CNN reporter calls Hunter Biden's request for State Department help on Burisma 'strange'

A CNN reporter reacted to reports that Hunter Biden asked members of the State Department including the U.S. Ambassador to Italy for help in getting a deal for Burisma, a Ukrainian oil company of which he was a board member at the time in 2016 when his father was vice president, calling it "strange."

Hunter Biden attorney Abbe Lowell pointed out that no deal ever actually happened and called it "proper" that he asked U.S. government employees for help.

CNN senior reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere said about the impact the reports in the New York Times might have on the Kamala Harris campaign, “This isn’t great."

“Hunter Biden, everybody in the White House has known for a long time, is an issue," he went on. "The way that his lawyers responded to this disclosure saying, ‘Well, yeah, he sent letters but did nothing wrong.’ This feels very strange to people that the vice president‘s son was sending letters or making requests to other government officials and saying, ‘Hey, would you meet with this company?'”

Dovere also said that the documents of Hunter's conversations with government employees made it look like he was using the Biden name to his advantage.

“It does look like he was at least making people say, you notice my last name though, right?” he said.