six whistleblowers. and my understanding is thatthat tomorrow. john solomon, investigative n chief ofbe oor i just the news.com, he will be on the show. he has a documenhow.t in thatt u document. it ll show the recommendation to, in facmentt, indict hunter biden on tax charges, felony charges dealing with the years that have now passed the statute of limitations. if that ends up being true tha,w would that mean that mr. weiss didn t do his job? ? well, it would.woul and what the irs whistleblowers alsod. alleged is, is is that mr.mr. e weiss tried to get the u.sis. attorney in the central district of california and the u.s. attorney in the districralm of columbia to bring charges against hunter biden for the most serious tax offenses. be the case has had to be broughttn in d.c., in california, becausec where the crimes occurred and what the irs whistleblowers alleged asricurred., those u.s.g attorneys refused to bring the case. and to be clear, one of those u.s. attorneys was a was
i prosecuted criminal tax cases. one thing that the viewers should understand is the information and the charges that hunter biden is set to plead guilty to, the two misdemeanors, those are tax offenses. all tax offenses require a willfulness. a heightened wil fullness, if you will. the standard is that the department of justice has to prove that there s an intentional violation of a known legal duty. that is no difference, whether it s a misdemeanor or whether it s a felony. so when what is it? does he not have a drug problem when it s a misdemeanor but he has a drug problem when it s a felony? the only difference between the failure to pay and tax evasion is the existence of one false statement. then it s a felony. there s clearly a lot of hiding from the tax returns that has come out yesterday. the other thing i would add is, if i could, compliments to chris
court-ordered requirement. that will be expunged. kate, a lot of folks have asked, well, is this what would happen to anyone else and it does appear in talking to former federal prosecutors and looking at previous cases that for the tax offenses, yes, for a case like this when it s injure first time having this result in a plea deal to misdemeanors does appear to be common. when it comes to the gun charge it s very uncommon to the prosecuted at the federal level for failing to disclose addiction on the form when you purchase a firearm. kate, there s another case that s working its way through the appeals court that could make it even harder to bring a case like that so it does not appear that this is a sweetheart deal but that question will be up to a judge because of this is subject to their approval. it seems what is also becoming very clear in this as we wait for the judge s approval if it does come is the legal realm and the political realm as it is very much all intertwined here
republicans are now responding to the details coming out about hunter biden s plea deal on federal tax offenses and they don t like it. if a judge approves the deal, hunter biden would likely be sentenced to probation for misdemeanor counts relating to failing to pay taxes in 2017 and 2018. he would also avoid further prosecution on a separate felony charge of illegally possessing a firearm. no jail time. in his first in his first comments about his son s guilty plea, president biden he says he s very proud of his son. but elected republicans including house speaker kevin mccarthy they paint the whole thing as a sham really, calling it a sweetheart deal and evidence of bias at the justice department. let me bring in cnn s paula reid, she has more on this. paula, attorney general merrick