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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 classi...

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 discussing or whether that's just a pro forma technical statement. but it is in there. other than that, it is just a restatement of the -- what the criminal information is going to say, the two charges. it points out the maximum penalty in each of the tax charges as carol and others have been discussing is 12 months and essentially restating the technicaliies here. we need to get to the bottom of the investigation being ongoing, ana. >> this is an attorney that president biden allowed to stay on the case in order to try to remove any questions about the justice department's indepe...

Brett bear specifically asked, do you have these documents out there? it says here in the indictment, it read from the indictment, the problem for the former president is there were witnesses in the room. so they're going to be able to speak to what the president was actually holding during that recording. i think it is just a really difficult thing to understand about why the former president would make these comments or take this interview. the fact of the matter is there was highly classified documents that were laying in the shower, being flashed and waved in front of other people, and it ...

To know joe biden as president, as a person in public life, his family is one of the most animating parts of who he is. and so this is deeply personal. the president has spoken in the past about his son hunter's path through addiction and recovery. hunter biden's lawyer also acknowledged that in a statement that hunter biden believes it is important for him to take responsibility as he continues to work through recovery, which people who understand addiction as a disease knows that -- knows that is a long-term lifetime situation. and so from the white house, what has made this politically so d...