five years? i can t even begin to answer. hunter biden, look, we learned during that brief court appearance that he had failed to pay over $1 million in taxes owed. to get a misdemeanor when you get over $1 million in taxes, yes, you paid later, that s a decent deal for a defendant. you re saying he s being more treated more leniently and you think he s being treated more harshly. can david weiss continue as special counsel right now? a lot of republicans are saying, no, because he bungled this leading up to this. i ll leave that question to the doj. what i m saying is that after five years and this level of resources spent, the idea that they have not overturned and all the stones are to be overturned is just not believable. the idea that they would be ramping up and considering harsher charges than a trial, that s troubling. can i ask you why it s not believable when we have two irs whistle-blowers who testified before congress, one came on this program, one was a
prosecutors decide , how do we get rid of this case? do david weiss team did that. which suggests they re being influenced by something extrnl and not by the facts in the law. all of this raises the question, why is being made special counsel now? why two weeks ago, five plus years in. but you re exactly right in your take on the investigation. david weiss, merrick garland will have to explain this at some point, because they have been all over the map on this. they re not doing doj new favors or hunter biden any favors or the whistle-blower any favors. you need to sometimes at doj, we were just talking about this, you just need to pick the right course of action and stick with it, whatever the political winds may be. pick a direction and go. thank you. thanks, guys. new polls show former president trump with a commanding lead in the republican primary. will anything change if he skips first debate, skipped the second debate, and then sits down with tucker carlson instead.
office came close to agreeing to the end of an investigation without requiring a guilty plea on any charmges. but around the time a pair of irs officials on the case accused the justice department of happened springing the investigation, mr. weiss suddenly demanded mr. biden pled guilty to committing tax offenses. what is the takeaway for everyone this morning? the twaiakeaway is the doj h made an unholy mess of this whole situation. david weiss, i ve spoken about positively, but first he was willing to let this thing go altogether. political pressure ramped up, he backtracks and says, we re going to need to take misdemeanor pleas. then they go into court, ready to take misdemeanor pleas, more pressure from the irs, now this deal falls apart, and then he says, now i need to be called special counsel, i need expanded powers. but it seems like all of this is only happening in a reactionary posture. it seems like he s now twice tried to make this case go away cheaply, twice been called
first request. they really go hand in hand. if you re mark meadows. by the way, expect to see very similar motions from donald trump, from jeffrey clark, who worked at doj. it s sort of a two-step. first is, well, i was acting as a federal official, therefore i need to be over in federal court. and then you say, i was acting within the scope of my job, in this case, as white house chief of staff. therefore, i have immunity throw it out. there s actually very little daylight in between those two things. that s why it s so important to see, once they get into federal court, they are an inch away from a dismissal. that s why it s so high-stakes with these motions. you are both former assistant u.s. attorneys, eastern district, southern district, and there is a bombshell report out from the new york times s over the weekend, about david weiss, the now special counsel prosecuting hunter biden, what he wanted to do and what he did do. let me read this relevant graph for people. earlier th