howard: all three cable news networks abruptly switched as you see there to the holloway where hunter's lawyer abbe lowell said his client would only testify in public. >> republicans have sought to use him as a sur gate to attack his father. howard: the panel then backed a contempt finding on a party line vote is. joining us now, alex hoff, fox news if correspondent. i have never if seen such a scene walking in, walking out. unlike last month when the president's son spoke in front of the capitol, this time he said nothing. so what did he get out of it? >> i think the motivation's really interesting here because this is a subject that the white house, certainly hunter biden's father has not wanted more chaos surrounding it, so to have him sitting there essentially in the audience nodding, causing the kind of uprising that you just saw with some of the republicans there, i don't know the motivation behind it because it didn't seem to solve any of hunter biden's problems here. this vote came through to