order. so clearly some fireworks there at the start of the hearing which is still going on. republicans making the argument that this is just a political stunt and a distraction from hunter biden and that he has not complied with the terms of their subpoena. but democrats meanwhile pointing out that hunter biden was right there in the audience, and if they wanted to hear from him he could have testified under oath in a public setting which hunter biden has said he was willing to do. democrats also made the point during the hearing that there have been several republicans who are defied congressional subpoenas including last year when the january 6th select committee wanted to hear from a number of house republican lawmakers. so there was a contentious back and forth. but that hearing is still going on. we re expecting to last a quite as democrats make a push for amendments and republicans push back. absolutely. okay, so what is this going to mean for this push to hold hunter bide
congresswoman nancy mace of south carolina used harsh words, rude i think is probably the best way to describe how she went after him. but then you had a response from democratic congressman moskowitz who talked about the many people, her fellow republicans, who had subpoenas, congressional subpoenas, that they ignored, mark med oats, jim jordan,an an biggs, kevin mccarthy. there s the list my friends, of republicans who just ignored the subpoenas, and they were not put in contempt of congress. how do you square this when you see is this purely political at this point when you look at the differences here? most of that is purely political because they re deciding whether or not that they want to hold their own colleagues in contempt. and of course they have a little bit of, you know, cover their
republicans who defy congressional subpoenas, now an opportunity to treat a democrat the exact same way. and look, hunter biden does not get to make the rules. i think we have seen through this investigation, through the course of this investigation that the irs was investigating hunter biden. the department of justice was investigating hunter biden. fbi was investigating hunter biden and at every instance they were told to stand down by the department of justice. now the department of justice is going to have the ability to hold him accountable and to abide by the constitution. we have a constitutional obligation to provide oversight of this administration, and we are doing that, and i don t think we need to demonstrate to a single person in america all of the crimes that we have uncovered, that the president s immediate family has committed. we want to know what role did the president play in these crimes and that s why hunter biden must show up for a deposition and answer a lot of q
your colleague, jamie raskin ripped you up one side and down the other, saying chairman comer does not want hunter biden to testify in public as he has refused to release over a dozen transcripts, he wants to keep up the distortions, blatant lies and conspiracy theories that mark the investigation. he s the biggest hypocrite probably ever served in congress. on our website, on our social media we show clips of raskin s chastising people for not showing up for congressional subpoenas. he is the ultimate hypocrite. if you google hypocrite right now, jamie raskin s picture will pop up. the fact he criticizes anyone that doesn t comply with a congressional subpoena, who is a republican, but he defends to the outer limits democrat shows his hypocrisy. look, this is the same thing that bannon tried to do. steve bannon tried to say he did
House Republicans are weighing the next steps after the Department of Justice declined to allow two Tax Division officials to appear for depositions related to their impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.