Tucker Carlson has a new interview out today featuring Devon Archer. Archer is one of Hunter Biden’s former business partners who this week gave closed-door testimony to the House Oversight Committee. We didn’t get to see that testimony, only reports about what was said. But today we can see an approximation of it in this interview.

The gist of this interview is understanding why a guy like Hunter Biden was able to be successful in Washington, DC. The “key component” of that success was his network of connections and his family name. As Archer put it, “You’ve got to be an expert in knowing the guy and he was the guy who was an expert in knowing the guy.”

Eventually Carlson moved on to the reports that Joe Biden would call in to business meetings with Joe. “How many times do you think that happened?” Carlson asked.

“Over a ten year partnership the number I’m going with is twenty, that’s probably the amount,” Archer replied.

Archer refused to speculate whether Joe Biden knew those calls were reinforcing part of what Hunter Biden was selling, i.e. access to power. But he did say that whether intentional or not, those call-ins were powerful. “If you’re sitting with a foreign business person and you hear the vice-president’s voice that’s prize enough, I mean that’s pretty impactful stuff,” Archer said. A bit later he added, “That’s the pinnacle of power in DC.”

The interview ends with a letter written by then VP Joe Biden to Devon Archer thanking him and apologizing for not having more time to talk with him at a recent event. “I was having trouble getting away from hosting President Hu,” Joe Biden wrote, referring to the then-President of China. Archer seemed a bit defensive about this but said “at the time, I think I hit the jackpot…but obviously, as time has told, being a little bit too close to the sun ends up burning you.”

Archer himself did wind up getting burned:

A jury in 2018 convicted Archer of two felonies for his role in a conspiracy to defraud a Native American tribe, but his 2022 sentence has been repeatedly postponed amid a long-running series of appeals.

It was in connection with that case that Archer received a letter suggesting he should schedule a date to report to prison. The timing of that letter, just days before he was set to testify to congress, resulted in a lot of speculation about what was motivating it. Archer’s attorney denied that albeit in a way that probably helped draw more attention to it.

Matthew Schwartz, Archer’s attorney, also rejected the notion that there’s any connection between Archer’s tiff with the Justice Department and his potentially imminent jail time.

“We are aware of speculation that the Department of Justice’s weekend request to have Mr. Archer report to prison is an attempt by the Biden administration to intimidate him in advance of his meeting with the House Oversight Committee,” Schwartz said in a statement. “To be clear, Mr. Archer does not agree with that speculation. In any case, Mr. Archer will do what he has planned to do all along, which is to show up on Monday and to honestly answer the questions that are put to him by the Congressional investigators.”

This is only part one of the interview. Carlson’s previous interview with Ice Cube was also broken into two parts, each of which were about 12 minutes long. Part two of the Ice Cube interview was released a day after part one so, if he sticks to this pattern we’ll probably get part two of this sometime tomorrow.

Ep. 12 Part 1. Devon Archer pic.twitter.com/ElEzAZtBcA

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