energetic in pursuing a hunter biden contempt of congress charge. bill: byron, stand by. 10:00 on the east coast and capitol hill. watching our continuing coverage of the hunter biden saga and what was scheduled to be a closed door deposition to begin 30 minutes ago at the moment it looks like this will not happen. i m bill hemmer along with dana perino and our coverage continues dana: one he would show up, do the deposition, leave and get a transcript and wait for the next shoe to drop. the other option he goes to the deposition and ends up pleading the fifth. bill: or picking and choosing which questions to answer based on what his lawyer says. dana: i gave a long public statement which he said his father was not financially involved in his businesses, he also said that he was very proud of the degrees he had from georgetown and law degree. proud of his business career and he also said i ve made mistakes and wasted opportunities and for that i m responsible and acco
president s son is expected to show up in about 30 minutes for a deposition behind closed doors. now at the same time, republicans today around noon are expected to move closer toward opening an inquiry on impeachment into his father, the president. we ll find out together what we get. what is it, dana? it s wednesday. dana: i wasn t sure what the question is. bill: you lose track this time of year. dana: somebody walked through and said they thought it was thursday. a busy time of year and busy time on the hill. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. a pivotal day for hunter and joe biden. speaker johnson said his party is going where the evidence leads. the white house has gone carefully as the constitution requires of us, it is a very serious matter. right now they aren t turning over documents or key witnesses and we have to defend our subpoenas in court. to do that you need and impeachment inquiry vote from the full house. dana: byron donalds sits on a
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 and misstating personal information that was stolen from me. there is no fairness or decency in what these republicans are doing. they have lied over and over about every aspect of my personal and professional life, so much so that their lies have become the facts by too many people. where is hunter? here i am says hunter biden from the steps of the u.s. capitol. we are covering every angle including waiting on the response from the republicans about whether they will take his testimony. cnn s evan perez was right there listening to hunter biden and let s start with him, evan. that is more than what we ve heard to date from hunter on this subject. absolutely, john. look, it was an extraordinary thing to come to the steps here on the senate side of the ca
right now, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is at the white house meeting with president biden. a fierce standoff in congress over ukraine aid. biden wants to send an under 61 billion dollars to keep. house republicans will not sign off on more aid until they get a series of immigration measures passed in return. earlier today, zelenskyy met with members of the house and senate to try and persuade them to try and change some minds. he argues this political deadlock is a dream come true for vladimir putin. let s get to cnn s mj lee at the white house and moderate who s live for us on capitol hill. first to you, mj. biden and zelenskyy essentially see eye to eye on the issue of military aid. so what will they try to get accomplished during this meeting? reporter: boris, president biden and president zelenskyy may see eye to eye on this issue, but frankly it is not up to them. it is up to congress. right now, what we are seeing on capitol hill is a total impasse over
tonight on the reidout we have tens of thousands of pages of documents where we need to sit down and ask specific questions without filibustering, without interruption, without going five minutes back and forth with jamie raskins and dan goldman and little moscow wits jumping up and down. hunter biden agrees to testify before the house oversight committee on the utter lack of evidence that his father did anything wrong. but chairman james comer refuses to take yes for an answer. also tonight, more hostages are freed by hamas, including an american. as negotiators work to extend the pause in fighting. with just hours to go before the extended cease fire is set to end. plus, rejecting the binary us versus them narrative in the israel-hamas war, i ll speak to a prominent rabbi and a labor leader who happened to be married about the importance of a peaceful shared future for israelis and palestinians. but we begin tonight with two very stark warnings about the figh