be convicted. right. those are good things in his column. do you think there would be any downside here for president biden were hunter to be convicted? of course, as the personal toll, of course. do we think there is political im impact? yeah, there are low information voters who are like, they re both in trouble with the law. i would say hunter biden is very different than donald trump and being a crack addict because you have an addiction is very different than a myriad after criminal charges, many cases which you ve been able to punt. then you have the fraud cases. i don t think they re the same at all, but i do think, you know, everything can be a problem, especially in politics. certainly, those close to president biden worry about just how he will receive this news. we know he is deeply worried about his son. also, the first lady coming back from france to go to the trial. i mean, the sister has been there. everyone in biden world, they re a close family. i t
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Life. Its the one thing that we all have in common is that our parents bring us in this world and they bring us into this world under different conditions. Being a broadcaster since 1995, ive heard some of the most amazing and some of the most saddest stories that anyone can ever hear. There are mothers like my mother and sisters its interesting. My mother lost her father in 1985, 32 years ago. And her sister, all of them lost their husbands and theyve lived for at least 3040 years after their husbands passed. And you will find this shocking. None of them were involved with a man they never dated. They were never intimate. Their lives were about their children and those kinds of women dont exist today. A lot of women have to remarry to keep the family together. So it leads to talk about my mother. Theres so many things that people know about me about politics and the statements i make are controversial and they empower institution. I talk about it with such stretch because ive never kn
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