President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden has been opening his first TV interviews since his father took office. In separate interviews with “CBS Sunday Morning” and “CBS This Morning”, he answered questions about a Justice Department investigation, whether a computer allegedly containing confidential information was his, his battle with substance abuse, his new memories and a lot more.
Correspondent Tracy Smith’s interview with Hunter Biden will be broadcast on “CBS Sunday Morning” on Sunday at 9 am (GMT) on CBS and CBSN. “CBS This Morning”, co-host of Anthony Mason, with Biden will air on Monday at 7am ET on CBS and 8am ET on CBSN.
In his interview with Mason, Biden described an emotional intervention that his family staged at his father’s home in Wilmington during the 2020 presidential campaign. After a tense confrontation, Biden left the house furious, only to be chased by the future president.
“I tried to go to my car, and my girls literally blocked my car door and said, ‘Dad, dad, please. You can not. No, no.’ That was the most difficult part of the book “, he recalled.
Then his father hugged him.
Hunter Biden said his father “grabbed me – gave me a big hug and said – and just cried, and said – ‘I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to do. Please'”
Mason asked what he thought when he heard his father’s pleas.
“I thought, ‘I need to find a way to tell him that I’m going to do something, so that I can take another drink.’ It was the only thing I could think of. Literally. This is very powerful. I know of no strength more powerful than the love of my family, “said Hunter Biden,” except addiction. “
Hunter Biden also discussed a report before the 2020 election that alleged that a laptop he had allegedly left in a Delaware workshop revealed Biden’s business in Ukraine. For the “CBS Sunday Morning” interview, he told Tracy Smith that he didn’t know if it was his laptop, but that it could have been.
“There may be a laptop that has been stolen from me. It may be that I have been hacked. It may have been the – that was Russian intelligence.”
Hunter Biden’s memoir, “Beautiful Things”, is published by Gallery Books, a brand of Simon and Schuster, a division of ViacomCBS.