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Of your republican colleagues reaction to hunter bidens surprise appearance? >> well, thank you, anderson. thanks for having me. no, they did not expect for that to happen. theyre not used to aggressive strategy. and so, look, when hunter walked in, the chairmans face turned white. they clearly didnt know how to deal with it. they want to throw hunter in a basement, take his deposition and go out and lie to the american people about what hunter said and never release the transcript. but the prob...

Reporter annie graham. so, annie, hunter bidens lawyers said they dont want to do the private testimony behind closed doors as is normally done. they want to do public testimony, they say, because they say house republicans will leak damaging quotes out of context and that just wouldnt be fair. republican chairman comer said they would never do such a thing. whats the reality? >> the reality, jake, is that comers policy of what transcripts he releases and what he holds on to is not consistent. o...

Jim jordan and his transcript is now public. so what is the actual rationale for not releasing the remaining ones? and then the other one is they consistently misrepresent what the witnesses say, excuse me in their closed head of door depositions. they did it with devin archer and the media and the public has been able to see how much they lieded and misled the american public about what devin archer said and hunter bidens point is i dont want you to con toll or what you release what i said. i -...

Closed doors and how that information could potentially be manipulated. >> you referred to leaks and statements and i assume thats going to right-wing mead dia. who did they go to? who did they leak to? >> the statements are made generally to a lot of the press, but the bigger issue is that comers going on air and talking about these interviews without the press getting a chance to look at, the full transcript. look, comb are said hes going to release all of these transcripts and there is preced...

Seem to be making including in their closing arguments goes to the merits of whether or not there was fraud, which is already a done deal. this is about the consequences, this is about the penalties, and so the former president being able to have a opportunity to say something is obviously in his interest politically, which is about all he can get out of this at this point. >> one of the things that strikes me about that, in this regard, gloria, is a contrast from what we saw last night during t...

Her entire family. they were in our thoughts there in our prayers. and we know, by the way, as we talk about these things, its -- its been. a lot of people have speculated while melania trumps not been out in public a lot, shes been taking care of her mom. also tonight, back to the news. final documents from the ongoing jeffrey epstein files were released. they were made public today and even more references to high profile individuals, including, once again, former president bill clinton and on...

Because he could be arrested and prosecuted by the department of justice, and he added, doj knows what to do with a person like him. and so i believe it was judge pan who highlighted the inconsistency between that and what john sauer was arguing that only if he were impeached and convicted in the senate trial would doj be permitted to prosecute him for the crimes he committed in office. and basically all john sauer said after mumbling a latin phrase, was, i didnt say that. that was another lawye...

Long it takes" to "whatever it takes." so im hoping to be in dc next week. im hoping to travel with seven other chairs of foreign affairs committees from across europe. and we are going to make the case to our american counterparts that, yes, there of course are difficult conversations to be had domestically, but the amounts of gdp that the us is committing to support ukraine is nowhere near as much as countries like lithuania are using, countries like estonia... but do you seriously think ameri...

So i think you have to be concerned about that at all points. for me, its about moving away from the language of "however long it takes" to "whatever it takes." so im hoping to be in dc next week. im hoping to travel with seven other chairs of foreign affairs committees from across europe. and we are going to make the case to our american counterparts that, yes, there of course are difficult conversations to be had domestically, but the amounts of gdp that the us is committing to support ukraine...

"whatever it takes." so im hoping to be in dc next week. im hoping to travel with seven other chairs of foreign affairs committees from across europe. and we are going to make the case to our american counterparts that, yes, there of course are difficult conversations to be had domestically, but the amounts of gdp that the us is committing to support ukraine is nowhere near as much as countries like lithuania are using, countries like estonia... but do you seriously think american politicians, p...