sandra: kerri kupec urbahn, thank you for joining us. what a day so far. i should probably add that part. john: it s not over yet. sandra: we are monitoring the briefing at the white house. meanwhile, a new york judge rescinding permission for former president trump to give part of his closing argument in his civil fraud trial. his team labelling the case brought on by the attorney general james a political witch hunt as the a.g. seeks $370 million for trump s alleged shady real estate practices, in addition to permanently barring him from the new york real estate industry. alexis mcadams has more from the studios. a lot going on, politics world, and this. trump was planning to speak tomorrow but a new court filing containing emails between the judge and trump s legal team, the judge says that s not going to happen. trump will now not be allowed to speak here. so the emails are pretty
producing information on that topic was today. it s his white house and at the white house press briefing that s going to have to answer questions about whether it s ok for a president s son to blow off congress in this way. so you know, lots of questions, and one more thing, his democrat colleagues pretending they are against depositions when they were completely for them during the january 6th hearing. john: and point out, too, sandra, this question has not come up yet at the white house briefing. they are dealing with a lot of other business first. sandra: yeah, john kirby is at the microphone, we will monitor the briefing and get in on any of this. meanwhile, kerri, good to see you, thanks for your coverage of this. byron donalds, congressman on hunter s democratic privilege. this isn t about hunter biden s white privilege, but hunter biden s democrat privilege. donald trump, jr. showed up for five subpoenas.
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
ignored a subpoena to appear in december yet appeared today. today s meeting was to prepare the contempt of congress citation for the floor, not to take witness testimony. james comer promised hunter biden an open hearing after his deposition, but the committee switched to contempt after hunter biden appeared on the senate side of capitol hill but never sat for the deposition. i implore this committee to allow hunter biden to testify publicly. i implore and i ask for that to happen. and we cannot do that by getting engaged in this back and forth on a defiance of a subpoena. let him comply. let him do it today. let him do it tomorrow. but let the man do it. chad: the meeting has been a caldron of yelling and arguing between the members, republicans say hunter biden deserves contempt. we have a hunter sighting, he s back to complain about
who bribed hunter biden to be here today. that s my first question. i think that hunter biden should be arrested right here, right now and go straight to jail. the witness being afraid to come in front of the committee, it s interesting. he s here. doesn t seem to be too afraid. the rule is those are your words. he was issued two lawful subpoenas, the chair recognize miss green from georgia. thank you, mr. chairman. excuse me, hunter, apparently you are afraid of my words. sandra: whoa is right. fireworks on capitol hill after the president s son crashed that house oversight contempt hearing just a short time ago, taking a seat before leaving just minutes later. house republicans ripping his surprise appearance as nothing but a stunt, and what was a chaotic scene for sure. any moment now the white house