During Hunter Biden and far-right influencer Nick Fuentes‘s soon-to-be-released interview — filmed in a Philadelphia studio designed to resemble a sleazy motel room earlier this month — the two opposing fringe political players tackle a range of topics including Holocaust denial, race in America and artificial superintelligence, according to a trailer for the Channel 5 interview exclusively shared with The Hollywood Reporter.
News of the unexpected Biden-Fuentes tête-à-tête — and the moment it apparently got so heated the conversation nearly turned violent — grabbed headlines when it was revealed last week. The interview was brokered by Andrew Callaghan, the creator and host of Channel 5, an offbeat YouTube news channel, and his publicist, after Fuentes reached out looking to do an interview that would shift perceptions about his brand, and Biden, who teamed up with Callaghan to do an interview that could “move the needle” in U.S. politics.
In the trailer, Biden appears to make good on a promise he recently made while appearing on the IHIP News podcast, to ask Fuentes — who has advanced white nationalism and white supremacy on his video podcast — why he is a Nazi, or at least the question is raised by Fuentes, who asks Biden about his interest in the topic in the trailer’s opening line.
The 1-minute, 25-second clip consists of a series of cuts from the two men’s lengthy and, it seems, wide-ranging discussion. It jumps from hot topics like the DEI debate to race and the great replacement theory to Holocaust denial — a view that has become synonymous with Fuentes and his brand, but one he says has shifted from over time.
“As far as Jews are concerned, in general, I think that everybody in the country should be treated with dignity and respect and have their civil rights,” Fuentes says in the trailer.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his recent speech at the city’s Fourth of July celebration also come up, with Fuentes complaining about his nonwhite guests, before the two get into the Trump administration. Donald Trump Jr.’s record-breaking loan from the Department of Defense is also discussed, followed by the president, and Biden offers a stark read on Trump.
“What about fucking Donald Trump? There’s no ideological core,” he said.
Biden’s stated goal was to reach Fuentes’ growing audience of young men known for their devotion to the video podcaster. He has also said he’s seeking to find common ground through the interview — a sentiment that closes out the trailer.
“I want to find common ground on how much of a shithead Donald Trump is,” Biden says. “We can get there.”
The Biden-Fuentes interview is scheduled to be released on Channel 5 later this month; an exact date has not yet been announced.
On Monday, Channel 5 also launched C5.NOW, which it describes in a press release provided to THR as a new “completely independent streaming platform … for outsider documentarians and independent filmmakers outside of Hollywood.”
C5.NOW was born out of Callaghan’s frustrations with streaming services. In the release, he says major streaming platforms censor filmmakers and provide little funding for documentary content.
“You are only as free as the platform’s terms of service,” Callaghan says in the video announcement for the new platform. “It’s smart to create a foothold outside of the controlled web. It’s time to hatch a backup plan right now. Worse than the social media platforms themselves in terms of censorship is the institution of Hollywood, which I would describe as a sickening, nepotistic, gatekept world of godless narcissists.”
C5.NOW is launching with five documentary films, all of which embody Channel 5’s spirit of untold stories and gonzo journalism. The films are: Starcrash, which follows people who study the planets to decide when to buy and sell stocks; Physician, Heal Thyself, a documentary following Gabor Maté, one of the world’s most famous experts on addiction and trauma; Rat Film, Theo Anthony’s film about the city of Baltimore seen through its rats’ perspective; The Art of Protest, about an anonymous art collective in decline and the history of creative resistance; and Callaghan’s Finding Orson, in which he joins Ric Shore on a wild goose chase in search of his beloved bird.
