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
About this doj lack of fairness. and when you see today that there is some sort of investigation that hunter biden is scared enough about probably relating to foreign business dealings, and now you ve got some questions that bring in the irs whistleblowers. now you can, i think, start shifting that narrative i disagree no connection, no real connection but wait maria cardona, i agree that republicans will overreach on hunter biden. and i know trump guy. but i have to say, after looking at this hunter biden situation, if i m getting paid 50 or 60 grand amount to serve on the ukrainian gas board admittedly addicted to drugs i mean, it is smells. it s nothing illegal. but it stinks. it smells of it just smells of influence peddling. and, again, i am not saying joe biden did anything wrong. i m just saying it smells bad.
The dark? is it to have plausible deniability? how about when he said i don t think i was qualified to be on the board and i didn t know anything about ukraine or natural gas but i probably knew more about that than the other people on the board. she could have asked, the former president of poland is on the board. international investors, former cia. i think you don t know more than they do about ukraine and natural gas. she never asked why did you hire a p.r. firm to smear the investigator probing burisma. she never asked why do you think you got the job? why do you think people were given this positions. dana: i think she did ask that. he confirmed what people have assumed when she asked, did you profit off the last name and he said yeah. jesse: the point is why are they giving the job to him.
But he doesn t think he did anything wrong. emily: i thought his defensiveness was so palpable. he came across and entitled, frustrated, he felt attacked. i thought his statements were weak and ineffective for those reasons. he said he regrets the appearance, the perspective of something wrong. the only mistake was not taking into account rudy giuliani or a president scrutinizing him. if i can comment on what you were saying, juan. a tremendous difference as a citizen is how much the business dealings were intertwined with the state. i want to take this moment to point out how intertwined hunter biden s with the chinese state. his attorney, the other day and said he s stepping down as director of the board and he s received no profit from his stake. that s not true. what he invested in its 400,000 some change investment gave him control and influence over $1.5 billion in capital over
Because they actually work for a living. do you think trump lets his kids slide at work? if you asked his kids, would it have been easier to work for a stranger than your dad, they would ve said stranger. because their dad never rests. he would seem like a merciless boss, especially if you are related. dana: you wouldn t want to let them down. the ukrainian gas board, oh, well. greg: trump would tell donald, eric is doing really good. and then he would go to eric, donald is doing really good. jesse: donald trump just got into politics two years ago. his kids were very successful in the private sector for many, many years. if you look at the resume of hunter, i don t know if you ve looked at it, juan, but every single step of joe s career, hunter was right behind him. out of law school, went to the big bank, joe s biggest contributor. then he went to the board of amtrak.