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So Renato, why did Hunter-Biden's plea deal break down?

It's complicated.

I'm Renata Mariati.

I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer and a legal analyst.

And I'm Asha Rangappa.

I teach national security law at Yale University.

I'm a former FBI special agent and I'm a legal contributor for ABC News.

And we're here to help you understand topics

that can't be boiled down into a sound bite or a tweet.

So, honestly, I think you are on ABC a lot today, right? I saw you. I saw the photo on your

Instagram, but the setup. That was pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they sent a whole

camera crew to my sister's house in this room that I'm in now, her music room, and set up, and I was basically on standby for like five hours while, know hunters lawyers and DOJ like tried to hash out

what this plea deal was with the judge who ended up not being very happy with what was being presented to her.

So in the course of this and you and I were texting to each other and I know you tweeted a little bit.

So let me give the outline of what I understood and then you can kind of clarify some of these different aspects because it sounds like this was just

unusual in a number of different respects. Yeah for sure. And the judge was kind of like what

what are you exactly trying to do here.

So what we're looking at here are three different crimes, I guess, right?

Two are regarding failure to pay income tax.

And Hunter Biden, the plea agreement, he was pleading guilty to these two misdemeanor

charges and that was part of a plea agreement.

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