Hunter Biden indicted on multiple gun charges

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Hunter Biden was indicted by special counsel David Weiss in connection with a gun he purchased in 2018. President Biden’s son was charged with two counts for alleged false statements he made while purchasing the gun and a third count for possessing the gun while he was addicted to drugs. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe tells Anderson Cooper what kind of considerations went into the decision to charge Biden. Plus, CNN Senior International Correspondent Ben Wedeman gives AC360 an update on the catastrophic flood in Libya where more than 5,000 people are feared dead.

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0:00.0	Tonight at 360, what happens now that the president's last surviving son is now the first
0:05.8	son of a sitting president charged with the federal crime.
0:08.6	In Georgia, the first president ever charged with alleged crimes of his own, get to break
0:12.2	that could help him in his trial there.
0:14.4	And tonight meet the American Cava, who came close to death, 3,000 feet deep underground.
0:18.8	He tells me about his dramatic rescue, whether he plans to go back underground when he recovers.
0:23.6	Good evening.
0:24.6	Thanks for joining us.
0:25.6	We begin with breaking news on what is a history-making day.
0:28.8	Remember before, has the sitting president child been indicted?
0:31.8	Until now.
0:32.8	Early this afternoon, we learn Hunter Biden had been charged in Delaware by special counsel
0:36.7	David Weiss on three gun-related counts.
0:39.9	As follows, the collapse of a plea deal, as you know, on those and other tax-related offenses.
0:44.6	It comes, of course, in the middle of a presidential campaign and consider this.
0:48.0	The same Justice Department, now prosecuting President Biden's son, is also prosecuting
0:52.0	President Biden's leading opponent, and their new developments in one of his cases as
0:56.2	well tonight.
0:57.2	But we begin with Hunter Biden charges, CNN's Carriscanel joins us now.
1:00.9	So talk more about what we know is in this indictment.
1:03.5	Yes, so these are three felony charges, and they all relate to a purchase of a gun in
1:08.3	2018.
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