Okay, so it's about 6.30 in the morning on Wednesday and I am driving up to the J. K.

LeBog's federal courthouse. Where the hell am I?

Our colleague, Sadie German, is in Wilmington, Delaware today.

I can see? Oh yeah, yep. There's a ton of media here. A lot of camera crews.

I'm looking for parking here.

The media was gathered outside the court today for a high profile here.

I'm here very early because it's first come first serve in the courtroom where we are going to be watching President Biden's son Hunter pleading guilty today to misdemeanor tax offenses.

Hunter Biden. President Joe Biden's second son.

For the past five years Hunter Biden has been the focus of a long justice department investigation.

At today's hearing, he was expected to plead guilty to two tax charges.

The time is now 809. There's a lot of reporters lined up here. We're all waiting for Hunter to arrive and soon the marshals are going to usher us into the courthouse and we're going to get...

We're going to find out if we can fit into the courtroom. So I really got to go.

But the day's hearing didn't go exactly as planned. I have been covering federal court for many many years and I have never seen a court hearing quite like this. It was dramatic.

Welcome to the journal, our show about money, business and power. I'm Kate Leimbaugh, it's Wednesday, July 26th.

Coming up on the show, the dramatic turn in Hunter Biden's plea deal.

Hunter Biden grew up in a political family, but he tried to cut his own path as a lobbyist and a business consultant, helping foreign companies gain traction in the US.

And then something happened that brought him center stage. It involved a laptop that he dropped off at a computer repair shop.

Eventually, information from that hard drive ended up in the New York Post in October 2020.

This laptop has been sort of this cloud over Hunter Biden for years now.

It contains a combination of some pretty embarrassing stuff like homemade pornography, photos of drugs, spread out on a table, picture of a gun.

But then there's also some emails related to Hunter Biden's business dealings.

Some of the content found on the laptop is tied to Hunter Biden's long running struggle with substance abuse, which he documented in a memoir published in 2021.

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