For more on the political implications of the new charges filed against the

president's son and this week's other major news, we turn to the analysis of

Brooks and Cape Heart, that's New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan K

Part, associate editor for the Washington Post.

Good to see you both.

Good to see you.

So let's start with the latest legal trouble facing Hunter Biden

with the important context that Hunter Biden

is a private citizen. He is not seeking

nor has he ever held public office. He does not work in the White House for his

father in the way that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump did. And the indictment

does not in any way implicate President Joe Biden and yet

this will certainly add to the problems the political problems facing this

White House is House Republicans Jonathan zero in on Hunter Biden's business dealings as part of their own investigations.

As part of their own investigations that have been going on for years now, and they've been using

the President's son, the president's troubled son,

to try to sully the president.

And so far, they've come up with nothing,

even though next week, apparently,

they're going to be voting on,

to authorize an impeachment inquiry trying to make connections that

aren't there. Look, when you read the indictment, when you hear about the

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