behind closed doors when they came and they were deposed back in february as part of the impeachment inquiry into joe biden. specifically, they re talking about to false statements that hunter biden allegedly made. one james biden allegedly made. they allege that hunter biden testified to a quote entirely fictitious account about an apparent text message involving an interaction with a chinese businessman. also, they say that james biden said that his father did not meet with a biden family associated when they say that they have proved that he did meet with a biden family associate that apparently counter allegedly happened when do biden was not presently united states was actually the was a private citizen at that time. but in this statement put out by these three house committee chairman, they say hunter biden and joe biden made materially false statements and the oversight and the judiciary committee as demonstrated by the evidence presented in the attached referral, the nation sho
there have said no, these special counsel s, they can go ahead and they can take these crimes, these alleged crimes to trial if they wish. all right. in pauline s thanks so much. appreciate it. let s discuss all this with former trump attorney tim parlatore, and former counsel to then vice president joe biden victoria nurse victoria, let s start with you and what we heard from kaitlan, how unusual is it for a judge to allow this hearing where third parties unrelated to the case are allowed to come in and argue things unused extremely unusual because the idea in a criminal prosecution, the state brings it on behalf of the people and they are supposed to speak in the name of the rule of law and you can t just said this to other parties. it s not the supreme court in this room court, you get all sorts of friends of the court briefs but it s very unusual to allow this argument not only because it s been rejected, so often it s really a kind of caused by some conservatives since ed meese
now it s important to point out that republicans have yet to prove that joe biden acted corruptly or did any sort of quid pro quo with his son involving his business dealings or personally enriched himself in any way? public has have been trying to make that case for months, really since the beginning of this congress. and in the fall when they launched a formally launched, this impeachment inquiry. but this has not yet moved ahead because republicans simply don t have the support to impeach joe biden. they can certainly make criminal referrals, but that does not mean the justice department will act on it. we have reached out to the bidens also comment no comment yet, jake, on his criminal referral. all right. manu raju. thanks so much. on the florida now we re judge aileen cannon announced her plans to hold a sprawling hearing in donald trump s classified documents case trump s lawyers are trying to have jack smith s appointment as a special counsel in the case declared invalid. so
there is no proof he was on drugs. the very de he bought that firearm. hunter biden faces not only this trial, of course, but a federal tax trial in california scheduled from september and today while hunter biden was inside courthouse, republicans referred both him and his uncle, james biden to the justice department, a criminal referral alleging they lied to congress during republicans impeachment inquiry into president joe biden first, to the federal gun trial in wilmington, delaware. cnn s paula reid is outside the courthouse. paula, how significant is today s testimony as prosecutors begin to try to build their case will take when it comes to the two women on the stand today prosecutors have them testified to the jury about what they observed in terms of hunter biden s addiction, all his ex-wife did testify that she found a crack pipe in the family home in 2015, chose to testify phi that she never directly observed him doing
the a iowa caucuses kick off tomorrow in below freezing temperatures as law a makerrers return to washington facing leadership plans of another continuing resolution to fund government and avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of next week. that despite a wide open border with some 8 million foreigners crossing into america illegally on joe biden s watch. utah senator mike lee on the choice to shut town the border or shut down government. then political stunts amidst allegations of bribery and money laundering. florida congressman byron donalds on the investigation into the millions the biden family accepted from foreign adversaries. plus, georgia congresswoman marjorie taylor greene on the why the first son got up and left when she started speaking at his contempt of congress hearing. hen taiwan elect ares a new leader, the man beijing as labeled an instigator of war. the impact with wisconsin congressman and head of the select committee on china mike gallagher with reaction