hoping to do. it was a set up to allow democrats to make hunter biden's pr point for him. republicans just want to use this as a political con and all they are interested in is having him go behind closed doors and twist and contort the story. this is a sideshow to what's really going on. hunter biden doesn't want to do the testimony about his prior business dealings because they are unpleasant and ugly and might not speak well to his father so they latched onto this we will only do it if you do it in public, but that is an excuse to get out of it and this was another stunt to make that political point and they succeeded in that regard. paul: kyle petersen, dan heninger and jason riley.