he pled guilty in what i think ostensibly, if you ask any legal expert was a fair resolution to that case. house reasons aren t talking about that, they re talking about an entirely different set of issues that they want to conflate into one big scandal. that s why you have kevin mccarthy and others saying, how could they let them off. they let them off because the crimes they were looking at, allegations they were looking into were not what the republicans wanted to look into. the bigger issue is you have a situation which congressional republicans are saying we need justice, blind justice. there can not be a two-tiered system, and you have leading presidential candidates, donald trump and tim scott, and to a degree, ron desantis, taking a stance that says the executive branch oversees, the justice department, and can instruct the justice department to explicitly investigate the president s enemies, opponents and so on and so forth. donald trump said he wants to
with donald trump, the two-tier system of justice. we re going to hear that nonstop for weeks and months ahead here. and it s a distraction, but it also is a potentially dangerous one. senator scott in that clip, if he were to be elected president, he would launch an investigation from the white house. and a scott administration to investigate president biden and his family. we right now, it s a threat here. it is a threat. we re in a new place, where we have already one candidate. geez. he s literally promising, as mika said, she was watching the clip, tim scott is literally saying i promise if elected to weaponize the justice department, and i m going to be the one doing it. yep, he said it right out there what the republicans are accusing the biden administration of doing, the
republicans paint as being daft and unable to walk across the stage. that s the charges here. lost his mind, and he s part of the crime syndicate. they re going to seize on this. they re going to stay with it, and we re going to be living with the hunter biden smoke for years to come. we should note my reporting about response inside the white house, obviously real relief from president biden and his family that this matter is behind them, and senior biden advisers have been far more worried about the personal toll this has taken on the president more so than any political one, even as they acknowledge of course the politics are going to be with us, and we did hear from the president briefly yesterday out in california saying simply that he was proud of his son. so let s bring in congressional investigations reporter for the washington post, jackie alemany, and justice department reporter for the new york times, katie benner. jackie, you have two pieces out this morning. the
family, and who they are. yeah, mika, we were trying to sort of just give our readers a lay of the land in terms of all of these accusations that republicans have been hurling at the biden family. we were sort of prepared for this kind of response, regardless of whatever charges david weiss ended up pursuing against hunter or whether or not there was going to be a plea deal. i think initially we had sort of figured that the rallying cry would largely be that, you know, the attorney general sort of missed the boat, and was not able to actually cut to the substance of these alleged pay for plays. we re now seeing this message of a sweetheart deal, there being two tiers of justice. but i think as this goes on we re going to continue to see people like jim jordan and james comer try to continue to muddy
statute that makes it illegal for someone addicted to drugs to possess a weapon. this is the first time the justice department that has brought charges against a child of a sitting president. the charges against hunter biden are the result of a five-year investigation by federal prosecutors, fbi agents and irs officials. the investigation was led by the u.s. attorney for delaware, david weiss. he was appointed by former president trump. most u.s. attorneys are moved on after a new president comes into office. are you saying that joe biden kept this trump appointee in delaware? yes, this man was appointed by donald trump, and then permitted by president biden to remain in office. that s highly unusual, by the way. in order to continue the probe. highly unusual. talk about full transparency. an attorney for hunter biden issued a statement to nbc news,