hunter biden quietly joins the board of burisma. remember, 2014 was when vice president biden began leading ukraine policy. here's how hunter biden came to join burisma's board in april 2014. he brought on the board by devin archer. his business partner, devin archer was college roommates with chris hynes steps of secretary of state john. all three men. hunter biden devin archer and chris hynes had all started an investment firm together. public records show that april 16th, 2014. devin archer meets with vice president biden at the white. just two days later, on april 18th, 2014 is when hunter biden quietly joins burisma. according to public reporting, remember, this is just one month after the united kingdom's serious fraud office opened a money laundering case into burisma. hunter biden joins the board and only ten days after hunter biden joins the board. british authorities seize. $23 million in british bank accounts connected to the oligarch still chayefsky. the owner of burisma. did hunter biden leave the board then? no. the bri

hunter biden quietly joined the bored of burisma. early, 2014 is when vice president biden began leading ukraine policy, here is our hunter biden came to join burisma board. he of brought onboard by devon archer his, partner, he was college roommate with chris hynes, stepson of secretary of state john kerry, all these men, had all started an investment firm together, public recordings show that april 16, 2014, devon archer meets with vice president biden at the white house. just two days later, on april 18, 2014, is when hunter biden quietly joined burisma. according to public recording. remember, this is just one month after the united kingdom serious fraud office opened a money laundering case into burisma, hunter biden joints the board, and 10 days after hunter biden joining the board, british authorities seizes, 23 million dollars in british bank accounts connected to oligarch owner of burisma, did hunter biden leave the board then? no. british authorities announced it started a criminal investigation in to potential money launder

hunter biden quietly joins the board of burisma. remember, 2014 was when vice president biden began leading ukraine policy. here's how hunter biden came to join burisma's board in april 2014. he brought on the board by devin archer. his business partner, devin archer was college roommates with chris hynes steps of secretary of state john. all three men. hunter biden devin archer and chris hynes had all started an investment firm together. public records show that april 16th, 2014. devin archer meets with vice president biden at the white. just two days later, on april 18th, 2014 is when hunter biden quietly joins burisma. according to public reporting, remember, this is just one month after the united kingdom's serious fraud office opened a money laundering case into burisma. hunter biden joins the board and only ten days after hunter biden joins the board. british authorities seize. $23 million in british bank accounts connected to the oligarch still chayefsky. the owner of burisma. did hunter biden leave the board then? no. the bri

why was hunter biden on this board? >> if your last name wasn't biden, do you think you would have been asked to be on the board of burisma? >> i don't know. i don't know, probably not. >> so let's go back and talk about his time on the board. remember, he joined burisma's board april 2014 while the united kingdom had an open money laundering case against burisma and its owner, the oligarch bull chesky. on august 20th, 2014, 4 months later, the ukrainian prosecutor general's office initiates a money laundering investigation into the same oligarch, solchevsky. this is one of 15 investigations into burisma and zolevsky, according to a recent public statement made by the current prosecutor general. on january 16, 2015, prosecutors put the owner of burisma, on whose board hunter biden seth, on the countries warning list for fraud -- wanted list for fraud while hunter biden's on the board. then a british court orders his $23 million in assets be unfrozen. why was the money unfrozen? deputy assistant secretary kent testified t

hunter biden was convicted on federal charges for lying on a gun form.trial the president telling david he would not pardon his son? >> have you ruled out a pardon for your son? >> yes. >> reporter: days before hunter biden was set to be sentenced for that crime and for nine charges to which he had pleaded guilty, the president reversed himself granting his son a full and unconditional pardon. the president saying hunter biden was treated differently and singled out only because he is my son, that he was selectively and unfairly prosecuted. tonight in his report weiss firing back saying these baseless accusations have no merit and repeating them threatens the integrity of the justice system as a whole and while the president calls the prosecution of his son as a miscarriage of justice and the culmination of thorough investigation and not partisan politics. we could be hearing from another special counsel soon. a federal judge is lifting her injunction blocking the release of the part of jack smith's final report dealing with donald trump's role on januar

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special counsel david weiss releasing his report on the hunter biden investigation versus, weiss slammingor what he says is rewriting history after biden said the prosecution of his son was political. weiss writes this, quote, other presidents have pardoned family members but in doing so none have taken the occasion as an opportunity to malign the public servants at the department of justice based solely on false accusations, hunter biden was found guilty of three felony firearm offense ps and pled guiy to federal tax crimes. he was supposed to be sentenced before his dad's presidential pardon. another one i thought was so interesting is weiss quotes the federal judge, maria. i was just reading through the extensive report. and basically also rebuked the president about rewriting history in all of this. so biden really taking a slap against the do j and weiss' calling him out. interesting. maria: todd. >> in addition to that, i love the fact in this report we spell out or weiss spells out exactly what we've all known that hunter biden made a whole heck of a lot of money for doing, quote,

we found through the investigation that hunter biden was paying for all of the accounting services for joe biden. we saw that despite joe biden saying there was a law between ... that they share the same law firm, they share the same cpa. the list goes on and on so joe biden was the person that would meet with these people that were wiring the biden family money and then days later , incremental payments would start coming from our adversarial countries into a series of shell accounts. this was a sophisticated scheme, it was always difficult to explain in a two-minute clip on conservative media but at the end of the day that book goes into detail, talks about who the people were, how much money they got, with the names of the different companies were that they wanted it through and according to whistle-blowers, the bidens never paid a penny in taxes on that. >> sean: how certain are you after all this investigative work, how certain are you that they got that alarming amount of money and who got the money and if they are saying they got the money, i would assume that they want to sue y

the report says only after hunter biden's guilt had been fully and fairly adjudicated did the presidenttion was the result of raw politics, and that no reasonable person who looks at the facts of hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion than hunter was singled out only because he is my son. politicians who attacked the decisions of career prosecutors as politically motivated when they disagree with the outcome of a case, undermine the public's confidence in our criminal justice system. attorney abbe lowell, defense counsel for hunter biden, wrote. like all his court filings, david weiss 27 page report continues to ignore some of the major mysteries of his seven year investigation. mr. weiss conveniently omits his proposal to resolve this investigation in 2023. with a pair of misdemeanors and a diverted gun charge recommended by career prosecutors. mr. weiss also fails to explain why he reneged on his own agreement, a reversal that came at the 11th hour in court as he and his office faced blistering attacks from republicans and his then filing an unprecedented charges of his then fi

tonight, the final verdict of the united states government is hunter biden committed a crime. joe biden covered it up, and there was no political prosecution. this was merited criminal activity that needed to be prosecuted. >> appreciate the report. john solomon, justice news.com here now with more reaction, author of the brand new book. it's called all the president's money. he's the chairman of the house oversight committee, james comer. never once did i ever speak to my son, my brother or anybody for that matter, about their private business deals. interesting. after the election, the national archives released more pictures of joe and hunter and foreign business partners. you chronicle in your book how joe biden spent most of his life making under $200,000 a year. yet he owns two, you know, multi-million dollar mansions. i'd like to know how he got the money in hunter's laptop from hell. does he not implicate his own father? half of, you know, half my income goes to pops. what? what accounts should we take the money out to pay for pops home repairs. then the pictures, you k

never really got to the bottom of hunter biden, how he brought the money end. s in the report that hunter was trading on his last name. he was doing work for these foreign companies when he had no skills or nothing to add. instead the special counsel went after tax evasion and the gun charge so with president biden giving out this pardon, he ends up squashing all of the investigation into something that looked much, much worse than what we've seen so far. >> law fair is a term i don't know that most folks in the audience had heard of three or four years ago. i'm wondering if it -- if you think it's a word that can go back in terms of the political it -- politicize asian... it took a hell of a beating the last couple years. do you think we've seen the end of it? >> we talked about that on your other show what we should really take away and understand about the second prosecution against donald trump. for the first time in our history, the justice department when after a former president and maybe importantly, the major candidate for president of the opposition pa

because essentially he said yeah, hunter biden traded on his name. a lot of money didn't pay his taxes. we knew that but then he goes after the current president of the united states. joe biden and says essentially he blast joe for the pardon. and making baseless accusations about his inquiry that threatened the integrity of it the justice system as a whole. you can't have a guy who is the president of the united states in charge of the administration of the department of justice saying yeah, those guys down at doj they are screwing with my kid. not true, he said. >> well, that's actually a good point. and certainly i think joe biden's legacy in large part is just the undermining of the justice system. in total. so it works on both sides. using it to target political enemies and then claiming that any legitimate use of it to go after your criminal son is somehow illegitimate. it's an inversion across the board of the prophecy that we should be respecting here as americans and certainly the president of the united states should be the leader of that t

joe biden's son, hunter biden, was making money off of a company owned by a ukrainian oligarch. if giuliani could somehow find a connection between joe biden taking official action to help his son enrich himself in ukraine, he thinks that's going to be a golden moment for donald trump over the beginning of 2019, i start getting texts from rudy about ukraine, texts about how hunter biden was corrupt in ukraine, and people need to look into this at this point, giuliani has really left truth and facts to the side. he has fully joined the conspiratorial mentality of president trump and his administration. totally signed on to that. >> rudy wants to build a case, so he goes to get evidence. now, one of the problems is, is he falls into this murky world of russia and ukraine and all sorts of competing agendas. and he demonstrates very little discernment as to who is a reliable source and who isn't. the problem is, this wasn't some backroom deal in queens. this was about democracy in ukraine surviving as rudy is ramping up this campaign in ukraine to try and get these investigations, he

former special counsel david weiss dropped his final report on the hunter biden investigations, weissed prespresident biden for what hed was rewriting history after he said the prosecution of his son was political. this has to be somewhat personal for you as well. you did so much work on the hunter biden laptop and you wrote an incredible book, the laptop from hell, which is a must read for anybody, and now you've got joe biden calling all of this political. >> yeah, i mean, it's an irony, isn't it? just tackling the david weiss report, special counsel report on the hunter biden investigation, it's a flimsy 27 pages, very thin gruel after six years of a really tortured and corrupted investigation. we know how corrupted it was because of the very brave whistleblowers from the irs, gary shepply and joe ziegler, they're still being retaliated against, being v victimized by theircowardly bosses at the irs. gary chefly was in charge of the investigation that had this fantastic development with credit suisse ubs and so he is a very talented individual and was just thrown aside because he st

attorney general nominee scheduled for tomorrow and this news too coming in and special council on hunter biden criminal charges david wise, david weiss did undermine the justice system and people's confidence in the america system of justice was "politically motivated of attacks on career prosecutors. this is after joe biden pardoned his own son hunter biden is hit with criminal tax evasion among other things and joining us is fox news legal analyst terrific book and constitution of the united states and the legal documents and he's g gregg jarrt and your reaction to biden undermined the u.s. justice system? >> well, i think weiss confirms what we already know, liz, that hunter and his family made millions of dollars from foreign sources by monetizing the vice presidency. but the thing, weiss conspicuously omits how he ran this five-yearlong protection racket for the biden's as culminated in the notorious sweet heart deal and only blew up because a federal judge put a stop to it. irs agents and you'll recall blew the whistle on how david weiss ignored larger crimes of influence peddling and st

david: forgive me for being cynical, i look at proof we have of connection with hunter biden's, partners biden and inroads china made in st strategic interest, i wonder what he got out of that, robert o'brien thank you, happy new year to you. >> happy new year, david. thank you. david: let's hope for better times to come. >> some trump clean the slate at doj and fire every u.s. attorney he could find? we'll ask david webb, caroline downey and hogan gidley when kudlow continues. (woman) did i read this? did i get eggs? where are my keys? (vo) don't wait while memory and thinking issues pile up. these issues may seem like normal aging but could be due to a buildup of amyloid plaques in the brain. amyloid can build up over time. the sooner you talk to your doctor, the more options you may have. visit amyloid.com for additional information. louis! cut! more mud! action! louis, louis! cut mud on her face! louis! okay everybody, that's lunch! (♪) (♪) mud mask? no, no, no! compare hotels in the hotels.com app whether you need to lose 10, 20, 50, or over 100 pounds, make the healthy choice with

. >> bill: david weiss final report on hunter biden. pardoned family members but none taken the occasion as an opportunity to malign the public servants of the d.o.j. based solely on false october sayingss to which biden's attorney says the investigation that hunter biden is a cautionary tale of abuse of prosecutorial power that reflects the letter of president biden when he said it was selective, unfair, raw politics. weiss is feeding into, well -- he is feeding into what weiss concluded as it relates to hunter biden. how do you see it? >> weiss was in on the problem until he got religion at the end. the problem here wasn't selective prosecution, it was selective favorable treatment that weiss was the chief person who gave to hunter biden for years in this investigation to the point of sitting on his hands while the statute of limitations ate a lot of his cases. when the sweetheart plea blew up and he was humiliated, then he turned around and prosecuted the president's son but that case should have been brought years before. >> bill: a

caller: you just said like five minutes ago, somebody said about hunter biden and then you said whereevidence? can you tell me where the evidence is that joe biden took eddie money? host: i asked that question because he made that claim. i was asking him what the evidence was, if he was going to prosecute what would be the evidence? caller: with this case you all said he is a felon. this is going to crash him in the election. it did not. host: that was never said by a host sitting in this chair. dave in las vegas, independent. caller: i apologize for those guys saying what they said. they are ignorant. all of the republicans -- the ones that backed trump are ignorant. this guy is a felon, a rapist, got people killed trying to overthrow our government. what is wrong with these people. they are so messed up. you have to have evidence. the guys the biggest racist. he does not want to fix anything. he will ruin this country. it is not make america great again. it is make america hate again. host: lynette in north carolina, independent. caller: i think what we the american people need to t

also last night, special counsel david weiss released his report on the hunter biden investigation. n for pardoning his son, suggesting it impugns the impartiality of the justice department. what more did we learn from this report? >> not a lot of new facts, chris. that was the most striking thing, really. the really strident language by the special counsel going after president biden for his justification for the pardon and really, weiss making the case that he did not act inappropriately. there was no miscarriage of justice, as president biden put it here, that actually hunter biden evaded taxes on a massive scale, that he actually bought a gun when he was addicted to drugs. he admitted to this conduct. and so these charges were justified. historians will debate that. but it is absolutely the case that the comments that president biden made, really attacking the justice system did not sit well, not only with david weiss, but across the justice department. chris. >> well, barbara, david weiss wrote that president biden's pardon prohibited him from making any additional charging deci

other media companies it was facebook other companies that barred "new york post" reporting on hunter biden's laptop, that is how we got here in the first place. maria: great point we have been watching and witnessing this incredible change in front of our faces, i mean remember this whole cancel culture we lived through things are completely o pivoting with a new sheriff in town and a change in washington. we are just getting started this hour, we will take a break. when we come back congress officially certifies the 2024 election yesterday, setting the stage for trump and his agenda, as president-elect reconsiders reconciliation bill, roger marshall this is thoughts and the agenda you are watching "mornings with maria" live on "fox business" stay with us. ♪ trying to, i am asking you, tonight, in my heart ♪ ♪ . taking care of mom was becoming a real challenge. i was so grateful to discover visiting angels. mom's visiting angel helps her shower and dress, and she keeps an eye on mom's alzheimer's. and our care manager gives me regular updates. best of all, mom has a trusted companion who car

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they came forward with all of this stuff about hunter biden about the tax charges and the gun chargeshat took place and , nothing about joe biden. it just further underscores that all of that was nonsense and it did come down to the word of alexander smirnoff, who was a russian intelligence asset, who lied about ukrainian payments to joe biden and hunter biden. that is established now. alexander smirnoff was convicted in court of trying to give these lies to the sdi key, so that should be -- to the phoebe -- fbi. that should be put to rest. but in lieu of any program that unifies the party, much less the congress, much less the country they want to go back to these , right-wing conspiracy theory fishing expeditions. it is just outlandish. >> this week your counterparts on the judiciary committee will be hearing from pam bondi in her confirmation hearing, i believe it is scheduled in two days. what should the democrats be asking her? >> i haven't done a full study of her career and positions, but i know that she and kash patel both bought into the big lie about the 2020 election, they

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hunter biden was pardoned by his father president joe biden.orrespondent david spunt is here to tell us what is in the report. >> this document it is 280 pages or. so the actual report is about 30 pages, the rest court documents and other pieces of evidence that was admitted in court. but special counsel i prude the two cases against mr. biden because he broke the law faithful jury nor likely to acquit him than convict him. no other factors collectively counseled against prosecution. david wise charged hunter biden in delaware for gun charges. he was convicted by a jury for lying on a firearms or alcohol. he was convicted of tax crimes but that never went to try. pleaded guilty last fall. history. once president biden pardoned his son wiping the slate clean. the president criticized the prosecution of his son, special counsel david weiss bit back writing other presidents have pardoned family members but in doing so none have taken the occasion as an opportunity to malign the public servants at the department of justice based 108ly on false accu

. >> on another legal issue, the special counsel who's been investigating hunter biden, is blasting presidentbiden and has just released final report calling the president. i'm quoting now gratuitous and wrong for calling his investigation into hunter biden unfair and tainted by politics. what do you make of that? >> yeah, it's an unusual move for any special counsel, and we've now seen a handful of special counsel reports over recent history to go out of his way to criticize the president or any sort of third party or nonparty what david weiss is talking about here, though, is the statement that joe biden made when he pardoned hunter biden. and indeed, that statement was filled with inaccuracies and unfounded allegations about this case being political. and a judge on one of the cases actually went out of her way to excoriate joe biden and to say what he has written in his statement is completely incorrect and completely unfair to the justice department. so this is david weiss standing up for his team and the justice department. it's unusual to see it said so explicitly, but that's what he c

. >> the president defended his pardon of his son, hunter biden, who was convicted of lying on a gun urchase form and pleaded guilty to federal tax charges. joe biden saying, quote, he paid the back taxes. he was late. he should have paid it on time. and he renewed his objection to the gun charges ing out. how will the hunter biden pardon be viewed historically? >> i fear that the hunter biden pardon will also. >> taint president biden's legacy in the future. >> the blanket nature of the pardon, the fact that it was a contradiction of a promise he had made during the campaign on his overall legacy, biden said, quote, i hope that history says that i had a plan on how to restore the economy and reestablish america's leadership in the world. at the moment, joe biden is remembered by most americans as not having completed the job that he started. i think over time, joe biden will be remembered for a great first two years. >> the president also seemed to half joke about his age at one point in the interview, saying the only advantage of being an old guy is that he's known every major world

nothing to be adjudicated. >> and i'm not going to put an 80-year-old man on trial and remember, hunter biden, and he blew up the deal, and the probation to the gun charge, and opened up everything else when the facts came out. the facts are a problem for joe biden. he is mad at garland for finding the facts on his son and now we have pictures in the new york post last week -- we go back last week that show he was all over the deals in china. that's the story that he wants to stop. as far as these two cases, we're done. that horse has left the barn. it's not coming back. we're not looking for it. >> harris: so, emily, talk to me about what happened with hunter biden and the only reason we care is because of his dad. no one wants to put an 82-year-old man on trial. >> that's right, and there are things left to be prosecuted, and i would say wait for that. i want to make a point about judge cannon, if i may. the reminder she was the one that ruled that the special counsel was unlawfully elected, and that is still under appeal in the 11th circuit, and what was cited there would be irreparable ha

done away with a meritocracy in our country. >> dei did not earn it. >> hunter biden awkwardly dodgedess dealings on his way out of the presidential medal of freedom ceremony earlier today, watch. >> you might work greta by foreign dealings? >> nothing. [inaudible] wasn't corrupt for your father to interact with your business partners? seat literally could've said anything he wanted it. he has been pardoned. >> climate change, champion kathy hochul is spewing cash on private jets from the records report election show the new york governor tell that hundreds of thousands of dollars at least 38 flights. including two to the hamptons in the same summer. official business must be going on out there, right? incredible. what's hypocrite. that doesn't for us it was you back here tomorrow night 7:00 p.m. is in for another big we can show. remember choice dvr if you cannot catch us live. "life, liberty & levin," that's next ♪ ♪ ♪

election, you can also read special counsel david weiss report on the six year investigation into hunter biden'smes. in it, weiss slams president biden as gratuitous and wrong for calling the prosecution of his son politically motivated when he pardoned hunter. with the smith and weiss reports released, there are now zero active special counsels at the doj closing a turbulent eight year era during which five special counsels oversaw an array of controversies. >> the justice department tonight naming the former fbi director robert mueller, special counsel, to take over the investigation into russia's meddling in the 2016 election and possible collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. >> we learned remarkably overnight that the attorney general, william barr, has appointed john durham to be a special counsel. >> today i signed an order appointing jack smith to serve as special counsel. >> moments ago, attorney general merrick garland appointed a special counsel to oversee the investigation of classified documents found on president biden's property. >> tonight, the top federal prosecu

and we also know that facebook execs suppressed the hunter biden laptop story to win favor with bidenhe sudden change of heart? >> what started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas and it's gone too far so i want to make sure that people can share their beliefs and experiences on our platforms. >> laura: that's the way it should have always been. they also demonetized political sites on facebook and yours truly has experienced that as have many others. both conservatives and liberals by the way. why did that happen? that shouldn't continue. joining me now michael shellenberger the university of austin cbr censorship and free speech. also the founder of public news. michael, again, we want to give people their due if they see the light. they are going to be cautiously optimistic here. but would zuckerberg have made this announcement if kamala had a been a strong candidate in the fall and had gone on to win? >> hey, laura, it's a great question. it's hard to know. i mean it, seems that they were tren

for example they hid the hunter biden laptop and we've now seen fbi agents, cia agents testify in regard they hid it, and they called it fake news. let's have free speech that is open, fair, and transparent and not dictated by some bureaucrats or some individuals in the private sector that doesn't like what people are saying. stuart: thanks for joining us this morning, jason smith, appreciate it, come back soon. did meta end fact checking simply because donald trump is going to be president? >> there's more to it. they want to increase profitability, moving some to texas, they cut down on taxes a but it isn't far enough. what we need to be definitive is sarbanes-oxley act for social media that would require revising section 230 of the commute occasion zach to make social media platforms liable for content that will lead to identity verification, civil and free discourse but i don't think that's going to happen in our lifetime. stuart: probably not. thanks for being with me for the hour. martha maccallum, congressman clyburn saying it's not in biden's personality to sabotage the transitio

see, i believe, the middle of the screen there, the president's son, i think back of his head, hunter biden do know there are several members of the kennedy family, who are expected to be at this event as well. robert f. kennedy, one of the people who will be posthumously awarded the medal of freedom for work he did as it relates to racial segregation as time as attorney general and work he did on equality issues in his time as a senator as well. so, alex, just to give you a sampling of who we expect to be honored during this ceremony today as president biden wraps up his time in office. >> and yes, to your point, we are seeing hunter biden right there leaning over and whispering to a guest there. okay, aaron, thank you so much. well done giving us a sense of who these people are. as i bring back peter baker, i'm curious your thoughts. what stands out about this list of recipients, peter? do you think president biden is at all trying to send a message of some sort with these choices? >> well, he is, yes. every time a president gives the presidential medal of freedom it's done with certain p

we watched president biden pardoned the body and their mother including hunter biden said they will takeook and they are going to do what's right. what we are talking about, jack smith and this report in the fact that we got a weaponize department of justice and they want to release the report just to smear the president. i don't often give advice to democrats but i will say this instead of focusing on that, look in the mirror and think about why you lost the election instead of trying to go after donald trump. he's not going to run again but he'll do what he needs to do and that will be it but they want to focus on the negativity and attacks and it speaks volumes about. >> real quickly, was the vice president elect was saying was reasonable. if you were there peacefully protesting, you should not have been incarcerated but if you did do something and you were violent, you have to pay a consequence. >> there are people who deserve real consequences and others who may have been persecuted. what we heard from the vice president elect sounds reasonable. i'm eager to watch the rest. i know v

special counsel david weiss released his report of the hunter biden investigation.resident biden for rewriting history after prep hunter biden said the prosecution was political weiss also wrote other presidents have pardoned family members but none have taken the occasion as opportunity to align the public servants with the department of justice. on false accusations. a lot happening here. >> there was a hundred 32 page of a love letter telling everybody across the country that he himself in the wonderful prosecutors that work for him did a fantastic job and if donald j trump wasn't reelected as president he would've convicted them. this is where every prosecutor starts from but jack smith is delusional on this front. it does not surprise me that they released this in the final moments of the biden administration. >> that is unbelievable, good to see you, thank you very much. we will be following all of your work. >> thank you. scott fitzgerald in d.c., more on the wildfires to come 24 people are dead, dozens missing after catastrophic wildfires ravaged california.

what was hunter biden protected from? and i think that the legal community can understand humanity. if you were going to pardon your son that there is something about a dad and his son what the public cannot understand and what the public cannot get over his biden a lying to everybody saying nobody is above the law, saying he would not pardon his son saying the reason he needed to do it is because our justice system is rigged against them. that it is literally everything that he says a president should stand against and he has said he is against. so he is a liar. >> trace: it was a big fabrication we can tell you that for sure. thank you both for coming on. in the meantime coming up we are back live on the ground in the pacific palisades as angelino prepares for yet another round of dangerously high wind. we are talking about hurricane strength wind. plus caitlin tanner joins us live onset with her take on how california officials have handled this crisis. later in the night billionaire real estate developer rick caruso who lost a karen bass for l.a. mayor hired private fire factors

. ♪ amna: we start the news with the release of the special counsel report into hunter biden.nal charges against the president's son were "the culmination of thorough, impartial investigations, not partisan politics," but he added the pardon means he cannot say if hunter biden should have faced more charges. the hunter -- the report comes at the end of a years long investigation into him. turning out to president biden's legacy on the world stage. the outgoing commander-in-chief defended his foreign policy record during an address at the state department this afternoon. biden highlighted his administration's efforts in the middle east and ukraine. and he defended the chaotic 2021 withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan, which has been a common target for his critics. >> in my view, it was time to end the war and bring our troops home and we did. i commend the courage of all those who served in afghanistan. we grieve all 2,461 americans who made the ultimate sacrifice in the longest war in american history. and i grieve those brave service members whose lives were lost durin

meanwhile, doj released a report on the hunter biden investigation. d weiss criticizing joe biden for how he pardoned his son. the elder biden calling the probe a miscarriage of justice. >> jarred hill in new york. thanks. >>> coming up, scary close call. how two passenger planes came within hundreds of feet of each other in the air. >>> and a man accused of stalking basketball star caitlin clark, why he says he did it. cn clark. why he says he did it. prevent asthma attacks. treat syp airsupra should not be used as a maintenance treatment for asthma. get medical help right away if your breathing doesn't improve or worsens or for serious allergic reactions, like rash, mouth or tongue swelling, trouble breathing or swallowing, or chest pain. using airsupra more than prescribed could be life-threatening. serious side effects include increased risk of thrush or infections, or heart problems like faster heart rate and higher blood pressure. ask your doctor if airsupra is right for you. (vo) zuke's tasty, tender dog treats can turn every outing into an adve

special counsel david weiss, he's expected to release his report on the hunter biden investigation. next week. what would happen now that biden's been pardoned? anything? >> well, i'll start by saying i don't like special counsel reports. i think that it, it's outside the judicial system. there's no due process to it, there's no response to it. if the filings that in court, the trials themselves, that's what we should be putting most weight into, and donald trump seems to agree with that where he has a pending report from jack smith that may be released by merrick garland. that's got its own legal process going on right now. but i think that that report would spell out what we already know about hunter biden and potentially even more of the scope than what was prosecuted in the courtroom. what it won't include, i think, is the foreign stuff that he was involved in, in ukraine, in china. the crimes for which he was never indicted on that a so many people have, had very serious concerns not just with him, but also his father's connection. i don't think there's going to be any of that

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the report comes at the end of a years-long investigation into hunter biden that included charges relatedgun and tax crimes. turning now to president biden's legacy on the world stage, the outgoing commander in chief defended his foreign policy record during an address at the state department this afternoon. biden highlighted his administration's efforts in the middle east and ukraine, and he defended the chaotic 2021 withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan, which has been a common target for his critics. pres. biden: in my view, it was time to end the war and bring our troops home. and we did. i commend the courage of all those who served in afghanistan. we grieve all 2,461 americans who made the ultimate sacrifice in the longest war in american history. and i grieve those brave service members whose lives were lost during the withdrawal. manasseh: biden also said that -- vanessa: biden also said that the u.s. and its global alliances are stronger than they were four years ago, and that he's leaving the next administration a very strong hand to play in world affairs. today's firings m

including things like, you know, where can covid came from, including things like, you know, hunter biden'stop was a real thing. i think more information, like, generally that that's a good thing. being on the side of free flow of information, generally that's a good thing when we look back to history. and generally, the the people that are calling for more censorship in the sense that we know better than you are wrong. howard: it's been reported, and feel free to push back on this, that when trump won many 2016, you were at "the wall street journal" and you were sobbing at your desk. have you -- the. [laughter] has your view of him evolved since then? >> it's a good question. i mean, look, i'm the first to to admit that that i was a sufferer of what conservatives at the time would have called tds, trump derangement syndrome, and i was alarmed and really nervous about everything i was reading and especially -- and this hasn't changed -- can about his character. i'm someone that that believes, call me to old fashioned, that everything is sort of downstream of character. and the kinds of thin

>> i fear that the hunter biden pardon will also. >> taint president biden's legacy in the future. >> the blanket nature of the pardon, the fact that it was a contradiction of a promise he had made during the campaign on his overall legacy, biden said, quote, i hope that history says that i had a plan on how to restore the economy and reestablish america's leadership in the world. at the moment, joe biden is remembered by most americans as not having completed the job that he started. i think over time, joe biden will be remembered for a great first two years. >> the president also seemed to half joke about his age at one point in the interview, saying the only advantage of being an old guy is that he's known every major world leader for a long time, wolf. >> brian todd reporting. brian, thank you very much. and to our viewers, thanks for watching. erin burnett outfront starts right now this is cnn breaking news. >> good evening. i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news, the deadly inferno. >> officials just confirming that five people are now dead as at least four major

william is the son of the bidens' granddaughter naomi and the grandson of hunter biden. >> reporter: with jimmy carter's funeral and president biden's eulogy. >>> here's al roker with a look at what else is ahead. >> this morning on the third hour of "today", a superstar duo. jamie foxx and cameron diaz, live. that's not a mistake. plus, products to give your skin a booster in these winter months, and the hottest new books to read this month as well. all that coming up this morning all that coming up this morning on the third hour of dupixent helps people with asthma breathe better ins little as 2 weeks. so this is better. that too. dupixent is an add-on treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma. it works with your asthma medicine to help improve lung function. dupixent is not for sudden breathing problems and doesn't replace a rescue inhaler. it's proven to help prevent asthma attacks. severe allergic reactions can occur. get help rigight away r face, mouth, tongue or throat swelling, wheezing or trouble breathing. tell your doctor right away of signs of inflamed blo

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