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CNNW CNN July 3, 2024

Off the House Republican hearing into their newly launched hearing into President Biden as congress is sprinting into a Government Shutdown even as some republicans are speaking out against the inquiry, and where is the evidence . And so with the Republican Debate, who won . Did anything happen to change the race . We have brandnew answers to the question. And a Senate Approved bipartisan bill was d. O. A. In a republicanled house, and what is the economic fallout. We are following this. Im sara sidner with john berman and kate bolduan. This is cnn news central. Any moment now, the House Republicans are getting ready to launch into an effort that some republicans are calling essential, and some republicans are calling it relying on the imagined history, and the first step of the Impeachment Inquiry. So for months they have been relying and the hunter biden Business Dealings, and finding ties that President Biden benefitted from the deals, but they have not released any evidence of that so far. This is coming as congress has just two days to negotiate a deal and avert a Government Shutdown. We are joined by cnns sara murray and jeremy diamond. And sara, i will start with you, and what are we expected to start with the hearing . We will not expect new facts, and we will see, and i could be surprised, but they are going to set out the basis of the Impeachment Framework and they gave out a framework last night of what the parameters of the Impeachment Parameters are, and it is four questions. The first three pertain to the notion of whether joe biden provided access or whether he provided perception of access and whether he took any official action because of the foreign interests or foreign money related to hunter biden, other member of his family and then the last question there is whether joe biden ever intervened at all in the ongoing criminal investigations into hunter biden, and as you pointed out, these are not new questions for the republicans to ask. James comer who is the chairman of Oversight Committee since the republicans got control of the gavel, and he has not been able to prove that he received any evidence, and some say that this impeachment will allow them to get more documents and information to better answer the questions, but you will see the democrats hammering the republicans over focusing on this Impeachment Inquiry rather than the impending shutdown. Jeremy, how is the white house talking about this, and they are clearly dismissing it, but what is the response to this Impeachment Push right now . Well, they see a few different opportunities here with the Impeachment Hearing, and that is first of all they believe that the republicans are going to get ahead of the skis, and they are going to go too far and face the political blowback, because they believe that the American Public will see this as a bipartisan process and not something to yield any kind of substantive incriminating evidence against the president. They see it as an opportunity to draw a stark contrast of what the House Republicans are focused on and what the the Oversight Committee james comber is going to gavel in and what he says. This is rashid tlaib to the committee, and Congresswoman Tlaib has been a member of the house [ applause ] Congresswoman Tlaib has been a member of the house in 2019 and before that served in the house of michigan, and she is a familiar face in the committee and spent the first two terms in the Oversight Committee and she replaces Congresswoman Mallet of vermont, and i want to welcome back Congresswoman Tlaib, and i ask Congressman Raskin to welcome back tlaib. I would like to thank the congressman for welcoming back rashid tlaib, and thank you favored congresswoman from michigan. And welcome back. I would like to ask jason smith to be waived on the committee for purposes of asking questions. Without objections, so ordered. Mr. Chairman, i ask unanimous consent that the congressman from Iowa Glenn Ivy be admitted to ask questions. So admitted. Since our taking over as the majority, we have been looking into how President Joe Biden has been looking into taking his oversight into and participation into the corrupt business seems, and he has been lying to the American People that he never spoke to the family about his Business Dealings and he lied to the American People about the absolute wall between his official government duties and the personal life. Lets be clear, there was no wall. The door was wide open to those who purchased what a Business Associate described as the biden brand. Evidence reveals that then joe biden developed and dine and developed familys business foreign targets including oligarchs what sent gifts to his family and his son. He also lied to the American People about his family making money in china. He continued to lie about it even when the house Oversight Committee uncovered bank wires how the bidens received millions from the Chinese Company with significant ties to chinese intelligence and the Chinese Communist party. This week, we uncovered two more wires from hunter biden that originated in beijing from the chinese nationals. This happened when joe biden was running for president of the United States and joe bidens home is listed as the beneficiary address. To date, the house Oversight Committee has uncovered how the biden and associates created over 20 Shell Companies created when joe biden was Vice President and raked in over 20 million between 2014 and 2019. We have also identified nine biden Family Members who have participated in or benefited from these shady business schemes. Now, what were the Bidens Selling to make all of this money . Joe biden himself, joe biden. He is brand. H showed up two dozen times with Business Associates signaling access, influence and power for those prepared to pay for it. The American People demand accountability for the Culture Of Corruption and demand the know how the schemes have compromised President Biden and threaten the national security. They demand the safeguards to be put in place to prevent the Public Officials to sell their Public Office for private gain. Under the leadership of speaker Kevin Mccarthy they have now opened up a Impeachment Inquiry into joe biden. By open up the Impeachment Inquiry, it is whether or not President Joe Biden has committed impeachment offenses, and it requires the Oversight Committee to provide the transparency and accountability that the American People demand and deserve. In recent history, the democrats inflicted much damage on the congressional investigations by peddling the russian hoax. But we will not be having such witch hunts under innuendos and nonevidence. Today, we have emails, Text Messages and bank records of biden associates. We will hear from the legal and Financial Experts about this evidence of crimes as joe biden was sold around the world. The house Oversight Committee with the judiciary and Ways And Means will continue to follow the money and the evidence to provide accountability so that americans know that their Public Offices are not for sale. I now yield to jason smith, the chairman of the house and ways and Means Committee for his opening statement. Thank you, Chairman Comer. Yesterday the house ways and Means Committee released documents. And so now you are hearing from the different chairs about this. When we hear from Ranking Member james raskin, we will hear from him as we heard from the chair james comer. I want to bring in elie honig, and counselor, i want to establish since it is an Impeachment Inquiry and not talking about the law. Impeachment as we have learned in the last two years, it is what congress decides is a high crime and misdemeanor, and i will ask you a legal question here. What the committee is trying do, and the republicans on the committee is to suggest that as james comer said at the outset, There Is A Mountain of evidence that joe biden abused the Public Office for financial gain, and what evidence or they have or would they need to produce to produce a case, and elie they would have than the trump hotel a block down the block when President Trump was in the office and travel to the hotel and talk about how nice it was, and where is the line . That is the same question i would pose. The same Quote Mountain of evidence, and thousands of documents and bank records and emails and photographs, and good. A hearing and dont rely on sleight of evidence if there is a connection of joe biden and the dealings of his son hunter biden, lets see it. They have been investigating this for months and now a hearing, and this is the time and the place. They say they have the documents, and another thing, john, there is a little bit of the Sleight Of Hand in the way that Representative Comer was talking about this. He said and i wrote it down that many knee was sent to the family to, the son, to bidens, and to the buy zenidens and the associ and that is where this bridge exist, and they have not bridged the millions of dollars that hunter biden made from foreign entities and any connection financially or connection directly, and if they have that connection, good. Lets see it. And one specific reference Chairman Comer said was to the wires revealed overnight, and number of documents put out overnight, but they were to hunter biden who was living at his residence and made during the time when biden was out of office, and comer said distinctly running for president , and he had between the time of Vice President and president of the United States, and four years if this were a court of law, the laws would apply differently. Yes, so first of all the use of that residence, joe bidens residence as an address for some of the address, there is context the, because hunter biden would use that address frequently, and at times, he was living there, and we are spect to any transfers and bank records that may have come through, okay, lets see, any transfer of a substantial amount of money from hunter biden over to a account that belongs to joe biden, and that is one of the big questions, and the important question of timing. When was joe biden doing any of these actions that we have heard about . Was it during the Vice Presidency or during the years of between the Vice President and presidency and there is a bit of the constitutional question of whether a person can be impeached for something they did before they were in officesh and we will be hearing from some of the constitutional scholars about the differing views of that question, and professor c turley will say yes, and then another attorney would say, no, you can only be impeached for something in office. Stick with us, elie, and jim jordan is speaking, and we will be heading back in for a second, and hear from jamie raskin, the top democrat in the committee, and yes, there could be there are legal questions they are going to pose, and mountains of evidence that james comer says that i will put out, but at the core, this is a political investigation, and do you see if it begins like this, they have launched an Impeachment Inquiry that launches anything towards impeachment of President Biden. There is a heavy lift on not just the oversight, but the Ways And Means to convince the more moderate republican colleagues that there is enough to actually move for a full impeachment. There are moderate republicans who are aware that despite what james comer says in the hearings and the political bombast that they dont have the goods to back up what they are saying. They dont have this smoking gun at this Point Showing that joe biden somehow benefitted from Hunter Bidens Business Dealing Showing that he was involved in the hunter biden criminal prosecution, and all parts of the white house has been denying. So there an evidence barrier that they need to get over, and again, this is james comers baby since he got the gavel on house oversight, and he has been digging, and digging and for some type of evidence that joe biden has been personally benefited, and he has not been able to find it, and we will see if they find it now that they have been more bullish to go directly at the biden family the try to get their bank records rather than going in circles around them, and going to Business Associates and that kind of thing, but again, this first hearing is not about fact witnesses to speak directly to what hunter biden is doing or the finances, but these are sort of the expert witnesses and a legal expert and tax expert and Forensic Accountant who says this transaction is suspicious and that hunter biden plea deal should have never gone forward, but these are not the people doing business with hunter biden and can speak directly to what was going on at that time. Thank you so much, sara. Stay there, and we will come back to you as we are watching this continuing, and jim jordan is still talking. Manu, this Impeachment Hearing is happening, and no vote, because Speaker Mccarthy went forward and announced it, but he is doing it, because he thought that it would help him to get a deal to help him stop a Government Shutdown and how is that seen on the hill . It is about the fact that he didnt have the votes to launch the Impeachment Inquiry, and daysan noan the announcement, and he said if there is a Impeachment Inquiry, there would be a vote in the house, and that didnt happen. Okay. Jamie raskins is going to speak now, the top democrat. And engaging in personalities towards president. At ease. Well, considering this is an investigation of joe biden, i assume his name is going to be coming up. The house is not authorizing an Impeachment Inquiry, and with the rules, and saying that the president lied is engaging in personality, and in fact, section 370 says that accusations that the president has committed a crime or that the president has done something illegally is unparliamentary, and acting with the general rules of the house, and it is not authorized. The speaker of the house has authorized the impeachment, and it is authorized. Point of parliamentary inquiry. Does the Ranking Member. One moment when we are done, speaker ocasio cortez. The rules of the committee the chair overrules the point of order, while the Impeachment Rules are not before the committee, and given the rules, those words will not be ruled out of order. So, we have an obvious disagreement there. So we are 62 hours away from the shutting down of the government of the United States, and the republicans are launching an inquiry to impeach the president of the United States, and you

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