had other gun crimes and drug crimes in his past and, there are therefore, he got a hard harsher sentence. hunter s were not charged perhaps because there s a with to-tiered system in which he s treat differently. howard: i think if the president is town even indirectly to help his son, it s going to blow up and be huge but, again, i haven t seen the evidence. in fact, one of the irs whistleblowers say that the u.s. attorney david weiss a had asked for a different title and didn t yet it from doj, prompting a rare response from attorney general merrick garland. take a look. i don t know how it would be possible for anybody to block him from bringing a prosecution given that he has this authority. howard: kevin, look, some media folks express sympathy for hunter biden because he has been a crack addict. joe biden has conducted interventions with him. but hunter is a grown man in his 50s, and convicted criminal,
joining us with reaction is john levine. even as we talk about reading through these numbers and you lose track, how many years, where is he getting it from, ukraine, russia, china, this one feel different, feels like a text everyone agrees is from hunter biden to someone else threatening action, the money is received, is this a different situation? the text is from hunter biden, no denying, his lawyer put out a statement that my client was an active crack addict at the time and that is true. hunter is not a reliable narrator. i can t tell you if merrick garland is telling the truth or whistleblowers telling the truth. the fact is it is a crime to lie in a whistleblower complaint. you have to take whistleblower complaints very seriously and merrick garland is denying it.
no answer. we said yesterday, people in the media have been saying for years, what hunter biden did looks unethical, looks bad. he s a crack addict. nobody here is defending him. there s no media blackout. i mean, there s massive pieces written about hunter biden during the 2019 and 2020 time period. nothing. yet, they keep chirping, biden crime family, biden crime family. durham keeps talking about investigating the investigators, russia hoax, russia hoax, when marco rubio s senate intelligence committee said, they said after the 2016 campaign, when marco was already kissing up to donald trump, that the trump campaign s connections with russian influenced people caused, quote, a grave what is it a grave threat to u.s.
with a crime. it is all smoke, no fire, and a hell of a lot of mccarthyism here. to your point, there are members of the biden inner circle, some of the president s close advisers, hunter biden made poor decisions in recent years. he has not been charged criminally. nothing is found to be illegal with the poor decisions, and he did plead guilty to this matter, the taxes. to sam s point, this isn t going anywhere. unsubstantiated allegations, the republicans have seized on them, and primed their audience for years. this started in 2020, they primed their audiences for years that hunter biden is the lynch pin for the biden crime family. there are allegations, unsubstantiated about corruption and the like and they feel like they need to deliver. what they re saying is, a crack addict, a guy who has been a crack addict is the master mind behind this incredible
financial benefit. he will pay some kind of restitution to the government that will negatively impact his finances. he has been able to make use of friends to cover his expenses. kevin morris, an attorney in california who is his friend paid over $2 million of his old tax bill. kevin morris s plane flew him to his court appearance in arkansas. i m sure he can find the money he needs to take care of his issues. what was he doing to make one.r5 million? that s the 10 million question really. obviously during so much of the period he was earning this income he was an active crack addict and alcoholic. there is no reason to be earning this kind of money when you are in that kind of a state. by his own admission if you read his autobiography when he was on the board of burisma the 83,000