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CSPAN Washington July 3, 2024

Congressional efforts to pass government fundi bills before e september 30 deadline. Then university of pennsylvania la professor talabt lawsuits seeking disqualify former President Donald Trump from the presideia bloby using the 14th amendment. Wendydelbert, former chief economist at the Congressional Budget Office looks at the latest census were showing the first poverty increase in 13 years. Washington journal starts now. Host good morning. Hunter biden was charged thursday on gun related felony counts. President bidens son is accused of lying about his drug use when he bought the gun in 2018. The indictment comes after Republican Leaders opened an impeachment inquiry in which they are looking to tie President Biden to his sons foreign business deals. We are getting yr reaction. Democrats 202 7488000, republicans 202 7488001, independents 202 7488002. You can also send as a text at 202 7488003. Please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise on social media it is cspanwj or facebook. Com cspan. A good friday morning to you. This is the front page banner headline of the Washington Times. Hunter biden indicted over gun possession. The probe results in several firearms charges weeks after previous deal. This from the wall street journal delving into those charges. The indictment alleges that hunter biden knowingly lied and said he was not addicted to drugs when he purchased the gun in october 2018 and that he possessed the firearm illegally. He faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison but he would likely serve far less than that. The white house has maintained it is not involved in bidens legal matters in the president has never discussed them with the Justice Department. That from the wall street journal. Plenty of reaction on capitol hill. The official filing of these charges being handed out by a grand jury. This is congressman andy bates, republican from arizona, saying the hunter biden indictment is a move to make you think the doj is fair. They are trying to protect him from way more serious charges coming his way. Tax charges not yet filed against hunter biden. Here is more reaction from capitol hill. Rick scott from florida is to mandate real justice in the prosecution of hunter biden, and while these indictments are better than what we saw, i have a warning for the president. The American People will never forgive you or your corruption if you parted hunter. One more from a republican senator, i hope david weiss does not consider his job done after indicting hunter biden on a charge he already admitted to. An impeachment inquiry is the only way we will get to the truth on Hunter Bidens influence peddling abroad and how involved the president was. That was yesterday on capitol hill. These impeachment charges, the impeachment inquiry from House Republicans earlier this week. This all happened. Phone lines, democrats 202 7488000, republicans 202 7488001, independents 202 7488002. This is taught in california. Independent. A very early. Good morning. Caller good morning. Hunter biden situation i am happy the department of justice is not being biased. No one is above the law. He is basically a crackhead. Need to set an example that he needs to be sentenced to 25 years in prison if he is convicted. Also, his father needs to be impeached and removed from office. That is my perspective. Host on what you want to see when it comes to hunter biden, just a couple of blocks is the Supreme Court of the United States. Etched in stone says equal justice under law. You think we have equal justice under law in this country . Caller no. Not for most people. It seems like people that are politically powerful or rich continually get away with crimes over and over. That is disgusting and it needs to stop. Thank you for the call. Host this is roger in virginia. Good morning. Caller good morning. I think this hunter biden thing is a political hit job. Donald trump son said why shouldnt i make money on my dads name . What is wrong with biden doing the same thing if that is the case . There is no evidence the president did anything wrong. Every time we get a democrat president republicans go crazy. They shut down the government. They talk about the high prices, but they do not do nothing about it. They sit back and they blame the democrats. Host watch the language as we try to have a conversation. This is cindy in norwalk, connecticut. Caller good morning. I guess it is ok my compassionate side feel sorry for the guy. He had a drug problem. It is sad what is going on. I feel like joe biden, his kid had a drug problem but he is ttg more pressure on the kid by doing these deals that we spect happened. The Biden Syndicate with billions of dollars going to family members. I think it looks bad for hunter. I feel like hes being used by his dad. Is there equal justice . Not really. Since the trump indictment. None of us felt like trump convinced us the election was stolen. We had our own minds and he is being persecuted for an opinion. That is my feeling. It is very sad. The whole thing is set and it does not make me happy. It does not make me feel like good. That is not what we should be doing. I think we need to have that same empathy towards what is going on with trump. This country is a mess. Host that was cindy in connecticut. That is what republicans in the house say they want this impeachment inquiry to look into. Reactions from democrats to that impeachment inquiry announcement this week. Here is yesterday, glen ivy, democrat from maryland, the bogus impeachment of the president s political blackmail. Republicans know what shutdown would hurt our economy and put lives at risk. They have decided any political gain is worth the price of human suffering. A potential shutdown happening 15 days from now at midnight on september 30 if a federal funding deal does not happen by then. We will talk more about where we are with the shutdown showdown this morning. One more tweet this morning. This from democrats in the Oversight Committee saying chairman comber and Speaker Mccarthys investigation is nothing more than impeachment theater. That is coming from a Freedom Caucus republican. Getting your thoughts this morning. I want to show you more on the impeachment inquiry and Speaker Mccarthys comments about hunter biden. He was asked about both yesterday. Here is about a minute and a half of what he had to say. Both jordan and comer were not able to present anything that is impeachable offense. Is that an assessment you share . Impeachment inquiry is not impeachment. What impeachment inquiry does is ask the questions. Are you concerned about all the stuff that has recently have you asked the white house any questions . Do you believe the american lied to the American Public when he said he never talked to his son about business dealings . You cannot answer that . Do you believe when they said the president you believe that happened . Do you believe the president had dinner with the clients of hunter biden who got those clients because he was selling the brand . Do you believe hunter biden when you saw the video of him driving a porsche that he got 140 3000 to buy the porch the next day . Do you believe that 3 million from the Russian Oligarch that was transferred to the Shell Companies that the bidens after the dinner took place . Do you think the president lied . There is a difference between lying in impeachable. Im not saying impeachable. I would like to know the answer to this question and that is what impeachment inquiry provides. Host this morning in the oped pages of the Washington Times. It is a columnist for the Washington Times and a former Communications Editor for President Trumps campaign. Here is the headline. The media is up to their eyeballs in evidence against biden but claims reporters would rather remain ignorant of the truth. This is tom out of pittsburgh, california. Good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. Youll have to bear with me. I am confused on this. When joe biden was Vice President of the United States this dealing was going on or was this something that happened after he left office . Host i believe the House Republicans want to look into all of this. What was happening when he was Vice President. I do not think they are bounding into a specific timeframe. Caller the thing is, my opinion , if this was something that was going on while he was a standing president , but this sounds like more something to do with hunter than with joe. This is where it gets really confusing for myself. If hunter biden was doing something illegal, what does that have to do with dad . This is where it gets confusing. This is not like donald trump and his family while he was a standing president. This has to do with his Vice President and he left office. If while he was a standing president he was still doing illegal business transactions . I get confused. I wish someone would give me a straight answer. Host you say you were concerned about former President Trumps family members when he was president , what their business dealings were . That was something that concerned you . Caller because while trump was in office there was a lot. When you are president of the United States and you have family members who are officials of the white house and they are doing business dealings and donald come and donald trump is hitting income when he was having these big meetings at his resorts or he was getting paid and taking money from the taxpayers, which is a big difference than any kind of business dealings. The only thing i can say is if joe biden was president of the United States and they can show a direct line between his power to continue this business dealing or if this was something that happened before joe biden was ever president of the united dates. Host that is tom in pittsburgh. Caller good morning. Can you hear me. I am an independent. I have democratic leanings typically because the Republican Party is on fire. If hunter biden did anything that he should be on trial for that he should stand trial. It is not that big of a deal. That is all i have to say on that. You guys have a good day. Host this indictment that came down, three federal charges, gun charges related to his possession of a cobra 38 special for 12 days in 2018. The Washington Times picking up on the storyline that has questions on some gun owner websites about video from Hunter Bidens and gun possession shown in that video. Here is the story. On thursday special counsel david weiss announced charges accusing him of a federal background check for possessing that cobra cold 38 in being a user of illegal drugs. Video of his abandoned laptop shows a naked mr. Biden holding a semiautomatic pistol. That is different from the cold revolver that resulted in the charges. That is not the handgun in the photo so where is the gun, Dan Zimmerman demands. How many other guns did he own . He honestly owned at least one other gun. Where are they now and how did he dispose of them. Questions of a second gun have swirled. If mr. Biden did obtain a semiautomatic pistol in delaware then he committed another crime as well. Those questions being raised in the wake of these gun charges filed yesterday. This is kim out of wyoming. Good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. The point i would try to make is a gun point. The democrats want strong gun laws. They want strong background checks. If they are not going to follow through with their laws, what is the point . I do not think hunter should get special treatment just because the is the son of the president. If the democrats are serious about gun control, background checks, they should make him the poster child. Host what does that mean. We are talking about a possible 25 years in prison. Nonviolent firsttime users are not expected to receive that much. What you want toee . Caller i would like to see him be held responsible, that he be treated like anybody else. Any other, if you sound guilty to be treated like any other crin in any other city or small town. He should be using it as an example to show there are not does tears of justice. Host from Hunter Bidens lawyer on the front page of the New York Times this is quoted on the front page of the New York Times. The lawyer has argued that the lead prosecutor is still legally bound by a previous agreement and accusing mr. Weiss of caving to pressure from Trump Supporters who had called the plea agreement a sweetheart deal. Hunter biden was not a threat to Public Safety but a prosecutor with all the power imaginable bending to political pressure presents a grave threat. Abby lowell, Hunter Bidens lawyer, in a statement quoted in the New York Times this morning. We want to keep taking your phone calls. Keep calling in on this issue, this indictment of the president son, the first indictment of a child of a sitting president. We can also talk about the inquiry that began earlier this week. As you calling, i want to update you on where we are when it comes to a potential government shutdown. Stephen neukam joins us via zoom this morning. Good morning to you. Guest good morning. 15 to host 15 days from now, shutdown deadline. Where do things stand on capitol hill . Guest things are still in flux. The house left yesterday. We are seemingly not close to a deal between house conservatives and house Republican Leadership on a stopgap spending measure which seems to be the way out of this immediate looming shutdown and they want certain funding measures and different policies attached to this funding package and they are in negotiations with house leadership. We will have to see where this negotiations land next week. As we left the capital yesterday, it did not seem we were imminently in a deal between leadership and conservatives . The house and senate not in session today. Speaker mccarthy has promised when they come back they will stay in session to try to get a deal done. What is the expectation coming into this week, coming off of the august recess . This was the first week the senate was back. What was the plan this week and remind viewers what happened with that defense spending bill this week and what that showed. Guest i will take it back before what the expectations were before this week. The expectation when the white house and House Republicans reached a deal on the debt limit a few months back was that congress would pass 12 funding appropriation bills to fund the government for the september 30 deadline. As we get closer to that deadline and as we have gotten closer it has become more were they are not going to get those bills passed before september 30. That puts us in a situation where without the house leadership being willing to take up a large omnibus package and throw all these bills together and getting them through to fund the government, which speaker Kevin Mccarthy has said he will not do, we need a shortterm funding measure to keep the government open another 30 or 60 or 90 days at the same funding levels while the house works with the senate to get the appropriation bills through the chamber. The problem is that house conservatives want a bunch of things attached to the shortterm funding measures and that is where things stand between conservatives and house leadership. Host we have talked about the house quite a bit. Explain what is happening in the senate and what they have been doing amid this loggerheads in the House Republican conference. Guest the senate, democraticcontrolled. The difference between the house and senate is the spending levels that were agreed to in the debt limit deal, that is what Senate Appropriators have been writing there appropriation bills the levels that were agreed to in the debt limit deal. House conservatives have been pushing Kevin Mccarthy to write appropriation bills that come in further below the number that was agreed to in the debt limit deal. That is the obvious schism between the house and the senate. Even if the house to get through their appropriations packages and the senate gets theirs through, there is going to be a need for house leadership, Senate Leadership to come together and reach an agreement on a package or on the 12 bills that can pass both chambers and get to the president s desk before a government shutdown. Host Stephen Neukam is a congressional reporter at the messenger. Themessenger. Com. You can also follow him on twitter. Thanks for joining us. 15 more days. Im sure we will check in again. Guest thanks. Host back to your phone calls asking you your thoughts on the hunter biden indictment that came out yesterday, a federal grand jury handing up and indictment. Also the impeachment inquiry that was launched. Phone lines, democrats 202 7488000, republicans 202 7488001, independents 202 7488002. This is mary, out of richmond, california. Line for democrats. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. This hunter biden situation is good that it is coming before the American People because now with

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