off the books, i want you to send me more briefing, i want you to send me more materials and we ll get back in court to see if we can get past our legal hurdles. primarily the hurdle is a pre-trial diversion agreement, which under most circumstances, the judge never sees. it s something between the government and the defense, and signed off by probation and moves outside of the court system. because of the way the plea agreement was structured, on the tax charges in this case, it references that pretrial diversion agreement, and the pretrial diversion agreement apparently contains, we haven t seen it yet, it hasn t been docketed yet, a clause that invites the judge to determine, essentially act as a referee on fact-based questions should they say hunter biden had all of these things to live up to on this felony charge, he has violated x, y or z, and now we want to charge him.
more secure place. ambassador william taylor, thank you very much. tomorrow night folks, our friend richard engel is doing and even deeper dive in to the wagner group s short-lived rebellion. and we ll also explain provisions meddling in our own elections right here at home. of course we are talking about yevgeny prigozhin now. because he just took an army of mercenaries and marched them towards moscow. and shockingly met very little resistance along the way. but prigozhin has a long history of doing sensitive, off the books missions for the kremlin. including targeting the 2016 election with a disinformation campaign. to help donald trump. multiple u.s. intelligence agencies have concluded putin wanted trump to win the 2016 election. but intervening directly was a risky proposition. even for the kremlin. so prigozhin catered to the boss.
rebellion. and we ll also explain provisions meddling in our own elections right here at home. of course we are talking about yevgeny prigozhin now. because he just took an army of mercenaries and marched them towards moscow. and shockingly met very little resistance along the way. but prigozhin has a long history of doing sensitive, off the books missions for the kremlin. including targeting the 2016 election with a disinformation campaign. to help donald trump. multiple u.s. intelligence agencies have concluded putin wanted trump to win the 2016 election. but intervening directly was a risky proposition. even for the kremlin. so prigozhin catered to the boss. prigozhin did not just have the wagner group, the private contractors fighting in syria, he had another side business. it was a troll farm that pumped out online disinformation, mostly against russian dissidents. he now turned his keyboard warriors against the united states. he in some ways contributed to the kind of narra
turn from hero to traitor. keir simmons was granted rare access to a new base in belarus meant to house up to 5,000 of prigozhin s forces but now sits empty. belarus s president insists per prigozhin is not in belarus. here s a preview. of course we re talking about yevgeny prigozhin now because he just took an army of mercenaries and marched them toward moscow, and shockingly, met very little resistance along the way. but prigozhin has a long history of doing sensitive, off the books missions for the kremlin, including targeting the 2016 election with a disinformation campaign to help donald trump. multiple u.s. intelligence agencies have concluded that putin wanted trump to win the
certainly created a lot of doubts about the u.s. electoral system, and created a lot of chaos. it created a lot of rage. and outrage that we are still seeing percolating through twitter and social media, and facebook, all the different forms. so this is someone who goes all the way back to the early days with lot of my putin. who has done special tasks for him. one of those tasks was the bot farm, the troll farm, another was creating the wagner group. the wagner group is the world s largest mercenary army at this stage. it was created by prigozhin in order to give putin an off the books force. so that putin could have an army, a private army, at his disposal that would carry out nationalist oriented tasks, but if its members died, they weren t sending body bags home to ordinary russian moms and