biden. the artle stated that movement raises questions about a potential conflict of interest for joe biden. even chris hines, hunter biden's own business partner had grave concerns. he thought working with burisma was unacceptable to chris hines. he was worried about the corruption, the geopolitical risk and how bad it would look. so he wisely distance himself from hunter biden and devon archer's appointments to burisma. he did not simply call his stepfather secretary of state and say i have a problem with this he did not tell his friends hey guys, i'm not getting on the board have nothing to do with this. he went so far to send an e-mail to senior state department officials about this ssue. he wrote, apparenevon and hunter haveoined the board of burisma a pelea went out today. i cannot speak to why they decided to, there is no investment by our firm in their company. what did hunter biden do? he stayed on the board. what did chris hines do? he subsequently stopped doing business with his c

biden. aubrey asthma over 400 times. and when they gave these presentations, they said there was nothing, nothing to see. it was a sham. this is fiction in their trial memorandum. the managers described this as baseless. now, why did they say that? why did they invoke biden or burisma over. 400 times? the reason they needed to do that is because are here saying that the president must be impeached and removed from office for raising a concern. and that's why we have to talk about this today. they say sham, they say baseless because they say this because if it's okay for someone to say, hey, you know what? maybe there's something here worth raising, then their case crumbles because they have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there is no basis to raise this concern. but that's not what public records show. here are just a few of the public sources that flagged questions surrounding this very same issue. the united kingdom serious fraud office. deputy assistant secretary of state george k

biden. aubrey asthma over 400 times. and when they gave these presentations, they said there was nothing, nothing to see. it was a sham. this is fiction in their trial memorandum. the managers described this as baseless. now, why did they say that? why did they invoke biden or burisma over. 400 times? the reason they needed to do that is because are here saying that the president must be impeached and removed from office for raising a concern. and that's why we have to talk about this today. they say sham, they say baseless because they say this because if it's okay for someone to say, hey, you know what? maybe there's something here worth raising, then their case crumbles because they have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there is no basis to raise this concern. but that's not what public records show. here are just a few of the public sources that flagged questions surrounding this very same issue. the united kingdom serious fraud office. deputy assistant secretary of state george k

here is what biden really said. >> president biden: i'm extremely proud of my son, hunter. he has overcome an addiction and he is one of the brightest, most decent men i know and i'm satisfied that i won't do anything. i said i would abide by the jury decision and i will do that and i will not pardon him. >> your son hunter is on trial. i know that you cannot speak about an ongoing federal prosecution. but let me ask you will you accept the jury's outcome? their verdict no matter what it is? >> president biden: yes. >> have you ruled out a pardon for your son? >> president biden: yes. >> harris: clearly that wasn't true. neither was this part. no one is above the law. you know what? people in the white house, staff members, everybody was saying no one is above the law over and over. >> president biden: this nation was founded on the principle there are no kings in america. each of us is equal before the law. [applause] no one is above the law. each of us is equal before the law. american principle that no one is above the law was reaffirmed. my administration, no one is abo

hunter biden. >> to associate on the phone? >> yes. >> this is lisa boothe again i want to have you walk us down memory lane. the sweetheart deal hunter biden originally got to tell us why that fell apart how abnormal it was up from deals you have seen previously? >> a federal judge has a series of serious issues when it became before her. he and his team hunters team felt they had worked out all of the details, all of the barriers and challenges that this was going to get done. and they would move on. president biden and his statement as a carefully negotiated plea deal it unraveled and a courtroom lease out the number my political opponents taking credit for bringing pressure at the federal judge herself and started to ask questions about this deal again questions about language that seemed to be sweeping about not only covering him from the charges he was facing budding's other potential future or other charges it was a real dispute about that even after it fell apart hunter's legal team for a l

i don't think that biden is getting a library.donor is going to give this 82-year-old failed president money for a library. what are they going to get out of it. biden is going to have to store his papers in his garage next to his corvette. this is a problem and an opportunity. it is their chance to break from the big guy. it is already happening. joe just lost chuck todd. >> you read the biden transcript, and that is beau's widow. >> yes. and he turned her into a crack addict. and this is all happening in 2017, 2018. and joe and jill biden were so concerned about their family they decided to run for president. >> yep. >> i just -- so when you talk about the word selfish, it is almost like the word doesn't -- their decision to run for president put the entire democratic party and the united states of america in the position that it is in now. >> jesse: really, chuck? really? chuck todd is disgusted now, when he doesn't have a show any more. everyone knew this four years ago because it was in the laptop he was saying was russian. l

and joe biden himself. >> you think joe biden before exits off the is going to go pardon other family members? >> yeah. i think a lot of people, surprised if he doesn't i would assume that he will based on work house oversight committee has already done, you never know, i mean we will see where it goes joe biden says was going to pardon hunter either see where scope goes times really is interesting. >> peter schweizerer government accountability office coming so much work on the influence peddling campaign of the biden family allegedly from oversight committee he said that jim biden is next cheryl we're going to see a pardon of his brother jim >> wondering if president is in language from the hunter biden pardon. because this it was a very broad pardon encounter, so covers offenses quote he committed or may have committed, or taken part of dating back to beginning of 2014 that was burisma, again when comey says tip of the iceberg with james biden and family, then, it is true biden could put out a blanket advanced pardon for james biden even though not criminally charged approximately

biden's attorneys. hunter biden's attorneys for raising the issue that he was selectively prosecuted and almost nobody goes to jail for tax fraud and he paid all the money back. but he lost that in federal court. and so, you know, when the president says he's acting in sort of two ways for two reasons. i take him at his word. i think one is compelling as a father protecting his son and the other as a president, raising the prospect of selective prosecution. frankly, somewhat less compelling. >> can we go back to the question of selective prosecution? in the gun charge at least, hunter biden had apparently reached a plea deal with prosecutors that was scuttled, paving the way for him to go to trial where he was convicted on those charges. and the president references that failed plea deal in the statement around the pardon. again, does it seem here that even though it may be a less compelling basis for a pardon, that there is good evidence here to suggest that maybe hunter was selectively prosecuted for

in addition to hunter biden you have jim biden and joe biden. biden obstructed my and chairman jordan's investigations. he lied multiple times. he lied about his knowledge, his involvement. we had sworn testimony from devon archer who said joe biden knew all along what was going on and selling excess to our enemies around the world so yes, joe biden, in my opinion, has committed crimes. >> well it's clear the department of justice didn't allow us to take investigative steps to what would have led to president joe biden. it was clear that joe biden was involved and it was really selling the access and giving hunter biden the opportunity to get these lucrative contracts while providing really no service overseas. liz: we've got to stay on this story. it's history in the making. now house oversight chair james comer and then on joe biden's involvement in hunter biden's lucrative business dealings overseas selling government access and profiting off of joe biden's government job. joining us now julian epstein a veteran lawyer, former chief counsel f

is what president biden did today, in pardoning his son unusual given what hunter biden pleaded guiltys unusual if you look at the history of what has happened with respect to pardons, in terms of the timing and the closeness of the relationship, although it is not unprecedented. but, what i think is happening here to some extent, president biden must have been influenced to some extent to the fact that the incoming department of justice under president-elect trump is going to be likely staffed in the upper positions by people who were on the defense team for donald trump, so this has become highly politicized and highly personal and basically by not pardoning his son, what he would be doing is leaving a lot of unknowns out there because the sentencing that were to occur in december, in this month of hunter biden, that is not going to end all the prosecution of hunter biden in the sense that both sides can appeal sentences and likely hunter biden would be appealing his conviction after trial in the gun case. there are a lot of discretionary's, subjective calls that have to be made in t

that's why biden lost. biden is checked out and he's not even negotiating the spending bill. >> every day more and more, it is shocking biden's absence. part of me wonders were is your manhood. i can't see george w. bush or bill clinton allowing the incoming president to dominate, where is his pride. >> democrats of the white house and the senate and trump, musk and johnson are calling the shots and democrats know it. the media just like they hid biden and the laptop are covering this whole thing up. the democrats are mad that musk put a spotlight on the spending that caused this inflation. >> this is an unelected oligarch who appears to be running our government. >> he is not just trump's copresident, that's way too low a title. he's the head dude in charge. >> eventually they will have to get together and decide who the president is. >> they are trying to pit trump and musk against each other because they have nothing else to do. they are working on behalf of the american people unlike nancy and joe who h

and joe biden himself.: deeply joe biden before lock set of us supporting a family member. >> yes a lot of people think will be provided he doesn't and i think that he well just based on that work that house oversight committee is already done but you never know when, i mean, we will see where he cousin joe biden said he was going to pardon hunter either so we'll see where the scope of this goes pretty but the timing really is interesting. maria: texas congressman pat congressman thank you for being here when you get your reaction to the starting and also, get your ticket do you believe that the bullet next parties were joe part binds brother jim. >> very well could be good morning having less income joe biden has been lying to the american people for so long, that about this and other things anything to discuss this with my son or his associates and that was found to be alive and well i do not bad from it and then fed to be a life was just a long wealthy library was repeatedly saying that he would not pard

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and he did pardon him because hunter biden was the bag manl for the biden crime family.biden�*s offences include failing to pay tax in los angeles from 2016—2019 and lying on a gun purchase form claiming he wasn't taking drugs when he was an addict. injune this year, he was convicted of illegally purchasing and owning a gun. in september, he pleaded guilty to the tax offences in la. his pardon, though, covers any and everything he may have done from the start of 2014 until now. hunter biden has been extensively investigated by republicans in congress looking for corruption and hoping to tie it to his father. with a pardon that predates his controversial business dealings, he'll now be protected from further prosecutions. and they have taken the light of my dad's love... the light of my dad's love for me and presented it as darkness. joe biden says he believes hunter was the victim of politically motivated prosecutions that would never have come to court if he wasn't the president's son. sound familiar? yes, it's the same argument donald trump uses about all the cases aga

now biden democrats are saying, of course biden's a liar. he was going to pardon hunter the whole time. >> do we actually believe that joe biden is just going to let the president elect's administration make good on their promise to go after his son? joe biden is leaving the stage. he's leaving the stage. he's not. this is not a donald trump situation where he could potentially come back and run for president. he has done he has done everything. he by the by joe biden has played by all the rules that people told him we had to play by. right. he's done it all. so good for joe biden and good for hunter. i say obama, democrats are sayin, hey, he could have done it a little differently. >> i think people will understand his act as a father, but not as a president. and one of the things that confused me, anderson, was just as a tactical matter. wouldn't it have been better to pardon a whole bunch of people who deserve pardons as part of a pardon that gestures to throw this out here alone and hop on a plane to africa on a sunday night. it was just

tells us that president biden has decided to issue a pardon for his son hunter biden, reversing the president's stance on using executive clemency. i'm melissa murray in for ayman mohyeldin. let's do. just moments ago president joe biden issued a pardon for his son hunter who was found guilty of gun-related charges in delaware and who pled guilty to tax evasion in california. president biden has repeatedly said that he would not use his executive authority to pardon his son or to commute his sentence, but according to exclusive reporting from nbc news the president changed his mind over the thanksgiving weekend and in the last hour the president issued a defiant statement that reads in part, quote, the charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in congress attacked me and opposed my election and a partially agreed to plea deal unraveled in the courtroom. a number of political opponents in congress taking credit for bringing political pressure the process. had the plea deal held it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of hunter's cases, end quote. presi

you have jim biden and joe biden. joe biden obstructed mine and chairman jordan's. he lied multiple times. he lied about his knowledge and involvement. we had sworn testimony from... that said that joe biden knew all along what was going on. he was selling the brand. he was selling access to our enemies around the world and he lie just like jim jordan said in the debate about the laptop and he lied when he said he wasn't going to pardon his son. yes joe biden in my opinion, he has committed crimes. jim biden took in all these loans, he didn't pay any interest or principal, had no loan documentation. i will point to those loans become income, they never paid taxes on them. why did you get those loans? what was he doing? all the people that wired money to the bidens were shady characters, either adversaries or people that were in trouble and needing assistance, they were needing something from joe biden. >> sean: do you believe that joe biden should think about pardoning the people that were just mentioned and maybe himself? >> i assume he's already looking to do that

biden issued that official ardon. �* , biden issued that official ardon.�*, ., , , ., pardon. it's only been a few hours since _ pardon. it's only been a few hours since the _ pardon. it's only been a few hours since the pardon - pardon. it's only been a few hours since the pardon has| pardon. it's only been a few- hours since the pardon has been announced, have you seen any reactions from the president—elect donald trump and his team? president-elect donald trump and his team?— president-elect donald trump and his team? , . and his team? yes, we have. the president-elect _ and his team? yes, we have. the president-elect trump _ and his team? yes, we have. the president-elect trump and - president—elect trump and hunter biden it has been a long heated war of words between the biden family and mr trump over these convictions. and donald trump has spoken out making comparisons to rioters who stormed the us capitol on january six, 2021. he said on his truth social account does the pardon given byjoe to hunter include the january six hostages who have now been

biden with his son with xi jinping biden long denied any involvement in his son's overseas dealings,l to a day. >> and speaking of hunter biden he was spotted over weekend here in st. croix, he and president biden walking out of mass, together on saturday. notable that hunter biden's lawyer refutes the cha charges and talk about photos, saying they are old news. david: old news, brand-new, thank you. >> lucas. >> joining me now victor davis hanson, senator fellow at the hoover, he is either so been lying for so much of his life he does not realize he can't catch up with his last lie, he said, last march, i did not interact with hunter's chinese partners, you see it there, it delusion may be best way to describe the biden administration, they were delusional about corruption and about him thinking he could have won. way behind where kamala harris was in polls, and delusional about the economy is finding and border secure. this was the delusional presidency, no? >> absolutely, he had one role to play, he was going nowhere in 2020 until obama faction of democratic party rescued him in s

how is she going to set herself apart from joe biden?ident? what that decision was going to say about her future moving on from there. and of course, she picked the minnesota governor, tim walz. yeah, exactly. and there had been, as you said, so much speculation around that, and when you get to the convention itself, i don't know how you have it in your memory, caitriona, but it felt like a massive celebration of kamala harris, this kind of crowning moment. and you had hugely popular speeches by the former first lady, michelle obama... if they lie about her, and they will, we've got to... with crowd: ..do something. if we see a bad poll, and we will, we got to put down that phone and... with crowd: ..do something. if we start feeling tired, if we start feeling that dread creeping back in, we got to pick ourselves up, throw water on our face, and what? crowd: do something! but there were signs that there were cracks there as well within the democratic coalition — the fact that there were protesters outside of the convention daily over the

biden is a mess. just go take over and trump understands he's got about 90 days to flood the zone and that's what he's going to do. he's going down every cultural economic social political issue. his team is going to try to enact really startling change and this time around he's not going to have a john bolton or jim mattis, or people within the cabinet that oppose him. david: they are all new, all fresh, all full of energy, and of course the doge brothers are the best example of it. last word. >> absolutely. he's substituted class for race. he's got people from all over the ideological racial class spectrum and it's kind of amazing thing to watch. david: it sure is. well you've got a terrific article about it in fox news. look it up fox news, victor davis hanson has a piece today. always a pleasure to see you my friend. it's never long enough. thanks very much. we'll be right back. check in time is 3:00 it's 2:55. i know. is this what he's doing now? as your host, i have some rules. first, no showers

biden is gone. it is almost laughable. >> you know, i'm sure senator mullin, you knew all along like we knew all along president biden was failing. but you read this wall street journal story and you realize he was basically not doing the job for four years, not doing the job, really. no one was running the country, even the press today. not one question to kjp about why the president had good and bad days, that he wouldn't communicate with his own staff, his own, his own, his own cabinet. >> right. >> how is this? and again, finishing out the way you started. mia, how is this okay? >> it's not okay. and what's interesting to me is every one of these democrats that are complaining about ellen being involved, which thank goodness, goodness he is. i mean, think about this. you want the most successful business guy in america involved in actually trying to get the government under control. i think that's a good thing. we don't need politicians running the country and trying to figure out our budget, be

joe and hunter biden over.at this means is those charges that the that the special counsel, david weiss, has pursued against hunter biden, which are gun charges in delaware, as well as his tax charges in in los angeles, both of those get wiped away clean all right, evan perez, stay with us i want to go now to isaac dover, who is somebody who has covered joe biden, who has interviewed him and isaac. >> i just i first want to play a clip that we have of what biden said about potentially pardoning his son earlier this year, and then we'll come back to you. so let's play that clip let me ask you, will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict, no matter what it is? >> yes. >> and have you ruled out a pardon for your son yes. >> you have and so obviously, i think that's when he was running for reelection. >> and the political environment was very different for him. you, as someone who has covered him for years. walk us through kind of his thought process, how he thinks about these things. we know per our reportin

and so for anybody to sit there and say, well, joe biden lied, joe biden lied, are you kidding me? donald trump is your president. he's about to be our president again. and that is something that i think all of us need to consider when we're talking about the fact that one rule applies to somebody like joe biden, who apparently broke every precedent on earth by pardoning his son. and yet here we have. nobody paid attention to to to the wizard behind the curtain, somebody coming in who already pardoned every single person without going through any kind of pardon process like previous presidents had in his first term, for the most part, and who now says he'll do it again and who now says he will use the justice department as an ax of vengeance to go after his enemies, starting with and i quote the biden crime family. what do you expect was going to happen and, aaron, it's not just promising to go after some of his political rivals. >> he also seemed to equate hunter biden with the january 6th rioters. hunter biden, for all his faults was convicted of basically not checking a box on a

all to protect joe biden. what has come out, the truth that has now been revealed to the american people, for as much as they wanted to talk about donald trump the last 8 years, it was actually joe biden and others i might add who have been destructive of america's democracy, thank god for the american people making the right decision on november 5th. >> jason: congressman, thanks for joining us tonight. happy holidays, merry christmas and happy new year. appreciate all right. come up biden's christmas commutation of violent killers is receiving major backlash and the family of one of those victims, they join me next. you're going to want to see s this. creening for colon cancer. yep. with colon cancer rising in adults under 50, the american cancer society recommends starting to screen earlier, at age 45. i'm cologuard, a noninvasive way to screen at home, on your schedule. and i find 92% of colon cancers. i'm for people 45+ at average risk for colon cancer, not high risk. false positive and negative results m

hunter biden pardon was disgraceful.will be remembered largely for inflation and for the disastrous afghanistan pull-out. >> a lot of voters feel like they did not come away from these four years with a world that feels more stable, economy that feels better. in the short time buyers remorse they weren't getting the biden presidency they were hoping for and why we have donald trump coming back. >> rich: jessica patterson, and david carlucci. thank you for joining us and happy new year to you. david, i want to start with you. when democrats went around president biden in 2020 they wanted him to beat trump and banish him to political wilderness. now an interlude between two trump terms. >> as we 2025 and the biden presidency in the rearview mirror people will remember the good things that president biden did. they weren't easy to do. one of the biggest investments we've seen in terms of renewing our economies here in parts of our country that haven't seen that job growth in decades. and so i think it's easy to blame and ha

arguing that biden changed his mind regarding his son, do you think biden lied?ion in which he did not lie about pardoning hunter? let us know on twitter and instagram. the nightcap crew including you, next! wetjet absorbs and locks grime deep inside. look at that! swiffer wetjet. >> trace: back with the nightcap crew. tonight topic, lie detector. do you believe there is any situation in which this was not a lie? >> no, it was a lie. as a father one of my son spent six months in my jail, i wish i could pardon him but i would have not. he should be held accountable. he lied. >> an acquittal like, across the board, a white lie, it's a lie. the most devastating thing about it is he lied without blinking an eye and looking into the eyes of millions of people who probably voted for him because of that. >> yes he's a liar, everybody knows that and no matter what, this might have been the time, maybe to save his son, face the consequences, may be changes, it didn't happen. >> she like biden, he's a liar, this was a lie, every time he said it which is multiple times, i t

over the last four year, joe biden has been hard to watch.d comment, the shaking hands with the air, the bouts of anger, it was obvious from the start that the president was not doing well. but now that his time in the oval office is coming to an end, the media is suddenly shocked to learn about the true extent of joe biden's cognitive decline. watch. >> it was very disturbing to learn late in the year about just how bad -- how poor his health has become, and like many, i did not realize it had gotten to that point. >> reported that would be to me joe biden's obvious decline that became undeniable in the televised debate. >> in the presidential debate. >> unquestioned and starting to emerge that his advisors kind of managed his limitations, it's been reported in the wall street journal for four years, and yet he insisted he could still run for president. we should have much more forcefully questioned whether he was fit for office for another four years. >> that's new, here now with reaction, host of the morgan ortega show, morgan ortegas, and

joe biden doesn't lie.t may have a little inconsistency here and there. for the first time it seems like in 50-plus years they are all acknowledging, yes, joe biden lies. discuss the ramifications of that for the democrats. >> well, it's huge, i think, for them. they are trying to figure out their way, their path forward. you can't continue to lie to the american people the way they have been for the last four years. i commend anyone calling anyone out in their own party for lying. i call balls and strikes against both parties. i have taken a lot of fire and heat for that i'm glad to see people like democrats joining the doge caucus, for example. it's great and good for the country when you acknowledge the failings of your own party. that's the only way our country can heal. republicans and democrats alike have to do it within our own ranks. that's something i am going to encourage for years ahead. >> todd: speaking of area you have taken incoming fire. montana lawmakers rejecting earth to restrict bathroom

hunter biden was just one member of the biden -- one member of many.her family members and joe biden himself. i don't know if he's considering a self-pardon on the same grounds that he is worried about prosecution. but if this administration were truly worried about select i prosecution or an unfair justice department, they would think the about clemency for the pro-life protesters who are in prison for long terms or the uneven treatment that january 6th protesters received relative to, say, the blm rioters of 2020. but i don't think we'll see those the pardons under biden. stuart: only time will tell. mollie hemingway, thanks for being with us. >> thank you. stuart: yes, ma'am. the democrats are in disarray. congressman if jamie raskin is looking to unseat a top democrat from their committee leadership role. who does he want to unseat and why? lauren: jerry nadler -- stuart: nadlersome really? lauren: his friend. raskin is 61 years old, madler's 77 and has been -- nadler's 77 and has been top democrat on that committee for years. raskin thinks it's ti

and primarily president biden and especially as a target hunter biden. so this pardon that includes that ten year period of january 2014 till december 31st of 2024, that's going to preclude the justice department and anyone else seeking a federal type of indictment against his son, hunter biden so that is completely off the table. and it closes this saga on hunter biden. >> does it close the saga, though? i mean, is it likely or even possible that the justice department will reopen cases against hunter biden outside of the time frame of this pardon? >> they can try to reopen cases against hunter biden. the question is, do those cases exist prior to 2014? and also, we have to remember that aside from the doj trying to open any cases or investigations there are still other factors that come into play. there's still a judicial system in the sense that if you do decide to prosecute him, there will be a trial a trial where jurors will hear the evidence and both sides would also be heard but that the prosecution will have to prove their case beyond a reasonabl

biden is corrupt and -- back to joe biden. >> she never let something go.hocking news -- that we've reported yet. >> you knew it was going happen. >> of course he was going to pardon his son and i think he should because he got him into the crack business in the first place. and so -- i mean, if i had that power, and i had a wayward son i would pardon him. you know -- >> julie that's i think that's the key issue. charlie has it right it's that the fish rots from the head isn't that the saying? it was biden's fault that his son was running around selling -- you know, american influence right? >> no what bothers me most is lies we're told as far as biden knew what his son was up to that bothers me because two of them were, obviously, in conversation when hunter was, you know, practicing all of the international deals. it is just so wrong, and nobody is going to ever hold biden accountable for that. so i don't blame hunter. he got booted out of office. he got booted -- >> ultimately yes he does lose in all of this but i would have find out whose cocaine that w

bidens are above the law. think this is about fatherly love and joe biden protect, his own tail and this is president joe biden's last middle finger to the democrat party that threw him under the bus, that threw health out of the way for re-election and anointed kairgs in his -- kamala harris in his position. i think he feels his legacy is to be the only one to defeat donald trump. he will go out with the last laugh. he did this because he will protect himself and his family. he doesn't care what position it puts the democrats in. we are seeing it all over the media. the democrats are no longer able to cry and moan about trump's supposed abuse of power. he put the democrats in a tough position and i don't think he minds that. >> martha: thank you both for vuch. sesoon. so exclusive with the i.r.s. whistle-blowers who say that their probe of hunter biden was stonewalled at every turn, by the department of justice. remember, biden say last night, the department of justice wasn't fair to my son. they were the opp

>> president joe biden: yes.es for working families have gone up while inflation has gone down 65%. >> will you accept the jury's outcome, the verdict no matter what it is? >> president joe biden: yes. >> and have you ruled out a pardon for your son? >> president joe biden: yes. >> jason: here now with reaction are podcast hosts morgan ortega and tudor dickson. morgan, you think about joe biden, he said two things. he said his word as a biden is just solid and the other thing he said is that he would let a scandal-free administration -- i don't know where his cognitive capabilities are these days, but what's on your list of reality for joe biden? >> yeah, i mean, listen, i look at it from around the world. of course we know the biggest whopper that he told in the past four years was related to his son's pardon that he said he wasn't going to give. but i think what's really scary, when you look at the clips that you just did there, look no further than afghanistan. and i think that withdrawal in august of '21 is w

notice of president biden's pardon of hunter biden has been filed in the dockets in hunter biden's casesboth california and delaware. the president's pardon moves [ inaudible ] and entry of judgment in this case and requires an automatic dismissal of the indictment with prejudice , they write in each filing. president biden had said repeatedly that he would not use his executive authority to pardon his son or to commute his sentence, but as first reported tonight by nbc news, the president changed his mind over the thanksgiving weekend, and in the last hour, he issued a statement that was both defiant and deeply personal. the statement reads in part, " no reasonable person who looks at the facts of hunters cases can reach any other conclusion that hunter was singled out only because he is my son, and that is wrong. there has been an effort to break hunter, who has been 5 1/2 years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. in trying to break hunter, they have tried to break me, and there is no reason to believe it will stop here. enough is enough." this par

he was then kept in office by joe biden himself, joe biden's attorney general, merrick garland, is the one who named david weiss special counsel. and so i think to go back and second guess this and say it's such a miscarriage of justice that it requires a pardon. i think is completely out of step with reality well, and van i mean, i just am curious for your perspective because you have long time been a leader for criminal justice reform you've led groups, you've founded organizations that help people get pardons. >> so when you view this and what biden said in his decision to to pardon hunter biden, what do you make of it well, look, i'm not surprised and i'm willing to give biden a pass because he's his son is going to be sitting in federal prison while trump is pardoning insurrectionists and all kinds of stuff. >> at some point, this stuff just becomes very human. my criticism of president biden is different he's used the power of the pardon more sparingly for people who are not his son than you would expect from a democratic president. there have been there's been a lot of frustrati

didn't biden have a plea deal? i don't care about that, they want to keep him in the papers, the press, they want to keep continually attacking them. i understand why he would go so broad. trump is vindictive and vicious and wants to hurt people that he feels has wronged him. can you comment on that? thank you. guest: you're right, that was their concern. that's clearly why they did it. they were concerned that there were other at least potential charges out there and that trump would pursue them, so this is a way of closing the door to that. host: joe, new jersey, republican line. caller: a previous caller said that hunter biden didn't commit any egregious crimes. he has all of these images out there they found on the computer of him naked, you know, drugs and guns, all of that. i don't understand how he could be pardon for that when other people can't get pardon for that. it doesn't make sense to me. guest: that's what i said before. what's the big question is what will the president do with his remaining time in

one is, joe biden party abandoned him right. so basically everyone has abandoned joe biden. you know, here in washington. and you got to wonder if he's looking around saying, you know what what's good for donald trump now is going to be good for me. and in the end, the people who really rallied around and stuck with joe biden was his family. remember, we were the ones saying it was his family, the ones that were really making the political decisions about what he was going to do. i do think this you know, there are two things can be correct. first of all, the norms are gone, right? we absolutely know that. but at the same time, air cover has been given to republicans because joe biden has decided to do this pardon? >> all right. no. go ahead joe. yeah. >> so just very quickly, i think kate's wrong that this is totally defensible. i think it's almost entirely indefensible. but if you wanted to square the circle in a more defensible way, what biden could have done is say is honored his commitment not to pardon hunter for the things he was convicted for by a jury and say, but f

us president joe biden's decision to pardon his son hunter biden, president biden made the announcementural politics had led to a miscarriage of justice in the cases against his son, hunter biden faced sentencing this month on federal tax and gun related charges including two counts of making a false statement on a federal gun form as well as unlawful possession of a firearm donald trump's decision to nominate long time loyalist and partisan firebrand kash patel to head the fbi is getting mixed reactions from republicans, even among those close to the president elect it would require trump to force current fbi director christopher wray out of the job. but it wouldn't be the first time trump has made such a move. cnn's brian todd has a closer look at trump's history of animosity towards the bureau and its directors. >> we need an honest fbi, and we need it fast. >> the president elect, by all accounts planning a shakeup of the fbi as soon as he takes office. >> sources telling cnn donald trump plans to fire fbi director christopher wray even though trump appointed wray in two 2017 and wr

trump and president biden agree on one thing, the biden justice department has been politicized. talk about the decision. you have covered both presidents and you know them so well. thanks for being with us. you must be jetlagged. >> reporter: [ laughter ] right. well, here in angola, the pardon has followed a president biden. he just landed for a two day visit shadowed by his decision to absolve his son but one of the things striking about this decision is he uses the same language president-elect trump used about the justice department, complaining selective prosecution, that politics has infused the process. that is not surprising for president-elect trump who has always tried to put questions into law enforcement. he used his first term to go after his enemies and promised to use the justice department in his second term to enact retribution but president biden has made a point of being the defender of the justice system, the one who says it is neutral and not part of politics is now saying that's not the case at least when it comes to his own son. that's a striking situation

biden. and you keep hearing rhetoric from capitol hill about republicans who say that they want to take another look at what they say was criminal criminal issues that they say were associated with the bidens. so this may not be over for those people. >> obviously yeah. all right, evan, stay with us. i want to go to our colleague jeff zeleny, who is joining us on the phone. and, jeff, you've had some reporting tonight about how president biden arrived at this decision. he has been he had been on nantucket with his family. this tradition this thanksgiving tradition that they have. what what more are you learning about how he arrived at this decision after previously saying he would not pardon his son well, jessica, we know that president biden this has been weighing on him, there's no question. >> but just seeing how he has spent the last several days with his family the images of, uh, you know, seeing a christmas tree lighting in nantucket with hunter and his family. he is close, and he has

when you think about hunter biden specifically, what we have seen is republicans accuse hunter bidenrything besides killing jimmy hoffa. they forget the fact that hunter biden says in his book "i was a crackhead." the idea that a crack head could engage in a multilateral business dealing is far from the case. i have seen some crack heads in. >> he didn't set up to 25 shell companies? >> i think the idea of the republicans accused him of all of this is an accusation. not what he was charged with by the justice department. >> he was charged with tax evasion because he had the money and the shall companies. >> i'm not denying that. my point is i am saying that pardoning power is very broad. we can say the president should or should not have done it, but the constitution gives them the ability to. the idea we are debating -- >> we aren't arguing whether he had the power. that's clear he had the power. >> whether we liked it or not, but do we like any presidential pardons? >> i can think of a couple, and i'm sure judge jeanine could. richard saying a lot of things that i'm not sure are co

now that joe biden sounds very different from this, joe biden let me ask you, will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict, no matter what it is? >> yes. and have you ruled out a pardon for your son? >> yes, i am satisfied that i'm not going to do anything i said. i abide by the jury decision, and i will do that, and i will not pardon him joining us now in our fifth seed, cnn legal analyst elliott williams. >> he was a former deputy assistant attorney general in the obama administration. it is surprising to me to hear that that statement from joe biden got through the white house, where he talks repeatedly about telling the truth. and then, as you saw we played the clip where he categorically said he had ruled it out and now this. >> yeah. no, abby, i really think the bigger problem here is the president saying on the record, multiple times that he was not going to issue this pardon having karine jean-pierre the white house press secretary say on the record multiple times that the pardon wasn't going to happen now look to step back. the pardon power is probably the least restrained

hunter biden was the batman for the biden crime family.nter biden's offenses include failing to pay tax in los angeles from 2016to 2019 and lying on the gun purchase form claiming he wasn't taking drugs when he was an addict. he was convicted of illegally purchasing and owning a gun. he pleaded guilty to tax offenses in l.a. his pardon covers any and everything he may have done from the start of 2014 until now. hunter biden has been extensively investigated by republicans in congress looking for corruption and hoping to tie it to his father. with a pardon that predates his controversial business dealings, he will be protected from further prosecution. >> they have taken the light of my dad's love, the light of my dad's love for me, and presented it as darkness. sarah: joe biden says he believes hunter was the victim of politically motivated prosecutions that would never have come to court if he was in the president's son. sound familiar? it is the same argument donald trump uses about all the cases against him. on social media called hunte

it's up to me, this isn't about hunter biden, it's about joe biden. she's not getting a dad of the year mug for christmas. >> kayleigh: as we go to break, they said this again he made this decision, i guess over his turkey and gravy. nbc reported that he had been talking about this in june. kind of a friend of the biden white house. they said it was decided at the time that he would publicly say he would not pardon his son even though doing so remained on the table. so you are all deceived. that is nbc, sp seven ally. how the money taxpayers footed for a hotel for migrants went to a foreign government. your money, next. ♪ ♪ if you're a veteran wife, homeowner, and the family bookkeeper, you're the first to know when high rate debt is stressing your budget. but your family's service has earned you a big advantage. the va home loan benefit. with the lower rate newday 100 va cash out loan, you can pay off high rate credit cards and car loans. that's real money you can use to take care of your family and home. (ominous music) (bubbles rising) (diver exhal

hunter biden's dealings were with burisma. and now that he's been pardoned, he doesn't need the fifth amendment. he can tell us everything. he can tell us everything about his coconspirators. he can tell us everything about other people who did business with him. a lot more is now on the table. and so i think joe biden is overreaching here with an 11 year pardon. he may have opened more fodder for for investigation from the house, but that's the point in the mind of the president, it seems that there was this fear that there would be vindictive retribution prosecutions of hunter biden under a trump run justice department and look, it is definitely the case that some of the attention to hunter biden is because of joe biden. >> i remember still being in south carolina the day after the south carolina primary that joe biden won in 2020, when he turned his campaign around and all of a sudden senator ron johnson was asking for information about burisma. so but that's the way it goes. it's also the case that hunter biden clearly ove

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biden has stewed. he said he had been stupid not to sign his name to covid stimulus checks distributed to americans early in his term. korey bush is a member of the squad and leaving mentioned the same thing. she has heard from democrats trump sent them stimulus checks with his name on it and made them switch their vote and vote for him. what do you think the effect of that is? >> i do think there are a bunch of democrats who voted for trump excited about his presidency. it is extremely offensive to read this in the "new york times" that he doesn't regret the afghanistan withdrawal that left 13 service members dead or the 300,000 migrant children that were lost under his administration, or that we have illegal immigrants setting people on fire in new york, or murdering young girls in texas and in georgia. no, he regrets not signing checks. i guess that's a trump style that he does want to adapt, not so behind the scenes. we also just read this massive east say in the with a street journal that unelecte