[ laughter ] so trump endorsed jim jordan, and trump proudly touts his control over the republican party the people he endorses always win. so jordan must have cruised to victory, right back me up, clip >> we have breaking news house republicans have nominated steve scalise moments ago as their new speaker. >> trump endorsed jordan more than maybe about a week ago. so a big loss for trump here as well >> seth: ooh, trump is not going to be happy about that "steve scalise is a loser and a nobody, and on top of that, he wears a jacket [ laughter ] unlike jim jordan, who has a terrific body. you know, i always thought members of congress should dress like chippendale dancers chippendales we love chippendales, don't we you know, for a long time i though the it was 'chip and dale.' [ laughter ] and i was surprised that bachelorettes wanted to go to a place where chipmunks would give them lap dances. because they may look cute but they're filthy animals, they're filthy [ laughter ] you don't want them near your lap. they're just rats with nicer coats. [ laughter ] so steve scalise is now techn

he went on to say this is the hypocrisy that is mindnumbing from jim jordan. there is this in the washington post. ask generally yesterday if the president think congressional subpoenas could be adhered to, the white house books person said i am not going to speak to that. i'm just not. asked whether the president had the same position as he did in 2021 when he said those who don't comply should be prosecuted by the justice department, she said i don't have anything to add. the washington post notes this morning if the house approves the contempt resolution against hunter biden and goes to the justice department which will decide whether to pursue the contempt referral, contempt of congress as a misdemeanor criminal offense that could result in up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000. let's go to mark and carlisle, pennsylvania, supporting this impeachment inquiry. hi mark. caller: good morning. i have a couple of points. please don't cut me off. number one point is, how does joe biden who has been in the public light for so many years worth mill

jim jordan and others will lead the question.es as the why so many inquiries over so many years and the investigation to hunter and joe biden went nowhere and two whistleblowers who brought the story forward and made it public. they'll join us in about 60 minutes and get their story then. >> we don't just need to carry under 30 or black votes. we have to have a robust turnout in both of these demographics. i don't see any evidence right now that that's happening. >> it sounds to me like you think if the election were held today biden would lose. >> well me and everybody else. >> dana: president biden facing criticism and concern from within his own party as a majority of americans say they support the house gop's impeachment inquiry. re-election campaign slammed the scandal before it can get off the ground. karl rove joins us now. david axelrod, obama advisor as you know him well, he also talked about his concern. listen here. >> the "wall street journal" poll was, you know, very, very dark in terms -- from a biden standpoint job

so i think what we hear from jim jordan is a continuance of banging that drum. the evidence is this is a motivating factor for the republican base. the republicans have tried to make this a flattened corruption argument between democrats and republicans or make biden the same as trump. voters haven't bought that. there's a republican majority among their own electorate driving the new speaker and pushing them to get aligned on this unkwir ri. >> it looks like you're in a place y you're steps from the house floor. what do we expect with this vote coming up? >> reporter: we expect this vote to pass. republicans only have a three-vote margin today on if this is going to pass or not. all republicans are expected to vote for it except perhaps maybe representative ken buck of colorado. he's been really concerned about it, but he's now saying he has some concerns with hunter biden not showing and the administration not complying on a couple of the requests that republicans have made. so it's going to be an overwhelming vote i by the republicans. and jim jordan has indi

yes, sir. >> jim jordan, final answer. remember, it's the standard in the constitution, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors, and typically with impeachment articles of impeachment. it's been bribery. it's been abuse of power. it's been obstruction of justice. so those are the things that we're looking at. we want to get the facts and then we'll make a determination. all right. this is going to get very interesting in the days, weeks and months ahead. thank you all for being on. we appreciate it. when we come back, is biden about to cave on republican border demands? we'll check in with west virginia senator joe. also, we'll talk to him about the no labels party. could it be a factor in 2024? straight ahead, travel. there is nothing like it. dancing is my passion but with my moderate to severe eczema, it hasn't been easy. now i'm staying ahead of it. dupixent helps heal your skin from within so you can have clear skin and noticeably less itch. serious allergic reactions can that can be severe. tell your doctor about new o

. >> emily: that was james comer and jim jordan.g to begin the process of holding hunter biden in contempt after failing to appear this morning. bring in andy mccarthy. tell us about the distinction amendment privilege and will h hunter's resisting be successful? >> it is important to note, the subpoena is an enforceable directive to appear. it doesn't require you to answer every question or any question, that is controlled by whether you have a legally kog niezable confidentiality privilege, which hunter biden has in spades having been indicted twice and if you believe the prosecutor that he is under investigation for other charges, as well. he had plenty reason not to answer questions today, but to my mind, he had no legally convincible reason not to show up. importantly, what he's going to say and the republicans totally botched the timing on this, this is more powerful argument than it ought to be. they will argue that the subpoena in connection with impeachment inquiry is not legitimate because the full house has not voted for

>> that is true. >> let me ask you, jim jordan.we know joe biden has said they never got any money from china. in the gma interview hunter said pretty much the same thing. when we talk about the whatsapp message call and he says i am sitting here with my father. we don't know why he didn't fulfill your commitment between everybody that he knows and my ability to hold a grudge, you will regret not fulfilling that commitment. my father and i are sitting here waiting for you to call. is it true, jim jordan, that in fact $5 million was sent to one of those companies, if you will, within a number of days thereafter? was that another example of more money coming from an oil conglomerate, this one in china? >> the energy company in china sends $5 million after that phone call. if i remember the whatsapp message it was between me and the guy sitting beside me. who was the guy sitting beside you? who are you referring to? it seems obvious but we would ask that question. we know what the business was. it was access to the brand. devon archer

. jim jordan saying he would open proceedings for- took this morning. jim jordan saying he would openjy sarlin is washington bureau chief at the political newsletter semafor. good to see you. we think this will go through because since george santos left congress, republicans only have a majority of three, so it's wafer thin. it’s only have a ma'ority of three, so it's wafer thin.— it's wafer thin. it's wafer thin, there's been _ it's wafer thin. it's wafer thin, there's been at _ it's wafer thin. it's wafer thin, there's been at least - it's wafer thin. it's wafer thin, there's been at least one - it's wafer thin. it's wafer thin, - there's been at least one wavering boat that i could vote, ken buck, who is leaving congress and has been critical of many of leadership's decision. you can't say something verve for sure will happen with this congress. there've been lots of votes where republican leaders confidently predicted it would sail through, then when they went to the floor, maybe not so much. but they do seem confident at a minimum this time that they do have enough votes to at l

washington dc, chairman comber and jim jordan talking about handling the hunter biden inquiry.s. >> had an opportunity for the boxes of documents we accumulated. tens of thousands of pages of documents, lots of specific questions. this is an investigation about public corruption at the highest levels of the government. the american people expect congress to investigate this because one thing the chairman has proven is the fbi, the doj and the irs as we heard from the whistleblowers have dropped the ball. the house oversight judiciary committee are conducting this investigation the majority of americans want. he does not get to dictate the terms of the subpoena. >> a chance to get a review of what hunter biden said. he made an interesting statement. he said his father was not financially involved in the business. the qualifier, the word financially, is important because once again, it shows another change in the story. first it was no involvement, then no one ever talked to anyone, than the be dinners, the meetings, phone calls, now he wasn't involved in the business financially

-- by the way, jim jordan ignored a subpoena. he was in contempt really of congress for refusing to testify. do republicans have the votes for this impeachment inquiry? we have only heard of one, ken buck, saying he wouldn't vote for it. >> reporter: to answer your last question on the impeachment inquiry, it seems likely that republicans will ultimately vote to formalize an impeachment inquiry into the president. this interview with hunter was the foundation of. what we saw here play out was hunter biden essentially attempting to use a public relations strategy here to try and box republicans in and force them to accept his offer to testify publically as opposed to testifying behind closed doors. that plea was very much -- fell on deaf ears when it cams to republicans. they believe that they have the subpoena power. they have the authority to set the terms for how they elicit information that they are looking for as part of the investigation. they believe it would be more beneficial for them from an investigative standpoint to t

the january 6th committee subpoenaed jim jordan who then didn't show up to talk to us.nd it very rich for anybody like jim jordan, for example, to be talking about any sort of justice or coming and talking to a committee or holding anyone in contempt. i think when you look at the people leading this investigation, it's clear that they're not doing it in a way that would be forth coming, right? what we know so far is that jim jordan, james comer, the chair of the oversight committee have been interviewing people behind closed doors and then misrepresenting or cherry picking facts. this investigation is not a real investigation, right? i was a part of one. the january 6th committee had something that we were looking into. the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. what are they looking into here? i'm not quite sure. >> quickly, if you will, maura, do you think this results in an impeachment vote, not just an impeachment inquiry vote, but on actual impeachment of president biden? >> i don't. again, i think to hannah's point, jim jordan fails to be consistent, and that's s

i want to talk to you about jim jordan.his efforts and faux investigations to the select committee. seems to be holding himself out as someone who maybe promised he could do something along the lines of what the committee did. he's now threatening to investigate -- let me read you some of what nbc is reporting. jim jordan and loudermilk are launching an investigation into what they say is collusion between fani willis and the select committee to investigate the january 6th attacks. again, as we learned from jim jordan, collusion isn't even a thing. what do you make of the obsession and the projection of people like jim jordan? >> i think that there's no question that jim jordan has something to hide, probably a lot to hide, you know, if you go back and you look at, for example, the phone records as well as, you know, what he has said himself about his discussions and his conversations with donald trump on the 6th, the very significant role that he played in the lead up to that, he was clearly one of the master minds in term

>> well, they're supposed to take that jim jordan is an absolute hypocrite. jim jordan in front of the rules committee when we were talking about holding steve bannon or somebody in contempt he said in front of the rules committee that the department of justice and the fbi should be the ones investigating donald trump and that would be their role. now, of course, he's against the department of justice and the fbi investigating donald trump. he's for the sanctity of the subpoena by u.s. congress until he's the one that gets subpoenaed by u.s. congress and he also votes against enforcing subpoenas against people like steve bannon and against people like mark meadows. this is the -- the hip ok rhysy is mind numbing. i am less concerned on people's views on positions and what their idea is on policy as much as i am with there is just open and blatant and unashamed hypocrisy where it's all about winning. it's all about power and truth and justice really has no role in what they're doing. if you have evidence that joe biden, not hunter biden, but that joe biden bro

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 than mike. and luke broadwater is here, of the new york times, and tim miller, a contributor the bulwark and communications director for jeb bush. luke, 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? >> right. well, jim jordan has lined up about nine witnesses they want to hear over the next two months, in particular those named in the impeachment resolution that our tax investigators. these are two men that they want to question about why felony charges were not

instead, he endorsed far-right extremist jim jordan, perhaps the most pro-maga member of the house gopd one of the key players in the attempt to overturn the election on january 6th. you might remember jordan as the guy who would routinely show up to hearings in the house that were supposed to be investigating the trump administration, but would instead talk really fast and say totally incoherent bull [ bleep ] like this. >> james comey, director, fired. andy mccabe, deputy director, fired. lied three times under oath, under investigation, right as we speak. jim baker, fbi counsel, demoted and then left. currently under investigation by the u.s. attorneys office in connecticut. lisa page, demoted then left ambassador taylor recalls that mr. morrison told ambassador taylor that i told mr. morrison that i conveyed this message to mr. yermak on september 1st, 2019 in connection with vice president pence's visit to warsaw - >> seth: he sounds like an auctioneer with a head injury. [ laughter ] just repeating all the unhinged buzzwords you hear on fox news without any of the content it's li

jim jordan never offered to testify publicly.exchanged series of letters of the january six committee, and never actually provided any information or testimony. as for james comer, he is gonna say these shell companies that hunter biden has, hunter biden's team will tell you these are just llcs that every single business person would set up, including james comer, and it turns out from the social press reporting, that he has set up similar llcs. hunter biden has been investigated by five years by the justice department. they have not said any of these ellipses were illegal or illegal shell companies. so, we're seeing the pot in the kettle here. according to this associated press reporting. >> there you, go thank you both so much. time is running out, have to make sure you don't miss a very important deadline this month. it's next. nth. it's next. - [speaker] at first, just leaving the house was hard. - [speaker] but wounded warrior project helps you realize it's possible to get out there - [speaker] to feel sense of camaraderie a

speaking of jim jordan, that's who you talking about who is a committchair.his is what cnn is reporting out of liz cheney's new book. during her gop conference call, cheney writes that house judiciary chairman jim jordan was dismissive of the legal process for challenging the election results and didn't seem to think the rules mattered. the only thing that matters is winning, jordan said, according to cheney. he doesn't necessarily believe it. >> i think that is perfectly consistent with what i have observed of jim jordan, which is it's always been my sense that for him politics is just a game. it's like a sport. there's your team, there's our team. you lie, you cheat, you steal, you do whatever you can to win. and i'm convinced that if he got benched by the republicans he would offer to play for the democrats. i don't think there is any real ideology there. i think it's self promotion, kind of an enjoyment of the sport of it. but in terms of policy, in terms of devotion to country, i don't see any of evidence of that. >> let's go to the other end of the spec

but in any event jim jordan has decided that he is going to use the congressional investigative powers to go after state and local law enforcement or -- and federal law enforcement if they interfere with his guru master donald trump. and so it's an utterly lawless situation where they elevate one guy who of course has been found guilty of sexual assault in civil court in new york and defaming the woman he sexually assaulted and found guilty in civil court in new york of committing civil fraud and inflating the values of his different real estate properties and who has 92 federal and state felony criminal charges against him. they want to elevate him above the rule of law, and so they will attack any prosecutor, any law enforcement official, any cop who they think gets in his way just like they didn't care about the 150 capitol officers and d.c. mech mallten police department officers who were bloodied and wounded and hospitalized by the insurrectionists who donald trump sent to capitol hill according to the department of justice this week. so we're looking at a party, which the way mos

. >> 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. misstating personal information that was stolen from me. republicans do not want an open process where americans can see their tactics. expose their baseless inquiry, or hear what i have to say. >> we are joined by republican congressmen on the oversight and judiciary committees, russell fry of south carolina. thank you for being with us, the last hour, we heard you argue on the house floor that republicans have done more in 10 months than law enforcement has done in five years investigating hunter biden, if you believe that, why then have this formal vote on an impeachment inquiry, is it going to make that big of a difference in your investigation? >> i think it well if you look right now, there are people we are trying to have come in for depositions including hunter that will not come in, absent a formal vote, we have seen emails not be produce

house judiciary chair jim jordan with us now. [laughter] you're smiling, you know what's coming. m. what role should the government in policing freeway speech online, if any? >> well, they shouldn't have a role because it's the first amendment. it's the constitution of the united states. in fact, one of our witnesses yesterday, she was so good, she's from canada, and she said if you don't get a handle on this and stop this, you're going to be like we are in canada and other western nations. she made this fundamental point, the first amendment, the fourth amendment are central, they are foundational to wen civilization. western civilization. i don't think that's overstating it. the ability to speak and to speak in a political fashion or to just speak and project that message is fundamental to mesh. and the government -- to america. and the government shouldn't be telling you what you can't say, what you can see, what the people can see say and can't say. and mr. goldman's point that, oh, 100% of the time when the government's asking social media companies to take something down and

what do you imagine jim jordan is going to find when he looks into the relationship between the fulton county d. a.'s office and the january 6th committee? >> we'll, if they get some documents of course, it will reveal what took place, i will assume because i wasn't involved in it, is what takes place every single day all over the country. which is different law enforcement entities and prosecutors share information that they have. it's not that shocking, but of course jim jordan who by the way still has not responded to our subpoena and has violated our subpoena and would've been held in contempt of congress if we had had some more time. but in any event, jim jordan has decided that he is going to use the congressional investigative powers to go after state and local law enforcement and federal law enforcement if they interfere with his guru master donald trump. so it's an utterly lawless situation where they elevate one guy, who of course has been found guilty of sexual assault in civil court in new york, defaming the woman he sexually assaulted and found guilty in civil court in new

and others that jim jordan and james comer have interviewed.arly on there was a lot of fast and loose. the only people that turned out to be consistently accurate were the irs whistleblowers. >> you have been following the story of kevin morris who made a loan of $4.9 million. but as part of that, didn't you discover that one of the reasons he thought it was important to help hunter out financially was because the issue of taxes would be front and center in the 2020 presidential race? >> yes, he writes an e-mail saying there would be political and personal peril for hunter biden if he doesn't start paying his taxes. this occurs in 2020 after he meets hunter biden at a joe biden fundraiser. those 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 presid

james comber, jim jordan, jason smith, and their colleagues have distorted the facts. republican leadership says contempt of congress is on the table but their first order of business hours away is a vote to formalize the biden impeachment inquiry. we are tracking this with -- and the cnn senior justice correspondent. how have republicans reacted on the hill and has it factored into the vote later today? >> they expect to have enough support to move forward with this impeachment inquiry regardless of what hunter biden decided to do today. we do expect contempt proceedings to happen probably stretching into the new year over hunter biden's decision to defy the congressional subpoena. thing, there is the impeachment inquiry into joe biden himself. in order to get this through, the speaker of the house needs to get a majority of the house to support this meaning he can only lose three republicans along party lines and at the moment, we expect him to have the votes in large part because multiple republicans are endangered republicans who had before had been concerned about

we subpoenas five of those members, kevin mccarthy, jim jordan were among them. all of those individuals to fighter subpoenas, we didn't talk to them, and i think when jim jordan was running for his speakership bid, a few of those were talked about more, but these are republican congressman that were essential to the plot to overturn the election. they met with donald trump in december, after the election results were known, to try to talk about this january six joint session, and how they could overturn the election. i found a very interesting when we republican party expel george santos, that some of them were talking about a thought it was really important to hold one of their own accountable when they did something wrong. i think january six is a pretty clear something wrong here. right? donald trump has been indicted for some of these things, and we're going to follow along with this. he is the one who let it, but he was accompanied by a lot of these republican maquette members of congress that are still doing his bidding. it's very scary and i hope we can h

it features direct quotes from congressman kevin mccarthy, jim jordan, and mike johnson, among otherstands out to you and her descriptions of fellow republicans, and in the wake of the 2020 election, many of them were seeking to keep trump in power. >> yeah, alex, i have not made it all the way through the former congresswoman's book yet. in her, and reading the excerpts that have come out so far, there are a lot, there is a lot of somehow startling new information that we haven't already learned during the january six committee's hearings. really, the entire past two years, as journalists, have done so much work to uncover what exactly happened. cheney was obviously inside the, room and a lot of these private conversations that were taken place in the aftermath of january six, with the house gop conference. i think some of the more startling revelations, which also fall under the -- been one of the few republicans to actually speak power, speak truth to power, been willing to go out against the former president at the expense of her career in congress, really. that is some of the pri

top republican james comer and jim jordan not letting a subpoena snuff slide, pledging to initiatingt proceedings against the first son. jesse watters, i am sure you are watching this but you know a lot about it. he said "my father was not financially involved," did your ears perk up? >> jesse: well, that is a lie. and even if he wasn't financially involved, he is logistically involved, he is personally involved, he is politically involved, because when you fly your son to 15 countries, you are logistically involved. when you are personally involved, politically involved, when you are meeting with all of his clients at the white house come at the vice president's residence, ethical course, at the four seasons in los angelesy involved, and then doing favors for the client's leg when you are firing the prosecutor running the ukrainians a blank check, or you are not popping the balloon or shutting down the fbi task force on china, lifting trump tariffs on cheap solar panels, yeah, you're doing favors, writing letters of recommendation for the people -- come on. everybody knows he is inv

when congress asks you to, you're supposed to come testify and that from jim jordan. jim jordan also defied a subpoena himself coming from the january 6th congressional committee. we'll have adam kinzinger on later in the show and he can speak directly to that, but you're hearing there, republicans responding to hunter biden. let me bring back norm eisen. what we are hearing now is a lot of public statements and this fight is going to continue, and i just heard chairman comer say we have piles of questions in documents there only going as far to say i think we're going to get you in there to see it. where do you think this goes next? >> well, chairman comer, chairman jordan got some pretty tough questioning from the press. they were not able to answer this key question, kate. in all of those piles of bank statements and financial records, where is the connection of joe biden to any of the alleged wrongdoing? there's been no financial connection. they talked about the loans, but those were do you cumented transactions and they had the burisma matter that we were talkin

maria: sure is, we, the job numbers tomorrow thank you, jim jordan joined me yesterday updating us onpublicans impeachment push, watch this. you going to do vote for impeachment inquiry formalizing that within the next week, do you believe you have to votes. >> i do, i do, we had a conference last week on this particular subject i thought went well their temperature has not changed the white house story changed multiple times those emails you pointed out from that critical time period, 2024, 2015 i think influence operation started in particular with ukraine, so i think that is pretty, pretty darned valuable evidence whistleblowers brought forward. maria: jordan referring to brand-new evidence given by irs whistleblowers the testimony showing think vice president biden issued alias names aliases to send and receive at least 327 emails from hunter biden and act captain eric schwerin 54 memes between joe biden and scherwin president biden claimed he never spoke to family's business parents. >> -- do you think day americans -- impeachment inquiry why are intakd with so many for this. >>

he went on to say this is the hypocrisy that is mindnumbing from jim jordan.here is this in the washington post. ask generally yesterday if the president think congressional subpoenas could be adhered to, the white house books person said i am not going to speak to that. i'm just not. asked whether the president had the same position as he did in 2021 when he said those who don't comply should be prosecuted by the justice department, she said i don't have anything to add. the washington post notes this morning if the house approves the contempt resolution against hunter biden and goes to the justice department which will decide whether to pursue the contempt referral, contempt of congress as a misdemeanor criminal offense that could result in up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000. let's go to mark and carlisle, pennsylvania, supporting this impeachment inquiry. hi mark. caller: good morning. i have a couple of points. please don't cut me off. number one point is, how does joe biden who has been in the public light for so many years worth millio

you have people, our jim jordan at the judiciary committee.every day something new comes out and presumably you're going to have such an enormous amount of evidence that it's going to be very hard for reasonable people to not at least say, we need to know what's going on. i'll be very curious if all of this develops, whether there won't be some democrats who vote for the impeachment process when it comes to the floor of the house. and i can't imagine, given everything which has been surfaced, why any republican would vote against them or not. this is not a vote on impeachment. it's a vote on investigating and using the system in order to bring those surface things that at least today look like they're amazingly criminal. >> i won't repeat all the details that i gave professor dershowitz, but in the case of burisma and the case of cfc chinese oil and gas conglomerate and the sheer amount of millions we're talking about and no experience at all and joe's direct involvement in both of those cases with china, the whatsapp message in ukraine, in le

jim jordan? >> they know without a shadow of a doubt if they had a public hearing right now it would last all of five minutes because they don't have the goods, they don't have proof, they don't have evidence, they don't have anything. they won a closed-door deposition because it is a fishing exposition. they want to spend hours asking every question under the sun to find some thread they can pull on to try to invent reason and cause to impeach president biden. they know they don't have a right now. if they did, they wouldn't be putting on the show trial. let's be clear here. back when i worked on the oversight committee if a high-profile witness that come forward and said, listen, we only want to talk to you behind closed doors we would've said absolutely not. we want a public hearing we want that show the fact that they are doing the complete opposite of that is very revealing. it shows how weak their hand actually is. all they want is this process story fight because they don't have a leg to s

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

the white house on november 17 sent a letter to jamie comer and jim jordan telling them that they refusedbpoenas that have been served, they believe without awful floor vote it's not valid impeachment inquiry. you have a situation with likely the president knew what his family was doing and is likely he benefited from what his family was doing we have to follow the facts. pete: the white house in essence is setting the standard in the has not been consistently held especially when democrats held the house, there setting the standard same in a comply unless you have a floor vote so republicans are looking to have the floor vote to meet the standards set by the biden administration thursday night have to satisfy the subpoena, do you have the votes if it goes to the floor you have the votes for the impeachment inquiry. >> of it goes to the floor were going to pass it, keep in mind the issue is the white house is stonewalling trying to delay we are going to have to go or jim jordan or jamie comer are going to have to go to court to enforce the subpoenas in the decision that our speakers going

and he called out several members of congress, including james comer, jim jordan and jason smith.ant to get to paula reid right now just to get a sense of what you made of what he said on this podium, being very, very clear, and talking about his own irresponsibility, but saying it has nothing to do with his dad. >> reporter: this was pretty remarkable. we've been reporting for months now that hunter biden and his legal team, abbe lowell and kevin morris, they've been taking a much more forward-leaning approach when it comes to his detractors and republican investigations. they've been more litigious, they've pushed back, and a statement like this is really all part of this strategy. i mean, this is a rare public statement from hunter biden and he was quite vulnerable. not only talking about his own issues with addiction, talking about the impact that these republican investigations have had on his family and also specifically talking about the role his parents have had in helping him recover from addiction. and then he went after republicans who have subpoenaed him to appear toda

manu, these very lawmaker, i.e., jim jordan did not comply with the subpoena, and what are the lawmakersing this morning? >> yes, there is a number of questions ant what is going to happen next as part of the inquiry, and we expect depositions and trying to get the record and the subpoena sent out, and this impeachment is going on since september, and this is a symbolic vote to show the republicans are on the same page deciding to head ahead, and now questions in terms of what they have in terms of the evidence and proof of the republicans acknowledging that they have not proven the case that joe biden acted abruptly to aid his son hunter and working overseas partners, and they need to actually get the evidence as partisan investigation, and charge the president with the crime here. in talking to the republicans, it is clear that they are not all on the same page to move forward with the articles of impeachment. >> it is likely to move towards impeachment, but we don't want to get ahead of ourselves, because we want to look at the evidence. >> reporter: do you think that you will impeach

if true, she doesn't answer questions according to jim jordan. we'll wait for the transcript to see how it went and the president's son defied a congressional subpoena yesterday and in communication with the white house and his father knew what he was going to do and it raises all kinds of questions about possible obstruction and elizabeth: stay there for a second. it's not feasible for a president to think it's okay to talk to somebody who's under congressional subpoena about their system and the white house knew ahead of time what he was going to say. isn't it crossing a line, kerri? >> it would seem to be. we don't know what conversation they had but the white house press secretary told us yesterday at the briefing that the white house knew what he was going to say and joe biden was aware and i'm very curious about that conversation for a couple of reasons. joe biden himself for a couple of years ago said you, people defying congressional subpoenas with respect to the january 6 investigation should not full stop. that's a problem. now his son

it's one of jim jordan's favorite little shiny objects is to try to take a semantic thing and make an argument that is somehow far afield from what they're focused on. we've been extremely clear over and over again for years and nothing has changed. the president was not in business with his son, period. they're trying to make up all sorts of allegations. >> ian, with respect, i'm not citing jim jordan here, i was in some of the white house press briefings where it was said the president did not talk to his son about business dealings. i think the statement has changed and been prmore precise. i'm not saying this is an impeachable offense or some grand indictment, but it is a fact that the president said one thing that ended up being doing not true. >> again, i dispute that that's true. that is not true. the truth is that he wasn't in business with his son. the republicans have for years been trying to make arguments -- >> i'm not saying he was in business with his son. >> over and over again those have been refuted. what they do is try to take semantic games and try to distract from

look, i welcome that hearing in the judiciary committee because i think i will move to add jim jordan to the contempt motion. anderson, i don't understand how these people do it. we're going to have jim jordan who failed to appear for his own deposition, failed to cooperate with a deposition. he's going to be the one to convene a contempt hearing of hunter biden. i'll be very interested to see what that looks like. but if he brings a contempt motion, he should be added to it. >> congressman schiff, thank you for your time. i want to get perspective from former biden communications director, kate bedingfield. she's currently cnn political commentator. so are david axelrod and -- respectively. david axelrod, i'm wondering what you thought of hunter biden's appearance in front of congress today and their move now, this vote that took place. >> look, just from a strategic standpoint, i thought it was the right thing to do because it underscored the fact that he showed up and was willing to testify and they didn't want to hear from him in public. so, i thought it was the right thing to do.

"ladies and gentlemen of the g.o.p., i'm not jim jordan. i yield my time." [applause] one man who thinks he can get the votes is oklahoma's kevin hern, who believes he has what it takes because he used to run a fast food franchise. >> i think what our members of our conference are looking for is somebody that's got a broader depth of leadership. something different. you know, i spent 35 years in business working with probably with one of the largest brands in the world in mcdonald's. >> stephen: running mcdonald's qualifies you to be second in line to the presidency? ♪ ba da ba ba ba ♪ ♪ i'm doubtin' that! ♪ now, there's more. mm, i could go... i could go for some fries. there's more good news out there. two of trump's co-defendants have flipped on him. [cheers and applause] the first is trump lawyer and aunt leaving a scathing yelp review about the family barbecue, sidney powell. you may remember sidney powell. she pushed crazy conspiracy theories about how the ghost of hugo chavez rigged the 2020 election, and promised to publish non-existent evidence of w

anyway jim jordan thank you >> here with more reaction fox news contributor kellyanne conway.lyanne, i often say that democrats circle the wagons, republicans create circular firing squads. all right. so this is what's going to be interesting to me this week when we have this impeachment inquiry vote. will democrats that maybe don't want joe biden to be their candidate in 2024, do you see them maybe using this as an opportunity to vote with republicans to slowly push joe off the ticket? >> it's possible, and i think it's going on with the main stream media and their polling sean. why are cnn and nbc and other outlets that endorse joe biden, don't want donald trump to be president again running all these polls that show historically high unfavorability ratings for joe biden, high unfavorability rating on his handling of the economy crime the middle east the border you name it. i think the democrats through congress either through their silence which should be seen as acquiescence or voting with the republicans on impeachment inquiry are answering your question for you. they're

we also the mountains of evidence of james comer and jim jordan have revealed to the great work and houseversight and judiciary committees, mounds of text messages, e-mails, bank wires, bank checks and we have joe biden on tape when he was vice president bragging that he got the prosecutor located to burisma fired is more than enough evidence to move forward that's not forget it's the democrats who impeach donald trump for asking about this corruption and digging into it, republicans seem to move forward is time to demand justice and accountability for the american people. maria: axios report claims president biden feels guilty with the attacks on his son he told close associates if he hadn't run in 2020 there would be no investigation into hunter biden that's what the president is saying to colleagues. >> maybe that is true and may be people when she didn't run as well. the bottom line he did. maria: if he didn't run he might not have the gravy train. >> exactly. i think the big story, the american people have really looked at everything that is happening a two-tier system of justice and

it's not just jim jordan. you had one calling fani willis a racist.omething to hide, but what we're seeing out in the open is jim jordan showing us what a donald trump administration would look like which is targeting of political foes rg, targeting of enemies, not respecting to rule of law. >> tim miller, greg bluestein, barbara mcquade, thank you so much for spending time with us. >>> when we return, single-handedly standing in the way of hundreds of military promotions wasn't enough, tommy tuberville is still at it, blocking 11 four star generals from moving up the chain of command. what democrats are doing about that after a short break. your record label is taking off. but so is your sound engineer. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire what causes a curve down there? can it be treated? stop typing, and start talking. it could be a medical condition called peyronie's disease, or pd. and it could be treated without surgery. fin

colleague in the senate says the main challenge to get this done your ohio republican colleague jim jordanys wants to take the fbi out of the process. so can you get jordan and the freedom caucus of which your speaker is a member on board with this? >> well, i think so. 702 is one of our most important tools monitoring foreign videos outside the united states who pose a national security threat to our country. >> it's about to expire. >> it does not monitor the united states citizens. i think there are those who look at the behavior of the fbi and want to punish the fbi foolishly cutting off one of our most important tools targeting foreign individuals. it's one of our most important tools we're using to help israel in this conflict. >> how is that? >> it allows us to monitor through this program we monitor hamas, hezbollah, isis, some of our adversaries are monitored in this program and we shouldn't punish the fbi for what they've done in other areas to hinder our ability to track terrorists and our adversaries. >> has speaker johnson committed to taking this version that intelligence cha

i look forward to most likely jesse who won't have jim jordan on your show. u can ask him about the espn from the january 6 committee that he floutd for years now, nd respect for the rule of law, but i want jordan pushed on that. i want you to do it. >> so he can get arrested. >> so we are arresting jim of jordan t. >> we control doj. >> hunter made a lengthy statement aboudet why he wantedo testify in public and there are important details and i understand that he got subpoenaed a certain way for closed door testimony but it matterits when he gets clear examples the republicans have pu completelybl distorted his reco his bank record his emails and i weth saw what he did with the t archersa testimony saying that e biden was behind this and you listen to other people like dan goldman and transcript was produced for archer said the opposite that joe biden wasn't personally profiting from there, victor show kin was not fired by joe biden. joe biden couldn't have got the entire international community to do it. it was a load of bunk. >> yes. it's not one person.f

. >> when you look at florida, jim jordan, who you know well and have clashed with,s saying he wants an investigation in your committee's work, and specificly- i wt to be precise -- he's without much evidce suggesting there would be contact between the committee and the georgia rico prosecution's office that somehow bears scrutiny or is bad, that there's a problem there. your response. >> i think that we have seen jim jordan do everything he can to try to cover up what happened on january 6th, to try to divert attention from the facts of that day. one of the things that i talk about in the book is the extent to which he's been very confused himself when he's had the answer the question about, when did you talk to donald trump that day? what was your role in that? i think people should go back and take the time. it's only a few minutes but watch jim jordans after exchange with mcgovern, the chair of the rules committee, when we were in the process of holding bannon in contempt. when mcgovern questioned him and -- as well about the communications he had with trump, jordan has never giv

gone to his crony insurrectionists in congress like jim jordan and told them basically just say there's an investigation. that's where it appears to avoid the facts. >> i'll have the congressman respond. >> i see these documents all the time and the thing that's frustrating to me is almost like there's a conversation happening what about trump? that's not what this is about. this is about the impeachment process and inquiry for joe biden rate it's funny people will talk about something that happened in ukraine but they don't talk about what joe biden has done on tv in front of a whole bunch of people saying i got them to drop the case. i got that lawyer to stop investigating my son or you don't get a billion dollars. he literally said that. nobody wants to talk about that on the democratic side. they are like there's no evidence. what he is admitted to in front of an audience talking about leveraging his position as vice president of the united states to back up his son mr. schumer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: now, mr. president, i ask unanimo