Affairs laura cooper. This was the Intelligence Committee six of the impeachment inquiry. The committee will come to order. Igood afternoon. This is the sixth in a series of public hearings. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. There is a quorum present. We will proceed in the same fashion. I will make another statement and mr. Nunez will have an opportunity to make a statement. We welcome you and respect your interest. As chairman, i will make any steps to maintain order and ensure the committee is run in accordance with house rules. I recognize myself to give an Opening Statement in the impeachment inquiry. David hale is the undersecretary for clinical affairs, the third most senior person in the department. Laura cooper is the secretary of isense for russia, ukraine, responsible for broad range of countries in the former soviet union. They have several decades of National Security experience. Dedicatedd from other their onlyants, priority has bee
All right. We begin tonight with this news bombshell. New developments with th, Jamess Investigation into the possible Biden Syndicate or enterprise. If you live in georgiaerpris, i. You prefer, very real allegations Ofallegati Briberyd and money laundering. Are a lot of new details tonighlaunderit. Anyone, any of you ever hear of a guy named Robert Petersguy ask yourself, anyone know that name . Anybody. Raise your hand if you kno anybody . W you do. Okay. According to documents weve now uncovered, the National Archives and emails retrieved from zero experience at huntercu bidens laptop. Robert peternt s appears to be a pseudonym for your president. Joe biden, when he was usings as Vice President to conduct official government business. Biden likely trying to hid busit these communications from prying eyes or public recordiosi requests. Now, the chairman of the House Oversight and accountability committermf the, james colmer, s now demanding that the National Archives turn over all do
More than 50 lives. Almost 2,000 buildings. In moments, well talk to a local pastor about what the church is doing to help, but first to the Senior National correspondent William Lajeunesse live for us on the ground in maui with the very latest. William. Reporter trace, were in the harbor about ten miles south of la hind a and this is also where the Police Roadblock is and the check point. People cant get into lahina because theyre still looking for bodies but if you want to go you have to go by boat but thats supposed to be illegal. We heard some incredible stories today from people who were in the water for eight hours or more, waited to be picked up and had jumped to avoid the flames in lahina per se. One thing i heard today over and over, the speed of this fire was so great, people could just not they couldnt get out in time. They couldnt even see the flames, the smoke was so thick. Traffic was backed up. People literally died in their cars. Now, lahina is of course the hardest hit
Counsel to look into the investigation against the president s son, hunter biden. Lucas tom lynnson has the latest on this story. Reporter it was just a few weeks ago that hunter biden thought he was minutes away from freedom are from any further charges. Of course, that thats not what happened. The plea if deal fell apart, and now it could be going to trial, according to federal prosecutors in a filing yesterday. A Special Counsel has been named. Mr. Weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigation and to continue to take the steps he deems appropriate independently are. Based only on a facts and the law. Reporter that Special Counsel, david weiss, of course, has been investigating hunter biden for the past five years now and negotiated with what many republicans call a, quote, sweetheart plea deal. President biden left the white house yesterday for the beach, he did not take any questions before Boarding Marine Wunsch the president one. The president has long main
it is a sad day for our country in so many sad day. and as predicted, hunter biden was just a get out of jail free card by his own by his own father s doj. nothing but a sweetheart deal only other americans could dream of. oh, what a shocdk. now, after a five year investigation and mountains of materialr investmountain of evid on top of each other, we had whistleblower s eyewitness accounts. hunter was ever so gently t slapped on the wrist with two misdemeanor tax violationshe for a missing an irs deadline. by the wayor a, we re talking at $3 million in taxes he didn txee pa dy and deferred gun charge. that will be dismissed if hunter s a really good boy for the next few years. now, formeryears. president i actually called it a traffic ticket when in reality thickets is a plea deal. it is little more than a political stunit it fromt froa a weaponized doj and nothing but pathetic attempt to merely f seem fair when they are anything but. now, keep in mind there s no fara