Welcome to the McCarthy Report, the podcast where you would normally hear

Rich Lowry discussed with Andy McCarthy the latest legal and national security

issues but Rich is out this week. So you're hearing me, Noah Rothman, instead. This week we will discuss

Hunter Biden's legal troubles, Donald Trump's upcoming sentencing, and Iran's maneuvers

in the Middle East.

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Andy how are you?

I'm doing great Noah how are you?

Very well it's good to have you.

So let's start with the big news this week on the Hunter Biden saga.

New York Times reporter Ken Vogel revealed on Tuesday that Hunter Biden

sought help in writing from U.S. officials to advance his business interests in the

Ukrainian gas company, Barisma while Joe Biden was vice president in 2016.

Quote from that report, the records which the Biden administration had withheld for years

indicate that Hunter Biden wrote at least one letter to the US Ambassador to Italy in 2016,

to which a Commerce Department official responded internally to his colleagues,

quote, I want to be careful about promising too much.

So Hunter's attorney, Avi Lull, says there's nothing to see here.

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