House GOP Delights As Hunter Biden Plea Agreement Stalls
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🗓️ 27 July 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. This is Miss Aqua Vivo with Maddie and Noah at Chelsea School. |
| 0:07.4 | In Hyattville, Maryland, this podcast was recorded at 1244 PM Eastern Time on Thursday, July 27th of |
| 0:15.4 | 2023. Students are currently in summer school session and they have some life advice for listeners |
| 0:21.1 | today. Keep the time in your life on track and do not forget to do what you love. By the time you |
| 0:28.1 | hear this, things may have changed. Okay, here's the show. It's amazing advice. So wise and so |
| 0:37.7 | young. Hey there, it's the unpear politics podcast. I must mahale they cover the White House. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm Susan Davis, I cover politics and I'm dear to Walsh, I cover Congress. And it has been a chaotic |
| 0:47.5 | week in politics. The president's son Hunter Biden saw his plea deal fall apart within hours |
| 0:53.1 | under questioning in the courtroom. This is happening as a speaker of the House previewed an |
| 0:57.9 | impeachment push against his father, the president of the United States. So did you let's start the |
| 1:03.3 | conversation here with Hunter Biden. He appeared in federal court and Delaware where he intended |
| 1:08.9 | to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges for failure to pay his taxes. During a time period in |
| 1:14.3 | which Hunter acknowledges he was addicted to drugs. And separately, he was intending to respond to |
| 1:19.8 | charges that he illegally purchased a firearm. The judge unexpectedly said she is not ready to |
| 1:25.6 | make a decision in this case. She specifically wanted clarification about how this plea deal |
| 1:31.2 | might grant Hunter Biden immunity for other possible crimes yet committed or could have committed. |
| 1:36.6 | And you know, this raises questions about whether or not he still could be charged in the future. |
| 1:40.4 | So anyhow, I imagine, Deirdre, that this all is music to the ears of some House Republicans who |
| 1:46.7 | have been decrying this deal from the outset and making a big show of investigating the president's |
| 1:52.0 | son. For sure, I ran into House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer shortly after this |
| 1:57.6 | news broke. And he basically said, I told you so. And even before the plea deal, he was |
| 2:04.0 | complaining about Hunter Biden's lawyers saying they were stonewalling his committee and |
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