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talked to his attorney general yet. that s right. reporter: i had a chance to catch up with kellyannec conway. i asked her whether or not the president views this decision as some sort of set back or defeat. she didn t exactly answer that question, but here s what she had to say. this is a defeat? do you see this as a setback? he sees it as the statute provides a president with great latitude and authority to protect the citizens and protect the nation s national security. this was not argued on the merits. now that we ll have an opportunity to argue on the merits, we look forward to doing that. i think his tweet was perfect when he said, we ll see you in court. there you go. some confidence being expressed by kellyanne conway at the white house. not a lot new in terms of arguments being laid out by the white house in response to this, just the very tough talk that we re going to see you in court. that is not exactly going to win the day at the supreme court. i asked kel ....
investigation of russian interference into the u.s. election and other matters. it s up to mueller to decide the other matters, to include the firing of the fbi director. michael flynn, a meeting between the fbi director and the president in the white house. just to be clear, the fbi investigation that s been going on, that was under director comey, that continues and that is what mueller is overseeing? he has oversight over the entire probe as it were. you re not going to stop any activity in the fbi anymore, you ve got a whole team there, and that s something you ve heard from the acting fbi director, as they search for a new director, that they re continuing their work. i have spoke to people inside the bureau, but this is a very independent-minded mueller. one other thing i ll note. i have been talking to people around washington in reaction to this, yes, comey s out, if you huge development today. just two days ago, white house press secretary spicer says frankly ....
Perspective, other than continuing to send ukraine a blank check. john: one of the things that will probably come up in the conversation is the investigation into hunter biden as we pivot away from the news out of russia. and i know that you and the chairman of the ways and means and judiciary committees sent a letter to michael horowitz, the inspector general at the department of justice about thep investigation that he was supposed to be conducting into the whistleblower allegations that there were some not so much above board actions that were taking place at the doj in terms of the hunter biden investigation. you quoted from his response to you, he said we, this is him at the inspector general s office, are mindful of the potential limitation on the oig jurisdiction which requires my office to refer to doj office of profession nat responsibility allegations of misconduct involving department attorneys, investigators or law enforcement personnel where the allegations relate to th ....
Apart this week. they were colluding. the white house was hoping this would go away. the white house was caught off guard when the press secretary was asked if joe biden would ever offer a pardon to his son with his presidential powers because they weren t expecting it to get to the level of needing a pardon. now moving forward in court, the justice department attorneys, prosecutors said that hunter biden was still under investigation for possible fara violations. so now they re in this position we do they go forward with the fara violations? it s not just that hunter biden took money. he founded a chinese company with a ceo of china. many people have gone to prison for being a foreign agent. the white house wanted the hunter biden issue to be behind them, to disconnect it from joe biden and now we re seeing all of these new connections and we ll see testimony next week ....
Hunter biden s attorneys and the prosecution whether she had the power to essentially make the justice department go back and re-do this investigation if there is any part of it that she finds lacking and the answer from both sides is no. the justice department attorneys in there said that, you know, this could be addressed through the political process which we expect is exactly what is going to happen here, rahel. we expect that the judge who is a trump appointee mary ellen will accept the recommendation from the prosecution that they accept this plea deal. hunter biden would plead to two misdemeanors for failing to file his taxes in 2017 and 2018, and then she ll take up the question of the sentence. at this point, prosecutors are recommending probation, no jail time and so one of the things that has come up is whether she can ask for a more severe sentence. that s, of course, up to the judge. the judge makes the final ....