About what was going on with hunter biden, with his uncle jim, and potentially their u. S. And foreign business deals. Who was involved in them, what exactly were they selling . And why, in one instance, was a diamond given to hunter biden in return . So, how about this one . Where did all of the money go . Ended the ever compromise themselves . Does china have anything that they can hold over the biden family . Remember, their former associate, tony bobulinski, had all of these and similar concerns. Watch this. I remember looking at jim biden and saying, how are you guys getting away with this . Are you concerned . And he looked at me, and he laughed a little bit, and said, plausible deniability. Martha today, president elect joe biden had the first opportunity to clear up some of these questions. He was asked, but instead, we got this. Did hunter biden commit a crime . Have you spoken to your son . Im proud of my son. Martha for now, the American People would remain in the dark on this. Left wondering, a, how did we get to this point . If the attorney general knew about it, should he have spoken about it before the election . We certainly heard a lot from jim comey in the wake of the clintontrump election, i should say, and b, how would a President Biden handled the situation . A case targeting members of his own family with his doj at the helm. In moments, we will get reaction to all of this from Victor Davis Hanson later in the hour, kim strassel joins us, and Gregg Jarrett is here, as well, the medias handling of this throughout the course of the election. First, we start with former u. S. Attorney brett tolman. Brett, great to have you here tonight. Good to see you, martha. Martha good to see you come too. First of all, your reaction to this new information, the new attorney general passed along information from Rudy Giuliani, gave it to officials in pittsburgh to dig into this whole issue of the laptop and burisma, this came out tonight. Yeah, its not surprising. Certainly he has an obligation once he receives evidence or information to pass it to someone who might inquire as to the legitimacy of it. That happens all the time. When i was u. S. Attorney, i had from various sources, my first and initial response was to send it to investigators and to prosecutors who can bet the information and see if theres anything to it. Not surprised he did that. Martha so, here is a clip from the interview i did with the attorney general about a year ago, december 19th, and i asked him about how he was handling everything that we were hearing about from Rudy Giuliani. Watch this. Are you interested in seeing the evidence that Rudy Giuliani has been gathering in ukraine . The department of justice is interested in seeing all evidence that could be relevant. Does the doj have plans to investigate joe biden or cloud strike for ukraine or burisma . Are any of those on your radar . I wouldnt say one way or the other, but you shouldnt read anything into that. Martha so, brett, you have to take everyone back to remember what was going on at this time. There was a lot of pressure to investigate hunter biden, and the attorney general was cautious in his answer to me on that, but, you know, did we deserve, during the election, to know more about this, that there will we are now learning, four investigations going on to the family . First of all, i think it was great you had that moment. You are one of the few asking some of those tough questions. I think for his response, we can certainly see, there was some knowledge of there. There was something he was trying to be careful. They have a policy in the department of justice, not confirm or deny the existence of an investigation. You hit on the issue i think is important, and that is what we saw happen after that was stories about russia disinformation, shifty former Intelligence Officers indicating there was nothing here, that this was from russia. At that point, i believe the attorney general absolutely had an obligation to correct the record, to make sure that was not the case, that there was information to suggest that they at least were going to look into it, and that is okay for the American People to know that they have credible leads and potential laundering of money with the movement of money might have been illegal involving hunter biden. That should have been said. There was enough time to do that prior to things ramping up in the election. Martha do you believe the information that is out there so far, that suggests that joe biden is not part who is a subject here, should have exonerated the attorney general from his guidelines the operates under the, you wouldnt want to release Something Like this so close to an election . Yeah, this is something where the attorney general, who certainly he is old school. He was the attorney general many, many years ago, before we were in the political atmosphere that we are. This called for a different response. And i think what we are going to see now is a lot of the details coming out, and people are going to be frustrated, they are going to be upset, because let me tell you, it is not just the laptop that triggered this investigation. When you have suspicious activity reports that are being filed by financial institutions, and you have the laptop, and then you have bobulinski, you have the makings of a fairly largescale investigation into the movement, Illegal Movement of money, that is involving multiple people. That is a conspiracy. Martha just very quickly, this is from John Solomons reporting, and email on Hunter Bidens laptop that was obtained by john solomon from one of the executives at Rosemont Seneca says to hunter biden, 2014, you joined the burisma board and we still need to amend your 2014 returns to reflect the unreported burisma income from approximately 400,00 400,000 exo your income in 2014 was close to 1. 2 million, and you see the rest of the numbers there. It is a lot of money we are talking about here, brett. What would sort of raise a lot of red flags for you there . Well, the amount is certainly substantial. In the end, we could be surprised and this could simply be a tax evasion or failure to report income, but im highly doubtful that is going to be the end result of this investigation. Bobulinskis information seems to be matching up with the fact that a lot of income was coming through, that hunter was at the helm, he was guiding and directing that income, and we know that china and other countries were at issue here, so i think this might just be the tip of the iceberg, martha. Martha yeah. And as we said, what exactly were they being paid for . And who was receiving the money . Brett tallman, great to have you with us tonight. Thank you, brett. Thank you, martha. Martha so, the Biden Transition Team held a meeting today, fox News Reporters are not called upon. They were not so hunter biden, instead asked questions like these. Watch. Is there anything more you can say about conversation of the Outgoing Administration . Whether the pipeline should go ahead . When will the president elect be getting the Covid Vaccine . Martha so, it is clear that the press admonished by biden back in october in this clip, still failing to ask these obviously now more than ever relevant questions. Remember this . I know you would ask that. I have no response. It is not a smear campaign. Right up your alley, what you always ask. Martha here now, Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow the Hoover Institute and author of the case for trump. I want to ask about the press response, but first i want to start with a question about the election. Do you think that if this information had been out there, these investigations have been confirmed before the election, do you think it would have made a difference . I think it probably wouldve. There are polls suggest maybe 89 wouldve been persuaded. We have an election were 50,000 strategically located votes, not much at all, would have changed the Electoral College count. I know attorney general barr did not want to put his finger on the scale, but joe biden and his team have put their fist on it, and by that, i mean they were using the silence of the doj to misrepresent the actuality of their own culpability. Not only did they recruit former Intelligence Officers to attest that this was some crazy russian collusion, that was a complete lie, that they repeatedly said the fact that they were not under investigation was proof of their innocence, that was deliberately misleading, and that was empowered by his silence. I think bill barr did not want to be an eric holder wing man to the president , or a loretta lynch, meet on the tarmac with someone. I think they smeared him very viciously and unfairly during the mueller investigation, but i think you should have told us, to balance reality, but very quickly, its part of a pattern, thats very disturbing, martha, because with this government, political, media nexus, we have a lot of misrepresentations. Suddenly, we were told before the election, there would be no stimulus in lives and livelihoods were in danger. After the election, its going to sail through. Suddenly, before the election on october 16th, pfizer said, you know, we were going to make a big announcement, here it is, we dont want to play politics about whether the vaccination is useful or safe. Suddenly, two weeks later, six days out from the election, oh, its safe, and we are going to use it, and by the way, we didnt have anything to do with operation warp speed, which was untrue. And then when you get to eric swalwell, we knew we being the government investigatory agencies knew he had been compromised and when you put antifa and blm that were rioting and lootig and doing this all summer and creating this landscape of chaos, and then suddenly come a week or so, they magically dissipated, and they still are, for the most part, that creates a disparate among the electorate, why were all of these things kept and what is the pattern . And the pattern is the media fused with the Progressive Agenda and the bureaucratic state. That sounds conspiratorial, but we did not get all the facts necessary to make to make the proper judgment. We didnt have enough criteria. And yet, this president may enter office with the most ethnicallethically compromised d legally vulnerable president we have seen in our lifetime. And it is very ironic because there was an arrogance about joe biden that donald trump was the one who was guilty of collusion, when he had been the most investigated president in history, and he had never there wasnt even a hint that he had done anything wrong with russia the entire time this trus sitting right before all of our eyes, and we were deliberately and willfully blind. Its a disgrace, anyway, it really is. Martha really, i think it makes you look back at the questioning that was done and the lack of access to joe biden, the dearth of interviews that he did. It now makes it a little more clear why that might have been the case. It was not all about covid come apparently. Victor davis hanson, good to have you here tonight. Big news tonight, we now know the Supreme Court will hear a texasly challenge will not hear the texasly challenge to overturn the president ial election. Making news tonight, that seems to have hit the road bump. Shannon bream is here with the decision. 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In moments, we are going to speak with two of them, congressman matt gaetz is here with his reaction, and congressman Michael Waltz. But first, fox news at night anchor Shannon Bream with the background on the courts decision. What did we learn from the court tonight, shannon . Martha, as most Court Watchers expected, they said no, to texas, you can go after georgia, pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan about how they voted. Those four states pushed back saying if you take away our vote is cast by 39 million voters, you are just in franchising th them. Taking away things like possibly witnesses or signatures, those f things, changing the mail in process, your water down your votes and made it possible for there to be and that affects texas. You have to get five of the justice does is to say they will hear it. There was a semidissent from justice alito, saying they thought the court had to hear matters of original jurisdiction in state versus state is one of those rare ones, but for now, thats the end of the road with his texas case. He states, georgia, wisconsin, arizona, there are still life controversies there, case is proceeding, including the fact they are going to skip a step in wisconsin. The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear the challenge there at noon tomorrow local time, on a saturday, so it is moving expeditiously in these states. They know the clock is ticking. Were watching georgia and arizona for you, as well, mart martha. Martha yeah. Shannon, we have a response from the biden team. The Supreme Court has decisive and speedily rejected the latest of donald trump and his allies attacks on the democratic process, they say, and they go on to say its no surprise that that was the outcome that they expected. So, you know, in terms of any recourse, certifications are supposed to happen on monday. The window is closed, correct . With the exception of the cases that you just mentioned . Yeah, i mean, it is a very lastditch effort for those three court battles, those three in particular that are bubbling up in the states. Yeah, that elect our vote is going to be cast in just a matter of days. It is not certified until january, actually, so the trump team is continuing to argue we still have a little more daylight to argue these cases. Well see. But the electors are set to cast votes next week and it does not look like at any point there is a core that will step in to stop those boats come and relieve the Supreme Court would have been the place to try to get that done, but for now, no options left. Martha thank you very much, Shannon Bream joining us this evening. Also here tonight, congressman matt gaetz and congressman Michael Waltz of florida, who are among the more than 120 other House Republicans, Kevin Mccarthy also joined that group today, who were backing texasled bill. So, bid, i should say. Congressman gaetz, lets hear your reaction to read this news tonight from the Supreme Court. Well, the true casualty of the courts decision is an erosion of the power of state legislators to make election laws. The principal challenge offered by texas was there were changes made in the account the state legislators, but instead were made by other officials that might not have been invested in our power, so that is deeply disappointing t to a spirit of e context here is if the state of georgia, for example, were polluting a river that was flowing into florida, the Supreme Court would have original jurisdiction, and our argument is that if georgia is polluting pallets, if they are polluting our election process without procedures, then the court similarly should take that up. All eyes on january 6th, i expect there will be a little debate and discourse in the congress as we go through the progress of certifying electors. We still think there is evidence that needs to be considered. Remember, this is not a case of the Trump Campaign failing to produce evidence. Its a failure of any court to exercise jurisdiction sufficiently to allow us to produce evidence. 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