Fridays at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, cspan brings you afterwards from book tv, a program where nonfiction authors are interviewed by journallingists journalists, legislators and more on their latest book. Emily reports on the barriers that blacks and people of color face when interacting with the u. S. Financial Services Industry in her book the white wall. Shes interviewed by andre perry. Watch afterwards every friday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Democracy. Up next, House Republicans update reporters on their investigation of hunter biden and the biden family. G. O. P. Members of the oversight and Judiciary Committees are looking at the International Business dealings. Well hear from congressman jim jordan and congressman comer. Comer. We want to thank you all for coming out today. Were going to provide you all with something youre not used to with respect to judicial hearings, and thats evidence. We have spoken with numerous scheme, reviewed Hunter Bidens laptop, and what we found are Business Plans aimed at targets around the world based on influence peddling. Including with people closely tied to foreign governments like china and russia. We also found plans based in the United States where the mr. Comer we want to thank you all for coming out today. Were going to provide you all. In 2019, shortly after announcing his campaign for president , joe biden told the American People he had nothing to do with and never had conversations with his family about their business dealings. That was a lie. Whistleblowers describe president bhieden as chairman of the board for these businesses. He personally participated in meetings and phone calls. Document shows he was a partner with access to an office. To be clear, joe biden is the big guy this evidence raises troubling questions about whether President Biden is a National Security risk. And about whether he is compromised by foreign governments. Despite the president s claim that he wasnt involved in biden Family Business schemes, these photos show owe biden meeting with his Family Associates while vice president. Committee republicans have iidentified over 50 countries the biden family sought businesses in on the International Side of the biden Family Business. The deals were often led by hunter biden. That map there behind clay shows all the countries where the bidens had a footprint in International Business dealings. The investigation reveals a family that engaged with some of americas most powerful adversaries, planning to sell one of the largest sourcers for cobalt in the world to the chinese, for example. The bidens flourished and became millionaires by offering access to the family. Among the dozens of shell dmeans biden set up there were millions of s of wire transfers, flights on air force 2 to conduct personal business, and meet wtion heads of state all while joe biden was aware of what was happening. All the while, he turned a blind eye. Many transactions related to these businesses have raised red flags at u. S. Banks. A suspicious activity report or s. A. R. , is a document a bank must file when a transaction is suspected to be related to Money Laundering, frud or other criminal activity. According to media reports the biden family accumulated over 150s. A. R. s. One s. A. R. Generated by an American Bank to the Treasury Department connects hunter biten and his Business Associates to International Human trafficking along other illegal activities. The money being made from foreign principles was increasingly spent on furthering illegal activities. The s. A. R. s show hunter biden was conducting business with suspected human traffickers. The money gain through the influence peddling was funneled to a suspected criminal enterprise, again, one link to Human Trafficking. We have repeat think called on the biden Treasury Department to release additional financial documents to Committee Republicans but thus far treasury has refused. We want to know what the Biden Administration is trying to hide from the American People and why they are not being transparent. We also found evidence hunter biden sought to evade the s. A. R. s using his financial adviser, coincidently a Clinton Administration official. We will continue to pursue all evidence and specifically the s. A. R. S. And bank records in the new congress. As part of our investigation we have evidence that the finances, credit cards and Bank Accounts of hunter and joe biden were comingled, if not shared. And on some accounts at least red flags were raised by banks of account owners indicating suspicious or illegal activities. One of hunters closest associates was accessing joe bidens money and writing checks to reimburse hunter. He arranged deals around the world and was a frequent visit to the white house and joe biden during the obama administration. He visited close to 30 times sometimes with Business Partners and hunter, according to hunters calendar. He was appointed by president obama to a position in the administration. Hunter began making business deals himself and brought in joe biden as a direct equity holder. One of these deals involved the sale of natural gas to china. Evidence suggests joe biden had a 10 equity stake through his son. And mind lynn and andrew, is a map from hunters laptop. This was a power point presentation on his laptop, chinese, that they used in working with the chinese. Lets think about this for a second. At a time when americans are suffering from High Energy Prices, because of this administrations Terrible Energy policy we find evidence that hunter biden and joe biden were involved in a scheme to try to get china to bielik fid natural to buy lick liquefied natural gas. People are in utah rage over china buying farmland in the dakotas, what about china starting to buy into our American Energy industry at a time when we have an Energy Crisis because of the bad policies of the Biden Administration . Let that sink in. Hunter brought in millions of dollars from this deal from entities tied to the chinese government. In emails obtained by Committee Republicans, hunter wanted keys made for joe biden and jim biden, his office mate. He provided joe bidens personal cell number and called him his partner. The other partners in that deal were two people closely tied to the Chinese Communist party. And that behind andy and jim, thats the email hunter sent to the landlord requesting keys and the chinese partners were on the email. And where he said joe would need a key and he even put joes cell phone number on there. Domestically, jim biden, joe bidens brother, used the biden name to enrich himself in return for the promise that when joe biden became president in 2020 Business Partners would get rich by having access to a future Biden Administration. By promising access to financing through middle eastern, russian and chinese connections he made through joe biden and by bringing his brother, joe biden, onto phone call, jim biden was able to convince companies to give him loans of hundreds of thousands of dollars that he never repaid. The Biden Administration has answered none of our requests for information regarding the biden family or the Financial Transactions they engaged in. Instead theyve spent over a quarter Million Dollars to, quote, deflect hunters stories. Protecting the president s son who has committed crimes with american tax dollars is waste. The domestic and International Scheme that promised access to wealth in a future Biden Administration constitute fraud. And the president s participation in enriching his family is, in a word, abuse of the highest order. Rudy rooting out waste, fraud and abuse will be the primary goal of a Republican HouseOversight Committee. As such this investigation will be a top priority. We are releasing a report today that details what we have uncovered. We are sending letters to Biden Administration officials renewing our request for voluntary production of documents relevant to the investigation. This is an investigation of joe biden. The president of the United States and why he lied to the American People about his knowledge and participation in his familys International Business schemes. National security interests require the committee conduct investigation and we will pursue all avenues, avenues that have long been ignored. Committee republicans have uncovered evidence of federal crimes committed by and to the benefit of members of the president s family. These include conspiracy or defrauding the United States. Wire fraud. Conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Violation of the foreign agents registration act. Violations of he foreign corrupt practices act. Violations of the trafficking victims protection act. Tax evasion. Money laundering. And conspiracy to commit Money Laundering. The biden familys business dealings implicate a wide range of criminality from Human Trafficking to potential violations of the constitution. In the 118th congress this committee will evaluate the stat tutt of status of owe bidens relationship with foreign partners and with hes a president thats compromised or swayed by foreign dollars and influence. I want to be clear this is an investigation of joe biden. And thats where the committee will focus in this next congress. I now turn it over to oversight and next chairman of the Judiciary Committee, jim jordan. Mr. Jordan what part of mr. Comers presentation was russian disinformation . Never forget what happened on october 19, 2020, 15 days before the most important election we have in our country who is going to be the next president of the United States, 15 days before that, mr. Brennan, mr. Clapper and 49 other people signed a letter that said the following. It is for these reasons that we write to say that the arrival on the u. S. Political scene of emails purportedly belonging to vice President Bidens son, hunter, has all the classic earmarks of a russian Information Operation. They further went on to say, we want to emphasize we dont know if the emails are genuine or not just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the russian government played a significant role in this case. That letter became the pretext for suppressing this story, again just days before the most important election we have in our country. So i would ask this. Was j. P. Morgans suspicious activity report to the Treasury Department, was that just a classic earmark of a russian Information Operation . How about when hunter biden sent the email mr. Comer pointed to asking for keys to his new office space, one for hims, one for President Biden, one for his uncle, jim and one for the chairman of the Chinese Energy company cfcc. Was that just russian disInformation Operation in place . What part of mr. Comers presentation promped the f. B. I. To go to facebook and say hey, hey, hey, you want to be on the lookout for russian misinformation here this election season. What part of his presentation would prompt that . I think its also important to understand, never forget how the story has changed. Think about this. When it started off it was no, its not his laptop. Not his laptop. Then it was, its his laptop but remember its russian disinformation. No one did anything wrong. Then it was well, maybe, maybe he did something wrong but President Biden didnt know about it. And now its, well, maybe President Biden knew about it and was involved but it didnt influence his decisions. In fact yesterday, there was a story in politico which said that. Story in politico, investigating the investigator, democrats to launch counterpunch to house g. O. P. Heres what i it said no evidence has publicly emerged that joe bidens decisions were affected by his sons business dealings. Wow, we have went from, it wasnt his laptop and it was russian disinformation to, oh, whatever was in there didnt affect the president s visit, even though he was involved, even though the laptop was real, even though it wasnt disinformation. Thats how far weve come. So i think that there are all kinds of questions that need to be answered. Were determined to get there. Did the f. B. I. Brief twitter as well . We know they briefed facebook and that had an impact on the election. Theres surveys where thousands and thousands of voters said it might have impacted their decision in 2020. Did the f. B. I. Brief any of the 51 former intelligence officials who signed that let her that letter that became the pretext for suppressing this story. Who did the briefings . Who briefed facebook. Heres a name that i think is interesting. Timothy thibault. We did a report two weeks ago, that talked about the political influence and political shenanigans going on in our Justice Department based on 14 f. B. I. Agents who come talk to our office as whistleblowers. One of those agents said thergs term he used, he said at the highest levels of the f. B. I. , specifically the Washington Field office. He said its rotted to the core. Not talking about rank and file agents, theyre doing good work. Talking about the top people at the Washington Field office. We had another whistle employeer who brought us a name, mr. Thibault and said mr. Thibault is pressuring agents to categorize cases in a specific way to satisfy this narrative about extremism. Whats interesting is a different whistle blow, who went to senator grassleys office, and said that mr. Thibault, by the way, the head of the special agent in charge at the Washington Field office, mr. Thibault is also the guy who suppressed information about the hunter biden story in october of 2020. Id like to talk to mr. Thibault. We have asked to talk to mr. Thibault. Even though he said publicly, i welcome a chance to answer question, hes refused to come in and talk to us. Thats someone we need to talk to. Why has the Biden Administration suddenly changed their position on suspicious activity reports . Used to be, any member of congress, any committee, you got a chance to see them. Suddenly no, no, no. We cant see them. Public comer and our team at the Oversight Committee would kind of like to see the other 148. They seen two. Theyd like to see the 148. So were commit t. D. Getting to the truth. The facts. We think thats what the American People are entitled to. Were going to try help representative comer and the team here at oversight with our work on judiciary. But with the specific focus on what the f. B. I. Was doing. We know these 51 former intel official, theyve got security clearance. Are they talking to the f. B. I. . Who is doing the talking . Who is doing the briefing . Were they briefed . Theres so many questions that need answers so we can get to the bottom of this. Final thing ild say is this. A colleague of mine said this in a Committee Hearing a few weeks ago. He said when is the f. B. I. Going to quit interfering with elections . 2016, they spied on president trumps campaign. 2018 the mueller investigation, 2020, suppressed information about the hunter biden story. 2022 raid the president s home 90 days before the election. Maybe itd be nice if the f. B. I. And Justice Department stayed out of it and let we the people decide who we think should represent us, who we think should lead us. This is the focus on the Judiciary Committee. The political nature of the Justice Department and the linkage to what was happening with the hunter biden story. Just 15 days before we have president ial election. Well be happy to answer questions. Anyone on the committee will be happy to answer questions. Reporter are you putting the f. B. I. On notice for not bringing and the department of justice on notice for not bringing charges. Mr. Comer we are focused on the bank records moving forward the Oversight Committee. The Judiciary Committee mr. Jordan ive been in congress a few years. I have never seen anything like that. 14 agents come talk us to while were in the minority about how political the place has become. The purging going on. Terms they used, not us. Purnling of agents. The pressure to categorize cases in a political fashion. The putting the threat tag label on moms and dads who show up at school board meetings. We know over two dozen parents investigated, no one charge. You show up to a home, think of the chilling impact it has on other parents. Thats what were interested in getting to the bottom of. And the only way you can hold people accountable and hopefully stop the may haver is to present it to the country. Thats what weve got to do. So were committed to doing it in an aggressive fashion but in a way thats consistent with the constitution. Reporter we know the department of justice and f. B. I. Has been investigating hunter biden since 2018. How do you know that these claims that youre laying out in your remarks today and some of the examples you have up here arent claims that have already been fully investigated by those federal prosecutors . Maybe they have, we dont know. Reporter and can i follow up, the map you were referring to, when was that power point from . Mr. Comer that power point was from i think its in your pact. 2017. Reporter my follow up there is, this is from 2017, what is the connection to the current Energy Crisis now, if that was years ago . Mr. Comer joe biden says hes going to stand up to china, joe biden says hes going to rewrite our whole Energy Policy, america first. And he was a 10 equity own for the a Company Whose sole mission was to purchase liquefied natural gas from the United States and try to take over the Natural Gas Industry in america through natural gas wholesalers and natural gas drillers . I dont think joe biden is being honest with the American People about that. I think thats a question you all need to ask about the next White House Press conference we didnt know about your involvement in a Chinese Energy company. Does that in any way, shape or form impact your Energy Policy . Thats something that i think every american deserves answers to, especially at a time when were faced with record High Energy Prices because of bidens Energy Policy. Reporter have you called hunter biden or anyone in the biden family to testify . We would love to talk to people in the biden family. Specifically hunter and jim biden. I think the most important thing for us right now is to get those bank records. We have two suspicious activity reports, in the because of the biden family and not because of janet yellen at treasury. These specific activity reports are very detailed. These arent from little banks like in my part of kentucky, these are wells fargo, j. P. Morgan. So these suspicious activity reports that i dont think from day one a lot of people in the media understand what a suspicious activity report is. Just so you know, suspicious activity reports were created after september 11 as a way for the government to be able to track foreign transactions into american terror cells. Over time its expanded to include things like Money Laundering and other types of criminal activity. Because when in september 11 remember the banks knew the terrorists were getting wire transfers from saudi arabia but the f. B. I. And federal authorities didnt so that was how these were created. Under president bush, under president obama, and under president trump, any committee in congress could have access to those suspicious activity reports. But when joe biden became president , he changed the rules. Does anyone here doubt my suspicion that he changed the rules because his son and possibly himself had 150 suspicious activity reports . Am i are we the only ones that find that odd that joe biden would change the rules when he became president . In fact, Maxine Waters had legislation to change the rules back. She didnt know why he changed the rules. And she had a bill and part of the language in the bill was to override that rule and give congress the access to those suspicious activity reports. I actually voted for Maxine Waters bill because that was in there and i dote dont vote for a lot of her bills. Reporter i wonder if you might confirm that your committees will be investigating Speaker Pelosi and the department of justice for their treatment of defendants jailed in keck with january 6, a promise that potentially Speaker Mccarthy made to the House Freedom caucus earlier this week. Mr. Comer hes the department of justice guy. Mr. Jordan you saw our report, or i hope you did, were focused on the Justice Department. They are making decisions on a political basis. Were going to look at that. Reporter specifically the treatment of january 6 dfs. Mr. Jordan were looking all the way back to the first whistleblower came to us about a year ago regarding the School Boards issue. So were concerned about anything that is being done in a political fashion at the Justice Department. Because remember, youve got to step back, in this great country, greatest clint ever, its supposed to be equal treament under the law. When off Justice Department not following that fundamental presence pl, that is a major problem. Reporter the january 6 insurrectionist have been wrongly imprisoned . Mr. Jordan i didnt say i just said were going to look at the poll toiks they have Justice Department because weve had more than 14 different whistleblowers come talk to us. If we can keep it about hunter biden. If we can keep it about hunter biden that would be great. Reporter i want to piggyback on the january 6, what is your plan with the january 6 investigation . Mr. Comer were focused i think thats a question for kevin mccarthy. Reporter can you kind of preview thousand howe is this going to play out . Sounds like youre focus your focus initially is going to be on the suspicious activity reports. Which you will endeavor to receive somehow. That could be through subpoenaing a bank. And then once you receive those, is that are you expecting a smoking gun from that . Or will that add to more avenues . And finally what deliverable are you expecting . I know the report, do you see it terminating in some sort of referral . How do you see it playing out . Mr. Comer with the two we already have well, we cant reveal our sources. But the two are on the internet. You can dig and find them. But we verified theyre 100 factual. Reporter im not questioning that. If you got it from an individual, why would they have two . Mr. Comer thats a great question. Im glad you asked that. I dont think a lot of people in media and congress understand a suspicious activity report. When you get a suspicious activity report it familiars every account thats had a transaction within a certain period. So you the suspicious activity report that we have shows where hunter biden purchased whatever with an Escort Service, the Escort Service paid the prostitutes, the bank implies the Escort Service is you should suspicion for Human Trafficking. We see where the prostitute is from, shes not from the United States. I dont want this to be about the prostitutes. Heres the thing. Hunter biden isnt this innocent guy that just got a bad rap because he had a drug problem and republicans dont need to waste any time on him. Were not trying to prove hunter biden is a bad actor. He is. If anybody wants to disagree with that, theres nothing we have to talk about. Our investigation is about joe biden. And we already have evidence that would point that joe biden was involved with hunter biden. We want the bank records and thats our focus. Were trying to stay focused on, was owe biden directly involved with Hunter Bidens business deals and is he compromised. Thats our investigation. Reporter if you found that through the report, what would be your deliverable . Another report . Or would you refer those charges . Or do you foresee that resulting in some sort of impeachment . Mr. Comer we will issue a report. We will hand over the any potential criminal activity to the appropriate authorities. And the thats what we do. We investigate. Mr. Jordan were a legislative body, we may knead to change disclosure laws. This investigation started because of the concern with big tech, f. B. I. Talking to big tech, big tech threatling information that we the people should have had access to when were getting ready to make the most important decision were going to make on who is going to lead us as a country. Do we need to change section 230 . Its all about the legislative process. I would argue fundamentally its about the first amendment, they were suppressing critical information the country should have had access to and they did it literally 15 days before and tell me what in the report that mr. Comer and the team put together is russian disinformation . That was all b. S. Everyone know it was b. S. And frankly should have known it at the time and i think knew it at the time and did it anyway thats the legislative purpose weve got to get to. Thats what were trying to do. Reporter some republicans have questioned the timing of this. Why make this your very first visible order of business . Investigating President Biden and his family . Mr. Comer you look at the commitment to america, there were four tenets. The further was to hold this administration accountable. Some in the media says this republican, the whole, sole focus is. This is the focus of the Oversight Committee. The first legislation kevin said were going to vote on is to repeal laying off agents. We have a legislative agenda and were focused on a lot of things in congress. But from the Oversight Committee were in charge of investigations. We feel that this is of utmost importance. Do you expect cooperation from the Biden Administration when it comes to the Justice Department which is investigating hunter biden. If the d. O. J. Doesnt cooperate what means do you have at your disposal right now to get the information that theyve uncovered on him. Mr. Jordan they havent responded to any correspondence or letter that came from Ranking Member comer. They changed the suspicious activity report process and protocol. And third, theyve set up a committee, the report in politico said they set up a committee to attack and come after us. You guess. Theyre probably not going to work with us too well. They have done things that are unprecedented chaining the s. A. R. s, thats unprecedented. Reporter to come and testify on capitol hill . Mr. Jordan one of the most important things, i guess ive said it a couple of times. One of the most important things we can do is do the work that needs to be done so we can hopefully have a Justice Department that doesnt operate in a political fashion. Thats my focus. I think its everyones focus. I think thats pretty darn important to the American People. Reporter a question on that point. Theres mr. Weiss in delaware who initiated this investigation under the previous administration. Just generally, some offed the the suggestions that have been made in terms of investigation moving toward President Biden, has not aparently, we havent uncovered any evidence that that is currently being discussed in front of a grand jury in delaware or in that particular office. Do you have confidence, forget the larger question of the biden Justice Department, do you have confidence that mr. Weiss is doing a thorough job in his investigation . Mr. Somewhere dan thrk there shouldnt be politics anywhere. Should be driven by the fact, the law and the constitution. Weve had over 14 whistle employeers come talk to us an every single one said at the highest levels of the Justice Department here in d. C. , thats where the politics are involved. Thats where the political decisions are being made. We have a concern with that. Thats what were focused on. Reporter to quickly followup, do you have any reason to believe that maine justice is iatempting to influence the investigation . Mr. Jordan all we know is what they told us. Mr. Comer ill wrap it one this. Well all be available throughout the day for questions. I realize con gregal oversight doesnt have a lot of credibility in washington, i blame adam schiff for that. Were going to change that. Were not going to talk about anything unless we have evidence. Thats why i started out with, youre going to be presented with something you arent used to over the past four years, evidence. We believe this is of the us utmost important. Ive within watching the panels on cnn and everywhere, why are republicans investigating hunter biden . Why are we wasting time doing this . This is an investigation of owe biden. I think we laid out the evidence as to why we feel its important. Were going to move forward with that. Were going to do a lot of investigations. Were focused on waste, fraud and abuse. Theres no shortage of that in this federal government. Let me assure you of that. Thats going to be a priority of the committee. Every member of the committee will have priorities inner as theyre focused on in the next congress. Were going to try to restore credibility to congressional investigations and try to get the back os they have taxpayers. The taxpayers are the ones that have taken it on the chin. Katherine, ill end with you. Reporter what do you make of the fact that the u. S. Attorney in delaware has been investigating hunter biden and his financial activities for four years yet no charges have been brought . Mr. Comer ill say this and then jim can end. The more you look at hunter biden, the more bad things pop up. I dont know if thats the situation, if hes get regular cystance at the department of justice, from what ive heard theyre looking into tax evasion. Theres no question hes evaded taxes. Thats why hoe he got the hollywood lawyer to loan him 2 million to try to get caught up with the i. R. S. On his tax bill. At the end of the day, were focused on some things that i think every american needs to know. One thing ive learned from talking to a lot of you, i dont think a lot of people realize the evidence thats already out there. Pertaining to hundreder biden. I dont think anybody realized that joe biden is in fact involved in a lot of these. He was in fact involved in a lot of these. The goal for this press conference is to show you number one, this is an investigation of owe biden. Were focused on the bank records. Were very specifically focused on bank records and the bank violations. Bank violations. Remember congress used to have access to bank violations until joe biden changed the rule, which that should be a front page story above the fold. But thats odd hes he would change the rules to do that. And we laid out why we think its important so jim can follow up. 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I have enjoyed working with three president s achieving historic investments in clean energy with president george bush. [applause] Health Care Reform with president barack obama. [applause] and forging the future from infrastructure, health care, Climate Action with president joe biden. [applause] now we must move forward into the future, grounded by the principles that have propelled us this far and open to fresh possibilities for the future. Scripture teaches us for everything there is a season, a time for every purchase purpose. No matter what title my colleagues have bestowed upon me, speaker, leader, whip, caller she is a great person and she been saying it will be the leader. But i know indiscernible] the way she done it. I know one thing. Next couple of years, the republicans are going to turn around and they are going to be too busy. The democrats passed everything. Host we want to talk to you about your reaction to Speaker Pelosis announcement. On the republican line is terry from tennessee. Caller she might be a good woman but on the left foot, not a right and trying to satisfy the president and not doing anything good for the people and show that people can freeze to death due to natural gas. Thats another thing. She was a republican, she would be up on charges. I dont know how she has worked on this amount of money. Good afternoon, im here the to announce the appointment of a special counsel that