we now recognize mr. parnas -- >> mr. chairman! >> mr. parnas! >> does the committee have that text messages? >> mr. chairman, we do not have time for games by democrats today. >> we have important when this is here. >> you asked for a parliamentary inquiry. you have five minutes. that is whenever jamie raskin tells you it is your time to speak. mr. parnas, the chair recognizes you for equal time that mr. bobulinski had which was seven minutes. >> thank you. hello. honorable members of congress, chairman comer, ranking member raskin, and members of the oversight committee, i am humbled and thankful to be before you today. i came to the nine states from ukraine in 1976 when it was still part of the former soviet union. my mother, father, sister, and i had left the soviet union escaping anti-semitism and persecution. while in rome on route to israel, my sister and i won the most important opportunity we have ever been given. we won a u.s. green card lottery. became of no more than the shirts on our backs in the hoax of rebuilding our lives in the l

>> the chair now recognizes mr. parnas. >> mr. chairman? >> mr. parnas? >> does the committee have the text messages? >> mr. chairman, we don't have times for games by democrats today. >> we have important witnesses here. this is credible. >> you asked for a parliamentary inquiry. you will have five minutes whenever jamie raskin tells me it is your time to speak. mr. parnas, the chair recognizes you for equal time that mr. bobulinski has, which was seven minutes. >> thank you. hello. honorable members of congress, chairman comer, ranking member raskin, and members of the oversight committee, i am humbled and thankful be for you to show up before you today. i came to the nine states for ukraine from 1976 most of the former soviet union. my mother, father, and sister and i but the soviet union escaping anti-semitism and persecution. while in rome on route to issue, my sister and i won the most important opportunity we have ever been given. we won a u.s. green card lottery. my family came here with literally no more than the shorts on our back in hoax of reb

mr. parnas the chair recognizes for equal time that mr.ski had, seven minutes. >> thank you. hello. honorable members of congress, chairman comer, ranking member raskin. i'm humble and thankful to show up before you today. i came to the united states from ukraine in 1976 when it was still the former soviet union. my mother and father and sister and i had left the soviet union escaping anti-semitism and persecution. while en route to israel my sister and i had an opportunity. we won a u.s. green card lottery. my family came here with literally no more than shirts on our back and hopes of rebuilding our lives in the land of freedom. i say this to you because i love this country. from shortly after my arrest on october 9, 2019, to now, i have been trying to share the truth with you. the american people have been lied to by donald trump, rudy giuliani and various cohorts of individuals in government and media positions. they created falsehoods to serve their own interests knowing it would undermine the strength of our nation. from november 201

mr. parnas is an entrepreneur political activists and author. mr. jason gallant us.it was a business partner of hunter biden. he sat for transcribed on the 23rd 2012 for we asked the bureau of prisons to make them available in person today. they would only provide him for for brief virtual testimony. notably he applied for terrorist acts, home confinement and after lengthy approval process was approved for home confinement june 9 2023. day 2023 his approval was reversed as a result of the department of so he has remained at a federal prison facility he is currently in montgomery alabama can you please estate for telse is in the room with you? >> my counsel and nicholas. >> thank you. pursuant to committee rule 9g the witnesses will please stand and raise your right hand use wear or affirm the testament you're about to give is the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth so help you god? let the wrecks all answered in the affirmative. thank you you will may be seated. we appreciate you all being here today look forward to your testimony. let me remind the witnesses

mr. parnas is an entrepreneur political activists and an author. mr. jason gallant us.business partner of hunter biden. he sat for transcribed interview on the 23rd, 2012 for we asked the b them available in person today. they would only provide him forr brief virtual testimony. notably he applied for terrorist acts, home confinement and after lengthy approval process was approved for home confinement june 9, 2023. the following day 2023 his approval was reversed as a result of the department of justice intervention. so he has remained at a federal prison facility he is currently in montgomery alabama can you please estate for the record who >> my counsel and nicholas.u? >> thank you.eg pursuant to committee rule 9g the witnesses will please stand and raise your right hand use only swear or affirm the testament you're about to give is the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth so help you god? let the wreckage of the witnesses all answered in the affirmative. thank you, you will may be seated. we appreciate you all being here today look forward to your testimony.

i was is struck listening to mr. parnas today. you made this point before, others have made the interacting pro. but the degree to which this is just an iteration or different face of the cube of the same thing that was the initial impeachment of donald trump. an attempt to essentially create the pretext for criminal investigation and criminal prosecution of joe biden and his family. and interesting russian interest in ukraine that was being targeted by vladimir putin. >> and he was such a breakthrough witness for us. he said this whole chain of events began with the exact same lie that he and giuliani cooked up for donald trump. back in 2018 and 2019. and i so wish today that he had been able to be a witness in impeachment number one and he told me he was entering the building because he had his ankle bracelet on. they wouldn't allow him in because of the technology. he was able to tell in very direct ways the story. i don't think most americans have really understood. i don't think i understand it very well until he said we went

mr. parnas per. >> a chair recognizeso go through. but first mr.cing the sentencing of democrats that led parnas to prison. >> the objection. thank you. now mr. chairman we had originally hoped we'd see if you want witnesses here today. they are not here. i'de i showed up today hoping i'll be asking these witnesses a little bit more about this tape. mystery or some people feel it is still ambiguous as to how this prosecutor was fired in ukraine and at this tape goes a light oy the prosecutor was fired and why we want hunter biden and mr. archer >> got ukraine. i remember going overr team thae providing out of the 12th or 13th time and i was supposed to announce there's not a billion-dollar loan guarantee. i'd got the commitment that they would take action against a the state prosecutor and they didn't. they said were not going to give the billion dollars.■■j the president said i said. i'm telling you you're not getting a billion dollars. the prosecutors not fired and he got fired. and put in place someone. >> i just wanted to put that up there. d e

. >> mr. me some of the frustration is and i think for a lot of folks that all this has been set in motion by, you know, yourself and giuliani and others at the time as you noted at the beginning of the conversation, once you got caught. you know, then the narrative changes. what do we do? what does it take -- at some point do people realize that they're hurting the country, putting us in a bad position? and it takes getting caught by law enforcement in order for you to realize that? help me understand the conversion story. because for me, when you're sitting there and you know you're talking to a russian asset and you're working with an administration that is -- that is hand in glove with that asset and the russians, how -- how come it doesn't kick in then? wait a minute, i got time-out. where -- y'all, what are we doing here? what -- so help me understand that. >> yeah. i mean, it's a great question. you have two sorts of people. you have the leader, the people that are brainwashing him, doi

. >> yeah, i was so struck by listening to mr.se you've made this point before, others made the point. the degree to which this is just the same thing that was the initial first impeachment of donald trump. an attempt to, you know, essentially create the pretext for criminal investigation and criminal prosecution of joe biden and his family as a means of selling him politically based on russian disinformation and russian interest in ukraine that was being targeted by vladimir putin. >> and he was such a breakthrough witness for parnas, because he said basically, this whole chain of events began with smirnoff with the exact same lie that he and giuliani cooked up for donald trump in 2018 and 2019. i so wish today that he had been able to be a witness in impeachment number one. he told me that he was actually entering the building, but because he had his ankle bracelet on, they wouldn't allow him in, because of the technology. i guess it set off the detectors. but he was able to tell in very direct ways the story, i don't think most

mr. parnas was a former associate of really giuliani he was also convicted of campaign finance crimes, wire fraud, and making false statements statements he later spent 20 months in prison and wrote a book called shadow diplomacy sir. thanks so much for staying up late and joining us tonight. i want to start just with the heart of the matter here. >> do >> you believe that there is any legitimacy to the biden impeachment inquiry at all >> thank you for having me absolutely not. what they showed the asu was what this is all about. it's a political play the a sham. it was a kangaroo court and it's just embarrassing to see our country go through that right now. >> anything at all? you heard during that marathon hearing that you thought was worthy of further investigation by congress >> well, there's a lot that needs to be further investigate. the first person that needs to be investigators. >> bill barr bill barr has his fingerprints all over this and i've been saying this since my arrest. w

it is mr. parnas told us today, it operates like a colt and it's a real act of will encouraged to get out of the cult. and you should see the way that our colleagues treat people who have defected from the cult. they treat them like apostates, but there are millions of them across the country now, who don't want anything to do with donald trump and his games anymore? >> yeah. and you mentioned putin. i should note it was your democratic colleagues wearing that mask and walking into the room today, congressman jamie raskin is always thank you for your time. >> you back. kaitlyn >> ahead. between interest rates in a major realtor settlement that happened last week. can you finally buy that home? you've been waiting to buy? and what are the toughest housing markets that we have witnessed in a generation? we're going into million dollar advice hopefully from a million-dollar listing, real estate star, after a quick break gayle king and charles barkley are shaking things up on cnn. >> thank you. >>

bobbleheads the democrats maine witness was lev parnas, the former are associated. rudy giuliani, who served time for campaign finance and wire fraud. parnas testified that he knows firsthand, although he did not present any proof that the ukrainian corruption allegations against the bidens are false cnn's manu raju was live press on capitol hill where today's hearing lacked evidence. it was rife with spectacle. manu yeah. >> no question about a >> lot of antics, >> not much new ground broken here. in fact the at-risk started right at the top of this tierney with jared moscowitz, a democrat, walked in with wearing of vladimir putin mass that was of course a reference to that fbi informant who made those unverified accusations of a biden bribery scandal that ultimately turned according to the department of justice, was all made up. then it turned out according to the department of justice that this may have been part of a russian and intelligence operation. now this hearing went back and forth all day long. lot of that a lot of democrats assailing the credibility of

democrats for their part invited lev parnas to testify., you may remember that name because he worked closely with former trump attorney rudy giuliani to find damaging information about mr. biden. joining me now is nbc news congressional correspondent julie tsirkin joining us from her post. what was the big takeaway from from's hearing. >> reporter: we didn't learn anything new today, bobulinski was a former associate of hunter biden, but he only joined that team in 2017. this was after president biden was out of office as vice president, of course, well before he became president again, so certainly this is the republican's tar witness. he had pointed perhaps to hunter biden using his father's name to get influence but not really the other way around, failing to make that connection. and of course this impeachment inquiry is not into hunter biden. it is into the president and republicans have so far failed to connect those two issues. i do want you to take a listen to something that lev parnas had to say. he was someone who was an associa