Hunter Biden’s Legal Problems Keep Getting Worse

<p>A plea deal struck between the Department of Justice and Hunter Biden was supposed to bring his years of legal troubles to an end. Instead, that deal has unraveled and a special counsel has been named to take over the case.</p><p>Michael Schmidt, a Washington correspondent for The Times, explains why that turn of events is increasingly pitting the interests of Hunter Biden against those of President Biden.</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/michael-s-schmidt">Michael S. Schmidt</a>, a Washington correspondent for The New York Times.</p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>The lawyer who represented Hunter Biden in plea negotiations <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/us/politics/hunter-biden-lawyer.html">stepped down</a>, saying that he intends to testify as a witness on behalf of the president’s son.</li><li>Here’s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/us/politics/hunter-biden-legal-troubles-timeline.html?searchResultPosition=3">a timeline</a> of Hunter Biden’s life and legal troubles.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.</p>