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it over to josé diaz-balart to pick up on the coverage right now. good morning, its 11:00 a.m. pacific, and -- 11:00 a.m. eastern. an attorney for hunter biden released a statement to nbc news that reads in part, quote, i know hunter believes its important to take responsibility for these mistakes he made during a period of turmoil and addiction in his life and he looks forward to continuing his recovery and moving forward. joining us this morning, nbcs justice and intelligence co...

welcome to "the beat." im ari melber. were tracking several pieces of news in this coming criminal trial of donald trump. his allies advise delay, this key tack we hear about in dealing with the indictment. we know jack smith, however, guaranteed a speedy trial. >> my office will seek a speedy trial in this matter, consistent with the public interest and the rights of the accused. >> there are some complexities with the case, but the federal judge is making news with a fast time line, ...

lets start with the war in ukraine. russia has launched a fresh wave of missile strikes against ukraine — speaking to the bbc, the ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has ruled out conceding any territory to russia in a potential peace deal. our world affairs editor, john simpson, reports from kyiv. with the anniversary of the russian invasion coming close, president zelensky is showing signs of increasing confidence. hes been visiting several of his main backers in britain and ot...

Register with the government if he was representing a foreign governments interests. thats speculation. were at the point where there is an ongoing investigation as stated by the u.s. attorneys side. that was the nature of some of the hangup here. were waiting to get that indication that this has been resolved, at least as it relates to the charges we began expecting the day with. >> harry litman, give me your reaction to that, right? we dont necessarily know the details of this revised agreemen...

To is the bible for a plea agreement. you come in, it sets out colloquy, the judge makes sure the defendant isnt on drugs and the plea is voluntary and the like. and the judge has a limited ability to question and push back on and even reject the plea, and she was exercising that based on her question why does a drug case have this gun count in it also. so thats just how it started and how we got to the misunderstanding. the second thing thats going on is -- has to do with diversion agreements. ...

Treated unfairly by asking him to resolve it criminally. normally when somebody pays back the back taxes there is no reason to proceed criminally, but in this case out of an effort to demonstrate that hunter biden is not receiving preferential treatment, hes being dealt with it criminally, and it sends an important message to the public for those who may want to willfully not pay taxes. the gun count, its a crime to possess a gun while addicted to drugs, and its hard to prove somebody is addicte...

Lukashenko always said that nato alliance was not a problem and he had approached ukrainian statement. in the kremlin, and mr putin are really playing with them and the of mr lukashenko as his fears as the so called leader of this country. at the same time in the country, the people of belarus do not support this work. it is not the same as what we have in russia where 87% support the invasion. he understands that he is not cannot politically states or russia that he would support or more than j...

Accountable for something. but under the facts in the law, it wasnt there. i know that a lot of people went crazy when the gun count was dismissed. we fought that from the beginning from the first appearance. >> the law is pretty clear. i mean, you can argue by tommy thompson modified it that way. he was governor at that time back in the 90s. but the law is the law. i dont know why the judge left it in that long. its in the plain reading of the statute. let me ask you something else here because...

Think, more afraid we became of some sort of compromise, potentially. walking into that courtroom, pins and needles doesnt begin to explain it. you know, i told my client, if it goes south, youre not walking out of this courtroom a freeman and you wont see the light of day for a long time. if we win at all, you get to come home with us. and luckily, i think after a lot of hard work, it went that way. i think the jury spent a lot of time. i think part of the time they put in was to show how thoro...