colleague katy tur will interview the attorney for hunter biden, abbe lowell about the new indictment against the president s son. katy tur reports starts right now good to be with you. i m katy tur. would he be facing criminal charges if he were not the president s son? hunter biden s lawyers argue their client is only being federally indicted because his last name is biden. and because the now special counsel appointed to investigate him faced enormous pressure from republicans to help them make hunter biden a campaign issue. after all, his team argues, prosecutor david weiss looked into hunter biden for five years, and only decided to indict now after the plea deal fell apart. we ll get to the bottom of how much those arguments hold water in a moment with chuck rosenberg, but first, we will exclusively speak with hunter biden s attorney, abbe lowell. let s lay out what david weiss says he found. there are nine counts in the 56 page indictment, including three felony
That s a very difficult place to be. you have two cross-currents right now. and republicans might have to actually pick one to ride down on 18 months from now. ari? briefly, john. in georgia six, the special election on june the 20th, heavily republican district where the democrat has a chance to win, donald trump s approval rating is only about one in three approving. when if is that low in a republican district it s not an encouraging sign for republicans. that s quite a data point. john harwood and mark murray, thank you both. we re just getting started on our bay area version of the point. the gop s go-to explanation for anything with trump. then the special report i told you about from our msnbc legal unit on the question on so many people s minds. if the russian meddling was illegal, what are the exact crimes we are talking about? we have a report on eight federal statutes that could
When you leave with your values i think we do well, too. i want to see how that changes over time. heidi? this is a moral victory like in kansas. moral victories are important but look iing at the map where you actually win between now and the midterms that will give us an indication that this is actually going somewhere, that this is translating into electoral victories? i m looking at montana and then south carolina. those don t look much better. this seems to have been your best shot of actually winning. well, we have a run-off on june the 20th and our candidate has roughly 48% to 49% of the vote going into the run-off and we have still votes out there that are moderates because they re going to see this, karen handel is far to the right. she is someone who said i don t support the affordable care act. when that vote to repeal the affordable care act comes up, she s on the side of the tea party. 17% of the american public
Requests for documents. some of the subpoenas from congress so he said he s going to meet with congressional regulators on monday to hash that out. i think the real question here is exactly what his definition of compliance is. what we ve seen so far and what a lot of congressional republicans have been jobbing to. justice is running an internal investigation into which they ve produced about 80,000 documents, but actually only turned over about 7600 to congress. so, that s just an enormous gap and i think that that s what people are going to be looking for, what he s actually willing to show now. is the expression stonewalling legit? i think it s certainly legitima legitimate. there s no question this has been an incredibly political operation, one that s not willing to participate and what is a purposely appropriate exercise. there s a contempt vote for june the 20th. what s your judgment on the wisdom of that and whether to go forward? i think the republicans are in an awkwa