jochen: it is marginal. you look at the business that they have in battery swapping, they only have a share of that anyway, it is giving away to another company. it is kind of complicated. i don't think it will make much of a difference. and then cutting 10% of the workforce short-term helps. longer-term, that can be the strategy for a startup, and they will have to cut corners, cut costs. . it will slow down their r&d. and i don't think it actually helps for a startup to do that. shery: let's talk a bit about the competition, and perhaps a w ay for nio and other ev makers internet to gain an edge over the overseas market. how feasible is that? jochen: it's very difficult. nio has actually tried to get into the european market, and so far, they have only sold a few hundred vehicles. they are priced too high for afford market, where nobody really -- they have a problem with brand recognition. say a majority of the europeans have never heard of their brand. it takes a while, normally, you should only do that w

hunter biden's company was panicked and they fired victor jochen. that's what i reported in 2019. today the evidence validates that timeline. >> let me go back. how is it that david weiss investigating this, how did he let the statute of limitations pass on the issue of taxes him involving the burisma years? we are talking about millions of dollars they are there that not the timeline x the statute of limitations past their? that would have been highly unusual because they could have gone to hunter biden's attorneys at the time and said we are extending this are we are going to charge you. wouldn't that be the normal practice? >> yes. normally they do a tolling agreement. you keep negotiating and maybe get a deal. you preserve the government's ability to bring the charges. that agreement was allowed to expire in the fall of 2022. meaning the $400,000 in income that hunter biden, and david weiss confirms $400,000 in income that hunter biden got from burisma in 2014 could no longer be charged as a felony tax evasion case. today they mentioned it in the narrative but cannot charge th