being with us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we are following breaking news this morning. charges have just been filed against hunter biden, the son of the sitting president has agreed to a plea deal for two tax misdemeanors and a separate gun possession charge that will likely be dismissed. we ll have more on the latest in just a moment, including new reaction from the white house. plus, more breaking news, save the date for the start of donald trump s federal trial. august 14th, this year, as in less than a couple of months from now for that classified documents trial to start. also ahead, the race against time to find a submersible lost in the middle of the atlantic ocean. five people set out to the wreckage of the titanic deep underwater, but according to the coast guard, there is only enough oxygen in the vehicle to last to until thursday. what we know about who is on board and the search efforts currently under way. we begin with
of the gavel once republicans got the majority to make inquiries into hunter biden. he s held several press events around this, not producing any tangible evidence, but instead continuing to just say that they will go where the investigation leads, and that is effectively what he s saying again, reiterating that now in a statement saying let s be clear, these are comer s words, the doj s charges against biden s son hunter reveal a two-tiered system of justice. he goes on to say biden is getting away with a slap on the wrist. he goes on to say that this is a sweetheart plea deal in the same way we have been talking about that being one of the things that political opponents will leverage against this current decision. and then comer finishes to say we will not rest until the full extent of biden s involvement in the schemes are revealed. again, i think it is really important to note that comer has embarked on this investigation from the very moment that the committees were able to be fo
matched reality, and look at the statement from hutchison, the conclusion by the admission of guilt is an important step in revolving at least a portion of the controversies over hunter biden s dealings. and the department of justice did not get at the heart of what republicans elude to, and just last week in bedminster, donald trump said he would bring about his own special prosecutor in the white house to go and target joe biden and his family which the crowd began to chant lock him up. notably, there s no jail time here from this agreement for hunter biden. is it hypocritical, congressman, for them to be try trying to point fingers at the
in 2018, during the trump administration. what do you make of the timing? well, the i want to reiterate what carol said, these are not traffic tickets. these are misdemeanors. misdemeanors are crimes. mr. hunter biden will now have a criminal record. and it will state he pled guilty to willful failure to pay federal income taxes and the most you can get a year. and because he paid it back, that s probably why he was allowed to plea to the misdemeanors, not traffic infractions. in terms of the gun charge, he s not being charged, he s not pleading guilty to shooting the gun, to pointing the gun. it is a specific charge that he possessed a gun and he was someone who had an addiction to a controlled substance, which is why i believe he s being allowed to get into a pretrial diversion program. which is essentially alternative to incarceration and if he successfully completes that program, the charges are dismissed. in terms of the timing, you
waved around either a top secret document or in his words yesterday, a newspaper article. so we ll get clarity on that. i want to thank clint watts, he has to jump off here. i want to come back to the other breaking story we re following this morning, this plea deal with hunter biden, that he reached with the justice department. ryan reilly, you re there at the doj, what can you tell us about how this deal came together? really the doj is being kwind kind of quiet about this. this was something done by a trump-appointed u.s. attorney in delaware, allowed to independently operate and make this decision to go forward. what i noted about the gun charge there, that there is sort of a diversion deal for, it is incredibly rare for federal prosecutors to bring that charge. the only other cases i see are when doj has a white supremacist who they need to find a charge against, and they brought it against individuals who, you know, for possession of