Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Peter Alexander and with just four days until the

Iowa Caucasus the biggest political developments today may very well be playing

out not on the campaign trail but in courtrooms in Manhattan and Los Angeles

were as we speak Hunter Biden President Biden's son is being arraigned on

federal tax charges as closing arguments are wrapping up in former president

Donald Trump's New York civil fraud trial.

This was the scene only a short time ago.

This is L.A. Hunter Bryden inside that SUV

entering a federal courthouse. He's expected to plead

not guilty to nine felony and misdemeanor counts that were brought by the special counsel.

In that case, David Weiss. Federal prosecutors say that Biden failed to pay more than a million dollars in taxes

between 2016 and 2019, opting instead to use that money they say to pay for a lavish lifestyle fueled by his addiction

to drugs and alcohol. Biden's visit to the courthouse comes a day after his

surprise appearance on Capitol Hill where House Republicans there were

meeting to recommend that he be held in contempt of Congress for defying a

congressional subpoena. Hunter Biden is the central figure in the House's

impeachment inquiry into President Biden as the former

president and Republicans in Congress try to tie Hunter Biden's alleged misconduct in business

practices to his father.

For more now, we are joined by NBC News White House correspondent Mike Memley,

who is in Los Angeles, also with us.

In just a moment is NBC News, legal analyst, Danny Savalos, and former U.S. Attorney Carol Lamb, she is also an

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