Hunter Biden was spotted socializing with top politicians and public figures at an opulent state dinner on Thursday after being charged with two federal misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax. 

Attorney General Merrick Garland, who leads the Justice Department, also attended the White House state dinner in honor of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Hunter Biden has agreed to plead guilty to the tax charges and is also entering into a pretrial diversion agreement regarding a separate felony charge of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance, his attorneys said.

The plea agreement still needs to be approved by a judge. 

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Hours before the dinner, House Republicans released testimony from two IRS whistleblowers who alleged that the Department of Justice, FBI and IRS interfered with the Biden investigation.

One whistleblower, IRS Criminal Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley Jr., testified that Assistant United States Attorney in Delaware, Lesley Wolf, told him "optics were a driving factor in the decision on whether to execute a search warrant" at President Biden's Delaware home in relation to the Hunter Biden investigation.

Garland has faced a barrage of questions concerning Hunter Biden's minor penalties and lack of prison time.

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Sen. Rick Scott, is demanding that Garland fully explain to the American people why a plea deal was struck between Hunter Biden and the U.S. attorney in Delaware that will spare him from serving any time in prison.

Scott noted that in a recent case in Virginia, a mother is facing a prison sentence of up to 24 months because she was using controlled substances while she owned a firearm, and in another case, actor Wesley Snipes received three one-year sentences on tax charges. 

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But Scott said Hunter Biden will avoid prison time for the tax and firearms charges he faced thanks to a plea agreement that the Justice Department agreed to.

"The reported plea agreement extended to President Biden's son is a farcical example of precisely that two-tiered approach to criminal justice by the DOJ under your leadership," he wrote to Garland. "What is the American public to take away from the outcome of this five-year investigation and leniency shown to Hunter Biden on both the federal tax violations and firearms offenses he committed?"

Fox News' Brie Stimson and Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.

UFC fighter Sean Strickland weighed into the potential bout between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday and expressed his support for the Tesla and Twitter CEO.

Strickland appeared to have a distaste for the Facebook social media platform and ripped Zuckerberg in a tweet.

"Man f--- Mark Zuckerberg.. Dirty communist.... No one wants your goggles and your disinformation censorship but.... Facebook market gets a pass...." he tweeted. "@elonmusk come to Vegas. We will put in work!"

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Strickland, a middleweight competitor, is 26-5 overall. He is set to square off against Abus Magomedov in July. He is coming off a decision victory over Nassourdine Imavov back in January. He is currently No. 7 in the UFC Middleweight rankings as Israel Adesanya reigns over the division.

The idea of a fight between Zuckerberg and Musk popped up when he issued a challenge to fight in a cage match with the Meta CEO.

"Send Me Location," Zuckerberg said on Instagram, providing a screenshot of Musk’s original challenge. In the initial tweet, Musk said: "I’m up for a cage match if he is lol."

UFC president Dana White told TMZ Sports he spoke to both multibillionaires Wednesday night and said that "both guys are absolutely dead serious about this."

When asked why White felt that way, he said that "they both said, 'Yeah, we'll do it.' They both want to do it."

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White said Zuckerberg reached out first, asking if Musk was serious, so White contracted Musk, who then said he was.

If this bout were to happen, White says the amount of money it could raise would be unprecedented.

"This would be the biggest fight ever in the history of the world. Bigger than anything that's ever been done. It would break all pay-per-view records. These guys would raise hundreds of millions of dollars for charity. You don't have to be a fighting fan to be interested in this fight. Everybody would want to see it."

"The biggest fight of all time was Floyd Mayweather and Conor [McGregor], I just think it triples that. I think it triples what that did. There's no limit on what that thing can make. … Everybody would watch it, everybody would want to see it."

Zuckerberg practices Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ), while Musk has done martial arts, BJJ and was in "plenty of fights growing up in South Africa," says White.

Maye Musk, Elon’s mother, jokingly wrote on Twitter she "canceled" the fight.

"Actually, I canceled the fight. I haven’t told them yet. But I will continue to say the fight is canceled, just in case," she wrote.

Fox News' Lawrence Richard and Ryan Morik contributed to this report.