thank you for being here. martha maccallum great interview. thank you very much. martha: fox news alert. we start things off. the biden impeachment push is pushing forward at the inquiry level. the house passed this resolution yesterday to formalize and inquiry into the questions that have been around for a long time looking to prove whether the president benefited financially from his family s foreign business dealings with china, with ukraine. welcome everybody. good morning to the faulkner focus. i m martha maccallum in today for harris. so this vote last night passed on a straight party line. the chairs of the judiciary and oversight committees stressed party unity. watch. the house has now spoken. i think pretty loudly and clearly with every single republican voting to move into the impeachment inquiry of the constitutional duty to do oversight the message sent today is loud and clear. martha: it means a litany of biden family members, business associates, d.o.
kayleigh: hunter biden defies congressional subpoena in a brazen move, skipping his deposion and in a shocking turn of events, he took to the mike pence in front of the capitol to defend himself and his father. this is outnumbered, i m kayleigh mcenany, with emily compagno and molly line, fox news contributor leslie marshall and american enterprise institute marc thiessen. hunter biden blamed maga republicans for targeting him and his family and he said his father was not financially involved in his business dealings. i m here today to answer at a public hearing any legitimate questions chairman comer and house oversight committee may have for me. i m here to make sure the house committee illegitimate investigation do not proceed on lies. for six years i ve been the target of unrelenting trump attack machine shouting where s hunter. here is my answer, i am here. let me state as clearly as i can, my father was not financially involved in my business, not as a practicing
energetic in pursuing a hunter biden contempt of congress charge. bill: byron, stand by. 10:00 on the east coast and capitol hill. watching our continuing coverage of the hunter biden saga and what was scheduled to be a closed door deposition to begin 30 minutes ago at the moment it looks like this will not happen. i m bill hemmer along with dana perino and our coverage continues dana: one he would show up, do the deposition, leave and get a transcript and wait for the next shoe to drop. the other option he goes to the deposition and ends up pleading the fifth. bill: or picking and choosing which questions to answer based on what his lawyer says. dana: i gave a long public statement which he said his father was not financially involved in his businesses, he also said that he was very proud of the degrees he had from georgetown and law degree. proud of his business career and he also said i ve made mistakes and wasted opportunities and for that i m responsible and acco
father. this with the house poised to vote today on whether to formally authorize an impeachment inquiry into president biden. also ahead, the president set to meet today with the families of americans held hostage by hamas. and his new warning to israel about the war. and later, rudy giuliani set to testify as soon as today in the defamation case against him as an election worker tearfully recounts the threats that made her fear for her life. hello, everyone, thank you for being here. it is 10:00 eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and we begin with this breaking news on capitol hill this morning. hunter biden speaking there moments ago saying he is ready to testify publicly this morning, as house republicans have him scheduled to appear for a closed-door deposition. hunter biden acknowledged his troubled history, but accused house republicans of distorting the facts. there s no evidence to support the allegations that my father was financially invol
james comer, jim jordan, jason smith and their colleagues have distorted the facts by cherry picking lines from a bank statement, manipulating texts i sent, editing the testimony of my friends and former business partners and misstating personal information that was stolen from me. there is no fairness or decency in what these republicans are doing. they have lied over and over about every aspect of my personal and professional life, so much so that their lies have become the facts by too many people. where is hunter? here i am says hunter biden from the steps of the u.s. capitol. we are covering every angle including waiting on the response from the republicans about whether they will take his testimony. cnn s evan perez was right there listening to hunter biden and let s start with him, evan. that is more than what we ve heard to date from hunter on this subject. absolutely, john. look, it was an extraordinary thing to come to the steps here on the senate side of the ca