that joe biden never discussed business with hunter biden. e biden never did anything on behalf of hunter biden's business interest or otherwise. never changed official policy in any way, shape or form. in fact, the only evidence we have is to the contrary, which is that even though it was perceived by -- that they had the prosecutor general under control quote unquote, joe biden advocated for his firing. which of course was not coveted or desired and would potentially be bad. i want to be very clear about one thing, he did describe that there were approximately 20 occasions over the course of the nearly decade-long business relationship where when one of them called the other, that hunter biden would ask his father to say hello to whom ever he was at dinner. he said there were times when it was friends, times when it was potential business partners or business partners. the witness was unequivocal and stated very clearly that they never discussed any business on that phone conversation. there were niceties and there was a hello and talk about

number two, does this cause impeddism into hunter biden and the biden family?> jonathan: i think that is the concern, the initial concern is whether weiss is damaged goods. you usually appoint special counsel who will satisfy all sides, that this is someone who doesn't bring baggage to the question and can resolve issues. these whistleblowers were critical of weiss. weiss suggested that he always had this authority. the whistleblowers said he said the opposite to staff, suggested he allowed statute of limitations to run, that is not the suggestion of the department of justice. reappointment of weiss will raise questions. the investigation, no question that making him special counsel will now make it more difficult for congress to get answers from him and from the investigation. it is not likely to deter congress, however, particularly if they are shifting toward impeachment inquiry. it goes to what is the mandate here? this goes beyond hunter biden, they allowed critical crimes to expire. for hunter biden, this is a chilling moment, his counsel told prosecutors

the one in hunter biden's taxes? >> i have not. >> when were you made supervisor to the investigation of mr. biden operation fund? >> january of 2020. >> by your estimate, at that time, when did you initially believe that the evidence was sufficient to request physical search warrants in california, arkansas, new york, and washington, d.c.? >> special agent ziegler draft the affidavit in april or may. that was when i -- had that search warrant. >> of 2020? >> 2020. >> it was a short time after that you begin to illustrate that career officials at the d.c. oj were dragging their feet regarding the next steps in the investigation. is that correct? >> yes, that is correct. >> two months later in june of 2020, you came to the belief expressing as such in communications with the irs leadership that if normal procedures had been followed, did these search warrants would've already been executed. is that correct? >> yes. >> was that within the typical timeframe for the self imposed investigative pause did the doj historicall

this was in an email obtained from hunter biden's laptop. hunter biden confirms. ice president biden is coming december 7th through ninth biden has officially visited uae u.s. tax dollars for to -- withhold he lied about this during the campaign. he specifically said it wasn't true. sir enough -- if you have any questions about whether he buys them, generate 23rd of 2018 he brags about it years later. ladies and gentlemen, the american people, that's the scheme. that is the proof of concept. they replicated it again and again because they never thought biden would be president. no one did he is our president. and because of his, actions because of him selling policy decisions to adversaries abroad for personal gain, he is vulnerable. he is vulnerable. it's a vulnerable cause of it. we are not here to prosecute hunter biden. we care about our country's national security and whether the president can compromise. that's why we are here. that's why we're here. . with that, i yield back. the >> chair recognizes carlee from virginia. >> thank you, mister chairman, thank

there is no ongoing investigation of hunter biden or joe biden. why would you accept a plea to have the case if you were to investigate the guy for other crimes. nobody ever does this. the only reason we are talking about this, the plea deal blew up because of a good judge. they were going to wipe out the fina fina financial transactions, and weiss, according to the whistleblower has had pressure on him from day one to short circuit this investigation. so when i hear the attorney general tell me today i'm gonna make weiss special counsel, that creates more problems than answers that it gives. >> sandra: senator, breaking news from jake gibson. it is unclear, we are learning, if or when weiss will testify before congress. >> okay. now, i asked him in a letter i wrote july 27th, did you tell investigators on or about october 7th that you are not the deciding person on whether charges are to be filed. the whistleblower says on october 7th at 2022, weiss told the team i was overruled, it's not my decision what to charge or where to charge it. i asked

the fbi has had the hunter biden laptop dating back to that time. paneled to take on these bribery allegations and allegations of biden family corruption at that time with multiple witnesses? that's five years ago. that did not happen. they waited two and a half years now to indict trump over election interference. >> yeah, i don't understand why the case waited. the thing that makes most sense to me is jack smith gets a patina of independence from the department of justice. but, you know, if you hand pick your man, you pretty much know how it's going to play out. so that sort of patina is pretty much removed. and it's almost laughable. special counsel's supposed to be independent, supposed to remove the political question. so you put in someone who's, by all accounts, the democratic partisan and has a history of -- losing all the time on appeal, and you kind of scratch your head, you know? it would make sense to appoint the special counsel for biden, robert hur, a moderate, respected republican. ic see him, okay. we're going to put him in for trump.

hunter biden try to do business. that is correct. >> so, not only have you no direct evidence connecting joe biden to any of hunter biden's business deals, you actually had proof that he wasn't involved. that is the proof that you had. in the end of the day, this was a five-year criminal investigation with tens of thousands of documents, maybe hundreds of thousands, unusually, search warrants, aggressive techniques, you wrote a report recommending felony charges. it went to d.o.d.. they wrote a 99-page memo approval memo. neither of you saw that, did you? >>. that is correct. what was the recommendation? >> approval, discretion, declination? >> so, i have to stick -- >> you testified that it was discretion, which means that it wasn't an approval it was to the discretion of the u.s. attorney's office which had that doj tax memo. it had information from the defense lawyers, they spoke with and they are the ones who had to prove this case in court. i will tell, you as a federal prosecutor for ten years, i worked with man

my republican colleagues somehow claims that hunter biden's actions reflect poorly on president bidenand somehow this involves wrong defend doing by president biden, but there isn't a sin till offa evidence that he did anything wrong a. i think mr. weiss hasn't surfaced any evidence, that there is none. >> do you think if this weren't the president's son that this move would be made here? >> that's a good point. i'm not sure. i know my constituents aren't asking about it. the other dade i heard that richard hudson said that nobody is talking about it back in his district because we don't -- this is not top of mind. >> it is top of mind for a lot of constituents. we know that. maybe not yours, but there are many constituents out there who are paying attention to it, for sure. >> to that point, congressman -- sorry, go ahead. >> i think there's definitely some on the other side who care very much about it, but as mr. hudson himself said, it's just not one of their top priorities, the way that jobs, education and health care, other priorities are. i conduct a lot of town hall meetings. t

a lot of the republican inquiries on capitol hill will focus on, at a minimum, hunter biden was making money off of being a biden. the most favorable interpretation of those events for the president is he either was not that aware of what his son and brother were doing or he did not tell them forcefully enough to stop. now with some of the speakerphone claims, we are seeing may be he had a little more awareness of what was going on and certainly seemed to on some level be enabling, if not encouraging them. that is going to trigger further investigation, then we will have to see where it goes. host: we touched on other republican candidates response to the indictment, some of them responding talking about a two-tiered justice system, the weaponization of the federal government. another approach by will heard ahead of the indictment in iowa, i want to play the comments he made about the former president running and the reaction of the audience in iowa. [video clip] >> the reason donald trump lost the election in 2020 is he failed to grow the gop brand in areas like women with a college d

nobody's wearing a hunter biden t-shirt saying hunter biden for president.ust because somebody's child does wrong does not mean that the father or the mother does wrong. when it comes to president trump, this indictment, this most recent one speaks to his actions on january 6th. actions that we know based on the january 6th committee, based on mike pence's book, based on all the evidence that was laid out just this week seems to be pretty damning. we'll have to find out if he'll be found guilty, but there's no question. we all watched it on live television as he urged on his supporters, and his supporters took over the united states capitol. molly: richard covering a ton of ground, matt. i want to bring you back in. some republicans floating the possibility of impeaching president biden based on these connections. richard pointing out there were a certain number of calls, but this is one person's testimony, archer's testimony. if we're going to see more testimony and other people, who knows what other people have seen and what other documents will be found a

suggesting that they still expect that this prosecution will be limited to the tax offenses that hunter biden >>> of course, that's just their expectation, their guess, because they don't know where this investigation is going. now, also in the court documents, the prosecutors laid out this timeline, where they had given biden's team until today. biden's team had asked to monday, and they denied that. it's unclear. this statement suggests they're hoping for a resolution and not expanding, even though that david weiss will be given special counsel status. that does allow him to bring a charge in any district, which they're also flagging not necessarily in delaware where the judge had questioned is so fiercely. >> thank you. one of the things in the statement is just a reminder that david weiss has been working on this for five years. five years. i'm not a lawyer, but i've covered enough of this to know that five years is a really long time. god forbid we bring humanity into this, but to be sort of stringing along and to be having a person's life in limbo? we're talking about hunter biden and w

. >>> a brand new special counsel now focused on hunter biden. "the lead" starts right now. the attorney general's surprise announcement. the prosecutor who was overseeing the hunter case is now being elevated to a special counsel. what will this mean for the president's son? what will this mean for the president? >>> and donald trump might be told to zip it. the judge in the 2020 election fraud case signaling that she is going to be willing to restrict sensitive evidence as she tells trump's attorneys the former president's right to free speech is not absolute. >>> and hawaii's catastrophe sadly getting worse. historic towns gone, homes burned to the ground, 55 lives confir confirmed lost, and that number is sadly expected to climb. >>> welcome to "the lead" i'm jake tapper. and we start with our law and justice lead with a new special counsel. the new title gives attorney general david weiss who had been already been investigating president biden's son more powers than he had as a federal prosecutor. you might recall a few weeks ago it looked as though this investigation wa

hunter biden is not running for president. n is running for president, and he is the president, yet not withstanding all of the time, effort, the moving goal posts, there's no evidence connecting president bide son any of his son's dealings. you can sing all you want and make all sorts of accusations, but the fact of the matter that president biden -- there's been no evidence to show he's been involved in anything. so hunter biden will be treated by the department of justice as he should be, but congress needs to stop investigating a private citizen and stop this fishing expedition to try to link president biden to hunter biden's conduct when there is no evidence to support that. >> well, devin archer, hunter biden's business partner, told you in closed-door testimony that hunter would put his father on speakerphone with -- while he was meeting with his business associates, and this happened at least 20 times. and archer told you that hunter would use these calls to send signals to his business partners to create the impression

said no you cannot determine if joe was sitting next to hunter biden when hunter biden said my dad isto me and we know the threat worked within weeks over 8 million was transferred to the chinese communist to the biden family. maria: we know all of this, i'm trying to understand what mitch mcconnell is uninformed on the subject. maria: that when you would have to ask mitch. good to see you, thank you very much, ted cruz joining us this morning. coming out more on the biden family business with investigative reporter john sullivan and emma joe morris, with new information. bidenomics is costing americans dearly, oil and gasoline surging again undermining any precontemplation while a national debt soars. $233 trillion. 2024 republican presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy is here coming up. ♪ dude, that's a foul! and now you're ready to settle the score. and if you don't have the right home insurance coverage, well you could end up paying for all this yourself. so get allstate. you won't overpay for glasses if you shop at america's best. they offer two pairs and a free, quality eye exa

they could max out the charges on this very narrow ground with hunter biden but the question is whether they are going to continue to studiously avoid inquiries related to the president. we know of $20 million going through two dozen shell companies and accounts to biden family members. many in the media made want to engage in willful blindness but that is a lot of corruption that has been alleged that has been linked to the president's family and to say that he doesn't get a benefit from this money going to the biden family fund is ridiculous. i think the public sees it that way. now that garland has expanded that mandate there may be a green light to congress to move forward with this inquiry. >> martha: very interesting. with regard to one last question for you with a timeline and the statue of limitations. if were supposed to believe that weiss is starting as special counsel to dig in and do you think you will ever oversee the charges from that original plea agreement or will they be in other jurisdictions and will at all move off of his plate? the time is running out. >> he will ov

but the expected plea deal that hunter biden had initially struck with the department of justice, theidens had hope that was an opportunity to turn the page from what has been a very dark chapter of the family's history, but that matter was put on hold after the plea deal fell apart in the delaware courthouse just last month. now, the bidens have really taken great lengths to not weigh in on these matters. earlier in the summer, when the expected plea deal was announced, the president and his wife telegraphed their support for their son through a statement from a white house spokesperson, saying they continue to support hunter biden and why not be appointing of commenting further. it's clear this is a new phase for president biden, who has sustained -- or facing sustained pressure from republican lawmakers about his son hunter's business dealings. there's also a threat about impeachment inquiries into president biden, so we might see further reaction from the white house, which so far said they did not have any heads up. >> capitol hill is exactly where we have to go next. arlette, st

he said hunter put him on the phone with jonathan lee. joe bidenw hunter to china on air force to where he met jonathan lee. hunter introduced joe and jonathan. it was a $20 million handshake. the bidens made $20 million from that deal. the administrative grease approvals to take over american car manufacturers. joe biden, who says he didn't talk to his son about his business rode a letter of recommendation on behalf of jonathan lee's daughter. jonathan lee is a power broker who our vice president went to bat for, helping his daughter cut the line in admissions offices in ivy league schools because his family was getting paid. devon archer testified joe biden personally met with a russian billionaire, back in 2014. joe biden had dinner with her and a month later, the russian billionaire wired hunter biden $3.5 million. democrats say joe biden had no idea who he was talking to. >> it was part of the daily conversations hunter biden had with his father. it sounded like most of the t time, biden did not even know who the people was at dinner. he was a

look, the american people deserve to know what hunter biden and the biden family were up to.en joe biden was vice president of the united states. >> and you can hear they are, as well, some of the reaction pouring in, locals telling us it is the heartbeat of the midwest, not washington, d.c., no suits and ties, lots of fun out here and they are trying to connect one on one with these politicians so we will see how that all plays out here. if anyone has any breakout moments, iowa is the first in the nation g.o.p. caucus state. today, all talking one-on-one with governor kim reynolds here on what they would do for americans. live, somebody noted oh not talking to the iowa governor, former president donald trump, e with voters and get his message out to the people. send it back to you. >> charles: alexis, thank you very much. will this appointment slow down the congressional investigation into the charges of biden family corruption? it right to texas republican and member of the house oversight committee pete sessions. representative sessions, thank you for joining us. in many w

what jim jordan mentioned, those violations, we know hunter biden has violated that. even the judge cited that as one of the reasons she rejected the deal. it open the door to joe biden. joe biden was a participant in at least one deal we know of. he was participating and doing a benefit to this foreign agent for this country and it was withholding american tax dollars in the form of foreign aid. this is serious. today took a huge step towards implicating joe biden in these crimes. >> they admitted marie smoke would have gone out of business. go back to the message. it brings us to your investigation in the judiciary committee and that is about whether or not this department of justice is weaponized. is this department of justice, is it being weaponized against republicans, and are they protecting the biden family syndicate? are they protecting joe biden. why didn't they want to hand over that form knowing how it was. why was it difficult to get suspicious activity reports. >> god bless this judge who asked the right questions. i encourage people to read that transcrip

plus, much more on that and hunter biden, the story there. naming goes against federal law. that it violates federal law. let's check in with our friends dagen and sean. sean's been doing double duty today. navy got a good hour coming up on "the bottom line." sean: we have presidential candidate nikki haley coming up to talk about the campaign and the economy as well as steve moore telling the truth, joe biden is, about the inflation reduction act. dagen: gregg jarrett on the special counsel that isn't a special counsel. i call it the biden black hole, it just makes it all go away. and then caroline downey on a fantastic new singer from my neck of the woods. that and so much more, top of the hour. ♪ ♪ trying vapes to quit smoking might feel like progress, but with 3x more nicotine than a pack of cigarettes - vapes increase cravings - trapping you in an endless craving loop. nicorette reduces cravings until they're gone for good. that's why comcast business de is launching theal. mobile made free event. with our business internet, new and exist

hunter biden needed to be seen with joe biden and put joe biden on the phone.ed to be copied on emails like we are just finding where joe biden was disguising and hiding his name and forwarding information relevant to shady business dealings with hunter. this was the biden business model led by joe biden. >> sean: this timeline. this true in october of 2015 it became official the obama administration policy after a study that ukraine had made enough improvement in terms of ethices and corruption they were okay and gave a sign off on the billion dollars loan guarantee that joe biden was supposed to deliver in december of 2015? is that true? >> that is true. we just found that out this week. i can't believe no one asked that question before. it appears that joe biden created this narrative and the media went along with it that the already was corrupt. we found that the biden administration applauded the efforts the ukraine prosecutor had done. >> sean: and december 4, hunter biden was meeting with burisma executives in dubai. this is a critical moment because bur

i mean, hunter biden's father is the president of the you state, hunter biden would be the defendant.tify in his defense who would be cross examined by members of the justice department working for the witness as president of the united states. it would be a weird situation. there's no doubt about that. and i should add one more thing, in addition to not charging hunter biden for the tax charges, the defense team still believed they could get this promise from the justice department, never to prosecute hunter biden again for anything. so the -- hunter biden team was really working from a position of great confidence thinking they could pretty much push the justice department around. >> john: last week, byron, i suggested that pigs do indeed fly. when the "washington post" published an editorial said the plea deal did look like a sweetheart deal, but must have been a whole flock of pigs flying around d.c., cnn is talking about donald trump's claim during the debate that hunter biden made millions from china and joe biden shot it down. listen here. >> trump was right. i mean -- he did m

you know that, of course, republicans think that it's not just hunter biden's business dealings that ly including the president himself. so certainly, this could widen the scope of the investigation as we now know that david weiss is special counsel appointed to investigate hunter biden. ash? ashley: yeah, grady, thank you. as you say, a huge development. we understand questions to the white house are being referred to the department of justice, they're not responding. that's peter doocy at fox news reporting that. and, by the way, fox business breaking the news this week that house oversight committee chair james comer plans to subpoena the bidens in the probe into the family's business deals. listen to this. >> this was always going to end with the bidens coming if front of the committee. we are going to subpoena the family. we're putting the case together to win in court. obviously, with all the opposition and obstruction we're getting from the biden attorneys now, we know that this is going to end up in court. ashley: well, joining me now, republicanman pat fallon of texas who, by

said no you cannot determine if joe was sitting next to hunter biden when hunter biden said my dad isand we know the threat worked within weeks over 8 million was transferred to the chinese communist to the biden family. maria: we know all of this, i'm trying to understand what mitch mcconnell is uninformed on the subject. maria: that when you would have to ask mitch. good to see you, thank you very much, ted cruz joining us this morning. coming out more on the biden family business with investigative reporter john sullivan and emma joe morris, with new information. bidenomics is costing americans dearly, oil and gasoline surging again undermining any precontemplation while a national debt soars. $233 trillion. 2024 republican presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy is here com hi! need new glasses? buy one pair, get one free at visionworks! how can you see me squinting? i can't! i'm just telling everyone!...hey! buy one pair, get one free for back to school. visionworks. see the difference. - i'm lynette. this is my husband, arthur. - yeah, you wouldn't believe we're in our 70's, huh?

archer pushed back on goldman's charge and pointed out that joe biden met with and talked to hunter'sn, what is the most important thing we need to get out of that testimony of devon archer? what's the take away? >> that the biden name and the biden position was up for sale. money changed hands coming from different governments including the chinese communist government, romania and ukraine, and that the biden administration because of its corrupt past in the vice presidential position, i believe is now compromised as the president of the united states. that is why this is a matter of national security. we must get to the bottom of it before it's too late. maria: well, you sent a letter to the biden administration. you've demanded answers on possible chinese malware tlwaretargeting u.s. military operations. you say it must be met with a firm, resolute and messrd response from the united states. we are watching anything but that, okay. we are watching this administration send saab net car after cabinet memberring begging for communication from the ccp. what are they doing, we're findin

of hunter biden to a chinese partyer in. h, indictment. july 25th, hunter has the plea teal that falls apart -- deal that falls apart. the next day, trump gets additional charges from jack smith. and, of course, when devon archer testifies on july # 31st, trump is indicted on january 6th. congressman, what do you think the doj is trying to do here? >> first, the doj is corrupt, in my view. they are obstructing justice especially when you look at how they were handling all these dealings with hunter biden. but to a broader perspective, what the department of justice is really doing is they want to bleed donald trump dry. they want him to use up so many campaign resources with these terrible, phony indictments that it's going to be hard for him to mount a challenge to the presidency. and for the american people, understand what this means. this means that the democrat party and joe biden are using the power of government to basically turn the screwses on their political opponent. that is un-american. that is not what our countr

whit johnson in maui tonight. >>> also on this friday night, the surprise turn in the hunter biden investigation. after the plea deal for president biden's son fell apart in federal court. attorney general merrick garland today granting special counsel status to u.s. attorney david weiss. what this means for the case. could hunter biden now stand trial. pierre thomas in washington. mary bruce at the white >>> the judge warning donald trump about his public attacks, possibly intimidating witnesses and tainting the jury pool. the judge now limiting the former president's ability to share evidence in the january 6th case. jonathan karl standing by. >>> bail revoked for ftx founder san bankmain-fried. a $250 million bond. why the former billionaire, accused of scamming millions from his clients, is suddenly back behind bars. >>> the war in ukraine, a russian missile strike hitting a hotel used by the u.n. and u.s. aid workers. missiles targeting civilians. and president zelenskyy firing all of his military recruitment chiefs. ian pannell in ukraine. >>> tracking severe storms through the weekend. la

hunter biden is the luckiest man. f the charges are past the statute of limitations, sketchy there and the second part yesterday we learned from house oversight, biden family members and associates got $20 million from russia, ukraine, and that was while biden was vice president handling the portfolio for the obama administration and also learned from comer that biden was the brand that was being sold to the foreign business entities. so continues to get closer to joe biden, knowledge, certainly he lied about his knowledge of the business dealings, his involvement is closer and closer and just interesting that every time bad news drops for the biden white house or biden particularly, something else comes out. >> sandra: i play out karl rove, i promised him i would, nobody is talking about this, listen. >> we are missing one important question that nobody has asked and it seems to me this is a fundamental question. when joe biden was vice president of the united states, did anybody in the obama white house, starting wit

quick question about the devin archer testimony, that was one of the former business associates of hunter bidene asked about his testimony that said that president biden had gotten on the phone about 20 times over the course of ten years with hunter biden and some of these business associates from burr rees ma, no indication that the president knew who was on the other side aside from his own son, but the president said of that, he basically said it is wrong. not clear what he was saying was wrong, whether it's that there were no calls or that he did nothing wrong, but that is what he said. >> just to suggest another possible misinterpretation or interpretation, it was originally reported by the republican read out that archer had suggested something that insinuated improper behavior by the president and his son, and then when archer came out and the transcript came out, it was very clear that he had exonerated the president. >> that's exactly right. so we saw the transcript and that was our first opportunity to really hold the republicans' feet to the fire is and say the way you presented this

we know what happened, hunter biden and joe biden set up accounts and llc's, hunter biden is travelingorld when joe biden is there. he leaves the country when joe biden leaves and money shows up. you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see this. what they were trying to give joe biden was plausible deniability. hunter biden texted his daughter saying, at least you don't have to give me half your salary the way i pay the bills for this entire family. something tells me joe biden is involved in that, as well. >> laura: thank you. >> president biden: my son has not made money in terms of this thing about what are you talking about, china. >> laura: next guest is the reason hunter biden made a major move giving up his seat on the board of directors for a chinese-backed company. during his interview, hunter biden former business partner devon archer said reason joe's son stepped off that board is because of book written by peter swizer, he is president of government accountability institute. when hunter biden stepped down from the board, joe said it was because he was a man, wait for it,

he's still talking about investing hunter biden, not his father. rtment of justice refused to answer whether president biden could be investigated. that's going to add pressure on the hill to say, all right, then we're going to have to go forward with this. >> bret: the other thing, shannon, broke when i was anchoring america's news room, you were on as the judge in the donald trump case on the protective order said, you can't say everything, but he can say some things. >> and we now have the protective order in writing from the judge late in the day saying, yes, if it comes to sensitive materials, and she defines those, the professor i think maybe too amburg woeful but she identifies what qualifies as sensitive materials but she said they can use other material they have publicly, this is not a gag order that would stop him from talking about the number one thing he likes to talk about on the campaign trail which is the indictments against him but it limits who can see the sensitive material and how much he can talk about it publicly which is non-o

he didn't answer chad pergram's questions yesterday, but behind closed doors, he said that hunter biden put his father on speaker phone to sell the brand 20 times. house oversight committee chairman james comer says this, devin archer testimony confirm joe biden lied to the american people when he said he had no knowledge about his son's business dealings and was not involved. joe biden was what he sold to enrich the biden family. andy biggs elaborated on what archer told him. >> term he used was this, people would not be inclined to legally lean on burisma because of the biden name. which again, that was joe biden. >> archer talked about the big guy and how hunter biden said we need to talk to my guy, see when my guy is going to be here and those type things. >> griff: the white house is ush approximating back denying that the president ever talked business on the call, saying this. it appears house republicans hyped witness testified he never heard of president biden discussing or doing anything wrong. house democrats downplayed the testimony. >> approximately 20 times over the course

there is no evidence linking joe biden to anything related to hunter biden. , that the only official action joe biden took in connection with any of -- that was connected to any of hunter biden's businesses was to urge the prosecutor general to be fired from ukraine. and devon archer, the witness today, said the bah rhys ma, on whose board he sat with hunter biden, did not want that prosecutor general fired because he was, quote, under their control, unquote. so, the only official action here that is at action actually went counter to what hunter biden's business interests might be. this investigation, anderson, needs to end. and it needs to end now because what we're doing is badgering a private citizen. and there's no legitimate legislative purpose at all. >> there's been talk by grassley and others about a $5 million payment. was there anything archer said about that today? >> yes. he said that that's false. he said that there's no $5 million payment to hunter or joe that he knew about. he said that all of hunter's payments from burisma went through their j

something hunter biden has said. to me the elements of this corruption are clear. >> mike: congressman, we have to run. thank you for your time. >> gillian: a live look at los angeles, a press conference underway regarding the two u.s. sailors arrested and charged with spying for china. listen. >> federal detention. the indictment that we unsealed this morning alleges a scheme that began two years ago and continued through this past may. petty officer chau agreed to transmit and did in fact send sensitive u.s. military information to the intelligence officer working for the peoples republic of china. he transmitted this information in exchange for payments that totalled approximately $15,000. as alleged in the indictment, in response to requests from the intelligence officer, he used encrypted communications. the information included details regarding various aspects of the u.s. navy operational security and activity. among other things, charges that he transmitted operational plans for a large scale military exercis

this is not about hunter biden. i do not care about hunter biden.nd it is not about trump, it is not about any of that. he got a justice system that is so empowered it things it can pick the next president, and that is what is going to happen this time. whatever the outcome is this is going to decide who our next president is. host: when did that mistrust of the justice department start for you? what triggered that? caller: honestly, if you look at the history of the fbi from j edgar to martin luther king, from the kennedys to now, given that much power over everything -- economy, foreign relations -- it is going to get corrupt. i think it is too big. for me it has always been something to think about. waco, all of this, they have got too much. host: appreciate your call. aaron in heath, ohio, independent line. caller: how are you today? host: fine. caller: i have been in law enforcement years ago and did my fair share of undercover work. i would like to direct everybody's attention to something we forget about and have not looked at because it is h

hunter biden's plea-bargain on tax and gun charges spirit in him jail time fell apart. now weiss will probably take it to trial. even my devon archer testified next week that vice president joe biden joined 20 speaker phone calls with hunter and his associates and said the vp dying twice at a fancy georgetown restaurant for the first time the hunter scandal is getting too big for the media to ignore. i am howard kurtz, this is the "mediabuzz". ♪. howard: the media has been a prime target as the pundits are debating whether hunter biden story deserves more attention and now that question reverberates even more loudly. >> this is an investigation, it is a cover-up, biden's attorney general, merrick garland handpicks the same delaware prosecutor who has been covering for the biden for the last 25 years. >> you would think the republicans would be thrilled by this news. no this republican party, you would think they would get a special counsel for hunter biden, alright, giddyup, we won. weiss role is to write a report to exculpate president biden. he spent all of these years

said no you cannot determine if joe was sitting next to hunter biden when hunter biden said my dad isto me and we know the threat worked within weeks over 8 million was transferred to the chinese communist to the biden family. maria: we know all of this, i'm trying to understand what mitch mcconnell is uninformed on the subject. maria: that when you would have to ask mitch. good to see you, thank you very much, ted cruz joining us this morning. coming out more on the biden family business with investigative reporter john sullivan and emma joe morris, with new information. bidenomics is costing americans dearly, oil and gasoline surging again undermining any precontemplation while a national debt soars. $233 trillion. 2024 republican presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy is here com we never just see the numbers. we see the people. marcus: detroit, it's just changed so much. you can see what it once was. and then, i think about what it can be. as an entrepreneur, it's about how i can give them the tools to empower themselves if we can just all do something small, all the small things

hunter biden who was on the board of burisma. n joe biden's interest to make sure that prosecutor was fired. and for just asking about that corruption, the president, donald trump, gets impeached. this is how the democrats role. now that the walls are closing in on the biden influence ped olds scheme and hunter biden is in trouble, we have the corrupt, i guess you call them corrupt, department of justice narrowing in on donald trump throwing everything but the kitchen sink at him, there is more to come as we know, georgia is going to follow suit. new york, alvin bragg case is still on going. and this is like i think of donald trumpis being destroyed and criminal law system destroyed our press is a joke, they are the laughingstock of the world, the republic is in decline, that is what is going on, the democrat party, and this administration or responsible for it. they are doing it right now, right in front of our eyes they are have to figure out how to get this matter to supreme court, we have to hope 5 justices who will put a stop

hunter to please we need d.c. help on the issue, on this issue, and others. help game. joe bidengave the prosecutor of the government leveraged a billion of your tax dollars and gave them six hours to fire the prosecutor. and son of a b they fired that prosecutor. hunter continue to get paid money of which he admitted they had no experience on good morning america. by the way, the prosecutor, hunter was described on the 1023 formed by the burisma executive, they thought hunter was dumb and stupid. the guy thought he said his dog was smarter than hunter. not making that up. this is all one big coincidence, i am sure. they were just looking for a crackhead and they just felt they were giving millions of dollars to them. it wasn't just one country. it was numerous countries. as the committee reports, quote, president biden's family is the vehicle to receive bribery payments. the report continues, indeed, the law recognizes that payments to family members to corruptly influence others can constitute a bribe. so keep in mind who the bidens were conducting business with. we are not tal

this has never been a hunter biden scandal, it is a biden family scandal.one knows it, every lawyer there today, every lobbyist, every foreign official. i'm telling you this, democrats cannot keep spining and lying to us. they can try. it will not change the following. this saga has formed another political cloud over joe biden that will never depart. and if the democrats continue to defend this, hang it all on legal semanhuntics, no one will take it. how silly and hypocritical does biden sound when lecturing other countries about democracy or need to preserve norms. joe, what norms are those exactly? using your whacked out son to make money by his dropping your name, putting you on the phone and bragging how the bidens deliver and leaving the customer with pretty box full of air and they wrote big checks? is this what democracy looks like biden style? best lawyer in america may never be able to prove that joe biden had the intent to solicit bribe and senate wouldn't have votes to convict him. that is beside the point. it is not about whether joe himself co

was vice-president of the united states in bills were paid by hunter bidenhe way, that's illegal. family members cannot pay the bills of politicians. but there's a larger point here, sean. this notion that joe biden has to take the direct payment is simply factually not true. you mention of course the foreign corrupt practices act. if there are payments that are given to family members. you know, in exchange or to curry favor with a government official, that's deemed as corruption. also, the obama biden administration solved international bribery standards which compliftly said it includes payments to family members and this is the way it's generally done in the third world. if it's happening in a sha or africa or europe, it's only the dumb ones, the dumb politicians that take direct payments. usually it is find through a family member or aid so this notion that is going around, all these hardened political journalists in washington and politicians said wait a minute this is what bribery is. they know better. >> sean: yeah. >> disgraceful the way they are se

so on those charges, hunter biden may be headed for trial.ce correspondent carrie johnson was at garland's announcement. the attorney general said weiss asked for this, why would he ask for this and what is the change? carrie: justice department policy says don't tell people in the public what you are doing exactly before you decide to file criminal charges. exactly what changed is unclear. we do know the attorney general said david weiss came to him, called him on tuesday and said he had entered a new stage of this investigation and he believed it was important to appoint him a special counsel. merrick garland said he was in the public interest, he agreed, and that has been done as of today. all we know is since 2019, weiss has been investigating hunter biden. according to appointment paperwork, others as well, but we don't know who they are. it may be this investigation has entered a new phase regards hunter biden, and possibly others. john: what do we know about the scope? of what weiss can do? carrie: he will keep charge of this hunter bi

chair of the oversight committee who's been leading the charge on these financial transactions on hunter bidenit relates to his dad and his foreign business dealings as well. he said, quote, this move by attorney general garland is part of the justice department's efforts to attempt a biden family cover-up in light of the house oversight committee's mounting evidence of president joe biden's role in his family's schemes. mccarthy also tweeting saying, quote, if weiss negotiated the sweetheart deal that couldn't get approved, how can he be trusted as a special counsel. obviously there's some fact checking required here. of course the committees heard from those irs whistle-blowers last month who alleged that david weiss had more evidence than he was ready to share. that he was disproven countless times including by weiss. now he's been appointed special counsel of course in this case, but it doesn't look like republicans are in any way satisfied with that. there's also, of course, talk of a potential impeachment of the president himself, which we know republicans are certainly looking to move f

hunter biden aimed to sell the brand of the biden family. archer said that hunter would never directly say his father would be used for business, but his father added value to hunter biden. archer told house investigators "this would send the right signals for ukrainian and burisma who faced prosecution." archer said the implication the bidens on board with intimidate from prosecuting burisma. democrats believed to standards of justice especially on a day like today. >> you look at the indictments and it is after hunter deal implodes and devon archer gives his testimony. every time something happens, then they come back at trump. >> they were all spoke to mike also questions about them vice president biden attended cafe milano in washington, d.c., and the wife of moscow's mayor was there and unfolded just after the white wire $3.5 million to hunter biden's business associates. democrats still contend there is no wrongdoing. >> there is not a shred of evidence of a single conflict of interest of president biden ever doing anything in connectio