jackie. good evening, bret, the administration is still gauging the scope of today s cyberattack on multiple federal agencies and pressure is on to stay tough on china after its foreign minister told secretary blinken to show respect in a call yesterday. but the president keeps getting questions on things he doesn t want to answer. on the cyberattack. president biden not responding to bribery allegations detailed on an fbi 1023 form allege ago burisma executive paid then vice president joe biden and his son hunter to gain u.s. oil rights $5 million each. that money going to hunter and indirectly to the big guy via shell companies. why telling [inaudible] why do you ask such a dumb question? the document did not say joe biden received any payment. but the president also did not want to comment on federal agencies hit in a global cyberattack. initial reports from the administration suggesting china may not be behind it? we are trashing it as a criminal group. many
treatment of the field of president trump. in the sense that right now it s in everybody s interest, i think, to be criticizing him for that to be pointing out that even if he is being unfairly targeted that, you know, yes, it s very unfair that hillary clinton didn t face prosecution, but he shouldn t have done the things that would get him targeted in the first place. that he gave the people who were pursuing him from the quote, unquote, deep state plenty of rope. yet, i m not hearing that i m hearing all these caveats, all these pulled punches, because once again we are seeing all these people afraid of ticking off the president s majority of supporters within the republican party. you know, what brings men together is not shared bread but shared enemies as mac mccarthy wrote from. my sense here, they are all not going after the one shared enemy that they all have if they actually want to be the nominee of the republican party. bret: and do you think the pardon pitch by vivek rama