you showed the clip from jason smith.his bizarre twist where jason smith's attorneys filed some information with the judge and then the -- somebody from the other council from hunter biden's law firm called and got it pulled down. the judge said, were you misrepresenting yourself? that hasn't been answered adequately, bizarre your honor it of events. over and over again issue the judge got sick and tired of seeing the special treatment and said let's go back to square 1. >> ainsley: what was your reaction to the judge finding this, seems like she found the fine prints, he will be granted immunity from everything going forward. they put this word and language in there and she saw it and said, no, this will not fly. >> that was section 14 and 15 of the plea agreement. the judge looked and said, hold on, you're telling us you can't turn over information to congress and we're trying to get more information. the justice department and fbi says there is an ongoing investigation. the judge said if there is ongoing investigation,

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jason smith is going to be on our show.e are going to ask him about it, on a phone call to try to get a court filing removed from the docket. there was testimony from these two irs whistleblowers and they wanted that removed. she says, the judge says that they pretended. they called up the court and pretended to be on his -- republican staff. to try to get that wiped off. >> steve: so the judge is giving both sides a couple of weeks to try to come to language that they can all agree on that's constitutional. >> lawrence: both sides have to present a brief before the court. so the judge wants some time of a recommendation in the guise of the law how they should proceed forward i look forward to seeing it, too. >> steve: apparently according to axios this morning that when it was clear that the deal was imploding, hunter biden threw up his hands in the court. i thought i had a deal. >> lawrence: is he not used to it. >> steve: anyway. lawrence, it's good to have you today. >> lawrence: thanks for having having me. >> steve: b

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it was interesting, house ways is and means committee chairman jason smith, he's obviously been a hugeart of this from the beginning, this investigation of hunter biden and the irs and some of the stonewalling. listen to what he had to say regarding the future of the investigation of hunter biden. listen. >> we got a lot of information to continue to look at. there's several individuals that need to come before our three committees. we've asked for 13. however, the president's administration is blocking that, and we're going to have to find a way to get them in so we can get some answers to questions that we have. brian: so, governor, you know, you talk about the impeachment inquiry and getting some answers, but you've got congressman jace withing smith -- jason smith saying the administration is slow-walking this, standing in the way. even if you get the inquiry, if the administration is dead set against it, is this just a rock and a hard place situation? do we get anywhere? >> well, we do, and it's going to be done really death of a thousand cuts. i call it the chinese drip strategy.

house ways and means committee and chairman's jason smith. jim jordan, let me start with you. i smell a rat here and i suspect that the judge did as well. we are to believe that this critically important point, that this deal would ensure that there would be no further prosecution for hunter biden. somehow they have had a misunderstanding at that point. i am not buying that for one second. >> this is now the fourth time that the doj's story has changed. david weiss said that he had all this authority and said that no, i don't. it limited to my u.s. attorney's district. lindsey graham saying that it something different and now we've had this happen. remember, sean. the compelling thing that has happened the last several weeks is two brave whistle-blowers coming forward for chairman smith releasing their testimony publicly and them coming up in front of mr. cromer's oversight committee and testifying and the credibility was unimpeachable. the story has been consistent. their faqs have not wavered. their testimony has been straightforward and has been validated by an fbi agent wh

missouri congressman jason smith is the chair of the house weighs and means committee and joins us nowds like a breakthrough is coming and it's getting very close to directly involving the president here. >> we started out this investigation when the whistle blowers before the we weighs and means committee and said all along we're going to follow the facts and that's in fact what we're doing, and the facts are leading directly to the president on numerous instances and it's quite alarming what we saw coming out with this testimony in the oversight hearing. anyone should be concerned, and you just look at what the irs whistle blowers stated from the tax years of 2014-2019 where they did the investigation, there was more than $17 million that was paid to hunter biden and his associates from foreign entities, $8.3 million directly to him. in the tax year in 2014, he had more than $400,000 from burisma where he never paid any taxes on it. guess what, they delayed the investigation from such an aspect that the statute of limitations has now ran on felony prosecution from that in 2014. stuar

joining us me now is house ways and means committee chairman jason smith.ir. >> mike: so attorney general merrick garland said publicly a few weeks ago he would be open to having the united states attorney for delaware speak publicly about this matter. let's play him. >> he was given complete authority to make all decisions on his own. i would support mr. weiss explaining or testifying on these matters when he deems it appropriate. >> mike: you expect to hear back from the attorney general, should that be a yes? >> you know, i would sure hope so, that the prosecutor weiss would respond to the request that myself, comer, and jordan sent him a letter requesting that he come voluntarily and talk to members of congress. we got a lot of questions for him. because it's not adding up with what the whistleblowers have said, what the attorney general of the united states has said, and also what mr. weiss has said. there is only a couple reasons why mr. weiss would not come or the other 12 people that we have requested to come and that would be they are either hiding

chairman jason smith joins us with the latest. brett tolman and matt whitaker when we return. >> jason: welcome back to the special edition of "hannity." last week one of hunter biden's attorneys wrote to the chairman of the house ways and means committee to slam the irs whistle-blower who has exposed apparent government misconduct in the hunter biden tax case. the lawyer called the whistle-blower a disgruntled person, pushing a misinformation campaign. but the whistle-blower's attorney is now firing back. here's what he told our own trace gallagher yesterday. >> these attacks are really nothing more than just character assassination. special agent tapley has gone through the process, the legal process of disclosing and becoming a whistle-blower. he went to capitol hill. he sat for hours of testimony, questioned by democrats and republicans, taking their turns, whatever topics they wanted to get into. they could ask them. he was under the penalties of being prosecuted for false statements. if he gave a full statement. these attack

there is a lawyer who called up the clerk's office and said i'm a republican working for jason smith, that brief he filed, to get the plea deal thrown out, can you remove that so the judge doesn't see it. hunter biden's legal team is saying that didn't happen, it was miscommunication. what do you think of this? >> regardless what happened, we don't know the fact, the judge asked for information on what went onner hoo, it has taken everybody's eye off the ball of getting the hunter biden plea done. honestly, anything that distracts from the end goal is a potential problem. the judge could say, before we talk about the plea deal, i want to understand the amicus brief. focus is on the amicus brief, submitted by a republican politician, you know issue the contents may become front and center without this curveball being thrown last night. will focus the judge's attention on this brief. i think it will get resolved first. >> todd: good point, this did just draw attention to something frankly, mark, amicus brief, friend of the court brief filed by party that is not party to the litigation,

jason smith wants evidence of political interference included in the hearing. the judge in the case accused one of hunter's lawyers, misrepresenting herself to remove damaging material. lawyers say it's unfortunate and unintentional this commun communication. hunter appears in court an hour from now on misdemeanor tax and in churches. "wall street journal" says you go to prison for what hunter biden did. then impeachment, speaker mccarthy has returned to the subject and says the actions i'm seeing on impeachment. i wonder if we've reached the place of impeachment fatigue. we will follow this throughout the show. crane on fire in new york city, part of the crane collapse into the street. a neighboring hotel has been evacuated, the west side of manhattan seizing up. the fire has been put out. wednesday july 26, 2023, varney & co. is about to begin. ♪ ♪ >> a little west of sixth av avenue. nasty fire on tenth avenue west side of this freezing up, maybe that's why six avenue is. move for me cascade. microsoft and of a but, first of big tech companies to report. as

a investigators were left out of briefing on biden family alleged criminal scheme i spoke with jason smith on "sunday morning futures" yesterday about his investigation. watch. >> if you look at the tax years from 2014, to 2019 the investigators claim hunter biden refused over 8.3 million dollars, including collude in that 80,000 dollar diamond a porsche over 140,000 dollars we have documentation from irgs whistleblowers that hunter biden was reffing money from china sources, ukraine sources romania sources. . >> jason smith, joining me right now new york congresswoman member house ways and means, malliotakis. >> former arkansas governor mike huckabee great to see you. thanks for joining congresswoman always a pleasure thanks for being here i want your take he what is going on what you learned in house ways and means from westbound at irs. >> testimony is absolutely shocking, these whistleblowers who were investigating hunter biden case, basically found that he had evaded taxes to tune over two million dollars. on 8 million dollars of money that he received, including, by the way, 80,000 d

we've got the chairman of the house ways and means committee with me this morning, jason smith, is the the what's app message that sounded like a mob officer shaking down somebody when it was actually hunter biden telling his chinese partner you better keep your commitment and pay up, i'm sitting next to my father right now and we're waiting for the call so jason smith will discuss all of that and of course ron johnson, senator from wisconsin has been among the first to investigate biden family influence peddling, wheeling talk about that as well. we are also kicking off our series on sunday morning futures, speaking to the candidates. we kick it off with ron desantis, the governor of florida is my lead guest, the exclusive interview coming up. we'll take a look at governor desantis' campaign. some say it's stalled out in his effort to topple donald trump. we'll get into it. we're talking about 2024 and issues that matter to the american people, number one, china and the economy number two. newt gingrich will assess the field for us, he's coming up to talk about the 2020 election with

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let's back up and start with the amicus brief filed by the house ways and means committee chairman jason smith. it wanted to insert the testimony of those whistleblowers. here is what congressman smith writes. the defendant appears to have benefited, hunter biden, from political interference. in the interest of full transparency and fairness for all citizens it is critical for the court to have this relevant information when evaluating the plea agreement. but as we have now learned late last night, a member of hunter biden's legal team from the law firm called the clerk's office and apparently may have misrepresented herself in trying to get that amicus brief and this testimony sidelined and removed from today's hearing under consideration. now, this is what we have from the law firm of hunter biden saying, quote, this in response. the judge wanted an immediate response last night saying the matter under consideration appears to stem from an infortunate miscommunication between a staff member at our firm and employees of the court. we have no idea how the misunderstanding occurred but our unde

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house judiciary chairman jim jordan, oversight chair james comer, and jason smith want garland to make available the 11 people connected, including attorney weiss, the donald trump appointed attorney gone on the record in three letters, one letter to your next guest, senator lindsey graham, to say he's been in charge of the probe despite claims from a whistleblower who claims weiss said the opposite. and leslie wolf and u.s. attorney matthew graves, runs the attorney's office in d.c. and the whistleblower said he was not able to charge hunter biden, and weiss said i was assured i would be granted the authority if it proved necessary. garland said weeks ago david weiss was free to talk to congress whenever he wants. watch. >> the need to impeach a cabinet officer depends on two things. one, a full due process investigation of the wrongdoing and two, a refusal by the president to dismiss somebody who serves at the pleasure of that president. so we are a long way from that. >> that was congressman darrell issa tamping down talk of impeachment. it was just a few weeks ago, mike, that house

house ways and means committee chairman jason smith filed an amicus brief. he urged the judge to throw out hunter's plea agreement because of the new evidence and whistle-blower testimony that could not be ignored here at this stage of the game. chairman smith, good to have you with us today. what is your reaction? >> good to be with you, martha. i think justice is being served. when these two irs actly how the department of justice had delayed the prosecution, how they delayed the investigation, how they divulged information to hunter biden's lawyers throughout the process and how they were denied numerous opportunities to bring charges. i felt like that this information more than 15 hours of depositions from these irs investigators was crucial for the judge to see this. the american people deserve to see it, this judge needed to have the facts from the two irs whistle-blowers that were investigating this. today proves that hopefully just because your last name is biden, you're not treated differently than other americans. >> martha: so you got criticism fo

that's a 400-page something amicus brief that was filed by jason smith yesterday. team hates what the irs whistleblowers say which is that there was obstruction and slow-walking to save hunter biden and get him this sweetheart plea deal. that's a lot to read and digest. two other amicus briefs i brief that have been sent in. she may want to adjourn so she has some time to grapple with this information. >> steve: of course the live coverage starting at 10:00 this morning. miranda, thank you very much for the pregame show. >> thanks, steve. >> steve: 24 minutes before the top of the hour on this wednesday. still ahead, paying for groceries with the palm of your hand or buying booze with your fingerprinted? kurt the cyberguy's tech roundup coming up, shortly. but, first, college towns becoming blue strongholds. plus a patriotism free fall. the record low number of young americans not apparently proud of america. how those issues could impact 2024. our gen z panel coming up next. ♪ ♪ hi, i'm todd. i'm a veteran of 23 years. i served three overseas tours. i love to give

this month, four congressional republican leaders, committee chairman james comer, jim jordan, jason smith and elise stephanie, wrote to the white house counsel's office demanding to know why. they said this statement deviates from previous statements, demanded a response by yesterday and never got one from the white house counsel's office. the press secretary has deflected questions around the shifting language at the podium and from the white house counsel office and she would not say whether the president had been in touch with his son's legal team about the charges that he's facing either. >> do they ever discuss the tax situation? >> i'm not going to get into the specific of the case. i -- i've answered this question over and over again. nothing has changed from the statement i made yesterday, and the few times in the briefing room, this is an independent investigation led by a trump appointed prosecutor that is being led by clearly the department of justice. >> the president is in maine talking about bidenomics, and ignored questions from reporters at two events yesterday and after h

. >> lawrence: let's bring in jason smith the chairman of the house ways and means committee. chairman, thanks so much for joining the program. i want to start a little bit on this deal that was going on and the fact that someone called someone called the court and the judge assumed this was somebody for the counsel for hunter biden. i think they were representing someone that was in your office can you tell us more about that. >> yes. on tuesday morning, i had my lawyer file an amicus brief. and the amicus brief was the 15 hours worth of testimony that the two irs whistleblowers did before my committee, the ways and means committee. because we wanted the judge to have all the information and the allegations that these irs whistleblowers had within an hour my lawyer saw it was taken off the public docket. he called the court. what did he find out? apparently an individual from hunter biden's law firm in new york called and pretended to be a paralegal for my lawyer and said that it needed to be taken down immediately because it had private, personal information by mistake. well

the chairman of the house ways and means committee, republicans jason smith, filed a brief urging the judge to throw out the deal. he claims hunter biden received preferential treatment from the justice department. >>> and a federal judge blocked the biden administration's new rule restricting asylum seekers at the u.s.-mexico border. the rule, in effect for two months now, allows migration officials to -- rather immigration officials to deny asylum to migrants who arrive at the border without applying on line. they can be denied for not seeking protection in a country they passed through. the new regulation contributed to a drop in border crossings. the judge delayed the ruling from taking effect for two weeks to give the biden administration time to appeal. >>> and it comes a day after the justice department sued texas over the state's refusal to remove buoys meant to prevent migrants from crossing the rio grande. >>> two-thirds of americans will experience temperatures above 90 today as excessive heat warnings continue over arizona, nevada, and southern california. cristian benevid

i want to give jason smith, chair of ways and means committee credit, because he filed an amicus brief bringing to the court the testimony of the irs whistleblowers who laid out the department of justice misconduct in this case. certainly is something that the court has taken into the record and the court will be looking at. this really shows, i think, the breadth of the misconduct the department of justice has done, when you look at the plea deal, not only a sweetheart deal, it goes beyond that, and includes things that were troubling to the judge. not just preferential treatment, but pull a fast one on the court itself. this deal also by the department of justice having allowed the statute of limitations to run on the 2014 and 2015 payments that hunter had received would shield him from the scrutiny of where did these foreign payments come from and where did they go, which leads to the question of the president's involvement himself. >> john: congressman, what do you make of the very fact this plea deal hearing was going to go ahead this morning despite the fact that the oversite and

this was an odd turn oen'sf late last night pretending to be a staffer for republican congressman jason smith on the house ways and means committee on a phone call to try and get a court tha filing that was put inwa the cat by the ways and means committee amicus brief removedte from the docket. now, congressman smith, who serves on that committeemicr chairman, previously submitted this filing asking judge to consider new evidence against hunter from the two whistleblowers who recently testified very credibly on capitol hill. now, chairman smith, chairman colmer, chairman jordall.chairmn will all join us in a minute. but, of course, the biden legaly team says this is all a big one, one big misunderstanding really, on such an important deal point, where to believeuchi that? i don't believe it. just like misunderstanding surroundinn'g sale of his art, his paint by numbers. e ha remember, the white house had promised that hunter's paint hue by numbers, portraits of wocrackhead would not be connected to the administration in anyway. they vowed that no one, not hunter, not the white house, hut woul

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. >> but now the new york times reports congressman jason smith, the chairman of the house ways and means committee, has filed a brief in federal court urging the judge in the case to reject the agreement. smith argues the deal is tainted and cites testimony from two irs whistleblowers who were in charge of the investigation. >> my credibility comes from my job experience with the irs. >> the agents testified to a house committee last week that they believe hunter biden got special treatment from the justice department. >> there should not be a two track justice system depending on who you are and who you're connected to. yet in this case, there was at every stage decisions were made that benefited the subject of this investigation in the justice department denies the claims. >> and the us attorney in delaware, who was appointed by former president trump, has said he's willing to testify about the case. meanwhile, house speaker kevin mccarthy appears closer to announcing an impeachment inquiry into president biden, saying an inquiry by congress may be the only way republicans can get acce

jason smith filed a brief with the judge, entering into evidence irs whistle-blower testimony. are you really going to let this guy off easy? his attorney called the courthouse clerk today and pretended to be a republican attorney and told the clerk, loops, we did not mean to file that whistle-blower stuff, can you strike that from the record? hunter biden's lawyer made a phony phone call to the court and tried to remove the whistle-blower testimony. he called and impersonated the opposing lawyer. this is a republican attorney chris clark -- never mind, that brief, that was an accident. good day. was this his sugar brothers i idea? this sounds like the caper you cook up when you are on cocaine. we should call the court house and pretend we are the other lawyer. democrats call this a clown show and hunter biden's lawyers are making prank calls two of the judge. you can get disbarred for that. this is so brazen. he thinks he can get away with anything or his legal team is panicked and hunter may have to serve time. a democrat judge was furious his lawyer tried to pull one over on

house is looking to move forward with inquiry for biden attorney general and here is congressman jason smith who wants to know more about the hunter biden probe. >> we want to talk to the 13 individuals that were either in attendance of the october 7 meeting that mr. weiss was denied opportunity to bring charges and a special prosecutor. they need to come before us. we've been getting the run-around from the fbi and irs. we don't know when devin archer will appear this week, it has to be this week, congress, last week in session before they take off the august recess. >> steve: about the witnesses the republicans are calling and we were talking amongst ourselves. if they want the answers, why don't the republicans call hunter biden? >> great question. >> ainsley: you asked that question, you asked chairman and asked him on camera, too. >> i did. you have to get all the pieces in order. we asked james comer, he said it takes time to get the financial records. but if you bring in devin archer, logical next step, have hunter biden testify, as well. >> ainsley: you think they are going to ask ev

last night before his court appearance top republican jason smith sent a 400 page brief to the judge saying hunter had benefited from political interference. you wants that included in today's hearing. that would upend the proceedings. late last night one of hunter's attorneys was accused of misleading the clerk's office, damaging information out of the hearings. lawyers say the result is unfortunate and unintended communication. that's what the judge says about that which brings us to right now as hunter appears in the delaware court to plead guilty to minor tax and gun charges. he's not going to prison. for six years, hunter failed to report and did not pay tax on $17 million that came to him from questionable sources. he is fortunate to be the son of joe biden. the wall street journal says you would go to prison for what hunter biden did. what -- when he filed tax returns he tried to write off his drug dealers, liaisons and sex club dues. some of our viewers may remember leona helmsley who went to prison for deducting her personal expenses. she served time. hunter's dad is the pre

>> we are trying to get to bottom of all that i think comer jordan jason smiths doing phenomenal job what we've been from whistleblower eye lone slows slow walking because of that slow walking heads-up, that the first family received, that -- charges could have been charged for committed potentially in 2014, 2015, no longer relevant they have passed statute of limitations, specifically because doj did not pursue those now left with -- potentially, 2014, 2015. cheryl: radio i want to move to border the texas department of public safetying recovering at least four bodies including infant from rio grande since start of july, authorities say two migrant children bound obtained the edge of rio grande monday 8-year-old, 11-year-old a woman left them there told them to cross the river into u.s., meanwhile, texas, arrested florida truck driver smuggle 12 illegal migrants huge chase happened i asked the border chief about all this listen to what he said to me. >> we know that smugglers have no regard for the people they are trying to bring into the united states, and leave them behind send pe

panel, why are things not getting better for everyday americans trying to make things meet and jason smithe does the investigation go next? jam-packed two hours coming up, join john roberts and me as american reportses top of the hour. top of the hour. top of the hour. >> kayleigh: in and out burger sparking debate, the company is banning employees from wearing masks in five states. in a memo wrote, we are introducing mask guidelines that emphasize importance of customer service. twitter users are lashing out. one doctor warning others to avoid the burger join. another complains in and out burger is owned by a brat. this is a threat to worker health and public health and customers, as well. cheryl? >> cheryl: they are a business and you can choose to work or not work for said business and if this is the way, i mean, it is like, they want me to wear a blue t-shirt. i'm sorry, i like a white t-shirt. if you don't want to work at in and out, go work some place else. they did have moments where they would push back and one executive said we don't want to be the vaccine police for any governmen

jason smith a missouri republican wants the judge to consider these allegations while she presides over his plea deal and hearing wednesday morning in delaware. the defendant appears to have benefited from political interference which calls into question the propriety of the investigation of the us attorney's office he added this, it's critical that the court consider the whistleblower materials before determining whether or not to accept the plea agreement. more on that just a moment in the meantime critics are accusing an obama appointed federal judge of potentially opening the floodgates of a massive wave of illegal migrants looking to gain the system by using asylum claims in the us. ? agreeing to block the biden administration result ? revised policy for asylum-seekers on the mexican border it require the use of a custom border protection app to make an appointment to enter the country illegally and it had another rule that demanded asylum-seekers apply for protection and other countries that they travel through before seeking refuge in the usa. now both policies have been champion

gop wraps jim jordan of ohio, james comer of kentucky and jason smith of missouri revealing that the doj informed congressional leaders that weiss would answer the questions. one of the whistle blowers that challenged the notion this investigation has been by the book, tells fox news tonight that he did the right thing for the right reason. >> at the end of the day, i think it's my duty, my sworn duty as a federal law enforcement officer that i come forward and i tell the truth. i come forward. i presented evidence. there's a process that we're given in becoming a whistle blower. i think that's the most important thing. look at everything we presented to congress, to the house ways and means committee, none of it's been refuted. >> important to point that out. none of it has been refuted. hunter biden's lawyer pinning a letter to congressional lawmakers seeking an ethics review for marjorie taylor greene. they came from the laptop belonging to mr. biden and greene suggested hunter biden trafficked prostitutes across state lines which is a crime he's not been charged. >> one of the bi

hunter's attorney wrote a scathing screen house ways and means chairman jason smith attacking the irs whistleblowers. in it they claim whistleblower, gary sharply leaks details to the "washington post" article back in october. article detailed how federal agents believed they had sufficient evidence to charge hunter. hunter's attorney described this as a legal leak with no evidence. mind you that sharply was a source of the leak. that's what they alleged. they're fighting back concerning the letter to the "washington post" deming to set the record straight on allegedly false and defamatory statements made by hunter's legal team. intimidation has become the go to plan for the hunter's team as constructional at the wall street joiner notes, countrywide has adopted a legal strategy of threats and character assassination. the real targets of hunter lawyers for the whistleblowers themselves on the letter is film with inaccuracy and innuendos. joining me now to discuss more bits is jason, the attorney of the iris whistleblower, gary sharply. jason, fox digital reached out on wednesday to a

jason smith says it doesn't pass the smell test. >> now the white house is saying that they are not involved in his son's business dealings. not that he didn't know about it but not that they are involved. let me tell you it all smells bad. all the committees are following the facts to see where they lead us. >> shannon: david spunt is live at the justice department with more. >> good morning to you both. the official deadline is 5:00 this afternoon eastern time. david weiss, the u.s. attorney in delaware wrote a letting indicating he won't meet that dea deadline. it is to answer questions from jim jordan and other republicans. the reason according to david weiss on why he can't do this, is because technically the hunter biden investigation is still an ongoing investigation. he has yet to formally enter his plea in front of a federal judge. that will happen at the end of the month. that's one of the ropes weiss said he can't answer those questions. in his letter to jordan weiss quoted a prior letter from june saying i have been granted ultimate authority in this matter including responsibili

joining me is jason smith, chairman of ways anden moos committee, who conducted the first interview with whistleblowers and congressman byron donald, who was in today's hearing. as jonathan turley noted earlier today, i think the most damming moment of the proceeding may have been courtesy, unintentional goal by the democrat defense. it came from congressman goldman. joe biden has repeatedly denied and it is completely not credible, he never discussed his son's business dealings. watch this exchange. >> hunter told his dad, according to rob walker, i may be trying to start a company or try to do something with these guys. that doesn't sound like joe biden was involved in whatever hunter biden was doing with the cdfc. he told his father he was trying to do business. >> laura: congressman donald, pompous goldman just dragged the president into this. sworn testimony by the whistleblower now on the record. >> i totally agree with you, that did occur. it was multiple instances in this hearing. one thing that came out, the famous what's app message where hunter is next to his dad and wants mor

congressman jason smith is here to discuss. there are all kinds of problems with the biden family.ring is more of this whistle blower intimidation as we are finding out new information of changing attorneys so hunter biden could get the deal he needed from the department of justice. >> there is a lot of issues. as we discovered just a week ago with the ways and means committee released theover 14 hours worth of testimonies of the multiple whistle blblowers whistleblowers -- the biden department of justice delayed the investigative activities where they devulge information to hunter biden's attorney and where they denied the ability for prosecutors in delaware, according to the irs, irs' whistle blower denied the prosecutoring in delaware to bring charges back in the spring of 2022 and bring charges in the central district of california. the prosecutor asks for special council was denied. if your last name is biden, you are apparently treated differently in the biden's justice department. >> congressman, merrick garland denies all of this and claims all the whistleblowers who had ev

going to do proper investigation, and we have great committee chairs in jim jordan, jamie comer, jason smithing this hearing this week we follow evidence continue to shine spotlight on fact the president of the united states is compromised there has been criminal behavior within the biden family. >> this is stunning all so stunnings congresswoman you are introducing legislation would push back against chinese and russian ties to u.s. colleges stop u.s. taxpayers if funding those taxpayers tell us we know right now the white house, keeps leaking this idea that it is about to put new rules in place, but they never materialize he rains the question this is president compromised he tries to make out like going to come up with something to push back on communist china yet what does he actually doing? sending one cabinet member after another to get embarrassed, on the global stage. >> well you are exactly right maria, joe biden is weak on china, the fact that whether you have john kerry who is you know big ambassador for this administration, or sending sac blinken meanwhile, xhooument china conduc

. >> if it wasn't for the leadership of james comer, jason smith, jim jordan, the chairman of the three committees who are leading this investigation we would have no idea about the testimony of these irs whistle-blowers and the doj very well could have got them away with one of the most corrupt plea deals in american history. so we must keep shining that spotlight on doj corruption so they can't close the books on us. the question we have to ask is one of motive. why did the department of justice engage in such grossly unethical conduct in order to protect hunter biden? buried in the annex of this agreement, this global immunity, because if they pursue hunter 'status as a foreign agent, if they pursue the influence peddling, if they pursue the real nature of his business overseas, all those point to one man and that man is joe biden. at the very same time that they are using the most heavy-handed authoritarian tactics in human history to get rid of an american president for there's no president in history who's ever gone through with what donald trump is going through, they are trying

jason smith of missouri, is waved on to the committee for the purpose of making an opening statement at questioning the witnesses in today's committee hearing. i want to thank chairman smith and chairman jordan for their cooperation and working with the oversight committee on this investigation. this is an important joint effort that shows the american people that accountability matters regardless of your last name. for this hearing, opening statements will be limited to ten minutes for the chair and ten minutes for the ranking member. i now recognize myself for the purpose of making an opening statement. since assuming a republican majority in january, the house oversight committee has made historically fast progress in our investigation into the biden family influence peddling schemes. just six months, we have obtained thousands of pages of financial records. this includes bank records for biden family associates and suspicious activity reports generated by the biden and their associates -- dollars and foreign business transactions. what these records reveal is astonishing. the bid

jason smith says it doesn't pass the smell test. >> now the white house is saying that they are not involvedbusiness dealings. not that he didn't know about it but not that they are involved. let me tell you it all smells bad. all the committees are following the facts to see where they lead us. >> shannon: david spunt is live at the justice department with more. >> good morning to you both. the official deadline is 5:00 this afternoon eastern time. david weiss, the u.s. attorney

joining me now is jason smith chairman of the ways and means committee who conducted the first interviewh these whistleblowers and congressman byron donalds of the oversight committee who was in today's hearing. congressman donalds as jonathan turley noted earlier today, i think the most damning moment of the entire proceeding may have been courtesy of -- it was unintentional goal by the democrat defense. and it came from congressman goldman of the trump impeachment fame. joe biden has repeatedly denied, completely not credible that he -- he never discussed his son's business dealings with him. but watch this exchange. >> hunter told his dad, according to rob walker, quote: i may be trying to start a company or try to do something with these guys. that doesn't sound much like joe biden was involved in whatever hunter biden was doing with the cefc. >> what it does show that he told his father he was trying to do business. >> laura: oh, congressman donalds. so, the pompous goldman just dragged the president of the united states into this. that was sworn testimony by the whistleblower now o

he has a big lead, house ways and means committee chair jason smith on a new report that joe biden knewess dealings and steve forbes how it would hurt president biden. the 11:00 o'clock hour is next. good luck. td ameritrade, this is anna. hi anna, this position is all over the place, help! hey professor, subscriptions are down but that's only an estimated 15% of their valuation. do you think the market is overreacting? how'd you know that? the company profile tool, in thinkorswim®. yes, i love you!! please ignore that. td ameritrade. award-winning customer service that has your back. >> devin archer was hunter biden's closest business partner and friend. if anyone knows what was going on in thosfo

jason smith said documents to alert them to what we have uncovered, this is not something that can be tiered system of justice, seems like a clichÉ now but that is what they see in its making them doubt the entire justice system. that's a serious threat in a constitutional republic. the steam is building and it is not because of politics but because the evidence is taking us there and we will follow the facts wherever they lead. rachel: more cost impeachment than the so-called perfect are not perfect phone call with ukraine, there is way too much going on and the american people expect their representatives to do something about it. i want to move to another topic, d transitioning, something so many children are being subjected to. this is frankenstein type experiments on children. surgeries that are grotesque. you guys had an amazing hearing on the hill talking about what chloe went through. listen to this. >> the gender specialist i was taken to told my parents i need to be put on puberty blocking drugs right away. i asked my parents would you rather have a dead daughter or living t

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well, elise stefanik, james comer, judiciary chair jim jordan, jason smith, they have pressed the whiteuse counsel in a letter, sent july 20th, about national security and ethics implications if the president was involved in any global wheeling and dealing. they have now been snubbed. what is your reaction to that? >> well, my reporting shows that there is a ton of evidence to suggest that joe biden not only knew about and spoke with hunter about his overseas business dealings but may have actually been involved. just the day before the election, last year, we published a story from an anonymous whistleblower said he was on a conference call with joe biden, he was acting like the chairman of the board of the company dealing with online gambling in latin america. some of the business partners in that have denied it, they said it's a complete fabrication, but this source was saying no, i was on that conference call, joe biden was asking about profits, revenues, and this was while he was vice president. you also have multiple business partners of hunter in the dealings with the chinese, to

on friday, hunter biden's lawyer abbe lowell pushed back in a letter to jason smith, the goop chair of the house ways and means committee, who released the whistleblower transcripts, and called them disgruntled agents with a bias and an axe to grind, and accused the republican lawmakers of releasing the transcripts as, quote, an obvious employ to feed the misinformation campaign to harm our client, hunter biden,s and a vehicle to attack his father. so what actually happened here? joining me to discuss is glen thrush, washington correspondent for "the new york times," where he covers the department of justice. thank you for being here. it's your "new york times" reporting that i referenced a moment ago. can all of these competing accounts somehow be squared? >> who knows? but i think one of the things that is becoming increasingly clear is merrick garland did not do a very good job of explaining the process to us when he addressed us on friday. this is a much more nuanced process than weiss having completely unlimited authority to move unilaterally. the process would entail, say he goes