we haven t heard from you yet, congressman. can we start there as we watch him getting into his car perhaps leaving the building, what is your reaction to what we just witnessed? yeah, ana, a remarkable day on capitol hill. the approach by hunter biden is clear, if you cannot win the process, win the story. and hunter biden knows, his legal team knows he won t win the process. they don t have the votes. republicans control the house. they want to hold hunter biden in contempt, and they want to impeach his father. what can he do? he can show the american people, hunter biden can, that he is present and available to answer questions, and in that way hopefully win the story. it also can t be lost that hunter biden has two lawyers on his team. one is abbe lowell a renowned defense attorney who represents some of the most notable names in politics from jared kushner to bob menendez to hunter biden and others. but the second attorney is kevin morris, who is a hollywood lawyer who represent
record. to mr. biggs who did not comply and mr. mccarthy who did not comply i would like to enter that into the record. there is an amendment coming to add some of those names into the contempt order. you vote to add those names and show the american people that we apply the law equally, not just when it is democrats, it s a crime when it s democrats. when it s trump and the republicans it s just fine. show you are serious and everyone is not above the law. vote for that amendment and i will vote for the hunter biden contempt. i will yield back. ms. green from georgia for five minutes. thank you, mr. chairman. excuse me, hunter, apparently you are afraid of my words. oh. i like to reclaim my time, mr. chairman. wow, that s too bad.
meant, he said that and now it s up there for everyone to debate again. of course, also within these subpoenas, andy can speak more to this there should be room for good faith negotiation, which is why both representatives comer and jordan said okay, fine, you can testify publicly, no problem. we need you to testify sit down for a deposition first with staff attorneys and get to the bottom of our questions there. they did make an effort to move towards the middle on that front. hunter could have publicly testified provided that he sat down first with staff attorneys. but dana to your point it is a big public relations stunt. no one is talking about trump s arguments for tomorrow but i also think it helps the former president since he had such a bad press today yesterday. maybe he is happy about it. bill: andy, jump back in here. your name was invoked. well, if you defy a subpoena and risking the threat of
ignored. and then in november they issued a subpoena for a behind closed doors deposition. a tactic that the republicans have repeatedly misused in their political crusade to selectively leak and mischaracterize what witnesses have said. what are you going to do when the house? last fall chairman comer made an offer that people like hunter had the option to attend a deposition or a public hearing, whichever they chose. hunter chose a hearing where republicans could not distort, manipulate, or misuse that testimony. and then ignoring that invitation and proving once again that they cared little about the truth and wanted only to, quote, move the needle of political support, which was a
the oversight committee to show up for a deposition. what he did today is seen by many people as a political stunt, grandstanding. how did you view it? thanks for having me, appreciate the opportunity. hunter and his attorneys will do what is a correct strategy. what we were trying to highlight, the chairman, sets the rules and the tone, invited hunter to choose between a public hearing and deposition, the chairman has decided that he s reneging the invitation and now the basement of a building we will never see the transcript. my other point in the hearing, look, if we want to hold hunter biden in contempt, what i said to my colleagues across the aisle, i ll vote with them, make it bipartisan but we have to apply the rules equally. we have heard hunter biden does not deserve special rules, i agree with that. but we have several of my colleagues that defied subpoenas in the last congress, never