the family has released bank records detailing alleged payments from russia, ukraine, kazakhstan to the biden family and its business associates. the white house is calling the memo old news, innuendo and misdirection without any connection to president biden. republicans say they are continuing to follow the money and the communication. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is on capitol hill. the memo appears to reveal millions coming from ukrainian energy firm burisma where hunter biden served on the board. records released by house republicans indicate president biden attended dinners in washington with ex-soviet empire oligarchs. this is payback millions of dollars that the biden family received because of their access to the brand, to the big guy, being joe biden. there were no services being delivered, except for access. russian oligarch bart reena is one of the richest women in russia. she allegedly scored a dinner with then vice president biden
it. a former associate of hunter biden sat for a closed door trindz interview before the house oversight committee. both sides say devon archer s statements confirm their position. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram has details tonight live from capitol hill. good evening, chad. bret, good evening. a source tells fox that former hunter biden business partner devon archer told house investigators the president s son put him on the speaker phone 20 times to talk with associates. republicans believe this is the smoking gun which connects hunter to his father and an effort to peddle access. g.o.p. members contend the president is compromised. i think so. i think so. and we ll continue to do our due diligence and our research. the g.o.p. says business associates wanted hunter biden to sell the brand of ukrainian energy firm burisma.
believes hunter biden phoned his father multiple times while in meetings with foreign companies and put him on speaker phone with and without his knowledge. looking forward very much to hearings from devon archer about all the times he has witnessed obama meeting with hunter biden s overseas business partners when he was vice president, including on speaker phone. archer, a former burisma board member who has been convicted of securities fraud has backed out of scheduled depositions three times. this as he is under subpoena by the committee. i have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings. today the white house insisting the president never speaking to his son about business is the same thing as never being in business with him. i m curious the white house and the president still stand behind his comment that he has never been involved and never even spoke spoken his son about his business. so i have been asked this question a million times. the answer goin
i m bret baier. a witness in the probe of the biden family business dealings was a no show today. a board member of the ukrainian energy firm burisma canceled his deposition for the house oversight committee. that makes three times he s delayed this appearance. this comes as top house republicans say there has been a change in messaging from the white house about the president s involvement in his son s financial affairs. correspondent gillian turner starts us off live tonight from the north lawn. good evening, gillian. gillian: hi, bret. the house oversight committee deposition with hunter biden s business associate devon archer a week from today. that s july 31st. the news comes as oversight republicans today also say they have evidence that president biden himself communicated with hunter biden s business partners, business associates overseas many times in the past. house oversight chairman james comer says his committee
IRS agent Joseph Ziegler told lawmakers he discovered Hunter Biden and his associates received $17 million from foreign sources, including $7.3 million from Ukrainian energy firm Burisma.