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
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
About hunter s former business partner devon archer and his testimony next week that may have allegedly involved president biden himself. meanwhile, we got late information yesterday that there was a potential misrepresentation on hunter biden s legal team, a member of the law firm calling the clerk s office here asking the amicus brief not be considered and possibly misrepresenting herself. that individual issuing a statement to the court saying that they have no idea how this misrepresentation possibly could have occurred. we know from the judge s order she was possibly threatening sanctions that would have been dealt with from the beginning. one thing is for sure, this amicus brief now late in the 11th hour playing a possible part of it. we ll see. ultimately whether or not this judge accepts the plea deal,
This moment exactly what has transpired in the more than 30 minutes because of what has come to light in the last 24 hours. we do not have a camera, there are no cameras inside this courthouse. there are no electronics. our producer, jake gibson, is in there witnessing it but can t send us text messages. we re waiting with quite anticipation to see what happens and when hunter comes out, exactly what we ll learn. what has transpired in the last 24 hours to reset things for you is that what was going to be a fairly routine plea deal we have learned that the house republicans, chairman of the ways and means committee issued an amicus brief asking them to take note of the i.r.s. whistleblower testimony information that was not public at the time of the plea deal that was reached. of course, the developments
The questions and then boom the tape ends and we pop out to legal brains like yourselves and you say what was the tense of the word be he used in that interview? it was is was, was is. and i remember shaking my head thinking, come on. but now, you know, we have that as a frame for reference, andy. when karine jean-pierre said was never in business, do you believe that the story has shifted significantly within the white house for the president and his own counsel? oh, for certain the they wouldn t make a concession like that unless they realized there has been a crescendo of information and their story doesn t make sense anymore so they have to shift it. then also talk about insulting your intelligence. look you in the eye and say