On Monday's broadcast of CNN's "The Lead," CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig stated that we've seen a recurring pattern where the Department of Justice moves towards "a very lenient disposition" on Hunter Biden, "they're just about to lock in that lenient disposition, and then there arises pressure, either through whistleblower testimony or through public scrutiny, and then, DOJ backs off and says, actually, we're not going to do that now that it's been called out, we're going to try to up it a little bit." And argued that the "only way to restore any credibility" is to charge Hunter with everything they can and go to trial.