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Sat down with a House Oversight committee. Devin averager made it to capitol hill yesterday where he talked with lawmakers over four hours about his experiences with hunter biden, both men served over the board of the Ukrainian Energy company. Archer claimed talked about building his familys global. Here is what we know. Archer says hunter repeatedly put his dad on Speaker Phone when he was out with clients, he witnessed that more than 20 times over the course of a decade. And the calls helped t...

Done yet. >> i think youre right. i think theres something moving there. during yesterdays testimony of vindman republicans blamed intel chairman adimschiff for blocking them from asking certain questions that schiff says was their attempt to identify the whistle-blower. republican congressman gym jordan refuted that charge calling schiff too sensitive. thats a cute line. while at the same time demanding to learn the whistle-blowers identity. >> it seems interesting to me that chairman schiff is...

But right now we have a good relationship and i think probably better than weve had for many 25 years, maybe forever. you know, theyve been there a long time. the grandfather, the father, the son, and theyve been there for a long time and nobody has done anything except me. and so well see how it all turns out. i hope it turns out well for you and for everybody. >> and ill give my follow-up to jeff very quickly. president duda, thank you, do you see russia as an ally or adversary. >> are you tal...

Have a good relationship and i think probably better than weve had in 25 years, maybe forever. theyve been there a long time. the father, grandfather, son. theyve been there a long time and nobodys done anything except me. so well see how it all turns out. i hope it turns out well for you and for everybody. >> ill give my follow-up to jess. do you see russia as an ally or adversary? >> are you talking to me? >> president duda. >> was that a setup question. >> translator: i would very much like r...

I will be very quick to tell you exactly whats going on. i may change. right now we have a good relationship and i think better than maybe 25 years, maybe forever. theyve been there the long time, the grandfather, the father, the son. and theyve been there for a long time. nobody has done anything except me. well see how it all turns out. i hope it turns out well for you and everybody. >> ill give my follow-up to jeff very quickly, president duda, thank you. do you see yourself as a -- >> are yo...

Pot stirrer and shes not doing anything positive there. so ryan can -- >> but at a government level and people who would actually want to come in. i wasnt even asking if they were friends, just people who could do these jobs. >> you understand the point i was making. the question was a setup to try to knock the president on the issue of race -- >> why is every hard question a setup. im going to ask you, jason, senior african-americans in the white house, why arent there any? is that a setup ques...

Message. where does that land on the statesman like scale? you have one where he accuses south korea of appeasement with north korea and another one saying were going to stop threatening to stop and considering to stop all trade with any country doing business with north korea. that, of course, is china. what does this do to the conversation? >> thats a setup question. the lack of statesmanship about it president of the united states is a major destabilizing factor in world affairs. >> do his wo...

That they were potentially opportunistic. that said, look, a lot of my friends were trump supporters, not enthusiastically, but they were. and i understood the calculation that they made. i just disagreed with it. >> i just, i was using that kind of as a setup question to the next question. which is, what is one to do if one was a consistent never-trumper throughout the entirety, all the way up to election day, and now youre confronted with -- and this is you, basically. youre now confronted wit...

Of the united states. i just wonder what kind of question that is. i mean are they supposed to say im not comfortable with that? i mean -- >> exactly. >> this is a setup question perry. what are you supposed to say, no, im a man of yesterday. i dont like women and i dont want them in the white house. who is going to say that? go ahead. say that. its like one of the questions do you want a black president, hispanic president, female president? some people in the electorate arent for that but they...

>> a well-phrased sort of flirtatious setup question there. and senator warren sounded a little different than earlier sound we played. take a listen to an answer she gave which sounded a little more open to running and winning. >> so what do you think? >> you know, i do believe in us. and i believe in us on days like this. on a morning where a whole lot of people come together to talk about ideas, to talk about two books. because what were talking about in here is were talking about economics. ...