STARTING US OFF TONIGHT, THANK YOU >>> NOW TO BREAKING NEWS INTO THE INVESTIGATION INTO HUNTER BIDEN, SON OF PRESIDENT BIDEN. LET'S GET RIGHT TO KEN DILANIAN IN WASHINGTON >> Reporter: LESTER, HUNTER BIDEN HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH FELONY TAX FRAUD IN LOS ANGELES. IN A 56-PAGE INDICTMENT, SPECIAL COUNSEL DAVID WEISS HAS CHARGED MR. BIDEN WITH THREE FELONIES AND SIX MISDEMEANORS, ALLEGES HE ENGAGED IN A SCHEME TO EVADE $1.4 MILLION IN TAXES FROM 2014 TO 2020 WHILE SPENDING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO FUND AND EXTRAVAGANT LIFESTYLE. THIS IS THE SECOND FELONY INDICTMENT AGAINST BIDEN, WHO WAS CHARGED IN SEPTEMBER ABOUT LYING ON A FEDERAL FORM WHILE PURCHASING A HANDGUN BOTH CASES CAME AFTER A PLEA DEAL FELL APART IN AUGUST THAT CALLED FOR HIM TO AND MILT TO MISDEMEANORS AND SERVE NO JAIL TIME THE NEW INDICTMENT SAYS MR. BIDEN RECEIVED MORE THAN $7 MILLION IN INCOME FROM 2016 TO 2020, AND TOOK STEPS TO EVADE TAXES, INCLUDING BY USING FALSE BUSINESS DEDUCTIONS IT SAYS MR. BIDEN HAD THE MONEY TO PAY HIS TAXES, BUT CHOSE NOT TO PAY THEM. THE NEW CASE ADDS TO HUNTER BIDEN'S MOUNTING LEGAL WOES AND POSES A HUGE POLITICAL COMPLICATIO FOR HIS FATHER BECAUSE IF THE PROSECUTIONS GO FORWARD, HUNTER BIDEN COULD BE STANDING TRIAL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN THE PLEA DEAL COLLAPSED BECAUSE PROSECUTORS WERE UNWILLING TO PROMISE NOT TO CHARGE HUNTER BIDEN FOR OTHER CONDUCT, INCLUDING RELATED TO WHAT THEY SAID WAS THEIR ONGOING INVESTIGATION INTO VIOLATIONS OF FOREIGN LOBBYING LAWS.