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. the article stated the move 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, chris hines. he was worried about the corruption, the geopolitical risks, and how bad it would look. so he wisely distances himself from hunter biden and devon archer's appointment to burisma. he didn't simply call his stepfather, secretary of state, and say i have a problem with this, he didn't tell his friends, hey, guys, i'm not getting on the board, i want nothing to do with this, he went so far as to send an email to senior state department of abo this issue, chris hines. he wrote apparently devon and hunter have jned the board of burisma and a press release went out today. i can't speak to why they decided to but 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 stopp

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

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

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

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

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 pleaded guilty to?i think it's unusual, if you look at the history of what has happened, with respect to pardons, in terms of the timing, the closeness of the relationship here. although it's not unprecedented. there have been pardons of family members in the past. but what i think is happening here, to some extent, is is that president biden must be influenced to some extent, to the fact that the incoming department of justice and 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 is leaving a lot of unknowns out there. because of the sentencings that were occur in this month of hunter biden, that's 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. so there are a lot of discretiona

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

jill biden? joe concha is here to react to the details and the first lady was doing it all along but first this. house gop lawmakers have struck a spending deal to avoid a shutdown plus the big one. they are pushing to extend the debt sealing for two years so trump can more rapidly move on the mandate voters gave him to fix america, stop inflation. the inflation has been stuck above the federal reserve's 2% target for 24 straight months. mike emanuel joins us live from the white house. mike, what's the latest? great to see you. reporter: liz, great to see you. with the clock ticking house republicans are out with a new proposal let's take a look at the key points. a clean three-month continuing resolution to keep the government up and running. a clean farm bill package. disaster package as negotiated with democrats to a tune of $110 billion, and that two-year suspension of the debt limit to january 2027. president-elect trump offering this reaction on truth social. "success in washington speaker

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

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you have jim biden and joe biden, joe biden obstructed my and chairman jordan's investigations. he lied multiple times. he lied about his knowledge, his involvement. we had sworn testimony from bobulinski and devon archer that said that joe biden knew all along what was going on. he was selling the brand, his brand. he was selling access to our enemies around the world. and he lied. 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. so yes, joe biden in my opinion, has committed crimes at joe biden. we saw he took in all these loans. he didn't pay any interest, didn't pay any principal, had no loan documentation. at what point do those loans become become income they never pay taxes on and by the way, why did he get those loans? you know, what was he doing? all the people that wired money to the bidens were shady characters. either adversaries or people that were in trouble needing assistance, needing a prosecutor fired, needing a pardon. they were needing something from joe biden, the big guy. same question, jim

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

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

it smells really bad in here. >> joe biden joe biden part in some turkeys last week. get a pardon? >> i'd like to party with him. [laughter] >> no pardoning allowed. >> lets go, brandon! >> hunter is done. >> let me tell you something, he won't stop me. >> are you going to miss sleepy joe? >> he needs to stay asleep. >> name one thing you're going to miss about sleepy joe biden. >> sniffing other people's hair. >> i'm not going to miss joe biden. >> absolutely nothing. >> nothing. >> probably falling off the stage. >> kamala lost the election, but she's still out here begging for money. do you have any spare change? >> not a dime. i barely have money for myself. >> no, but i can give her a drink. >> she does not deserve any money. she is a joke. >> she's just not it. she is all for women, but is she really? >> no. [laughs] ♪ ♪ >> january 20th, donald trump retakes the white house. give him a day one pep talk. >> k, donald. welcome back. we've been waiting for you. >> four long years. >> all you have to do is make america great again. >> shut down my shut down the bord

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

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

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

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

or joe biden. forest under important business dealings to make money and insulate himself from future legal trouble that he might've found himself in with the actions was taken. also he said no one is above the law that he does this and yet classify documents dating back to the 1970s and 80s i hope we can dispel the emotion that he's a good man he is not. >> i think this is brilliant the statement by trump he doesn't mention hunter or president biden but everyone will be talking about corruption in the context of the bidens in this pardon it all came from political corruption. now trump is going to attack corruption it is great. >> is doing that with the confirmation coming up and all the nominations you just made and i guarantee you trump will see this as a win. when people start to question his pick for kash patel to direct the fbi he's going to said told you so into the corruption we have to start with a clean slate. >> as you pointed out earlier joe biden has gone off script from the democrat p

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

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

that's why biden lost. biden has checked out, and he's not even negotiating the spending bill. >> every day, more and more, it is shocking. biden's absence, like part of me, wonders like, where's your manhood? like i can't see george w bush or bill clinton allowing the incoming president to dominate. where's biden's pride? >> democrats have the white house and the senate and trump. musk and johnson are calling the shots, and democrats know it. the media isn't even reporting what's in the bill. the media, just like they hid biden, just like they hid the laptop. they're covering this whole thing up. and 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's not just trump's co-president. i think that's way too low a title. he's the head dude in charge. >> and eventually they're going to have to get together and decide who the president is. >> these guys are just trying to pit trump and musk

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

much about the biden family business.vid weiss, the special -- who ended up being the special counsel on this case, he down january played all the issues -- downplay all the issues, he let the statute of rimmations -- limitations run out, tried to give the special immunity deal. you had so many issues where the department of justice could have looked deeply into the biden family business and into this corruption can, things that president obama if's administration was aware of. so it's true that hunter biden was singled out, but if you or i were involved in sex trafficking or drug trafficking or taking bribes from communist officials or influence peddling -- howard: we'd probably be prosecuted. >> we would be prosecuted at a much higher degree than he was. howard: donald trump addressed this in an interview with "meet the press." let's see what the president-elect has to say. >> i hate to to go on shows like joe biden, i'm not to going to give my son a pardon. i will not under any circumstances give him a pardon. i watche

the key thing here is everyone knew that biden was lying, yet, they knew it would hurt biden politically help trump, the entire establishment pretended otherwise. >> he is not pardoning his son and he is living what it means to have a rule of law in this country. >> a presidential promised to put lobby for family, letting the world know he will not wipe away the decision of 12 jurors. >> he has so much respect for the love that he said he will not pardon his son. >> laura: we are all enablers and everyone here is exposed, biden, the media, democrat staffers. >> this decision by the president over the course of many months insist publicly he was not going to do this. however when i have spoken to so far and that includes seniormost former white house administration officials never believed the president when he said he was not going to pardon his son. they said this. in avon anyone close to the top knew he was probably going to do this. why did we pretend otherwise? >> laura: we know why pretended otherwise, come on! they never believed biden had clean hands here and he was some paragon o

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

i believe in biden. biden should have done it. anyone would have helped their child if they could have. host: linda in mississippi. to her point she made her comments and this in the "washington post" this morning saying president biden is not the first president to pardon family members and others close to them as their term in office expires. president bill clinton on the day he left office pardoned his half brother roger clinton for cocaine distribution, convictions from 1985. trump pardoned charles kushner, father-in-law of jared kushner in 2020 after he lost his bid for re-election. kushner had pleaded guilty for making false statements, witness tampering and tax evasion. on saturday, president-elect trump said he'd nominate charles kushner as u.s. ambassador to france. yesterday's actions regarding hunter biden, a pardon from his father president biden. david is up next in indiana on this action. go ahead. caller: yes, good morning. it seems the truth finally comes out. just another way the biden crime family is sticking tog

a bit about hunter biden. >> hunter biden, his son hunter biden hunter biden, hunter biden hunter biden hunter biden, very serious charges against hunter biden hunter biden, hunter biden, hunter biden's dealings and that's just a small portion. >> there's a lot more where that came from. so look, it's clear that hunter biden is top of mind for trump's incoming team, who would be in charge of prosecutions? as for trump himself, tonight he is responding to biden's pardon, writing does the pardon given by joe to hunter include the six hostages who have now been imprisoned for years? such an abuse and miscarriage of justice? of course, the reality of it is, is pardons are often abused by outgoing presidents. we see it all again and again, marc rich. remember trump himself, though, doled out dozens of pardons to his allies and supporters, including 26 in the final hours of his administration. like his daughter's father in law, charles kushner trump. in december 2020 pardoned kushner, who had pled guilty to tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations. chris christie, the u.s. attorney f

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

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, pardoning insurrectionists and all kind 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 frustration in the criminal justice community that a lot more people could use that kind of relief in this case look, he's he's an elderly guy. he's got a son who's had a lot of trouble. if he wants to do himself a solid on the way out, the door, i'll let other people scream about that. but what about everybody else who's sitting there with actual miscarriages of justice, who have had no relief from the biden administration? that's a bigger problem to me well, yeah. >> van, i mean on that point, if you're if the poi

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biden: yes. >> have you world that a part of your sense. biden: yes. liz: okay joe biden makes this was the first u.s. president to pardon incentives charging criminal felonies and pleaded guilty to that after saying that he would not to it department is meant to cover and encompass any and all potential crimes that have not even been charged yet and so will lawmakers dual it down will the trump white house try to cover once it for all the corruption allegations against the present invited family 20th after reaction judiciary congressman jeff and do what you make of estimable lawmakers and trump white house get to the bottom of this because let's be clear, the parties back to january 1st 2014 right when barack obama named invited to oversee ukraine when the biden family really started to cash in on joe's job, that's with lawmakers say the me and and it was 100 biden joined the board of ukraine's furnace met 2014 you guys get to the point about this that would happen. >> there's so much there got into a lot of it judiciary of the real thing is here that

everyone knew that biden was lying.et, because they knew it would hurt biden politically and help trump, the entire political media establishment pretended otherwise. >> he is not pardoning his son. because he is living what it means to have a rule of law in this country. >> the president promised to put the law before family. letting the world know that he will not quip away the decision of 12 of his then peers. >> the current president of the united states has so much respect for the law that he has said he would not pardon his son. >> they were all enablers and everyone here is exposed. biden, the media, democrat staffers. >> this decision by the president to over the course of many months insists publicly that he was not going to do this. everyone that i have spoken to so far, and that includes senior most former white house and administration official never believed the president when he said he wasn't going to pardon his son. they said this that anyone who was even close to the top knew that he was probably going

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

my question is, about hunter biden. a previous caller said that he didn't commit any egregious crimes. he has all of these images out there that they found on the computer of him and, you know, naked and, you know, drugs and guns and all that. i don't understand how he can be pardoned for that, when other people can't get pardoned for that. they, you know -- it just doesn't make sense to me. >> well, that's the -- that's what i said before. that's the big question. what does president biden do with the time he has left in office. there's plenty of time. lots of pending petitions. so there's hope that he grants pardons to a bunch of other deserving people. and like i said, that's really the only way to sort of take the sting out of this. >> you mentioned, just wonder what changes should be made to the whole process of pardoning? you mentioned taking the office out of doj and putting it in the executive office of president. what other changes do you think should be made? >> i think that would solve most of the problem. be

of hunter biden, doctor biden. what changed on the pardon for hunter? biden's even leaking to cnn.he wasn't really sure if he was going to pardon hunter, but his wife made him do it. you know, women, clearly there was pressure inside the family. we were told really in recent weeks that doctor jill biden, first lady jill biden was very supportive of the president doing something like this. the president was not sure, but we clearly have seen now he has come to this decision to pardon his son. hunter biden pardons his son at his donors nantucket home, throws his wife under the bus jets off to africa and makes a fool out of binder because this poor lady said a thousand times a pardon was off the table. you've also said several times that the president would not pardon or commute sentences for his son, hunter. i just want to make sure that that is not going to change over the next six months. the president's saying it's still it's still a no. it's still and will always be a no. it's still a no. it will be a no. it is a no. and i don't have anything else to add. will he pardon his son.

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

hunter biden had been [ inaudible ].me will tell if republicans choose to investigate this. there's not anything they can do to stop president biden on this. this power belongs to the president but they can condemn this move and they are doing that. take a look at the representative sample of republican reaction to the move. marjorie taylor green calls him a liar. andy biggs, one of the most corrupt presidents. james comer, oversight chairman of the house, the biden family continues to do everything they can to avoid accountability. chuck grassley said the president said he wouldn't do this, and i believed im. steve scalise calls it the latest in the cover-up scheme. he calls is disgraceful. recently speaker mike johnson says, quote, trust in our justice system has been damaged by the bidens by their use and abuse of it. among democratic lawmakers more of a mix. some disagreeing and criticizing the president for this move including greg stanton of arizona, quote, i respect president biden but he got this one wrong. greg

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

will come back to the next broken promise from biden.en he promised to build the economy from the middle out and the bottom up. >> or building from the middle up and bought amount not top down. my vision has always been since i was a young senator to grow the economy from the middle out and bottom up. instead of top down. to uphold and get us for one of the toughest periods in our nation's history. billing future of american possibilities building from middle out and not just top down when the middle rose the bottom is a chance and the wealthy study very well. >> an embarrassment for this nation as joe was leaving office and at this year the united states saw an 18% rise in homelessness. that's not all. the amount of first-time home buyers has hit a record low under biden as of the rising cost of living and housing continues to hurt americans. the wealthy are dominating the housing market with all cash purchases arising across the country. with a bogus promise and the state of powell california resembling the president's policies has the

biden himself.u think? i mean, look, the words that the oversight committee has used with regard to joe biden and the biden family are money laundering, okay, influence peddling, this basically covers everything. essehe's exonerated from everything. will this apply to joe biden. i know president trump has bigger fish to fry. he's problem emp probably not go anything about money laundering. president trump faced 89 indictments. everything goes away for hunter biden in three seconds with this pardon. >> i think the big thing with the bidens is 22 plus shell companies and they didn't make anything. you know, before coming into congress, i had a host of manufacturing companies and related entities for real estate and everything else. we made stuff. there's no -- we had physical buildings. there's no building anywhere other than joe biden's household and you see multiple references for 10% tor 10% for the big guy. everyone will be surprised if there aren't subsequent pardons closer to january 20th. hunte

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

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

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