general assembly. comer thinks he has some information as to how deep hunter biden s ties with china were. do we need uncover as many stones as possible to find out what s really going on here? >> well, look, i mean, the house committee will get to the bottom of what s going on with hunter biden and i don t know the specifics of his case, but again, the idea that the chinese were using politicians or family members of politicians or former politicians and wall street executives to do their bidding, that s nothing new. we have seen it happening for years, and going on for 40 years in this country, and it needs to come to an end. we have to stop letting the communist party of china have so much influence in the country, so i think these investigations are useful but i don t have any specific information on hunter biden and again, i don t think the president is compromised, but i do think he needs to take a much stronger position with china and there have to be consequences for the things china has done, whether it s genocide, floating the balloon over our country and invading
and so that change is going to be really critical. i think we are at a tipping point. we had 32 years from 1960 to 1992 in which we were governed by presidents of the greatest generation. now 32 years of presidents from the baby boomer generation. people in america say really, the best we can do is a 78-year-old and 82-year-old at a time the country faces big challenges, and i think that may be enough to draw a democrat or two more significant than mary anne williamson into the race. >> gillian: i want to get your take on vivek ramaswamy, single issue candidate, anti-wokism, he wants to bring merit back to the country. >> he s got a very, you know, sort of patriotic american upbringing, parents were immigrants from india, he s been very successful in business, he s 36 years old. look, everybody is -- all you have to do to run for president
must never again occur. sounds like tough talk, but questions as to just how tough biden can talk with china because of what we have learned about his son hunter s business dealings in china. do you believe that president biden is compromised on the issue of being able to get tough on china? >> well, look, i appreciate antony blinken s tough talk and i think tony understands the issues here. but there are no consequences for the chinese. so the tough talk without consequences doesn t do a lot for us. as far as president biden goes, look, i don t think president biden is compromised, i think he s a president of the united states, i don t think he s a chinese asset any more than the russia russia russia rochoax wi president trump, but chinese have been dealing with politicians and former politician, influence on wall street, people like hank paulson, basically a call to go back to the bad old days when we
thought, to hear him just saw unequivocally he does not think the president is compromised. may be the first republican on the program who has said that straight up. >> john: he s in position to know a lot about china and about the presidency, he may have information that the rest of us don t have, but oversight committee is not going to stop its investigation. it wants -- it believes it has a very large onion and wants to peel back the layers and see what s there. dealing with potentially influence peddling, it s something a lot of people want to look into. >> gillian: and you have to dig deep to get answers. you are not going to find the answers on a piece of paper, unfortunately, or single email. but this coming up also, this massive winter storm now is set to bring really heavy snow and ice across the united states. more than 1,000 flights are already canceled now in anticipation of that weather. we ll take a look and how folks in the midwest are busy preparing. >> john: the supreme court hearing its second major case in
this study? >> john: the original journey to the center of the earth, some giant lizard lived down there. >> gillian: maybe a marshmallow, it could be anything. new next hour, president reagan took on the united states communist foes with the doctrine of peace through strength. it s a lesson larry kudlow says he wants president biden to learn. why larry says america is not leading with either peace or strength. plus, retired colonel davis, marc thiessen, and check in with east palestine resident we met with last week. get ready for a. the rate on credit cards is now over 22%. if you want to save hundreds of dollars every month, pay off the balances on your high-rate cards with a lower rate va home loan from newday usa and get the financial peace of mind every veteran deserves. no one takes care of veterans like newday usa.
seen as a candidate, the shorter period of his vulnerability and the greater opportunity to build a strong base before he becomes yet another politician. >> gillian: so mary anne williamson is allegedly going to declare candidacy on march 4th, all the politicos are predicting she s going to run. so far as you mentioned, the only dem lining up to challenge biden. it does seem that all the other potential democrats have sort of promised, pledged to stay out of the race until biden makes a decision and say they are not going to go up against him. do you give them some kudos for political discipline? >> well, i do say the democrats are disciplined but i think there s a very strong likelihood by the end of the year, somebody is going to step forward and say with due respect to the president of the united states, i believe our country and our party would be better off given a choice and i intend to offer that on behalf of a new generation of leadership.
rush to do it. governor desantis has a legislative session going on, travelling a bit around the country laying out a message. he can sort of lay behind the log and talk to a lot of people and basically say i m thinking about running, what do you think if i do, and that s an important part of the dance that people are involved in. people like to be asked for their ideas whether or not somebody should run before they run. the moment they declare, it s the end to saying you are so important i wanted to talk to you before i decided to run. the president, on the other hand, has some problems of his own creation. he told us that he was going to go home and talk to his family over the christmas holidays and make a decision, and then he was going to wait until after the state of the union address, and blah blah blah, all of which has led us to believe there is an apparatus, we are now getting stories who is going to play a role in the campaign and who they are talking to. he is sort of creating the expectation he needs to get the campaign going but answer the incumbent president. the longer he is seen as president and the shorter he is
lowell has offered to meet with the committee, but some say it s a delaying tactic. delaware has been investigating hunter biden for years, declined to comment when asked by fox about the status of his investigation. >> would you be willing to give us an update on the hunter biden investigation? >> no as to the last. >> back on capitol hill it is clear the new republican majority is running out of patience with the president s son. >> we are not going to really take too much time dilly dallying around the issues of getting something accomplished and on the record. if it has to go as far as subpoenas, that s probably where it s going to end up. >> also a letter to a serbian official who once served as president of the u.n. general assembly. the committee is asking him for documents related to hunter biden and to participate in an interview with committee staff. chairman james comer calling him a key witness in the
tonight to hand over documents, or else face a potential subpoena. >> gillian: former national security adviser to president trump, robert o brien standing by. >> john: steve on nato s response to the russia and china partnership, and mike starts us off with the latest from the d.c. newsroom. are house republicans serious about issuing a subpoena to hunter biden? >> they are, john. interested in digging into biden family business dealings, hunter a key figure. and some members of congress say they are close to a serious next step. >> always going to be a last resort. if our hand is forced, yeah, i think a subpoena will be issued. >> it seems likely hunter biden is not going to cooperate with house oversight demands. his attorney said initially the request lacks a legitimate legislative purpose.
and now his son is saying it was they, not i. >> john: but it s still, only what he heard. other people have heard different things. mark, see where it goes. we ll keep following it. thanks for joining us. >> gillian: take a look at this. arizona rancher who denies killing a mexican man on his property appeared in court. he asked the judge to set him free. who he says was the real killer coming up. >> john: transportation secretary pete buttigieg finally deciding it s time to head to ohio as the biden administration faces growing criticism over its response to the toxic train wreck there. congressman pat murphy ahead with reaction to that. >> i found that out this morning in one of the briefings that he was in the ukraine giving millions of dollars away to people over there and not to us, i m furious. lower your monthly payments with the 3 c s. pay down your credit cards. pay off your car loan. consolidate your debt with a va home loan from newday.