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
Helped us fill in these blanks. but in some ways it s more damaging because they developed from independent sources and describe the same system. the 1023 form says is that they were told not to give money directly to joe biden but to use this labyrinth of corporations and accounts to hide the payments. that s why this is all so serious. in some ways the bidens have been too successful because if they kept all of these things separate but they are all approaching the same descriptive conclusions as to what occurred. bill: thanks to all of you. we ll hand off to our colleague harris faulkner in a moment her, professor turley, andrew, andy, byron and james and anyone else we re forgetting. thanks for that. catch more on the ufo hearing happening on capitol hill. hunter biden is 53 years old. he reached a settlement with the
Attorney who said the investigation is continuing. hunter s lawyers says no, it is closed. do we actually know what s happening? i don t think we do know. in fact, mr. weiss has made contradictory statements throughout the month of june about the scope of his authority with regard to this investigation and essentially where it could go. i think the big question i ve always had in terms of the ambiguity of mr. weiss s authority, what authority he had to investigate burisma and ukraine and hedge fund in china and whether president biden was involved in that as a vice president. we have to go back to the words of joe biden who said my son has done nothing wrong. we now know joe biden was wrong about that and we also know that he was at least present for many of the conversations that hunter biden was having with these i guess sketchy individuals overseas. i like to put it in those simple terms so that we understand
But the reason i can t believe that this was scandalous is the woman the lawyer who called used her own name and her point was not to keep information away from the court, it was to keep it off the public record. that s not something that s important enough to lie about or to commit a big fraud about. this information is going to be in front of the court and as others have pointed out, it was already testified to publicly. so the question is should it be part of the public record in the court file or not, which is kind of a small potatoes thing in the greater scheme of thing. dana: we ll find out what happened. bill: whether or not this is the reason why it s taking this long. james freeman, welcome to the conversation and the brady bunch. what is your observation? i suppose the judge will decide whether any hunter biden lawyers need to be sanctioned. the story of this story for three years and more has been an aggressive biden effort to keep