for a missing titanic sub, the u.s. coast guard acknowledging it needs more equipment. and the vessel running out of breathable air and france now sending an underwater robot for the mission. plus a utah woman accused of killing her husband and then writing a children s book about dealing with the grief, now wait until you hear how she s trying to get the courts to obtain money from his business. and leading this hour, the plea deal and the president s son, new federal court filings show hunter biden will plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors and that he struck a deal with federal prosecutors to resolve a felony begungun charge. and the department says the investigation is ongoing. we start with evan perez and also laura coates. hunter biden will plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors and he truck a deal with the gun charge. walk us through. bottom line is that his lawyers tell us that prosecutors are going to recommend that he serve no time, no jail time for pleading guil
reporter: president biden has kept hunter biden close over the course of his presidency, he has been a presence at events at the white house and was also a visible and constant presence when president biden visited ireland. now earlier this year as the case was ongoing, president biden kept the similar tone saying that he stood behind his son, he supported him and trusted him. but of course this is going to be part of the campaign going into 2024. as we saw throughout the course of the day today, republicans seizing on this case and this plea deal. so this will be another political part of the conversation as the president continues his visit here in california. he is expected to attend two fundraisers later this afternoon. and so we ll be looking to see if he talks more about this case. all right, priscilla, thank you so much. let s turn now to van jones who served in the obama administration and to scott
so you have hunter s personal problems which he is obviously a drug addict who lied on a form to get a gun that was thrown in a dumpster near a school by his girlfriend, but then you have the whole business side of it going on that republicans are keenly interested in because they think that it is evidence of influence of foreign entities on the biden family. so i would expect that is what house republicans will continue to following up on. van, do you see the plea deal as rwrapping up the scandal or not? well, there is a right wick media machine that generates all kinds of commentary about hunter biden, true, false or otherwise. and that is just not going to stop. no matter what happens, you will have that continuing because there is the need on the part of the president s opponents to try to dirty up his family. the whole idea that you have a biden crime family, like those
when a lawyer meets with the doj and tries to talk about being a target or defendant, there appear to be some conversations over some period of time about making sure that the prosecution was aware that their case was not likely as strong as politically people thought it might be and now we have this result. still serious charges to have any one plead guilty to a crime let alone tax evasion of sorts, but it is pretty routine to have something, a diversary program of a crime of this level. and as we reported in the previous hour, the person in charge of this plea deal, the prosecutor, is trump-appointed u.s. attorney david weiss and biden did not dismiss him. and he says the probe is ongoing, but hunter bip er bide lawyer says it was his understanding it was resolved. which is it? both things could be true at
for a missing titanic sub, the u.s. coast guard acknowledging it needs more equipment. and the vessel running out of breathable air and france now sending an underwater robot for the mission. plus a utah woman accused of killing her husband and then writing a children s book about dealing with the grief, now wait until you hear how she s trying to get the courts to obtain money from his business. and leading this hour, the plea deal and the president s son, new federal court filings show hunter biden will plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors and that he struck a deal with federal prosecutors to resolve a felony begungun charge. and the department says the investigation is ongoing. we start with evan perez and also laura coates. hunter biden will plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors and he