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Allowed to say no, im not going to come in and explain myself to congress. paul: is it a good idea to hold hunter in contempt? if you get criminal contempt citation, it is referred to the justice department, its not going to indict hunter biden for that so why go through the motions? >> that is what made it so, the circus hunter biden is creating is not helping his father in terms of the impeachment inquiry. it is not helping in terms of reelection, donald trump is going to run with this ball fr...

To soothe trumps fragile ego by trying with no evidence, mind you, to make president biden even steven with trump on impeachment. on wednesday, two house committees passed resolutions recommending contempt of gres charges against the presidents son, hunter biden. even though hunter biden was very much present for one of those hearings, yesterday. where democrats called out republicans for their lies. >> the witness accepted the chairmans invitation. it just so happens the witness is here. lets t...

David jolly, who served in congress as a republican before leaving the party. i still cannot figure out why, why hes no longer associated with the party. i dont even know where to begin. ill start with you, mtk. how do you hold someone in contempt for violating a subpoena when theyre literally sitting right there? >> i think they were surprised and they said wait a second, hes still there, but i had my talking points. they cant work off the cuff, which is clear, so they werent actually able to a...

Held in contempt. thats what happened to me and any other lawyers happening in courts and it was not done. >> obviously its very clear the campaign is bleeding into trumps legal troubles. him being there today its not just about the campaign. this is also something personal to him because this is his entire, his brand, everything hes kind of made himself of that is at stake here. >> its in his money or the appearance of his money because a lot of it is smoke and mirrors. to donald this is much m...

What are you afraid of? you have no to come up here. >> i think that then hunter biden should be arrested right here, right now. >> and go straight to jail. time to expire. recognize miss greene from georgia for that. >> thank you, mr. chairman. excuse me. hunter, apparently youre afraid of my word. >> why? oh, well, entertaining, if you want to call it that, to committees ultimately did vote to hold hunter biden in contempt, sending the measure to the full house for an upcoming vote. if passed,...

I that showing up yesterday during the middle of this proceeding. but they just they just they have to have a feeling of confidence that theyre not going to be held to the same standard. i dont have any confidence that theyre going to be held to the same standard. but as we look at that, that to the two tiered system of justice, my question to you is, why shouldnt hunter be that be treated the same way as bannon and navarro? >> shawn hunter should be treated exactly the same. >> whenever steve b...

Jasmine crockett of texas, shes a member of the house oversight committee. congresswoman, thank you for being here tonight. i have to tell, you i have never seen someone so triggering to members of the house as hunter biden was yesterday when he appeared, oh my god, that was shocking. >> yes it was shocking for all, of us but definitely the other side of the aisle lost it. they did not know what to do. we were having a markup on the fact that hunter wont show, up and hunter showed, up and then t...

Theyd step aside or make way for more competent candidate in 2024 for the democrats. here with reaction, chairman of the house judiciary committee jim jordan, house oversight committee chairman. thats james coleman, chairman of the house ways and means committee. jason smith, good to see you all. jim jordan, let me start with you. lets start with the letter to christopher wray and then well talk about the contempt. >> yeah, theres an underlying 1023 form, sean that was that was earlier back in 2...

Before the dnc convention. what are you hearing about the concerns from democrats in regards to that timeline? >> well, of course we keep hearing that much of this years election may be decided in courtrooms instead of the campaign trail because there are so many legal issues involving potentially what we could end up being both sides of the ticket. for hunter biden for that trial date to hit in june, the optics will be tough. the white house keeps saying he is a private citizen. he makes his ow...

Do this thing and get the information we wanted all along, and your client is going to have to give us answers either under oath or in a hearing, whether they do behind the scenes first, normally what you do with the witness, a deposition kind of thing. and who calls whose bluff. one thing i dont think its going to do is head off the contempt. likely to happen next wednesday. >> sandra: im curious, shannon, well pop up real clear politics average in iowa, trump polling 53%, haley at 17.8. desant...