President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is the opening in 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 Department of Justice investigation, whether a computer allegedly containing confidential information belonged to him, his fight against substance abuse, his new memoirs and more. .
Correspondent Tracy Smith’s interview with Hunter Biden airs on “CBS Sunday Morning” on Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on CBS and CBSN. CBS This Morning, co-host Anthony Mason, sits down with Biden and airs Mondays at 7 p.m. ET on CBS and 8 p.m. ET on CBSN.
In his interview with Mason, Biden described an emotional intervention his family carried out at his father’s home in Wilmington during the 2020 presidential campaign. After a tense confrontation, Biden stormed out of the house, only to be chased into the driveway by the future president .
“I tried to go to my car, and my girls literally blocked the door of my car and said, ‘Daddy, Daddy, please. You can’t. No, no.’ This was the hardest part of the book to write, ”he recalls.
Then his father hugged him.
Hunter Biden said his dad “grabbed me – hugged a bear, and he 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 figure out a way to tell him I’m going to do something so I can get hit again.’ It’s all I could think. Literally. So powerful. I don’t know of any strength stronger than the love of my family, “Hunter Biden said,” except for addiction. “
Hunter Biden also discussed a report for the 2020 election that alleged that a laptop he allegedly left in a repair shop in Delaware revealed Biden’s business transactions in Ukraine. Before the interview on CBS Sunday Morning, he told Tracy Smith that he didn’t know if it was his laptop, but it could have been.
“There could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me. I may have been hacked. It could be that it was the … that it was Russian intelligence. “
Hunter Biden’s memoir, “Beautiful Things,” is published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, a division of ViacomCBS.