Excitement and certainty out of the moment, walking into the venue, our colleague lucy manning was asking him, are you going to stand? and he s teasing who knows? i ve not decided yet. knowing that contributes in the packaging up of the news into that sense of the drama that surrounds nigel farage. so, he knows exactly what he s doing. he is one of the best political communicators of his generation, and this is the latest case study in it. he was able to extract attention and news coverage a week ago when he said he wouldn t be standing, but he would be popping up be standing, but he would be popping up around the country campaigning for reform uk. here we are less than a week later extracting more news and attention saying the exact opposite. as i said a couple of minutes ago, taking on the party leadership will afford him a greater platform because he is a party leader of a party that is pulling, as it is, when it s crunched through the various kind of processes that determine from the broadcasters how
Well, there we go. and, once we have a full list of candidates for that constituency which, as alex said, will be on her birthday on friday. what a great present, alex, you ll be able to go to the bbc news website and see a full list. that s my plan. 0k, chris, give us your big picture thoughts. he s the master of the arc ofjeopardy news management, the big reveal. so, as alex was saying, that tantalising, teasing tweet that had politicaljournalists agog with what he might be about to do. so, managing to extract every morsel of excitement, uncertainty out of the moment. you know, as he was walking into the venue, our colleague lucy manning was asking him, are you going to stand? and he s teasing, who knows? maybe i ve not decided yet knowing that that contributes in the packaging up of the news into that sense of the drama that
Have a producer inside the courtroom, jay gibson works at the department of justice. there is no cameras inside the courtroom. no electronics even allowed. therefore, there are no emails, no text messages. everything is pretty much in a vacuum inside that courtroom. so as we await a morsel of information i want to bring back andrew to weigh in on what, i guess, during this conversation what happens after today? let s assume that the judge takes the plea and hunter biden gets the two misdemeanors on the gun charge and tax evasion. is that the end of it or does it bounce back to house committees on capitol hill to keep driving away at this issue wherever they can? we have to remember double jeopardy is in play for the conduct related to the charges
Sanctions against hunter biden s legal team who may have misrepresented themselves to try to get the amicus brief from the ways and means committee that wanted the testimony of the two i.r.s. whistleblowers to be considered by the judge to possibly not accept this plea deal. why does that matter to our viewers? it matters because the u.s. attorney, david weiss, who has now done this year s long investigation should have looked at this whistleblower testimony and now we expect devon archer, a former business partner and close friend of hunter biden, to possibly testify come monday on the business dealings of hunter and his father, president biden. all of this coming to light now. we simply don t know exactly how the judge is dealing with it. as soon as we get a morsel of information we ll bring it to you. one thing is very clear, this hearing this morning, this plea deal is taking a very different