From New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow. This is the Daily.

This morning, when Hunter Biden enters a guilty play in a Delaware courtroom, it will

mark the end of a year's long federal investigation that many Republicans believed would put the

president's son in prison and put an end to the Biden presidency.

Today, my colleague Mike Schmidt on why none of that has happened.

It's Wednesday, July 26.

So Mike, for the past several years, we've come to understand that the president's son, Hunter

Biden, was under federal investigation in a case that had become profoundly politicized.

And today, as that investigation wraps up, Hunter Biden will enter a plea deal.

So set that scene for us. In a few hours, Hunter Biden will walk into a federal courtroom

in Delaware and he will plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges.

Essentially, he did not pay his taxes, pretty big tax bills for two years.

And he will admit to having lied to the federal government when he purchased a handgun.

Because when he bought that handgun, he, like every American that tries to buy a gun,

is asked, are you using drugs at this point?

Like on a form.

Correct. He had to fill out a form and he checked the box that he had not been using drugs.

When in fact, he had.

Correct.

Okay. And what kind of charges that you said the first two were misdemeanors?

The third thing is this unusual resolution of sorts of a criminal matter.

It's called a diversion agreement.

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