Hunter Biden's expected plea deal fell apart, leading to his not guilty plea
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🗓️ 27 July 2023
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USA TODAY Justice Department Correspondent Bart Jansen on how Hunter Biden's expected plea deal fell apart, leading to his not guilty plea.
Mitch McConnell was escorted away from cameras after freezing in the middle of a news conference
Fed raises interest rates 0.25 point, opens door to another hike despite easing inflation.
Rudy Giuliani concedes he made false statements about two Georgia election workers.
USA TODAY Education Editor Nirvi Shah on a Department of Education civil rights inquiry into legacy admissions at Harvard.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, and welcome to 5 Things I'm Dana Taylor, today is Thursday, July 27, 2023. |
| 0:18.9 | Hunter Biden's expected plea deal fell apart, Mitch McConnell was escorted away from cameras |
| 0:24.2 | after freezing in the middle of a news conference, and the Fed raises interest rates and opens |
| 0:29.5 | the door to another hike, despite easing inflation. |
| 0:40.3 | Hunter Biden was in federal court yesterday in Wilmington, Delaware. We're joined by USA Today, |
| 0:46.0 | Justice Department correspondent Bart Johnson. Bart, I know it's been a hectic news day covering |
| 0:51.5 | the Hunter Biden case. I can hear the busy newsroom behind you. Thanks for carving out time to |
| 0:56.4 | join us today. Thanks for having me. So Hunter Biden was in court yesterday morning, and I |
| 1:02.4 | believe the expectation when the day started was that this would be a pro forma appearance since |
| 1:08.6 | there was a plea deal in place. But what was that plea deal and what happened in court? |
| 1:13.3 | Yeah, the expectation was that he was going to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts |
| 1:19.1 | of failing to pay his taxes back in 2017 and 2018 when he made a couple of million dollars |
| 1:25.6 | each year. The prosecutor said that his accountants did fill out his taxes, but he never paid them. |
| 1:32.0 | And so he was going to admit that, and there was some expectation that prosecutors were going |
| 1:38.7 | to recommend probation. So he was going to be able to resolve this investigation, which has been |
| 1:44.0 | going on for five years now without having any jail time. But as the hearing unfolded, as the |
| 1:51.9 | federal judge asked him questions about whether he understood the charges and whether there had |
| 1:58.8 | been any promises made, the hearing went off the rails. And so I have to ask you to tell us what |
| 2:04.8 | went off the rails means, what happened? There's a second case pending against him having to do |
| 2:11.8 | with a gun charge. He possessed a 38 caliber pistol in 2018. And in buying that, he filled out a |
| 2:20.8 | form that said that he was not a drug addict. In fact, he was quite a drug addict at the time. |
| 2:28.7 | He acknowledged in his own memoir that he was smoking crack every 15 minutes in that period. |
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