news in the hunter biden case, the president s son pleading not guilty in his tax case after his original plea deal with prosecutors fell apart. we have team coverage of the minute-to-minute drama in the courtroom. nbc s tom winter is following this for us. also with me, msnbc legal analyst, and former assistant d.a. at the manhattan district attorney s office, catherine christian. washington post congressional investigations reporter, jacqueline alemany, and elise jordan, an msnbc political analyst. thanks for joining us, guys, appreciate it. tom, start us off. what happened? reporter: well, the quote from judge mary ellen, i can t accept or reject in plea agreement after a multi-hour hearing today. the judge essentially saying this agreement that you-all have come up with, i have some legal problems with. i m not going to accept it. i m not going to tell you it s
michael schmidt, and washington post congressional investigations reporter, jackie alemany. it s good to see you both. appreciate the by lines on these articles. let s go with you first, michael. prosecutors said in court papers filed on friday that they are set to give trump s defense team evidence suggesting ongoing investigations that could identify uncharged individuals. this is part of the discovering process. can you comment on what those other inquiries might be? and whether they re related to the federal indictment against trump? so, we don t know. we know that in this investigation, the special counsel has looked at a conduct of a wide range of individuals. in the end, the special counsel settled on bringing an indictment against trump. and his valet, now, that does not mean that others in the investigation did not have criminal exposure. that doesn t mean that, like many other investigations, this could spawn other offshoots. so, in that sense, look, this
going to be part of this case for some time to come. and certainly the judge seemed familiar with mr. kise as a former solicitor general in florida and is licensed to practice in the southern district of florida. to answer neal s question, though, with respect to nauta, it is one of the local rules here that only an attorney who is not only licensed to practice in this broader jurisdiction of florida but a member of the southern florida district bar can enter a plea. others for temporary permission to participate in a case on a case specific basis, and stanwood ward didn t even have anyone to sponsor his application for that status because he is not affiliated with local counsel here. it s amazing that the country s last president wasn t able to help out with any of that. let me bring in someone who is reporting covers just what we re talking about. our friend washington post congressional investigations reporter jackie alemany. you have the definitive piece of reporting on this lo
mags. they re not going to hurt me. if you know right? yeah. absolutely. and i m glad you brought it up because i think all of this flows from trump hating the fbi because the fbi wouldn t do his bidding and the fbi did pursue the russian connection and ironically one of the three witnesses on the table today who they called a whistleblower has, guess what, russian connections. they always do. congressman connolly, thank you for joining us today. unbelievable day up on capitol hill. we re grateful to talk to you about it. let me bring into our coverage from the washington post congressional investigations reporter jackie allah mayry in, fbi assistant director for counterintelligence frank sa gu zi. harry littman here, u.s. special correspondent for bbc katty kay is here. let me start with you frank. this is projection, deflection, but also feels like something
this whole house paralysis thing has given us a preview into what the next two years could look like with the house controlled by republicans considering the civil war in the party on full display. here s how mike lawler put it earlier today on this network. it looks like a game of chicken, but the bottom line here is this, the vast majority of the republican conference supporting kevin mccarthy for speaker. and we are not going to allow the conference to be held hostage by a handful of members. joining us now is washington post congressional investigations reporter, david jolly is back with us along with brendan buck. you noted in the post this morning that what we re seeing play out is the, quote, culmination of an internal divide that had in the past helped bring down the speakerships of republicans john boehner and paul ryan with members of the conservative house freedom caucus asking for a range of demands in exchange