father. this with the house poised to vote today on whether to formally authorize an impeachment inquiry into president biden. also ahead, the president set to meet today with the families of americans held hostage by hamas. and his new warning to israel about the war. and later, rudy giuliani set to testify as soon as today in the defamation case against him as an election worker tearfully recounts the threats that made her fear for her life. hello, everyone, thank you for being here. it is 10:00 eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and we begin with this breaking news on capitol hill this morning. hunter biden speaking there moments ago saying he is ready to testify publicly this morning, as house republicans have him scheduled to appear for a closed-door deposition. hunter biden acknowledged his troubled history, but accused house republicans of distorting the facts. there s no evidence to support the allegations that my father was financially invol
Nunes and mr. solomon. all about this, i mean, drumming up this idea that the bidens are corrupt. right. and that ukraine interfered in the election. and leaves the first part, this idea ukraine interfered in the election completely debunked, right? also a talking point putin wants to advance. talked about it in february of 2017, and you have a conservative chattering classes advance this as well as folks on the hill. nunes among them. john kennedy, senator john kennedy seemed to advance this idea and had to pull back and something that the president also believes, too, and they feel like if this is true, this idea that ukraine was the one who actually meddled, then the president had every right to go to ukraine and say, where is this server? of course, it s all based on a lie, a conspiracy. and in fact, reporting this later in the show also, but the senate intelligence committee as i reported yesterday. exactly. right. looked into the ukraine allegations, interviewed forme
Quo, and so how is this going to be playing out on television and the people can hear for themselves those on the witness stand say it? well, yo will have the competing storylines, and you will have this wasn t an extortion slash solicitation of the bribe which is what we mean when we say quid pro quo or we are going to say that it was a request for one thing in exchange for another, and that is perfectly fine or actually all of these piled on top of each other, this and the process argument, and where is nelly orr and why aren t we hearing from hunter biden, and the bidens are corrupt, and you know, the whole panoply of suggestions there. i love the picture you painted with the words. let s listen to congressman jim himes and whether we will hear
President trump to another standard. i want to set that aside. i don t understand why that s always used as a deflection. does that mean you think it s now okay for the president to act this way? doesn t matter what we think of joe biden at this point. if it s wrong for this to be done, then it s wrong, period. no? it kind of does, but i will approach it from a different way. fairness is one angle, and i don t think people are going to think this is fair. but i think the second angle is this, foreign aid by law can only go out to countries that are not corrupt. so if you think that a country is sakting in a corrupt way, the president can always withhold aid until the corruption is fixed. you have to get into the mind of trump and his advisers and say he didn t really believe the bidens are corrupt. i think he absolutely does. i think you could give him a lie detector test and say do you think the bidens are corrupt and you re investigating corruption and corruption is in the law, y
Of this debate nullified the rest of the 3-hour debacle because they focus on baseless impeachment, democrats were so confident about winning at the ballot box in 2020 they wouldn t be talking about overturning our vote in 2016 just because they didn t like the results. another reason democrats can t attack joe biden on ukraine is they would be admitting what everyone knows, donald trump is right, the bidens are corrupt, they did have corrupt dealings in ukraine and china and if they admit that and attack the swamp behavior hunter biden was making $50,000 a month on a natural gas company where he had no experience just because his dad was running point on ukraine policy for the obama administration they would have to admit this impeachment is baseless and everyone knows the bidens were up to no good in ukraine. rob: what did you think of the response joe biden gave when anderson cooper pressed him? he didn t have a lot to say and said words speak for themselves.