and james comer never budged. he said we will have an open hearing with hunter biden at some point down the road but first we want to have this closed-door deposition. the other thing i was s struck in kind of the theatrics of all this is -- if you know the geography of capitol hill hunter biden was speaking on the senate side, not the house side. >> dana: jamie raskin is speaking. >> a repetition of everything we've seen over the last 11 months. we're in a remarkable juncture for the u.s. house of representatives. it is an impeachment inquiry where no one has been able to define what criminal or constitutional offense they are looking for. we don't know what the crime is. you know, the mysteries are called a who done it because it starts with a crime and you try to determine who committed it. this is more like a what is it, not a who done it. we don't know what the crime is. and there are thousands and thousands of pages of evidence but it all demonstrates beyond any reasonable doubt that president joe biden is n

all the accusations that james comer has tried to make are just not true.documents. they've turned over close to 30,000 plus documents, they've done interviews with family members, business associates, what they're trying to do is basically get donald trump reelected. donald trump has said, wow, i've had impeachment articles against me, -- let's not forget another person sits on the oversight committee's marjorie taylor greene. she also pushes james comer. she's been trying to impeach president biden from day one. the first day the president was in office, she's trying to impeach him. >> at the same time you're seeing vulnerable house republicans and districts that joe biden actually won, people have to make adult decisions like mike lawler, trying to have their cake and eat it too, they support the inquiry but they refrained from saying that they will impeach joe biden. do you think this stems from a concern that going down this road is going to cost them politically next year? >> well, mike lawler is in a vulnerable seat, let's be clear about his voting r

james comer released more bank records. the latest bank record shows hunter biden's chais niece linked business made direct monthly payments, owasko, to joe biden in 2018. the payments for nearly $1,400 each happened three times totaling more than $4,000. the wash b ton post is now accusing comer of mischaracterizing the money, claiming that hunter was paying his father back for a car. the oversight committee responded with this, the goal posts have moved so far that corporate media you appears to be using e-mails from hunter biden's laptop to make the latest defense of the bidens. in short, joe biden received money from his son's business with ccp ties. they are following the money. they say the bank records do not lie. james comer is talking about potential bribery, money laundering and tax evasion. your reaction. >> that is the why, what were the the services for? so the defense could be, sure, he was paying his dad back for a car. doesn't seem very plausible, doesn't seem to make sense. here is hunter biden working for

the gentleman leading this is james comer. poor james comer. they'll never call him the james comer because he seems to have gotten so played by abbe lowell, hunter biden's lawyer, because he said yeah, let's go ahead, let's do the subpoena, in public. and comer said, no, we can't do that. we don't want to have that. what is the purpose at this point of the impeachment if they have no witnesses and they can't even bring themselves to question their supposed star prosecution witness in public? >> look, i think to begin, we should be thankful james comer is running this investigation because james comer is a man clearly who is easily overcome by inamimate objects. this is a guy who would lose a debate to a toaster oven. i have old pairs of crocs smarter than james coker. this is a guy who really is not a bright man. now, with all that, he still has a staff of attorneys behind him, and they have this idea of law fare against joe biden. however, their case is based on such a tenuous scheme of lies, bs, garbage, fake laptop stories, the entire thing

house oversight committee james comer explained what all of this means with me on the program last week>> he should be afraid he should be more afraid than anyone in america because he's in more trouble than anyone in america probably anyone who's been subpoenaed in a congressional investigation this guy is under investigation for crimes ranging from money laundering to security fraud and everything in between. if he gets voted in contempt of congress that is more penalties that is going to have to pay a price for when this judgment day finally happens. all of this house republicans have exposed here then lovett. this is welcome news for american people and a necessary step. i think the hunter biden indictment proves the case for impeachment even more. hunter biden accepted millions of dollars for foreign entities with his father was vice president and it shows in 2014 burisma gave hunter biden a salary of a million dollars. when he was no longer vice president the salary was cut in half. we also the mountains of evidence of james comer and jim jordan have revealed to the great work and

as far as james comer, every single investigation that james comer has brought before the oversight committee that i sit on has been completely political. he brought four witnesses who ended up being spies. he brought four witnesses that ended up having is zero evidence linking the president to anything. i think what's really important is us, as members of congress, have not been trying to get involved in the justice department process. our job is oversight. we present information. oftentimes we work with committee members as well as committee staff to pass along information that we are able to give. at the end of the day the justice department has got to make their own decisions. james comer should get out of trying to be the judge and jury on hunter biden and certainly on president biden. >> do you think that this formal vote on an impeachment inquiry that his schedule to get introduced into committee next week, do you think it will succeed? to republicans have the votes? >> look, we don't know. what we do know is this is a extreme political stunt. marjorie taylor greene another extremist i

james comer, honestly, is an embarrassment to our committee. but hunter biden should come in and adjustable and publicly. >> despite everything you just said, speaker johnson made it clear later in the week that, yeah, i think there are votes to officially start an impeachment inquiry against the presidents. what evidence, what evidence will republicans be voting on two base an affirmative vote to allow such a sham and a farce to proceed? >> there is no evidence. we've made that clear over and over. all the evidence that the republicans brought forward are essentially just woody giuliani conspiracy theories. this is a tinfoil hot committee of just a bunch of conspiracy theories with zero evidence. this is all about electing donald trump. they are obsessed with reelecting the earth or terry and leader of their party, who's going to be the nominee. they want to essentially damage the president's reelection challenges. we're not going to let them do. that we're going to call them, i'll continue to call out donald trump for all the lies he's cause.

what james comer is calling shell corporations.ell me, professor, what does that look like to you? >> first of all, let's remember who is responsible for all of this coming out. we have to give credit to judge noriega. judge noriega made sure this was not all covered up by a deal that made no sense. i predicted on your show and other shows that judge noriega would not accept the deal. i was trashed by many academics, cnn and many other media. she did the right thing. she sent it back and the result has been now much more information coming out to the american public. as i said before, i hope that this results in the appointment of a real, real special counsel outside the justice department. looking at the president of the united states. it becomes just an impeachment concern, than half the country won't believe it in half the country will. the same thing happened with drum. if there is a special counsel who is credible and who can get to the bottom of this and either clear president biden are accuse president biden i think the amer

break but the investigation into the bidens is not slowing down house oversight committee chairman james comer announcing he is sending investigators on the road to depose and interview witnesses locally who have been subpoenaed, this week they heard from a witness testifying that the president's brother james cashed in on the family name and americorps health trustee claims that jim biden took $600,000 from the struggling healthcare company with the promise of using the biden name to bring in funding from the middle east. a service he never provided. house judiciary committee jim jordan said some of the money that james got from americorps can be traced directly to joe biden's. >> with americorps jim biden gets paid $600,000 in the very same day he sensed $200,000 to his brother it was always about giving access to the brand. >> we think will talk to jim biden in january and rob walker and eric swearing tony bobulinski, tony morris who paid a large portion of his tax bill and we think will have those individuals in pre-deposition at the start of the new year. maria: before all about joining h

is james comer the chairman of the oversight committee with me sunday.e back we'll get that james comer went through all these issues. let me ask you a question where this is leading you have the votes for impeachment inquiry to be formalized in the coming weeks before you leave for the holidays. >> we do have the votes, that's the next step. these committees have done the job jamie, and the other committees have done the job of accumulating information now it's time to take the next step, the next step is impeachment inquiry, this will give us an opportunity to force the white house to release some of this information. right now their releasing some but not all of it. if we have impeachment inquiries do not have to release all of it this is the natural next step in the process. we follow the process and we will continue to follow the process but i will tell you the trail is pretty obvious at this point. maria: here is james comer with me on sunday, watch. >> when they sell the 5 million-dollar wire go to an investment fund with no investment in a new th

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host: chair of the oversight committee james comer. now we want to hear back to your calls, what you think of this back-and-forth. diane in jacksonville, florida. you will pose. caller: yes, i do oppose. i think they are wasting taxpayer money and time when they should be working on our budget. listen, i'm not absorbing hunter biden. he's basically admitted he did wrong. where does that link him to the president? if we start linking our children to the crimes -- parents to the crimes of our children then we should be investigating donald trump for that, because his children also received a large sum of money. nevertheless, back to hunter biden. i do believe that young man has issues. they nd to be investigated but i do not believe it has anything too with joe biden. if it does then so be it. as a republican myself i think we should be working on our budget. we should be working on trying to make things better for the american people. i am not concerned right now about a tit-for-tat. that is basically all this is. host: do you think rep

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oversight committee chairman republican james comer said that hunter is not above the law, and attendsd him in contempt of congress. how do you see that going? did anything happen to representatives mccarthy, jordan, biggs or perry when they refused to comply with the january 6th committee subpoenas, and then more brooks, said he testify, but not behind closed doors wanting to do so only in public. >> it's more of the democracy. it's plain as day. and the fact that the people that literally still have subpoenas that are outstanding are the ones that are bringing this, when we went to sit there as we were waiting next to an empty chair for hunter biden, you had jim jordan, you had perry in the room. and they were so indignant about this entire situation, i'm thinking to myself pot meat kettle. seriously, we know that these are guys that have disrupted and disrespected the process as sitting members of congress. at least hunter showed up. at least hunter said, i am here. i am willing to testify. honestly, at least hunter has been willing to own his mistakes. that is more than i can say f

maria: chairman james comer this morning.th the iowa caucuses 43 days away, voters are giving president biden a failing grade for his job performance on immigration, the economy and inflation. arizona republican senate candidate kari lake is here on what she's hearing from voters on the issues that matter. she's next. stay with us. ♪ ♪ i was on a journey for a really long time to find some relief. cosentyx works for me. cosentyx helps real people get real relief from the symptoms of psoriatic arthritis or psoriasis. serious allergic reactions, severe skin reactions that look like eczema, and an increased risk of infections, some fatal, have occurred. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine or plan to or if ibd symptoms develop or worsen. i move so much better because of cosentyx. ask your rheumatologist about cosentyx. maria: welcome back. breaking news this morning from texas governor greg abbott responding to a federal appeals court directing texas to remove the buoy withs or the barriers set up

these were not real businesses as far as james comer is concerned. in 2018 a text message, hunter biden allegedly crediting sherwin for helping him pay his father's quote bills. , quote, "my dad has been using most lines on this account which through the gracious offerings of sherrick eric sherman i have paid for the past 11 years. based on that text hunter implicating his own father received foreign money from places like china and russia and romania and ukraine and kazakhstan with the help of eric sherman. and then pops use the funds to pay his bills all while joe and eric e-mailed back and forth hundreds of times. eric sherman is just one of the many hunter business partners that interacted with tony bobulinski's big guy. this is a picture of joe biden who just said he never met with. i never spoke with hunter, my brother or anybody for that matter about their foreign business dealings. see that picture? that is hunter's because extend business partners after a dinner at the prestigious cafÉ milano. people from harvard know that location. here's a

house oversight chair james comer says the proof is out there. >> there is no shortage of crimes the bidens have committed. our investigation is of joe biden and we know that joe biden met with every single person, including the health people in florida that jim biden defrauded. we know joe biden met with or spoke to every single person that wired his families millions of dollars. the evidence is overwhelming and american people see through it. it is time for the bidens to tell the truth. they cannot lie to the american people anymore. the walls are closing in on the president. >> julie: house rules committee has released the text of the indictment inquiry resolution, a portion reads in part and i quote, the biden family & associates received more than $24 million from foreign nationals. it has become clear the biden family sold influence around the world using joe biden's name as the product. an investigation in any jurisdiction around the country would move forward if it had these facts. a vote on an inquiry puts the house in the best position to prevail in court and uncover the tr

i think james comer has lost any patients he had.sit and his trips and rides on marine one are apparently missing from the visitor logs unlike other members of the biden family, the white house dodged questions about it saying recorded the first son or other family members names in the marine one logbooks was something we had never done quote unquote, your thoughts on that why would they hide the fact that his son is traveling with him in living at the white house, why hide it? >> is a very good question and i think it's ironic for this president you promised to have the most transparent presidency in history has actually done the opposite is the most opec and secretive administration and it's interesting to note in may of 2021 just a few month before. six months he change the policies so his son and family members would not be listed on official logs. and then there is a little parentheses as long as this is private and on any business dealings which is doubly ironic which he is constantly bowing which is nothing his son and brother

maria: that was oversight committee chairman james comer with me here yesterday.iden's legal woes today. now the first son is even in bigger trouble. he was indicted yesterday on nine tax related charges in california. hunter is facing up to 17 years in prison if convicted for allegedly failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes over a four year period and writing off trips to strip clubs as business expenses among other allegations. hunter's lawyer came out with a statement on the heels of this, if hunter's name -- they write this, if hunter's name was anything other than biden, the charges in delaware and now california would not have been brought. joining me is wisconsin congressman bryan steil, chairman of the house administration committee. congressman, your reaction to this indictment? >> well, i think what we see is what the biden family continues to have a ton of evidence of foreign peddling and then the question becomes was president biden trading government favors on behalf of the foreign business dealings of his family, it's why the impeachment proceedings th

host: congressman james comer, the chairman of the oversight committee, yesterday on fox news.lso yesterday, robert garcia, also a member of the oversight committee, a democrat from california, asking why republicans want to do this. [video clip] >> there is no evidence. we have made that clear over and over. all the evidence republicans tried to bring forward are essentially discredited rudy giuliani conspiracy theories. this is a tinfoil hat committee with zero evidence. host: asking you this morning on "washington journal," should the household a formal impeachment inquiry vote on the house floor? it is a tight margin between democrats and republicans right now, but speaker mike johnson says he has of the votes to formally authorize impeachment. these inquiries have been going on since some timbre here this would be a formal authorization, adding some legal have to behind some of these inquiries. (202) 748-8001 for republicans to call in. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. independents, it is (202) 748-8002. a few of your comments from social media already. this is a martin, writ

james comer, again, on "this morning with maria bartalomo". he switched over to that because he was scared of steve doocy. >> greg: come on! >> jessica: two nights ago. >> greg: i read it three times with different media outlets, jessica. >> jessica: you should expand your reading. thank you. yes. professor is just fine. so james comer, then this guy congressman green who said if we don't go down this impeachment route, the mega base will ststo voting for us. it doesn't sound like we have a legitimate impeachment inquiry going. it sounds like i'm scared of being voted out. and on dana's show this morning, the two whistleblowers were on and bill hemmer was pushing them. they accused biden of influence peddling and didn't have anything to back it up. the story that i think will be very interesting and it's starting to get a little juicy by jesse's standards is james comer and his shell company. so he's been going on for months about the fact that people who are innocent of these things don't have shell companies. but guess what, james comer does

we're going to talk with james comer coming up.k break and then it's beginning to look a lot like christmas for the markets that's for sure. we're looking at a rally, can it keep going. markets are up again this morning. the word on wall street panel is here with expectations and then the wife of andrea b bocelli is here with us this morning. she'll talk about the christmas concerts in new york and the holiday season. don't miss that. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. ♪ a few years ago, i came to saona, they told me there's no electricity on the island. we always thought that whatever we did here would be an emblem of what small communities can achieve. trying to give a better life to people that don't have the means to do it. si mi papá estuviera vivo, sé que él tuviera orgulloso también de vivir de esta viviendo una vida como la que estamos viviendo ahora. es electricidad aquí es salud. in a rocky mountain setting? spanning over 280,000 acres, three forks ranch is the destination for luxury and adventure

james comer and others are not happy.t comer will speak to the pool camera at some point. so that may be the next development, gentlemen, we may have taken a completely different turn just like that. stand by. we'll report it when it happens. we'll move through it together slowly and we'll get it right as we go. byron york now joins us. what is your take at this hour? >> well, i did not hear him say that he was going to testify in a deposition. he said he was ready to testify in a public hearing. that has been the crux of the fight between the committee and hunter biden. so there is a reason for this. in a deposition, both sides usually give their lawyers an hour to question the witness. in a public hearing, you have to have each member of the committee get five minutes to question the witness and it leads to a lot of showboating, a lot of politicking and it is not very informative. so the chairman says we always start with a private deposition, which is transcribed, and then after that we have a public hearing. hunter bi

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. there is no fairness or decency in what these republicans are doing. they have lied over and over about every aspect of my personal and professional life, so much so that their lies have become the facts by too many people. >> where is hunter? here i am says hunter biden from the steps of the u.s. capitol. we are covering every angle including waiting on the response from the republicans about whether they will take his testimony. cnn's evan perez was right there listening to hunter biden and let's start with him, evan. that is more than what we've heard to date from hunter on this subject. >> absolutely, john. look, it was an extraordinary thing to come to the steps here on the senate side of the capitol, and not on the house side where the house republicans have been waiting for him at 9:30 to do the clo

he's about to testify with james comer, now he is under investigation, can't talk about it anymore. will he see justice? 17 years? if he was found guilty, what will joe do? wave his magic pardon wand. this is opposite of justice. they don't mention his lobbying or pseudonyms and e-mails, about international money. there was one sentence about money from russia and china. they found the easiest thing, he did not pay taxes, he paid hookers, instead. trump is a different circumstance. >> jimmy, do you want to lighten us about the jokes? >> jimmy: i had a point here, reacting to what hunter said to moby, they are not trying to destroy biden's presidency, he didn't need help. he is polling behind isis, like 27%. to hunter point, d in accounting, a on how he spent the money. fast cars, fast women, if ukraine is sending me $5 million, the docket looks similar to the way it looks now. they will not send me money, my dad was not sitting vice president at the time. hunter didn't work in government, exactly, why was biden e-mails him information under a pseudonym name. that is bigger takeaway

joining us now is the chairman of the house oversight committee the congressman from kentucky james comerrman comer, what's your initial reaction to this ruling out of maine? >> well, i'm not surprised i fear we are going to see this happen in more states. good for every member of congress to be back home during christmas and listening to average americans. i'm here in kentucky right now. if you ask the average kentuckian about the democrats and what they're trying to do right now, especially with respect to the presidential race, they will say two things. first of all, they think it's absurd what the democrats are trying to do in blue states in banning president trump from the ballot. i mean, this is clearly election interference and then the second thing that the average person on the street will say about the democrats in this presidential race is they have got a problem with their candidate, joe biden. poll after poll shows that the americans believe his policies are bad and that even worse for joe biden is he a crook. so, i think that the democrats are trying to do everything they ca

the company said that james biden did not deliver and now they are suing him, demanding that he pay back the $600,000 that they sent him. comere money that they paid james biden tracked straight to joe biden. >> joe biden received the last payment from americorp. they sent a check to jim biden for $200,000, the exact same day that jim biden received that $200,000 check, they wrote joe biden a check for the exact same amount, $200,000. maria: and once again the bidens claim it was a loan repayment. joining me right now is new york congresswoman claudia tenney, a perm better of the house ways and means committee. wow, the story gets deeper and deeper every day. your reaction? >> it's amazing that a guy like joe biden w who has a congressmn salary, how does he loan these people money without loan documents? as we talked about on show, maria, this is all about joe biden using his name and his clout as a politician with a lot of power to enrich himself and his family and all he's done is they've sold the name. even hunter talks about it. it's my dad's name, it's my dad, you know, we have the text message. all of this got started b

james comer and jim jordan shifting the impeachment inquiry focused directly on president biden.'s decision to defy a house subpoena. judicial watch president tom fitton will break this down for us. joining the conversation all morning long washington examiner columnist tiana lowe doescher and john lonski. this addition with "mornings with maria" is live right now. ♪ ♪ ♪. cheryl: it is time for the hot topic of hour, the border crisis getting worse by the day, customer border protection sources telling fox news there have been more than 730,000 migrant encounters at the southern border since october 1, secretary of state anthony blinken and homeland security alejandro mayorkas meeting with mexican president obrador yesterday but really only walked away from a warning from him that the migration issues were going to intensify saying congress needs to decide policy if they want action taken. through all of this president biden ignoring a reporter questioned about the border as his boarding a plane for st. croix vacation. watch. >> president biden what would you like to hear from me

james comer told me yesterday on sunday morning futures he feels he has the votes to formalize the bident inquiry, a floor vote could happen before lawmakers go on december break. what do you know about this? do you feel he ha he has the v. >> i do. i sit on the oversight committee with chairman comer. joe biden said in debates with president trump that it was president trump that took money from china which wasn't true. it was the biden family. we had an independent bank auditor saying there's no legitimate reason that this $5 million is sitting in this account. we know china targets vulnerable members of high ranking officials around the world. that's exactly hunter biden. he got $500 million deal. 40,000 of that, 10% to the big guy, 40 grand went to jim he biden who gave it to joe who said it was repayment for a loan. joe biden never showed he loaned his brother any money. it's always flowing into joe, never flows out. maria: we have an incredible e-mail from a bank money laundering expert, the regulator pointing opointing out there's c irregular activity. are you expecting to hear fr

here now with mo more house oversight committee chairman james comer himself. let's explain this.the media is going after you hard. that doesn't prove anything. that's only a loan repayment from joe. there is an awful lot of lone repayments that they talk about. i would imagine, correct me if i am wrong, if it's a loan repayment wouldn't we have a record of the loan being repaid? have you been able to get that information? >> absolutely not. if you made a loan to someone you would have a check going out to that person in addition to the check coming back for the so-called lone repayment. that's what the e-mail was we talked about on your show last week, sean burke win the bank questioned hunter biden about what was the reason for the $5 million wire from china he apparently told the loan officer it was a loan. the loan officer said we will need documentation to prove to the bank examiners it was a loan. do have lone documentation? he said no. we are supposed to believe that china gave hunter biden a loan for $5 million? if you look at the last four payments we found with ties dire

jamie raskin's argument is that house republicans, james comer and the like, have not tied the money to the bad act. the fact of the matter is, maria, democrats in the house and throughout congress and throughout d.c., throughout the deep state are preventing republicans from getting that information through the normal means that you do, p subpoena and the like. secondarily, ask yourself the 30,000-foot question. how did public servant like joe biden make all this money, have all that he has, and that if you answer that question it's from foreign sources then what did he do to make that money? these are the underlying questions and as much as jamie raskin is trying to tamp this down and sow doubts in the minds of some republicans by saying impeachment is bad for the done i tri, the fact of -- country, the fact of the matter is, there are genuine questions that need to be answer ad. ed.maria: we've seen so much evidence already. we've seen bank records, we've got witness em the, we've got e-mails, and the washington post of course is holding the water for the democrats. they're out wi

james comer was hoping if hunter biden came up for a deposition next week he's scheduled to do it or supposed to be coming to do it, but now with this investigation underway and the charges filed, could abbe lowell say oh, i'm sorry, he can't do a deposition before congress because that would get in the middle of an ongoing federal investigation. what do you think? >> no doubt that's what they will say and the timing of course is very curious. these charges could have been brought any time since the plea deal collapsed. all the investigation, the material was already there, it had been created when they had planned to prosecute hunter biden on these felonies and then that sweetheart plea deal got in the way and it was just because, you know, shapley and ziegler blew the whistle and one judge in delaware decided they would go by the book and also had the fact that one of the prosecutors who they pointed the finger at blocking inquiries into joe biden, leslie wolf, she was off the case after they blew the whistle and suddenly comes on the case, leo weiss, a known pit bull prosecutor, h

that's a story that james comer has been telling across a whole lot of different bank documents.hese are loans, they don't appear to be, and that's a classic excuse the irs always looks for when people are trying to the hide the real source of money. maria: yeah. and the e-mail from this bank regulator says since the initial funding of $5 million from northern international capital holdings of hong kong on august 2017 as a business loan it was noted that there was no loan agreement documents submitted so again, they try to say that all of this stuff is a loan but there were no documents submitted for a loan and there's actually no services rendered. you recently wrote a column in the new york post -- go ahead. >> i was just going to mention, maria, that the timing is very important too because this is -- the money flowed to hunter's bank accounts just a few days after he issued that shakedown what's app message to one of the chinese partners saying he was sitting with his father and his father wanted to know why hadn't kept their part of the bargain, as in paid the money and if y

maria: house oversight james comer and judiciary chairman jordan to bring the contempt of congress tot on the congressional subpoena. you saw how the white house responded to that. >> do people believe congressional subpoenas is something you can ignore. >> i'm not going to speak to that, the president was familiar with what his son is going to say and what was from the heart of his son. >> should your son have defined the subpoena. >> did you watch hunter this morning. >> meanwhile here's president biden two years ago responded to a question about those people who defined congressional subpoenas, watch this. >> i hope the committee goes after him and hold him accountable i really deal. maria: i'm holding them accountable. obviously he's not saying anything this time around. >> is convenient the subpoenas mean, if you do this in a court of law the judge will direct very quickly that the sheriff deputy or law enforcement pick you up for violation for the subpoena for not showing up, president vita was correct a couple of years ago when he was talking about this, people defy subpoenas a

here with mo is james comer with us. he house ways and means committee chairman jason smith and house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan. congressman comer, i start with you tonight. your reaction to today's events earlier today with jim jordanout that hunter has defied a lawful subpoena and you will now initiate contempt of congress proceedings and that hunter will not be pvided special treatment because his last name is biden. >> i've never seen such a display of arrogance and entitlement as i saw today when you had over a dozen members of congress in a committee room waiting for hunter biden to appear because he was lawfully subpoenaed. while we were there with staff who had spent countless hours preparing questions, substantive questions. at the same time hunter biden goes out and has a press conference and plays the victim card. he defies a congressional subpoena, says he wants to tell his story and gets in a car and drives off. i think the american people saw that was a publicity stunt that went bust. we have h

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oversight committee james comer and judiciary committee chairman jim jordan f threatened to hold him in contempt of congress for not complying with that subpoena. pretty hypocritical given what they've done in the past. well, jim jordan specifically. with that let's get smart tonight with the help of our leadoff panel, mike memoli is here, and he has covered president biden, his family, and his inner circle of advisers for a decade. nobody knows the bidens. better luke broadwater, and tim miller, a contributor the bulwark and communications director for jeb bush. let's start with jim jordan. he's out there talking about getting witnesses. i want to understand, what kind of witnesses does he think he's going to get? and these just people who hunter biden was dealing with in the past that will clearly embarrass the president? but do nothing to prove any wrongdoing? and these investigators, what are they allowed to do? >> jim jordan has lined up about nine witnesses he wants to hear from over the next two months, in particular to that are named in the impeachment inquiry resolution that

james biden received money and august bidens received money and james comer has receipts. >> brooke: hunter only agreed to be deposed publicly, jim jordan and james comer say if he refuses this session, they will move to hold nim in contempt. >> todd: the podcast was moby that made the electric music in 2000, be moy's podcast. brooke, thank you. former president donald trump will not take the stand today, trump notified court yesterday after posting on truth social. i have testified to everything and have nothing more to say other than this is a complete witch hunt, i will not testify on monday. an nyu accounting professor crit criticized -- net worth to receive preferential treatment from banks. millions of americans waking up to the threat of floored and winter weather. this is the same deadly storm system that tore through the south over the weekend. take a look at the devastation. tornados devastating middle tennessee, killing six people, including a child. this massive transformer explosion was captured on camera. >> on -- oh, my god. >> todd: thousands still without power in th

i want to give james comer some credit.fter 50,000 pages of depositions and secret hearings and closed hearings i think if we give them enough time he's going to prove that hunter biden is joe biden's son. host: your thoughts on the debates yesterday and vote in the house to move forward officially with an impeachment inquiry into president biden. support, dial in at (202) 748-8000. oppose, (202) 748-8001. from the front pages of the national newspapers this morning. the wall street journal. gop sets probing bid to tie biden to son posey businesses -- son's businesses. it says republicans have not uncovered evidence that the president profited from his family posey overseas endeavors -- family's overseas endeavors. the front page of the new york times. approved despite no proof of biden crime. the house voted yesterday to formerly open and impeachment inquiry, pushing forward with a year-long gop investigation that has failed to produce evidence of anything approaching high crimes or misdemeanors. that is how the wall stree

years immediately following joe biden's vice presidency, which house oversight committee chairman james comertrayed ass evidence that chia laundered money to biden through his brother. check to james bidn for "loan repayment." a year later, his sister wrote a check with a similar -- as evidence joe biden lent his brother money and was then being paid back. but those transactions a focal point of their probes. this is mike in arizona, independent. go ahead. caller: hi. i just wanted to say it is entirely unsurprising how this is the topic of conversation right now while, right at this moment, there is a genocide happening that the white house and the entire state department apparatus is attempting to do everything they can to shield themselves from liability for the ongoing genocide in gaza by the israeli government right now. why? please tell me why this is the topic of conversation right now and why this is what is so important in congress. host: why do you think it is important enough for the speaker of the house to talk about it happening sometime in the next week or so, saying he has the