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obviously, he's going through a serious process and he will deal with that as a civilian but at the end of the day this is about what president biden, what he's doing, and his vision for the country and this is all a political sham to essentially hurt president biden and try to reelect donald trump. and they have in fact said as much, marjorie taylor greene has said as much, we've got to be honest about what's actually happening today. and what the american public wants is transparency. what's more transparent than having hunter biden actually ask questions in front and answering questions of both republicans and democrats. >> to that point, republicans are pointing to these messages allegedly sent by hunter biden about chinese businesses and he mentioned specifically in an email, a 10% cut for the big guy. do you believe the big guy is joe biden, shouldn't that be investigated? >> first of all, the judicial process moving forward, absolutely not.
the pentagon to release a statement on the secretary of defense, lloyd austin, and his hospitalization and the pentagon is still facing questions about why it took so long to inform the white house and other security leaders that the defense secretary had been taken to the hospital in an ambulance. >> oren, tell us what is happening at this point? what is the pentagon doing to make sure this doesn't happen again? >> reporter: the key effort there is to make sure that this 30 day review of notification procedures is moving forward, that was ordered by the defense secretary's chief of staff to make sure this doesn't happen again. a situation where austin is in the hospital for an extended period of time, he was under general anesthesia when he came in and though there had been a delegation of responsibilities, no one knew that he was under general anesthesia, it seems and it took days the second time when he went back on new year's day, for others to find out, including president biden. and we also learned from
contempt of congress for not complying with a subpoena to sit for a closed-door deposition last month. a vote before the full house could happen as soon as next week. >> but today the scene in the corridor as biden walked to the scene was close to chaos. it was just a preview of what unfolded when he sat down before the committee. lawmakers squabbling with each other as hunters sat down quietly and silent before then. and moments after it began, it was over, as republican marjorie taylor greene started to speak. the younger biden stood up and walked out, without a word. his lawyer then spoke to reporters after. >> they are commandeering an unprecedented resolution to hold someone in contempt who has offered to publicly answer all of their questions. the question there, is, what are they afraid of? >> let's get the latest from capitol hill reporter melanie, we also have legal analyst and federal prosecutor jennifer rogers to discuss. do we know what led to hunter biden appearing today, why that
let's be clear once again, republicans have produced zero evidence linking the president to any wrongdoing. and in fact, republicans, over and over and over again, in the house, outside the house, across the country, are saying themselves that there's no evidence, so the one thing there is bipartisan agreement on is that there is no evidence linking the president to any sort of business dealing or wrongdoing. but hunter biden is going through his own judicial process and that's when the information will come out. but republicans are more interested in these clowns show political stunts. they do it every day. we are facing a government shutdown over the course of the next week. >> lastly, the efforts not only to impeach biden but key members of his administration including secretary mayorkas over the record number of migrant encounters that we saw in december, do you believe that mayorkas has been
derelict in his duties to protect the southern border? >> this is ridiculous. again, who's leading the effort? marjorie taylor greene, so you can go back to marjorie taylor greene, essentially being the leader of both of these sham impeachment efforts. here's the reality, the real issues along the border, the president recognizes this and democrats understand this. we want to send more resources to border patrol agents that need it. we want technology along the border. we want to help the nonprofits that are working along the border but you know who rejects every single one of those republicans -- proposals? the republicans. the president has proposed millions of dollars to help the borders, that's been rejected by the republicans because we actually don't want solutions on the border. they want to turn into a political talking point for donald trump and we are happy to have a debate on the border. we want to have that debate. we propose funding but they are not interested in any of this. this impeachment idea is a
president trump because they refused to even negotiate at all. when you're looking at the criminal standard, it's not quite well congress gets to have it the way they want it and if you don't comply with their demands, you potentially go to prison. it's a different standard. if you negotiate at all in good faith, at least that's how doj has considered it in the past, then you will not be criminally charged. there is no basis under the set of facts, for hunter biden to be charged. but i think doj will, as they always do, take a referral from congress and give it some thought at least, before coming forward with their decision. >> i think it was peter navarro you were speaking about. i just wanted to google it before i said. >> sorry. >> no. it was peter navarro. >> thank you for your perspective. let's expand the conversation with someone who was in that hearing, joining us is california democratic congressman robert garcia, he's a member of the homeland security committing. obviously there are proceedings in place that prevent hunter biden from doing a hearing then
decision? >> reporter: the strategy from biden was likely a mix of pr reasons and also legal reasons. hunter and his legal team have been trying to make the point for several months that he is willing to show up and publicly testify for republicans under oath, i might add, and he just doesn't want to sit for a closed your deposition but republicans have pushed back and they say this is not how congressional subpoenas work. he does not get to dictate the terms of his appearance, although several republicans have defied subpoenas in the past. so this showdown really has been brewing for months between republicans and hunter biden, the president son but it really came to a head today when that
determine whether to prosecute the president son. they are already looking into hunter biden over other charges but no doubt, just a remarkable moment here on capitol hill, as republicans pursue their impeachment inquiry into joe biden. >> just when you think you've seen it all. the house also began its first hearing on whether to impeach homeland security secretary mayorkas over his handling of the border crisis, what is happening there? >> so this comes as the impeachment inquiry has really struggled, republicans have failed to come up with a definitive link between president joe biden and his sons foreign business deals and as the search of migrants across the border has become such a big issue, they are prioritizing impeaching mayorkas . i talked to mark green, he's the chairman of the committee and he said it's the first hearing and so far it's a rehash of an investigation that he had been conducting. but mayorkas was not at this
officials that when he went in, after he had been in for several days, and word started getting out for example, the president only found out after he had been there for three days that the national security advisor and the white house chief of staff urged the pentagon to make a public disclosure. it would still take another 24 hours for that statement to come out late on a friday evening. meanwhile the pentagon pushing on that, he said on the afternoon of january fourth, the chief of staff immediately engaged, drafting of a public statement. this was part of a coordinate effort that involved multiple stakeholders to include the white house. the problems will continue to come to light. it's obvious what a problem this was in terms of the failure of notification and on top of that, nobody knew that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer in early december until effectively, yesterday.
on his very first day in office, so this is her impeachment fantasy, this is donald trump's impeachment fantasy come to life, where they are upset to do whatever they can to ensure that they stop president biden and try and have this revenge fantasy of donald trump and marjorie taylor greene. so we are hoping to having the sunshine in and the hearing but they rejected it once again today. >> republicans argue that hunters testimony would help prove wrongdoing by president biden which the white house has denied. i want to be clear about this. republicans have not shared any direct evidence that joe biden profited off of these business dealings when he was in office. they do, however, point to witness testimony that hunter sought to enrich himself based on axis or the illusion of access to his father. can you say with 100% certainty that joe biden wasn't aware that hunter was doing that? >> absolutely, i mean there is zero evidence linking president biden to any sort of wrongdoing. hunter biden is going through a judicial process right now.