Good morning. Today on Legal Docket, a New York gangster says he deserves a shorter stretch in prison

because the law does not cover murder-for-hire plots that fail. The government is incredulous.

There's really no distinction between the person who sprinkles poison in the cup

and the person who withholds the antidote. Also today the Monday money beat, and later the life of

an early church bishop linked to Christmas. And so we have to be really careful in terms of

trying to turn a historic person into some type of fantastical thing.

It's Monday, December 2nd.

This is The World and Everything in it from listeners-supported World Radio.

I'm Mary Reichert.

And I'm Nick Einker. Good morning. Up next, Mark Mellinger with today's news. President Biden has

pardoned his son Hunter, despite previously promising he would not. The pardon will spare the

president's son a possible prison sentence for federal

felony gun and tax convictions. Until now, President Biden insisted he wouldn't pardon his son

or commute his sentence, including in this interview with ABC's David Muir this past summer.

Will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict no matter what it is?

Yes.

And have you ruled out a pardon for your son?

Yes.

As recently as November 8th, White House Press Secretary Corrine Jean-Pierre continued to publicly

rule out a pardon or clemency for Hunter Biden.

But in a written statement Sunday, the president said his

son had been selectively and unfairly prosecuted, adding, quote, people are almost never brought to trial

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