so if you are looking at possible penalties for either a plea deal or going to trial, what are the range of possibilities? none of these carry enormous sentences, i think the highest sentence you would be looking at would be a statutory maximum of five years. look, no one is getting the five year sentence here. you would be looking at months probably, maybe a little more than that in prison. now, for the misdemeanor offenses, the not reporting your taxes it would be less than a year. in all likelihood someone who pled guilty would take a much lower sentence than anything like that, but, again, they just want it to go away. what do you make of how this whole thing has played out with hunter biden, his legal exposure. a couple things, it s interesting it has taken this long if these are relatively minor offenses what s taking so long? i do note that the justice department does have a number of career officials there, number one, there s a holdover from the trump administration as t
here the justice department does have the ability to go in and sue and use the law if these negotiations break down. so it is a very powerful tool. your point is very well taken or the question is very well taken in that why can t it s clearly it s a bigger problem than just one police department, i think we can all stipulate to that, but what our government gives us is the ability only to handle it on a local case by case level. yeah. and, andy, merrick garland also specifically talked about violations by this viper unit in louisville, it was renamed something else later, but it piqued my interest because it sounded almost identical to what was going on in memphis with that scorpion unit involved in the tyre nichols case. what are your thoughts about the scrutiny now that we re seeing on these specialized units and whether they need to be looked more closely at? there are many we can cite many examples of specialized units kind of going rogue and
issues. as you pointed out, the contemporaneous texas sh texts w he was engaged in these conversations in realtime as opposed to this years later. katie benner, all the questions this evidence has poured out is how much and when will doj dig their fingers into it. do you have any indication that cassidy hutchinson is a critical witness in any of doj s criminal investigations related to 1/6? sure, i ll take your question in its parts. first of all, the justice department does have all the transcripts and information now at its disposal and is going through it. cassidy hutchinson would be a very good witness, and i m sure she is somebody the justice department would want to speak with. but i think what we see, especially from the transcripts and text messages and the white house phone logs that s very intriguing, you kind of see the problem that emerges for the justice department. and the issue is whether or not they can speak to somebody like cassidy hutchinson. it s whether or not
take too kindly to poorly crafted legal arguments and trump is paying his lawyers a whole lot of money to be handed loss after a loss in the courts and we look at his legal fees, like his business have been devers, trump is seen of rather poor in return on his investment. . and bradley moss, what will it matter to the way the criminal investigation is being undertaken right now? the justice department does have a free hand thanks to the 11th circuit to be investigating everything about the classified documents. they do not have to hand over the classified documents to the special master and it seems like much of their investigation can go on, without regards where this appeal stands now. sure, so the non-classified records, the one the donald trump says has to do with executive privilege. there s still the chance of a criminal inquiry here, and the
trump is paying his lawyers a whole lot of money to be handed loss after a loss in the courts and we look at his legal fees, like his business have been devers, trump is seen of rather poor in return on his investment. . and bradley moss, what will it matter to the way the criminal investigation is being undertaken right now? the justice department does have a free hand thanks to the 11th circuit to be investigating everything about the classified documents. they do not have to hand over the classified documents to the special master and it seems like much of their investigation can go on, without regards where this appeal stands now. sure, so the non-classified records, the one the donald trump says has to do with executive privilege. there s still the chance of a criminal inquiry here, and the justice department lays up pretty nicely in the brief.