Jonathan Turley breaks down latest allegations against Hunter Biden

DAVID: A NEW TEXT MESSAGE RELEASED BY HOUSE OVERSIGHT FROM HUNTER TO A CEF CHINESE ENERGY OFFICIAL, OF COURSE, THEY'RE AFFILIATED WITH THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT, SHOWS OTHERWISE. WITH ME NOW, LET'S GET RIGHT TO IT WITH LEGAL EXPERT JONATHAN TURLEY WHO JOINS US NOW. JONATHAN, GREAT TO SEE YOU. THE PRESIDENT TRIES TO THE LAUGH THIS OFF, BUT THE EVIDENCE KEEPS UP MOUNTING AND MOUNTING, AND THESE TEXTS ARE

GIFT THAT NEVER STOPS GIVING. I MEAN, THE SUFFICIENT THAT'S COMING OUT OF THESE -- STUFF THAT'S COMING OUT OF THESE WHATSAPP TEXTS ARE JUST EXTRAORDINARY. HERE'S ONE. HE TELLS US HIS CHEESE -- CHINESE PARTNERS THE BIDENS ARE THE BEST WITH I KNOW AT DOING EXACTLY WHAT THE CHAIRMAN WANTS FROM THIS PARTNERSHIP. DO WE KNOW WHAT THE CHAIRMAN WANTED FROM THE PARTNERSHIP? WILL WE EVER FIND THAT

OUT, JONATHAN? >> WELL, THE BIDENS ARE THE BEST AT THIS. AND WHAT THIS IS, IS CORRUPTION. THE BIDENS HAVE LONG BEEN ACCUSED OF INFLUENCE PEDDLING, OF SELLING ACCESS. AND THEY'RE VERY GOOD AT IT. AND WHAT THESE RECORDS INDICATE IS THAT THIS MAY HAVE GENERATED MILLIONS IN INFLUENCE PEDDLING PROCEEDS. SO, NO, WE DON'T HAVE THE SPECIFIC DEMAND, BUT THIS FOLLOWS A PATTERN. AND THE PRESIDENT'S RESPONSE, DAVID

CAN, IS REALLY QUITE MADDENING. I MEAN, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A VERY SERIOUS MATTER HERE. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHETHER HIS FAMILY SOLD OUT COUNTRY BY ENGAGING IN THIS FORM OF CORRUPTION. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER HIS SON WOULD BE CHARGED WITH A CRIME OR WHETHER HE'LL BE CHARGED WITH A CRIME, IT'S CORRUPT. THAT'S WHAT INFLUENCE PEDDLING IS. IT'S THE FAVORITE FORM OF CORRUPTION IN WASHINGTON. DAVID: WELL, IT'S

CORRUPT AND IT'S ALSO, BY THE WAY, BEYOND THE CORRUPTION ITSELF THERE'S THE PROBLEM OF A COVER-UP. IT DOES LOOK MORE AND MORE LIKE THE DOJ WAS INVOLVED IN DIVERTING INVESTIGATORS FROM GETTING TO THE TRUTH OF ALL OF THIS. >> RIGHT. WE HAVE NOW VERY CLEAR CON RAH THAT DICTIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL -- CONTRADICTIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IN WHAT HE HAS SAID TO THE CONGRESS

AND THE PUBLIC AS RECENTLY AS A FEW DAYS AGO. HE MAINTAINED THAT THERE WAS NO EFFORT BY WEISS TO SEEK AN INDICTMENT THAT WAS BLOCKED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. EVEN NEWSPAPERS LIKE "THE NEW YORK TIMES" HAVE NOW SAID THAT THEY HAVE CONFIRMED THAT THAT OCCURRED, THAT WEISS WANTED TO BRING CHARGES IN CALIFORNIA AND IN WASHINGTON, D.C. AND AND WAS REBUFFED. NOW, ALL OF THIS IS

VERY SERIOUS. DAVID: I WOULD, I WOULD, BY THE WAY, I WOULD CALL THAT OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE, WOULDN'T YOU? >> WELL, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU GET TO THE ACTUAL ELEMENTS OF OBSTRUCTION, IT'S HARD TO MAKE THAT OUT WITH PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION. BUT THAT'S THE REASON WHY PIGEON HOLING THIS IN A PARTICULAR CRIME IS IN SOME WAYS AN EFFORT TO EVADE THE QUESTION OF CORRUPTION ITSELF. I THINK THERE

MAY BE CRIMES HERE. AND YOU'RE RIGHT, DAVID, USUALLY THE CRIMES FROM INFLUENCE PEDDLING DEAL WITH THE CONCEALMENT OF THE INFLUENCE PEDDLING BECAUSE THE PUBLIC DOESN'T LIKE IT. AND THAT CAN INVOLVE TAXES, THAT CAN INVOLVE FALSE STATEMENTS, AND THAT CAN INVOLVE OBSTRUCTION. IT DOES NOT APPEAR THAT THE FULL EXTENT OF THIS CORRUPTION WAS INVESTIGATED BY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. AND WHEN OFFICIALS ATTEMPTED TO DELL CAN F FURTHER

INTO IT -- DELVE PUTT INTO IT, THEY SAY THEY WERE PREVENTED FROM DOING SO. DAVID: JONATHAN, DESPITE ALL THE MOUNTING EVIDENCE AND THE QUESTIONS ABOUT OBSTRUCTION, ETC., THE WHITE HOUSE AFTER THE CHARGES, THOSE MINOR CHARGES WERE FILED LAST WEEK, SEEMS TO THINK THAT IT'S BUSINESS AS NORMAL AND HUNTER -- I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN SEE, BUT WE HAVE VIDEO, MAYBE WE CAN PUT IT BACK

UP, OF HUNTER BIDEN AT THE WHITE HOUSE STATE DINNER WHO, BY THE WAY, WAS SHARING A GLASS WITH -- I DON'T KNOW IF HE WAS SHARING A GLASS, BUT AT LEAST THE HE SHARED THE DINNER TABLE WITH THE A.G. HIMSELF. THERE WAS MERRICK GARLAND, THE GUY WHO IS ACCUSED OF HAVINGED HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH OBSTRUCTING THE INVESTIGATION INTO HIS CASE. THEN HE HAD ALSO NEWS

THAT HUNTER BIDEN WAS AT CAMP DAVID CAN WHICH IS KIND OF A SACROSANCT PLACE TO BE PARTICULARLY FOR SOMEBODY WHO'S JUST BEEN CHARGED WITH CRIMES. >> WELL, DAVID, WHAT PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE IS THAT THIS WAS A CELEBRATORY MOMENT NOT JUST FOR THE BIDENS, YOU KNOW? HUNTER GOT AWAY WITH IT. THE BIDENS GOT AWAY WITH IT. IT WAS A POINT OF CELEBRATION. HIS APPEARING AT THAT DINNER

REALLY CONVEYED TO EVERYONE THAT INFLUENCE PEDDLING IS A COTTAGE INDUSTRY IN WASHINGTON, AND IT'S GOING STRONG. EVEN WITH THIS LEVEL OF DAMNING ED AND THE SERIOUSNESS -- EVIDENCE AND THE SERIOUSNESS OF THESE ALLEGATIONS, IT STILL DIDN'T INVOLVE IS ANYTHING OTHER THAN A COUPLE OF MINOR MISDEMEANORS. DAVID: AND, BY THE WAY, VISITOR LOGS ARE NOW BEING SCRUBBED AS WELL FROM HUNTER'S ATTENDANCE. IT'S EXTRAORDINARY THAT THEY'RE GOING

THE DISTANCE AS IF PEOPLE AREN'T WATCHING WHAT'S GOING ON. YOU KNOW, THEN THERE'S THE ATTEMPT -- AND I HAVE TO, YOU WROTE ABOUT THIS EARLIER IN THE WEEK -- THE ATTEMPT TO PAINT HUNTER AND THE PRESIDENT AS SOMEHOW VICTIMS IN ALL THIS AS THOUGH HUNTER'S ADDICTION TO DRUGS AND PROSTITUTES EXCUSES HIM FOR YEARS OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR. I MEAN, THAT -- AND IT'S NOT JUST THE WHITE

HOUSE SAYING THIS, IT'S ACTUALLY MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA. >> RIGHT. AND IT'S REALLY IMPLAUSIBLE BECAUSE THEY KEEP ON PORTRAYING THIS AS, LIKE, HE WAS PANHANDLING IN TIMES SQUARE. HE WAS AT CENTER OF A COMPLEX SYSTEM IS OF DOZENS OF HLCs -- LL LC AND BANK ACCOUNTS SHIFTING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS INTERNATIONALLY THROUGH AN INFLUENCE-PEDDLING SCHEME. THAT THAT'S NOT THE PROFILE OF SOME JUNKIE TRYING TO GET MONEY

FOR HIS HABIT. IT'S THE PROFILE OF A CHAMPION-LEVEL FORM OF INFLUENCE PEDDLING. DAVID: JONATHAN, FINALLY, I HAVE TO HEARKEN BACK TO THE WHEN YOU AND I FIRST MET WHICH WAS DURING THE BILL CLINTON IMPEACHMENT PERIOD FOR WHITEWATER, THAT'S HOW FAR BACK YOU AND I GO. >> I KNOW. DAVID: I'M JUST WONDERING, DO YOU THINK THAT WE HAVE NOW REACHED AT LEAST THE THRESHOLD FOR IMPEACHMENT THAT

WE SAW FOR THE CLINTON IMPEACHMENT? >> I THINK THE KEY HERE IS THAT WE'RE WELL PAST THRESHOLD FOR OVERSIGHT INVESTIGATIONS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES. YOU CAN'T DENY THAT. THERE ARE FALSE STATEMENTS HERE THAT HAVE TO BE EXPLORED. AND SO OVERSIGHT COMMITTEES HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO DELVE INTO THESE ISSUES, AND I THINK COURTS WILL SUPPORT THEM. AT THIS POINT THE POWER OF CONGRESS TO INVESTIGATE

THIS MATTER IS AT ITS APEX. THERE ARE CRIMINAL AND POTENTIALLY IMPEACHABLE MATTERS INVOLVED, AND THEY CAN MOVE THIS AGGRESSIVELY AND QUICKLY, IN MY VIEW. DAVID: JONATHAN TURLEY, GREAT TO SEE YOU. I'M PROUD TO HAVE KNOWN YOU FOR THAT LONG A PERIOD OF TIME.