attorney s office blocked or at least slow-walked the investigation into hunter biden. now, courtesy of the house oversight s committee s investigation we now know that at least one top attorney in david weiss office had close, personal and professional ties to the biden family. huh meet alexander mackler a 2014 grad of william and mary law school. the school reports mackler s linkedin page appears he has spent years working in the delaware s attorney s office including the months when whistleblowers in the office took up an investigation of hunter biden. but was he really that close to the bidens? i mean, come on. i mean, this is just not at all. he was just the press secretary for senator joe biden. he has just the legal counsel for v.p. joe biden and in 2010 he was only the manager of the late beau biden s for delaware s a.g. all before joining weiss office as they were kicking off the investigation into hunter biden and it gets even better. mackler worked on the biden-h
getting harder and harder to explain. hunter biden is a private citizen and this was done in an independent way. the department of justice is independent, we give them space to be independent and respect the rule of law. who knew she did stand-up? the details of the deflufrnth hunter biden plea show how far the legal system will bend to accommodate and protect the bidens. rule of law is an afterthought for these people. after combing through the plea agreement and the transcript of yesterday s court proceedings, the angle understand the concerted effort to keep it all from the public. the most daming provision would have granted broad immunity to hunter biden. it would have covered every crime he may have committed during the relevant time period, presumably stuff regarding his lucrative business dealings in ukraine, china, romania and god knows where else. this is an explosive development and begs the question, if all these relationships he had with foreign business inte
fell apart pleaded not guilty. there was no deal. it was the judge under the doj that had major questions about the plea deal that led to the shocking breakdown here. jason smith last night made a last-minute appeal to the court to shut down this plea deal based on the new whistle-blower testimony and increasing evidence that has come out in this case. he s standing by with his reaction to what infolded in there. first, to griff jenkins outside the court in wilmington, delaware. hi, griff. hi, martha. what a day it has been. we thought it was a routine plea deal. took about 30 minutes. not so. three hour of probing questions from the judge and, of course, she s not accepting that plea deal for now and hunter biden pleading not guilty for now. we re also just now getting the score the courtroom sketches. we can show you those, if we can put them up. see our courtroom sketch artist doing some remarkable artwork there because we couldn t have cameras inside. we couldn t have
values of this party. this is an attempt to censor me. it s antithetical to our party. it s appalling to my father, to my uncle. we need to be able to talk and the first amendment was not written for easy speech. it was written for the speech that nobody likes you for. martha: that was just the beginning. he joins us in moments live. plus, john kirby will join us on set in moments from the white house. he will be here in the studio as well. today we re hearing more from one of hunter biden s whistle-blower s. joe zeigler was the person whose name had been was disclosed yesterday. he was known as mr. x till now. he tells cbs news what happens when he and his team at the irs felt that they needed to investigate president biden. watch. any time we potentially wanted to go down the road of asking questions relate to the president, it was that s going to take too much approvals. martha: what does that mean? the attorney for the other whistle-blower, gary shapley joins me i
bail entirely. it s going to make crime worse. you are taking away the motivation for officers to catch criminals to show that there s consequences for action. historic flooding disseminated kentucky. flash flooding swept buildings off their foundation and put entire towns under water. rescue crews race against the clock to reach the hardest hit areas. 7, 13, 10, 24, 11. your powerball number is 24. one lucky person wins the $1 billion powerball jackpot. powerball s third largest prize in the game s history. ainsley: we begin with a stunning prediction from house oversight committee chairman james comer who expects to uncover even more wire transfers from foreign sources to biden family members. brian: all right. this comes after the explosive testimony from two irs whistleblowers. it was riveting. one says the biden family and associates may have received more than $17 million from overseas. steve: that s a big number. lucas tomlinson is live in our nation s