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
Tweeting about that as well and he d been threatening, you know, congress when it comes to that. interesting enough, when it comes to that tweet, addressing members of congress, many of them there s lawmakers sitting in the national cathedral. jeff? he said in that tweet, congress needs to stay out of these talks with canada. clearly he s not looking for any feedback from lawmakers about what he s doing with those negotiations, but you re absolutely right. many of those people, it was a who s who really of power players in washington who were in that cathedral yesterday and that really underscored the emphasis that senator mccain wanted in that service and the fact that president trump was not present. absolutely. eugene scott and jeff mason, thank you for the breakdown. thank you. t.e.d. talk for the russia probe. what happened to the deadline rudy giuliani set for the mueller probe to end, and what the fallout might be.