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Limitations hasnt passed can go over him. she then said to the prosecutors, is there any precedent in the department of justice for doing something like this with both of the version program with the gun, when she said was unheard of. i never heard of it. its one of the things i talked about >> how can a guy plea guilty to a gun charge when he hasnt been charged with a gun charge? they didnt have answers to any of this. now this started, dana, last night right before the plea. there was someone ...

Whether or not thats an approvable agreement, but you want to insert me in it at a later point in time to protect your client from the whims of a department of justice that may be controlled by republicans later on. hunters lawyers acknowledged that was the sensitivity. i understand that, but it still doesnt address my constitutional concerns. i think the parties will come back together, draft around that and come up with a solution thats happy for both of them and for the court as well. >> how ...

And some of the paragraphs that she had a concern with, including the pretrial diversion agreement, and get to a point where they think that will satisfy the judge, and if so, get right back in that courtroom, right back where the sketch was taken yesterday, and try to do this all over again. now, there is, of course, a chance, even though it probably is not very likely, that they dont come to an agreement and then the trial process starts here. and the trial clock begins. so, it will be interes...

>> bidens attorneys thought they completely through out. >> they sought thought. so thats where the judge started asking questions and realized they were not on the same page. now they have some weeks to go and try to come back and talk about how they are legally structural this and see if theyre on the same page. we are looking to see if there are any signals from the legal team to see if they are coming closer or if this is completely falling apart. >> white house would the president pardon hi...

Tougher to stick the lafnedding on that trial date. this is going to push things back. its going to make things a bit more complex. >> john: all right. lets come back to the hunter biden plea deal or lack thereafter. according to the judge noreika. this plea deal was unprecedented i want to read from the transcript. the agreement not to prosecute includes is in the gun case but it also includes crimes related to the tax case so we look through a bunch of diversionary agreements we have access to...

He was pleading to something that was the case. and not something that hes finding out part of the agreement. shes doing it to protect him making sure he understood it and it was constitutional. boris. >> care remark you mentioned that both sides, the prosecution and hunter bidens legal team have 30 days to file the briefs. have we heard what that process is going to be like? has either side given an indication what they intend to do with those briefings? >> reporter: well, the prosecution said ...

Why? >> gillian: this is while hes under subpoena by the house oversight committee. the committee yesterday told us so far when archer backed out of depositions, hes cited personal reasons and scheduling reasons, they did not elaborate beyond that. the deposition will be transcribed, there is possibility that transcript will be made public to the american people. >> steve: we want it on tv. >> gillian: you and i. >> ainsley: i wonder, they assumed him on the 14th, this is the fourth time he said...

His son. you stood there and reaffirmed that. do you stand by it? >> nothing has changed. nothing has changed. ill leave it there. >> i have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else anything having to do with their business, period. >> its worth noting that the president has always maintained that he never spoke to his son about his foreign business. white house officials messaging the last couple days that has been shifting, martha. >> martha: i want to ask you a quick question,...

Meaning a transcript could be made available somewhere down the line. devin archer is a former business associate of hunter biden and former partner of hunter biden. in the wake of this announcement, the white house yesterday said this about the ongoing investigation in to hunter. >> curious in the white house and the president still stand behind his comment that hes never been involved and has never even spoken to his son about his business. >> ive been asked the question a million times. the a...

Either for moral or informal that he gave to the january six committee. as you know, and as tim, knows extraordinarily thorough in covering the full landscape of folks involved in election interference efforts from folks involved in extremist movements to those at the highest levels of the white house. they really covered the range. will russell, not only wasnt among those witnesses, he wasnt a name that really came up at all. hes not mentioned in the report. at least in my experience of reviewi...