Lucas has more from delaware. 11 warships in all. InterNational Waters off the coast of alaska early last week. The largest in u. S. History. There was no reaction between the chinese warships that a spokesman went on to say in a statement to fox north come acty monitored the naval patrol that operated near alaska early last week. Aaron maritime assets under our command conducted operations to make sure that the defense of the United States and canada that patrol ended up in National Waters and the patrol is not a threat. Guiding Missile Destroyers to shadow that appeared the u. S. Navy routinely does the same thing to russia and china sailing warships and Flying Spy Tray spy planes towards each country. Rc 135 our aircraft back in the South China Sea in may. Officials say the russian and chinese are just returning the favor. Dan sullivan says he is concerned about this saying this is unprecedented in terms of the size and scope of this joint naval tax force between russia and china wo
American alliances are what keep us, america, safe. It is the value that puts other nations up for working with us. If we turn our backs on israel, its just not worth it. Part of President Bidens address Last Night Urging Americans and congress to continue to support ukraine and israel in the vastly different war each is fighting. Well go live to israel for the latest on the expected Ground Invasion of gaza. Meanwhile, republicans are somehow creating even more chaos on capitol hill. With another speakers vote scheduled for this morning, it comes as the temporary speaker is getting fed up and is now threatening to resign. Plus, well get expert legal analysis on the surprise guilty plea from one of the many defendants in the Georgia Election Interference Case. Thats a big one. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is friday, october 20th. Id love to get both you and willies reaction to the president s Speech Last Night. I thought it was really effective, part teacher, Part Influencer
sense that both parties were hiding the key provision. a provision that arguably gave hunter biden complete future immunity for everything he has done in the last several years. that was taken from the plea agreement. that is always in the plea agreement. it is called charge bargaining. if you do this deal, we will not charge you in the future for these other crimes. it was probably written. it was vaguely written but it is always in the plea agreement. they took it, both the prosecution and the defense. they hid it in something called a pretrial diversion agreement. the key paragraph was not even shown to the judge until the morning of the plea deal. there is no reasonable explanation for that. both sides wanted plausible deniability in the likable event anyone tried to charge hunter in
him again for just good anything that happened historically, and doj wanted to be able to say no, the language doesn t really say that, so they can keep saying to congress it s an ongoing investigation we don t want to talk about it. and the judge kept that from happening and kept it from happening because a plea has to be knowing and voluntary and it was clear that the two sides had different views of what the plea bargain was. i do think there will ultimately be a plea bargain agreement the judge can accept. sandra: what does that eventually look like, do you think? i think he s not there won t be any more open issue about how much it protects him from future prosecution for nontax-related things. i think that will have to be made clear what the charge bargaining, the term of art, what the charge bargaining is, and that s number one. and number two, it will have to be in the plea agreement itself,
not in this pretrial diversion agreement. that upset the judge. charge bargaining happens in the plea agreement and the judge can say i accept it, reject it or defer it. by putting it into the diversion development, they were robbing the judge the ability to do that and so it s going to be there for all to see. it s going to be there and publicly available and i think that s what s going to happen. but what the congress can do because merrick garland and david weaiss talked about who hd what authority and discussed the whistleblower s testimony to that extent and those people need to be hauled in under oath. attorney general garland, u.s. attorney weiss and lisa monaco,