heard the conversation of what s been going on as part of what would normally be a routine plea agreement, and nothing routine when you re talking about the child of the president of the united states. the judge asked the prosecutors and the defense could she ask them to re-do the probe if she thought the investigations was lacking? both sides agreed no, how unusual of a question is that from a judge on the bench of the plea hearing. that is not a routine question. usually everything else and that is not a routine question and that question is solely confined to this case and there would be no reason to ask it in anothers a and what i think is happening here is the judge is trying to make a record. the judge is trying to say let s make sure we get this straight. both sides, the the justice department and hunter biden, i
pretty clear that it s possible that that military judge was incurring favor with the trump administration and if we remember back in those days, president trump when he was running for president he very much called bergdahl a traitor. called him somebody that does not deserve a fair treatment under the u.s. military justice system and that situation could be considered undue command influence and that s what the judge was looking at when the latest judge vacated the charges against bergdahl. to put a fine point on it, perhaps the judge s neutrality. colonel leighton, good to see you. john? we have breaking news out of wilmington, delaware, from the hunter biden plea deal hearing. our kara scannell just ran out from inside the courtroom. kara, bring us up to speed.
understanding. sometimes that provision is in an agreement. sometimes it s not. sometimes it s understood, but not written in which case you would want to put it on the official court record. it sounds like the judge is saying let s make sure that both sides, doj and hunter biden are on the same page about just how broad his immunity is as a result of this plea if it s entered. but does it sound like based on kara s reporting that they may not be on the same page with his immunity. yeah. that should have been worked out and the fact that they are conferring at this point is unusual. like i said, sometimes it would be an actual sentence, it should be an actual sentence in the plea agreement. so the fact that the judge said talk this through means she has a question about this. doj and huntser biden have the same goal which is to get the plea entered and we ll see. we ll see if this is a hiccup. can this get to what has been a discrepancy since we learned about the plea deal where
biden side and the prosecution were on the same page heading into this program i know the judge is trying to understand that biden understands the terms of this deal and another interesting element here is the judge established from going back and forth with the two sides that under the rule that the case is being brought the judge can only accept the plea deal. she made it clear, she could not say she didn t like it and the charge should be something else. the way it was presented to her is that she would have to accept it. that was an issue here. she is not bound by any sentencing here and the prosecution was on record today confirming that they are going to recommend probation on the tax evasion charges, but we still have a ways to go with this unforeseen hiccup before the sentencing in this guilty plea process before we actually get to hunter biden entering a plea. that has not happened yet. we are still waiting to see if
so we ll have to go back inside and see if there s been any additional developments, but both sides had said quite tomorrowly that the deal was off, as hunter biden s lawyers said they considered it null and void if they did not consider immunity from all other prosecutions. kara scannell, we will let you go back inside and we do appreciate you running out to bring us what has become a major development in this hearing. kara did a great job, but help us make sense. before we talk about what s next, let s just talk about what happened. this is exactly what we were speculating about five minutes ago. it sounds like it s what s happening. when the defendant pleads guilty in this case for tax charges. that s it for the tax charges. he can t be charged with those charges and he s covered and immunized and not in jeopardy of being prosecuted again for those tax charges, but what the judge said how about anything else? farah, the foreign agents registration act, and it has