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could agree on what those terms were, exactly, leaving hunter biden facing much greater legal peril, and potentially some new political peril for president biden as he seeks reelection. nbc news correspondent for investigations tom winter joins me with the latest. also with me, once again, former assistant d.a. for the manhattan d.a. s office and msnbc legal analyst, catherine christian. tom, i guess this came in late last night, late yesterday. what exactly does this filing say? two particular things, one as you just said, to the prosecutors that they were the ones that reneged on the deal. that s what hunter biden s attorneys say, and i think that s not overly surprising. at some point, they did come to an agreement, then things break down in court, and there s no desire to move forward. if you re prosecutors you, fight for your deal. we never saw that happen in this case. in court, we never saw at any
trial, it should be moved to california, where biden lived at the time of the alleged crime, what goes into that kind of decision. if there s no plea agreement, and if the pretrial diversion agreement the judge says, you know what, both sides signed it, but probation never signed it, it s everything is off the table, then it goes to trial, and it will either be in california where the crimes took place, where hunter biden lives, so everything goes back before the way it was before there was going to be a plea. basically that means the three of us will be sitting here and talking going forward. that s a guarantee, yes. absolutely. and the probation point is the key sticking point. did that last signature get on there and is that going to be a sticking point for the judge. tom winter, catherine christian, thank you so much for being on set with me. from crisis to catastrophe, schools are scrambling to deal with the shortage of teachers and bus drivers. in some areas, it s s
by the way, the mere fact that the accounting firm turns it over to the district attorney doesn t mean they become public. when we received documents, including tax records and criminal investigations, we had to keep that private and only if we charged somebody, if those documents become public. that will be the case here too. if the accounting firm that has to turn it over and the second circuit word is final we don t automatically see them. tom, you ve covered these cases and when you re looking at a place like let s say the southern district of new york where you re looking at things like wall street, you re looking at, you know, headquarters for major corporations around the world, where you have some of these most high profile issues that have come to this district before, tell us what you know about how experienced they are, how set they are and how they get set for something like this. the manhattan district
involved in that organization, up to the president somehow filed false business returns, that s something that a state prosecutor can look at. was there any sort of an issue here both from a tax standpoint and also from a business records standpoint, was there some sort of illegal behavior here? now, this is not a major felony charge that the state prosecutor could bring but it is an interesting investigation and one that the district attorney here cyrus france is entitled to bring. two pieces of information since we just started talking. first, frost, a spokesperson for the manhattan district attorney cyrus vance says they re going to decline comment on the ruling at this point and then our colleague kristen welker says a statement from jay sekulow the president s attorney let me go to kristen. kristin, some reaction from the white house to this? reporter: chris and tom, this just came in within the last minute. let me read this to you, from jay sekulow, underscores the point pe