federal prosecutors, they have now filed three felony charges ,six misdemeanor counts against the president's 53-year-old son, hunter biden. >> all of this related to the alleged scheme to evade taxes on a massive of income these years between 2016 and 2019. quote, rather than pay his taxes, the defendants spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle. well, remember, hunter was previously indicted on federal gun charges in delaware. now, of course, the doj's original plan. let's take you back in time was to not charge hunter at all with nothing. they wanted to sweep all of all of hunter's misdeeds, if you will, under the rug, the biden family, misdeeds under the rug. and for a while, it was all going according to plan. >> remember, federal prosecutor david weiss? he'd been investigating this for years. he dragged on what appeared to be a fake investigation, allowing the statute of limitations. >> this is very important tonight as we go through all of this, to actually run out on several serious tax crimes alleged that corresponded with the burisma years. >> we'll explain that. >> and then he seemed content to just, you know, wrap up the probe without any charges at all up until the point where two whistleblowers, brave whistleblowers at the irs sounded the alarm. and according to six separate witnesses, david weiss said that his hands were completely tied in regards to his investigation. remember, they took contemporaneous notes. remember, david weiss told them, i can't charge him in california. i can't charge him in d.c. i can't charge in other jurisdictions. he said he lacked the authority to do so, to override local authorities. biden appointed prosecutors those whistleblowers. >> gary shapley, for example, he took contemporaneous notes at the time validating his claim. it's all contra addicted, by the way. the sworn testimony of the attorney general, our country, merrick garland. and later, by the way, a later statement by weiss himself. he was on both sides of this issue. and one letter to one senator, one letter to another congressman. >> now, weiss and the doj then moved on to plan b, remember plan b? >> that was a sweetheart plea deal for hunter masquerading as justice. never before in the history of the country has a deal been sweet. but the one that they were offering hunter no felony charges. a slap on the wrist after what all these other charges get swept away under the rug. it wouldn't happen if your last name was trump, i'll tell you that. unfortunately for hunter, the plea deal. remember, that plea deal collapsed because that federal judge, delaware, started asking real questions. remember when the delaware judge asking prosecutors if they ever, ever in their in their history they saw a deal like this before, they had to admit. no, they had not. this was all deeply humiliating for david and for the attorney general, garland, who now look extremely compromised and frankly corrupt, especially given the unrelenting pursuit of donald trump. but still tonight, the politicized weaponized doj. they still have the same goal. let's be clear here. they don't really care about hunter biden. nobody seems to care about hunter biden. this is not about biden. instead, this has always been and continues to be an effort to protect the big guy. the brand, joe biden. remember, without joe biden, there is no biden brand. how do we know about the biden brand? devon archer told us about it. tony bobulinski told us about it. now, that would mean without the joe biden part of this, there wouldn't be multimillion dollar payouts from romania and russia and china and ukraine and kazakhstan and other countries around the world. there would be no cushy job on the board of burisma, the oil and gas giant in ukraine for hunter, even though he had no experience admittedly in oil, gas, coal, energy or even the ukraine itself. there are no mysterious shell corporations without joe, no suspicious activity reports. none of this business would occur without joe. joe. this entire case revolves around the president of the united states, joe biden. >> now, on the surface, this looks bad. and the deeper you dig, the worse this gets, where payments classified as loans over and over, over again. but we don't ever get to see the paperwork as to when the loans were given, what the terms were. hunter, of course, claiming that his dad is wells fargo. that account to pay his bills. an email detailing 10% for the big guy. a mountain of evidence that joe biden regularly interacting with hunter's business partners. we learned a lot more this week that. and yet biden is lying about every bit of it. and now order to save joe and keep his campaign afloat. while hunter is likely being offered up as the, quote, sacrificial lamb, they will prosecute hunter. they will distance him and his crimes from his father and then declare, oh, justice has been served. that's what the new plan. but we know better. and to their credit, so do the house republicans. earlier today, they released the text of their impeachment inquiry. resolution, along with the following statement, quote, the biden family and associates received more than $24 million from foreign nationals. joe biden received hundred thousand dollars from his brother, james biden. the same day james biden received a $200,000 loan from a failing rural hospital operator. joe biden also received $40,000 in chinese money from his brother and his sister in law. now, it became clear that the biden well, what brand would they sell? what are they selling? what? hunter's expertise in art. i think so. they were looking for, let's see, dnc help words come to mind. anyway, that was the influence that they were using. that was the biden brand. they were using joe biden's name as the product, the brand. and don't forget, according to article two, section four of the u.s. constitution, the president, vice president, also officers of the united states shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. >> biden he's got to be held accountable. he has a lot of questions to be answered. we know he's there as a candidate. we know he's light as a president. and let's be very clear. this is not a story about a father's for his son. this is a story about a father using a struggling son to fill the family coffers. the house oversight committee has identified over ten biden family members that benefit financially from all of this foreign money. we can't find a single service that was offered in return for tens of millions of dollars. joe, he's a disgrace. and this is now all going to be coming to light here with the full report on the new hunter biden charges out of california . our very own david spunt is on the ground with the latest. david, what do you got? >> john, good evening. well, as you see on the screen, nine charges, six of those are felonies and three of them are felony. six of them are misdemeanors. this came down in the central district of california. that's los angeles. that's because that's where hunter biden has lived since april of 2018. but according to this indictment, special counsel david weiss, he willfully chose not to pay his taxes. i want to read some of this release from. david white, it says he engaged in a four year scheme in which he chose not to pay at least $1.4 million in selfish federal taxes he owed for 2016 through 2019. and also, it says he spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying those tax bills. that said, shawn, in 2018, he stopped paying his outstanding and overdue taxes for the year 2015. notably in this indictment, it does not include any charges on ferrer registering as a foreign agent. there was some speculation that the special counsel would go down that path given hunter biden's overseas business dealings, but he stopped short of doing that. only charging him with these tax charges. >> you mentioned at the top of the program that weiss is also taking hunter biden to trial in delaware on federal gun charges when he will appear in california. we don't quite know yet. we're waiting to see when he's going to be making that first appearance. and we've also reached out to hunter biden's attorney, abbe, still waiting for some reaction. >> john? all right. david spunt, thank you for that report. we appreciate it. joining us now, he is the editor in chief, the founder investigative reporter justin news.com, as we check in with john solomon tonight john. you have more than any reporter in this country been following this and have broken pretty much by yourself every big aspect of this story. i want to go through this slowly because i think there are so many parts of this that people don't know about and that people have missed. let's first go to the tax charges now. wasn't it, david weiss, that was contradicted the whistleblowers? didn't david weiss originally plan not to bring any charges and only as a result of the whistleblower testimony did he then bring it to another level. >> and that became the sweetheart deal that blew apart open court because of a delaware judge. >> yeah. listen, first off, this indictment tonight affirms every fact that the whistle blowers, gary shapley, joe ziegler gave, they were they've been tormented by some in the media and certainly by hunter biden's defenders. their truthfulness is 100% confirmed in this indictment tonight. and change the course of history. david weiss's team was content to give hunter biden a small ah, a small misdemeanor plea deal for hunter biden. now he's facing three felonies, nine charges, 17 years in prison. they change the course of history. also tonight, joe biden has a very bad, bad mark on his record. now, just think about this. this indictment portrays hunter biden as a quintessential tax cheat. a guy who'd rather spend money on clubs than pay his taxes, a guy who made millions in foreign money but wouldn't pay his taxes even when he filed his own taxes from time to time, he would even when he filed his taxes. >> the indictment alleges there's a very important fact here. back in 2019, i reported and i was ridiculed for reporting that ukrainian prosecutors wanted to tell the united states government that hunter biden did not pay taxes on some of his burisma income. tonight, david weiss's indictment through the grand jury for another grand jury confirms hunter biden did not pay taxes on the money he earned from burisma holdings in 2014. just like the ukrainian authorities tried to tell the united states government in 2019, but they were turned away. >> this is a devastating indictment for a president. his own son is portrayed as it's actually this is a president that time and again has told us he wants to crack down on tax. he wants to hire 89,000 more irs agents in this case here. his own son is the poster child for what a tax cheat looks like, at least in this indictment. you know, john, let me ask you this. i want to go back because the years burisma years and this is where almost from the very beginning, this tipped everybody off because it was so unusual. so let me just focus in on that one deal in particular. i wrong or right on the issue. in october of 2015, didn't it become official administration policy to give $1,000,000,000 in loan guarantees to ukraine? and that was after an inner agency investigation. they decided to not progress on the issue of corruption in ukraine. warrants the billion in loan guarantees that happened in october of 2015. is that correct? you were right. there were a series of record september and october 15 and two consecutive months. >> the treasury department, justice department, state department agreed together that ukraine and its prosecutor general's office had made enough progress on corruption reforms. it deserved $1,000,000,000 in new loan guarantees. and by the way, europe also concurred with that opinion. >> let me ask you this, john because then in december of 2015, this is the same year we're talking about hunter is with burisma executives. >> this is at the time and correct me if i'm wrong, this at the time they needed d.c. help or maybe that they needed the biden brand if you wanted to is devin archer's analogy. and at that time they were in dubai. hunter was in dubai and burisma executives were in dubai. they had a phone call with joe biden. five days later, i believe joe biden went to ukraine. that's when joe biden was bragging about the issue, that, in fact, he said fire the prosecutor got 6 hours or you're not getting the money. okay. he fires the prosecutor as a result of that firing ukraine, the loan guarantee, which was already official obama administration policy. and hunter biden, who admits he had no experience on good morning america in oil, gas, energy or coal, he continued to get paid millions of dollars for a job he clearly was not qualified for at a time where they're admitting that he was addicted to drugs and alcohol. >> is that the proper timeline on that? >> that is exactly the timeline. in october, burisma started to get worried that the ukrainian prosecutors are ramping up their investigation. hunter biden starts talking to people around joe biden of joe biden's advisers, talks to joe biden about it. the career people would recommending give ukraine the money they'd done enough. don't. joe biden, according to the washington post and the washington post, has changed his story. they now say that joe biden called an audible. you know, an audible is a change in play at a football game. he called it audible and decided he was going to withhold the billion dollars in force, the firing of the very prosecutor that was making burisma panicked. hunter biden's company was panicked and they fired viktor shokin. that is exactly what i reported in 2019. and today the evidence validates that timeline. let me go back. so then how is it that david weiss investigating this, how did he let the statute of limitations pass? on the issue of taxes involving the burisma years, because we're talking about millions of dollars there, what was that? not the timeline. well, those years that that the statute of limitations passed there, because that would have been highly unusual because they could have gone to hunter biden's attorneys at the time and said works attending this or we're going to charge you. >> wouldn't that be the normal practice? >> yes, and they do what's called a tolling agreement, which extends the statute. you keep negotiating, maybe you get a deal, but you preserve the government's ability to bring the charges. that tolling agreement according to the whistleblowers, was allowed to expire in the fall of 2022, meaning the $400,000 in income that under biden to david weiss confirms this today confirms a whistleblower's $400,000 in income that hunter biden got from burisma in 2014 could no longer be charged as a felony. tax evasion case today. they mention it in the narrative, but they can't charge him with it because of the fact that they allowed the statute of limitations to go. and i think all of this would have been swept under the rug based on all the reporting i've done with the fbi and irs and other officials, this would have all been swept under the rug of gary scharpling and joseph ziegler, didn't come forward and blow the whistle to congress. >> all right. let me ask you this next question here. joe biden has said over and over again he said it as a candidate. he said that as a president, he said it this week that he never once talked to his brother or his son or anybody, for that matter, about their foreign business dealings. now know that's not true. john solomon, we know because devon archer told us that's not true and he himself as a partner, knew of at least 20 occasions when joe got on the phone with hunter, their foreign business partners. and then, of course, we have photo evidence of joe biden meeting with a lineup. katarina, that's the russian oligarch, former first lady of moscow, three and a half million dollars deal that they did with her later leading to her investing, i believe, over $100 million in a real estate venture with them. >> but joe biden met with her at the cafe milano, didn't he? >> and he met with other foreign partners at the café milano, didn't he? >> he did, and he met with one in the naval observatory, the official vice president. when he was vice president, a guy connected to kazakhstan. joe biden is simply not telling the truth when he said those are lies. the only lies are his response to that. the evidence is overwhelming that he did meet, that he did get some money from a senate. remember, he lied, said my family never got money from china. today, david, why these documents, millions of dollars coming from china to his family. and tomorrow morning, we're going to provide some new evidence showing that joe biden is right in the middle of this scheme with the help of senator ron johnson. we're going to be able to tomorrow. there are six suspicious activity reports that came in from banks that were flagging two possible criminal activities, human trafficking and money laundering. that list joe biden's delaware residents as the source and origin or origination of the financial transactions that result in their concern. joe biden's house was sort of a crime scene for these banks reporting money laundering and human trafficking. his home, the home that he allowed his son to stay in for some time. it's listed six in six banks. $12 million of transactions in these six suspicious activity reports is the first time we knew that joe biden's house is in the middle of what banks thought were money laundering and human trafficking schemes. >> that's going to come out tomorrow morning. wow. unbelievable. and your reporting has been dead on accurate. i will tell you, there also is this issue of david weiss contradicting himself in separate letters to, i believe, to one senator, one congressman, and also the comments, merrick garland. didn't merrick garland testify before congress that david weiss had the authority to charge in other jurisdiction ? that was what david weiss was telling the whistleblowers, that he not have he did not have the authority to charge. in other jurisdictions, but he said something else, 2 to 1 branch of congress and something else to a different branch. >> correct. >> the house and the senate, not, you know, different houses . >> there's a lot to sort out here, but other witnesses affirmed the whistleblower story and rebuked both the accounts of merrick garland and david weiss. david weiss i think now, has given a more complete account. when he finally sat down with jim jordan and he acknowledged this and i got turned down by the biden appointees in washington and california. i then let the statute of limitations go. i couldn't even do things without getting the approval of the tax division that was run by joe biden's appointees. so weiss has gotten the story right now. his story matches the whistleblowers. it matches the irs and fbi supervisors and others that jim jordan and james colmer have interviewed. but early on, there was a lot of fast and loose. the only people that turned out to be consistently accurate, the irs. and by the way, you have been following the story of kevin morris who apparently made a loan of $4.9 million. but as of that, didn't you discover that one of the reasons he thought it was important to help hunter out financially was because the issue of taxes would be front and center in the 2020 presidential race? >> yes, he actually an email saying that there's going to be political and personal peril for hunter biden if he doesn't start paying his taxes. this occurs right in 2020, right? he meets hunter biden at a joe biden fundraiser. those emails came out yesterday. kevin morris is mentioned as an unnamed person here. the david weiss confirms that kevin morris was starting