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paid money on. that s tonight on news night. good evening. i m abby phillip in washington. breaking don t, indicted again. the president s justice department charges the president s son with tax crimes. david wise accuses hunter biden of cheating the government out of $1.4 million that he owed. the justice department says that the president s son faces a maximum of 17 years in prison on nine felony counts. three counts tax evasion, assessment, three counts failure to file and pay taxes, and three counts filing a fraudulent tax return. now, minutes ago hunter biden s attorney responded to the special counsel s charges saying if hunter s last name was anything other than biden, the charges in delaware and now california would not have been brought. let s get over to evan perez. you broke the story that this was coming down the pipe. walk us through what that lengthy indictment says about where all of this money went. well, what the prosecutors do over these the course ....
thank you very much for your time. thank you for having me. of course. cnn this morning continues right now. it s okay. it s a fraud. it s election interference. it s keeping me here instead of iowa and new hampshire. i should be in iowa and new hampshire, south carolina. i should be sitting in a i shouldn t be sitting in a courthouse. and i don t have to sit here. i could just do whatever i want to do, but i want to make sure that you get the true story. good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us on this friday, the 2024 campaign trail is running straight through the courthouse, or courthouses. former president trump set to take the stand in his new york civil fraud trial monday. he chose to be in the courtroom yesterday rather than the campaign trail and in the federal election subversion case against him trump s legal team is working to delay the trial set to begin in march in the heat of the presidential election season. legal problems for the ....
versus wade. tonight the texas attorney general is threatening to go after her doctor. we re following new images coming out of gaza, as israel is rounding up what appears to be dozens in a mass detention, all stripped down to their underwear. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. we begin with the breaking news tonight, as the justice department has now filed a new criminal case against the president s son, hunter biden. we just got the details of this nine-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury. according to the special counsel, david wise, the president s son engaged in a four-year tax scheme. evan perez broke this story. evan, walk us through what we are seeing in these nine charges. this is a 56-page indictment that has been returned by a grand jury in los angeles, which is where hunter biden lives, just outside of los angeles. we re talking about three felony counts, felony tax counts. six of these counts are misdemeanor tax counts. and w ....
once again dredging up lies about the 2020 election, just six weeks before the iowa caucuses. this afternoon, trump accused president biden of, quote, waging an all-out war on american democracy, and his chain hand campaign handed out these signs, you can see it on the screen, joe biden attacks democracy. the former president told supporters at another rally today that he hopes judges will let him prosecute the 2020 election, and encouraged them to go into ballot tabulating facile at this times in 2024 to, quote, guard the votes. kristen holmes has been following the trump campaign today. she s in cedar rapids, iowa, for us. kristen, what s the latest? reporter: yeah, jim, essentially, this is the most forcible rebuttal we ve seen from former president trump to the argument that president biden has routinely made, that a second trump term would be a threat to democracy. he even vaguely referenced a speech that biden gave in september when he talked about maga republ ....
the israelis are accusing the terror group of not fulfilling its promise to return all the women and children being held hostage. cnn s oren lieberman and matthew chance are tracking the latest from tel aviv. we ll start with oren. walk us through how these negotiations break down and what happens now. reporter: so the negotiations to this point focused on a very specific group of people, women and children. that was what the agreement was, to release 50 women and children at the start, and then ten women and children per day to extend the truce for 24 hours. this is where the disagreement comes in. israel and the u.s. believe that hamas is holding at least 17 women and children which would allow for at least one more day of pause. hamas says they re not holding women and children at this point and wanted to move the discussions on to elderly men as well as men and women who were soldiers. it is on that point that the discussions fell apart. hamas insisting that the w ....