Sean welcome to hannity, history and capitol hill eight republican lawmakers joining al 208 House Democrats to remove Kevin Mccarthy as speaker. Mccarthy will not seat the speaker sheet again. Now sources are telling me at this hour that some House Republicans have been in contac with and has started an effort to draft former president donal trump to be the next speaker an i have been told that President Trump might be open to helping the Republican Party at least i the short term if necessary. If its needed. Here is former speaker mc carthy earlier tonight, lets take a look. I believe i can continue to fight me be in a different manner. I will not run for speaker again. I will have the Conference Pick someone else. I think today was a political decision by the democrats. I think the things they have done in the past hurt the institution. They just started removing people from committee and they just started doing other things. My fear is the institution felt today. You cant do the job
Unlawfully using illegal substances. This is the same gun case for which prosecutors elected not to charge hunter biden as part of a now defunct plea deal several weeks ago. Bidens attorney still contends that agreement is binding. We have complete coverage tonight. We begin, though, with Correspondent David Spunt at the Justice Department with the latest. Good evening, david. Bret, good evening to you. After week intense pressure. Special counsel david weiss gave the green light to go ahead on charges and ultimately a grand jury approved charges against the son of the sitting president of the United States. Tonight, hunter biden facing two false statement counts, which are felonies, also a third count of possessing and owning a gun, another felony. According to the special counsels office, back in 2018, hunter biden lied on a federal form to purchase a gun in delaware when he said that he was not addicted to any Stimulant Narcotic Drug and any other controlled substance when, in fact,
Up to 25 years in the slammer, and prosecutors hint there could be more charges on the way. Its a real head scratcher if you take joes word that his son has done nothing wrong. First of all, my sons done nothing wrong. I trust him, i have faith in him, and impacts my presidency by making me feel proud about him. This thing about a gun, i didnt know anything about it. I love my son, hes on the straight and narrow and has been for a couple years now, and im so proud of him. Greg democrats are relieve that had hunters gun charges dont have anything to do with joe biden, yet. Syst we shouldnt take delighn other peoples misfortune but we have to have a rule of law and when people commit crimes, the consequences follow. The Justice Department charges have nothing to do with the president. Hunter biden is a private citizen and not the president of the United States. It sounds like a prosecutor appointed by donald trump kept by joe biden to investigate his own son has found that theres no wron
howard: who s hunter biden s own voice played in a delaware courtroom that plumed the depths of his past addiction. the media are giving the trial heavy cover act as they should, but with no one coming out to talk to reporters, it feels very remoteful but it s an undeniably tawdry tale with lurid testimony from the widow of beau biden who became romantically involved with hunter after her husband s death. the argument in this trial boils down to this seemingly semantic question, whether hunter biden was doing drugs when he signed a gun purchase form and said he wasn t or just abusing alcohol at the tile. fortunately for doj special counsel, hunter biden recorded the audio, book of his memoir, so the jury not to hear his firsthand account. crack takes you into the darkest recesses of your soul as well as the darkest corners of every community. i had done it everywhere it had been in the last few months. i could get off a plane in timbuktu and score a bag of crack. i hard
delay tactic. if hope at best they might get an evidencey hearing. how the boxes were organized this way. whether or not there is something of allegations of bias and improper storage. on on the merits, it doesn t absolve trump of the idea that he willfully retained the documents. he knew he had them in 2022. when he turned stuff over to the archives. he is talking with his lawyers they are telling him to turn it over. we keep finding stuff. it will not ultimately change anything. but it will quite possibly the way judge cannon handles things but it will drag things out a little more. we are at the first anniversary of the mar-a-lago case. anyone s guess whether we get to the second anniversary. bradley moss, thank you for your time tonight. have a good night. that is our show. now it is time for the last word with jonathan who is in for lawrence o donnell. good evening. i would love to know if we are going to have a classified documents case but who knows. prepare