Hunter Biden hearing ends with judge unable to accept plea deal

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🗓️ 27 July 2023

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The plea deal between the Justice Department and Hunter Biden is on hold after a judge said she “cannot accept the plea agreement today.” District Judge Maryellen Noreika said she had “concerns” with the deal. The president’s son had agreed to plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors with prosecutors saying they’d recommend a sentence of probation. The deal was also meant to resolve a federal firearms offense. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Elie Honig tells Anderson Cooper whether he thinks the judge made the right call. Plus, CNN’s Randi Kaye remembers the life and legacy of Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor, who died at 56.

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0:00.0	Tonight on 360, Hunter Biden's plea deal on pause, the judge, apparently unhappy with
0:06.0	answers she heard about what it could mean for potential future prosecutions.
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0:15.0	to a Navy pilot about her encounter of San Diego that no one can explain.
0:19.7	Also tonight, on DeSantis, defense his state's new curriculum on slavery in Filmmaker Spike
0:24.0	Lee joins me with his take.
0:26.4	Good evening, Hunter Biden went to court today with a plea deal already agreed upon between
0:30.8	his attorneys and prosecutors.
0:32.7	If all went according to the agreement, he would be the first son of a sitting US president
0:36.8	to walk into a federal court house and plead guilty to a crime.
0:39.8	He would admit to two misdemeanors for not paying federal taxes on time in two calendar
0:45.0	years and he would enter into a deal that would resolve a felony gun charge if he abided
0:50.3	by the deal's conditions.
0:52.1	Now Republicans have characterized this plea as a sweetheart deal and even tried to block
0:55.7	it once again trying to tie Hunter Biden's dealings to his father.
0:59.6	Today, however, in court, all that was needed was the approval of the judge for the deal
1:03.9	and that's where everything began to unravel.
1:06.1	Once the federal judge began to question the deal's provisions, including one about
1:09.9	immunity from future prosecutions.
1:12.3	Karraskinnell joins us now outside the courthouse with more about what happened.
1:15.7	So explain why the judge rejected the deal.
1:18.7	Yeah, Anderson, so the judge really focused on both components of these deals.
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