on the wrist in terms of the punishment he faces. some legal trouble suddenly for his legal team ahead of the court appearance today in federal court. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. so we don t know if this is what s clogged the wheels on getting this thing done more expeditiously. and what some legal experts have said, this would be an also ran when the judge ink this and get the plea deal, special treatment and all the preferentialal treatment and go on with his life. however, the judge now believes a member of hunter biden s legal team concealed her identity to try to get a clerk to seal certain information in the case. team biden apologized, called it all a misunderstanding. house judiciary chair jim jordan said this. that was the whole reason chairman smith sent the testimony, the transcripts from mr. shapley and ziegler to the court so the court could ex appear inthat as part of this deal. what s been reported about the folks on the biden tea
lying. very high stakes for hunter biden and for his father, joe biden. there has been a lot of shenanigans going into minimizing any penalty for many years of tax let s call them irregularities. alleged tax evasion. now it will come to a head this morning. dana: former federal prosecutor is here and james freeman from the wall street journal with reaction. we begin with jonathan turley, fox news contributor. a big moment we ve been waiting to see what will happen. i think in the last few days people thought well the judge will accept this and move on. is that in question this morning? well, it can be because of the trouble last night where the court gave hunter biden s legal team a deadline over an alleged ethical violation. they were accused by the clerk apparently of misrepresenting who they represented in order to get material removed from public access. material damaging to hunter biden on the record. it s not clear how the court will react to that. it doesn t ne
Mother of his child in arkansas and now he is trying to put these matters behind him. we re about to find out whether or not he is successful. dana: this hearing start evidence at 10:00 a.m. these are usually routine matters. we re now at 11:00 hour and harris faulkner will take you through to the next little bit of this and you are expected the hear from hunter biden when he comes out. here is harris. harris: we continue our breaking news coverage. as dana said we re at the 11:00 hour just like the saying the 11th hour for president biden s son, hunter. who is in federal court and he has been there since 10:00 a.m. eastern. we are at that point in the saga around hunter biden s criminal life when a judge will either ink his so-called sweetheart plea deal or reject it. that would be huge if she did that. hunter biden is there to plead guilty to tax charges and a slap