If it's Friday, prosecutors file a new indictment against Hunter Biden, just days before House

Republicans are expected to formally launch an impeachment inquiry into the President and his family's business dealings.

Plus major explosion seen in Gaza as Israel's offensive against Hamas intensifies

amid new criticism from the US and dire warnings from the UN to reduce

civilian deaths. And Senate negotiators are back at the table on a deal to address the nation's border and

send urgent funding to Ukraine and Israel before it's too late. Welcome to Meet the Press Now, I'm Kristen Welker in Washington. We begin with

the legal and political fallout from the second criminal indictment of

President Biden's son Hunter Biden, which comes as House Republicans prepare a formal vote next week

to launch an impeachment inquiry into the president.

Late yesterday, the Justice Department Special Counsel

David Weiss indicted Hunter

Biden on nine tax-related charges including three felonies.

In a scathing 56-page indictment, prosecutors accuse

under Biden of a multi-year scheme to avoid paying more than a million dollars in taxes

while spending that money instead to support a lavish lifestyle. The indictment notes

that Hunter Biden's alleged transgressions happened both during his struggles with drug addiction. The indictment Katie Turr arguing that the indictment was politically motivated citing less severe

charges that prosecutors initially brought in June. What happened between

June 20th and yesterday? The facts didn't change. They are exactly the same as they were.

The law didn't change, so you have to ask what changed. What changed was the enormous political pressure that was put on the

U.S. attorney when he made a deal that was appropriate for what the facts and law showed

to him deciding, I don't want that brief any longer I don't want to be

ridiculed by the Republican Party of which I'm a member. At the White House

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