The house will come back to order and we will resume the 5minute question and answer period. Chair now mr. Chairman, i would like to ask unanimous consent to enter into the record statement from secretary bilsack stating that the wic program which is federally funded program administered by the states will expire for 7 million moms and children if the Government Shutdowns. Without objection, so order. The chair now recognizes mr. Fallon from texas for 5 minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Words mean thing or at least they should. Here is joe bidens words from august 28, 2019. First of all, i have never discussed with my son or my brother anything to do with their business from september the same year, i have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings. Same year, i dont discuss business with my son. Were joe bidens words true . No, they were false. Why did he lie repeatedly . In an interview with the new yorker even hunter admitted that he talked to his dad about business specifically barisma, many Business Associates have testified that joe biden met with him two of the ones closer to hunter were among them. They not only spoke to them they took a lot of the Business Associates took photos with them. They played golf with him. Joe biden gave him white house tours and wrote letters of recommendations for their children and shared fancy dinners as well. Lets talk about patterns, they are russian, they were married. Russian oligarch billionaires, michael, u. S. Ambassador to russia, elanna, wires 3. 5 million to hunter biden. Who does she have dinner with, then Vice President joe biden. Very next day hunter biden buys a porshe, who does he have dinner with, then Vice President joe biden. The ceo and cfo of barisma, u. S. Ambassador to ukraine, a poster child of corruption. Those two fellows paid hunter biden Shell Company total of 3. 3 million and who do you think that he had dinner with me. Sayu with me at all once, then Vice President joe biden. Here is a pattern. Crooked foreigners that delivered cash and had dinner with joe. Joe biden is hell of an expensive dinner date. If thats not selling political access, i dont know what is. My democrat colleagues report add nauseam theres no evidence linking to sons crime. Really . Used by the fbi when confidential informants give them information. 1023 is only as good as the source. It can be garbage and gold. The fbi describes this source as somebody that is highly reliable and trust worthy. They workd with them for over a decade. What hes given to them is checked out. Re this, ladies and gentlemen, is gold. Ivan is not his real name. Directly admitted to hem that they hired a not so smart hunter biden to protect us, quote, through his dad from all kinds of problems and ivan speaks to ceo and confides that hunter biden will take care of those corruption issues through his dad. Joe biden calls shulkins removal. This is direct evidencef naked rruption andribery. Admitted to ivan that both pushed them to pay and keep hunter biden on the brd keep in mind they are confid conversations. And i doubt he knows tony bobulinski. Shelkin sees two homes, land and rollsroyce. When he was fired ukrainian president admitted in a phone call to none other than joe biden that joking he didnt do anything wrong but on your behalf we fired him and billion dollars of aid was given to ukraine. Hunter biden andnd the other members of the barisma board wrote a letter to the new themessage was sent and the s dedelivered. Mr. Dabinsky, you follow the money. If you were investigating this and looking at 5 milliondollar payment from barisma to joe biden, what kind of patterns would you be looking for . I would want to know, who, when and why, whats the substance behind it and talk to people, look at documents and talk tod people. Thats what weit do in investigations. I would venture to say everybody in this chamber if they were the ceo of a company and they saw money moving like that within their own company, theyd want to get to the truth and why is somebody paying that money out. Those are the questions that need to be asked and get to the bottom of. Mr. Chairmann unanimousth consent request. I would like to enter into the record a july 9th, 2016 letter from 3barisma Board Members including hunter biden, expressing concern that he had initiated an investigation into barisma. Without objection, so ordered. Chair recognized mr. Salazar from texas. Mr. Chairman, i would like to begin with a quote, people of america elected 435 of us to do things they expect us to do. Real business, not theater. Try to have some Prescription Drug legislation reform this year but instead the Majority Party is conducting baseless impeachment hearings. Was it nancy pelosi, maybe Ranking Member jamie rafkin. You said this in 2019. You said it on the floor of the u. S. House saying impeaching donald trump was political theater. Trump was first impeached attempting to extort a foreign president in helping the trump president ial campaign and if you didnt consider that criminal how about when trump was impeached trying to overthrow the results of the president ial election and thenn incited insurrection. What would you call this . This is a disgrace and i hope that Top Republican officials will find some integrity and the case of trump because you fear his social media raft rightwing officials will deny all evidence against trump come hell or high water but in the case of President Joe Biden you decided to start the impeaching now and figure out the whole evidence thing later and you still havent figured it out. Your own republican Witnesses Today say theyy dont see the evidence to impeach President Joe Biden, bunch of stuff about hunter this, hunter that but they said they dont see the evidence to impeach joe biden. That is a disgraceful double standard, it damages our democracy and insults the toinstitution of congress and me than anything disgraces this body and the eyes of the american public. This inquiry is a cynical attempt, attempt to tar everyone, to make everyone look suspect, make everyone look corrupt so voters just give up and say, theres not much difference here. But we cannot give up on discerning truth from propaganda. We cannot give up on collective governance, congress is a place where historically people of enormous integrity have throughout history taken on big challenges,in inequalities, injustice, instability. We can and look at evidence before us and have equal justice under the law. And the evidence before us shows no wrongdoing by President Biden. We havent seen the evidence throughout the testimony today. Yourgd own republican call witnesses said they havent seen that kind of evidence. There is separate evidence that supports indictments unrelated indictments against his son hunter and multiple indictments spanning 91 criminalhu charges against former President Trump. I fornt one am grateful we Haven Independent judicial system where the president s son or former president like trump can be investigated and prosecuted if they violate the law. It is my firm belief that hunter and trump should both face trial and if guilty be held accountable for the crimes theyve been accused of. Can everyone on the Oversight Committee say the same thing . Will members of the Oversight Committee please raise your hand if you believe both hunter and trump should be held accountable for any of the indictments against them if convicted by a jury of theirir peers . We can take a minute. No, its serious. This is serious matter. If yall need to think about it, wenu can take a moment and think about it. It is serious. This is very serious. Think about it, should both hunter would the gentleman i want to see whether you raise your hand. Should hunter and trump both be held accountable if they are found guilty on any of their indictments . Raise your hand if you think that equal justice under the law applies and trump should be held accountable . I think it is worse than embarrassing that republicans wont raise their hand. They refuse to say that equal justice under the law should apply to everyonee and when you step back and think about and what about the january 6th defendants . This double standard insults the institutions of congress that people fought and died to stbuild. This impeachment hearing clearly is not about justice. We cannot say equal justice under law for everyone except for the guy who holds the leash. I will yield the rest of my time to Ranking Member rafkin. Thank you, i think you were interrupted by several colleagues. I heard one question from the distinguished lady. What about the january 6th defendants all of whom have lawyers, due process, the presumption of innocence and they were convicted of various things included assaulting federal officers and metropolitan police. What about point of order. If i can take my time back. Multiple members saying its wrong the january 6 rioters were convicted by a jury of their peers. Thats disturbing. The chair recognizes point of order. The chair recognizes mr. Fallon. Thank you, mr. Chairman, i ask for unanimous consent. So ordered. To the payroll of average citizens and the name senator for you after which hunter continued to benefit from his fathers public positions and in 2011 he was contacted by the chinese politician and businessman they wanted to form a joint Investment Firm that then became leveraging his family name and essentially it seems like it comes to him like swimming comes to a fish. If we could put up on the screen and email from between devon archer and the president s son. As you can see here, when asked why does the super chairman love me so much, and the answer is its easy. It has nothing to do with me and everything to do with my last name. Thats the president s son, and thats not me saying it, thats the president s son. He openly acknowledged it doesnt come from education or business acumen. It comes from his name. It is his name but its not his name garnering all the attention. Both were selling their name. Devon archer if you put that on the screen, please, he confirmed it. If i could get mr. Archers testimony onon the screen. Its fair to say joe biden was the brand and obviously brought most value to the brand. I make that case because the president s son was addicted to drugs and frequenting prostitutes so i suspect his value of the brand was pretty low compared to his father who was the Vice President of the United States. Companies brand their products whether it is a food company, car, shoe company. They brand it because it provides trust by their buyers, from their buyers. This Committee First relieved a memo march 16, 2023 that showed that less than two months after the Vice President left office, state energies and robertson walker, again, avery and business associate of the biden family 3 million. Shortly thereafter, literally the next day and within the next series of days, Robinson Walker sent 1 million to the biden family and associated businesses. And they were sent in suspect incremental payments. And it follows a pattern. I can give you other instances where the exact same thing occurred. One third for Robinson Walker, 130 year, one third of their. Thats how it worked out. Now the biden family provided no legitimate services, yet haley biden working as a school counselor, was provided to some of this money. For what . What was the product or service . Mr. Chairman, i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the first memos dated march 16, 2023, new evidence resulting from the Oversight Committees investigation and the biden families influence, peddling and business scheme showing the biden family members and Biden Associated businesses received over 1 million from state energy hk limited, a chinese company. Without objection. Thank you. Mr. Turley, thank you for being here. What is influence peddling . Influence peddling is to sell access were influence to achieve some end. They are sometimes in a quid pro quo which is a specific act of if you want and sometimes aqu general pattern of corruption favoring someone. The United States also signed off on a convention on public corruption that also has definitions that are relevant they are being sent with no legitimate services. This is something that you would find interesting your self if charged to investigate on your own . Please answer the question. It would be a red flag and i would followup and see where it leads. I have a point of order. I didnt want to disrupt the gentleman from pennsylvania but he reverted to an email at the beginning of the testimony. We havent been provided a copy of that email and i dont know where it came from. What is the source of that material . We have a role in this we have to be provided all material entered into the record. Our colleagues keep relying on emails we obtain from Hunter Bidens laptop but we have no idea as you know youve not shared with us what you say is the hard drive to Hunter Bidens laptop. The email entered into the record. We dont know what the basis of that is. We will work on getting you that answer. The Computer Repair guy that disseminated that stuff says he cannot account for the chain of custody of the alleged hard drive of the laptop, so we have no idea where that comes from. We will get you thatyo information but i would like to remind the Ranking Member the president s son is now suing the repair guy for leaking his laptop. Remember, he denied it forever ride, no i agree that he cant account for the custody of it either. The chair recognizes ire would like to ask unanims consent to enter into the record our own transcribed interview with our committee where he the brandates, quote, in washington, d. C. , not President Biden. The brand was joe biden and mr. Archer responded. Without objection. Its in the record twice now. The chair recognizes mr. Crockett from texas. Thank you so much, mr. Chair. I want to remind everyone the information recorded in form 1023 that my republican colleagues keep fighting is not evidence of anything. The form reflects the years secondhand unverified information from an ukrainian oligarch as related to the fbi by a confidential human sores. Source. These unverified a second allegations havee been debunked and undermined by the confidential human source that relayed this information to the fbi. The tip reported in the form 1023 was thoroughly explored by the u. S. Attorney, handpicked by donald trump, which was attorney general william bar, and the assessment was closed. Finally, devon archer, hunter biden former Business Partner who worked with the ukrainian oligarch in question told the committee any transcribed interview in july he had no knowledge of any payments allegedly described in this form, repeating the same lies will not somehow turn them into truths, kind of like the election thatt trump lost. To say it with me, he lost it. Repeating the same lie that he won wasnt going to turn the election around. They keep pushing lies and lunacy on behalf of a multitime loser. So if we are going to talk about china lets go ahead and talk about china and the dealings and let me point out the fact that right now each of you has admitted that none of you are in fact witnesses. We walked in without facts and unfortunately because what we say isnt necessarily evidence, weve wasted the American Peoples time and we are going to walk out of this chamber and still have no facts that are leading to anything. T but let me give you all a little bit of tea while we are here. So i have a document that i will ask for unanimous consent to enter into the record. Its a fact sheet on the shady business dealings with the Chinese Government. What are you entering in, a record from who . The congressional integrity. The dog money packed . I object. I object to that too. Of course you will object that we are going to talk about it. Trump has extensive financial ties to the Chinese Government and collected millions from Chinese Government owned entities while in office. I have the best tenants in the world, President Trump was well aware of the multimillion dollar lease to chinese interests. President trump promised to donate Foreign Government profits while in office, but he donated less than a third of his proceeds from the Chinese Government. President trump maintains three Foreign Bank Accounts while in office including one in china. President trumps business with chinaen raised legal and ethical concerns. President trump, he loves the president of the country and is doing a very good job. Let me tell you something. I dont want to talk about what you all want to act like is some big mystery, because we keep sitting here and, professor gerhardt, just to be clear, as my colleagues have even tried to provide evidence which they are not the ones to provide a evidence have you ever heard them say since weve been sitting here for i dont know how long . Ive been taking a tally. Can you show us . More than 35 times the republican witnesses and republican members of the committee have used the word if. Honestly, if they would continue to say and we were playing a drinking game, i would be a drunk by now because i promise you they have not talked about the subject of this, which would be the president. But let me tell you something that was so dis