he was being asked about victor shokin role. he was "good for burism" he did not pursue it against the owner. you should watch it. >> that is not true. >> yes, it is true. >> that is not true. >> the state department's top point person on ukraine, okay, said that victor shokin was doing a good job fighting crime. john kerry was saying the same thing that victor shokin was specifically doing a good job fighting corruption. this was june of 2015. all of a sudden in january 2016, victor shokin is corrupt and joe biden says he's got to go. the fact is that the obama state department was in favor of victor shokin because everybody knew there was corruption going on in ukraine. that is why victor shokin was hired. they may cherokee prosecuted corruption. when they got too close to burisma they wanted to bring to the united states to do business , that is when they said , joe, you have to come in here and save this country. [inaudible] >> i am not finished. what did you say? >> i said you caught us off. >> all of a sudden, the prosecut

. >> victor shokin says you accepted bribes. is that true? are you okay with your son accepting millions of dollars from russia, china and ukraine? >> dana: president biden ignored the questions. a new series of explosive allegations could be harder to deflect. i'm dana perino. bill is off today and i have a fun partner today. good morning to you. >> great to kick off the week with you. i'm sandra smith and this is "america's newsroom." victor shokin is putting president biden and his son on blast. he says they accepted bribes and he was fired for investigating burisma, the ukrainian gas company where hunter was a board member. >> i do not want to deal in unproven facts. but my own personal conviction is that yes, this was the case. they were being bribed. the fact that joe biden gave away $1 billion in u.s. money in exchange for my dismissal, my firing, isn't that alone a case of corruption? >> dana: more to come on this interview. let's go to florida where governor ron desantis is having a press conference talking about preparations for hur

thanks for joining us today. >> thanks for having me, martha. >> martha: this is an interview with victor shokinou think about what mr. shokin had to say about his belief that there were bribes to joe biden and to hunter biden as part of the firing, his firing? >> i think it's troubling and it should be investigated. it should be investigated quickly. >> martha: do you feel that the justice department in its current form is serious about this investigation? >> you know, i don't know. you know, i wouldn't be able to say one way or the other. i know that there's some disturbing revelations about the justice department pulling punches in these investigations. i'm also, you know -- i'm worried generally about the weaponization of some of these enforcement agencies, including fbi and the justice department in political ways that we have not seen before in this country. that should be alarming to every american, republican and democrat. >> martha: if you were elected president, what would be the first thing that you would do to make sure that that is not happening or just stop that if it is happening?

"fox & friends" co-host brian kilmeade is here tonight to talk about the interview with victor shokinn, thanks for being here. >> brian: bret, thanks for having me on. i appreciate it. looking forward to saturday night. everyone can see the whole interview. >> bret: yeah. listen, how did this all come to be? >> brian: i just thought in this case we keep on hearing about shokin, the corrupt prosecutor. i thought to myself why don't we ever hear from him, our booker said i will trial to reach out and get him. miranda devine, also, was able to tell me if this is a dry hole? is this guy still alive? she was able to coach me through and says there is a lot to learn about him. definitely try to reach out. sure enough he said no one has asked me for an interview. you are the first. >> bret: no one? >> brian: let's do it. that's what he said. we went ahead and did it he said listen, everybody poisoned twice. we found the medical records. he is right. he thinks there is a threat on his life. is he trying to get a book published to get his story out he said before it's too late. i said let's go

victor shokin seizes four homes, two planes and a rolls-royce. joe biden says you have to fire victor shokin, who is investigating the guy that runs my son's company. he's on the board. that smacks of corruption. i'm going to withhold a billion dollars of aid unless you fire him, which they did. he released a billion dollars of aid. you couple that with reading the fbi 1023 report about the inform manhattan that said he was cold and said don't worry, all this investigation will go away because hunter biden is on my board. if you take that at face value because the fbi said the 1023 was from a highly reliable informant and we've been working with him for ten years and we've given him hundreds of thousands for that information. what does that sound like? >> martha: i think of it in terms of the first kind of bite at this apple, which was tony bobulinski who just said, yeah, he was there. i met him several times. let me ask you one last question. you tell me if i'm putting this together correctly. u.s. aid is obviously funded by u.s. taxpayers. the

. ♪ ukraine's former prosecutor victor shokin alleging that biden and his son claimed lives.began investigating burisma in hunter's business dealings. lucas is live at the white house with more. >> the former top prosecutor in an exclusive interview said joe biden had been fired because he was investigating burisma when joe biden's son hunter was a board member paid lavishly. >> hunter biden was involved with burisma. biden at the time -- >> it is not just hunter biden, but the oldest president in human history age came up. >> they continue to talk about age. we continue to talk about the fact that they are not talking about banning assault weapons. now protecting our children in schools. >> according to the gop candidates, prices remain high at the grocery store and restaurants. gases that a 10 month high. the federal reserve chairman says he expects to continue raising interest rates to keep fighting inflation. >> bringing inflation down to our 2% goal. we will do so. we have tightened policies significantly over the past year inflation has moved down from its peak a welcom

archer and his testimony said his chief objective was firing victor shokin. so this is -- who is the one who wanted him snyder greg. >> gregg: the state department, treasury and justice department had all agreed that choken was doing great things in his anticorruption crusade, deserved the billion dollars. the inner agency policy committee advised that this is our stance, joe biden. when you go to kyiv, you are to give him the promise of a billion dollars. what did joe biden do? just the opposite. why? because his son is sitting on the board. he is demanding that shokin be fired because shokin is going to shut down burisma and end the, you know, money trail for, you know, hunter biden, a gravy train. and, you know, as i say, this is bribery. it's quid pro quo. >> brian: here is what victoria nuland said who famously helped impeach trump. we have been very ambitious reform and corruption and agenda of your government. the challenges you face are difficult but not insurmountable. that letter to shokin. how bad a guy can he be? she has switched her story but, ma

republicans say there's evidence that taxpayer dollars were leveraged to fire victor shokin. >> ukraine has a proper with corruption. to have his son be on the board and to get the prosecutor fired because he's investigating basically his son's company in and of itself has the perception and perception is sometimes reality. he should have been nowhere near that. >> democrats continue to argue that archer's interview did not lay a glove on president biden. in a statement, the white house said archer told investigators that they never heard the president talk about business dealings. the gop promised bomb shell evidence but produced nothing. democrats accused the gop of wasting time. >> what is clear in the testimony yesterday is that there were many instances where hunter biden tried to get "credit" for something that his father did completely independent. the key here is that they never discussed business. >> the committee hopes to get the transcript of the archer interview this week. the other thing to watch, the release of additional bank transactions later this month. neil? >> neil:

>> yeah, i mean, victor shokin is obviously at the forefront and certainly the president was braggingnd a influence related to that situation. you know, everybody's been asking for a long time where does that money come from and is that part of what ultimately the oversight committee can kind of dig into. i think at the end of the day what you're going to see is, it's anywhere from nine to 20 accounts, certainly the $20 million figure has been thrown around like you said, congresswoman mace has been privy to maybe some other information that raises that number even higher. but if you look overall, i think what you're going to see is that once that tree of the biden family is put together, and certainly hunter is the mover and shaker that coordinated a lot of this stuff. it's obvious based on the e-mails that we've already seen. everyone knows what was going on. it's just a matter of proving it now. maria: all right, congressman, we'll be watching your work. thanks very much, scott fitzgerald joining us this morning. markets are higher, futures are expecting to rebound after another do

victor shokin, the prosecutor there was investigating burisma, the company paying hunter biden $ $83,000th. within a few months of hunter biden and devin archer getting joe biden on the phone to talk to their burisma paymaster in dubai, we had viktor shokin seizing all property belonging to owner of burisma in kyiv. he was operating as a thorn in the side of burisma. we know that because burisma executives were extorting and trying to get devin archer and hunter biden to do something about shokin because it was causing them problems. again, yeah. >> laura: i'm just saying, you took the words out of my mouth. mollie, this is not a coincidence. what talent, in your reporting, does hunter biden have in finance? >> mollie: all the drama in the trump administration, they were a global business involving real estate and media was so curious. here the biden family business, not a single tangible thing they offer other than changes to u.s. policy and there was change in u.s. policy advantageous to burisma, paying the vice president's son money for this access. there was moscow wife that was givi

victor shokin said you acceptd bribes is that true? you okay with your son accepting millions of dollars from russia, china and ukraine? how was vacation? >> basically another no comment from the president. in addition to asserting th, the former prosecute said that younger biden, may have been involved in additional illegal conduct. >> the criminal case has been started bev me, it continues to expand. and the founder and ceo of burisma started bringing in people, hunter biden was among them there is no doubt that burisma was engaged in illegal activities. >> we're learning more. will the president comment on any of these accusations not likely according to his campaign. >> hav president has said from the beginning he wanted an independent justice department, we have just that we're not commenting or focus on donald trump's legal problems. >> i'm sure they would love to focus on donald trump's legal problems, i love this notion, all it is about independence at the doj, this is same president, joe biden who said on national television h

leveraged $1 billion taxpayer dollars to get the prosecutor investigating burisma and son hinter, victor shokin is his name and got him fired in six hours and ukraine got their money and hunter biden continued to get paid for work that he had no experience in. he admit that had himself. admitted that himself and victor told brian kilmeade on his somehow on one nation, take a look. >> i do not want to deal in unproven facts. my firm personal conviction is that, yes, this was the case. they were being bribed. the fact that joe biden gave away $1 billion in u.s. money in exchange for my dismissal and firing and that alone is a case of bribery. sean: they fire that had man in six hours and son of a best of my recollections they did it. ewe -- son of a b, they did it and hinter continued to enrich himself with no experience and it'll be on one nation saturday night at 1:00 p.m. on the fox news channel. you'd think the fbi and biden's independent doj may seriously investigate those allegations, but apparently not. if you are a prominent democrat, if your last name is biden or clinton, the justice sys

brian kilmeade's show has an interview with victor shokin who was fired under the influence of the bidenation. we have video that proves that to be the case but was it because hunter biden was on the board of the company that was under the gun from victor show can, was that because president biden was compromised? here is what viktor shokin has to say. >> translator: i do not want to deal in unproven facts. my personal conviction is yes, this was the case. they were being bribed. the fact that president biden gave away $1 billion in us money in exchange for my dismissal, my firing, isn't that alone a case of corruption? rachel: we mentioned president biden actually bragged about firing this prosecutor. weird that we go to other countries and make sure prosecutors get fired. here is a fat flashback of president biden hamming it up and bragging at the foreign relations council about firing this man, viktor shokin. >> president biden: you are not getting $1 million. i will be leaving here in six hours. the prosecutor is not fired, you are not getting the money. well, he got fired. and they

victor shokin was not fired to protect hunter biden. it had the opposite effect. there's so many articles. >> jesse: so many articles. >> that's how things get documented. >> jesse: so many fake news articles, jessica. >> really? >> jesse: there's a lot of articles about russian collusion, too. >> the imf, the e.u. >> jesse: who runs the imf? we do. >> astounding. >> dana: influencers can't get enough of joe biden at the beach as the commander-in-chief takes another vacation. ♪ hi, i'm jason and i've lost 202 pounds on golo. so when i first started golo, i was expecting to lose around 40 pounds and then i just kept losing weight, and moving and moving and moving in a better direction. with golo and release, you're gonna lose the weight. scout is protected by simparica trio, and he's in it to win it. simparica trio is the first and only chew with triple protection. oh, fleas and ticks ♪ intestinal worms... wow heartworm disease, no problem with simarica trio. this drug class has been associated with neurologic adverse reactions including seizures. use with caution

and victor shokin alleged joe biden accepting bribes for policy decisions.s is a president maintains he was in the dark about the millions of dollars taken in while joe was vice president. ♪ >> he is talking about me taking money? i have not taken a single penny from any country whatsoever ever ♪ [inaudible] ♪ >> former irs investigator turned whistleblower. no taxes paid. was hunter paying joe's bills the whole time? the communist party trying to keep joe biden in the white house. connecting the dots on election interference. covering the chinese communist party and the clinton investigation as well. the irs first gop debate. lifting her chances in the polls >> i care about the fact that no one is telling the american people the truth. the truth is biden did not do this to us, our republicans did this to us, to. >> will it be enough to take down donald trump. nikki haley on the corruption exposed in washington. carey lake : for all the 2024 candidates to stop their campaigns and get behind donald trump. trump, biden and the mechanics of the upcoming electio

case in point the name victor shokin.e was once investing for the general prosecutor of the crime that he was deputy before being elevated to the prosecutor general distancing sound familiar? shokin inherited the burisma investigatbrisbaneinvestigationn vice president bragg about firing him. rex i'll tell you not getting a billion dollars. i said you're not getting i'm going to be leaving here in about six hours instead of leaving in six hours with the prosecutors not fired o you're t getting the money. while son of a gun. [laughter] he got fired. they foot put in place someone who is solid. >> victors not spoken to the american meat on this. that and now it ends tonight for he tells his side of the story on the incident that not only affected him but his nation. might've even played a role in the war are currently witnessing between ukraine and russia. viktor shokin joins me for "one nation" exclusive, watch. >> why were you fired from your position by president petro poroshenko? looks i've sawhat i've said repy previous

he was vice president than he claims he had him removed because he had to's name was victor shokin heeaking out about accusations his investigation to burisma was dormant the case against burisma was about violations. violations committed. and they were discovered among others he was stopped and fired, watch. >> we have to believe mr. biden was told that we were going to start questioning his son and others. archer and others all involved in the case. everyone understood very well this fight was going to end badly for them. why did you sell the unofficial means at his disposal in particular by using his men. he acted through them so as to not show his interest in this case. his personal interest i mean. brian: you have not heard from him have your customer care to act professor of northeast university, max abrams is with us right now. max, you write about this week the world is closing and converging in many respects even to the war in ukraine. what is significant about those comments? >> you know, all of the misdeeds and crimes, all sorts of shady behavior that joe biden has done, i

the obama administration told prosecutor victor shokin he made good progress fighting corruption and billion dollar loan was on the way and state's department top point person on ukraine told shokin anti-agenda government and biden went rogue he was asked till he shared the money for the biden family and now the fired prosecutor shokin is speaking out and joe bind was likely bribed by joe biden. watch. >> i do not want to deal in unproven facts but my firm personal conviction is that they were being bribed and the fact that joe biden gave away $1 billion in u.s. money in exchange for my dismissal and firing. isn't that alone a case of corruption. corruption. jesse: the fired prosecutor said if not for biden, ukraine probably won't be at war with russia today. >> there's no doubt that his actions have damaged the u.s. reputation in ukraine. it is public knowledge everybody knows and it was the cause of joe biden is russia claimed crimea without firing a single shot and full scale war and it was underway. jesse: it looks like the biden family had bogus impeachment and and representativ

let's play this sound out of victor shokin, a huge interview over the weekend with brian kilmeade onow where shokin said he believed the bidens did indeed get bribes. listen. >> i do not want to deal in unproven facts but my firm personal conviction is that yes, this was the case. they were being bribed. the fact that joe biden gave away $1 billion dollars in u.s. money in exchange for my dismissal, my firing, isn't that alone a case of corruption? >> sandra: so he is very clearly publicly come out swinging against hunter and joe biden. where does that take all of this? >> it's very powerful testimony when you have someone on the inside who is credible, who is also reluctantly acknowledging that what they believe the payments to be utilized for were actually corrupt and that i think about this, sandra, i think about the rico cases that i've brought in my career, and ironically you see what's happening in georgia, but rico would be one of the first statutes that we would be analyzing the conspiracy among the bidens. if, in fact, this is their scheme that they would utilize access to j

>> john: the former ukrainian prosecutor victor shokin saying he then president biden and his son hunter took bribes, hunter was on the board of burisma when it was under investigation. justice correspondent david spunt is live here in washington, and he says he tried to leverage u.s. aid money. what can you tell us about that? >> that's right, specifically leveraging $1 billion in u.s. aid to have him fired. you heard then the former v.p. biden in 2018 in that clip, we'll play it again, the prosecutor general, he was from 2015 to 2016. prosecutor general is similar to the attorney general here in the united states, the main focus on that job is anti-corruption efforts. shokin famously claims he was fired because he was investigating burisma, we have talked a lot about that, the ukrainian energy company where hunter biden once sat on the board. shokin, in a translation interview that's airing tomorrow night on fox news said this about corruption. >> i did not want to deal in unproven facts, but my personal conviction is that yes, this was the case. they were being bribed. the fact that j

. >> we have tapes now from the interview of ukrainian prosecutor victor shokin who said he was firedse then vice president joe biden plan to stop them from investing the powerful ukrainian energy company or biden's son hunter it was a board member. >> i do not want to deal in untrue facts. but my for personal conviction is that yes, this was the case. they were being bribed. the fact that joe biden gave away $1 billion in u.s. money in exchange for my dismissal, my firing is and that alone a case of corruption? quick's this admission from joe biden validates his claimant. quick to leave in six hours a prosecutor s's not stop fired yt getting the money. well son of a gun he got fired. and thand the put in place someo is solid. at the time. >> or similar reaction the comments earlier on fox. >> he wishes he could take back that ridiculously inappropriate childish, amateurish, backup. but that also go to the point of if he truly were trying to help his son, why in god's name would he be so dumb as to basically announce it to the world with that ridiculous statement? >> now the white hou

victor shokin claims it's happened when he was investigating burisma the energy company work hunter bidenboard member lukas tomlinson is live now. lucas, two questions what is new here and what is the word from inside the white house? >> arthel, what is new here is shokin spoke to our very own brian kilmeade. he just think joe biden got him fired when he served as a top prosecutor he was investigating burisma the powerful ukraine energy company work hunter biden was well compensated board member let's hear from shokin first. >> eight do not want to deal in unproven facts. but my firm conviction is yes this was the case. they were being bribed. the fact that joe biden gave away $1 billion in u.s. money in exchange for my dismissal by firing, isn't that alone a case of corruption? what's the white house pushing back strong in this accusation's" former ukrainian prosecutor general and offices on deputy called a hotbed of corruption drug demands for reform not only from then vice president biden but also from u.s. diplomats, international partners and republican senators like ron johnson bird

this is coming up in the fbi documents and victor shokin thinks, yes, joe and hunter biden took bribess, tom, e-mails on hunter biden's laptop show that that joe biden's vice presidential staff or his aides were regularly looping in hunter biden on what joe was doing. while hunter was sitting on the burisma board. tom, you know what? you're really terrific. we just want to get your reaction to how the white house is handling these kinds of questions. watch this. >> we know that from a hunter biden associate now that he sold the appearance of access to then e-vice president biden. are you confident that he has stopped doing that? >> that is a question for hunter biden -- >> reporter: if somebody is selling, you hear -- that's a question for the white house. >> no, that is, that is your, your, i don't know, how you're perceiving that -- [laughter] >> reporter: it's sworn testimony from devon archer. >> i am just, peter, i'm just not going to get into this. i'm just not. >> reporter: what is the biden brand? >> not going to get into it from here. i'm not going to get into it from here. we

he got victor shokin fired and he got his money. house oversight committee chairman james comer told me that the burisma head gave joe biden 5 million and hunter biden 5 million. comer joined me yesterday to discuss the ongoing probe into the biden family influence peddling. watch. >> this is always going to end with the bidens coming in front of the committee. we are going to subpoena the family. if i had subpoenaed joe and hunter biden the first day i became chairman of the committee it would have been tied up in court and the judge would have thrown it out. we have put together a case that i think would stand up in any court of law in america and we hope to hear from the bidens too. i wish the media would ask the president what exactly did your family do to receive this $21 million that the house oversight committee has proven. he continues to say that's a lie. that's not true. we have their bank records, maria. bank records don't lie. maria: krysia, it's amazing to me, i was looking at twitter earlier, x, whatever you want to ca

that whole talking point from comer and jordan about biden having ukrainian prosecutor, victor shokinvin was investigating burisma, whose board hunter biden sat on? archer himself acknowledged, under oath, to democratic congressman dan goldman, that shokin was actually good for burisma. he was soft on alleged corruption. as for the bombshell bravery allegations against the bidens, as philip bump writes in the washington post, carter said, under penalty of perjury, that he was never aware of any such bribe. offered to hunter biden or anyone else. so, republicans, us are straight-up lying about the what archer told them. that's not stopping congressman comer from saying, democrats are the real lives here. why are. >> anytime we do a transcribed interview like we did last week, you will either have jenny -- jamie raskin or dan golden come out and tell the press complete lies. >> yeah, who should we believe? dan goldman, who could be seen in the official transcript asking archer questions, or james comer who, according to the daily beast, wasn't even in the room when it happened and skipp

they include claims of bribery by one-time ukrainian prosecutor general victor shokin in an exclusive fox interview. lucas tomlinson is live in the white house. >> hi ukraine's former top prosecutor alleging then vice president joe biden got him fired because he was investigated that powerful ukrainian energy company, burisma, where biden's son hunter was a board member. >> i do not want to deal in unproven facts. but my personal conviction is that yes, this was the case. they were being bribed. the fact in u.s. money in exchange for my dismissal, my firing. is that alone a case of corruption? >> this admission from joe biden years later validates his claim. there is not fired you are not getting the money. and he got fired for they put us in place someone who was solid at the time. >> the white house pushing back strongly on this accusation saying a former ukrainian prosecutor general whose office on deputy deputy called a quoted of corruption drawing demands for not just former print vice president biden but u.s. diplomats partners and a publican centers like ron johnson. he also bl

relation to these foreign deals, his son was carrying out, going to ukraine and working to push out victor shokinsecutor general at the time who we know was going after the ceo of burisma at the time. you can easily connect the dots. this is not difficult. you connect the money and the action and it just reeks of something that needs to be looked at further. howie: i want to clarify with you, michael. >> yeah, we have to respond to a couple of those things. howie: let me ask the question and you can respond however you want. archer said he knew of no $ 5 million payment going to the bidens. secondly though, what was the point you were going to make >> first of all this investigation has been going on from the doj five years that's longer than lightwater and monica nearly longer than iran contra. if the trump-appointed u.s. attorney didn't find anything i don't think jim comer will find anything there. howie: would you concede that hunter biden with his history of drug abuse has been an embarrassment to the family? >> that's a personal, that is completely -- howie: it's not personal. >> it is. wel

victor chopin. who's viktor shokin? investigating burisma pain joe biden son ultimately millions of dollars. so son of a b, six hours they fired the guy. the investigation stops in ukraine got there billion in loan guarantees and guess what hunter biden continued to be enriched and continued to get paid by marie smith again while he's admittedly a drug addict. and a guy admits he had no expanse in energy oil gas coal or ukraine. can you explain that to me? can you explain these shell corporations that comer's committee has found? and use plain with hunter and the grandchildren did for these millions? apparently they all got paid. >> sure. look. you're making it too complicated. they are crooks. they lie. since they are crooks and they lie, what you just described work crooks who are lying. the problem for the american people is we really can't quite believe that people in public office -- hillary is the same way. hillary made $37 million as secretary of state by selling 20% of america's uranium to a russian company which gave the clinton foundation $37 million. they just lie. these people ar