Ex CNN, MSNBC executives defend not reporting Hunter Biden laptop before 2020 election

Former CNN President Jeff Zucker and former MSNBC President Phil Griffin both defended their network's decisions to not report on the Hunter Biden laptop story in the closing weeks of the 2020 presidential election.

"He was never arrested," Griffin said during an event with the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank earlier this month. "The Justice Department was looking into it, never reported it until he is the son of a candidate. I don’t think it’s a main story until that happens."

Federal authorities now reportedly have enough evidence to charge Hunter Biden with tax- and gun-related crimes.

"He was the son of the candidate, he wasn’t the candidate," Zucker said.

CNN "did not know enough about" the story to cover it and "the problem" was that former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani was the first to come forward with materials from the laptop belonging to then-candidate Joe Biden's son, Zucker said.