giuliani in just a second, but given that hunter biden just arrived, how quick are these proceedings? now that he s there, how quickly can this be taken care of? he has a specific time to appear. the sentencing proceeding, the plea proceeding will take probably a couple hours or so. it goes by script. i mean, there are questions that the judge is required to ask and that he s required to answer and it will all go by script, but arriving 45 minutes early, you know, for me as a trial lawyer, if you get there on time at 10:00 you re late. so getting there early is standard course. let s talk rudy giuliani. i want to play a little bit more of what he is now no longer contesting that he said and no longer contesting that it was false. let s listen. how can they say there s no fraud? look at that woman. look at her taking those ballots out, look at them scurrying around with the ballots. nobody in the room hiding around. they look like they look like they re passing out dope, not jus
pretty clear that it s possible that that military judge was incurring favor with the trump administration and if we remember back in those days, president trump when he was running for president he very much called bergdahl a traitor. called him somebody that does not deserve a fair treatment under the u.s. military justice system and that situation could be considered undue command influence and that s what the judge was looking at when the latest judge vacated the charges against bergdahl. to put a fine point on it, perhaps the judge s neutrality. colonel leighton, good to see you. john? we have breaking news out of wilmington, delaware, from the hunter biden plea deal hearing. our kara scannell just ran out from inside the courtroom. kara, bring us up to speed.
see. sara murray, thank you very much. not to belabor the point, but how rare is it as a prosecutor that you are walking into this type of hearing and you are walking out perhaps with the deal falling apart? it s very, very rare. sometimes you do have a miscommunication about what the scope as we ll call it the coverage is. how much is this person covered moving forward? that is in some sense the most important issue in this case. look at this case. if hunter biden agrees to one, two or three misdemeanors, that s fine, but the agreement is no prison time. the biggest concern is is he going to get a pass from to have it fall apart in this fashion is really surprising. it doesn t reflect well on either of the two parties. if they walk out of here and we have the live cameras to figure out if they are walking out with no deal, what happens then from a prosecutorial
a raka, she whether she could ask them to go back and re-do this investigation if there are parts of it that she finds lacking. both the justice department and hunter biden s attorneys agreed that she could not do so. the justice department said the way to handle would be for the political process to take over which we expect is exactly what s going to happen after this hearing is over, guys. evan, i think one thing we want to make clear here is that we re so used to hearings between judges being adverse aerial between the prosecution and the defense is working across the purpose here. that s not the case in this case. you have a prosecution team and hunter biden s defense team that are going in there, having reached an agreement with the l? that s right, and i think they re both under attack here, john because obviously republicans believe that there s much more to this investigation
understanding. sometimes that provision is in an agreement. sometimes it s not. sometimes it s understood, but not written in which case you would want to put it on the official court record. it sounds like the judge is saying let s make sure that both sides, doj and hunter biden are on the same page about just how broad his immunity is as a result of this plea if it s entered. but does it sound like based on kara s reporting that they may not be on the same page with his immunity. yeah. that should have been worked out and the fact that they are conferring at this point is unusual. like i said, sometimes it would be an actual sentence, it should be an actual sentence in the plea agreement. so the fact that the judge said talk this through means she has a question about this. doj and huntser biden have the same goal which is to get the plea entered and we ll see. we ll see if this is a hiccup. can this get to what has been a discrepancy since we learned about the plea deal where