>> and welcome to hannity. and tonight, the ceasefire in gaza that will continue for at least another day. but now joe biden is reportedly asking israel to go easy in the fighting against the terrorist group. go easy on terrorists. shouldn't you be having a goal of victory against terrorism and it will bring you the latest sad chapter of joe biden's impotent foreign policy. that's straight ahead. >> plus, the u.n. wants you, the american people, to stop eating meat. we actually give them billions of dollars for their advice. maybe it's time to say bye bye to the globalist organizations. and later, a full report on what is the latest mysterious outbreak in china. guess what? masks are back. distancing is back now, by the way, in china, it's causing hospitals to become overwhelmed with sick children. could this be another covid like pandemic out of china? we'll have a full report. but first, hunter biden, he's back in the news and not for his world renowned artwork. now, tonight, the president's 53-year-old son is attempting to dodge is a house subpoena. now, hunter's lawyers say that their client is willing to only appear for a public hearing before house of representatives, not a closed door deposition as the law requires. now, if you or i orders receive a subpoena from congress, we would be forced to comply or we would be facing possible jail time. but hunter seems to think he's above the law. now, well, i wonder where he got that impression from. maybe it was the attempted sweetheart plea deal with david weiss or david weiss, allowing the statute of limitations to pass. or maybe is daddy's doj running out the clock on many of hunter's serious tax violations or hunter's ability to purchase massive quantities of drugs and hire foreign with zero legal consequences whatsoever? or possibly it was all that money that hunter took in from america's geopolitical foes like, you know, russia and china and romania, etc. while his father was in a position of great power and great influence all while apparently not paying quite a bit of in taxes and on a lot of income. and that has to be resolved. and all of this will work that he has zero experience in at a time where he was admittedly addicted to drugs. but while the very liberal and biased and politicized and weaponized biden, doj drags its feet. the republican house is taking action. contrary to what democrats would have you believe. the gop's impeachment inquiry into joe biden is very serious. oversight committee chairman james comer, who will join us in a moment, is investigating legitimate claims of corruption through closed door hearings, financial forensics and other inquiries. hunter, meanwhile, is attempting to turn this into a political charade with a public hearing. but still, comer is more than willing to give hunter his circus. but first, that door deposition would still be required as ordered, including the way documents handed over. that's the subpoena. hunter must comply. of course, this is all part of hunter's big new, what they're calling legal strategy to fight back. according to politico today. four years as hunter biden faced a protracted criminal probe, he was told to cooperate with prosecutors and wait quietly for exoneration. that strategy favored by veteran failed. so now he's, quote, directly taking on his adversaries with lawsuits and other legal threats. now, some might call call this a campaign of intimidation to others it might look like desperation. according to another report, white house staffers, they are extremely irritated with hunter for clearing this new strategy with the biden white house and democrats on capitol hill are also unhappy with two unnamed lawmakers calling hunter's new offensive strategy all risk, no reward. this comes as one of hunter's friends is worried that the democrats are now eager to use the president's son as a sacrificial lamb in this case. the big question tonight, is hunter willing tell the truth about his father or is he willing to maybe take on the fall himself? and for republicans and other logical people around the country, while this scandal is not really about hunter, about hunter's struggles with addiction, this is about the big guy. in other words, the real brand. and that would be joe biden, who allegedly used his struggling son to up the family coffers. was was hunter, for example selling access and influence to that biden brand so that jill and joe biden could afford this beautiful beachfront estate in delaware. live in luxury on a senator salary. and according to james comer paid ten family members what ends up to be tens of millions of dollars. middle class joe and his wife, well, they love to portray themselves as living a middle class lifestyle, but it appears that image was not quite accurate as joe was buying expensive corvettes and again, that beachfront property. >> and now let's see what the bidens do. >> are they ready to throw their own son under bus? >> anyway, here with more with the very latest house oversight committee, james comer is with us. good to see you, senator. so can you explain this whole process? you are a subpoena? my understanding is of your subpoena. you want a closed door under oath deposition and you want materials handed over. is correct, sir. >> that's correct. this is a normal subpoena. this is a normal congressional subpoena. it's a lawful subpoena. we have asked him to come in on december 13th. his attorney said today that he would gladly come in, but only for a public hearing. he'll have a public hearing after we do the deposition. this is the way credible investigations are conducted. and hunter, hunter, joe biden is not above the law just because he's gotten away with criminal activity by the doj, the fbi, the irs, the national archives, doesn't mean he's going to be treated that way by the house oversight committee. we're going to abide the law. jamie raskin's, the ranking member on the house committee, did this exact same process here. this is a very similar scenario with steve bannon when he was subpoenaed by the january 6 committee. he wanted to come in not for a deposition, but for a public hearing. raskin said he had to sit down for a deposition because that's what the law requires. that's what we require of hunter biden. we will gladly have a public hearing with hunter biden after we do the deposition to go over 10,000 plus pages of bank records and, documents that we have with with countless questions about specific transactions. >> do you do you need more documents? have you been requesting more documents? have they been forthcoming with the with the banks have been very forthcoming. the banks wanted to give us this information. look, the banks notified treasury years of criminal activity by the biden family. so the banks the private banks have been very cooperative. who hasn't been cooperative? are the biden is the biden administration. we've requested all the the pseudonym emails we the number of emails that joe biden used a fake name grows almost on a basis. we've asked for those emails. they've provided 14 pages. there are thousands more pages that they haven't provided. we need to know about that because. we know there was communication between the white house, between you, when joe biden was vice president and hunter biden and his even though joe biden claimed numerous times on television had a wall between his the government and his family shady business activities. we know now that there was no wall there, that joe biden used a fake name to get around the four year requirement. so, so normal investigators. couldn't find this out. we worked very hard on this investigation over the past eight months on, as you know, we built a mountain of evidence. now we're in the deposition phase. and that's what the subpoena for hunter biden was all about, a deposition to sit down, the democrats will get equal time. and it is, for all practical purposes, public we will release the transcripts. we will do. this the way every congressional deposition has been composed in history. and the american people will know exactly how hunter biden entered these questions in the deposition. would he have the right to plead the fifth? well, i mean, everyone has the right to plead the fifth. but, you know, according to hunter biden's attorney today, he wants to come forward. and i think that's great. give him an opportunity he's going to have due process. he's going to be able to answer some questions. but this isn't about hunter biden. this is an investigation by congress of joe biden for potential corruption. hunter biden is a key witness in our investigation of joe biden. we know the biden family has received millions and millions of dollars from our enemies around the world. we don't know what they did to receive the money. we don't know a lot of things about how the bidens have been able to afford such lavish lifestyles. when really don't know what they do for a living. hunter became an artist. yeah, but you became an artist when joe biden became president. well, we do know that hunter admitted himself that he had no experience in energy, oil, gas or ukraine, but yet he was dealing with burisma and his father took actions as as vice president withheld $1,000,000,000, leveraged that billion dollars, get an investigative prosecutor fired ,and in 6 hours the guy was gone. the investigation's over. hunter got paid. and this was five days after you have been able chronicle a phone call that came from hunter from dubai with burisma executives. is that correct, sir? that is correct. and we learned all that through a transcribed interview. and that's what we want hunter biden to do to come in for an interview. everyone knows that if you have a credible, substantive investigation, you have depositions, you have transcribed interviews, then you bring in people for committee hearings. >> i'm not doing this for entertainment. this is a credible investigation. and we expect the president's son to sit down along with the other 19 people. we've asked to come in and answer questions. the democrats will have equal time. we will release the transcripts. this will be a very transparent investigation, as it has been from the very beginning. well, the one thing i've said to you, congressman, a number of times is, abbe lowell is a real lawyer, one of the top d.c. lawyers for sure. let me ask you about a report, just a news.com editor in chief ,and investigative reporter john solomon, that he gave about kevin maurice, this friend of this friend of hunter's and the family, i guess, in california. and the amount of money loaned. is that money in the five plus million dollar range, sir? that's what we understand. john solomon done a great job investigating this from day one. >> we have a lot of questions for kevin morse. we expect him to come in. we've sent him a letter. we've asked him to come in. have you subpoenaed him, sir? no. you have to request through a letter first. we're doing this the right way. we're making sure every i's dotted and t's crossed. if he doesn't respond to our letter to come in voluntarily, then we will issue a subpoena. we expect to hear from kevin morse. he's loaned the president's son reportedly over $5 million. he just met his president's son. during the presidential campaign. this raises campaign finance questions. this raises serious ethics questions, and this raises a lot of tax fraud questions. >> five million dollars is a lot of money. if that all turns out to, be accurate and true and do we have you been able to discover or trace maybe did he get anything for that money? is he getting paid back that money? that's a great question, john. that's what we want to know. for loans, loans loans, loans, everything they say is loans. now, we have, kerry, even morris reportedly loaning hunter biden over $5 million. we have a lot of questions about that. and that raises a lot of tax evasion questions. it raises a lot of ethics questions and even campaign finance questions. it would be interesting to see if any any i don't know, official government action was taken for anybody that loans anyone money. that would certainly raise a lot of eyebrows. chairman colmer, we appreciate you updating us. thank you, sir. all right. here now with reaction, former acting attorney general matthew whitaker, along with fox news analyst. great. jarrett is with us. good to see you both. greg let's let's get your take. i think you agree with me. abbe lowell is a real deal. he got off. senator menendez, he got off john edwards. he was jared kushner's lawyer. the guy is probably one of the top d.c. attorneys. so my question is, what is his strategy here? now, we'll do the public hearing, but we don't want to do the deposition in part and maybe hand over information. you're looking for us. will that work. >> no, it's not going to work. bluster, bravado, intimidation . >> you know, a subpoena, sean, is in order. the law compels you to comply. you don't get to dictate terms. but as you say, hunter biden thinks he's special and above the law. so he's trying to avoid a deposition where tough questions by smart investigators who work for the committee members, they know the facts. they would confront hunter with the truth about his corrupt schemes. financial records don't in the committee. to their credit, his amassed volumes of evidence of bribery, money laundering, tax fraud, lobbying crimes. and look, if hunter biden lies under oath, that's even more crime. so that's the reason why he's demanding a public hearing, because he knows that probing questions are rare. members grandstand their speeches. but he also wants the usual biden sycophants like jamie raskin and dan goldman to portray him as this poor victim of drug addiction who should be forgiven of his crimes. but, you know, addiction is not an excuse under the law. so the committee, i think, absolutely right to reject hunter biden's demands. what is your take, matt whitaker? what is the strategy behind this, the legal strategy. okay, we want the public hearing, but we don't want to do that deposition part that you're insisting on. and i imagine that would probably be requesting of documents and other information. wouldn't that? >> yeah, it would be. and remember, lowell knows exactly what he's doing. he knows that the the weakest part of this case is if his client has to sit down for directed questioning from a counsel of the majority, can ask a line of questions and not be interrupted every 5 minutes by the rules of the committee. if it was public. and so, you know, this is just one part of their defense. obviously, they're still facing potential tax charges in california. there, the gun charges pending. and, you know, it's going to be very interesting as i look at this whole thing is, you know, chairman komar mentioned steve bannon. and that reminds me of peter navarro as well, who were held in contempt, who were by the doj. and so, you know, this is a high stakes game where, you know, if if they can't come to some agreement and he doesn't show up for that subpoena deposition, then he should be held in contempt and prosecuted by doj, just like everybody else has been. well, you're right. if we had equal justice in application of our laws if justice was blind, but we have, in my view, a weaponized department of justice. you know, god only knows what would happen. but i would tend to think hunter would not get the same treatment as bannon or navarro, in my view. let me let me ask you, greg. jared, as as as hunter now goes forward with this, and when we talk about all of this suspicious activity, reports, they have identified tens of millions of dollars in business that they can find no services rendered for all of this money. ten biden family members benefiting financially. then you have the very to me, the cut and dried case is the burisma case. hunter admits he has no experience in energy, but he's got two massive energy conglomerates, one in ukraine, one in china, paying him a fortune for what? at a time when he acknowledges he was addicted to drugs at a time he acknowledges he had no experience, why would they ever pay for a hunter that type of money? >> they wouldn't. it was an illegal quid pro quo . and the evidence is overwhelming, sean, that hunter sold his dad to the world china, russia, ukraine, romania, other countries over which joe biden exercised. >> he was bought and paid for, if you will, and family got enormously rich by selling out america in has to be the biggest bribery scandal in political history. 150 suspicious activity reports as you point out prove that tens of millions flowed to biden controlled shell companies then funneled the family members. devon archer confirmed they were selling influence and access to joey aided and abetted his son's schemes in. the burisma scandal conferring promising this in exchange for money. i mean, you don't have to show that joe biden pocketed, a penny is still a crime under the bribery statute. >> if cash goes to his family. and of course, bribery is also an impeachable offense, sean. >> yeah, you know, matt, it's not illegal to loan money, but there seems to be, as chairman coleman was pointing a lot of loans going on here. i would imagine that if a loan was made, there would be some record of it. if it wasn't down as a loan. certainly there's got to be a date, a time method of payment that would would back up that claim, right? >> yeah. not only that, you would expect a promissory note. it's the only way you could enforce that kind of debt ultimately. and you know, the other thing that i'm reminded of, if there's no interest, all these loans, if nobody's paying interest, they're paying principal back. that appears to be it just a cover up for these transactions. but remember, i think exhibit number one, that hunter biden needs to answer the question about is that text message that he sent his own daughter where he asked if, you know, she just should be happy that she doesn't have to give 50% to her own dad like hunter has to. and so i think that's you know, that's where the committee those types of questions are, why this deposition needs to happen on the 13th. well, i want to know if the $5 million loan was real, that was forgivable with no interest. i want know if that's the case and if it is the case that i want to request from both you, that you give me those terms and $5 million. i'm sure you would do that every day of the week. right. because the minute you gave it to me, i would say thank you for forgiving this. you're not getting paid back. i will see if that all pans out as well. matt whitaker, great job. great to see you both. when we come back, a new report revealing the biden administration is telling israel what to soften their attack against the terror group hamas, giving them instructions on what's acceptable for fighting and winning against a group that wants to wipe you off the face of the earth. >> anyway, we'll talk about that. we'll have the very latest out of israel as we continue. we have the number one ranked economy. i want you to know you can rely on california. florida. we stood up for what was right. this is about a long time coming. we are putting two of the country's most high profile governors head to head on the issues that impact every american. the red state versus the blue state. i'm all in. i'm game. you say disperses news of the great red versus blue state debate thursday at nine boston, 1773. one of the most daring and consequential events american history is about to take place. this was the spark that lit the torch of liberty connecting who is on the docks. the british will have their roots firmly planted on our necks. enjoy your freedom while it lasts. >> this is liberty or death. boston tea party starts streaming for just 1999 a year. >> sign up today. >> attention hearing loss sufferers. do you have trouble keeping up with co