america reports with my partner for this friday, how are you today? i m good, well, thanks for joining us on this friday. welcome to america reports. this has been fascinating to watch, day 2 as the prosecution now cross examinates alex, and what s interesting to me, jonna spilbor said the prosecutor is seemingly getting outlawyered by his own witness here. let s bring in now criminal defense attorney phil holloway to get his take on what we have seen so far, as they take a break there in south carolina. phil, you know, yesterday you said that you thought that he needed to testify. he s admitted to stealing from clients, admitted to lying repeatedly, do you still think that was a good idea? yes, i do, good afternoon. thanks for having me back. i think so far the defendant is doing quite well as a witness in this case and honestly this is a master class how not to conduct a cross examination. open ended questions, and even in law school in trial advocacy classes young
targeted to spare jews. then there was this exchange with democratic congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz. do you think it was just as hard to wear a mask during covid or hide under floor boards or walls so you weren t dragged to a concentration camp? no, that s ridiculous. but that s air comparison you made. reporter: he did seem to make that comparison last year. even in hitler germany, you could cross the alps to switzerland or hide in an attic like anne frank. the mechanisms are in place that none of us can run or hide. reporter: republicans on the house panel who invited him to testify see kennedy as someone who can validate their claims about democrats. the idea that democrats went to censure critics or that democrats want to take away people s freedoms vis-a-vis covid or masking or vaccinations.
reporter: republicans on the house. john: republicans on the house oversight committee are threatening to reveal the identities of hunter s mysterious art buyers after he missed a deadline t turn over the financial documents. miranda divine joins us now. if they do decide to go ahead and do that it may take a while, the art dealer is not cooperating by telling the committee who the clients were. but if they do eventually manage to get the names and release them, do you expect that would be revealing? well, i don t know. i mean, it may be, i m not sure if we are going to see something as obvious as president xi buying one of hunter s paintings at an inflated price. what we do see is a fair amount of contempt and arrogance
president s handling of foreign policy towards ukraine. we ll see the top diplomat in ukraine, bill taylor, coming forward, as well as top state department official, george kent. as all of this is happening, the president not only defending his own conduct, but we re seeing republicans, republican senators in particular, trying to fine-tune their defense of the president. if you re not allowed to give aid to people who are corrupt, there s always contingencies on aid. i think it s a mistake to say, he withheld aid until there was corruption. i consider any impeachment in the house that doesn t allow us to know who the whistleblower is to be invalid because without the whistleblower complaint, we wouldn t be talking about any of this. and i see the need for hunter biden to be called to adequately defend the president. if you don t do those two things, it s a complete joke. reporter: republicans on the house side have sent a list of witnesses they would like to see
reporter: republicans on the house side have sent a list of witnesses they would like to see come forward in public phase of this impeachment inquiry, sending this list to house democrats that would have approve the witnesses to come forward. among the individuals, are hunter biden, joe biden s son, as well as the whistleblower, the anonymous intelligence official whose complaints about trump s call sparked the impeachment inquiry. but democrats don t seem inclined to accept those requests. the president will have an opportunity to shift the narrative on wednesday, as the first witnesses come forward. the president has a scheduled joint news conference at the white house with the turkish president. dave? thank you. new allegations protecting president trump to threats of ukraine. rudy giuliani told them to give the ultimatum to the new president of ukraine, investigate joe biden or risk