Ron desantis during his speech while former texas congressman will hurd received a chorus of boos in response to his criticism of the former president. Our bill melugin tracking all of this, he is in des moines with the details. Bill . Reporter molly, good afternoon to you. The iowa gop caucuses are still almost six months away, set for january a 15th. But all these gop candidates here in des moines last night making their pitch to voterser at the lincoln dinner. Before the dinner started, iowas very popular republican governor kim reynolds got on stage to speak. She has not made an endorsement yet, and its highly sought after by these candidates. Well get right into what they had to say starting with former President Trump. He got on stage and talked about having the most secure border in American History under his presidency. He talked about his Polling Numbers being better than ron desantis, and he slammed joe bidens Foreign Policy specifically on afghanistan. Take a listen. The mos
doj attorney. we really appreciate your insight and for joining us on this saturday. i want to get can your thoughts on what unfolded this week where the hunter biden plea deal seemed to dissolve right before the eyes of journalists. the expectations that it would take minutes, it goes into hours, and it seems like the judge really wanted clarity on a lot of things. your thoughts to on how things played out in court and if the judge made the right decision to essentially put a pause on everything for now. i think the judge did make the correct decision. first of all, there was disagreement between the doj lawyers and hunter biden s lawyers on how far immunity stretched. the doj lawyers were saying, well, this takes care of the tax and drug and gun issues but not his failure to register as a foreign agent under the fara statute. whereas hunter biden s lawyers were saying, oh, no, this plea
hunter s team is scared of what may come down the line with future prosecutions. what should they be most concerned about, given the facts of the case, fara charge, the foreign agent registration act he did not register under while operating overseas? my concern there, it is difficult to convict a democrat in washington, d.c. under the fara statute. you can convict republicans, convicting a democrat is difficult in this jurisdiction. they should be concerned about the tax evasion. excellent wall street journal yesterday by the former head of the department of justice said any other american would be in jail had they evaded jail the way hunter biden does. what i m looking for, who will advocate under equal justice
line with future prosecutions. what should they be most concerned about, given the facts of this case as they are developing? ask it the fara charge, the foreign agent s registration act that he did not register under while he was operating overseas? well, you know, my concern there is it s very difficult to convict a democrat in washington, d.c. under the fara statute. can you convict republicans but convicting a democrat is pretty difficult here in this jurisdiction. they should mostly be concerned about the tax evasion. an excellent article by eileen o connor in the wall street journal i think yesterday she was former head of the tax division department of justice saying that any other american would be in jail had they evaded taxes the way that hunter biden does. what i have been looking for, laura, is who is going to advocate for the equal application of justice under the law? you know, obviously, the prosecution has not been doing that.