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over a disagreement about how to handle a more serious felony gun charge and then questions about additional potential charges down the road. the question right now is whether or not the two sides can actually work things out or whether this means hunter could actually be headed to trial later on this year. a lot to get to. let s get into it. mike memoli outside the courthouse for us in delaware, peter baker chief white house correspondent for the new york times joining us, also an msnbc political analyst, harry litman as well, former deputy assistant attorney general and a professor of constitutional law at ucla. i know we re getting some new reporting in now, court back in session. what do we know? well, yasmin, this agreement that was the result of a five-year investigation by the u.s. attorney here in delaware was supposed to be on a glide path to conclusion here, the proceedings today an opportunity for the judge to really stress test that agreement, and it app ....
because people have known this response would be coming. it was very clear from the attack last sunday when three american service personnel were killed in effectively a countdown clock started in the region. the various american spokesman saying during the weekend, american officials that the response would come. and very clearly had to be different from the kind of responses that america has used before. it has previously retaliated against attacks by these iranian backed militia by striking locations like weapons storage facilities, training grounds and so on. i think what president biden was trying to do tonight very clearly was to signal that this was a different order of magnitude. 85 targets being hit in one series of strikes. us officials have been emphasising that this is just the officials have been emphasising that this isjust the beginning. this will be a multitiered response. over several days, at several locations. the difficulty, i think, for the white ho ....
further evidence about the manner in which of supervision and after care of child migrants, and the debates and grounds are concerned within volu nta ry and grounds are concerned within voluntary organisations. during that hearing you will hear from representatives of the key institutions and organisations involved in the child migration programmes. we expect you will hear further evidenced in part two from oliver cosgrove and david hill and octagon free is, who will give further evidence about what she has described as early warnings and missed opportunities and doctor humphreys. the experts will also impart to provide more evidence about reports of sexual abuse at several specific institutions, about issues of knowledge and response more generally. turning briefly to some logistical issues about the evidence, as you have said it is anticipated some evidence will be live, someone will be read, someone will be by video link. it is anticipated the majority of question ....
Issues that had nothing to do with his father, nothing to do with, you know, abuse of government may, in fact, still be an open question. let s talk more about that, peter, because this is obviously going to be very much a part of the 2024 presidential election . you re looking at the white house, we re looking at the press briefing with press secretary karine jean-pierre any moment going to be taking questions. this is just going to throw political fuel on the fire for the white house inside of an election year who thought this thing was going to be behind them. yeah, the biden camp would like today to have been the last day of this. it wasn t that big of a deal in the end, hunter is paying the price for his mistakes. it has nothing to do with whether or not joe biden is fit to be president. that is no longer the case, given that the prosecution has indicate that had this investigation may still be ongoing, that will just raise questions politically as well as legally, and it will ....