Transcripts For FOXNEWS The Faulkner Focus 20240906 : compar

Transcripts For FOXNEWS The Faulkner Focus 20240906

President of the united states, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, as we just saw moments ago live with Bill And Dana back in Court Today for his second trial this year. Jury selection in his federal Tax Trial begins about an hour from now. The jury will decide if Hunter Biden is on the hook for allegedly failing to pay more than 1 Million in federal taxes, all while he spent a Boat Load of cash on extravagant lifestyle. You are in the faulkner focus. The unsavory details of Joe Bidens son and his behavior are set to be a Focal Point of this trial just like they were during his federal Gun Case back in june. Hunter biden is facing nine counts of tax fraud, three of them are felonies. The maximum Prison Sentence for him would be 17 years. Opening statements are expected to begin on monday. Former federal prosecutor and drew says buckle up. The first trial of Hunter Biden was salacious in your mind. The second one will knock your socks off, i think. I think its a tall task for the defense to establish here. It is not just a onetime event like we saw in the Gun Case that spanned maybe a couple of weeks. This is years and years, multiple times of not filing the taxes properly. Not paying it and misreporting wildly in the expenses that he claimed as business expenses. Harris President Biden promised he will not pardon his son before he leaves office. Here he is just days after the Tax Investigation was revealed. President biden im confident. Harris in Focus Phil Holloway former assistant district attorney. Phil, he is confident, the president of the united states is confident his son did nothing wrong. You, however, i understand feel like it is a foregone conclusion that he did something wrong. Well of course, good morning, harris, great to be with you. Everybody knows that hookers, Porn And Crack cocaine are not legitimate tax deductions, business writeoffs. Thats what the government said he tried to do. The math issue. They know how much money that he made. They know how much money he owed and they know how much money he, according to the government, illegally deducted from his tax returns. So i think if you look at it like that, mathematically speaking, harris, Guilt Or Innocence should be a foregone conclusion. But they are going the try to get jury nullification. They will try to get at least one juror to feel sorry for Hunter Biden because he was a victim of his addiction. So they are trying to get in all of that kind of thing. I think the judge is going to tamp it down. Thats what the defense is going for. Harris i want to talk about Special Treatment and bring in now Karrie Urbahn Fox legal expert. Given what phil said, jury nullification, if they go for that can they win and is it any kind of gate of what weve seen with this man before, a whole lot of Special Treatment because he is the son of president Joe Biden, i would imagine . Yes. And i actually think the Department Of Justice is going to be far more aggressive than they normally would be because they have to rehabilitate their reputation after giving hunter that Plea Deal of a lifetime that was exposed by simple questioning of the judge that we all watched unfold about a year ago. Two, the political stakes arent there anymore. Joe biden is out of the race. So they have everything to gain and nothing to lose by showing they are not going to give him Special Treatment even though they have before. One other point, harris, at the top you mentioned you played some sound from Joe Biden saying his son has done nothing wrong. I think it gets glossed over too much and here is why. Attorney general garland reports to president Joe Biden. So when biden makes those comments, it is highly inappropriate because it can be interpreted as a directive to d. O. J. What to do in this case. If i was a d. O. J. And this was the Trump Barr white House And Department of justice i would have been blown up from Phone Calls with the press whether they were talking or whether the White House was directing. None of that from most of the press. Harris thats as it should be. It should be happening here. There should be a ton of questions about the sort of as the It Communication going on between the president and his d. O. J. Right now. When he speaks, the whole world listens. Do you think Merrick Garland doesnt . Phil, lets tap back into the politics of this. Karrie set it up well. My question goes to well, if the politics arent at stake and they are trying to rehabilitate their reputation as attorneys, that might have been why there might have been some pressure thats two might haves, pressure on Joe Biden as he was thinking what will we do next, am i staying at the top of the ticket. Not a lot of Tea Leaves to read. He is gone. Interesting if this was coming anyway. Look, harris, in terms of politics, i think there is a big question about why the government neglected and failed to charge Hunter Biden with the foreign Agent Registration issues, that would have allowed them to get into a lot more of the Source And Nature of all this revenue. If they did that, would it have potentially touched on the big guy, touched on President Biden himself . And is that a Politicaltype Motivation to not charge Hunter Biden with things that i think they could have and probably should have . Because it certainly narrows the things. The judge has said he isnt letting that stuff in. If he had been charged it would have been relevant and all come in. In terms of politics, the landscape has changed. The president , i think, previously said he had no plans to pardon his son. But i dont rule out in fact, ill go on record here. I predict there will be a pardon of Hunter Biden after the election. It would not come before the election, but i believe that there is a really good chance it will happen after the election. Harris i caught that, too. Kerri, the promise he made before he was removed from the top of the ticket from the elite in his party and his Vice President jumped over him to run for the White House, if you will. He doesnt have to keep that promise as a Campaign Promise anymore not to pardon his son. Not at all. I agree with phil. I think it is probably likely he will. Whats the worst that will happen to Joe Biden . Not like he is coming back. His political career is over. He will sustain 24 hours of criticism and a oneline entry in his Wikipedia Profile online. There is not much to lose to do that. He could also potentially commute Hunter Bidens sentence. The thing is Hunter Biden would have to be sentenced first in order for him to do that. Sometimes that takes time. We see this in the case of Donald Trump, right . Convicted early in june. Sentencing is not until a couple of weeks from now. Well certainly see what happens. To phils other point about farah, the fact that the Department Of Justice never charged hunter with not registering as a foreign Agent Gal vanitying around the world is mindboggling when you consider just yesterday the Department Of Justice charged two russians for not registering under fara and creating a fake media company. They can do it when they want to. Harris no doubt. Right now former President Trumps federal Election Interference Case is also in court. Todays Status Conference is the first time the legal teams will meet since the u. S. Supreme court had its Immunity Ruling and special Counsel Jack smiths revised indictment. Both sides present their cases for a Start Date for the trial and the timing is really critical, 61 days until Novembers Election day. Smith did not push for the trial to begin before then but leaving the decision up to the judge. Early notes from our team inside the courtroom, the judge said the court is not concerned about the electoral schedule and it is not something she is going to consider. Critics are calling all the legal action against the former president politically motivated lawfare and a clear case of Election Interference. Attorney Leo Terrell who was with me yesterday. Every time the democrats or Jack Smith tries to go after trump in court it backfires. The american people understand that the legal system against trump is solely against him because he is running for president. Harris your reaction to that, phil. I think leo is exactly right. There is no way that this judge is going to get a trial in before the election. It is just not possible. There is going to be notwithstanding the changes in this indictment, there is still going to be challenges by the Trump Team as to issues of president ial immunity. Those things require hearings and the Supreme Court left us with very little guidance on how to interpret and apply their ruling. What is the burden of proof . Is it clear an convincing evidence . What is the scope. The judge has to make the decisions. Those decisions could be appealed pretrial and so we may see these issues in this case get back to the Court Of Appeals or u. S. Supreme court before there can be any trial. There is just feasibly no way logistically to make it happen before the election. Harris getting back to the politics for a second in all of this. I dont think the trial happening before November 5th is necessarily a goal for the left. Maybe the goal is just to get a date so going into that debate you have something to say. You know he has this Court Date Coming Up and he was found guilty on Blah Blah Blah and it gives them a Talking Point. Thats the political side thats a possibility. It does. There will still be action whether trump wins or doesnt win between the election and inauguration. So the timing is very fluid. I agree a trial is almost impossible to happen before election. Its not just immunity that trump can argue. There was another case that didnt get as much attention at the Supreme Court handed down in june where she said a January 6th defendant could not be charged with obstructing an official proceeding. Just evidence tampering and things like that. Thats one of the biggest charges the Department Of Justice has brought against Donald Trump. So in light of that Supreme Court decision, i dont even know how that sticks going forward. That would significantly diminish what has been brought against him. Harris we started off with two greats from the legal department. We appreciate you. Thank you so much. Israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahue On Fox this morning doubling down on what he had to say over the White House and the world being more critical of israel than of the hamas terrorists. And here we go again, russia, russia, russia. The Bidenharris Justice Department accusing russia of Election Interference days before voters in several key states begin casting early ballots. Russia Collusion Thing . It cast a cloud over President Trumps entire presidency. Still members of the mainstream media that still believe it. Harris democrats are dusting off the same old stale playbook. Congressman Mike Waltz in focus next. Ruri ichi, ni, san, shi. 1,2,3,4. ruri ichi, ni, san, shi. 1,2,3,4. hina ichi, ni, san, shi. 1,2,3,4. akari ichi, ni, san, shi. 1,2,3,4. others ichi, ni, san, shi. 1,2,3,4. others ichi, ni, san, shi. 1,2,3,4. you were made to chase your passions. We were made to put them in a package. Unfortunately we know that russia is not the only foreign power seeking to interfere in our elections. We have observed increasingly aggressive iranian activity during this election cycle. We will be relentlessly aggressive in countering and disrupting attempts by russia and iran, as well as china or any other foreign Malign Actor to interfere in our elections and undermine our democracy. Harris the headline in all of that is the Bidenharris Administration said Yesterday Russia is trying to influence the 2024 president ial election. Yesterday the Justice Department issued formal indictments. Alleged scheme is targeting voters through online platforms in u. S. Based social media influencers. Part two of this whole chapters. Some of that disinformation mentioned in the indictment includes Russias Use of the terms record inflation, crime coming for people of color and immigrants, over spending on foreign Policy And Risk of Job Loss for white americans. Journalist Mike Shellenberger with some key questions. The main issue here is that we have this continued we have this record of the Department Of Justice Running Russian Disinformation hoaxes twice, not once. The first time claiming that the russians favored trump when we now know that they favored clinton. And then the second time the Hunter Biden laptop where we now know that the f. B. I. Ran a Disinformation Effort to make people think it was about the russians. So nobody should trust blindly the Department Of Justice when it says anything about russia. Harris well, some recent headlines offer a similar view to what he is talking about. The daily caller, biden administration revives russian Election Interference boogeyman in time for november. The new York Post went after the administration for Turning A Blind Eye to another foe, the Editorial Board writing biden goes all in on russiagate 2. 0 while ignoring chinas Creeping Attacks on democracy and former Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo with this. White house put blinders on as china infiltrated our government. Thats referred to the accused chinese Double Agent working for democratic new York Governor kathy hochul. They did so much more. They were flying spy ball ounce. Setting up their own Police Precincts in america. China is here. Lets bring in Mike Waltz of the house foreign affairs committees. What china has done

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