it was a stunt. a p.r. stunt. the house is voting to hold hunter biden in contempt because he skipped a subpoena for a deposition in mid-december. democrats asked why the gop did not let hunter biden testify. he was willing to answer questions about anything for as long as they want on any subject. he chose to come before committee and they wouldn t take yes for an answer. now they want to hold him in contempt which strikes me as strange. committee republicans want hunter biden to appear for a deposition before a closed door hearing. the democrats accuse the gop of playing games. he won t let hunter biden testify publicly and not releasing the transcripts of interviews that have taken place. the evidence would show that republicans put forward claims that are baseless and false. a vote for contempt means the d.o.j. must decide whether to prosecute hunter biden. the biden justice department has
covch. his pretrial detention was set to expire last month but extended to august in a recent closed door hearing. he was arrested in a central russian city and if convicted he could face-up to 20 years in prison. in a show of support gergs covch, the u.s. house passed a bipartisan resolution demanding his immediate release. joining us now national security reporter for the washington post john hudson. john, of course, his arrest comes against the backdrop of russia emphasis invasion of ukraine. you re in london right now for the ukraine recovery conference. give us an update as to what ukrainian officials and president zelenskyy in particular are saying about how their counter offensive is going. yes, so, today is day two of the ukraine recovery conference,
from john durham and his report concluded that the fbi should not have launched the full trump-russia investigation as they did. it would have been okay to do a preliminary one and not the full boar one. what do you want to know? this is troubling, especially if you read the durham reports the years after there were accusations of trump-russia collusion and the allegations were absolutely false. what s concerning here is the clinton campaign did opposition research and the clinton campaign made the accusations and when it comes says to you as the government speaking. when the government opens an investigation over uncorroborated information where they take directly from the political campaign where they make it a government investigation, and it resulted in the special prosecutor. every investigation that has occurred including now the durham report is conclusively states that this was a result that people who had political
it s a closed-door testimony, closed-door hearing, and i hope you will issue whatever we can publicly so we can report on it. thank you very much for being here today. appreciate it, mr. chairman. this week texas sent migrants on a bus to los angeles. the mayor of los angeles responds to the texas governor ahead.
the doj without cooperation from the doj, how can congress do adequate oversight? if i remember correctly, the summer when the former president s home was raided, they came out with a list of how many boxes and roughly how much information was provided to the doj. i have not seen that yet in the biden administration. but we are going to have to call these people in. right now it sounds like it will be a closed door hearing. all we are asking for are answers to some questions on a letter, and they won t even do that much. where is the balance of power here, the whole purpose of the oversight committee to bring the balance of power and use the investigative authority and i hope and i have great confidence ins jamie comer as chairman, we will leave no stone unturned when it comes to investigations, whether it s biden and classified documents, whether it s the illegal immigrants crossing the border, big tech infringing on the privacy and first amendment rights or the