Recent criminal indictment against him. He pleaded not guilty to a variety of charges, involving alleged attempts to interfere and ideally overturn the 2020 election. And his alleged role in the subsequent January 6th 2021 capitol riot. Correspondent david spunt is at the courthouse now a long day and a lot of media around you. Good evening, david. Bret, good evening to you. Historic day. A stoick donald trump appeared in federal court behind me. He said little in front of the judge. The former president in a clear Voice Pleading not guilty to four criminal charges, stemming from his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 president ial election results. After being sworn in at his arraignment, trump was flanked by his lawyers who did most of the talking. Appearing tense and impatient, looking about the room, his hands animated. Escorted in the custody of the u. S. Marshals, trump was fingerprinted electronically but no mugshot taken. Officials will rely on an existing photo. He was relea
in politics. archer said ukrainian oligarch zlochevsky faced pressure from ukrainian authorities during an investigation. archer says he wanted intervention from hunter biden because of his stature. new york democrat dan goldman down played the president s involvement with his son after the archer interview. and they never once spoke about any business dealings as he described that it was all casual conversation, niceties, the weather. but the transcript revealed something different. archer said then vice president biden attended dinners with those linked to hunter biden s businesses. a 2014 meal at a tony washington restaurant with the wife of moscow s mayor came just after she wired $3.5 million to a hunter biden connected firm. this could intensify calls from conservatives to begin impeachment. bret? bret: chad pergram live on the hill. thank you. former president barack obama has a friendly warning for his old vice president, a published
live outside the federal courthouse. david, thank you. we are getting our first look tonight at the transcript from monday s congressional interview with a key witness in the biden family business scandal. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram tells us what s inside that. the name of the game was the name, the biden family name. devon archer said that hunter biden used his father to send, quote: the right signals to foreign business operatives. he termed, this quote: the brand. everyone understands that that s the brand. that s the access. and it wasn t an allusion of access. but archer says it was an allusion of access. hunter biden served on the board of ukrainian energy firm burisma archer said people would be, quote, intimidated to mess with burisma because of its associations with the brand. archer said burisma would have gone out of business if not linked to the bidens. hunter biden was the bag man. they didn t want the american people to know that the biden fam
different context after what we learned from the investigation into hunter biden, what was on the laptop as well as the oversight committee. wall street journal writes it this way: hunter was selling the biden brand. everyone knows hunter biden wasn t selling his expertise in energy markets when he teamed up for lucrative gigs with energy companies from ukraine and china but then what was he selling? the answer, as provided monday, by hunter s former business partner, devon archer was the biden brand. we re back with the panel. kimberley, what about this? you know, we said earlier dan goldman in a question he is the one that says congressman says was it the allusion of access and archer answers. but it wasn t archer who said it was the allusion of access. frankly, it was access. oh, yeah. absolutely. look, i think this testimony is very devastating for joe biden because you have to put it in the context of what we already knew, right? we knew that obama had deputized joe biden to g
very sensitive time after russia had taken crimea with the goal of helping to clean up that country being a point person on a delicate mission we know that the state department hunter s presence on burisma board was messing with that mission. not only did he ignore he was aiding hunter in sell the family brand, getting on those phone calls, going to those meetings, including one with a burisma executive, and i think that counts really as a knock against joe biden and on issue whether or not he has ever accepted a dime of money from overseas. bret: right. here is a piece of that transcript that, again, we just got today of the devon archer testimony. mr. archer, while the capabilities navigate see do basically be in the news cycle. i think that preserved them from a, you know, from a longevity standpoint. that s like my honest that s like what i really what i that s like how i think holistically, mr. goldman,