounding the plea agreement hunter biden previously had with the government which was, of course, rejected last summer by a judge in delaware. lowell said we had a resolution in delaware and then things happened. it is an unusual situation when the government says you don t have a contract and we say we do. prosecutor leahwise replied to that there is a threshold question whether any of that matters. pleas fall apart all the time. now the judge set a trial date of june 20th which, depending on the length of the trial, could potentially mean, bill, that president biden will be heading to his party s august presidential nominating convention around the same time his son heads to prison if, of course, he is found guilty. bill: that would be a split screen. thank you, jonathan hunt in l.a. appreciate the report, thank you.
well, i think it s consistent with the war powers resolution under which the president has the authority to conduct military action abroad in two situation. one, when congress declares war, which the democrats are referring to in this case. the second case, which they are failing to remember, is in the case of a national emergency created by attacks upon the united states, its territories or possessions or its armed forces. and in this case, the war powers resolution requires merely that the president notify congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action. so i disagree. i think the president in this case has the authority given our armed forces have come under consistent attack. i m glad he used that authority. we should debate the best approach in congress going forward so we can restore deterrents. bill: the houthis were considered a terrorist group when the trump administration was in the white house and that all changed when president biden took control.
had a leak. they claimed five people died, six injured. critics say the aggression won t stop until the u.s. goes after targets inside iran. moreover biden s decision to remove the houthis from the foreign terrorist list have hurt the u.s. ability to respond. does the president have any regrets over delisting the houthis as a terror organization? i ve already said we re going to review that decision. we are. i ve said it a couple of weeks ago that we were going to take a look at that decision and we still are. the houthis are still holding captive the crew of a commercial vessel galaxy leader since november 19th. it is being used as a tourist attract shuchblt people can take selfies and stomp on american
we have said this time and time and time again. and to deter the proxies themselves by hitting them will not be sufficient. we have got to go after iran. dana: all this unfolding while the head of our military defense, secretary lloyd austin, is hospitalized. abc news reporting president biden and austin first met to discuss these strikes on january 1st. that was the same day austin was admitted to the icu. congressman mike gallagher is here with reaction. let s begin with an update from the white house. jacque heinrich is there. good morning. president biden signed off on this action on tuesday after the houthis left the final warning that the u.s. issued last week launching a complex attack on commercial vessels including american ships to date. it was one of 27 such attacks which the president says, quote, endangered u.s. personnel,
view of that today. jonathan, hello, good morning. good morning. it with as a relatively short first appearance for hunter biden in this case. he was in the courtroom for about 40 minutes. unlike the circus we saw surrounding the president s son on capitol hill earlier this week, this time the younger biden stayed away from the many cameras that were present outside the court, driven by his secret service escort into an underground parking lot and whisked up to the 7th floor courtroom of the federal courthouse in downtown l.a. where from my position in court, which was just a few feet from him, he appeared serious and at the same time about as relaxed as anyone could be as he said firmly not guilty when asked about the nine tax-related charges he faces that could result in a 17 year prison sentence. in a preview of what s likely to be a central argument as this case moves forward, biden s attorney abby lowell told the