Tucker Carlson recently discussed the current state of the media and President Joe Biden’s recent public performances on his show with Catherine Herridge, a former CBS correspondent and his colleague at Fox News.
A significant part of their discussion focused on the ongoing controversy and debate regarding Biden’s cognitive abilities, which has gained increased attention following his latest appearances. Herridge also explored Hunter Biden’s legal issues, which she believes could significantly impact the Biden family. “I would think about the Hunter Biden case as having two buckets. The first was the gun charges, and then the second is this tax case. I’ve always felt the tax case is a much more serious case and has the greatest legal jeopardy for himself and members of his family,” she said.
“There’s a whole window with the taxes where he’s really a heavy user and drug addict. But as he told the Delaware court last year when the plea deal fell apart, there was a period of time where he became clean. So how many of these alleged bad acts happened during that period versus when he was an addict?” she said.
Herridge has gained recognition for her thorough reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. She is also an award-winning journalist who left CBS News in February due to layoffs by its corporate parent Paramount. During the interview, Carlson highlighted the media’s inconsistent coverage of Biden compared to other political figures, indicating a significant bias in media scrutiny of public officials.
He shared an anecdote to illustrate his point: “His sister told a friend of mine, actually, ‘We’re very upset because he’s in cognitive decline.’ He’s got some neurological illness, and we don’t want him to run for president. So I immediately said that on Fox News. That was five years ago. I wasn’t shocked by his performance in the debate.”
Herridge, who previously faced contempt of court charges for refusing to reveal her sources in stories involving a scientist under FBI investigation, made a notable career move from Fox News to CBS News in 2019. Unfortunately, her tenure at CBS came to an end when she was part of a group of 20 employees laid off by the network in February.
“I was shocked that they fired you,” Carlson said. “And when I reflected for a moment, I was not shocked at all. From my perspective, super obvious they’re taking him out before the election because you’re reporting on Biden’s laptop.”
“I think this is a real opportunity to gather more data and to take an investigative lens and look at this issue of President Biden and his decision to seek re-election,” Herridge said. “We’ve got some data points already…I think it makes sense because we’d have broader data points to assess was this a one-off as the White House says or were there indications of decline earlier on?”
Pressure from Democratic lawmakers and operatives is mounting on Biden to quit his reelection bid and allow the party to nominate someone else to take on likely GOP nominee and former President Donald Trump. Democratic strategist James Carville said Tuesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that the Democratic Party was “making an idiotic choice” if they stood behind Biden’s presidential candidacy.
“[The] Cook [Political Report] moved six states away from Democrats. I watch somebody’s press conferences, and it reminds me of a book they made me read in college called ‘Ship of Fools.’ A bunch of desperate people sailing into disaster. And you know, I just think that cowards have never beat criminals in a war yet. The way that you beat criminals is not to be cowards. It is to take it directly on. Nothing that I see that remotely changes my mind or changes what I think about where we are,” Carville said.
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