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Act. he asked the prosecution if the plea deal would protect the administration from future fara related questions. they did not answer that question. why do you think they didn t answer that question? this is a big problem. this was all supposed to be scripted did was supposed to be easy. it s off script anything but teasey. the judge raised the one charge that the white house most fears which is the chance that hunter was a foreign agent. and if he was a foreign agent, the question foreign agent for who and for what purpose? the president was that purpose. if you are influence peddling, it s influence over the president. so if you go for fara, it s going to bring all of this stuff in. including some of these tax accounts for 2014 and 15 that the department of justice allowed to run, allowed the statute of limitations to expire. gillian: right. all of that can get boot strapped into a fara issue. the whole purpose of this deal is collapsing as we re watching ....
It. and it s taken washington by utter surprise. i was on the hill talking with members and everyone was floored. gillian: everyone was from capitol hill to the news stations. i want to ask you about this quickly before i let you go. there was this kerfuffle last night, politico describes it this way: judge says a member of hunter biden s legal team, quote, misrepresented her identity on the eve of the plea deal hearing. i know they are not directly related is there any sense in the legal community about what happened last night created a sort of domino effect where the judge felt the prosecution team maybe was not acting in good faith or sort of tainted the waters. the thing it collapsed on was the lack of any real foundation. the judge basically cleared her throat and the whole thing came down that issue the clerk saying ....
Is there any power a judge would have? a judge would have power on a plea agreement, but again, as i have thought about this today, these are two misdemeanor tax failure to file charges. and so, that would typically be handled as part of the misdemeanor document. obviously a district district court judge could take that case over themselves and decided. in a typical plea arrangement in 11 c1 see where a judge has to approve it got would be the entire federal system. right now the way that this has been set up appears to me and my experience, kayleigh, that this is intentionally being made in this manner so the federal judge might not be able to undo it are reject it. on that point there were some reporting about a judge that would oversee this case. the judges name was maryellen, a trump appointed judge. she is just overseeing the gun component of this, the felony and diversion agreement that ....
In homicide, the homicide team and the fbi, which brought great resources in terms of cell phone tracking, video analysis, profilers, and so forth. a lot of work went into this. maryellen, what stands out to you? well, several things stand out because they come together like a puzzle. and the first thing is that we ve all been commenting on the fact that here s a phd studying in criminology and he left behind a very significant piece of evidence from which they were able to extract dna. then you have the information from the cameras, and then you have the information from the cell towers that pinged on his phone. these were mistakes that are not consistent with somebody that is smarter than everybody else and knows more than anybody else. so, you know, i think it puts into perspective, for me, that just because you re studying for a phd in criminology does not ....