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Hey, good morning. I am Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels. It is Friday, finally.

December 8th, here's what's driving the day. The biggest news that you need to pay attention to today came late last night, President Biden's son, Hunter Biden,

indicted on more charges, nine federal counts accusing him of evading federal taxes on millions of

dollars that he made in his work with foreign companies. There's a lot to get to, so I'm not going to

waste your time just talking about it. Instead, joining me now to chat about those latest developments in the federal case against Hunter Biden, National Corresponded, Betsy Woodruff Swan, friend of the pod. Betsy, thank you. We had a different plan for the podcast and then got this breaking news. So thank you for for jumping on with us.

Oh, yeah. Happy to. I want to dive right in. On Thursday night, we get the news that President Biden's son has nine federal accounts against him. This is the taxes, millions of dollars.

David Weiss wrote that Biden, quote, engaged in a four-year scheme to not pay at least $1.4 million

in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019.

This is not a surprise. You and I recently worked on a Hunter Biden story. Throughout that,

you kind of continue to talk about how something like this

was likely that we might see this. So I guess tell the folks what actually is happening here.

What's very interesting is the difference between the statements that the Justice Department

made about Hunter Biden's taxes when they tried to reach that plea deal with him this summer

versus what the government is now accusing him of having done. In the summer in that

plea deal, which fell apart in spectacular fashion, the only thing he was accused of was misdemeanor,

willful failure to pay. In other words, the accusation

was he knew he owed taxes. He didn't pay them. He knew he needed to file his tax returns. He

didn't file them. Pretty simple stuff. This indictment is very different because it accuses him

not just of that, but also of going out of his way, including in the period of time after he

achieved sobriety, to engage in financial crimes to try to reduce his tax responsibilities.

It goes into great detail describing an alleged a communication he had with an accounting firm

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