Days. Vice president Kamala Harris, of course, is now Donald Trumps opponent in the race. Were going to go through the strategies for that showdown. Also ahead, well have expert legal analysis on Hunter Bidens surprise guilty plea in his federal Tax Case. Well have the latest on that. Well also bring you the very latest developments out of georgia, as the father of the suspect is now facing charges. And the weapon used in the attack appears to have been a gift to his son. The shooter. Good morning. Welcome to Morning Joe. It is friday, september 6th. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, white House Bureau Chief at polpolitico, jonathan lem. Special correspondent for bbc news, Katty Kay is with us. Pulitzer prize winning Columnist And Associate editor of the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson is here. And Msnbc Contributor and author of the book how the right lost its mind, Charlie Sykes is here. Well start this hour with pretty big theres a lot of stuff to t
place. donald trump is in full command of first place. my guest today, former new jersey governor and republican challenger chris christie joining me here in studio on donald trump, the state of the republican party, and joe biden. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in new york. breaking news from delaware, where hunter biden s guilty plea agreement to avoid further penalties on tax evasion and diverting a separate gun offense is now in jeopardy. house republicans had said the president s son was receiving special treatment with a so-called sweetheart deal and have been running their own investigation into his business practices. challenging the way the case was prosecuted. the prosecutors denied it and he was appointed by donald trump, hold over by the white house to avoid any appearance of interference. republicans have also accused the president of being involved in his son s business dealings,
trying to overturn the election, against donald trump. there was some thought even though he received a target letter last week, they were going to wait until this got cleared away so that they would not have that distraction, at least politically. i guess jack smith doesn t think about politics, but someone does. in any case, that s another issue. mike memoli, let s talk about the white house. for them, this is really a mess, to use a legal term, because they have high priced lawyers, well-known lawyers. we know them. you would think that when the prosecution put out that news release that they got some clarification about what the ongoing investigations were, presumably some business arrangements that did not involve either the taxes or the gun offense. correct? reporter: first, we should talk about the white house reaction in terms of the reaction of the president and the first lady as it relates to
a group that decides whether or not hunter biden actually has abided by those terms. that s the irregularity that she was pointing to. this entire thing was absurd. i want to ask more about this issue of the further investigations in a moment. but, ryan, she also raised the judge, this issue of constitutionality, asking whether the agreement about hunter biden s gun offense was even constitutional. it was a very specific, was this the right article that she could oversee. was she right to raise that concern? absolutely. there does seem to be an irregularity in this agreement. i call it an anomaly. the diversionary program is to set hunter biden up as any defendant would be into something like a rehabilitation program. but if he breaks the conditions for being in that program, then it could trigger a reprosecution, which he could be then sentenced. but that is an executive branch decision. it s a prosecutorial decision. what did the agreement say?
this particular suspect and that note or if there was any threat. it does not appear as though there was. but we sure have a lot of unanswered questions that we are going to be pin vest gating, and that the public is going to need answers to. it is so true, attorney general. does the note speak to the motive at all or the nature of the note? can you give us any detail leading to the indication of motive to the note tying it to the shooting on michigan state s campus? i can t speak to it yet, and there is a number of ore things that we need immediate answers to this. is an individual who recently was off probation for a gun offense and in exact same area. we know that he had his probation extended a couple of times and not sure why, and i d like to know that. we know that the gun he was carrying, and he was obviously