Foreign agents re registration act that is one of the most broadest laws i have read, you could take a net and catch anyone, for years they didn t catch anyone and they didn t pursue anyone until mueller went after manafort. how is possible they come up with a deal and the issue here. the foreign you don t have to exchange money, just give advice. but they did exchange money. he did give advice, how is it possible that hunter biden has not been charged with violating farrah. the way they change manafort and other people, unless this is a sweet hea
Move forward, but he has been charged with those two misdemeanor tax evasion charges and this investigations very much still ongoing. i ll ask so we are crystal clear on where we are right now. as we sit here, the plea deal between hunter biden and federal prosecutors is off? that s right, john. so the judge was pressing the prosecution on the four corners of this plea agreement and she s saying you ve reached this plea. what is left for there to charge? you are telling me that the investigation is still ongoing. the prosecution said that s right, it is ongoing and they couldn t bring, for instance, a tax evasion, a federal charge, but they said they were still investigating and it s then that the judge said what about a farrah charge not registering as a foreign agent and it was expensive to look into hunter biden s overseas business deals and she asked the prosecution would that be covered?
Out something, we don t want to be bound we can t bring a case against them again or if they commit a crime in the future, we want the ability to be able to prosecute them. we say anything we are currently aware, this resolves it. i don t know whether that language is in this plea agreement. but i imagine that as they go back to their respective sides, they will work to see if that is something that they can agree to. because a defendant should not take that leap of faith that there won t be more charges that come down the pike. so, i think the judge here is being very cautious to look out for the interests of hunter biden and his lawyer does not want to proceed unless he gets those assurances. certainly more a farrah case could be brought later down the road. if the government knows about it and the parties discussed it, that should be off the table at this point. and so, i m just wondering if indeed they can t get to any kind of a agreement on this, we re talking about right now,
And where do we go from here? gillian: i know, you know, you don t know, right, why? how did they end up here? how did they get to this point in this courtroom today where they didn t agree on what they actually agreed on. part of the problem they really did want to cap out the case. the department of justice wanted to cap this investigation. but they didn t want to say that it was now over. from the very beginning the hunter biden team said this is a closed out plea agreement. there would be nothing left to investigate. but the department of justice is telling congress we re not going to give you these witnesses or these documents because there s an ongoing investigation. you can t do both things when a judge is asking you to specifically address whether this is a closed out or a continuing investigation. gillian: one of the specific questions the judge reportedly asked today was about farrah. the foreign agents registration