occurred, but though that weiss can move forward and do it, that s more of a politics, inside the justice department, what happened here, but as far as the criminal future for the son of the president of the united states, it s definitely worse than it was an hour ago and it s definitely worse than it was when a judge put a pause on his proceedings. he s in a situation now where venue is likely going to be out as a potential grounds to fight this, but on the other hand is there anything more than a misdemeanor tax charge and is what he ends up facing what he was going to face anyway? there s another calculus here that this could be sbha beneficial for him because it sure seemed clear to me and other reporters in the courtroom that the judge was really drilling down on to the last year of the tax misdemeanor that was 2018, what hunter biden knew and did, was he sober at the time, he says he was. was there any sort of an intent when he did not accurately file his tax returns that year or
committee this morning and he doesn t even know the name of the person who will be testifying. he has a name for both of these witnesses. this is the a-team with the i.r.s. these two guys have stellar records. they ve never blown the whistle on anything else. they re very concerned that they feel that their investigation was obstructed and that there were many crimes that have been committed. the anonymous whistleblower will testify that hunter biden should have faced felony charges, not a misdemeanor tax charge. the whistleblowers will say prosecutors did not follow usual procedures because they were dealing with the bidens. we were conducting investigation of hunter biden and we were trying to follow the normal process. there were deaf niftily hindrances that i have never seen before in my 14 years concerning this investigation that didn t allow us to follow
use those as a backstop in a more serious case. you would throw them in just in case the jury was split on some of the other counts. i don t recall ever seeing misdemeanor tax charges on their own. i m sure it s happened, but it s the exception rather than the rule. it s pretty rare. the justice department rarely works on cases in order to generation a misdemeanor tax charge. i would consider that a failure of an investigation. similarly, you know, the gun charge, i have never seen that gun charge brought before. usually the types of gun charges that are brought are felon in possession where or a firearm used in the course of committing a violent crime or a drug trafficking crime. i ve talked to other former federal prosecutors and they have had a similar reaction. let me ask you this, is there any chance the judge decides not to take this plea deal? that would be pretty unusual, would it not? yes, and there s no evidence