To do it we ve got a lot of good tough republicans around that people are growing to run against them and people are going to win and they re going to get my endorsement every single time. well, if there was any question about whether republicans are on trump s side, listen to challenger will hurd. one of the few republicans who dare to challenge the former president. speaking in iowa last week. donald trump is running to stay out of prison. and if we elect [ boos ] i know. i know. i know. i know. listen, i know the truth the truth is hard. i want to bring in brendan buck, former aide to republican house speakers paul ryan and john boehner. he s also an msnbc political analyst. katherine christian is the former assistant d.a. at the manhattan district attorney s office and an msnbc legal analyst. so brendan, what s your takeaway from those boos? we heard boos before when in front of the faithful trump has
Charged? the police spent a lot of resources to find this missing toddler and try to find her. jeanine: there is no doubt in my mind that i would charge her. when you have all of the police hours that were invested into this case when they could have been doing other cases, cold cases, when you have that backdrop, knowing all of those facts that indicate she was staging this whole thing, it is pretty clear, for whatever reason, she needed to do this. i spoke to the chief assistant d.a. in the d.a. s office and without saying whether or not they will or will not go forward, the charges are basically filing a false report. it s a misdemeanor. there are two separate misdemeanors that can be filed. the most they can service 12 months on a class a misdemeanor. not just the wasted man-hours there was a woman whose daughter was abducted, and the child was
I will come back to you moments from now. andy mccarthy, former assistant u.s. attorney and fox news contributor, phil holloway former assistant d.a. and criminal defense attorney are back with me now. andy, i will come right back. you and i had just said does this mean the hunter plea deal appears to be in jeopardy? is it falling apart? you said we don t know yet. after all that reporting from griff jenkins, your answer. based on what griff said, all i can say is what i ve been saying all morning, which is this just seems so corrupt. there is no good reason for the justice department and the internal revenue service to take a plea where you are giving away the store to somebody as to whom you have a pending investigation. harris: why did they do it? because there is political pressure. it is obvious. if you had an independent counsel. if merrick garland had done his
News in the hunter biden case, the president s son pleading not guilty in his tax case after his original plea deal with prosecutors fell apart. we have team coverage of the minute-to-minute drama in the courtroom. nbc s tom winter is following this for us. also with me, msnbc legal analyst, and former assistant d.a. at the manhattan district attorney s office, catherine christian. washington post congressional investigations reporter, jacqueline alemany, and elise jordan, an msnbc political analyst. thanks for joining us, guys, appreciate it. tom, start us off. what happened? reporter: well, the quote from judge mary ellen, i can t accept or reject in plea agreement after a multi-hour hearing today. the judge essentially saying this agreement that you-all have come up with, i have some legal problems with. i m not going to accept it. i m not going to tell you it s
Place and we think of that when we canceled. dana: judge, should she be charged? the police spent a lot of resources to find this missing toddler and try to find her. jeanine: there is no doubt in my mind that i would charge her. when you have all of the police hours that were invested into this case when they could have been doing other cases, cold cases, when you have that backdrop, knowing all of those facts that indicate she was staging this whole thing, it is pretty clear, for whatever reason, she needed to do this. i spoke to the chief assistant d.a. in the d.a. s office and without saying whether or not they will or will not go forward, the charges are basically filing a false report. it s a misdemeanor. there are two separate misdemeanors that can be filed. the most they can service tell 2 months on a class a misdemeanor.