Much time, maybe around a year, 12 months, could be even less than that depending on whether they consider the gun to have been possessed for Sporting Purposes or collection, and i dont know if he could make a case for that or not, but, you know, were talking about probably somewhere in the 12month neighborhood i would think. Jennifer, please stay with us. We want to reset for our viewers if youre just joining us on cnn news central, an historic decision by the Department Of Justice. They have filed charges against the son of President Joe Biden, hunter biden, three different charges, two of them related to lying on statements in an effort to buy a firearm. The third charge for actually possessing that for imas a prohibited person. A reminder, the case being brought by Special Counsel daniel weiss is based on Hunter Bidens purchase of this weapon as he wrote in his form that he was not using narcotics and later in a biography wrote that he did. We have a team of reporters and analysts
washington, d.c., deputy news editor for the washington examiner david mark. david, good to have you with us this morning. let s talk a little bit about all of the developments in the past 24 hours, including the president s own calls for china and the ukraine to investigate the bidens once again. what could be the potential impact on the impeachment plight of the president s calls. house democrats are already moving down the impeachment path, the impeachment inquiry path pretty quickly. this gives new evidence, new am dition to t dition, ammunition to the quest. i think with the china remarks, house democrats are kind of putting that in their back pocket by now and once they draft articles of impeachment, it would not be surprising to see that included, but i think they re trying to kind of throw it into the mix and helping, they want to use it to build a broader narrative about alleged foreign help in american elections, by trump. whether it s with ukraine,