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Asked a judge today for permission to withdraw from representing hunter biden. why? >> yeah, so this attorney chris clark has been representing hunter biden for years during this criminal investigation. and biden's team asked him to have permission to be dropped from the case saying he could be a witness because he has firsthand knowledge of the plea negotiations, and the drafting of those plea documents. they're saying he can no longer serve as an advocate for hunter biden, but biden has a large legal team that will not upset the process here in this case as it moves forward now as part of th...

It is unusual, but not unheard of. when it happens in a high profile case, we are paying more attention. what happened here? they seem to be two problems. first one was that the judge was concerned if he pretrial diversion agreement gave her a role that she was uncomfortable with. not just adjudicating whether it is a breach, or could be a breach of that provision down the road, but it gave her some other decision-making authority it sheet that best left to the executive branch. we've seen the plea documents, i don't know precisely what the language is. we don't know precisely what concerns ar...

With access to this kind o information in the intelligenc community. >> another area that was divulged, and this is somethin we were all talking about fo six weeks ago, it really blanketed the news, and that was the spy balloons the reporting that these lea documents brought details abou to for additional chinese sp balloons, including that one that flew over u.s. carrie strike within the pacific. nbc news has reached out to th pentagon mark, but it's not ye independently verify the contents of the documents. we want to make that point ver very clear but does this new reportin surprise you and...

Or anything close to by the book. consider this from our friend and colleague, barbara mcquade, who reviewed the book in the "washington post." "berman reserved his strongest criticism for barr, calling him a bully, and his behavior, thuggish. upon taking office, barr tried to kill the southern district's ongoing investigations relating to the campaign finance crimes to which michael cohen had already pleaded guilty. the reference in plea documents to individual one made apparent that trump fashioned potential criminal exposure in this investigation. in fact, barr even discussed dismissing coh...

He's agreed to cooperate and surrender the $100,000 the fbi paid him during the sting operation, and in return prosecutors reduceded what could have been a life sentence to a deal that calls for between 12 and 17 years that. range gives the government some learning to make sure he cooperates fully. the real attention-grabbing part of this valentine's day plea deal was he named his wife diana as part of conspiracy. you often see spouses pleading guilty to protect a loved one, but in this case he threw his partner right under the bus saying she, quote, committed multiple overt acts in furtheranc...