Charges. Lucas tomlinson kicks it off for us. Reporter devon archer, Hunter Bidens former Business Partner, friend and fellow board member on burisma, testified to congress that that company would have gone out of business if it was not for the help of thenVice President joe biden. Now, in the last hour you had congressmen from both sides of the aisle who see this matter very differently. Theres no question that that joe biden is helping his sons business, including getting a prosecutor fired to help his sons business. Theres been no evidence whatsoever that joe biden is in any way implicated in the mistakes that hinter biden had made. Hunter biden had made griff wait a minute, hold on one second. Reporter now, one of the revelations to come out of this devon Archer Testimony is that he met with the head of Burisma In Moscow on the same day putin invaded crimea in 2014, a month later president obama made joe biden in the west wing and the year after that allegedly dined at a popular re
to break through the trump wall which which at this point if i was a betting man, i would say it s very likely that trump will be the nominee, and all these other candidates are go to the wayside. it doesn t seem to break through from the gop support of donald trump. this used to be the party of working people, but now it s very clearly the party of donald trump, and donald trump is shaping this party in his likeness, and that s just an objective view. molly: matt, your thoughts. i think richard makes a great point. somebody on the debate stage needs to get trump one-on-one. and if they ever get that chance, and i don t blame donald trump for not debating, why risk it, but someone s going to say to him all these problems that you re pointing out, marley at the department of justice, you were president for four years. why didn t you take care of it? why didn t you actually drain the swamp like you promised? and i think if somebody has that chance to have a conversation with him, you m
how close president biden was to hunter s dealings. and by thursday afternoon, president donald trump facing another indictment yet still holding a solid lead, really an understatement, a formidable lead in the gop primary. reflections on in this week. matt, to you first. absolutely. well, you made a point earlier in the show, molly, that all the other opponents in the primary are really not able to get any air time based on the fact that he just controls the airwaves even over president biden. it s kind of strange to watch the former president outshine the current president in the news cycle. but i think what we re going to see with this upcoming debate on fox and also ron desantis proposed debate with governor newsom is some people actually get a chance to hear from those other candidates and maybe one or two get traction. finish right now desantis is at 20 the in the polls, everybody else is in the single digits. will somebody arise from that debate to take desantis on, or does d
reporter: the gop could try to clip money for the doj and trump prosecutor jack smith. that could emerge as a major issue as congress tries to avoid a government shutdown in september. on capitol hill, chad pergram, fox news. we need one more indictment to close out this election, one more indictment and this election is closed out. nobody has even a chance. [applause] molly: that was from trump s remarks in alabama a just last night saying that the latest federal indictment is bolstering his campaign as other hopefuls make pitches in key states as well. to discuss more, let s bring in our political panel. joining us today is the vogel group principal matt keyland and fox news contributor richard fowler. thank you both for joining us this afternoon. the week started out with this remarkable, unfortunately behind closed doors, testimony of devon archer, the business partner of hunter biden, as republicans in congress continue to probe just
time, donald trump is below 50% which shows you that if somebody were able to run against him one-on-one, they might be able to take him on. molly: i love debates. molly, i think the one point that he made is comer rarely says this, but the special counsel in the hunter biden investigation was one that was appointed by donald trump. and this investigation started at the end of the obama administration. so i think we should let this investigation pan out before we allow republicans to politicize this on capitol hill. molly: all right, we are running out of time. matt, richard, appreciate your time this saturday. tomorrow on fox news sunday shannon bream sits down with donald trump s attorney, john morrow, also interviews with democratic congressman from massachusetts jake of coursen claus and republican congressman from texas chip roy. set your dvr or, of course, check those local listings for time and channel. and fox news, as we mentioned, set to host the first 2024 republican pre