Hunter Biden calls for criminal probes into effort to “weaponize” laptop contents

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🗓️ 2 February 2023

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Attorneys for Hunter Biden asked state and federal investigators to launch investigations into the people involved in disseminating the contents of his laptop. They allege the computer repair shop owner, Rudy Giuliani and a number of right-wing political figures committed computer and other criminal violations in their effort to “weaponize” the laptop contents against his father. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe tells Anderson Cooper he thinks this is an “aggressive but appropriate” move by Biden and his lawyers.

Plus, two witnesses in the Alex Murdaugh murder trial testified they are “100 percent” certain that Murdaugh’s voice is on a video prosecutors presented in court. Their testimony contradicts the former South Carolina attorney’s claim he wasn’t home when his son and wife were killed back in 2021. Defense attorney Joey Jackson joins AC360 to discuss the video and what this could mean for Murdaugh and his defense team.

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0:00.0	Good evening, we begin tonight with breaking news.
0:03.4	Tonight for the first time attorneys for Hunter Biden have publicly acknowledged that
0:06.6	it was his personal data on a laptop that was left to Delaware Repair Shop.
0:10.9	They may also be assigned, they are going on the offensive.
0:13.8	As you know, the laptop has become the focus of President Biden's political opponents,
0:18.1	the source of embarrassing allegations about his son's personal affairs, as well as a
0:22.2	figurative side dish to a main course of what could be serious legal trouble for the
0:26.2	younger Biden.
0:27.2	In a moment, the potential legal and political fallout, first the news itself and CNN is just
0:31.4	a Schneider.
0:32.4	So, for years now, Republicans have been going off about this laptop and Hunter Biden
0:37.2	never publicly acknowledged that it was his, why is he taking legal steps now?
0:42.2	Yeah, they're really ramping up their approach here, Anderson.
0:44.8	And it's really coming at the same time that they're gurting themselves for this real fight
0:49.4	with congressional Republicans.
0:51.2	So what they're doing tonight, they're fighting back against a number of people, they say,
0:55.2	allegedly got into Hunter Biden's laptop that was left at that Delaware Computer Repair
0:59.2	Shop and they're fighting back against the people who allegedly disseminated the contents
1:03.9	of that laptop because these were contents that contain business documents, emails and
1:08.6	photos, and even some potentially salacious materials all purportedly belonging to Hunter
1:13.5	Biden.
1:14.5	So what Biden's team is saying is that this was all weaponized against Hunter Biden and
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