we re getting everything we wanted. we wanted hunter biden to come in and answer questions and we have a lot of questions and now he will have to come in and sit down and answer specific questions about specific transactions, specific meetings. bill: the stonewalling is now over and the date has been set so mark your calendar. hunter biden slated to sit down for a closed door deposition with two house panels on the 28th of february if he shows up, right? that s what we thought last time, right, dana? good morning, it s friday. i m bill hemmer in new york. dana: good morning. i m great. bill: getting ready for the weekend. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. great to be here with you. hunter biden s plans to testify part of house republicans impeachment inquiry into the president a far cry from the scene on the hill last week when the president s son crashed a house oversight contempt hearing, took a seat and then left a few minutes later. now hunte
ex-president it all but ensures that special counsel jack smith will hear from the key witness who none of the other investigations into the trump cou plot not the fulton county d.a. has ever heard from under oath we re, of course, talking about mike pence a ruling handed down wednesday night by a federal appeals court rejects an emergency request by trump to block mike pence s testimony. new york times reports this, quote, the 11th hour ruling by the u.s. court of appeals for the district of colombia paves the way for mr. pence to appear before the federal grand jury as early as this week the ex-president has a few legal options left including an appeal to the supreme court but as nbc news reports, quote, in previous instances, where appeals sent senior aides must testify, his legal team has opted no the to fight the decision further and those witnesses have quickly appeared before the grand jury and trump s argument that executive privilege prevents pence or any of his ai
president, take me to the capital now. to which bobby responded sir, we have to go back to the west wing. the president reached up toward the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. mr. engel grabbed his arm and said so you need to take your hand off the steering wheel, we are going back to the west wing. we are not going to the capital. and mr. trump then used his free hand to lunch towards bobby engel and went he recounted the story to me he had motioned towards his clavicles. and was mr. engel in the room as he told you this story? he was. did mr. engel correct or disagree with any part of this story? mr. engel did not correct or disagree with any part of the story. did they ever after that tell you that what he just said was untrue? neither mr. engel or the other told me it was ever untrue. now that officer with dc metropolitan police department who was right there in the motorcade firsthand witness is corroborating details of what cassidy hutchi
you d actually expect all the candidates to be pretty aggressively hawkish on russia, particularly after russia had just invaded one of their neighbors. but it was interesting. in that senate primary, that republican senate primary in 2014, this one primary candidate, the local talk radio host, he really went the other way. he called himself a former pentagon expert on russia and he told radio iowa that, quote, pushing the russians out of crimea is not a realistic option. he said, quote, i think a lot of people, i m not sure they understand the history of russia. you go back, you know, 1,500 years to the foundation of the russian empire. it actually started in ukraine and was evolved out of that. this whole issue is about as russian as it gets, meaning russia should be allowed to take parts of ukraine. that s russia s business, not anybody else s. and this candidate apparently felt pretty passionately about it. he went on in some detail,
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unfortunately for me that is all marked in my brain it feels like ball game. do you have someone under oath answering what happened on the other end of that phone call luke yeah. donald trump is on an indecreed losing streak. i think it s more than incredible losing streak right now. this greg jacob, pat philbin, mark meadows, evan corchran, miller, o brien, it goes on and on and now finally pence you know, mike pence, of course, is the final piece of that phone call and of the day of january 6th. he s the other end of the call he explains exactly what happened for those who couldn t hear it on that end. i would also add he is also a