she s still 20 points behind in new hampshire. i talked to desantis called me petrified that i would well, there you go. the christie campaign has not responded to request for comment. desantis told cnn yesterday that he called christie after hearing rumors he was going to drop out. desantis says he agrees with his thoughts on haley saying part of the reason haley stayed in the race is because she keeps dodging questions whether he would be the running mate. he agrees haley is, quote, going to get smoked. both the biden and trump campaigns gleefully share the audio. while christie was never a real contender in iowa, there are still three candidates vying for victory there.
all right. that s it. hunter biden has just appeared for a closed an open hearing at the house oversight committee. this is where, again, they re marking up proceedings to hold him in contempt of congress. we ll see what he has to say, if republicans are going to let him actually speak in the hearing. he said time and time again that he would speak publicly and that he does not want to appear for a closed door deposition. so that s where we re at right now, guys. that was fascinating. you were in the right place at the right time asking the right questions. melanie, did anyone on that committee expect him to show up? as we re watching this, we all just found out about it just now. is this the same thing with the committee? reporter: well, in the moments leading up to the hearing we were hearing from republican and democratic members who were saying that they were hearing rumors that hunter biden might show up. again, my colleague annie greher confirmed with her sources. there wer
cases. once the courts had reviewed those and the states certify them i wanted to make sure that we were operating on january 6th in a way that was consistent with the constitution, consistent with the laws of the country. that s the reason i sat down with the parliament and looked through the process. i was determined to hear the objections that republicans were planning to bring, chuck. and many did bring. you remember democrats brought objections to electoral votes in the last three elections that the republicans prevailed with. under the law. i asked the parliamentarian very directly, chuck. i asked her because i was hearing rumors. i was reading in the newspaper that there were alternate electors. was anybody in the white house telling you this? she said there was not. i don t recall that. i just remember hearing it. i wanted a definitive answer whether or not the polymer
harkins back to the military to the stalin era, but you have nobody nose and the fact that he hasn t come out other than house statement early on during this chaos is, yes, very revealing. and then, of course, this whole network with other general that we re hearing rumors we have to be careful to parse out this information here, but what is of concern is things are really awry, which translates into a society and i think has rocked the kremlin. you mentioned that distrust. how big of an opportunity is this for western allies of ukraine and ukraine to exploit
into an actual war zone, then you shouldn t vote for them again. jesse: i have to interrupt you here because we have a fox news alert. donald trump says on truth social that he has been indicted, quote: the corrupt biden administration has informed my attorneys that i have been indicted. seemingly over the boxes hoax. even though joe biden has 1850 boxes at the university of delaware, additional boxes in chinatown, d.c., with even more boxes at the university of pennsylvania, and documents strewn all over his garage floor where he parks his corvette. and which is secured by only a garage door that is paper thin and open much of the time. now, fox news has not confirmed this but we are just reporting on what donald trump just posted on truth social. let s bring in charlie hurt, fox news contributor. so, charlie, we were hearing rumors that this was going to happen. the president, former, calls it