Legal eagles john hugh, mccarthy, dupree. Concessions on the House Oversight committee and what this means for their investigation. Welcome, everyone. I am charles in for neil, this is your world. Fox Team Coverage with david spunt at the Justice Department with the fallout from all of this and peter doocy on how the white house is reacting to it. We begin with david. Charles, the plea deal is off the case in delaware is off. Right now it looks like hunter biden is heading toward trial, possibly in california or washington, d. C. , or even potentially both. I want to read a new court filing just posted on the public docket entered by the government within the last few hours. It says the parties have engaged in further plea negotiations, but are at an impasse. The government now believes the case will not result short of a trial. Remember, david weiss, the person just named a Special Counsel, was the same prosecutor who just a month ago, not even a month ago, charles, was in a courtroom
i m confident. well, that affirmative justice apparently is not so sure. president biden is set to leave about 55 minutes from now for a helicopter ride to his beach house. if he talks, we will have it. charles? charles: i know you will. thank you, folks. legal eagles john hu, andy mccarthy, john dupree. andy, i heard you on another network calling this whole thing a sham peer i want to start with john because you have been urging a need for a special counsel fear now that we have one, what do you say? i m glad that affirmative justice finally made this choice, it almost comes two years too late because as we get more information from the hill, it looks more and more like president joe biden is at least a witness, if not more in an ongoing federal investigation. we also saw the ongoing investigation means the plea deal many were complaining about with hunter biden is now down the tubes. there is an upside and a
independently. i don t think that was in the card or realistic. i think merrick garland was dragged into this kicking and screaming but i do agree with john this is going to stay in the news and play out over the course of 202424 appeared charles: andy, you used a four-letter word to describe it all. i do, it is sham, and i agree with my colleagues, it would have been fine to bring in a credible special counsel at an early phase. but there is no real investigation here, and now they kick the guy who has been killing the investigation to be the special counsel, and there is really only one reason that he has been picked. he has almost completed his mission, which is to destroy the case against hunter biden because unlike any competent prosecutor, he hasn t indicted it, down the road five years, and he is letting counts go because he doesn t do the simple thing that any prosecutor would do, which is filed charges, which is what stops the clock. so the end of his mission is by being
special counsel, he has actually failed to put the story to bed and actually failed miserably and is going to make things worse. what is your assessment of the timing of it and also of course the selection? well, the timing of it is suspect. john pointed out, this is an investigation that has been going on for literally years, extraordinary amounts of time. why, after all of this time, does weiss finally become special counsel? it s obvious. the reason why is the plea deal just blew up. we have rarely seen a plea deal implode in such spectacular fashion as the one in this case. the federal judge who kicked to the tires on this deal, we need to thank the folks in congress who kept the investigative spotlight on hunter biden s dealings. that is why whe we are where wee today. come in as active special counsel, that would have given the american people confidence that this long last would be an investigation conducted fairly and