american citizen should be embarrassed. every single prosecutior, assistant district attorney should be embarrassed by this deal. this is an incredibly sleazy deal. there is no reason to hide an important paragraph like paragraph 15 of the pre-trial diversion agreement, which you talked about, which typically an agreement like that, called charge bargaining would be in the plea agreement itself. that is why the judge said you re taking that away from me and you re putting it here in this separate pretrial diversion agreement about guns. there is no way obviously the government was part of this. there is no justification for this. laura: this seems it was
corroborative of that. this is an irregular plea deal where they re trying to bury the most important provision in a pretrial diversion agreement. the judge called foul on it. almost any judge in the country would have. it s a very important point. the judge isn t in any way based her action on what the whistle-blowers have said. she even sent a signal that it s not her it s not her purpose or her power to come in and tell the executive branch how to prosecute a case. she had a problem with the fact that this was just a very convoluted and kind of sneaky deal. so she did the right thing. they have a chance to salvage this plea deal. sol, thanks for taking time with us. we appreciate it. happy to be here. thanks for having me. thanks. let s bring the panel now.
seemed to be two problems. the first one was the judge was concerned that the pretrial diversion agreement gave her a role that she was uncomfortable with, not just adjudicating whether there was a breach or could be a breach of that provision down the road, but that it gave her some other decision making authority that she thought best left to the executive branch. now, we haven t seen the plea documents. i don t know precisely what the language is. we don t know precisely what considered her. but that seems to be snag numbered to number. weinstein number two is what you just referred to. how broadly the government would confer how broadly with the government paid guilty for other crimes. happy to talk about either. they re both important. i do think however, alex, that they will be resolved and this will ultimately go forward. do you think those two snags are sort of political at their root? i would imagine, if you are hunter biden s team, resting
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