House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Monday that the investigation into Hunter Biden s business deals, and Joe Biden s alleged involvement, may lead to an impeachment inquirt.
The Ukrainian oligarch at the center of the alleged bribery scandal involving Hunter Biden and then-Vice President Joe Biden claimed in a 2019 interview he never interacted with the former vice president, according to newly released transcripts from House Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD).
management and budget didn t have much visibility at all into what was happening with ukraine and any suggestion that the aid hold was contingent upon the burisma investigation. so to some extent, there was more of a division than i think we expected to find between the aid hold and then the campaign to influence the president of ukraine. and yet those officials remain silent in public. eric lipton, thanks for your reporting. joining me now, julie pace, washington bureau chief for the associated press, cnn political analyst, and former republican congressman, charlie dent. he s now a cnn political commentator. thanks to both of you. hope you got a break for the holidays or will. charlie dent, the republican defense here, as i said to eric, is that, well, insufficient evidence that this order came from the president. you have, you know, an email. this is a potus-level decision. you have the president s senior-most advisers going to him to try to get the aid released. does this remove
points that get knocked down if we look at phil reeker s testimony, he is making really clear they all understood that the burisma investigation was tant amount to the bidens and rudy giuliani was on television talking about the bidens and asked why they didn t mention the term bidens and he said it was one of those things, it was always out there because of course giuliani was talking about h about it and the pres was writing about it all of the time. that is him saying we knew what was going on. giuliani was seeking investigation news the bidens and to the extent that kurt volker or gordon sondland was suggesting that they somehow didn t make that connection, that makes this testimony this testimony makes that difficult to believe. it is interesting, giuliani sort of hovers all of this. he hovers over all of this. people are trying to figure out the irregular channel. one thing that the sandy testimony gets at is like, mulvaney went on tv and said we held up the aid because th