Criminal defense attorney and former assistant District Attorney Phil Holloway.
Phil, Happy New Year. Good to see you.
First of all, are you are there?
Should there be any concerns of
a conflict of interest between this
attorney general who or attorney US Attorney Office.
Matthew Graves who was appointed by Joe Biden.
Well, great to be with you and happy New Years
to you as well.
Harris when when we were in law school,
we learned a legal doctrine that said what's good for
the goose is good for the gander.
And in this particular case,
if the US attorney can prosecute in Criminal Court people
that are associated with Joe
Biden's chief political opponent, then certainly if he's going to
maintain any credibility,
he has really no option in my view,
but to prosecute Hunter Biden in the,
like fashion. Look, what Hunter did was arguably worse
than the other individuals because what he did was went
out into the parking lot,
basically of the Capitol building on the day that he
was subpoenaed to be there.
So it's not like he can say he was sick
or something else.
He went into their yard and literally just defied them.
And he said, I dare you to do anything.
I'm out here in the parking lot,
and I'm going to figuratively just give you the finger
and tell you what you can do with your subpoena.
He's daring Congress to hold him in contempt,
and that's what they're going to do.
I don't think the US attorney really has much option.
Again, if he's going to maintain credibility,
he's got to treat both of them the same way.
And what happens if he doesn't?
If he doesn't, then of course there's going to be
nothing that the Congress can do about it.
They can't force the US attorney to bring criminal charges.
That's entirely discretionary. But I think there's going to be
some political blowback,
and I think that there's going to be additional hearings.
I think that that the Congress will use their subpoena
power to dig into the reasons why.
If if the US Attorney elects not to make any
formal criminal charges out of this.
You know, I've had viewers ask me,
why should we care about Hunter Biden when no one
can even hold his father accountable for having been on
so many phone calls with Hunter Biden's business associates when
the president said he was never in contact with anybody
like that.
Like what? Why? Why is he in focus for us?
Why is Hunter Biden in focus?
Well Hunter Biden is the
basically the key to whatever is going on with the
Biden,
their alleged, you know, criminal,
family, money laundering enterprise. He's the he's the key.
He holds the answers. He's the one that knows
at least one of the people that knows how all
these business entities that had no products to sell,
no services to provide, were able to rake in millions
and millions and millions of dollars from foreign nations and
then have that money wind up
allegedly in the pocketbooks of Joe Biden and other members
of the family.
So that's why Hunter Biden is very significant and he
ought to be in the focus of the Congress one
product to sell the Biden name.
And isn't that what they go around and around about?
No, the reason I asked that question in part is
because if this Matthew Graves doesn't do his job and
do the obvious as you say,
and that is put Hunter Biden in a position to
have a case adjudicated against him.
All eyes on on Matthew Graves because could there be
politics behind it?
We don't know. But we're going to watch every part
of this.
OK, let's move. The US Supreme Court will take up
the Colorado Trump ballot ban next month,
and that state, along with Maine,
cited the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause to boot
Donald Trump from the ballot.
Trump's former Vice President Mike Pence with this.
While I said the president's words were reckless,
I think these efforts to take the decision away from
the American people are really antithetical
to the very democracy that the President Biden and many
Democrats talk about wanting to defend.
Let's take a look at the ballot battles across the
country.
Now. Dozens of states are looking to remove Donald Trump's
name.
A new editorial is warning the Supreme Court to the
ballot rescue.
Trying to ban opposition party candidates from the ballot will
spread
unless the justices stop it.
Look, I've had Democrats, even Patrick Murphy,
who didn't want to start with that today.
But even they say it like this hurts everybody.
Yeah, Harris, the 14th Amendment insurrection clause is not self
executing.
It was never designed or intended to permit a patchwork
of individual rules around the country,
rules that are made-up by courts or other entities or
even individuals like a bureaucrat who's unelected.
We can't have elections being decided by who is in
charge of printing the ballots in the United States.
All right, Oral arguments begin with the US Supreme Court
on the Trump ballot ban February 8th.
Good to see you. And also thank you for watching
the Faulkner Focus Outnumbered that.