guest: it's a one-sided conversation about hunter biden. house republicans are the only ones talking about this and trying to an -- advancing forward and democrats think it's a description then there is not enough evidence time president joe biden to the businesses they are not really talking about it at all. to the extent the explanation of these inquiries is coming through the lens of house republicans, it's a one-sided conversation in congress. i think that there is a lot of parallels there often drawn between the donald trump trials and the fact that hunter biden is having these legal issues and it's hard not to compare them because they are both wing of the same time in a court of law. also on the jared kushner issue, and ironic data point i suppose but while he was under scrutiny for his work in the white house, his lawyer is now hunter biden's lawyer. host: a lot of democrats are drawing -- asking that question, what about jerry fisher and his dealings with the saudi's? guest: i don't think he had anywhere near the same criminal expos

hunter biden hadn't paid his taxes for years is what prosecutors are alleging and hunter biden said he struggled with addiction at the time and didn't pay those addict -- pay those taxes. at the time, hunter biden was facing a paternity suit in arkansas and his ex-wife divorce attorneys were coming after him for his tax returns as well. they were being requested in the paternity suit. for a lot of reasons beyond his father's political campaign, he needed to file taxes at that point. from the biden standpoint, from what they told investigators at in the public, hunter biden and kevin morris became best friends quickly and kevin morris paid off hunter biden's outstanding taxes. host: which was how much of that time? guest: he owed hundreds of thousands of dollars kevin moore started paying them off and paid off the biggest vegan 2021 after joe biden had become president area investigators question whether there is more to the story and whether it was friendship. was it the only reason? or it had something to do with protecting joe biden from little risk in which case it could be consider

this occurs in 2020 after he meets hunter biden at a joe biden fundraiser.hose e-mails came out yesterday. kevin morris is mentioned as an unnamed person. david weiss confirms that kevin morris was starting to pay. he is an unnamed person. we know kevin morris started to pay hunter biden's bills including rent and tax bills starting in the 2020 timeframe. that story has been affirmed. there is a lot to dig in. and any other presidency of a donor started giving millions of dollars to the president's son or children or wife or brother it would be a big scandal. most of the media have tried to ignore this over the last few weeks. david weiss puts it front and center in this indictment. scenic is joe biden really the tip of the spear? in other words we wouldn't be talking about any of this, would we, if joe biden was in the brand? if joe biden didn't lie to the american people repeatedly? why lie if you are not involved? why lie if you did nothing wrong? joe biden lied to the country repeatedly and is lying again and even this week on this issue. is it true that

hunter biden doesn't meet that threshold. he other hand, if you're joe biden, i'm sure you don't want to be having to listen to all this conversation over the next year about hunter biden's various misdeeds because his actions were malodorous, let's face it, hunter's that is. it didn't really implicate joe biden. this is a big mess right now. >> it is a mess. >> i'm not going to say that an impeachment inquiry or an impeachment is going to harm house republicans in the next election. it didn't harm democrats in the first trump impeachment, and i suspect there's no real benefit to republicans, but i'm not sure how much damage it will be. this has to be very psychologically and emotionally draining for president biden watching his son drag through all this and obviously it's stressful. who wants to be impeached. >> republicans have been claiming they are on a fact-finding mission, that they have suspicions related to phone calls and bank statements. what they're trying to do is get all the information. they say the white house h

why are they paying hunter biden? we believe that it's because they want a direct access to joe biden. i don't think that any american would want a president that's compromised to our biggest enemy in the world, china. >> so, again, i ask for one piece of evidence or testimony that directly connects president biden to prove misconduct. >> i did it. the termination of chokin. look, ya'll have been saying no evidence for a long time and hunter is innocence. >> no, no, i never said that about hunter. but, it's only a two hour show. always good to see you, hope you enjoy your weekend. >> you too, thank you. >>> on to the rebuttal to that from a democrat on the house oversight committee, that's next. blavp >>> in our health lead, texas attorney general asking the texas supreme court to review a high profile abortion case. he wants to overturn the order from a texas judge that granted an abortion to kate cox. this after he sent a letter to the houston hospitals arguing that cox doesn't qualify for the strict six week ban an

like to ask hunter biden. trafficking women across state lines. that would have been a good question. you don't seem to care about that, though. >> are you going to call on the sergeant-at-arms to enforce the subpoena? >> bill: i want to bring in carey, who works legal matters with us here. carey, what happens when you are called to a deposition and you choose not to be there? >> you have to comply. and they have the power to subpoena and if you get a subpoena from the majority party in congress, you have to comply with that. if you don't, it is contempt of congress and contempt of congress is technically a crime. the reason i say technically is because d.o.j. and its history has typically chosen not to enforce the prosecute and enforce that except, in this last year and a half when they have chosen to prosecute contempt of congress against two top trump aides. steve bannon is facing four months in prison for doing what hunter biden is doing right now, blowing off a congressional subpoena. curious to see if th

she is basically defending not just hunter biden, but the bidens basically saying this is a witch hunt and they have found no evidence, the republicans on this committee. let us now go to lauren fox because we have just heard this remarkable statement from hunter biden. i think that cannot be overstated. this is the son of a president, from hunter biden standing outside of the congressional hearing that he's supposed to be in and making she's really making she's emotional statements and in no uncertain terms. have you heard from house republicans because while he was talking he was expected to be giving a deposition behind closed doors to that committee. >> yeah. we are still awaiting the chairman to come out and discuss what they heard about huntered bien and he could be held in contempt of the congress, but you heard from hunter biden. he said if you want to talk to me and ask questions in a public setting. i am willing to do it. i am here today. i'm happy to answer your es core fight over whether or not this was going to happen privately or publicly in a public hearing that was at t

the committee has called hunter biden, this is part of the impeachment probe, not into hunter biden, n, although you would be forgiven for thinking so, an impeachment inquiry into president biden that so far has struggled to find any benefit whatsoever that president biden received from hunter biden's questionable business dealings. the committee that is called hunter biden to testify and, again, we are expecting to see hunter biden on capitol hill shortly. lauren fox is on the hill. lauren, what are you seeing right now? >> reporter: yeah, we are waiting for hunter biden to appear for this statement with his lawyers outside, but we do not know if he will appear for that deposition. obviously house republican chairman had scheduled this deposition behind closed doors, they were prepared with questions, they were prepared this morning just in case hunter biden showed up, but it is important to point out that this all comes as the house republicans are expected to vote later today to open an impeachment inquiry against president joe biden, that is an inquiry that has been going on since

listen, hunter biden is not going. this is a very serious indictment that carries hard time, 17 years. does joe biden escape culpability? we will see. it depends on what the house does when they go to court. did they force subpoenas? do we find additional evidence? we know some of the money that hunter biden got flowed to joe biden. $40,000 from china comes in. james biden, same thing. $200,000. there is still a money trail being sorted through by these congressional investigators. i think we have to watch and see what they come up with. joe biden is not out of the thicket yet. >> great reporting, john solomon, as always. here with mo co-host of the five, our great friend, judge jeanine pirro. the one and only. put on your legal hat for a minute and let's look at joe biden himself in all of this. the amount of money, if it wasn't for joe biden, none of this money would be coming in. how does this get back to him? >> first of all, we have to understand that this is an indictment whereby the same guy who tried to pull the

they say the hunter biden indictment is sound. the joe biden impeachment inquiry is not. there is a lot of effort to say that your side of this investigation has not proven any link between the president and this hunter biden indictment, which is a tax evasion charge primarily at this point and a gun charge. what would you say to the "washington post" editorialists? >> i think the "washington post" doth protest too much with respect to what our case is. we have had no support out of the department of justice. we have had to do all the work through the oversight and judiciary committee. i would also point to the obstruction i have laid out with respect to the d.o.j. the obstruction that we have haven't been able to get witnesses to come forward because of direct pushdown from d.o.j. and merrick garland and the white house. but also note the 82,000 emails, right? involving a pseudonym that we believe the president was using when he was vice president that businesses. that indicates some problems. we have only gotten 14 of those. we are getting stonewalled and obstruction, w

guest: but i heard him say was hunter biden. post: and what about the president's money? at's what we've heard from viewers as well. how did he afford the home that he owned, etc.? guest: well president biden, of course, was able to serve in congress for many, many years and he was able to have independent jobs when he was not in office. of course, there were those years that allowed into the, to get independent jobs while he was in between vice president and president. i do think that that would allow him to be able to get a house and invest in another house. but i would not say that that is excessive wealth. i would say that this is what you could normally get if you have a job that has lasted for many decades. host: kathleen in mississippi, democratic caller. caller: good morning. i'm so tired. enough is enough. if you live in one of these 12 red states and we call in, we tried to call in, we go vote and we do everything and they bring us down to our needs. we have nothing. everything coming here, and biden is doing all he can. but they keep making biden look bad. i fee

candidacy, morris emailed hunter biden's business associates and there was, quote, considerable risk personally and politically to not filing his late taxes. but the only person who faced political risk was joe biden whose campaign the whistle-blowers had reason to believe morris was speaking to. as members of congress, we have to abide by campaign finance limits, and so must the president. morris's millions in payments to cover hunter biden's taxes and other financial obligations appear to the whistle-blowers to be an illegal donation to the biden campaign. unfortunately, they were blocked from investigating further. time and again when investigators found a lead that pointed to joe biden, doj, they stepped in and prevented -- prevented them from pursuing it. >> yield the gentleman additional 30 seconds. >> gentleman's recognized for an additional 30 seconds. >> thanks to the evidence released by the whistle-blowers, the doj indicted hunter biden on nine tax charges including three felonies. everything, everything the whistle-blowers told us about the hunte

here we have hunter biden. let's listen. tions] >> now did you get into so much trouble? >> mr. biden does not have a statement to make. [ >> i'm here today to make sure that the house -- [inaudible] manipulated evidence and lies. and i'm here today to acknowledge that i've made -- [inaudible] for that i'm responsible. for that i'm accountable. for that i'm -- [inaudible]. i'm also here today to correct how the maga right has betrayed me for their political purposes. i am first and foremost the son, father, brother, and husband from a loving and supportive family. i'm proud to have earned degrees from georgetown university, yale law school. i'm proud of my legal career, business career. i'm proud of my time serving on different boards of directors and i have proud of my efforts with local business relationships. for six years maga republicans, including members of the house committees who are in a closed door session right now, have impugned my character, invaded privacy, attacked my wife, children, family and my friends. the

>> hunter biden is under indictment in two federal courts. he has been transparent about his struggles with addiction and his criminal acts. the two indictments say squat about president joe biden. the constitutional standard for impeachment is high crimes and misdemeanors. the house has had a committee looking at biden for months now. actually, two committees. they haven't come up with anything approaching the constitutional standard. what they have come up with is a bunch of letters which are apparently hunter biden paying back his dad and his uncle money that he owes them. >> let me add that, finally, james comber and jim jordan have spoken to reporters after all of this happened and said they are going to look into his failure to show. we expect to depose the president's son. we will be more than happy to have a public hearing with him. jordan said, there's a process, when asked about contempt. you have to file a report. we will begin looking at that. both lawyers for the oversight committee and the judiciary committee will move in that di

king aone is when hunter biden . upposed to appear that may now be effectively scuttled. >> hunter may be able to use this to plead the fifth to refuse to answer questions. >> but the second is that is the expected vote on the impeachment inquiry and this indictmen easight make it easier for hunter not to speak. huntebut it may make itore more difficult for president biden to avoidt for pr that inquiry. you know, the fact is that this indictment shatters years of denials by the bidens and frankly, by an enabling medibidensa, it shows these mase amounts of money going to hunter biden from romania, ukraine, all these sources. >> and it also shows knowingows and continual effort to evade taxes to commit criminal acts. now, if this circle gettingth closer to the president, then he has to answer some. the s >> so it leads us to this very simple question for next week. is any democrat going to standta upnd and have this moment of courage in to say, you knowy what, enough, you know, weknow can't say we're against corruption

hunter biden's laptop is all when he refers to the big guy. biden has said he has no connection to his son's business dealings which is laughable if you ask me. let's get back to what they did to trump. there was no evidence against tromp but they impeached him on a whim. host: which impeachment? caller: both of them. for three years it was russia, russia russia. and they said there was no evidence he did anything wrong. it is mind-boggling the way politics are happening. host: let's talk to malcolm next in louisville, kentucky. caller: my issues are the following, if biden did the things that he accused of doing. i believe he is innocent. if there are two facts bring them forward and present that information. that should be the end of it. host: larry in florida, good morning. caller: i support the inquiry with joe biden on burisma. follow the chinese balloon for six days. i don't think china would allow an american balloon to go across their country. the bank records, the money that went into the biden family. thank you. host: and wanda, new j

candidacy, morris emailed hunter biden's associates and considerable risk for him not filing taxes. the only face that faced political risk is joe biden whose campaign the whistleblowers had reason to believe morris was speaking to. as members of congress, we have to abide by campaign finance limits and so must the president. morris' millions in payments to cover hunter's tax obligations appear to the whistleblowers to be an illegal donation to the biden campaign. unfortunately they were blocked from investigating further. time and again when investigators found a lead that pointed to joe biden, d.o.j. stepped in and prevented them from pursuing it. mr. cole: yield the gentleman an additional 30 seconds. mr.smith: thanks to the evidence released by the whistleblowers the d.o.j. indicted hunter biden on tax felonies. everything the whistleblowers told us about the hunter biden tax case has proven right. i am convinced they are also right about the links to joe biden they were prevented from following. congress owes it to the american people to follow th

and the hunter biden business associates. so it looks like they're trying to finesse their way to, okay, maybe joe biden was the door opener, the enablers, the special sauce that made all of this money happen, but the money actually went in to someone else's account, hunter or one of the other hunter biden family. >> martha: we heard from devin archer that was financially involved in these deals when asked in the testimony, you know what were they selling? he said the brand was joe biden. it's very interesting to me, ari, the roots of this goes back to questions that were raised by the banks. they had 150 suspicious activity reports. they're watching this money come in from china. they're seeing where it's going. it's getting distributed to these shell companies. the banks raised the alarm on what was going on here initially, right? >> and his father denied he did business with china. now we have bank statements showing he made millions from china. so why lie? why would joe biden lie? why would hunter biden lie unless there's

instead, the white house and the campaign have pointed to hunter biden's attorneys' statement. in that statement yesterday, the attorney said, if hunter's last name was anything other than biden, the charges in delaware and now california would not have been brought. now, these charges, these counts include, for example, failure to file and pay taxes, evasion of assessment, and filing a false, fraudulent tax return. now, president biden, when he's approached the issue of hunter biden, has been quite personal in saying that his son has his love and support. he's also kept him close. we have seen hunter at events at the white house as well as in family events. but the thinking inside of the campaign is really that this issue, this of hunter biden and these ongoing cases, doesn't resonate with voters, that they see it for the politics that it is. that's the campaign speaking on this. instead, voters are focused on issues like the economy. that is what they continue to speak to as we continue to see these cases unfold. but there is no doubt here, dana, that the president here is cam

hunter biden appeared on the senate side, they could not take him into custody. david spunt reporting if things move forward and go into this inquiry, take into account that hunter had offered this written letter to congress he would come in and answer public questions, which is one word he used there when making his statement. a lot going on there. >> emily: talk about capital, not the capitol, but capital of biden abiding by the law. will that engender him to the american people? not divorced from potential for impeachment investigation here, why didn't he just show up and say no comment, plead the fifth and say, i show up, i respect government, this defiance intensifies the feeling that bidens get away with everything they feel they can. >> leslie: andy said hunter biden's attorney is one of the best legal minds in washington, d.c. hunter biden did not wake up and say i'm going to defy this, no, his lawyer instructed him what to say, written, a script he read. hunter biden is saying to the american people, this is political. people might say, what happened with

he responded to that statement by hunter biden. here is what he had to say. [video] >> in the beginning joe biden said he never met with any of these individuals. now he know he met with all these individuals. the narrative when we started was that no money ever transferred to the bidens while joe biden was vice president. now we know a huge percentage of the money transferred while joe biden was vice president. the majority of shell companies were incorporated while joe biden was vice president. we have a lot of questions about some very concerning transfers. that is what we have the thousands of pages of bank records. we have been transparent with the media. this has been the most transparent congressional investigation since i have been in congress for seven years. we have reduced four bank memorandums with bank statements. this is a concern. this is about public corruption at the highest level. the president's son does not get to set the rules. he's had a pretty good run with the department of justice, with the irs, and with the fbi. these two committees a

he responded to that statement by hunter biden. here is what he had to say. ideo] >> in the beginning joe biden said he never met with any of these individuals. now he know he met with all these individuals. the narrative when we started was that no money ever transferred to the bidens while joe biden was vice president. now we know a huge percentage of the money transferred while joe biden was vice president. the majority of shell companies were incorporated while joe biden was vice president. we have a lot of questions about some very concerning transfers. that is what we have the thousands of pages of bank records. we have been transparent with the media. this has been the most transparent congressional investigation since i have been in congress for seven years. we have reduced four bank memorandums with bank statements. this is a concern. this is about public corruption at the highest level. the president's son does not get to set the rules. he's had a pretty good run with the department of justice, with the irs, and with the fbi. these two committees are

the headline right here, will joe biden pardon hunter? is that possible. biden is the one person in america to spare his son the consequenceens of his actions. the temptation to pull that trigger will be overwhelming. the consequences of doing so would be disastrous. we're probably a long way between now and a possible pardon. is that a situation where you think hunter could be in a lot of trouble? >> it does look like he is in a lot of trouble. we saw him blaming on what he called a right wing conspiracy putting out the idea it's all trump based. it is not. he has engaged in a long line of criminal behavior, that's what the allegations are now. and the evidence is quite strong against him. so it may be his father who is his only hope. maybe in the last couple months of his presidency to pardon him. between now and then he looks like he has a lot of trouble to face and he does look like that he is going to face contempt proceedings for his failure to show up yesterday. >> bill: you were sitting with jim jordan while he was talking. what did you learn? >> i

hunter biden's new federal indictment dropping overnight as the president soon leaves the white houseo campaign. in the nine-count indictment justice department prosecutors say hunter, quote, willfully failed to pay his 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 taxes on time, despite having access to funds. the indictment then listing his alleged expenses, including nearly $700,000 for payments to various women. $188,000 for adult entertainment. $71,000 on rehab. ultimately a grand total of $4.9 million. the charges could mean 17 years in prison if convicted. cnn's katelyn polantz leads us off now. katelyn, ever since this stunning collapse of hunter biden's plea deal over the summer this legal peril for him has been looming. walk us through these new charges. >> fred, the legal peril has escalated significantly. that plea deal was about misdemeanors and now hunter biden faces nine charges, including three felonies. this isn't just about not paying the irs $1.4 million that the federal government said he owed them in the years 2016 through 2019, it's also the federal government, the justice departmen

indictment setting up what could be trial number two next year as his dad runs for re-election. >> hunter bidening another indictment. this time three felony and six misdemeanor charges relating to his failure to file and pay taxes. special counsel david weiss filed the charges in los angeles. hunter's home since 2018. the government alleges the president's son failed to pay at least $1.4 million. according to the indictment, the defendant spent this money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends. luxury hotels and rental properties. exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal patient. in short, everything but his taxes. weiss says instead of paying uncle sam, hunter spent at least $1.6 million in atm withdrawals and hundreds of thousands of dollars on payments to various women, clothing, and adult entertainment. >> why weighs paid these millions of dollars? this is looking more like criminal activity than business activity. >> hunter's lead attorney abbe lowell responding this afternoon. >> he has well stated many times that at the depths of his addiction, something that american families ha

hunter biden's house deposition that they are trying to demand. that's still in dispute. indictment highlighting the relationship between hunter and his entertainment lawyer who also happens to be a biden presidential donor. apparently, he did not know mr. morris very well. he is a major democratic donor. he came through with the tax payment belatedly. >> reporter: to be clear, there is nothing in this indictment that implicates the president of the united states in any way, shape, or form. that does not -- it's not going to stop house republicans from trying to tie their impeachment inquiry into the president himself, into this indictment of hunter biden. one example of that will be the work the house ways and means committee has been undertaking through the lens of the two irs whistle-blowers who contended that there was political interference in the early stages of the investigation into hunter biden. to be fair, that investigation was launched while bill barr was the attorney general and during the trump administration. regardless, republicans have been insisting that

he believes in order for hunter biden to be safe and it not go up to president biden, he has to stayr and keep the protection of the agencies he has so far been able to maintain. that is one theory. these are two different theories. will: i would side with sean duffy rather than vivek ramaswamy but keep your finger on the pulse because the media certainly has president biden's back, they are bending over backwards to impress upon their audience this has nothing to do with president biden but the minute that cracks you will see it is the money for gavin newsom. the thing i'm more concerned about is what this indictment does to the real investigation, the real investigation is not how hunter biden spent his money. it is how hunter biden made his money and that is about the influence peddling schemes being investigated in congress and i am concerned he will invoke the fifth amendment and avoid that deposition that should be coming before congress. pete: i would have finished your sentence. that feels like the reason for this. on the surface it looks like justice and everyone is yelling

that makes sense for hunter biden. do it in public, he can have a bun of democrats -- bunch of democrats who will grandstand, republicans grandstanding, and it will keep him from being forced to answer the really tough questions that republicans want him the answer. so good work on him for trying that, but i'm not in any way surprised that republicans are saying, no thank you, we'd like to do this first and then later we can do the public thing. howard: kevin, you could argue that hunter biden has called the committee's bluff to bar the selective leaking, follow generally following these closed door depositions. >> exactly right. and we've seen a history of that with chairman comer where he's select ily released, you know, information from those transcripts from previous interviews. he's not an honest broker whatsoever when it comes to that, and hunter biden's lawyers are saying we want to testify in public, in the open. let both parties ask questions out in the open, transparency is key with all this and, unfortunatel

hunter biden was subpoenaed for a deposition. he showed up today just steps outside making a statement outside saying he is happy to do a public hearing. are the grounds here for a contempt referral to the department of justice here? >> i do not think there are for the following reason. what hunter is not willing to do is go to a closed session for he knows well that this committee has a history, the people behind the committee have a history of taking closed- door testimony, distorting it, licking it and portraying it as something it is not. if he has a public hearing, they cannot do that. if they have a public hearing, the thinness of their pursuit of a crime is going to be quite evident. i think he is very smart in doing what he is doing. i cannot envision that the department of justice would ever bring this to court will vote for contempt i am not sure i can even get a contempt citation on the floor of the house from somebody like jim jordan who is, himself still in defiance of a january 6 committee hearing subpoena. >> john,

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

hunter biden is charged with nine counts, including tax evasion, and special counsel david weiss includedping details about biden's alleged spending. 1.6 million in cash for atm withdrawals. 683,000 in payments to various women, and 39,000 for home help cleaning and job care. tom dupree is a former senior justice department official. >> this indictment reads like an accounting ledger of vice and the prosecutors spell out in gory, painful detail exactly how hunter biden was spending his money, and it doesn't look good. >> reporter: the indictment calls hunter biden a lobbyist, consultant, and business person, and alleges he earned millions for work with the ukrainian firm burisma, a chinese energy firm cefc, and other foreign businesses. >> more charges could be possible. >> reporter: in a statement hunter biden's lawyer said "based on the facts and the law, if hunter's last name was anything other than biden, the charges would not have been brought." in a podcast recorded before the indictment, hunter biden blamed republicans for much of his legal trouble. >> they're trying to kill me, kn

they're not running away from hunter biden and the legal issues that he's facing, and so what they've done is that very few people are talking to biden about hunter biden because it's his son and it's something that he's very, very sensitive about. but to the extent that it comes up with gaggles of reporters by the chopper, as well as at press conferences, biden will say, he's my son, and everyone has dealt -- or knows someone with addiction. so i think you're absolutely right, there are only a few lines that they can use. but i don't think that biden's advisers really see hunter biden as a pro or as a real asset in the campaign. they've largely tried to avoid the issue. >> all right, meredith, you know, top republicans who are vying for the white house, they're all in iowa, and they are stumping for votes, encouragement, support. how vital and important will the outcome of the iowa caucuses be in terms of who stays in the race? >> well, the iowa caucus will really give these candidates an opportunity to show just how much they are connecting with voters out there. donald trump has be

it's a statement by hunter biden, and they use certain texts from hunter biden, including one that references taxes. it's not exactly a smoking gun but they say, look, he knew he had to pay taxes, he knew he owed these. >> hunter biden had another indictment. do these overlap? >> those are brought in federal court, and now hunter biden is looking at, literally, a two front -- it's tough enough to beat one federal case, never mind two, he can try to have those two cases combined into one, that's an interesting strategic call his lawyers are going to have to make. >> what about this push for an impeachment? i will say, california and delaware are the two jurisdictions where when this plea deal was about to happen, critics of it, republicans were pointing and saying what about those two jurisdictions, why is that brought here? >> no mention of joe biden, no reference to joe biden in the indictment, james comer of course, is seizing on this and he says that hunter biden's corporate entities funneled foreign cash that landed in joe biden's bank account, a slight of hand happening here, though, bec

hunter biden is not the candidate. r] would he have gotten these kinds of contracts from burisma, these kind of -- without the entree of being joe biden's son? no, of course not. should joe biden have taken calls with hunter biden's business associates? no, obvious not. do those kinds of activities which seem like poor judgment calls mount to something that would justify an impeachment? we're going to learn. and i think what everyone will see is, no, they also do not. howard: well, we will see. hunter biden, obviously, could wind up in jail with these felony indictments. let me get a break here. when we come back, harvard's president keeps her job despite her disastrous testimony ab anti-semitism, and some journalists are making the debate racial. new. ♪ a ♪ b miralax works naturally with the water in your body to help you go... ...free your gut. and your mood will follow. for 8 grams of fiber, try new mirafiber gummies. theo's nose was cause for alarm, so dad brought puffs plus lotion to save it from harm. puffs has 50

prosecutors allege hunter biden engaged in a four-year scheme to not pay at least $1.4 million in taxes. they allege the younger biden had money, but spent it on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars and, in short, everything but his taxes. the case was supposed to be resolved by a plea deal that fell apart this certain. >> i'm cooperating completely. i'm 100% certain that at the end of the investigation i will be cleared. >> reporter: the case stemmed from hunter biden's lucrative overseas business dealings. he did eventually pay taxes he owed along with hundreds of thousands in penalties and fees. prosecutors say when he did finally file his returns, he included false business deductions to reduce his tax liability. his lawyers claim prosecutors bowed to political pressure to bring charges against the president's son. in a statement, his attorney abby lowell said if hunt's last name was anything other than biden, the charges in delaware and now california would not have been brought. in a newly released podcast recorded before the indictment,

had classified information in his garage while hunter bidenthere and as he said in the depths of making very bad financial decisions. one key thing in terms of how we move forward to the politics, joe biden said during the 2020 election his son never received money from china. today in his statement to reporters where he was very defiant, he said openly, i did receive money with my chinese business partner, and so this is about joe biden being the one who has changed his story, he has done that repeatedly, and we'll see if they decide to acknowledge this today. i doubt they will. >> john: and the evolution of the language is i never talked to my son about business, to i was never involved in business with my son, to now hunter biden saying he was never financially involved. now, what does that mean, does that mean he never received money, or never put money in? was never an official financial partner? it seems that's pretty specific language. >> it could mean all kinds of things, you are seeing the impeachment process moving forward, especiall

it was a year's long probe into hunter biden. t during that she limited the questions that they were allowed to ask about the elder biden. she prevented a search of hunter's home on the same property as the biden home. the judiciary chair jim jordan says this. watch. >> lesley wolf according to mr. shapley and ziegler said we won't look into campaign finance concerns. you can't use the term big guy when you do interviews, can't talk about political figure number one, joe biden. we want to ask her questions about all that. >> martha: at least she showed up for the questioning. hunter defied his congressional subpoena yesterday. instead offering that he would only testify publicly in front of cameras. but that step usually comes after the deposition step which they wanted to do first. so now republicans are moving to hold hunter biden in contempt of not showing up for their subpoena. some pointed out it may be difficult for the d.o.j. not to prosecute hunter if they get a referral from the house because they have to treat people the

>> we don't know the answer to how much joe biden knew of hunter biden. we can suspect and have inclinations that joe biden was part of this whole enterprising scheme. it is important to step back and go this was intentional on hunter biden's part and willful on his part not to pay his taxes and to think that we are four, five, six years beyond the tax years which hunter biden was lying on his tax forms and we're now just seeing the department of justice, weiss as a special counsel file charges. it begs the question what is going on? why wasn't this brought the year after his taxes were filed? any other american would have been charged within a year of filing false returns like hunter. to your point in the report, it seems like the department of justice, the f.b.i. and i.r.s. were all trying to sweep this under the rug until the i.r.s. whistleblower shapley came out and said whoa, hunter biden has made $8 million that he hasn't paid taxes on. the house got involved. american public saw the sweetheart deal and because of that pressure only now do we have ch

there appear to be noi ilinks between hunter biden's alleged wrongdoings and his dad. how do you see these two either coexisting or conflicting? >> priesident biden is not mentioned at all. so they will conflict because the parties, at least on the republican side, will try to make it a political statement. however, i think the legal aspect has to be analyzed by abby lowell and has to be essentially a narrow defense, although you can argue the reason my client was indicted was because of political reasons. but david weiss is a special counsel and he was appointed by merrick garland. he's part of the department of justice, and merrick garland was appointed by president biden. it's a tough argument to make. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, fredericka. >>> several of the republican candidates hoping to take on president biden next year are in iowa today, where the first caucus is just over five weeks away. nikki haley, ron desantis and vivek ramaswamy are all holding events today after participating in a faith and family forum this morning. what will you be watching for

so, first, hunter biden saga, let's turn to grady trimble live at the white house. today was a lot of fun. reporter: the fun is not over, house could slo vote on impeachment inquiry who president biden as early as 5:00 this evening that is expected to pass. and house republicans say, that if it does, it will give them more authority to enforce subpoenas as they investigate president biden and his son hunter biden's business dealings. they say, the white house is stonewalling their investigation, here is what the white house says. >> they have gotten 100,000 pages of documents and interviews witnesses for 40 hours, the documents and witnesses have actually refuted their false allegations over and over and over again. instead of doing work of american people, they are doing political stunts. reporter: hunter biden defied a congressional subpoena today. he was on capitol hill, but he never went inside for the closed-door deposition he was requested at, he held a big pris conference where he defended his dad, the president. >> my father are not financially involved in my

>>> hunter biden hits back. the president's son slams house republicans for trying to dehumanize him to damage his father, all while defying a congressional subpoena for closed door testimony. >>> the supreme court and abortion rights. the nation's highest court will suicide on whether to restrict one of the most common abortion methods in the united states. we'll break down the wide ranging impact that decision will have. >>> could drunk driving soon be a thing of the past? federal transportation officials are working on technology that would check if drivers have been drinking and disable their car. how they plan to make the tech a standard as seat belts. we're following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. >>> we are following the day long clash on capitol hill over house republicans escalating probe into president biden. a couple hours from now, the full house will vote on formalizing a biden impeachment inquiry. the gop's probe has failed to show links b

the vote came on the same day hunter biden defied a congressional subpoena if issued by house oversightee chairman james comer to sit for a closed-door deposition. instead,-upper biden shows up outside the steps of capitol hill with a prepared statement where he revealed that his father was not financially involved in his business dealings, new wording there after president biden previously said he wasn't involved at all. >> there's no evidence to support the allegations that my father was financially involved in my business because it did not happen. james comer, jim jordan, jason smith and their colleagues have distorted the facts by cherry picking lines from a bank statement, manipulating texts i sent, editing the testimony of my friends and former business partners and misstating personal information that was stolen from me. maria: "the new york post" editorial board writes the biden goalposts moves again to joe not financially involved in hunter's sleaze. following the stunt, chairman comer told me the first son will be held in contempt of congress. here's chairman comer on "mornin

hunter biden was not mia, though, he did show up on capitol hill yesterday to talk to the press. ce and insisted his dad, president joe biden, was not financially involved in his business. even though the entire reason he refused to comply to the subpoena request is because his lawyer said it would be in secret and he wanted his testimony to be televised to the public. he wouldn't the take our questions on camera either. >> mr. biden, was it worth it trying to sell the family name? do you want president biden to pardon you, sir? worth it selling the familiarlyy name? name? how did you get into so much trouble. >> reporter: hunter biden's lawyers blasted the subpoena as illegitimate because the house didn't pass the formal impeachment inquiry. now they have. hunter biden, if he was trying to buy time for his dad to bail him out with a presidential pardon, the white house is saying don't hold your breath. >> if i called my dad and said i am about to violate a congressional subpoena, he would probably say son, you shouldn't do that. was there any attempt by fiewn talk hunter out of i

hunter biden is now threatening to defy a house subpoena. is unclear if he will show up for his deposition or joe's brother will show up. hunter, december 13th. if hunter is a no-show jordan and comer are planning to initiate contempt proceedings. the president's son could face real jail time. as a designated sacrificial lamb as was reported last week, it might be a risk that hunter is willing to take in order to save his father. but let's be clear about three things. one, joe biden did in fact interact with hunter's business associates and he did it over and over and over again. two, according to hunter, joe biden financially benefited from the foreign money distributed to his family. the biden brand. number three, joe biden is now lying about it wants again. he lied to you the american people before as a candidate as a president and including yesterday. if biden did nothing wrong, why would he be lying? sadly, this is a familiar pattern with joe win faced with any adversity. joe biden lies and lies over and over and over again. take a look