biden. where does that stand? guest: there is an expectation that hunter biden likely will not appear. when the deposition was scheduled in the subpoena was sent, hunter biden had not been indicted yet in california on some serious tax charges. now you could conceivably see his defense lawyer saying it's not the right time to go before congress and answer a bunch of questions in a setting and produce testimony that could be used against you in a court of law as we defend these charges in california. i think there is some skepticism that hunter biden will show up. host: he has said he is willing to testify publicly. why not take that? guest: house republicans say there is more better and thorough testimony behind closed doors. one reason is perhaps lawyers leave the questioning behind closed doors. the staff attorneys have the knowledge about the investigation the other reason is in a public setting, the lawmakers each have five minutes and they take turns asking questions and it's hard to bu

remember without joe biden there is no biden brand. how do we know about the biden brand? devon archer told us about it. tony bobulinski told us about it. that would mean without the joe biden part of this there wouldn't be multimillion dollar payouts from romania and russia and china and ukraine and kazakhstan and other countries around the world. there would be no cushy job on the board of burisma, the oil and gas giant in ukraine for hunter even though he had no experience admittedly in oil, gas, coal, energy or even ukraine itself. there are no mysterious shell corporations without joe. no suspicious activity reports. none of this business would occur without joe. this entire case revolves around the president of the united states, joe biden. now on the surface level, this looks bad. the deeper you dig, the worse this gets. payments classified as loans over and over and over again. but we don't get to see the paperwork as to when the loans were given and what the terms were. hunter claiming that his dad used a wells fargo account to pay his bills. an e-mail detailing 1

mcgovern: joe biden not hunter biden is president of the united states. i yield two minutes to the gentleman from new york, mr. nadler. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. nadler: we know why we are here today. the majority has no accomplishments. own members have said so and right wing is getting listless. they have decided to tear down president biden instead. they have no evidence to support this inquiry. but since this majority never lets gets facts in the way of fox talking points, here we are. every one of the witnesses tells us the same thing, no political interference in the hunter biden case. nobody at the department of screws ties blocked from charges. the american public didn't have this story because chairman jordan refuses to release the interviews. he has released one exact. he knows if he releases any more than that, his preferred narrative will crumble. the narrative doesn't support these baseless charges. why is the maga wing doing this? two words, donald trump. the likely nominee of the republican party was impeache

joe biden has done nothing. what does that say about joe biden?cted to all the money that the biden family made out of china? >> well, what it tells me is that the biden administration would rather debate whether men can breast-feed than protect the interests of this country. reality has a way of bruising people that don't respect it. the sad reality is that our enemies, china, russia, north korea, iran, are not scared of president biden. and for good reason. it was president biden who abandoned afghanistan. it was president biden who remove the sanctions on the north pipeline. it was president biden who killed the fbi's challenge initiative. it was president biden who has refused to give ukraine the weapons that it needs to win. it was president biden who removed the sanctions on the village waylay. it was president biden who refuses to respond to the recent attacks on american troops. by iran. and syria, and iraq, and the red sea. i think of president biden had been president when japan attacked pearl harbor, he would have appointed a task force

>> it's all about joe biden. this is an investigation of joe biden. joe biden knew about this. if he had been honest with the american people from day one, he may have gotten away with this. the fact that he said he never met with any of these people and never talk to any of these people, that hunter biden had a wall between his personal life and the government. all of this has proven to be false. now the fact that we found these pseudonym e-mails, tens of thousands, 82,000 pseudonym e-mails that joe biden use. many of them were sent to people he swore he never even talked to. the fact that they are covering this up, sean, it's not only the crimes they have committed what is the cover out. the government should be held accountable. every single person involved in the government. that's the goal of what jason smith and i are trying to do along with jim jordan burke. >> we will give you the last word, jason smith. where do you see this going in terms of joe biden? >> this entire investigation is about joe biden. i agree with what chairman comer just said. we are looking at from t

joe biden was 5 years old. i'm older than joe biden. know about -- i was 9 years old in my country in africa. host: do you think since you're older than joe biden, what do you make when people say he's too old to be president? do you agree? caller: no. it's only because -- they don't understand. he's not doing a good job. nobody's old to do something. joe biden doesn't do nothing. his employees do the job. host: you mentioned the israel-palestinian war. "new york times" says a poll finds wide disapproval on biden on gaza and little room to shift gears. it's split between those wanting the war to end and those pressing for a definitive israeli victory and a divided among older and younger generations. james, also in new york, new york, democrat, good morning. host: hi. names. did -- caller: hi. i'm a very happy man and i'm elated that there's something positive on c-span. i have been watching you guys since 1979. joe biden with such a narrow margin has done phenomenally well with all of this anger, hate, and vitriol. he could go back to

james biden and hunter biden come from different professional and educational backgrounds. there is really only one thing that a single company looking to hire them both would gain from having them both working on the same deal and that's the illusion of access or maybe more to joe biden. james biden has spoken repeatedly with investigators, criminal investigators and he is now facing a subpoena from house republicans. host: democrats will say there is no evidence linking the president to wrongdoing when it comes to his business -- his sons business dealings. guest: it's important to step back and look at where we started in the 2020 race. joe biden said he had absolute no knowledge of his sons business deals and has never discussed business with hunter biden and there was an absolute firewall between his government, business and hunter biden's private business. we now know that's really not the case. the goalposts have been moved so far that joe biden is saying my name wasn't on the letterhead of this company. i wasn't in business with my son but that is not the story he t

hunter biden is not running for president. joe biden has nothing to do with this. just one of the point with that caller, he made his money by book deals, as many past presidents have made their money. both deals. -- book deals. and speeches. you can look at their taxes, like most presidents do who show their taxes. unlike president trump. i think this whole thing is to put biden in a bad light because he's doing a great job so far for what he was given. they are just trying to set it up for trump to take over. i just think it is an embarrassment. this is not the way. we are losing our democracy with the way these people are working in the house. that is all i have to say. host: mark in ohio. caller: mary christmas to you, your family and to the c-span staff. what joe biden is doing is -- we have homeland security. i am 68 years old. i have never seen this country in such bad shape. we have homeland security but we are the least secure now. we have an open border. that is treasonous. read the constitution. the federal government only has the right to pass the senat

you called biden to testify. and the lawyers are willing to testify publicly, but not behind closed doors. he's afraid the republicans will leak the remarks. why not allow his appearance to be public? i have to say just as a journalist, i'm as you generally know, i like the transparency, ask him anything you want, i would like to see it. >> but our investigation next to adam shift's, and you tell me who's more transparent. every single bit of evidence we talk about, we have four bits of memorandum. that shows bruf proof. -- proof. suspicious activity reports from the banks. you have testimony from deposition and is interviews with respect to crimes committed by the president's family. we have been transparent. every deposition in the history of america has been done behind closed doors. but we release the transcripts. you'll know when he called in this transcribed interview. the children of the former president testified for over 12 hours behind closed doors in a deposition. every big criminal case in america has

so, you know, the biden administration is running out biden a r cells to get pushed around by in the middle east. and, of course, all of those groups groups that i just mentioned, jason, they're all controlled by funded by iran. and what's so frustrating when you talk about, you know, the intelligence that i've seen is, you know, at the end of our administration, wer , the biden administration, peace in the middle east, we hearration p th, the abraham accords, and we handed them in iran that was bankrupt that was incapable of funding these type of terro w activities. >> you know, they were focused the egime survival alone and they didn't have money for the houthis, hamas and names that have now become householdw namebecomes for all the wrong rs in the biden administration, because they have failedstra to accomplish strategic deterrence against te againstour adversaries. >> well, the polling is is certainly gone sour for fore an joe biden. i don't see anybody really the united states is thrilleybod how he's handling this. >> and how do you what's your read on that? why is that? becaus

is joe biden's son. i yield back. >> he yields back. gentleman from massachusetts. >> we're going to stay on top of this heated debate on the flr of the u.s. house about whether to open an impeachment inquiry into president biden. we're going to take a quick break and bring you right back into the debate. stay with us. you right back into the debate. stay with us (vo) in three seconds, janice will win a speedboat. (woman) bingo! i'm moving to the lake. gotta sell the house. (vo) ooh! that's a lot of work. (woman) ooh! (vo) don't worry. skip the hassels and sell directly to opendoor. (woman) bingo. (vo) get your competitive offer at opendoor dot com. (man) mm, hey, honey. looks like my to-do list grew. "paint the bathroom, give baxter a bath, get life insurance," hm. i have a few minutes. i can do that now. oh, that fast? remember that colonial penn ad? i called and i got information. they sent the simple form i need to apply. all i do is fill it out and send it back. well, that sounds too easy! (man) giv

on president biden. is just a fishing expedition. and to me it's all about revenge. it's what they're trying to do now. data really have anything to go on but they the figure if h long enough a can find something. so if they really have something then by all means proceed, but you don't really have anything then get your act together, if you're investigating hunter biden and then see if you need to go after president biden. so the sole thing is just about revenge and its ridiculous. >> host: that's monty, phoenix, arizona, lascaux in this first segment of the "washington journal." >> tonight a discussion about regulating vaping and e-cigarettes with indian republican congressman larry bachchan and the panel of doctors and public health executives. posted by the american enterprise institute in washington, d.c. watch at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span2, c-span now our free mobile video app or online at c-span.org. >> traveling over the holidays? make c-span bookshelf podcast feed part of your playlist. listen to

biden did that. >> it gets worse. the future if he got reelected with a democrat congress? he pes to take the corporate tax on american businesses higher than china's. trump and the republicans brought it below china's. he wants to make us uncompetitive with every chinese firm on taxes alone. he's announced which industries he's trying to destroy. if you live in new mexico, how do you educate your children? the money for their schools comes from the oil and gas industry. biden says new mexico, i'm going to kill you. elizabeth: so tell me what are the other industries beside u.s. energy he wants to destroy. >> well, all of the various energy ones and people that make products that use this sort of energy like automobiles. that are electric and ones you can go up and get your gas in five minutes not over hours. >> again, and again and again the plastics industry has decided to destroy, take a look at that. and now the new thing with the international folks say we should be eating insects instead of beef. elizabeth: yeah

biden. >> there's no way i'm going to vote republican, but reluctantly, yes, i will vote biden. >> whytantly? >> while others tell us they're not sure who they will vote for on election day? >> why are you undecided. >> i want the candidate i vote for to earn my vote. >> republican senator lindsay graham of south carolina and democratic congressman debbie dingle of michigan. >> joining me for insight and analysis are national security and pentagon course course courtney kooub. >> jeff bennett, pbs newshour and former white house press secretary jen psaki and republican strategist matt gorman. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with kristen welker. >>> good sunday morning, in just hours there will be more urgent talks on capitol hill between republicans, democrats and white house negotiators as all sides aim to reach a deal to ramp up security at the border, a part of a larger package that would provide more aid to ukraine and israel. bipartisan talks have zeroeded in on gop

the brand was the biden name. and you watch hunter biden up there. seems to me as if he got what he wanted. he wanted a public testimony moment. no doubt this would have been his opening statement if these had been open hearings. what we didn't get was to watch republicans and democrats question him in this environment. do you think it was a mistake to not allow them re him the public hearing he asked for and will you ever get him behind closed doors to testify now? >> well the procedures we put in place we put in place for a reason for our witnesses have to go through and have a deposition. then you can have hearings when you get to the next step. it is important to note on steps of the capitol he said an important word. he said his dad didn't have any involvement financially, right? he didn't say it was a blanket that he wasn't involved. that's really important. hunter biden is basically an ongoing domino fall of stupid decisions and statements. we're seeing that right here going to the capitol and saying his dad wasn't involved in financial dealin

biden. the confidential source that is joe biden in the 1023 form, your partner said is joe biden. who's the big guy? and then what was on that call that you made from dubai at the request of burisma to get help from d.c. when you called your father, what did you ask him to do? because we know what he went and did. what did you ask him to do on that phone call? those are two important questions that i think the american people deserve to know about and the facts about. that's what we would ask him if we had a chance. >> i hope we get a chance. jason smith, let's talk about what you learned last week in your committee, the ways and means committee, as it relates to certain emails that joe biden used. i don't think he was supposed to do that as a part of the records act, but he did communicate, communicate quite often with eric sherwin, who was the individual at rosemont. seneca, i believe that was in charge of the finances. he is the person that hunter himself would always ask, oh, what account should we use to pay dad's home repair bill on this in this case, or that case? >> is tha

and hunter biden.fficials in an e-mail saying, wait a second, we don't see any activity. there's no services being rendered by hunter biden for why he's getting millions in payments out of chai that . we don't know what his services are. what his business is and note they said in the e-mail that china and foreign adversaries purposely target the children of politicians for influence. to get inside the u.s. government. so that and when you see that kind of testimony coming forward, do you feel like there could be more shoes to drop with what the impeachment managers may uncover? subpoenas. will they subpoena the president? they subpoenaed hunter and -- and james biden is subpoena bank officials and records for the shell companies? >> they need to, and if they do there'll be more and more evidence coming out. we'll see more and more pieces of the puzzle. one thing i would argue is a very narrow indictment of hunter biden avoiding $1.4 million of taxes in four years and one of the most interesting alaska

according to devin archer, a biden family associate, joe biden was the brand of the business. the brand showed up. joe biden spoke to his son's associates by speaker phone over 20 times, dined with foreign oligarchs and had coffee with his son's chinese associate, all when he was vice president. weeks after joe biden left the vice-presidency, money from this chinese party linked entity began to make its way to the bank accounts of several biden family members. based on one biden associate's interview with the f.b.i., these payments were sent to the bidens as a, quote, thank you. ask any justice department public corruption investigator about the importance of payments received after one leaves public office, it's a hallmark of corruption. we are now at a pivotal moment in our investigation. we'll soon depose and interview several members of the biden family and their associates about these influence-peddling schemes. but we're facing obstruction from the white house. the white house is seeking to block key testimony from current and former white house staff. it's also withhold

biden.ll democrats present voted against the inquiry. we will get your take. if you support it dial-in at (202) 748-8000. if you oppose, (202) 748-8001. you can also text us with your thoughts at (202) 748-8002. --(202) 748-8003. include your first name, city and state four go to facebook.com and you can post on x. the vote was 221-212, along party lines. we want to know what you think of this effort by house republicans to formalize this impeachment inquiry into president biden and his son and other family members' businesses. we will get to your thoughts in a minute. after the vote the three committee chairs investigating president biden, james comer of kentucky, jim jordan of ohio, and missouri republican jason smith who chairs the ways and means committee. they went to the microphones and talked to reporters. here is what they had to say. [video] >> well, i think we have made our point clear today. evidence uncovered has shown a very disturbing trend by the biden family. we have spent mo

, trump 46, biden 41. biden all those polls, laura is between 41 and 43. he never really -- inch worm. >> that's why. >> laura: devastating for them. i can't stress enough tonight, kellyanne, this your business. my breath was taken away. stunning new pew poll i want to get this in. wind's al approval, kellyanne, is only at 33%. >> i know. >> laura: detail you alluded to 43% of black adults disapprove of biden's performance. the political realignment here is i mean, again, it's breathtaking. quickly, your response? >> it's stunning. kamala harris hasn't helped. if anything, she has hurt him. we know that jim clyburn saved him in south carolina last time. but, laura, in the house of representatives, you have up to 20, 30 democratic members all of color who are against resolution to condemn hamas. speak openly against biden. not just his agility and ability his decisions in ukraine. say maybe we will go back and fix. so trump's wall at the border. they don't like much of that laura, finally, what i think is h

to biden's 43%. is in a hypothetical 2024 rematch. former u.n. ambassador nikki haley is holding a lead over biden, she's up 17 points on biden when placed head to head. joining me is republican political analyst and campaign strategist ford co-connell and chief council julian epstein. thank you for being here. i want to get your reaction to the polls. ford, let's start with you. your reaction. >> the polls just keep getting worse for joe biden. 37% approval rating is the lowest of any president m the modern era and then for good reason, 53% of registered voters say his policies hurt them and when it comes to donald trump he's in the best polling position he's of ever been, not inot 2024 but ever including 2016. maria: a majority of americans disapprove of president biden's handling of the economy and the israel hamas war. 61% of americans disapprove of his response to the conflict in the middle east, 39% say that they approve. julian, how are you going to get your guy in the white house again if ame

the ones that are in play, it is a trump versus biden contest just as much as it is a biden versus biden contest. >> the top of the tiengt ticket will impact the house and the senate. we'll see. >>> up next, house republicans prepare to turn up the heat on president biden as his son stairs down more federal charges. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> hunter biden facing nine new federal charges. with prosecutors alleging that the president's son spent thousands of dollars on drugs and escorts and girlfriends. all while dodging his taxes. charges coming after hunter was subpoenaed to testify behind closed doors before the house as part of the gop impeachment inquiry. his lawyers said he would be happy to testify in part of a public hearing and as republicans have yet to prove that president biden benefits from his son. and he said this about the heim inquiry. >> next to the declaration of war, i think impeachment is the heaviest power that the congress has, the house specifically under the constitution. so we have to be very methodical and follow the facts where they lead and the white house is now stonewal

president biden was not involved in joe or hunter biden's business dealings. that's what the documents have proven. what this process is keeping this story alive, it's keeping congress involved and distracted by this impeachment idea, conspiracy thought. thought process because it's like coming from above that there is no documentsful we already have a process that we followed and the idea that this is just about a process. we need to look at news max. chairman comer actually said i'd indict tomorrow ambassador they even began this process. they were not waiting far process and mr. chair, i would yield to my colleague. >> the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman and senator friends and i couldn't agree more and perhaps the most frustrating of this exercise is to pretend that this is one of the most solemn votes the anyone of you will take in your careers. treating it in this way, as that gentleman from pennsylvania apparently wants the american people to believe, as i say, it is inconsistent with the constitutional nature of impeachment, the pre

and joe biden.hink there are still some holes in the or fairtive -- narrative that points to the kind of criminal behavior on the part of president biden. elizabeth: and now they're zooming in on james biden. "the washington post" quotes a mississippi if trial attorney who had paid james and sarah biden's consulting company 100 grand to lobby then-senator biden to push through legislation that would grease the wheels so that nearly $370 billion tobacco settlement from the tobacco industry. this was in the late '90s. now, you know, alan, neither james or joe were implicated in any wrongdoing, but the post says, quote, i probably would not have hired james biden if he was not senator joe biden's brother, james convinced joe to help out in the senate to help with that tobacco payout. but the thing is, when you look further and further into this, it looks like the house impeachment probe is going to go after james biden's bank records for influence peddling. >> first of all, impeachment only applies to

biden was their man.oes and other party leaders, biden rolled into super tuesday three days later with unstoppable momentum. and so i ask, why -- i guess i'm asking the question you're asking, why aren't the republican candidates banding together and speaking out? >> yeah. >> i understand what paul ryan is saying. with respect, because, of course, we'll take, you know, somebody saying the truth whenever they say it, so i don't want to diss him for actually saying the truth about donald trump. at the same time, he couldn't do it. >> right. >> he says that these people will lose their jobs. look at liz cheney and others. >> right. >> they paid for it with their job, sort of explaining, i guess, why he never spoke out. >> yeah. i mean, this is the most striking thing about the moment, mika. the people that feel the strongest about stopping trump, the liz cheneys, the paul ryans, the mitt romneys, are very much conscious that they have the least influence in the party today. because in some ways, if they were

the money that the bidens paid joe biden back with came from influence peddling.when they made the depositk th and wrote the check the same day, they had like a $2,000k on balance. i think one account they were overdrawn in and they betited t they deposited the same amount of money. hethey wrote to joe biden. there's no question. only being paid taxes, ro disputing that being paid back from a loan. >> i don't think there's any statutalone.e is ne that says bd back from a loan, the use of that money, that's a loan. >> right.e mone so it does matter if you take money from a drug dealer. dey to aoan mone drug dealer and that drug dealer pays you back, sir. that's dea money that he sold. drugs. >> then you're complicit . joining us now to respond, house oversight committee chairman james colmer and,s co house ways and means committee chairman jason smith. >> gentlemen, welcome back. appreciate i andans commt. all right, jason, let me let me start with you tonight. >> and you brought the whistleblower was back in and we learned an awful lot in the last 24 hours. capg e

and the biden family. every american has a simple question, what did the bidens do to receive tens of millions from around the world. >> can you answer the question that you found no evidence of criminal conduct. >> we found some very serious evidence that you -- >> no, no, no. the checks, there are two checks to joe biden. >> the money to give joe biden was through influx peddling. >> those checks that you shared -- >> no, no, no. >> loan repayments that we all saw. >> we showed you the loan documents. >> you don't understand the loan documents. i do. if you pay me back $240,000 for a loan repayment i should have a check going to you for $240,000. >> joe biden's attorneys inventing -- >> the law firm that represented the shale companies. >> you think those lawyers -- >> well, what do you think? you're defending him. >> that's a very serious crime. >> are you positive that that money came from joe biden? are you positive? >> look, we have a lot of questions. next question. >> are you going forward with con

tony bobulinski was a partner of hunter biden and he told me of courses met joe biden.den, the post the united states' role in all of this? >> i think joe biden is the brand and the only reason that hunter biden was making all this money that he had to evade taxes for was because his father was the vice president of the united states. and so the biden name has been the brand, as been the brand for some time. and so for joe biden to blatantly lie to the american people and say he had no idea what his son's business interests were, that he never met with any of these business partners, we all know that's a blatant lie. we have testimony, we have evidence that he met with dozens and dozens of times, different partners from around the world. and so, yeah, bobulinski is absolutely right, the president of the united states has been lying to the american people but, hey, the president of the united states has been lying to the american people for 40 years. this is not -- this is nothing new. this is what he does and what he has done through his entire political career. maria:

biden is proud of his son. is all going to play out over the coming election year. and that brings us to our top story tonight. mary, you've been spending time with a key voting bloc in the crucial swing state of michigan? >> reporter: yes, juju, we spent time with arab and muslim american voters who are in real pain and growing frustration, angry over president biden's handling of the israel/hamas war, warning it could cost him votes in november. >> please free palestine! >> reporter: a familiar scene in major cities across the country. >> no justice no peace! >> reporter: pro-palestinian protesters taking to the streets, now for the tenth straight week. demanding an end to israel's bloody and deadly war in gaza in response to hamas' terror attack in october. >> the main message we're trying to relay is palestinian lives matter. >> reporter: as the number of palestinians killed steadily climbs, president biden is resisting calls for a cease-fire, arguing that would only help hamas. >> our president is currentl

we have checks from hunter biden's shell company going to joe biden. we have checks from jim biden going to joe biden that we traced through the influence-peddling scheme. we've caught joe biden lying over 21 times about a his lying -- about his lying and involvement with all these shady characters in his family's business doings. and, look, you hearder what hunter said yesterday, my dad's not financially involved. the problem with that is there are checks going from hunter's shady business scheme to joe biden. now, they say it's all lope repayment. well, they can -- loan repayment. they can have an opportunity to come in and explain those loan repayments to the u.s. house of representatives. maria: so what about that? this impeachment inquiry now is form aalized, congressman. do you think they are going to stop blowing off your subpoenas? do you really feel like they're going to come to the table and try to work with you on all of this? >> well, we're going to court, and we're folk to win in court. concern we're going to win in court. we have built up

and biden is in a very serious situation. >> evan, i know that you know that president biden and histeam that has been managing the middle east portfolio are very frustrated with the israel defense forces and they keep telling them to do more to avoid civilian casualties into do more to let in aid and they've been very disappointed at the degree in which the netanyahu government have said with her actions, no. you know? i see this as part of, in some ways, larger context, jake, that is directly related to the press conference we are going to hear about. joe biden has framed this moment in global affairs as an attack in so many ways on free societies. saw the attack on october 7th as an attack on a free society and he believes that vladimir putin's attack on ukraine is in its own way, a war against democracy. his goal, more broadly and i think we are going to hear that a bit today, is to try to bring people back to remind them of why it was that they felt so committed to this war in ukraine when it started and to also remind indirectly, i suppose, the leadership in israel that he has

a $40,000 direct payment to joe biden himself. a $200,000 direct payment to joe biden himself. we have messages, pseudonyms, fake email addresses and 22 meetings in which joe biden himself met with hunter biden and his business associates. we have been stonewalled, we have even seen us today as hunter biden paraded onto the senate side and did not come to a lawfully issued subpoena deposition in front of the house oversight committee. now is the time for impeachment inquiry. thank you. >> gentleman from oklahoma deserves. >> you are listening to the debate on the floor there at capitol hill from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expressing what they view from the democrats we have heard from say they're staunchly opposed to an impeachment inquiry investigation into joe biden and republicans saying they want to move forward. we know later today there is expected to be a vote formalizing this impeachment investigation into president joe biden. we will be right back. >>> we are following breaking news at of california. these are images taken moments ago from 110 freeway in los

what are they accusing joe biden of, not hunter biden. hunter biden has made mistakes.ter biden is not an elected official. >> he can't be impeached, hunter biden. >> that's right. >> back to this impeachment vote today on president biden. why do you think republicans are going through with this, trying to formally authorize an impeachment inquiry? >> i think largely this whole impeachment inquiry has been a sop to the hard-liners. that's why mccarthy set it up in september, and that's why speaker johnson wants to vote on it today. obviously he thinks he can get more documents as a consequence. house republicans have made a pretty compelling case to impeach hunter biden. of course hunter biden's not a federal official, and so i'm not sure why they're going through this exercise. i just don't see a whole lot of political benefit, you know, to a lot of those republicans in these swing districts. why do they think this is a good idea when the government, you know, is still not fully funded and we have two big cliffs coming up. we're still dealing with the supplemental fund

were seeking favor from the biden vice presidency or the biden presidency. maria: that is unbelievable. you have so much witness testimony on all of this and yet the democrats and the media continue to say there is no evidence against joe biden. >> they think if they keep saying it people will believe it. every story i have read this morning shows some type of reference to no evidence but they still provide no evidence no evidence of wrongdoing by joe biden which is completely ridiculous every american keeping up with this investigation knows that we have provided mountains of evidence of wrongdoing about joe biden and at the very least joe biden has lied over 21 times who he met with and what he knew and who we communicated with more evidence is coming forward that joe biden was e-mailing the shady characters in hunter biden's orbit that he claimed he never met at the beginning of our investigation now we know he was sending and receiving hundreds of e-mails but using a pseudonym e-mail a fake name to disguise his communication with these people. joe biden

joe biden. shapley, join me now. good morning to both of you. we have spoken in the past. i don't know how you feel about yesterday but we're about to find out. let's talk about the evidence. joseph, you first, number one, guys, an email august of 2020 apparently. a few months away from the election. from lesley wolf to i.r.s. investigators, the sub line is political figure one is president biden. this is what it reads. focus on fara evidence only. there should be nothing about political figure one in here, end quote. joseph, is that a smoking gun or is that just one of several pieces of evidence? where is the context do you believe for that email? >> yeah, so that email i think is super important because it is a one-off example in writing of the constant concern following investigative leads that might lead to joe biden. and what i would like to say to that is the f.b.i. agents who draft evidence the affidavit, they believed they had sufficient evidence probable cause to support including polit

all we've heard is joe biden had no involvement. a press conference when he's supposed to be being deposed and says he wasn't financially involved. well, what involvement was it? we know there was phone calls, dinners, and meetings, what involvement was it. that's why we want to ask these questions with important witnesses. that's why this resolution is important. i urge a yes vote. with that i yield back. >> gentleman yields back. gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. >> i need to get a decoder ring. i now yield 1.5 minutes to the gentlewoman of new mexico, a distinguished member of the rules committee. >> gentle lady from new mexico is recognized for 90 seconds. >> mr. speaker every conspiracy theory we just heard has been debunked, not true, and distorted from the facts because this impeachment inquiry is political vengeance directed by a twice impeached four-times indicted president and carried out by extreme maga republicans, republicans rejected my amendment to require the committees to hold at least one public hearing.

biden, however, mr.d federal bureaucracy that would be throwing pots, pans and candlesticks at him at every step. >> i think they are wrong. i think if you -- we don't have to get about what next president trump would do because he did it before. and he would not have around him the people that were around him, the people frankly that the country will hear from as his trial moves forward who were all his appointees. people a he appointed to the white house counsel's office, department of justice, his own family. people told him on january 6th as you and i were talking that he needed to tell the mob to go home. people who told him what he was doing was illegal. those people won't be around him. rulings of our courts are fundamental to who we are as a constitutional republic. if a president doesn't enforce those rulings, they don't have weight. >> bret: right. but what about the point it made in this op-ed specifically and i understand what you are saying about the former president what you feel about what

all the direct family members, haley biden, hunter biden, joe biden, frank biden, the grandkids taking $100,000. to say there was not a financial benefit to joe biden was absurd. >> kayleigh: it is, talk about joe biden, house oversight committee presented this, this is recent. pull up a check. $40,000 check to joe biden, you see the date 2013. bottom left corner, "loan repayment," and it began with northern, chinese company and goes to hudson west, joint venture with hunter and goes to the group and then goes over to sara biden, sister-in-law of the president and the check to joe biden. i want to lay that out, that is how complicated these companies were. they call it a loan payment, what say you, jason chaffetz? >> there are 175 suspicious activity reports highlighted by the treasury department and irs whistleblowers went out and said they would follow the trail. the president said none of his family members benefited from any relationship out of china, i think during the debate he said no money was flowing and they were not making money out of china. it ends there are millions of do

do you think joe biden is the nominee? do you think joe biden shows up at the debates?> no way on the debates. i cannot imagine his staff would want him to show up and i don't think he's going to do it. that was a trend that started in a lot of gubernatorial and senate races. it will go to the presidency this year unfortunately. as far as my prediction, kaylie, i'm where i always have been. i give it a one in three shot joe biden is forced to drop out because the democrats say he's a sure loser and don't want to go down with his ship. at the convention, they are going to find somebody else. i give that a one in three shot. >> wow, it's going to be a wile year. we do not doubt that. 2024 here we come. tommy, ari, mark. thank you. up next, our very own bill with the border and greg abbott signed a law that illegal immigrants can be arrested after sneaking into texas. we break it down next. >> welcome to this special edition of "hannity." the southern border has been out of control. the recently, the images are worse than ever with thousands of people coming across every s

joe biden was the business. there is no business without joe biden. that's the only way a prosecutor would have teed this up for a jury to look at. i will go back to something you said, dana, one of the first times that we talked about this, which i wish i had been smart enough to think of myself, but there is all kinds of self-dealing provisions in federal law that people have to comply with, which is a long winded way of saying there is one person in this equation that could have shut this business down in five minutes if he wanted to. it was joe biden. he allowed this to happen. it could not have happened. they could not have made this $24 million unless joe biden willfully allowed it to happen. >> bill: on that same point then, if hunter had accepted the misdemeanor deal on the table, would this ever have gotten to this point today? >> dana: great question. >> it would have gotten to this point, bill, with the committee. but the justice department would have just made this go away. and it was very foolish of them not to take that deal because it i

the only person that believes that joe biden can win is joe biden. he's a denial.e needs to show me one poll where he's ahead. he can't. kaleigh: he can't. he says, you're just looking at the wrong polls. every single poll i've looked at save maybe one, two, or three, he's losing to every gop contender in the race. kaleigh: right. the reason why he's so confident and why his staff is so confident, despite these abysmal poll numbers is because he's expecting another 2020 race when he had the luxury of being able to hide in his basement when he didn't have a four-year record to answer for and when he had a media that was willing to answer, well to ask him about neither of those things. biden is polling way behind which means he'll have no choice but to get out on the campaign trail and prove that he as an 81-year-old has the mental a acuity to serve for another four years. that means the media has to cover what he's saying and historically that's not worked out well for biden. there is a reason why his two past presidential campaigns failed. there is a reason why he

in on hunter biden president.ohn solomon writes this, china has a irwin body of evidence a h the chinese capital the blame to the family millions in 2017 actually began in 2015 and he may involved with the meeting as he left vice president that's according to documents reviewed by just the news john solomon we continue to see the evidence released and the democrats will not discuss it in any way shape or form. >> according to them there is no evidence which is so preposterous someone has to teach karine jean-pierre if your crisis communication your past outright denial phase and you're in the were cooperated with the investigation phase of what inevitably will be the downfall of president biden in the biden campaign and 2024. maria: we will take a short break were just getting started. fcc commissioner senior republican brendan carr is here this morning on the agency's new target on elon musk and star link. why are these federal agencies investigating and targeting elon musk. he'll explain why he's against the dec

as far as president biden is concerned, president biden is a godsend. he basically has saved this country from falling into a trump dictatorship. he rescued nato. he is helping the people of ukraine fight against trump's favorite buddy, putin. if we do not re-elect president biden as our president, we will become an autocracy. we will become a dictatorship and the united states of america will cease to exist. i cannot believe the cowards in the republican party. i cannot believe that half this country has such a perverted sense of patriotism that they would re-elect a man who said he did not want any amputees, any soldiers seriously injured, to be at any of his military celebrations because he did not like the site of that. to think he would support this man is incredible. he is a joke. he is dangerous to democracy. i hope he never sees the inside of the white house. host: i want to ask you about what marion said about the borders. she said under trump the borders were closed, now they are wide open. how do you respond? caller: the republicans do not wa

comer says some of the money that they paid james biden tracked straight to joe biden. >> joe biden receivedt from americorp. they sent a check to jim biden for $200,000, the exact same day that jim biden received that $200,000 check, they wrote joe biden a check for the exact same amount, $200,000. maria: and once again the bidens claim it was a loan repayment. joining me right now is new york congresswoman claudia tenney, a perm better of the house ways and means committee. wow, the story gets deeper and deeper every day. your reaction? >> it's amazing that a guy like joe biden w who has a congressmn salary, how does he loan these people money without loan documents? as we talked about on show, maria, this is all about joe biden using his name and his clout as a politician with a lot of power to enrich himself and his family and all he's done is they've sold the name. even hunter talks about it. it's my dad's name, it's my dad, you know, we have the text message. all of this got started because of the whistleblowers, and the whistleblowers revealed the information and the data we needed be