Family while joe biden was Vice President and i will continue reading from Tony Bobulinskis report. Which says and i quote, bobulinski, hunter biden and james biden did not receive come pentation because joe biden was Vice President during the time period. There by cefs. Hunter biden and james biden both wanted to be compensated for assistance provided to Cefc Ventures and believed cefc through the use of the biden family name to advance Business Dealings. The bidens were paid over 1 million by Ccf AffiliatedChinese Company shortly after joe biden left off as Vice President. Now we know why, it was back pay. I will show you another image, a text message between hunter biden and gong ngueyen dang. He would like to say hello to the chairman, goes on, jims brother wants to say hello. His uncles brother, hmm, i wonder who that could be. Hunter biden puts brother in all caps, since im not always dealing with geniuses, ill spell it out. The brother of hunter, hunters uncle jim is joe biden. Why was hunter so secretive about his father . I will tell you why, because joe biden didnt want the American People to know he and his family were getting paid millions of dollars to a company closely tied to the Chinese Communist party. Cefc knew paying biden family was bad, so they covered it up. It would be a bad look, he tried to pull a genius move with my uncles brother bull. He took bribes from burisma. Betraying your company is treason. I ask to enter into the record, text message between hunter biden. And with bobulinski showing connection to cefc. Without objection, so ordered. Mr. Turley, do people who are conducting legitimate business usually go through effort to keep foreign entanglements hidden . The issue with Influence Pedalling is that it can in some circumstances be legal, but not something that is made public. The public does not buy into the idea that you can sell your family brand if it is Influence Pedalling. So what happens with Influence Pedalling, you have commission of crimes that conceal it and to take steps so it is not public, that may include, but not necessarily the reason in this case, may include failure to pay taxes, failure to register as a Foreign Agent. Part of an inquiry is to see linkage between those acts and linkage to the president. Can i briefly respond to the earlier attack . I dont want to take your time . Im sorry, the lady is over time, we will work with you on that because i do think you need to respond to that ridiculous statement. Chair recognizes mr. Khanna for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Turley, you testified or in your Written Statement about Best Practices for the house. You say it is not legally required for the house to vote to have an impeachment inquire, but Best Practice. Can you explain why you think it is Best Practice for the house to have that vote . Certainly, i think what the courts have said, it is not required, as noted, not a condition for initiation of inquiry. I think it is a good practice, whether it occurs after the investigation, still vote of the entire house. It brings solemnity and weight of the decision, it is Best Practice i suggest in my testimony. What would it mean if votes were not there, if they had a vote and 10 or 20 voted for it, you are student of constitutional history, what would that say . Why important in your view to have Majority Support for Something Like this . I think the public expects members to take this process seriously, part of that is go on the record whether you believeings there is ground for inquiry. In terms of Best Practices, that gives, i think weight of the house to the efforts, that is reason i criticized the move of Speaker Pelosi. It would give you pause if there was a vote which said that the house didnt think there should be an inquiry, you would give that weight as a constitutional scholar . If the house as body said there should not be inquiry, clearly that has on merit of the inquiry that has some weight. It would be your recommendation to Speaker Mccarthy today to bring up that vote, correct, for House Inquiry . I always said i thought it was Best Practice. Your recommendation to him today, hes listening, his staff are, bring that vote to the house floor . I always think it is a good idea. It is your testimony if that vote failed that should have real consideration in whether we go forward with this, lets put members on, my view, they dont have the votes, i think it will be a lopsided vote against it and why they are not bringing it to the floor. I cant speak to that. Let me ask you this, you said i do not believe the Current Evidence support articles of impeachment and i want to be careful, you said you think it supports inquiry, not article of impeachment itself, be precise in what you said. Can you explain to the committee and the country, why you believe the Current Evidence does not support the articles of impeachment today . At the moment, these are allegations and there is some credible evidence there that is the basis of the allegations. I understand that, i am not questioning that. Today if you were going to vote, you would vote no; correct . On this evidence. My question, if someone said why are you voting not to impeach mr. Biden based on this evidence, where do you think the evidence is lacking . Where does it not rise to the level you think it needs to be . What are places you think it is missing . I said the key the committee has to drill down on is whether they can establish a linkage with the Influence Pedalling, a form of corruption and whether the president participated and encouraged it, we dont know and dont know if this was an illusion or not. You can find answers to that. Back end of financial transactions, i have read is where the committee is going, may shed light on that. Without that type of nexus, no, i dont. It is your testimony that nexus has not been established, correct . I think that is purpose of the inquiry, correct. Have you read ken bucks op ed where he was a republican, why i think it would be a lopsided vote against an inquiry saying evidence doesnt exist . I did. I respect members of both parties that can stand alone. He has his reasons for that. I personally think that the threshold for an inquiry has been surpassed, that you have a duty to inquire as to these allegations. That is not presusupposing what you are going to find. It is your formal recommendation to have a vote on the inquiry and it is also your testimony today that today you would vote no on impeachment on the Current Evidence . My sense when Speaker Pelosi took the step, i gave same advice, it is Best Practice to go to the floor. Gentleman time expired, mcclain from michigan for five minutes. I want to make two comments, first to professor gerhardt, i love the analogy about the Speeding Ticket with hunter biden. Let me see if you agree with this analogy. If a criminal pulls a trigger for a murder, hes guilty, right . And we can prove it. Dont you also agree if somebody ordered that hit, we would charge him, too . That is interesting that you dont use that analogy. That is number one. Number two i have a reason not using it. It doesnt fit the narrative. I love the fact that trump lives rent free in the democrats heads everyday, that is a beautiful thing, even though we are here talking about the Impeachment Inquiry of joe biden. With that said, i want to talk about the evidence of joe bidens role in his familys Business Schemes in romania. While joe biden was president , he was directly involved in the United States policy in anticorruption efforts in romania. Thats a fact. May 21, 2014, the then Vice President biden delivered anticorruption speech in romania, right . On september 28, 2015, the president visited with the then Vice President biden, the romania president visited withen this Vice President biden at the white house to discuss anticorruption efforts, right . Got a theme of anticorruption, right . Gabriel popovic, oligarch in the subject of a criminal probe and prosecution for corruption and bribery in romania. This committee has reviewed transactions showing the biden family received money from a Foreign Company run by this russian oligarch, corrupt gabriel popovic. After the romania president visited Vice President biden, popovic begins paying hunter biden and his associates, rob walker, through his company. The money from Bladen Enterprises deposited to Robinson Walker llc, this llc is directly operated by Hunter Bidens known business partner, rob walker. These are all facts weve found through the investigation. In november, 2015, and again in march 2016, hunter biden, who is not registered as a Foreign Agent under fara, meets with the u. S. Ambassador to romania. Red flag. Then coincidentally, over 1 million flows to the bidens. Im not much for coincidences and i dont think the American People are either. Lets run through the numbers together. Between November 2015 and may 2017, Bladen Enterprises deposited over 3 million to Robin Doson Walker LlcBusiness Account and biden account received 1 million from Robinson Walker after deposits were made. 16 of the 17 payments occurred while joe biden was Vice President. Now i think most americans would find it suspicious that these payments ended shortly after joe biden left office. Another coincidence. Mr. Chairman i ask unanimous consent to enter the may 10, 2023 Second Bank Record Memorandum showing this in romania. It is ordered. I see three problems here. One, while joe biden is touting anticorruption efforts in romania, hunter biden is employed by a corrupt romanian oligarch. Interesting. In direct violation of fara, hunter biden meets with u. S. Ambassador to romania while being paid by popovic, what was Hunter Biden Selling to the romanian oligarchs for millions of dollars . Id like to see a contract of that. Professor turley, i know im almost out of time, you said hunter biden could be charged under Foreign Agent registration act. Can you explain why . Time expired, please answer the question, mr. Turley. Much conduct ascribed in disclosures does seem to fit what we saw with the charges of Paul Manafortin terms of being a Foreign Agent, some does appear to be this type of lobbying on the part of hunter biden. The failure to register as an agent helped conceal that, that is not necessarily motivation behind it. The question is, should he have registered as a Foreign Agent during the course of this conduct . It seems to me looking at the Paul Manafort indictment, there is overlap in terms of type of action taken. May i enter ms. Mcclain chart into the record . Without objection, it is ordered. Chair recognizes maryland. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I did not plan to, but like to followup on the gentle womans comment and assertion about romania and hunter biden and the fact that he worked for romaniian executive facing corruption charges. Harris welcome you to outnumbered this hour, im harris faulkner, my cohost Kayleigh Mcenany is along for the live coverage of this hearing in the House Oversight committee. They are taking a look at Impeachment Inquiry issues from 47 members of that committee. And whether or not there can be a vote to go forward. This is the first hearing, the first step, Impeachment Inquiry, both sides of the political aisle get to call or ask questions of the five guests before them and then also there is what they call minority, meaning the party not in control of this committee, they get to call a witness, too, and mr. Gerhardt is there for democrats today. Also with us, Leslie Marshall and Cheryl Casone and former chairman of oversight, jason chaffetz. Welcome to everybody, well take a moment to digest little of what were seeing. You sat up jason, when they started to pick apart some items in evidence, what was catching your ear . Democrats longterm accusation is there is no evidence, no tie to joe biden. But from jim jordan and nancy mace, We Saw Litany of Byron Donalds did great job of laying out actual evidence and text messages, this mystifies me, 20 shell companies, only product they are selling is joe biden, that is their main asset, what weve heard testimony about, this is voicemails, text messages, manifests, all kind of information, particularly flow of money and as Professor Turley and others said, you have to tie that to actions by joe biden as Vice President , of which there are some and those are the allegations. Harris florida representative Byron Donalds, brought up hunter biden and naomi biden. It is important on day trying to show that you said flow of money into and out of that family and where it was going and naomi says to hunter, they are relatives, unlike pop, dad, you know, the former Vice President , i wont make you give me half of your money. And so Byron Donalds is showing as money was coming in through Business Dealings and this is alleged, they say they have evidence to prove this. Money flowing to the biden family, apparently pop, as he is sometimes called, poppop, was getting half of everybodys take. Kayleigh pop, the big guy . No democrat has described to me who the big guy is, apparently imaginary ghost, though it is not joe biden, they tell us, if you can believe that, guys. What is interesting, unearthed messages, june 6, 2017, hunter biden text, willing to sign over my familys brand and refers to that as the keys my family only asset, apparently his brand. It gets worse and worse on the backs of finding out that joe bidens home address in delaware was listed on wire payments, why is hunter biden listing joe bidens address . This is on the back of menendez. Menendez, there is hunter biden information in there, menendez wanted joe biden to speak at a political event, did he reach out to the Vice President s office . No, alleged in the indictment, he reached out to eric schwerin. Mounts of evident here and Jonathan Turley has done a fantastic job being objective and he says you start with crimes looking at impeachment and go down from there and you can end at abuse of power and can be false statements, conscripting white house staff to do your bidding on that. There is a whole range of issues here and praise Jonathan Turley for really being objective and fair in all of this. Harris moments ago, we broke away to set the scene for you here on this hour of outnumbered, they took a bit of a break and we dont know how long this will last, well get details from my team to see how long this vote is expected to take. Of course, members are doing their job. I know the left Accused Republicans of who are at helm in having majority and going through with Impeachment Inquiry accused them are not paying attention to the shutdown on the hill. If people can vote, they are still doing their job. It is ineffective to make that argument, they are getting up and going and voting. Leslie, what do you make of why didnt you vote on Impeachment Inquiry . Jonathan turley said i do and i did when nancy pelosi on that second impeachment of former President Trump. I thought they should have taken a vote on that. It talks to solemnity of the moment. It has been f fairhanded, the left want to paint the right as people who dont have vote to do anything. Deja vu, right said the same. Years ago, i didnt think we should have impeached donald trump, i said that at the time, i did not think it was a good idea. The reas