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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The plea deal for Hunter Biden falls apart in a federal courtroom

as federal judge Mary Ellen Norrika asks inconvenient questions that embarrass the prosecution.

What does this mean for the charges against President Biden's son and perhaps for the investigation

into President Biden? Welcome to Potomac Watch. I'm Paul Gigo with the Wall Street Journal

editorial page and joining me today are Bill McGurne and Kimistrasso, both of whom have been

following the Hunter Biden prosecution closely. Just to remind listeners the deal that Hunter

Biden's lawyers struck with federal prosecutors involved pleading guilty to two misdemeanor

tax charges that would likely involve no prison time and pleading guilty to a gun charge,

but with a diversion agreement that the charge would be dropped if Hunter adhered to certain

behavior. The deal has been heavily criticized as a risk slap and two IRS agents who investigated

the case say they were prevented from fully looking into the money that came from foreign entities

to Hunter among other things and they had recommended felony tax charges, but none of that was

expected to upset the plea deal and yet that's exactly what happened. Bill, what happened in court

Wednesday? What happened is that the plea deal imploded. The judge didn't throw it out,

but when she asked them basic questions, for example, would Hunter Biden still be open to prosecution

onto laws like the FARA Act, Foreign Agents Registration Act, and the Justice Department said,

yes, then the defense guy said, no, that's not an understanding. If it is, we don't have a deal.

They tried to reconstitute a deal, but they weren't able to agree. So the judge put it off for

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