president. this at the same time as hunter was serving on the board of burisma. so republicans are now demanding the national archives turn them over in the interest of transparency. let s bring in nancy mace. congress woman, thanks for being with me this afternoon. i want to make sure that i understand the fundamental issue that the committee has right now with this tranche of newly discovered e-mails. seems to me that the biggest grievance is with the timing. the e-mails coincide a time when president biden was serving as vice president managing the u.s.-ukraine bilateral relationship at the same time as his son was taking in money from a ukrainian energy company. the timing is at the crux of this. is that right? absolutely. that s just the start of it. thank you, gillian, for having me on this afternoon. president biden has thrown his country under the bus. he s been forced to lie about his activities with his son, hunter and his son s businesses every time he s been ask
consequential week for his campaign as rivals like vivek ramaswamy preparing in his own way. he posted this video. three hours of solid debate prep this morning. he s getting ready shirtless. i m guessing that s his back yard tennis court. i don t know many places you can play without a shirt. i m thinking he s add home. new polling shows iowa first the very first contest in the election, voters far from locked in. it s interesting when you get below the top numbers. more than 50% of voters say that they are debatable. wednesday night is a big opportunity for them to watch these candidates, if any of them is changing their mind about who they support. bret baier co-moderating the debate with me is here to kick things off. first, go to bill melugin who is here on the ground in milwaukee as well. hi, bill. hi, martha. this debate will be the first time all of these republican candidates are face-to-face with each other on the same stage, meaning they ll all have the chance
forum. the game is on, folks! there s going to be eight candidates that will be taking the stage in milwaukee. this is where they will be positioned. we re going not we re going to reveal that yet. here s where they ll be standing on the stage. that is kind of interesting to see who your neighbors will be up there. my next guests. so according to polling the highst polar candidate is in the middle. that s governor desantis. and then vivek ramaswamy. something a lot of people may not have seen a few months ago. he will join us live coming up. first, we have another of the very prominent candidates on stage tomorrow night, south carolina senator tim scott who is making his presidential debut, stage debut tomorrow evening. he joins me now. great to have you with us. how are you feeling with a day to go? doing well. the weather is perfect. there s no humidity. i m excited about it. martha: what is your debate prep like? how are you getting ready? spending time studying
insisted. watch this. i ve never discussed my business or their business, my son s our daughters. i have never spoken to my son about his overseas business. i never discussed with my son or brother or anything else having to do with their businesses. several republicans claiming that the doj tried to obstruct today s tomorrow. scott perry sits on the committee questioning archer. he s here in moments. first, chad pergram with the breaking news. what are we learning, chad? good afternoon, trace. this from a source from the transcribed interview. archer testified that there was value in adding hunter biden to burisma s board to promote what they re terming the brand. the argument was that the vice president joe biden brought the most value to the brand. archer stated that burisma would have gone under if it wasn t for the brand. owners of burisma to get help from washington d.c. from victor shokin. he was investigating burisma for corruption. here s what was interes
fell apart pleaded not guilty. there was no deal. it was the judge under the doj that had major questions about the plea deal that led to the shocking breakdown here. jason smith last night made a last-minute appeal to the court to shut down this plea deal based on the new whistle-blower testimony and increasing evidence that has come out in this case. he s standing by with his reaction to what infolded in there. first, to griff jenkins outside the court in wilmington, delaware. hi, griff. hi, martha. what a day it has been. we thought it was a routine plea deal. took about 30 minutes. not so. three hour of probing questions from the judge and, of course, she s not accepting that plea deal for now and hunter biden pleading not guilty for now. we re also just now getting the score the courtroom sketches. we can show you those, if we can put them up. see our courtroom sketch artist doing some remarkable artwork there because we couldn t have cameras inside. we couldn t have