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The Conversation with Dasha Burns

How Hunter Biden, Jack Smith, and Trump’s legal troubles are setting the stage for 2024

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

Government, Politics, News

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

A week of new developments in impeachment, Donald Trump’s D.C. case, and Hunter Biden’s congressional inquiry showcased how the collision of law and politics will determine much of Republicans’ and Democrats’ political fortunes in 2024. POLITICO legal editor James Romoser and national correspondent Betsy Woodruff Swan join to discuss the implications.

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0:00.0

This week the House of Representatives voted to initiate impeachment proceedings

0:05.0

against President Joe Biden. Outside the Capitol, Biden's son Hunter, who was

0:10.8

recently charged with federal firearms and tax crimes, made a rare public

0:15.2

media appearance and condemned Republicans for their quote baseless inquiry.

0:20.6

They ridiculed my struggle with addiction. they've belittled my recovery, and they have tried to

0:27.2

dehumanize me all to embarrass and damage my father.

0:32.1

On the same day across the street the Supreme Court said it would take up a case

0:36.5

that could decide the fate of two of the four criminal charges against Donald Trump in the

0:40.8

DC election subversion case.

0:43.1

That was just a Wednesday in Washington.

0:45.4

Earlier in the week, Special Counsel Jack Smith

0:47.4

asked the Supreme Court to decide a question

0:50.0

that will determine whether his DC case

0:51.8

is allowed to move forward at all.

0:53.5

Jack Smith asking the court to weigh in on Donald Trump's claim that being president

0:58.0

gives you absolute immunity from prosecution.

1:02.4

The former vice president, the former president, the president, and the president, son all have had separate

1:07.1

special councils assigned to them by the Biden Justice Department.

1:10.7

Trump of course is facing criminal trials in four separate jurisdictions around the country next year

1:15.4

and could be a convicted felon on election day. He could even be in jail.

1:19.6

Republicans in Congress have tried to intervene in every one of those cases,

1:24.0

arguing they're all politically motivated,

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