President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden opens his first television 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 into whether there was a computer containing confidential information, his battle against substance abuse, his new memories and more.
Correspondent Tracy Smith’s interview with Hunter Biden will air on “CBS Sunday Morning” on Sunday at 9:00 ET on CBS and CBSN. “CBS This Morning” co-host Anthony Mason will sit down with Biden, which airs Monday at 7:00 ET on CBS and 8:00 ET on CBSN.
In his interview with Mason, Biden described an emotional intervention his family performed at his father’s house in Wilmington during the 2020 presidential campaign. After a tense confrontation, Biden left the house quickly. and was chased down the road by the future president.
“I tried to go in my car, and my girls literally locked my car door and said,‘ Dad, Dad, please. You can not. No, no. ”That was the hardest part of the book to write,” he recalled.
Then his father hugged him.
Hunter Biden said his father “grabbed me, hugged me to the bear, and he said, and cried and said,‘ I don’t know what to do. I do not know what to do. Please ”
Mason asked him what he thought when he heard his father’s pleas.
“I thought, ‘I need to figure out a way to tell him I’ll do something, so he can get it again.’ It’s the only thing I could think of. Literally. So powerful. I don’t know a force more powerful than love. of my family, ”Hunter Biden said,“ except addiction. ”
Hunter Biden also discussed a report before the 2020 election that assumed a laptop he allegedly left in a Delaware repair shop revealed Biden’s business relations in Ukraine. For the interview on “CBS Sunday Morning,” he told Tracy Smith that he didn’t know if it was his laptop, but that it could have been.
“There could have been a laptop that had been stolen from me. It could have been that I had been hacked. It could have been whatever Russian intelligence was.”
Hunter Biden’s memoirs, “Beautiful Things,” are published by Gallery Books, a imprint of Simon and Schuster, a division of ViacomCBS.