ladies and gentlemen, there are consequences for that. we re duty bound. we are duty bound to pursue the consequences of that so that the american people can trust in the system of justice in the united states of america, which they do not right now. they don t trust it, nor should they. this side of the aisle has made a mockery of it for the last three years and beyond that. i will not yield. mr. biden is not special. he was given a subpoena. he should have appeared. he chose not to. we have no choice. we have no choice if we are to uphold our oath, to up hold and defend the constitution of the united states. we have no choice except to refer charges and find hunter biden in contempt. his choice. that was his choice. now we have to make our choice
bill: any response on that? the only thing i would say to andy on that i hear loud and clear what he is saying and the justice department almost never prosecute contempt of congress. they started to in the last couple of years and who did they prosecute two top trump aides. while andy is right they will face the two-tiered justice system because of what they did to navorro and bannon. more political than legal. yeah, these are competing these are competing political narratives. trump will do the two-tiers of justice, hardly the only piece of his arsenal on that. there is a ton of evidence he can point to with respect to that. the democrats will try to run this thing like they are trying to they want to get hunter tied up down in the basement and ask him a bunch of questions and
taylor greene and others that you see, they were reaching for that moment that they wanted to lay that line on because the other thing that struck me is for house republicans, who for three years between fox news and republicans, they ve tried to make hunter biden this dark villain of politics and culture. i think they were shocked by seeing somebody they consider the boogeyman, they didn t know that he was real. democrats have had reason to see him in the past, but house republicans, this was a moment where they had to stand up to him. you saw mace try to do it. who knows what marjorie taylor greene did. at the end of the day, does it change the vote? probably not. i think julie tsirkin said at the beginning, this probably ensures more so that house republicans hold hunter biden in contempt. one thing we heard, julie tsirkin who s with us, from democratic representative jared moskowitz was although for a contempt of congress here, if we re going to hold everybody accountable, if bot
kaylee: democrats s plan to vote to hold hunter biden in contempt. this was clearly coordinated effort and points to something larger in the democratic party and they look past constitutional damage they do and agenda do. the fact they would ignore a person ignoring congressional authority, what kind of p precedence does that set? it means witnesses will feel okay ignoring requests. they have undermined congress to protect joe biden and his son. think back to the democrats pushing for the end of filibuster for judicial appointment, what they are doing now trying to remove trump from
move to the basket on both the pr and the legal fronts by hunter and his lawyer. on the legal side right here, i don t think there s much question that this committee led by republican james comer will vote to hold hunter biden in contempt. the house, the full house probably will even with a narrow majority. but ultimately, this will be up to the justice department. and the fact that hunter biden showed up at this hearing today. how would that weigh into a decision about whether to prosecute? i think the fact that he showed up today is probably more of a an exclamation point or a highlight on the key legal issue the doj is going to have to decide which is has hunter made a reasonable offer by agreeing to testify in it s in public. and he does have some powerful arguments in that regard, john,