think, is that there is going to be a move from ambitious republican politicians who want to replace donald trump as the candidate in 2024. you know, like mike pompeo, and his argument very specifically is we need to stop looking backward. we need to stop focusing on the hunter biden s, relitigating the issues before. we need to move forward and have a real program. and candidates like that and that message begins to get traction, that s going to pose a real dilemma. that s so interesting. the republican forces who might run against or play against trump, how they fit into this dynamic. they re be looking for support in the house. and they ll be trying to pick off some of the more reasonable people in swing districts. if he moves beyond 1% in the polls. we ll see. we ll see. robert gibbs, given the dynamic in the house and given the hearings they pledged to
down to mar-a-lago. this time, it played out like this, the gop panicked in the wake of the midterms with the one long time trump adviser saying the party has followed him off a cliff. then, just a day after clinching the house, former trump adviser steven miller was spotted walking into kevin mccarthy s office, and yesterday came this news conference from house republicans. this investigation will be a top priority. the biden family s business dealings, implicate human traffic to violations of the constitution. i don t want this to be about the prostitute. here s the thing, hunter biden isn t this innocent guy who has a bad rap because he had a drug problem. our investigation is about joe biden. i m wondering if you might be able to confirm your committees will be investigating speaker pelosi and the department of
hunter biden isn t this innocent guy that just got a bad rap because he had a drug problem and the republicans don t need to waste time on it. we re not trying to prove hunter biden is a bad actor. he is. if anybody wants to disagree with that there is nothing we have to talk about. our investigation is about joe biden. and we already have evidence that would point that joe biden was involved with hunter biden. we want the bank records and that s our focus. we are trying to stay focused on was joe biden directly involved with hunter biden s business deals and is he compromised. that s our investigation. so if you found that, if you found that through the report, what would be your deliverable? another report or would you refer those charges or do you foresee this resulting in some sort of impeachment process? we will issue a report.
i mean, it did what was an interesting touch at that press conference you just showed the clip from, is could we do that please? like the plaintive, would we focus on hunter biden? it s like they re reaching for a security blanket. they find themselves just in this weird wilderness of, we re in charge now, we got to figure out what to say, and this is the familiar tick we grab on to. this is the security blanket. if you look at kitchen table issues. if you look at inflation, crime, so forth, you don t get a lot of hunter biden feedback when you sort of look at what voters are mostly concerned about. no, that s not on that top five list. didn t see it. didn t see it. but i m look, they got to be disciplined. they haven t gotten their message out yet. let s give them time to let the hunter biden narrative take hold. it s a weird look some ways, democrats still have to house.
or take about five minutes, nbc had the call, kornacki was at the board, republicans taking back the house. butt it remains a very slim majority. in the midterms republicans were talk about inflation and crime, and those are both real issue as we ve reported. now as they come in, first day window of this majority, here s what they re talking about. numerous schemes involving the biden family reviewed hunter biden s laptop. hunter biden s business deals. hunter biden isn t this innocent guy. we re not trying to prove hunter biden is a bad actor. he is. the evidence that s already out there pertaining to hunter biden. keep it about hunter biden. this is a big deal, we think. the he could keep it about hunter biden, that would be great. if we could just keep it about hunter biden that would be great. literally saying outloud that your message discipline plan for your press conference is