cocaine addict. republicans hoping for so much more blamed the justice department. there continues to show a two-tier system in america. if you are the president s leading political opponent, the doj tries to literally put you in jail. if you are the president s son, you get a sweetheart deal. howard: and donald trump likened it to the a traffic ticket, but president biden who has often said his son has done nothing wrong was tight-lipped after announcement. [inaudible conversations] i m very proud of my son. howard: now, you can find similar cases where defendants drew hard hard harsher punishment, but this is no hunter biden has been an embarrassment, and this is hardly the end of the story. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, my sit-down with chris christie and my interview with conservative firebrand marjorie taylor greene. the pundits immediately clashed over hunter biden plea deal coming just a week after donald trump was formally charge
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,
are afraid of him, some have future aspirations beyond the presidency that they want to do, so i think it s a combination of all those things. howard: what do you think of trump s indictment in this classified documents case in light of the comments he made on air in the bret baier interview? i think he s in big trouble, howie. the indictment seemed to me to clear clearly lay out an obstruction of justice case based on the moving of the boxes and the keeping of documents away from the government. but we actually he actually confirmed it by saying i didn t go through boxes because i was a too busy, and i had to go through and find golf shirts and hats, those kind of thingsesome look, there s not an exception under the grand jury subpoena rules for golf shirts and golf hats. i mean, this guy knows he had documents he shouldn t have had, and he was trying to hide it from the government. that s a crime. howard: you were a donald trump loyalist, you say he offered you the job of chief