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The John Batchelor Show

1/2 Pardons and the Biden Family risk. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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1/2 Pardons and the Biden Family risk. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

1920 Washington DC

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0:00.0

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0:29.3

Terms apply. This is CBS Island the World. I'm John Batchel, welcoming my colleagues, Andrew McCarthy

0:35.2

of National Review Online. That is McCarter, my co-host of American Greatness,

0:40.6

to look at the recent controversy over the pardon

0:44.6

by the President of the United States of his relative,

0:49.2

his son, Hunter Biden,

0:51.0

for all crimes he committed or may have committed between 2014 and right now.

0:59.0

And that puzzled me only because I don't understand what a pardon can do, what the power of it is.

1:06.0

So I look to an article written by Andy for the National Review online or Fox, one of the other,

1:11.6

he writes for both, and in it was this sentence that I could not answer.

1:16.6

Why worry any longer about 2014 to 2016 if the statute of limitations has already expired?

1:24.6

Andy, a very good evening to you.

1:26.6

That was a question I could not answer in reading your

1:29.8

column. And as of, as I understand your most recent filing at the National Review Online,

1:36.8

that question has not been answered yet. Is that correct? Good evening to you, Andy.

1:41.4

Good evening, John. And that is, well, it's, it's answerable. I don't think it's been

1:47.7

grappled with, but what's evident from the pardon that the president issues for his son is it looks

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