BLOWING SMOKE: Kellyanne Conway and Mark Penn on Biden's weed pardon being 'timed for the election'

President Biden said Hunter Biden is "on the straight and narrow" and that he is "proud of" him despite recent criminal allegations against his son, including tax fraud and lying to purchase a gun. During an interview with CNN host Jake Tapper on Tuesday, the president defended his son as the 52-year-old potentially faces tax and false statements charges from David Weiss, the U.S. Attorney for Delaware.

Former Central Intelligence Agency officer David Priess defended being a signatory on a letter with more than two dozen other current and former intel agents and experts who claimed the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop bombshell looked like a "Russian information operation." In October 2020, the Post broke the story about how then-Wilmington computer shopkeeper John-Paul Mac Isaac came into possession of the laptop first son Hunter Biden left at his store near Trolley Square.  A copy of the hard drive was provided to the FBI and another to former New York City Republican Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. "It is for all these reasons that we write to say that the arrival on the US political scene of emails purportedly belonging to Vice President Biden’s son Hunter, much of it related to his time serving on the Board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation," Priess and fellow signatories wrote in-part.

President Biden acknowledged the possibility of what he described as a "slight recession" could occur in the near future.  It was determined back in July that the U.S. suffered back-to-back consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, which has long been the indicator of a recession. However, both the Biden administration and many members of the media have dismissed that long-standing definition.  During an interview on Tuesday, CNN's Jake Tapper asked the president, "Should the American people prepare for a recession?" "No," Biden initially responded.

Joe Biden, in an interview with Jake Tapper, said that he doesn’t think that Russian President Vladimir Putin would use a tactical nuclear weapon but that it was “irresponsible” for him to talk about it.

The White House said Tuesday that President Biden believes Saudi Arabia has effectively sided with Russia’s war aims in Ukraine following the Riyadh-led OPEC+ alliance’s announcement last week that it would cut oil production. "We believe by the decision that OPEC+ made last week, (Saudi Arabia is) certainly aligning themselves with Russia," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a Tuesday briefing.

President Joe Biden has called on three Los Angeles City Council members to resign over the remarks that were made in a leaked audio recording.

cannabis cannon” to blast marijuana smoke into the audience.Chucky Chuck hired a company called Smokebusters to help him pull off the stunt at Kushstock Festival in Adelanto, California.The wacky invention works in a similar way to a leaf blower but is attached to a cooking pot filled with handfuls of weed and sparked with torches.READ MORE Creep stuns McDonald's Monopoly player with sex act confession amid Mayfair riches boastVideos show the eccentric performer, born Charles DeVries, rapping on stage as a bloke wearing a backpack lugs the cannabis-blowing contraption along stage and fires it at the front row of the crowd.Buzzing fans can be seen holding their hands up in the air as they’re engulfed in the smoke whilst listening to Chuck’s show.The 42-year-old musician posted to his Instagram after the event, writing: “F*** a fog machine we had @elite_solution and @essmokebusters on deck last night.“Nothing but vibes all day mad love everyone that rocked with me, performed, vended, or just came to have a good time shout out to everybody involved!”California was the first state in America to make marijuana legal, declaring it fine for medical purposes in 1996 before expanding the legislation to include recreational use in 2018.But it could soon become legal throughout other parts of the United States after President Joe Biden ordered officials to pardon people charged with simple marijuana possession on a federal level.Voters throughout Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota, and South Dakota are also set to vote over whether to legalize adult-use marijuana in next month's midterm elections.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up for one of our newsletters here.READ MORE

Jake Tapper will interview Joe Biden on CNN Tonight on Tuesday, which marks the start of Tapper’s stint as anchor of the show through the midterms.

First lady Jill Biden is scheduled to travel to Fort Benning this week to visit with members of the military and their families, according to the White House. During her visit on Thursday and Friday to the army post near Columbus, Georgia, and Phenix City, Alabama, she's also set to stop by the U.S.

over the weekend, joking that his recent gaffes might be attributed to smoking marijuana with some of the people whose pot sentences he just pardoned.“This week, President Biden pardoned thousands of convicted marijuana users, and it feels like maybe he celebrated with them a little,” Colin Jost said on “Weekend Update.”The show then aired a clip of Biden speaking at a car factory Friday.“Let me start with two words: Made in America,” the president said.Jost continued to mock the president, calling his mental capacity in question. “Biden was then heard criticizing reporters at the White House for shouting questions at him,” the funnyman said.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday categorized President Biden’s quickly notorious Armageddon comment regarding the nuclear risk posed by Russia as "reckless" and demonstrating "maybe one of the greatest foreign policy failures of the last decades."  "Oh my goodness. First of all those comments were reckless.

The Washington Post editorial board did not mince words about President Joe Biden’s attempts to persuade the Saudi Arabian government into helping with U.S. energy policy, saying the administration "failed" "badly." The board claimed that OPEC – heavily influenced by the Saudis – recently slashing "crude oil production by 2 million barrels per day," is a "setback" for Biden agenda, the United States and its allies.  The Saturday editorial stated that OPEC’s decision "is not quite as big of a shock as the embargo OPEC imposed on the United States between October 1973 and March 1974.

ATLANTA – Democratic Georgia gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams told Fox News Digital on Friday that she's "been in conversations" with the White House, and that she wants President Biden and other members of the administration to join her on the campaign trail. "Yes.

If President Joe Biden was looking for a gift for former President Jimmy Carter’s 98th birthday, his mishandling of the OPEC situation sure fits the bill. For all the current administration’s shortcomings and failures, they have been remarkably effective at waging war on America’s energy producers.

Wiz Khalifa praised President Joe Biden for his steps to end the criminalization of marijuana possession and use.The 35-year-old rapper talked to TMZ Hip Hop about the 79-year-old president's marijuana reform measures which he announced earlier in the week.'It’s awesome to see things are moving in the right direction,' Wiz Khalifa said. 'Cannabis laws have negatively impacted people for way too long.' Praise: Wiz Khalifa praised President Joe Biden for his taking steps to end the criminalization of marijuana possession and use (pictured 2021)Earlier this week, Joe Biden released a video where he announced three major changes to federal marijuana criminalization.  First, the president announced a federal pardon for all people convicted of simple marijuana possession. He then called on state governors to also pardon people with state marijuana possession convictions.  Right direction: 'It’s awesome to see things are moving in the right direction,' Wiz Khalifa said.

Ahead of former President Trump’s rallies this weekend in the key general election battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada, a recently formed Trump super PAC is launching ads in crucial midterm races in both states. The spots by Make America Great Again Inc., which start running on TV Saturday, were shared first with Fox News Friday.  The new ads follow by a day the first commercials released by the super PAC targeting hotly contested Senate races in Ohio and Pennsylvania, where GOP-held open seats are being heavily targeted by the Democrats in November's midterm elections.  Fox News' "Hannity" and the Wall Street Journal first reported about the ads.  The commercial in Arizona takes aim at Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly and Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, the Democrats’ gubernatorial nominee.

HBO debuted the trailer for Year One: A Political Odyssey, which examines President Joe Biden’s first year in office, with what the premium network calls a “rare glimpse into the inner working of the White House.”

The Biden administration is preparing to designate its first new national monument, preserving a World War 2-era alpine training site and providing a boost to the reelection campaign of the state’s senior senator, Michael Bennet, according to a person familiar with the process. The designation is expected to come next week, when the president will join Bennet, a fellow Democrat, and other elected officials in Colorado, according to the person, who declined to be identified discussing the designation before it is formally announced.

Michaela Zee editor President Joe Biden’s turbulent first year in office is the focus of HBO’s forthcoming documentary, “Year One: A Political Odyssey.” In the trailer, which Variety can exclusively reveal, the documentary chronicles Biden’s first year as president, from his inauguration in 2021 to the State of the Union speech in March. Directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker John Maggio, “Year One” explores the dynamics of the President’s inner circle, featuring archival news footage and insider interviews with secretary of state Antony Blinken, national security advisor Jake Sullivan, secretary of defense Lloyd Austin, CIA director William Burns and White House chief of staff Ron Klain, among other members of Biden’s cabinet.