alleged that biden accepted a million dollars bribe from a ukrainian oligarch, the owner ,burisma, and 83% of voters in the new harvard harris poll believe that the fbi should make that file public. now, it s not just the scandals either, because biden s approval numbers on the issues that matter most to people, well, they re upside down in every category. 62% of the country say we re on the wrong track as well. so if america has a car, the dashboard lights are all flashing red now on edge about the future. the american people know that this really isn t the same country they grew up in since the george floyd riots. young people believe that they can wreak havoc with no consequences as they did the juneteenth holiday weekend in l.a.. oh, more on other weekend celebrations later in the show . now, meanwhile, as the chaos unfolds here, our beloved president can barely speak without some verbal interlude. all right. god save the queen man or find his way off the stage with
get pretrial diversion on a felony gun charge, and particularly here, where in addition to that, you ve got to tax misdemeanors that they ve charged. i also want to make this point, whict h he was charged with, willful failure to pay taxes.thi that s a misdemeanor. but the felony of tax evasion takes very little additional. ei additionally, to prove the only additional elementto is thate is there is a act of concealment. and under the case law, the case law is broad on what that act could be. it could be as simple as lying a an irs agent or filling out something incorrectly on that tax return. so all of that. leads mes me to really want to ask a lot more questions. and then the final question is, if you re going to give somebody a sweetf yo deal like this, did you put him underhim n
the gun charge alone carries a maximum sentence of ten yearsn in prison. but with this plea deal, prs unlikely to see any jail time. that was congres unlikels congrn donalds mentioned a few minutes kgo, rapper koda black sentenced to over three years in prison. ovrs in prxach of the ta charges carry a maximum penalty of a year in prison, there is no expected jail time for hunter. but the situation jersey shore fame was sentenced to eight months in prison for not paying his taxes. elp when i guess it really does helpyourd when your daddy is president. former u.s. attorney brad tolman says that beyond the glaring doublett standard, the doj is violating its own internal policies. requ called the ashcroft memo requires that they charge the highest provable tha offense and seek consistent sentences with other casesseek brought by doj. and if you can believe it, the contours. of this deal may even be more corrupt than that. accordine corrg to the free bea, a prosecutor on the team that
effort whatsoever to even conceal it any more. they are propaganda press for the regime in power. this is a story, laura, fundamentally about pay for play, about influence peddling, about a corruption scheme that goes to the heart of our government. this is about what did joe biden do year, year to justify foreign governments funneling millions of dollars into his family s bank account. and hunter has all those answers. and they could have got in every single one of them under oath from him if they wanted to. but instead, they cut a deal that was designed to immunize biden family and joe biden in particular from that scrutiny when they should be bringing witnesses in front of a grand jury right now to find out what joe did for all that money. and so now it s left to house republicans and james comer to build out that road map so that a new joe doj can pick it up in 20 25. now, ari, now that hunter has reached this exclusive
struck the deahatl worked justjy years ago. for a long time, bideean friend who did business with hunter, oh,ho my god. joining me now is always the very former deputy independent counsel, formerike a assistant u.s. attorney, and mike davis, president anvid founder of the article three project. now, saul, back in april, it was reported that the doj was looking at four charges. so is this right? tha what we heard from all those commentators that this is just kind of par for the course fo, the other two go away and this this is how it all kind of plays out in a play. we don t have enough facts yet,u laura, to know if it sra k a sweetheartno deal, but it s certainly a sweet deal for for hunter bident it cer. t and it doesn t look very normal to me at all. we don t have the plea agreement yet or what s called the factual basid thes, which is part of it. so i withhold final judgment, buof .t i can tell you that it is unusual to let individual