20 minutes joined by a friend of one of those people trapped in the vessel but we have a lot of news out of d.c. this morning. let s get to this. hunter biden is set to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges related to his tax filings. brian: many are calling his agreement a sweetheart deal that s why we put it in bold in the prompter. drop his felony drug charge after two years of probation. house republicans say they won t stop their investigations. ainsley: lucas tomlinson joins us. good morning. the chairman of the house oversight committee says he wants to see transparency. he says he s not getting it. unfortunately, we saw a lot of redactions in these documents. i would estimate that 55 to 60% of the two documents were redacted. it s just a complete waste of my time. it s another example of the fbi stalling, stonewalling, doing everything they can to obstruct the house oversight committee s credible investigation of biden bribery. bill barr says the justice d
so i got to know hammish when we went on the expedition one more orbit. we were both at nasa kennedy space center in different capacities we got know each other through the connection of buzz al dresden. he bleafd in me. he needed a technology person to communicate and livestream and help him create documentaries of his expeditions that s how i joined this esteemed crew of navigators to sir couple navigate the planet. brian: pretty amazing. what about your thoughts on the banging every 30 minutes and reports we are hearing? you know the expedition. you know the dangers, you have hope? it means there is life. every 30 minutes. now all these what if questions come into play. what if they re alive. what if they can t get rescued? what if they run out of oxygen.
what if you are a healthy person and don t really need to lose a lot of weight. could you take it for a summer or if you have that wedding coming up? usually this medicine is for people that have a bmi of 30 or more with co-morbidities. can you do it yes it s possible you can do it if you a find a doctor who will prescribe it for you. remember, if you don t change your lifestyle you may regain that weight after you stop the medication. ainsley: too good to be true forever. thank you, dr. nesheiwat. great to have you on. thank you. ainsley: the second hour of fox & friends starts right now. brian: all right. we start with two major stories. within two hours, house republicans, excuse me, house lawmakers will question special counsel john durham when he appears before the judiciary committee about the trump-russia probe and his report. lawrence: but, first, hunter biden is set to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges related to his tax filings. many are calling his
narcotics addict to receive justification for pre-trial diversification. diversion? he was a drug addict or is one right now. the d.j. is being too cute by half. that is a total miscarriage of justice. brian: second tax charge. somebody else paid $2 million tax bill and that s the tax rate of maybe 10% on 1.5 million. what kind of deal is that. you don t get that off turbo tax. real quick bigger where is that money? is that why david weiss says he hasn t closed the investigation because, perhaps, is he looking into that? what do you think? i think it s the continued weaponization of doj by putting out that statement because hunter s lawyer said he believes the case is resolved from. a defense attorney and doj perspective, you don t close multiple investigations with one
brian: cut it from 20,000 a month to 5,000. i don t know the new york post has that story today. ainsley: felony drug charge. it was dropped if he completes two years of probation. he didn t pay taxes for 2017 and 2018. brian: it happens. ainsley: so he can s. going to get out of all of this. this is a sweetheart deal. his lawyer was interviewed on msnbc as you saw a clip and just acts like now he is free. he had a bad time in his life. now he is free. nothing else is going on. says he doesn t even know if the laptop had anything to do with it, that he can t even recall being asked about it. listen. do you have any idea if hunter biden s laptop had anything to do with this investigation? was it used? i don t. no, i don t. were you ever asked about it. um, i can t recall being asked about it, to be honest with you. but there s nothing about the situation that s being that s the been filed that has a thing to do with the laptop. why not? i don t know.