welcome to hannity. tonight, the cease-fire in gaza will continue for at least another day. now, joe biden is reportedly asking israel to go easy in the fighting against hamas, the tryst group. go easy on terrorists. we'll bring you the latest sad chapter of joe biden's i'm tent foreign policy straight ahead. the u.n. wants you, the american people, to stop eating meat. we give them billions of dollars for their insane advice. maybe it is time to say buy buy to the globalist organizations. what is the latest mysterious outbreak in china? masks are back and distancing is back. hospitals are overwhelmed with sick children. could this be another covid-like pandemic out of china. hunter biden is back in the news and not for his artwork. he is attempting to dodge a house subpoena. hunter's lawyers say their client is willing to only appear for a public hearing before the house of representatives, not a closed door deposition as the law requires. if you or i were to receive a subpoena from congress, we would be forced to comply or we would be facing possible jail time. hunter seems to think he is above the law. now, i wonder where he got that impression from. maybe it was the attempted sweetheart plea deal with david weiss or david weiss allowing the statute of limitations to pass or maybe his daddy's doj running out the clock on many of hunter's serious tax violations or hunter's ability to purchase massive quantities of drugs and hire foreign prostitutes with zero legal consequences whatsoever. or possibly it was all that money that hunter took in from america's geopolitical foes like russia and china and romania, et cetera. while his father was in a position of great power and great influence, all while apparently not paying quite a bit of money in taxes on a lot of income. that has to be resolved. all of this for work he has zero experience in at a time where he was admittedly addicted to drugs. while the very liberal and biased and politicized and weaponized biden doj drags its feet, the republican house is taking action, contrary to what the democrats would have you believe. the gop's research into joe biden is very serious. they are investigating legitimate claims of corruption through closed door hearings, financial forensics and other enquiries. hunter is attempting to turn this into a political charade with a public hearing. comber is more than willing to give hunter his circus. first, that closed door deposition would still be required as order, including documents handed over. that's the subpoena. hunter must comply, of course. this is all part of hunter's big new what they are calling legal strategy to fight back according to politico today. hunter biden faced a protracted criminal probe. he was told to wait quietly. the strategy favored by democrats failed. he is now directly taking on his adversaries with lawsuits and other legal threats. now, some might call this a campaign of intimidation. to others, it might look like desperation. according to another report, white house staffers are extremely irritated with hunter for not clearing this new strategy with the biden white house. democrats on capitol hill are also unhappy with two unnamed lawmakers calling hunter's new offensive strategy all risk, no reward. this comes as one of hunter's friends is worried that the democrats are now eager to use the president's son as a sacrificial lamb in this case. the big question tonight, is hunter willing to tell the truth about he his father or is he willing to maybe take on the fall himself? for republicans and other logical people around the country, this scandal is not really about hunter, about hunter's struggles with addiction. this is about the big guy, in other words, the real brand. that would be joe biden. he allegedly used his struggling son to fill up the family coffers. was hunter, for example, selling access and influence to that biden brand so that jill and joe biden could afford this beautiful beachfront estate in delaware, live in luxury on a senator's salary. according to james comber, paid ten family members what ends up to be tens of millions of dollars. middle class joe and his wife, they love to portray themselves as living a middle class lifestyle. it appears that was not quite accurate as joe was buying expensive corvettes and that beach front property. now, let's see what the biden's do. are they ready to throw their own son under the bus. here with more, household oversight chairman, james comber, is with us. good to see you, senator. can you explain this whole process? my understanding of your subpoena is you want a closed door, under oath deposition and you want materials handed over. is that correct, sir? >> that's correct. this is a normal subpoena. this is a normal congressional subpoena, a lawful subpoena. we have asked him to come in on december 13th. his attorney said today he would gladly come in but only for a public hearing. he will have a public hearing after we do the deposition. this is the way credible investigations are conducted. hunter biden is not above the law. just because he has gotten away with criminal activity by the doj, the fbi, the irs, the national archives, doesn't mean he is going to be treated that way by the house oversight committee. we are going to abide by the law. jamie ras skins, the ranking member on the house oversight committee did this exact same process. he had a very similar scenario with steve bannon when he was subpoenaed by the january 6th committee. he wanted to come in not for a deposition but for a public hearing. raskens said he had to sit down for a deposition. that's what the law requires. that's what we require of hunter biden. we will gladly have a public hearing after we go over 10,000 plus pages of bank reports and documents in deposition with countless questions about specific transaction. >> do you need more documents? have they been forth coming with the information? >> the banks have been very forthcoming. the banks wanted to give us this information. the banks notified treasury for years of criminal activity by the biden family. the private banks have been very cooperative. who hasn't been cooperative is the biden administration. we've requested all the pseudonym e-mails. the number of e-mails that joe biden used a fake name grows almost on a daily basis. we have asked for those e-mails. they have provided 14 pages. there are thousands more pages they haven't provided. we need to know about that. we know there was communication between the white house when joe biden was vice-president and hunter biden and his associates, even though joe biden claimed numerous times on television he had a wall between the government and his family's shady business activities. we know now that there was no wall there. joe biden used a fake e name to get around the foia requirements so normal investigators couldn't find this out. we worked very hard on this investigation over the past eight months, sean, as you know. we built a mountain of evidence. now, we are in the deposition phase. that's what the subpoena for hunter biden was all about, a deposition to sit down. the democrats will get equal time. it is for all practical purposes, public. we will release the transcripts the way every congressional deposition has been done in history. the american people will know exactly how hunter biden answered these questions. >> in the deposition, would he have the right to plead the fifth? >> everyone has the right to plead the fifth. according to hunter biden's attorney, he wants to come forward. i think that's great. give him an opportunity. he is going to have due process and be able to answer some questions. this isn't about hunter biden. this is an investigation by congress of joe biden for potential corruption. hu hunt erer biden is a key witnesn our investigation of joe biden. we know the biden family has received millions and millions of dollars from our enemies around the world. we don't know what they did to receive the money. we don't know a lot of things about how the bidens have been able to afford such a lavish lifestyle when we really don't know what they do for a living other than hunter became an artist when joe biden became president. >> we do know that hunter admitted himself that he had no experience in energy, oil, gas in ukraine. yet, he was dealing with bar is ma and his father took actions and withheld $1 billion and leveraged that to get an investigative prosecutor fired. in six hours, the guy was gone. the investigation was over. hunter got paid and this was five days after you have been able to chronicle a phone call that came from hunter from dubai with barrise ma executives. is that correct, sir? >> that is correct. we learned all that through a transcribed interview. that's what we want hunter biden to do. everyone knows if you have a credible substantive investigation, you have depositions, transcribed interviews, then you bring in people for committee hearings. i'm not doing this for entertainment. this is a credible investigation. we expect the president's son to sit down along with the other 19 people we've asked to come in and answer questions. the democrats will have equal time. we will release the transcripts. this will be a very transparent investigation as it has been from the very beginning. >> the one thing i've said to you, congressman, a number of times, is abbey lowell is a real lower, one of the top d.c. lawyers, for sure. let me ask you about a report, justin news, editor-in-chief, investigative reporter, john solomon, that he gave with kevin morris, this friend of hunter's and the family out in california and the amount of money loaned. is that money in the 5 plus million dollar range, sir? >> that's what we understand. john solomon that is done a great job investigating this. we have a lot of questions for kevin morris. we have sent him a letter and asked him to come in. >> have you subpoenaed him? >> you have to request through a letter first. we are doing this the right way. making sure every i is dotted and t is crossed. if he doesn't respond, we will issue a subpoena. we expect to hear from kevin morris. he has loaned the president's son reportedly over $5 million. he just met the president's son during the presidential campaign. this raises serious finance and ethical questions and tax fraud questions. >> $5 million is a lot of money if that all turns out to be accurate and true. have you been able to discover or trace maybe did he get anything for that money? is he getting paid back? >> that's a great question, sean. that's what we want to know. look, the theme loan continues to emerge. remember the last three payments that we found that were traced to joe biden, the two checks from jim biden to joe biden that were written through the influence peddling scheme and a $250,000 wire from china that was sent to hunter biden at joe biden's home address. all of those, the white house claims, were loans, loans, loans. everything they say is loans. now, we have caravan morris reportedly loaning hunter biden over $5 million. we have a lot of questions about that. that raises a lot of tax evasion questions. it raises a lot of ethics questions and campaign finance questions. >> it would be interesting to see if any, i don't know, official government action was taken for anybody that loans anyone money. that would certainly raise a lot of eyebrows. chairman comber, we appreciate you updating us. thank you, sir. here now with reaction, former acting attorney general, matthew whittaker and gregg jarrett. i think you agree with me, abbey lowell is the real deal, got off senator menendez and john edwards. he was jared kushner's lawyer. he is probably one of the top dc attorneys. my question is, what is his strategy here? we'll do the public hearing but we don't want to do the deposition part and maybe hand over information you are looking for. will that work? >> it is not going to work. bluster, bravado, intimidation. a subpoena is an order. the law compels you to comply. you don't get to dictate terms. as you say, hunter biden thinks he is special and above the law. he is trying to avoid a deposition where tough questions by smart investigators who work for the committee members, they know the facts. they would confront hunter with the truth about his corrupt schemes. financial records don't lie. the committee, to their credit, has amassed volumes of incriminating evidence of bribery, money laundering, tax fraud, foreign lobbying crimes. if hunter biden lies under oath, that's even more crimes. that's the reason he is demanding a public hearing. he knows that probing questions are rare. members grandstand with their speeches but he also wants the usual biden sic offense like jamie ras mon and dan goldman to port tray him as this poor viblth of drug addiction that should be forgiven of his crimes. addiction is not an excuse under the law. the committee, i think, is absolutely right to reject hunter biden's demands. >> what is your take, matt whittaker? what is the legal strategy behind this? we want the public hearing but we don't want to do that deposition part you are in insisting on. that would probably be requesting of documents and other information, wouldn't it? >> yeah. remember, abbey lowell knows exactly what he is doing. he knows the weakest part of this case is if his client has to sit down for directed questioning from a counsel of the majority that can ask a line of questions and not be interrupted every five minutes by the rules of the committee if it was public. this is just one part of their defense. they are still facing potential tax charges in california, the gun charges pending. it is going to be very interesting, as i look at this whole thing, chairman comer mentioned steve banner and peter namoro who were held in contempt and prosecuted by the doj. this is a high-stakes game where if they can't come to some agreement and he doesn't show up for that subpoenaed deposition, then he should be held in contempt and prosecuted by the doj just like everybody else has been. >> you are right, if we had equal justice and application of our laws, if justice was blind. we have, in my view, a weaponized department of justice. god only knows what would happen. i would tend to think hunter would not get the same treatment as bannan or navarro in my view. let me ask you, gregg jarrett, as hunter now goes forward and we talk about all the suspicious activity reports, they have identified tens of millions of dollars in businesses, they can find no services rendered for all of this money. ten biden family members benefiting financially. then, you have the very, to me, the cut-and-dried case is the barisma case. hunter admits he has no experience in energy. he has to massive energy conglomerate, in ukraine and china paying him for what? at a time when he acknowledges he was addicted to drugs. why would they ever pay hurnter that type of money? >> they wouldn't. it was an illegal quid pro quo. hunter sold his dad to the world, china, russia, ukraine, romania, other countries over which joe biden exercised infl influence. he was bought and paid for. the family got enormously rich by selling out america in what has to be the biggest bribery scandal in political history. 150 suspicious reports prove that tens of millions flowed to biden protected shell companies and funneled to family members. devon archer confirmed they were selling influence and access to joe. he aided and abetted his son's schemes in the barisma scandal, conferring promises in exchange for money. you don't have to show that joe biden pocketed a penny. it is still a crime under the bribery statute if cash goes to his family. bribery is also an impeachable offense, sean. >> matt, it is not illegal to loan money. there seems to be a lot of loans going on here. i would imagine if a loan was made, there would be some record of it if it wasn't written down as a loan. certainly, there has to be a date, time, method of payment that would back up that claim, right? >> yeah. not only that, you would expect a promissory note. it is the only way you could enforce that kind of debt ultimately. the other thing i'm reminded of, if there is no interest in all these loans, if nobody is paying interest, they are paying principle back, that appears to be just a cover-up for these transactions. remember, exhibit number one, that hunter biden needs to answer the question about is that text message that he sent his own daughter where he asked she just should be happy she doesn't have to give 50% to her own dad like hunter has to. that's where the committee, those types of questions are why this deposition needs to happen on the 13th. >> i want to know if the $5 million loan was real that was forgivable with no interest. i want to know if that is the case. if it is the case, i want to request from both of you that you give me those terms and $5 million. i am sure you would do that every day of the week. the minute you gave it to me, i would say, thank you for forgiving this. you are not getting paid back. matt whittaker, gregg jarrett. good to see you both. the biden administration is telling israel to soften their attack against the terrorist group, hamas. giving them instructions on how to fight against a group that wants to wipe you off the face of the earth. we'll have more on that as we continue. meet gold bond daily healing. a powerhouse lotion that moisturizes, heals, and smooths dry skin. with 7 moisturizers & 3 vitamins. and... new gold bond healing sensitive. clinically shown to heal & moisturize dry, sensitive skin. gold bond. hi, i'm stacey, and i've lost 60 pounds on golo. (guitar music) this belt i used to wear, way down at the first and second notch, it's the only thing i've kept from before losing weight and i'm keeping this because i'm never going back. tonight, a new report shows biden's lack of resolve in helping israel to eradicate hamas. according to officials, the white house told israel it needs to fight more surgically in gagaza chuck schumer continues to prevent what was an opportunity yesterday, a stand-alone israeli aid package from becoming law. despite every senate republican voting to advance it. the left's reluctance to offer support. it comes as the true extent of hamas's continues. a grandmother says they kept her grandson in jail for 16 days. even worse, a ten-month-old was passed off to another pal stin stin yist group. a crowd could be heard taunting, free israeli hostages. here with reaction, israeli special ops veteran, aaron kohn, and "outnumbered" co-host, caylee mack nanny. u.s. offering them to fight more surgically in gaza. i wonder if in world war ii in the battle that took place in europe, if that was the strategy of winston churchill and everybody united to fight against the nazis, if that would have worked out well. we're talking about brutal terrorists that have committed the most atrocious acts imaginable. >> how do you fight surgically when as the idea told me and as we've seen on these airwaves, their are tunnels underneath kids' beds and weapons in front of colorfully painted portraits in a children's hospital. when the main military complex of hamas is underneathal chi fa hospital. you are fighting terrorists here. israel is doing everything they can to avoid civilian deaths. it is something not said to ukraine. i don't recall the admonitions wide and far to ukraine, we must condition the aid. we trusted our ally. here, we don't trust our ally. it is sad to me, sean, because we are dealing with monsters. my 11-month-old, almost 1-year-old son is upstairs in a crib sleeping. 11-month-old kafir bevis is not in the hand of hamas. he has been sold or handed off to another terrorist group alongside his 4-year-old brother and his mom. they desperately wait for news. we are dealing with monsters. don't you da