Former White House ethics lawyer reacts to Hunter Biden pardon

President Biden announced on Sunday that he is pardoning his son Hunter Biden, saying, "I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this. I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice." Hunter Biden was convicted of federal gun charges in June and later pleaded guilty to tax evasion.

Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd looks at the implications of the pardon with Richard Painter, a former White House ethics lawyer under former President George W. Bush, and now a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School.