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Democrats are united. i would like to see a vote to have hunter biden do actually a hearing and address us today if possible. does my friend yield? yes. thank you. well, the fact of the matter is, mr. biden showed up this morning and was willing to show up weeks ago to appear at a public hearing, which he has led to believe was his option. and today is all about a combination of hoots ba and delusional theory. we heard some of it from the gentle lady from georgia. it s a bunch of people who defied subpoenas themselves now want to have a contempt citation ....
Take lightly. it brings no joy for us to do this but the president s son broke the law and must be held accountable in the same way anybody else would. i urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to do so. my last message to you, hunter biden, you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. will the lady yield for a question? sure. i do want to commend the general lady who was the only republican who stood up and voted to hold in contempt the republican members of the house who blatantly and categorically refused to comply with subpoenas that came from the bipartisan january 6th committee. i would like to ask my friend, miss mace, from south carolina whether she is aware of all the case law which says that the committee has to engage in good faith interaction with the witnesses they called and supposed to arrive at a solution. what do you think about the fact the chairman on multiple ....
And conflating these so-called j-six committee. not a committee. no jurisdiction. no authority whatsoever under the law of anything, to conflate that with these proceedings today is an a bomb nation. my friends on the other side of the aisle no what they re doing, should be ashamed and embarrassed but will not be. regardless, we must forge on for the sake of this republic. thank you, mr. chairman. i feel like i m an alice in wonderland after that. every american receives the same application of the law and it does not matter what your last name is. so i guess that means if your last name is perry, that subpoenas apply to you as well, lawful subpoenas. now, i appreciate the gentleman ....
Republicans have been out of compliance with your own subpoenas. he went back to the january 6th committee and talked about how scott perry the republican from pennsylvania and jim jordan and others didn t comply with subpoenas issued by that committee. they never referred them to the justice department. that s new ground there to have somebody, a fellow house member, held in contempt of congress. that s never happened before. you could send them to the ethics committee. there is apples and oranges here. here is the problem for hunter biden. they will hold him in contempt of congress. this resolution will move out of committee later today at some point. put it on the floor, we re told next week was the tentative plan here and here will be the problem for the justice department and matthew graves who is the u.s. attorney for the district of columbia. when there were other witnesses who did not agree to appear ....
Meant, he said that and now it s up there for everyone to debate again. of course, also within these subpoenas, andy can speak more to this there should be room for good faith negotiation, which is why both representatives comer and jordan said okay, fine, you can testify publicly, no problem. we need you to testify sit down for a deposition first with staff attorneys and get to the bottom of our questions there. they did make an effort to move towards the middle on that front. hunter could have publicly testified provided that he sat down first with staff attorneys. but dana to your point it is a big public relations stunt. no one is talking about trump s arguments for tomorrow but i also think it helps the former president since he had such a bad press today yesterday. maybe he is happy about it. bill: andy, jump back in here. your name was invoked. well, if you defy a subpoena and risking the threat of ....