Capitol hill. But lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee Say archer revealed that hunter put his father then Vice President joe biden on Speaker Phone at least 20 times while meeting with foreign Business Partners. Archer claims biden was put on the phone to sell, quote, the brand. Now, in a statement, House Oversight Committee Chairman james comer said devon archers testimony confirms that joe biden lied to the American People when he said he had no knowledge about his sons Business Dealings and was not involved. Joe biden was the brand that his son sold around the world to enricht biden family. But the white house is rejecting comers conclusions. Now, they tell me, quote it appears that the House Republicans own much hyped witness today testified he never heard of President Biden discussing business with his son or his sons associates or doing anything wrong. House democrats echoing the white house arguing hunter was only selling the allusion of access by putting his father on Sp
Since the Tokyo Olympics. Were following these major olympic stories and many more, all coming in here to cnn news central. New evidence ukraine is growing its capability to strike russian targets them video obtained by cnn appears to show a Ukrainian Unmanned sea drone, camera right on top there, approaching a russian landing ship at a Russian Naval base. You see the drone creep closer and closer. The screen goes black. Thats likely the moment it hit the ship and exploded. You can see here later video of that russian ship being towed near that naval base. And it is listing notably to the lefthand side. Cnns Nick Paton Walsh is live in zaporizhzhia, ukraine. Tell us what are ukrainian Officials Saying about this . And is russia acknowledging a ukrainian strike on one of its ships here . Reporter yeah, russia is suggesting the attack was repelled, but russian bloggers are talk about how one compartment of the Amphibious Assault ship was indeed flooded by this blast. Another analyst call
Sat down with a House Oversight committee. Devin averager made it to capitol hill yesterday where he talked with lawmakers over four hours about his experiences with hunter biden, both men served over the board of the Ukrainian Energy company. Archer claimed talked about building his familys global. Here is what we know. Archer says hunter repeatedly put his dad on Speaker Phone when he was out with clients, he witnessed that more than 20 times over the course of a decade. And the calls helped to sell the biden brand to clients around the world. Top republicans are speaking out against President Biden the, they say the evidence has started to pile up. Do you think the president of the United States is compromised based on testimony. I think so. This Bribery Scandal becomes more credible, look what devin archer testified today, not only was joe biden on the phone over 20 times with people including the executives talking about whatever, even though the president denied that he never spo
The attorney for heuermanns estranged wife will join us in moments. First to bryan llenas live outside that courthouse watching all of this unfold just moments ago in river head, new york. Hi, bryan. Hi, martha. What we just heard, the Suffolk County direct attorney ray tierney explain what happened. There was a 30minute delay. The two attorneys spoke with the judge and the preliminary conference hearing began, lasted 510 minutes. Rex heuermann in his black coat suit, khaki pants, staring ahead with no emotion as they discussed the fact that they have to begin the long process, weekslong process of turning over 13 years worth of evidence involving these three murders that hes accused of committing to the defense. That process is going to happen on a rolling basis. The d. A. Saying theres about eight gigabytes worth of evidence. None of the evidence that has begun to be turned over doesnt include the evidence that they removed from the house after that 12day search there were at least t
Are still talking. Nbc news has confirmed when former nypd commissioner will meet with prosecutors. What his lawyer told us. A whole lot of questions and a whole lot to talk about. Lets start with reporting. Ryan riley is outside District Courthouse in d. C. Ken dilanian is at the justice department. Here in new york, dasha burns and lisa ruben. Also with us is former prosecutor, david aaron. We know the grand jury broke for lunch. They came back. Now they appear to have left for the day. Bring us up to speed. Yeah. I think the critical takeaway from this is we did not see the grand jury foreperson actually leave the building. I think if you read the tea leaves there, you might be able to ascertain whats happening going forward. We dont have basically we do not have any indications that this grand juror, the foreperson, has been in any courtroom thus far. Were sort of going around checking out the courtrooms to see if theres a hearing going on. What has to happen is this has to be retu