likely averts time behind bars and gives hunter probation instead. he may have to pay a fine. some in the media defending the president s son while attacking republicans in the process. republicans have been trying to stir up conspiracy theories left and right. one after another have been disproven. i suspect we will have lots of howling from the g.o.p. house republicans are going to keep this up. they ve decided to go all in on this as a way to keep the republican base enthusiastic. these are criminal charges. republicans will call them a slap on the wrist. you re already hearing a lot of shouting. oh, sweetheart deal. oh this, oh that. this is not a sweetheart deal. it s a good deal and i think it s a good deal for hunter biden. dana: hunter s lawyer calling this matter resolved and taking responsibility for these mistakes but the d.o.j. an hour later said the investigation is still ongoing and the republicans are vowing to plow ahead on investigations into th
last night asked that investigators regain access to 125 documents found in that search of mar-a-lago. that is part of the extraordinary appeal to cannon s order which politico puts like this, it aims to a full-throated rebuke of the ruling by cannon, a trump appointee who was confirmed to a seat after trump s defeat in the 2020 election. prosecutors used the filing to describe her ruling as a danger to national security and one ignorant to the counterintelligence work and lacking in an understanding of the complexities of executive privilege. all of it and the bid to continue to use the classified documents from mar-a-lago in the investigation amounts to a bold gamut from doj. once again, from politico, quote, they re going forward with an appeal despite the risk of cementing an awful precedent. we re getting an even worse ruling from an appeals court dominated by trump appointees and they re daring cannon to double down on analysts that legal analysts on the right and left
mar-a-lago. clemency requests, irs forms and entryingly paperwork that appears to be related to the 2020 election, even an email accepting trump s resignation from the screen actors guild, or sag as they call it in the business, according to a justice department list that was apparently inadvertently posted publicly and reported by bloomberg news. that as we have more secretly recorded awedudio from an alleg 2020 oath keepers meeting played in the trial of the far right militia group on seditious conspiracy charges. watch this. if the fight comes, let the fight come. if they go kinetic on us, we ll go kinetic back on them. i m willing to sacrifice myself for that. other defendants discussing what weapons are legal to bring into washington, d.c. that according to prosecutors. tasers are legal. stun guns are legal. it doesn t hurt to have a lead pipe with a flag on it. no weapons, right, according to only people? right. the secret recordings are the first major piece of
judge cannon seems to say that a former president might be different in her view than a regular joe. quoting her now, as plaintiff articulated at the hearing, the investigation and treatment of a former president is of unique interest to the general public, and the country is best served by an orderly process that promotes the interest and perception of fairness. unique interest, she writes, before granting what the former attorney general under president trump, no less, recently said this about. well, i think the whole idea of a special master is a bit of a red herring at this stage since they ve already gone through the documents. i think it s a waste of time. agree or disagree with that notion and whatever you might think of how judge cannon arrived at her decision, we ll talk about what it portends with our legal experts in just a moment. first, cnn s sara murray who has all the latest on the ruling itself. walk us through what the judge issued today. reporter: as y
the president s son, you get a sweetheart deal. this does nothing to our investigation. it actually should enhance our investigations because the d.o.j. shouldn t be able to withhold in information now saying that it s a pending information. they should be able to provide with any information that they ve acquired. dana: there s another major hunter development. get this, the new york post reporting that hunter biden has privately settled his child support dispute with the mother of his unacknowledged 4-year-old daughter. and that one really takes the cake. we ll get into all of this. jesse watters, the news broke and i said get jesse watter on the phone. this is a story for you. jesse: this was not a plea deal. this was a cover-up. no way this is going to take five years for a case like this. they didn t even open up the laptop! the laptop doesn t even have to exist in order to hit hunter biden with these charges. you open up the laptop and you