Today today on inside politics, Hunter In The House right now the president s son is facetoface with the republicans trying to impeach his father will bring you the latest from his crucial testimony, which could deliver a final blow to the gops fizzling impeachment investigation. Plus republicans are rushing to publicly say they support ivf. So why are they planning to block a senate bill two . Day that would protect the procedure so many need to start a family feud. The campaign ads and its a mustwin state for november, but michigans primary is exposing warnings signs for both joe biden and donald trump. This hour ill talk to a top Biden Campaign official about their plans to address the president s problems in this pivotal swingstate. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics we start today on capitol hill where this moment hunter biden is Behind Closed Doors testifying in front of the house, oversight and judiciary committees. The president s son says his deposition today should put an end to the gops Impeachment Inquiry in his Opening Statement, he had this message to republicans. He said, quote, for more than a year, your committees have hunted me in your partisan political person suit of my dad. You have trafficked and innuendo distortion and sensationalism all while ignoring the clear and convincing evidence staring you in the face. Cnns Melanie Zanona is live on capitol hill. Melanie hasnt going Behind Closed Doors. In your partisan political particular. Yeah. Well, were about two hours in to this deposition. And so far, hunter biden has not pleaded the fifth, according to Republican Nancy Mace he is sitting there answering questions as he is in the hot seat, but democrats emerge from the room moments ago on a break and they said that republicans are clearly on a baseless fishing the expedition they have not uncovered any evidence of high crimes or misdemeanors. And they said this is all a waste of time, especially with a looming Government Funding deadline on friday. Just take a listen. What we saw i think was a rather embarrassing spectacle where the republicans continued to belabor completely trivial points. They seem to be obsessively focused on speaker phones and use of speakerphone. I did not know that that was the devils technology, but apparently it is that first hour of this muchanticipated testimony was the nail in the coffin to what is a company . Complete, bogus and sham Impeachment Inquiry the white bring charged with lying to the fbi now, republicans have been eager to secure this testimony one of the thought for months to make it happen, they did ultimately agree on some terms that include a to release the transcript within potentially the next 24 hours. So as not to have any selective leaks they also are not videotaping this as they have with other witnesses and republicans really want to grill hunter biden about personally benefited financially from those overseas deals. But in his Opening Statement, dana, as you read, he made Crystal Clear that his father has not profited off of his sons foreign Business Deals and you really is just the latest in a parade of witnesses who have testified to just bask. In fact, an fbi agent was recently charged by the fbi for lying about a foreign bribery allegation. So this is really a makeorbreak moment for republicans potentially could go late into the night here though dana melanie thank you so much for that reporting. Lets talk more about this with my panel here. Cnns jeff zeleny, Leigh Ann Caldwell of the washington post, and cnns evan perez. Evan, i want to start with you because part of the reason the big reason why as dan goldman said, in a classic dan goldman soundbite, that this is the nail in the coffin of the Impeachment Inquiry is because the republicans were relying a lot on an fbi informant who has now been arrested because he allegedly lied to the fbi specific typically about the things that he said about the bidens, the doj informant made it all up. This is these are the allegations against this important. Hes still actively peddling new lies that in compacted that could impact us elections. He claimed that russian officials fed him information about hunter biden will look, i mean, this is the last gasp of this of this effort by the republicans, but we should be clear that they had really turned up very little to show for what theyve been pursuing. So even before the charges against the informant, alexander smirnov, the this was a petering out effort, right . It was an effort that was already having trouble because they had not, they, the republicans had promised a lot. They said that they were going to show evidence that joe biden directly benefited from his sons Business Activities in other countries. And they have not been able to do that. None of the witnesses have been able to substantiate that and so thats part of the problem is that, you know, now you have the one last part of this, which was this guy that was making this very big claim of a of bribes, 10 million in bribes. And now hes been charged by the fbi and hes gonna go to trial in april i just think we cannot underscore the main point of what you just said, evan enough, which is that there arent any facts that they have that they can back up with any evidence. Its all innuendo, rumor, political allegation at this point. Just one other example. The sort of very thin accusation that they had was that, oh, we have this, these checks that hunter biden and the president s brother, james wrote to the president and those are pieces of evidence that show that the president was involved in some scheme that were not really sure about. Paula reid was up on capitol hill this morning, asked james comer, the committee the chair about this. Listen to how that went down the bidens were talking about President Bidens specifically, what evidence do you have a prominent officers . We have two checks, joe biden received two payments. We found this through subpoenaed bank records to payments you pretty steps between to the cec end the steps are called moneylaundering thats what the steps are called except not know. Except not heres just one example of a fact check by our great daniel dale. Banking records, the one that hes referring to, one so hes referring to review by cnn, which comers committee possesses his own committee provide substantial evidence in support of the democrats assertions that there was indeed a 200,000 loan from joe biden to james biden, less than two months before the james biden loan repayment, jack to joe biden for the same amount thats just one example of fact checks that dont back up. These very, very serious allegations and all of this time and effort spent by these republicans on what looks like the wildest of goose chases. Republicans getting out in front of their skis might be the understatement of the year. This is something that once they gained the majority, they said that they were going to impeach joe biden in any way that they were able to do it and they have been trying to get there. Now remember number they took a vote to proceed with this Impeachment Inquiry, which was also controversial within the House Republicans are some more centrist republicans who didnt think it took a lot of persuading to get them here. But but democrats have been, or republicans have been unable, as we have, youve all said, very eloquently plea to connect any dots and find any sort of wrongdoing by the president. All that said, it does not mean that this still isnt a political problem for the administration because you cant put all of this sort of back in the bottle. I mean, this has been something that is has been a drip, drip, drip for months and years jurors and now suddenly to find out, oh, wait, not true. The political damage in some respects has been done. So we cant lose sight of that. But Going Forward here, this will be looked at as a chapter where congress clearly is following the lead of not a branch of government, but the fourth of state, you know, a partisan, partisan mean the former president and the former president , of course, talking all that. But i think the practical matter of this visavis it contributes to the president s lower approval rating. When you talk to voters and other things, they believed that he is complicit in this next fall so thats a problem, right and that is that is the point, right . And i think i think a lot of us something that weve been covering this weve heard from people close to republicans whove told them in, warned them that there was no there there. But they still pursued it because that is the point. The point it is sort of following the script of what the republicans did to Hillary Clinton with benghazi, right . There was nothing there, but they spent months digging her and damaging her. And in the end, chief its went on television, said, we kinda thats what we did. Yeah. And your point about not being able to put the genie back in the bottle. I mean, as much as we go on and give the facts and give the information and try to give the reality as much as we know it as we learn it. And said for months, if not longer, these are the republican claims. They have not give us, given us any evidence really to back it up. You cant change the echo chamber through which a lot of americans get their information and its hard to imagine unfortunately, that the tone and tenor is going to change much even though the facts arent on their side. And this is something, you know, a hunter biden gave this Opening Statement that we read part of Behind Closed Doors today, but he actually in a rare interview with Axios On Monday said the following, which really struck us. He said, ive always been an off people who have stayed clean and sober through tragedies and obstacles. Few people ever face. I have something much bigger than even myself at stake. We are in the middle of a Fight For The Future of democracy this is kind of more of the Human Element of what were talking about here is very personal. He is very open about the fact that he is an addict. He was very much off the wagon when a lot of this happened. And part of what he is trying to do, hes saying here is stay clean for her spot for himself, for his family, for his father, and he believes for politics, which is democracy, yeah, and hes also insinuating there that he knows that this is also inherently political as well donald trump, every Single Campaign stump speech he gives the words come out of his mouth joe biden, the most corrupt president in history. And so this is part of the strategy of trying to convince but voters that that is true. You dont look, i think with hunter biden and one of the key parts of this Husband Jail Biden and her role in trying to keep hunter close . And you, see all these stories about why is hunter showing up at these events at the white house . Why isnt the president pushing him away . I think part of the thing has been about this very personal familial tragedy that theyve been living, which is to try to keep him sobering, to keep them safe. And thats, one reason why you see him there. They keep him close for that reason and you could see what hes saying in return, which is theyre going after me because they are trying to make me use so that they could hurt my father. And that is a crazy thing to have to hear in 2024, politics yeah. And in 2024, society, when we are much more aware of addiction, everybody standby. Donald trump has asked a new York Appeals Court to delay the requirement that he quickly cough up 454 million in his civil fraud case. Its the latest step the former president is taken to avoid paying that massive panel and ill tell you, cnns Kara Scannell joins me now. Kara, whats trumps goal and asking for this delay, does he think that its possible he can get away with not paying it. And is well hes well, dana, hes trying to buy time here because the clock is ticking on when he has to put up money or, you know, either cash or in the form of a bond in order to prevent the new York AttorneyGenerals Office from trying to move forward to enforce the judgment. And one way they could do that is to try to see some of the properties. Now he could stop that if he post the bond right now, but hes asking the judges more more time to come up with the money and thats really what this is at issue here. The new York AttorneyGenerals Office is opposing it. They just filed a letter in this case im asking the Appeals Court to deny it, but theres likely to be some briefing on this matter over the next couple of weeks. This is all happening though as trump is facing more than half 1 billion that he has to put up between the new York Attorney generals case and the Defamation Case involving e. Jean carroll in that case, a jury awarded carroll 80 3. 3 million. Trumps clock is ticking on that. He asked the judge overseeing that case on friday to delay enforcement of that bond as well. So hes having to come up with a lot of money now hes asking different courts to give him more time to do so. Well wait to see what these judges say kara thank. You so much for that reporting. Appreciate it and coming up, President Biden and former President Trump may have won michigan, but theyre facing pretty big Warning Signs with the results there. What does it all mean for november will tell you after a quick break the whole story with anderson cooper, Sunday On Scene Everybody wants super straight, super white teeth. 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