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Unlawfully using illegal substances. This is the same gun case for which prosecutors elected not to charge hunter biden as part of a now defunct plea deal several weeks ago. Bidens attorney still contends that agreement is binding. We have complete coverage tonight. We begin, though, with Correspondent David Spunt at the Justice Department with the latest. Good evening, david. Bret, good evening to you. After week intense pressure. Special counsel david weiss gave the green light to go ahead on charges and ultimately a grand jury approved charges against the son of the sitting president of the United States. Tonight, hunter biden facing two false statement counts, which are felonies, also a third count of possessing and owning a gun, another felony. According to the special counsels office, back in 2018, hunter biden lied on a federal form to purchase a gun in delaware when he said that he was not addicted to any Stimulant Narcotic Drug and any other controlled substance when, in fact, he knew that statement was false. The second charge is a false statement made for the person who worked for the gunshot in delaware. The third is owning the gun when he used unlawful substances. The charges, bret, could put him behind bars for 25 years if you total them all up. Swift reaction on capitol hill from House Oversight chairman james comer who says the Justice Department has plenty of other larger crimes to pin on hunter biden. List goes on and o you have never heard me say anything about gun charges. Again, thats the one crime that you committed that you cannot tie to joe biden. Democrats say todays indictment is nothing to celebrate. We shouldnt take delight in other peoples misfortunes but we have to have a rule of law. When people commit crimes, then the consequences follow. Both hunter biden and the doj hope to avoid this day when they met in court in delaware in july. The plea deal fell apart in a very public way, bret, when the government would not guarantee that hunter would be immune from any future prosecution. Hunters attorney abbe lowell took aim at the special counsel in a statement this afternoon to fox news he said in part hunter biden possessing an unloaded gun for 11 days was not a threat to Public Safety but a prosecutor with all the power imaginable, bending to political pressure presents a gray threat to our system of justice, end quote. End with this. This may not be the only indictment for Hunter Bidens Special Counsel Weiss indicated in an august court filing that those tax charges that were part of that failed Plea Deal Indictment where hunter lives in washington where he once lived. Bret . David spunt, at the Justice Department. David, thanks. Where are the charges on Human Sex Trafficking Fara charges, money laundering, tax evasion . They have never connected anything to joe biden. So its not surprising that the Justice Department charges have nothing to do with the president. I think that shows that we still have an independent rule of law and nothing they have said has amounted to anything. Bret a lot of reaction today. Lets get some analysis now joining us fox news chief correspondent Shannon Bremen and criminal Defense Attorney philip holloway. Shannon, obviously, the hunter biden lawyers, abbe lowell in particular saying hey, wait a second, this is part of the deal we agreed to. Think that that fs still binding here. Yeah. And that has been the position that they are sticking to. They say this is something the parties were fully informed about. They had consent. They decided what they were going to do and they were going to move forward. Remember, back in july. The judge started asking questions about that and many other parts of what they had put together and never gave a blessing or signed off on this. So i would expect and philip can talk to this better than i can that as a Defense Attorney you are not going to allow anything to slip through your fingers that may be of possible help to your client. That seems to be their argument they are going to stick with now. There are some more things now looming with this indictment actually in place. And how far they want to go with that and what success they will have remains to be seen. Bret right. Philip, what about that to shannons point . She is exactly right. A good Defense Lawyer is going to try to do Everything Possible to get the very best possible result for their client. In this case the very first way to defend it, because you cannot defend it on the facts. The facts are clear. You are going to have to try to establish if you can that that Diversion Agreement was a binding contract; in other words, was it a quid pro quo, was it a meeting of the mind . Was it something that is enforceable just as a regular contract would be . And thats going to be a question, first off, for the federal judge who is going to be assigned this case. But, at the same time, guys, they are going to be trying to have a dialogue with weiss and his team. They are going to try to see if there is a plea bargain that can still bed had. Im a bit skeptical because we were told over the last couple of months the parties did try to revise some kind of a plea deal before we got to this point and they just came to logger heads. So it appears that we are either going to be headed to a trial or potentially a whole series of pretrial motions about the enforceability of that agreement. Bret philip, let me just follow on this, and that is people call for other things fara charges, other investigations, just dealing on these charges, its still very serious what he is facing, right . Oh, yeah. Is he looking at potentially up to 25 years, i think this is the lowest of the low hanging fruit. What remains to be seen is whether or not weiss is going to go for something a little bigger. Is he going to look into some alleged financial crimes. Things that might involve other people, perhaps even the president of the United States. But, this one is serious enough because it goes back to almost five years ago. A gun was found in a dumpster near a school. And if that doesnt create a dangerous situation i dont know what does it. Could have been a potential tragedy if the gun had gotten in the wrong hands near that school. We need to know why it took so long. Why did it take almost five years, right at the statute of the limitations to bring this case . Bret and the politics of this shannon are obviously all over the place. Our friend Jonathan Turley bidens break the glass option pardon hu hunter withdraw from e 2024 election. Biden could bow out of the election as many on both sides are saying old age taking toll on mental and political capacity. End political career and act as a father which some would condemn but most would understand. I mean, there is all kinds of things that could happen, the white house is not talking about pardons. , remember the moment, not long ago that our Mark Meredith put that question to Karine Jeanpierre would the president if he needed to pardon his son . She didnt sound like she left any room there no, repeatedly that that would not happen. Keep in mind, too. There are some other optics in play here. The House Judiciary Committee says attorney general Merrick Garland is going to testify next week. They are certainly going to have questions about this. About the length of how this came together, that plea deal falling apart and while, yes, now that there is an indictment there could be conversations about a plea deal moving forward. I agree with philip. Its unlikely we would go there. Bret, think about where that leaves us that could be the president s son in the midst of a campaign could be in the middle of a trial at the same time the man who looks like he could be the g. O. P. Nominee and former president is also in a courtroom. Its going to be a Political Year like we have never seen. Bret kind of a unique Political Year. I would say thats right. Shannon, philip, thank you very much. Thank you. Bret the three House Committee chairman who will lead the Impeachment Inquiry against President Biden briefed today. Speaker faces pressure from conservatives. Senior Congressional Correspondent chad pergram is on capitol hill tonight. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy is trying to stay focused on impeaching the president for alleged wrongdoing. The American Public Impeachment Infiery provides. As quickly as possible. Democrats are now criticizing republicans for not voting to formalize an Impeachment Inquiry. Yet, democrats initially resisted an official vote for the first former President Trump before voting later on. Now democrats insist the house vote. Obviously you dont declare that you are going to impeach someone because you dont like their politics. Impeachment failed to impress conservatives who want to oust mccarthy. Mccarthy hammered naysayers at a closed door meeting. I dont walk away from a battle. If it takes a fight, i will have a fight. Mccarthy said says mccarthy torched opponents. Any f bombs. There may have been one. I think is he irritated thats what i heard. The speaker said if you want to make a motion to vacate the chair, bring it on. Mccarthy rankeled conservatives for saying republicans must pass a one or two month Spending Bill to avert a shutdown which doesnt immediately cut spending. Democrats relish the g. O. P. Infighting. We are focused on fighting for every day americans. Extreme maga republicans are focused on fighting each other. G. O. P. Like a three ring circus, one ring for impeachment another for government funding, and another for the speaker drama. Bret . Bret there is that. Chad pergram live on capitol hill. Thank you. A georgia judge has ruled former President Trump and 16 others will be tried separately from two defendants who are set to go to trial next month. 19 people are facing charges of trying to illegally overturn the states results in the 2020 election. Prosecutors had sought to try all of them at the same time. Bret our brand new fox news poll is filled with bad news for President Biden and good news for former president donald trump. The lead for the former president among republican candidates has grown 7 points since last month. Now standing at 60 . Governor ron desantis has lost 3 points in this poll. Vivek ramaswamy is on desantis heels at 11 . 61 of those surveyed feel President Biden does not have the mental soundness to serve. Only 36 believe he does. The president Trails Former President Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, nikki haley, former Vice President mike pence in headtohead matchups, all are within the margin of error. President biden says he has led the country out of its great economic crisis. The president making the comment the day after the latest data showed increasing inflation and soaring energy prices. White house correspondent Jacqui Heinrich has details tonight live from the north lawn. Good evening, jacqui. Good evening, bret. The white house has a way of pulling out Economic Data that works for their message. For instance, arguing that real wages are up relative to before the pandemic, despite data showing that inflation has outpaced Earnings Growth for the middle class. So team biden is try nag new messaging strategy. Even though we have had 19 straight months of unemployment over 4 for the first time in american history. Even though we have the lowest Inflation Rate of any major economy in the world all they do is attack it. In what the white house sphramed as a Major Economic address. President biden delivering no new policy but a strategy. Showcased the other side as worse. For all the time they spent attacking me and my plan. Here what happens they never do. They never talk about what they want to do. Republicans have given us a failed plan, Trickle Down Economics that didnt work. Biden framed magaomics as extreme pointings to the congressional battle over the debt limit that ended with a downgrade in the u. S. Credit rating. Driving down the message despite poll after poll showing voters arent happy with his handling of the economy. The america is doing better than the rest of the world. That is not an accident. That literally is our economic plan in action. Bidenomics in action. New poll showing president losing ground key constituency compared to the fall of 2020. Suburban voters down. Support moved to President Trumps column up 13 points with suburban women and 7 points with both black and hispanic voters. After podesta in the the Washington Post and New York Times, cast doubt on the viability of bidenharris 2024. Nancy pelosi gave a notably weak defense. Vice president Kamala Harris the best running mate for this president . He thinks so, and thats what matters. And by the way. Do you think so she is the best running mate though . . She is the Vice President of e United States. Hillary clinton seemed to get the memo show cased the flaws of the alternative. He is old, yeah, thats right. But look at what he has gotten done and then, if thats not enough for you, look at the alternative. A wrecking crew. The president is back at the white house. He did not take any questions from reporters today. But he did equ quip at the end f the event i wish i had a chance to take your questions but im going to get in real trouble if i do that. Bret . Bret all right. Jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. Jacqui, thanks. Stocks were up today because of optimism. The Federal Reserve may pause its Interest Rate hikes. That meant the dow gaining 332 today. Big gain. The s p 500 finished ahead 38. The nasdaq jumped 112 today. Germanys Foreign Minister is here to talk about aid for ukraine, her meeting with american officials, and whats next with the u. S. Relationship. That is coming up. And, later, if the truth is out there, does nasa know about it and would nasa tell us . A new Report On Ufos from the space agency is just out. 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Bret i want to talk to you, first of all, about where you all see the situation in ukraine as you look at a map of the controlled territories and back and forth between russia and ukraine. How does germany look at this and what is happening in your neighborhood. Just before arrived in texas two days ago, i was in ukraine. It was my first time there. I have met children who havent been in school for a year. I have met children who have been deported to russia. I also always meeting people brave men and women who are defending their freedom because they want to live in a free world as we do as well. [no audio] this is rich edson in fox news, filling in for bret here very briefly. When you look at the situation thats ongoing on the ground right now and what more the west needs to do. What more the United States needs to do, what more that you need to do, where do you see that situation shaping up . We have to keep our efforts to support Ukraine Military so they can defend themselves. Free the people behind this mining which we have shown on the map where people are hiding since one and a half years in their bunkers because they are afraid of going out, being afraid of being raped by soldiers or tortured so therefore Germany Europe stepped up with support we are not only happy to defend ukraine, the brave people of ukraine. We are defending the democracy worl