Is still under federal investigation. This comes after the two irs whistleblowers testify politics influence the doj decision throughout the biden investigation. The trouble does not stop there for hunter. His former associate devin archer is expected to sit for closed door testimony with the House Oversight Committee Committee tomorrow. Former National Intelligence joins me now, john ratcliffe, acting attorney from the great state. Welcomes john ratcliffe. It was a big week, something unusual in the words of the federal judge take place, the plea deal fell apart and were in a position where it looks like the department of justice colluded with hunter biden attorneys to get him this deal and the judge simply read through it and found things she thought were unconstitutional or hidden in the wrong places. Why is that . John a lot of us thought the judge would reject the plea, the judges look at conduct, this was unprecedented. At the hearing, we learned the biggest takeaway, joe bidens
Justices, on the federal bench and now with the so-called, ethics reform push by democrats in the senate specifically in the senate judiciary committee, they are now targeting him and demanding that he turn over private information about his friendship longtime relationship with justice still either, and is are having none of it. no enemy just say this, i think americans owe a debt of gratitude to him much as a question of judicial selection, the question of venerating the constitution pulling the constitutional principles and obviously, the senate the white house is been driving this effort, as degrees with his view of point of the constitution and have a debate, and recently you want but using the allegedly investigated power or retaliatory purposes to intimidate not just mr. leo about conservative justices as
Immunity, trying to make it so he couldn t be prosecute said in the future and they panicked and said he was under investigation for fara, foreign registration act. do you believe the justice department, given they were on the same team to get hunter biden the deal are actually investigating him for that? john: i think we should all be skeptical of that. this is probably the most politically corrupt case i ve ever seen. the department of justice and fbi investigators in the matter were cutting off lines of inquiry into witnesses or tipping off witnesses and are wells about subpoenas and offering unicorn type pre-trial diversion no one had heard of and the judge called them out on that.
Well and undermine the criticism and reputation of the supreme court and remember all those statements about how conservatives supposedly are promoting this respect prince additions to be more disrespect will be false claims about spring court ethics pretty i can tell you but the history of the supreme court, not a single justice has been not only is not engaged in any unethical or correct activities. use about this only when justice, is a - liberal justice by the way, who did accept improper payments when he was in the court, but nobody suggested that he had anyway change his opinions about it sweetie well essentially come the present been arguing try to get this poison pill in the minds of americans that only conservative supreme court justices are somehow corrupt and i think you take bribes and they cannot trust the institution therefore
So this for attorney general merrick garland, for christopher wray, for u.s. attorney weiss, they ought to be ashamed, another huge black eye for the doj. hunter biden s legal issues and where this goes, i think the more significant issue is political ramifications of this deal falling apart. biden justice department and biden white house expected everyone to be in a position, justice was served, republicans, it was time to move on and now as you talked about, we have witnesses like devin archer and if reports are accurate, if he gives a first-hand account under oath and says i was there and