there was a capitol police and secret service presence, but the committee didn t expect him to be here. the members of the staff that are in the halls that patrol this area didn t expect him to be here. so when he walked into the building, it created an enormous amount of chaos. i walked with hunter biden from the minute he walked into the building into the hearing and then walked out with him and peppered him with dozens of questions of which he didn t respond to any except right after his attorney abbe lowell addressed the press, gave their explanation as to why he still refuses to appear for a closed-door deposition but prefers a public hearing instead. i asked him if the committee asked you to testify publicly today, would you do it, and hunter biden looked back at me and said yes. now, that option obviously was not presented to him when he was inside that hearing room. he has now subsequently left. what fundamentally will change about the forward progress of this contempt resoluti
hill, anybody can look up the subpoena for themselves and see it was for a deposition. not a hearing. it is the issuer of the subpoena that calls the shot, not the recipient. imagine when we were back in school and get a typed paper due on a topic and went to the teacher and said yeah, yeah, i ll do the paper and i will make a video and submit it three weeks later. the teacher would laugh saying no, that s not what we asked you to do. this is what the instructions are. two, i would just remind everyone that today is the deadline for republicans jordan and comer for the white house to produce any information they have related to hunter biden s defiance of that subpoena. the reason they sent that letter is because they are raising possible obstruction issues. yes, the timing was intentional on the part of the committee to hold this contempt resolution today. but also i think the stunt plays into the timing as well with respect to that white house deadline to distract from that.
to jail right now because it wasn t long ago, too, my friends on the other side of the aisle, that you also believed in the power of a congressional subpoena. not long ago at all. you believed in holding those who refuse to comply with congressional subpoena accountable. and i stood with each and every one of you. i am the only member in this room today who has held a member of my own party in contempt of congress for not showing up for a subpoena. and i see nothing but complete hypocrisy on the other sides of the aisle. the ranking member of this committee eloquently put it the lesson is please tell your children out there in america if you get a subpoena to go before congress, go. you have a legal responsibility to do so. so the hypocrisy is stunning. what are we to tell our children today? there s nothing the other side can say with a straight face. as the only member to vote to hold a member of contempt of my own party, let me be clear this should not be a partisan
on the other side of the aisle that you also believed in the power of a congressional subpoena. you believed in holding those who refused to comply with congressional subpoena accountable, and i stood with each and every one of you. i am the only member in this room today who has held a member of my own party in contempt of congress for not showing up for a subpoena. and i see nothing but complete hypocrisy on the other side of the aisle. the ranking member of this committee even so eloquently put it, the lesson is please tell your children out there in america, if you get a subpoena to go before congress, go. you have a legal responsibility to do so. so the hypocrisy is stunning. what are we to tell our children today? there s nothing the other side can say with a straight face. as the only member of this committee to vote to hold a member of contempt of my own party, let me be clear, this should not be a partisan issue. if congress issues a subpoena,