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
Two counts of contempt for defying the subpoenas of the january 6th legal committee. let s bring in lisa rubin, legal correspondent. good morning. this is always framed, and we ll hear from president trump on this in a moment, as a personal attack, as president biden ordering his opponents to jail, on and on and on. except when you don t answer a subpoena, no matter who you are in our society, just like if you cook the books at your organization to pay off a porn star to stay quiet before a presidential election, there are consequences. there are indeed consequences. willie, there s some connective tissue between this and the other case you just mentioned, the recent conviction of former president trump. the connective tissue is robert costello, who was steve bannon s attorney. the attorney on whose advice he allegedly said he relied in ignoring the subpoena. bannon wanted to argue, and which was the crux of the appeal, he was entitled to