where's hunter. >> where is hunter? >> where is hunter? >> he's right here. >> i'm here and i'm workin' and i'm livin' my life. >> president trump says you're in hiding. >> hiding in plain sight, i guess. yeah. no, not at all. not at all. >> look, biden and his son are stone cold crooked. >> the president has been on the rampage. accusing 49 year old biden of improperly profiting on business interests in ukraine while his father was the obama administration's point person in that country. all leading to that now infamous phone call in july. >> it's a very honorable call. a nice call. >> when president trump asked ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskiy to investigate the bidens. no evidence of wrongdoing has been found against either one >> how did you react to learning that president trump called the ukrainian president in a phone call, asking him to investigate you and your father? >> i was like every other american, i was shocked. >> did you call your dad and say -- >> no. >> oh my gosh, can you believe this >> oh yeah, look, my dad and

and they are, at hunter.e >> the whole idea about ukraine, an and hunter and all of that, tha. >> the whole idea about ukraine and hunter and all of that, that is simply politics. that's people that's people digging up stuff about everybody else. >> i certainly have questions uf about everybody else. about all this happening with>>s about all regards to biden end of the this ukraine and all of that. happenh regards to biden end of the ukraine and all of that. >> doesn't >> doesn't bother me. i don't think it's unique in our country whatsoever. i don't think it's unique in our current colloquial environment. country whatsoever.d about the hunter biden -- >> no. unique in our current colloquial environment. i think hunter biden said his ae hunter biden -- story, told his story. >> it's like a pay to play type of thing. i think hunter biden said his stor he sold his name. told his stor. because you don't think he>> ite of thing. he sold his name. because you don't think he would've gotten that job if he didn't h

type of job as hunter biden. nancy pelosi's son is another one, and also mitt romney, so they're all -- they're all part of it. that's what i have to say. >> max does it comfort you that joe biden saying today if he becomes president, family members will not serve on any boards of foreign companies? >> caller: no, it don't help me out none. i don't believe that. i don't care because what about the other countries he's involved in? okay. >> caller: i mean, and the truth, the last guy who called, it was $86,000 that he's making a year, and it ain't 50, and for what? he's an ex-dope dealer, a dope head. >> okay, max there in michigan. terry st. joe, indiana, independent. terry. >> caller: two things, first i was an air force jag for over ten years, and it was a clear ethics violation for vice president biden not to recuse himself from doing any negotiations with the ukraine as vice president. seco secondly, it seems the defense is that he threatened to withhold money for a good reason. he said i won't give you the m

just listen to hunter biden himself.ry to explain why he was hired to serve on the board of cropped ukrainian oil and gas company in 2014 having no experience with ukraine, oil, gas, or energy. by the way, none. zero. take a look. >> there's been a lot of misinformation about me come out about my dad. nobody buys that. but this idea that i was unqualified to be on the board. >> what were your qualifications to be on the board of burisma? >> i was vice-chairman of amtrak, i was a lawyer for one of the most prestigious law firms in the world. >> sean: you don't have an extensive knowledge about natural gas or ukraine itself though? >> no but i think i had as much knowledge as anybody else who was on the board. >> in the list you gave me the reasons why you are on the board, you do not list the fact that you are the son of the vice president. what role do you think i played? >> i think it is impossible for me to be on any of the boards i just mentioned without saying i'm the son of the vice president of the united states. >

he's basically coined a slogan -- "where's hunter?" because we actually haven't seen much of hunter biden. he tweeted as much, and you can see that tweet right there -- "he has totally disappeared." following the president's lead, do you think his allies on capitol hill, like lindsey graham, will be successful possibly in an attempt to depose hunter biden in front of the judiciary committee? >> well, that may be challenging because right now it's really a smear campaign that's going on with hunter biden, in terms of what the president and his allies are doing. they're not bringing forward any actual evidence that suggests, well, we need to bring this person in and necessarily depose them or ask them hard questions. there usually at least needs to be some kind of evidence or standard for that. but right now, the way that the biden campaign and the way that -- you know, even some republicans who haven't been willing to be as aggressive on hunter biden as the president has been -- the way that they're approaching this is basically saying,

by the way, hunter does plan to step down from b hr is bored. though -- this is a big though, he does not the one probing question -- well, it's not programming but told as something. it isn't getting enough attention. >> did you and your father ever discussed ukraine? >> no. the only time was after a news accounts -- there is no but to this. >> laura: that's convincing. it's like he forgot his dad repeatedly denied talking business with hunter at all. and he remembered midsentence and went on the sick, no, we never took it. if joe and hunter actually time to this interview to drop it for tonight's democrat debate, that was another colossal lapse in judgment. which sent the campaign surrogates scrambling to explain. >> do you wish he didn't do it this morning or did it tomorrow or the next day? >> martha -- it was a little hard to hear you, but hunter biden said today and answered every single question. >> laura: now that is funny. joe biden knows full and well that his son's dealing stink to high heaven. at the very least have a stark conflict

good more hunter biden, he is p pug. ly i am not.ed states. when it comes to the debate stage, i actually think dem kralts are united, that these lies against hunter biden are not acceptable, and you'll see that on the debate stage. >> if it is all lies and purely made up, why did hunter biden make the decision he fae md. what i'm saying is it certainly is not a tas i had. he had a rally and used very inappropriate language alts tt son of a presidential candidate. he's gone low and he's dragging this entire thing low. i think hunter biden did the right thing by saying, i'm not going to be a distraction. >> if it's inappropriate language and it's all lies. >> what is being said in front of hunter biden has to do with sitting on the board as president. the vice president stopped a corruption investigation? that is not true. thas l that is a lie. >>> it's funny how lawmakers' feelings on oversight seems to chan change. this fall, book two, separate qualifying stays at choicehotels.com... ...and earn a free night. because when your busin

including the joe and hunter corruption e story.nvolving ukraine so here's what i want to do tonight. i want to walk through everything you know about the ukraine, and i want to walk through everything you know about the bidens in china. so the american people to who watch this program is because they're not getting any of this in any of the cable networks. where you're basically being prevented from explaining what took place. then if i want to talk about what to me is nonsensible about the the president of the united states, thede transcript, and al of the rest of that. solet walklk through it. let's had, begin with bidens in ukraine from the top. >> hunter biden is son still alive he lost beau biden tragically and up until his father became vice president, he was basically a lobbyist in washington, d.c. working for the online gambling industry. so no background overseas, and inng any of these areas once his father started vice president he started a private firm called sin ka partners half of the capital provided by chris hines j

the death of hunter biden was devastating not just to joe biden but also to hunter biden, and i thinky the death of bo biden has been devastating to both the vice president but also to hunter biden, and i think you see that as one of the factors in joe biden's reluctance to kind of throw his son under the bus and distance himself, is that the son is obviously in a pretty fragile space in the last couple years. >> and given what hillary clinton said about the hillary clinton foundation, donald trump was not the incumbent. hunter biden says, yeahs, it wa swampy, meaning ukraine. i want to hear him talk about his name and how he got these jobs, and asking the question, isn't this why people hate washington? >> what do you say to people who say this is exactly why people hate washington? a vice president's son can make money where your father is doing official government business. >> i don't know what to say. i made a mistake in retrospect as it related to creating any perception that was wrong. and so, therefore, i'm taking it off the table and i'm making that commitment. i will see if a

i love where's hunter. where's hunter? being examined by sleepy eye. hunter. hunter. i know they're giving you approximately $168,000 a month. i hear they paid you a big check of $3 million. i want to speak on behalf of nbc -- absolutely one of the worst. hunter. hunter, i just want to actual, i couldn't be happier for you and your family and i know you don't know going about energy, and i know it's an energy company. but i think they made a great deal. hunter. then they fly to china. and i'm and i'm dealing with people right now they're tough as well, those northers. and hunter, who's not too smart. hunter. he goes in, he has a meeting, he walks out. 1.5 billion. with a "b" $1.5 billion. he's dealing with the same chinese northers i'm dealing with, i can tell you. these are not the same once, but we are doing well in that negotiation. where's hunter? okay. where is hunter? i want to see hunter. hunter, you know nothing about energy. you know nothing about going frankly. hunter, you're a loser, why did you get $1.5 billion, hunter. and your father was never considered

hunter. i just want -- i could not be happier for you and your family and i know you don't know anything about energy i know it's an energy company, but i think they made a great deal, hunter. and then they apply to china. i'm dealing with people right now, the top is held chinese negotiators, and hunter, hunter, he goes in and he is meeting and he walks out. with with 1.5 billion, $1.5 bil! [boos] these are not the same chinese negotiators that i'm dealing with, i can tell you. these are not the same ones we are doing very well with the negotiations. now, think of this, where's hunter is located, where is hunter? i want to see hunter. hunter, you know nothing about him you know nothing about china, you know nothing about anything, frankly. hunter, you are a loser, what you have $1.5 billion? [cheers and applause] and your father was never considered smart. he was never considered a good senator. he was only a good vice president because he understood how to kiss barack obama's. [cheers and a

reporter: president responds on hunter biden on twitter. joe biden said his son, will join him on the campaign trail at some point. >> i'm a private citizen, i don't have to do is sit open by kimono as it relates to how much money i maker done make. >> if your last time was not biden, do you think you would have been asked to be onboard of burisma. >> i don't know, probably not. reporter: with that hunter biden giving us more information about his past and his business dealings overseas, after weeks of questions as they can't to insist they only find out what they are doing or have done through the press. >> peter thank you. he is at site of democrat debate in ohio. we have a breaking story out of california, a massive 5 at a new star energy refinery in bay area, shut down part of i80, started in storage tanks, nearby residents told to shelter in place, so far there are no injuries reported. elizabeth: cuba gooding jr., brought to court today, in handcuffs in new york city. he reportedly pleads not guilty t4 misdemeanor accounts. now this a

we are going to gin up hunter.n terms of stories, they might be the same but if you're going to push this one, i'm going to do to you. this hunter story actually sticks because people rich kids who get away with stuff and that's different, to juan's point, then donald trump's kids because they actually work for a living. do you think trump lets his kids slide at work? if you asked his kids, would it have been easier to work for a stranger than your dad, they would've said stranger. because their dad never rests. he would seem like a merciless boss, especially if you are related. >> dana: you wouldn't want to let them down. the ukrainian gas board, oh, well. >> greg: trump would tell donald, eric is doing really good. and then he would go to eric, donald is doing really good. >> jesse: donald trump just got into politics two years ago. his kids were very successful in the private sector for many, many years. if you look at the resume of hunter, i don't know if you've looked at it, juan, but every single step of joe'

former colleagues of hunter biden. joined it they had done due diligence through a private investigations firm in new york to see what the status was. there was due diligence done beforehand. host: in may of 2014, i want to show our viewers white house press secretary, asked about hunter biden's job with this gas company. >> hunter biden has now taken a position with the largest holding company in ukraine. is there any concern about at least the appearance of a conflict there? >> i would refer you to the vice president's office. i saw the reports hunter biden and other members are obviously private citizens and where they work is not reflect an endorsement by the administration or by the vice president or president but i would refer you to the vice president's office. host: that was back in 2014 and that is their response to hunter biden serving on the board. the vice president then as we know as he's talked about travels to ukraine to put more pressure on the then president to fire shoken. at the time, what is happeni

whatever happened to hunter? >> who cares?some stuff in my life, i've been through some real stuff. this isn't real stuff, it isn't! did i make a mistake, will may be in the grand scheme of things, yeah. that i make a mistake based on some ethical lapse? absolutely not. >> bret: just hours before this democratic debate, hunter biden speaking to abc this morning, the president was definitely watching. "hunter biden was really bad, now sleepy joe has real problems. it reminds me of cricket hillary and her 33,000 deleted emails, not recoverable." we are just getting word from capitol hill that house speaker nancy pelosi has decided not to hold a formal impeachment inquiry boat right now at this time. the consensus is no vote to launch on informal impeachment probe, they will continue with the way they are doing it, many democratic members don't want to be seen as letting the white house dictate how a separate and equal branch of government conducts itself, maybe that is part of it. let's bring in our panel from ohio, byron york c

but i do think biden -- hunter biden is doing this at this point is absolutely appropriate. that anyone who runs for president ought to make sure their children are not involved in companies overseas because the current occupant of the white house not only had they been involved, they are currently roved. we have patents being given to ivanka trump and the trump boys running around the world including to india and taking part in events with president modi, promoting the trump business. so yeah, i think people should make sure that they don't even eerns -- even the appearance of the conflict of interest. >> during the debate it is not fair to bring it up. i think hunter biden has been inappropriately thrust into the middle of a presidential campaign. false accusations made by president trump. and they've been debunked and fact checked and they are false and doesn't exist. now issues should be raised about conflict of interest and as linda mentioned there is plenty of that in the trump administration, the trump world. whether it is airmen staying at trump hotels in the united

where is hunter? by the way, whatever happened to him? >> i think hunter biden is a disgrace.now nothing about energy, you know nothing about china. you know nothing about anything, frankly. hunter, are you a loseer, why did you get $1.5 billion, hunter? >> so look. he got what he wanted. hunter biden is going to appear tomorrow morning. that's not necessarily a win for president trump either, is it? >> yeah. i don't know that's clear. what we know is the president uses his bully pulpit, the mass media attention. the power of his office to direct that at his political opponents. to hit them where it hurts. it's one of the things that his voters like about him and enenraged the democratic field. they stay tailored to their message and they have a force in the background to pick up on things, he has gotten hunter to come out. he is going to have that interview tomorrow. it will matter what obviously the substance of that interview is. i think what we do, though, as we look across the field is democrats rally around vice president biden. they're not going to attack him. i think i

his son, hunter, served on the company's board.idens defenders have pointed out that american allies in western europe also pushed ukraine to fire the prosecutor over corruption concerns. >> president zelensky, it is a great honor to meet you. >> now a report from "the washington post" claiming the president repeatedly involved vice president mike pence and efforts to pressure the leader of ukraine to investigate the bidens. the president instructed pence to stay home and made from the inauguration of ukrainian president boulder mayor zelinski. the post reports officials close to pence and says he was unaware of the president's efforts to press ukraine for damaging information. the vice president's office also said the report is glorifying a grand conspiracy by disgruntled former employees. this, as the vice president is now saying there are legitimate questions that ought to be asked about his predecessor. john? >> john: rich edson at the white house with the president returns but did not take any questions. kurt volker was relati

they reportedly paid hunter biden over $50000.th despite having no experience in the ukraine energy sector or any energy sector. democrats are fine with that. >> the problem here was of course hunter biden receiving $50000. month from ukraine energy company. do you think that's evidence of corrupt behavior? >> no. people sit on boards and they get payments. >> sounds to me like swampy ted is perfect pairing for when he sits on board and gets monetary payment after he leaves congress and cashes in, but actually, 50 grand a month for hunter biden turned out to be great value. the company was founded by a shady person. by 2015 he found himself under investigation for abuse of power, embezzlement and other charges. he may even have face justice if it weren't for hunter biden's that saw he had the backing of the american vice president who is calling the shots in ukraine. incredibly, he got off scott free but hundred bidens connection still has more to offer. remember devon archer, bidens business partne partner, he had previously been

night and today, to see if hunter plans to speak more.o mar we have not heard back. elizabeth: thank you mark. joining me, republican strategist, chair, ford o'connel, vice president joe biden said in iowa, he never discussed hunter biden's foreign business dealings, but your take on that photo obtain -- on the tucker carlson show. >> the 2014 photo does cast doubt, we already knew that joe biden was fudging the truth because hunter biden already told the "new yorker" he talked to his father about the business dealings. the whole situation goes to corruption, and access and voters on both sides are concerned. elizabeth: president trump personal lawyer, rudy guliani, said this about joe biden and hunter biden. >> if you are anyone that believes that ukraine or china were paying for hunter biden's expertise, do have you common sense to realize they were buying joe biden's office? elizabeth: legal expert, turley has said if this goes to house vote, it will not look good in bright lights of vote for joe biden, it could be nancy pelosi's worse

. >>> and joe biden and his son hunter announce new plans as they try to manage the president's ongoing attacks over hunter's foreign business dealin dealings. >> tr >>> good morning, we begin with the fast moving developments in the middle east as president trump orders the withdrawal of all remaining troops from northern syria. the decision was revealed by the secretary of defense who says turkey's invasion has increased the risk to u.s. forces on the ground there. we get the latest from nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. >> reporter: the u.s. is getting out of syria at the worst time, just as turkey is making rapid advances in its war against u.s. allies,ed kurd of syria. u.s. officials tell nbc news and they say the militias include former members of al qaeda and isis. it means turkey, a nato country, is using alleged terrorists to attack the kurds who fought with u.s. troops against isis for four years and carved out their own unofficial little state in the process. now that autonomous zone is collapsing, and as the turks and their lismilitias push deep -- nearly a

remember archer was also on the board, he worked at rosemont seneca with hunter biden.oto was taken just months after hunter biden teamed up with marie burisma holdings. the media is lying to you saying there is no evidence. if this was donald trump jr. there would be a ton of evidence. where's the scrutiny, i've reported on this show, journalism in america died since 2007 and probably before. profiting off the biden name is not anything new, it's been going on a long time. political magazine got it right twice -- that detailed how in 2006, hunter and joe's younger brother james took over a firm called paradigm global advisors. they sought to use their father's influence to line their own pockets, their brother's influence -- they didn't try to hide it because that piece quotes an executive at the company, the following about joe 30330 -- don't worry about investors, we got people all around the world, they want to invest in joe biden. he is an important person in government. he viewed the fund is a way to take money from rich foreigners who cannot legally give money to

. >> where's hunter? where is he? >> reporter: the former vp vowing to return to what he calls the squeaky clean environment in the obama white house while aimed squarely at trump. >> no one in my family or associated name will be involved in any foreign operation ever, period, end of story. >> reporter: and promising as president he would not pardon donald trump telling radio iowa. >> this guy does all of the these things to put us in jeopardy and he gets off? i think this is of a different nature. >> reporter: also tonight, for the first time, foreign policy could take center stage, with the crisis in syria escalating following the president's abrupt withdrawal of american troops. the debate with sanders returning to the campaign trail two weeks after sidelined with the heart attack, aides say he will highlight medicare for all after emphasizing his differences with warren. >> she considers herself to be a capitalist if i got the quote correctly, i don't. >> reporter: and it's a pivotal night for two on

hunter biden joined his father, air force two, he takes a trip to china.is father had a meeting with the chinese president. then, in december 2013, literally less than two weeks later, hunter biden's company inked a $1 billion private equity deal with a subsidiary of the chinese government's bank of china. as peter schweizer pointed out, in "secret empires," this was a deal unlike any other western firms got. it went to hunter biden who had virtually no experience or expertise in china or private equity. you can ask yourself, why would hunter biden get such a sweetheart deal? a billion dollars. then it became a billion five. we have big companies, big names like goldman sachs and deutsche bank, why did they choose hunter biden? what area of expertise did he bring to the table that they didn't have? what did he have to offer beyond being the son of america's second most powerful decision-maker? now we'll fast-forward to december of 2014, joe biden appointed the point person of the obama administration in ukraine. he was in control of the ukrainian portfolio

hunter biden breaking his silence about his business dealings. the former vice president's son saying he's not hiding. >> it's been a lot of misinformation about me, not about my dad. nobody buys that. what i regret is not taking into account that there would be a rudy giuliani and a president of the united states that would be listening to this ridiculous conspiracy idea. >> dana: bret baier weighs in. plus, rudy giuliani responding after reports that john bolton called him a hand grenade over ukraine. lebron, did he foul out with the latest take? the superstar taking a shot at the executive who supported democracy over communist china. waiting to see the new look from nasa, space agency set to unveil the astronauts, coming up on "the daily briefing." >> dana: taking questions after months of scrutiny over business dealings in ukraine and china, while his father was vice president. in a interview on gma, "good morning america," hunter biden admits to poor judgment, but denies he broke laws for working for a ukrainian gas company. >> i'm a human.

hunter biden sets to break his silence this morning.ill be learn anything about his ties to ukraine and china or will he get another pass from the media? jan alice reeves says this is nothing more than a crisis communication strategy and she joined us next. >> i'm on no sleep, no sleep, you don't know what is like in there. things are creaking and cracking in the red light is burning my brain. >> lack of sleep doesn't just make you cranky, new study revealing what it makes you crave. - [male narrator] the following is an urgent appeal from the international fellowship of christians and jews. - [female narrator] right now, in the former soviet union, there are thousands of jewish holocaust survivors trapped in relentless poverty. there's no heat, no electricity, no running water. they're cold, hungry, and sick and they're suffering. and dying. needlessly. - christians and jews together stand obedient to god to listen to his word. god gives us a special calling to help the orphan, the widow. the weakest, the survivors. and he makes a prom

>> hunter biden -- it's hard to hear you -- hunter biden answered every single question. if he is a private citizen, he didn't have to say anything. >> martha: i'm asking you about the timing. do you wish that interview had not aired this morning, is it inconvenient with the debate tonight making it top of mind? >> fair question, but for three weeks, hunter biden has been the subject of attacks from donald trump and his campaign and his henchmen and his cronies. it's no surprise that he wanted to come out, we are proud that he spoke with conviction this morning. we don't book his press. i think you are looking for me to say something -- i don't have anything for you. he has his right to come out and defend himself because donald trump is scared of facing vice president biden and a general election. we aren't going to play his game, we aren't going to allow these unsubstantiated lies and it smears to go unchecked. we also aren't going to allow this to consume our campaign. you can expect vice president biden to talk about all of the issues, he's going to take all of the qu

and it's the same thing with hunter biden ping. they're not going to investigate him.s in their party, they're in power. if you're looking for truth and justice in the congress, we need to look elsewhere. it just doesn't happen. i come from the criminal justice system where we have an independent arbiter, it's called a court system. and they keep us on the straight and narrow. that doesn't exist with congress. so they're not going to investigate they're own, they're not going to go after them. they're going to go after the president and try to dirty him up and get ready for the election. that's what this is all about. elizabeth: yeah. you know, here's the thing, we have the president really going after nancy pelosi hard last night at the rally in dallas. he attracted tens of thousands of people. he personally attacked her as crazy. watch this. >> that crazy nancy, she is crazy. the radical democrats want to destroy america as we know it, they want to indoctrinate our children and teach them that america -- elizabeth: the president said that after months of nancy pelosi

"hunter biden was really bad on @gma. now sleepy joe has real problems! reminds me of crooked hillary and her 33,000 deleted emails, not recoverable!" joe biden seems to disagree and he said recently his son hunter will join him on the campaign trail at some point but that doesn't mean his son plans to go into much more detail about his resume. >> i'm a private citizen. one thing i don't have to do is sit here and open my life as it relates to how much money i make or don't. it's all been reported. >> with that, hunter biden is still giving us more detail about his overseas business dealings that his dad has in the last few weeks. both father and son they only ever find out what one another are doing through the press. neill. >> neil: then might have to change. peter, thank you very much. hunter biden may be trying to remove potentially embarrassing issues for his father but did he just reignite them? we have former obama advisor here. what do you think? the very fact that he asked explain the day of his father's big debate, you know it's going to come up

and it's not just hunter biden.vice president, james biden, who told some investors in 2006 that there was a boatload of people willing to invest. it really an american aristocracy that makes people sick about washington. lee leslie, is it true that's why people are sick about washington? >> when you have the president saying he wants to root out corruption in ukraine, when you have the narrative being switched by republicans, and in addition that the american people aren't stupid. the american people know, look, if you're trying to root out corruption with ukraine or any other country when you're, you know, you're smiling and having pen palletters with leaders like -- pal letters with leaders like from navy, -- north korea, we don't buy it. that individual's family and they may be your opponent in the next political election, that doesn't smell right. and the american people know that, they're smarter than that, and i think that we're going to see that when we go to the polls in 2020. leland: josh, does the preside

i want to hear from hunter biden, as he weighed in. this has been the thing -- access and privilege. watch. >> if your last name was not biden, do you think you would have been asked to be on the board of burisma? >> i don't know. probably not. i don't think there's a lot of things that would've happened in my life, if my last name was not biden. this is what becomes a distraction, i have to sit here and answer these questions. that's why i've committed that i want serve on any boards or work directly for any foreign entities when my dad becomes president. >> harris: david? >> he didn't feel that way when has that was vice president, but now that he's running for president, now he's going to swear off boards. for many americans, that will seem like somewhat of a convenient path to go now that he has been taken to task for i it. his past actions. let me jump in for a second on your last question to mary. biden has never been known to run good campaigns. >> harris: well, he has lost twice. >> he has. what does bring this out this morning

repeatedly denied talking business with hunter at all. and he remembered midsentence and went on the sick, no, we never took it. if joe and hunter actually time to this interview to drop it for tonight's democrat debate, that was another colossal lapse in judgment. which sent the campaign surrogates scrambling to explain. >> do you wish he didn't do it this morning or did it tomorrow or the next day? >> martha -- it was a little hard to hear you, but hunter biden said today and answered every single question. >> laura: now that is funny. joe biden knows full and well that his son's dealing stink to high heaven. at the very least have a stark conflict of interest. when he was sitting as vice president and involved running ukraine policy. now his campaign team is a warning that democrat rivals don't even think about going back to the u.k. story.

remember archer, hunter biden's business partner? he had previously been a top fundraiser for john kerry who was secretary of state at the time. and soon after devin and hunter joined the burisma board, the company channelled $90,000 to a lobbying firm called ml strategies which was headed by none other than david lighter, john kerry's former chief of staff. that's handy because then secretary of state john kerry himself has visited ukraine with promises of u.s. aid and assistance. well, lighter registered as a burisma lobbyist in mid 2014. he gave close $60,000 to democrats including a select group of u.s. senators who would later be instrumental in pushing cash towards ukraine's energy sector, directly in line with burisma's interests. he donated to senator ed markey four times. and to senator jean shaheen three times. a month after the last of those donations, both markey and shaheen were among four senators who wrote a letter to president obama that said we should leverage the full resources and expertise of the u.s. government t

heather: should hunter eventually testify before congress?'s a -- heather: if they haven't done anything wrong, why not? >> there's a great question and here is why not in my mind, difference between court of law and what is legal and ethical versus the court of public opinion and going into that congress, if i felt that congress was going to ask questions for the purposes of getting to the truth and formulating perhaps policies that could curve foreign influence with regard to family and friends which i think is going to be very difficult then i'd say go for it but you know as well as i do it is going to be an issue of political theater and all it's going to happen is that the republicans are going to attack him in order to try to score political points and democrats will try to do the opposite, i have no confidence in congress that this will be search for the truth. heather: similar on how don, jr. was attacked for hours and hours when he testified? >> yeah, i mean, you can say testify but my feeling has always been when you do things like

what did you think of the hunter biden interview? >> it's not just lobbying, it's foreign interactions, right? in order for these two things to happen, number one, an individual is engaging with a foreign government and foreign people, number two, there's huge money at stake here. you see the peril working in that line of business. frankly, the whole area could use some febreze generally. going back a couple months ago in the special counsel investigation, paul manafort went down over these foreign lobbying types. brian gregg, who was the white house counsel, almost got convicted for these things. it's just dangerous work and we saw it here. >> when you look at how this compares to the trump children and how they have conducted themselves in business, especially considering the president has not done financially what presidents normally do, nor have we had a president in his financial circumstance, it's so interesting because they seem to have so much more of a political liability, and yet the president has positioned joe biden and h

[video clip] >> here is hunter? here is hunter? you know nothing about energy. you know nothing about anything, frankly. you are a loser. why did you get $1.5 billion, hunter? [applause] and your father was never considered smart. he was never considered a good senator. vices only a good president because he understood how to kiss barack obama's ass. [applause] [applause] true. [chanting "usa"] >> thank you, it is true. they are always saying the same thing. we admit it, there is nothing. always that same thing. president trump made a totally unsubstantiated claim about hunter biden and his father. it is not unsubstantiated you , it is son of a guns 100% true. [applause] 100%. the smart guys on wall street, and i know all of them, and they are smart. they have never seen anything like that one before. i called them. has that ever happened? never happened. guy walks in, no experience, no nothing. flies in on air force 2 with his father. that is when he is vice president. like to have joe biden take over negotiations with china? i don't think so. i don't think so.

hunter no longer serves on the board. he told the new yorker he had no idea his time created so much grief for his dad's campaign. >> as the impeachment inquiry continues to take shape and put heat on his personal attorney, the attorney general is doing plenty of investigating of his own. pete king from new york, great to have you with us tonight. you have weighed in on the characterization of what william barr is up to and how things are portrayed in the media. i want to reuse something from matthew miller who used to be eric holder's spokesperson at the doj under the obama administration and he says one thing about this investigation to personally oversee. what is the predicate? there's never been a credible allegation that a crime was committed, your response? >> there was never a credible accusation by the trump organization, the trump campaign and get the justice department and jim comey began an investigation of the trump campaign. they are real issues as to why the fbi and cia were involved in the investigation of

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you're hunter biden.ot have happened yet and that means that when hunter biden said he hasn't made any money. does that mean he is not about to make money when he exits the investment? ainsley: why would you be on a board if there is nothing in it for you. brian: to meet people at the christmas party? ainsley: exactly. he was on a lot of boards. he did make money serving on for the oil company, burisma. steve: that's right. ainsley: newt gingrich has the same questions we all do. he is very skipped call about this listen. >> you have a very unusual circumstance where vice president biden has said he didn't know his son was on the board. was making money out of ukraine. his son has said in different interviews, yeah i told him i was getting paid in ukraine. i would like to know what exactly is the status of the money that came out of the chinese investments. because there is a great deal of smoke. i don't know if there is any fire. there is certainly a great deal of smoke around him putting together a join

instead of hunter, it's don jr. vice president trump was doing the bragging about leveraging our tax money. >> yeah, this is kind of hysterical when you think about it. we don't have to bother switching the names, sean, it already happened. remember when they complained about the trump tower moscow project -- by the way, that never happened. no money ever changed hands. don jr. actually doesoe real estate, and build buildings paired so let me get this straight, a perfectly legal construction project was turned into an international scandal, although not a brick was ever lg dollar ever changed hands. yet hunter biden, with zero experience a natural gas, ukraine, or ukrainian natural gas,s, get $80,000 plus a month gig? you couldn't find someone else who actually has propane in their house, or someone who has more experience than hunter biden? i mean, come on! this thing stinks to the heavens. anybody, without wearing rose-colored glasses, can see -- >> sean: to answer andy's question, he's looking into all of it. the

>> it went to hunter biden. >> hunter biden. >> hunter biden. >> is it the first thing you think aboutke up, the last thing you think about before you go to bed? >> no, it really isn't. the reason is because i know where i stand with my dad and i know where i stand with my family. being the subject of donald trump's ire is a feather in my cap. it's not something that i go to bed nervous about at night at all. the reason i'm able to do that is because i am absolutely enveloped in love of my family. i certainly hope that there is no negative political ramifications of this. i think the truth always wins. >> do you think you're a distraction right now to your father's campaign? >> no, personally myself, i'm not necessarily a distraction to his campaign. i'm never a distraction to my dad. but as it relates to actually going and being on stage with him, this is not a family business. everybody kind of thinks that somehow, whether it's a compliment that we're like the kennedys, or whether it's a backhanded compliment like you're the trumps, my dad has a job but that does not mean that i had

actually told house investigators that he brought up concerns in 2015 about hunter biden's role on the board of ukrainian. at the same time, his father vice president joe biden. the biden campaign now telling fox news in response and i quote, donald trump's on president lee corrupt administration is melting down because of the scandal he touched off by trying to get ukraine to lie about joe biden aired on joe biden's watch, the u.s.-made on policies for ukraine. president trump slamming what he calls a democratic witch hunt and poses new issues for biden. >> joe biden and joe biden's son has tremendous problems with joe biden's son and ukraine. so he's got tremendous problems with biden's son and ukraine and all of the horrible things. you can get it, you can see it, it's been a big deal. >> julie: a big deal indeed. catherine herridge's live in washington. if this is all new to us, why don't you tell us more? >> career development diplomatn you give a statement on tuesday. they tell fox news kent testified that he was so concerned about hunter biden's position that he flagged those co

hunter was worth every penny of that 50,000 a month.might have been but not because he was so good at estimating ukrainian gas output. >> tucker: hunter biden is a likable guy. fort of the point, hunter biden, while the people scamming the system, he was the worst added by far. [laughs] there were other varsity level sleaze balls. they got rich. >> like hillary clinton lecturing the trump administration and the american people on how he is selling foreign policy is the ultimate insult to intelligent people but she does have a love expertise in this. she actually knows what she's talking about. >> tucker: buck sexton, great to see you. new york ignores integration line out there threatening you for speaking your mind onre immigration. first amendment no longer applies in new york. we will tell you why. robert de niro just had another episode. mark steyn response to that tiny actor. prior to going to aspen dental i've had nineteen surgeries. i'm 100% permanently disabled from the military and after i went in to aspen dental it was just li

the president woke up tweeting about hunter and ukraine and hours later talking about hunter and chinaact sake, let's look at what has been debunked. first biden's son hunter joined the board of a uhe in-i can'tian energy company back in 2014. he was paid as much as $50,000 a month but had no experience in natural gas, ukraine or regulatory oversight. that is all fact. the payments to hunter confirmed by the "new york times." second, critics claim that hunter biden's work was under investigation by then prosecutor. that was not the case. the company was being investigated long before hunter biden arrived on the scene. and his role specifically was not being investigated always any point. third, former vice president joe biden was the point person for ukraine at the time. biden threatened to withhold a billion dollars in aid unless the prosecutor was fired, but biden wasn't alone. the united states and many other european allies wanted him out. that is a fasct. joe biden said it himself in 2018. critics cry foul saying that he shoved shokin out. but that theory was debunked. biden and s

so this day, hunter biden's lawyer has said hunter biden acally hasn't made money from an investment that took place in 2017. hunter biden owns a rcentage a company that has been involved here and a lawyer said no money has been maode. hunter biden has repeatedly declined to talk to us. there are questions about why he joined this board, what he did, why he did this in the wke of the trip by hi father to beijing. so some on all sides would say why would he do tanid potentially put his father up for questioning later. d st as hunter biden joined a gas company in ukraine at a time when hisfather was shepherding policy in that country andga talking aboupolicy. so a pattern has caused issuesmb for even s of the ce president's staff. former staffers said they're concerned but didn't think laws were broken but let the matters pass but they were conedce about appearance. >> woodruff: michael kranish, you also reported president tried to git get the finance year steve schwarzman involved in thre allegationsund china. remind us who steve schwarzman is and what the president was asking himo do

hunter's announcements today an attempt to blunt those attacks. first cutting ties to a chinese investment firm. hunter intends to resign on the board of directors on or by october 31st. joe biden pledging that unlike the trump family -- >> no o in my family will have an office in the white house. >> reporter: president trump's pursuit of political ammunition on joe and hunter biden from ukraine triggered the impeachment inquiry. the president denies applying pressure. >> there's no quid pro quo. >> reporter: this week a key witness, trump donor and ambassador to the european union jordan sondland will testify before congress. sondland sent messages to other state department officials who raised questions about whether u.s. military aid or a white house visit were tied to ukraine investigating the bidens. sondland's text provided the president's core defense. >> from ambassador sondland, there is no quid pro quo. he said that. >> reporter: but nbc news has learned from a source close to sondland that he will tell congress that he wasn't speaking f

these are big records from hunter biden's firm and if you remember hunter abiding saying he was getting paid a $50,000 a month. the fbi raided the office and bank records in an unrelated case in 2015. they sew transfers of $166,000 a month and as high as $220,000 in one month going into hunter biden and devon archer's firm. that's a lot more than $50,000 and it was one of those things that heat ukrainian prosecutor's interest in reopening the case in march of 2019. the size of the money was much larger than they had been saying. we will must go back and we have the affidavit of this prosecuto. we have multiple -- there is no explanation. how is it that the mauled and the media -- you have your quid pro quo here. you have your illegal actions here. how do they ignore that part of the story and say it's a conspiracy theory and as joe biden very defensively keep saying, there is nothing to the story, nothing to the story. well, there really is a lot to the story. >> the media is stuck on one thing which is that the united states government under biden's control and its allies in western eu