attorney who had been held over by joe biden s administration to continue this investigation. it has looked at everything from money laundering, from this potential violation of the foreign agent s registration act, the drug issues, and of course the tax issues, and what the justice department was saying, there is some aspect that s still ongoing, still being investigated and really hunter biden has some legal jeopardy over. that s why she has these concerns. she wants to make sure that anyone agreeing to plead guilty, they understand what they re agreeing to. in the end, if that is not buttoned up, it raises constitutional questions, obviously for the defendant. what appears now is going to happen is that the two sides will go back to the table, try to work out what it is that they can agree to, and then they can
credible testimony. as far as what david weiss may have said or not said is going to in the weeks ahead. we want to get to the truth. all congressmen, including democrats have to make sure that hunter biden is held accountable who is not joe biden, and they re taking steps to do that. as we speak, kind of the unravel of the case in front of us i think in the days ahead we ll find out where this will all end. congressman, we hear your point about hunter biden being a private citizen. obviously, there are questions whether behavior that he s alleged to have committed is actually criminal or simply unethical. but does it concern you that the son of a former vice president, and current president, was allegedly on the phone with, for example, a chinese businessman, or sending text messages, i should say to a chinese businessman saying he s sitting next to his father, that if he
they are independence deals, and they ve made it clear. david weiss was kept on to maintain a continuity. jack smith, who is overseeing the donald trump investigation, was put in place as special counsel to remove the question of conflicts. they are fully independent, and any other justice department, the mere fact there s two high-profile cases doesn t mean they re handled in the same way. you used the term pr. it s still a matter that the justice department has to confront, the mere fact that looming out there is the prospect of charges for the president. what if president trump were tried today? that the grand jury is
scrutinized the specific provisions of deal, and asked some pretty challenging questions to both sides, she sort of teased out that hunter biden s team and the justice department weren t actually in the same place on a key question of whether or not he could be charged with future crimes related to some of his foreign work. at that point, like you mentioned, the deal seemed to be off. they asked for a recess. they tried to get together. receive an agreement. they did come back and told the judge, basically, that they were all good. ready to move forward, they had settled their disagreements. and that s when she took the reins. she had concerns, still remaining, specifically about the provisions of the deal to resolve the felony gun charge that hunter biden would have been charged with, because he was in possession of a firearm while being a drug addict. the questions that the judge had were about important that deal is even constitutional. she repeatedly asked is this
should be held accountable, and i think all of us agree on that, but hunter biden is not joe biden. the focus needs to stay on hunter congressman, what do you make of the allegations from the irs whistl whistle-blowers, that the u.s. attorney in this case, david weiss, made comments in private that he ultimately didn t have the power to decide if hunter biden was going to face specific charges? how do you interpret their testimony? well, look, i obviously heard the irs whistle-blower testimony as well. i mean, much of that hearing, unfortunately, was a whistle-blower circus. i think what we ought to keep in mind is on the oversight side, much of the witnesses have been brought forward by representative comer, by the chairman of the committee, by some of the hearings topping out on the judiciary side as well have been a big circus. and we have not really had