Hearing ERUPTS over Hunter Biden's surprise appearance
GREAT TO HAVE YOU BACK. WE HAVE BREAKING NEWS ON CAPITOL HILL. LOVE TO HAVE YOU BACK. >> Bill: GET THIS NOW. HUNTER BIDEN IS ON CAPITOL HILL AND SO FAR AS I KNOW, DANA, THIS WAS NOT PLANNED. >> Dana: DAVID SPUNT IS IN LOS ANGELES. I’M CONFUSED. >> TWO WEEKS AGO WE WERE SITTING HERE AND WE’LL RERACK IT. TWO COMMITTEES RIGHT NOW LOOKING AT THIS RESOLUTION TO HOLD HUNTER BIDEN IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS, ALL RIGHT? WE WERE SITTING HERE A COUPLE WEEKS AGO HE SHOWS UP ON THE HILL AND GOES TO THE SENATE SIDE OF
THE CAPITOL, DELIVERS A STATEMENT AND WALKS AWAY. THAT TICKED OFF A LOT OF PEOPLE. THIS IS THE RANKING MINORITY MEMBER OF THIS COMMITTEE WITH JAMES COMER. SO HUNTER BIDEN IS AT THAT TABLE. IS THAT RIGHT, GUYS? IS THAT WHAT WE SAW A MOMENT AGO? HE IS INSIDE THIS ROOM WITH THIS COMMITTEE. LET’S WATCH. >> CHAIRMAN URGED MR. BIDEN TO COME UP HERE AT A PUBLIC COMMITTEE HEARING ON SEPTEMBER 13TH ON NEWS MAX THE CHAIRMAN STATED HUNTER BIDEN IS MORE THAN WELCOME TO COME IN FRONT OF THE COMMITTEE. IF HE WANTS TO CLEAR HIS GOOD NAME,
IF HE WANTS TO COME AND SAY THERE WEREN’T 20 SHELL COMPANIES HE IS INVITED TODAY. WE’LL DROP EVERYTHING. OCTOBER 31ST ON A NATIONWIDE PODCAST THE CHAIRMAN STATED WE HAVE MOUNTAINS OF
ROB, IF THE BIDEN FAMILY WANTS TO JOIN TONY BOBULINSKI IN AN OFFICIAL OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE HEARING. AND ANSWER QUESTIONS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE, THAT INVITATION IS OPEN NOW. THEY CAN COME ON IN AND DO THAT. NOVEMBER 28TH HUNTER BIDEN THROUGH HIS LAWYER AGREED TO CHAIRMAN COMER’S MULTIPLE PUBLIC REQUESTS. HE AGREED TO APPEAR PRECISELY AT A PUBLIC HEARING UNDER OATH TO ANSWER THE COMMITTEE’S QUESTIONS ON DECEMBER 13TH. EXACTLY WHAT OUR GOOD COLLEAGUES, THE REPUBLICANS WHO HAD INFORMATION ABOUT JANUARY 6TH NEVER AGREED TO DO. THEY NEVER AGREED TO TESTIFY ANYWHERE UNDER OATH ABOUT WHAT THEY KNEW. THE LETTER
THAT CAME IN FROM MR. BIDEN EMBRACED THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING A PUBLIC PROCEEDING THAT QUOTE WOULD PREVENT SELECTIVE LEAKS, MANIPULATED TRANSCRIPTS, DOCTORED EXHIBITS OR ONE-SIDED PRESS STATEMENTS IN LIGHT OF THE COMMITTEE’S PAST USE OF CLOSED DOOR SESSIONS TO MANIPULATE, EVEN DISTORT THE FACTS, MISINFORM THE PUBLIC. >> I HAVE AN INQUIRY. >> STATE YOUR POINT. >> MR. CHAIRMAN, DON’T WE HAVE HOUSE RULES AND COMMITTEE RULES REGARDING SUBPOENAS AND THEN RULES ABOUT HAVING HEARINGS AND HAVING QUESTIONS WITH WITNESSES THAT MUST BE FOLLOWED? CAN YOU STATE THE RULES, MR. CHAIRMAN? >> YOUR TIME WAS EXPIRED. >> I WOULD
LIKE TO KNOW THE RULES OF THE HOUSE AND OUR COMMITTEE. >> THEY ARE AVAILABLE TO EVERY MEMBER. THE RULES STATE FOR DEPOSITION IF THAT’S WHAT YOU ARE ASKING, THREE DAYS NOTICE, YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE STENOGRAPHER AND ALL OF THAT. >> JUST TO CLARIFY WE CAN’T HAVE SOMEONE WALK IN. >> DO ANY OTHER MEMBERS WISH TO BE HEARD? >> MR. CHAIRMAN, I DID ENDURE MULTIPLE INTERRUPTIONS IN MY OPENING. >> I WILL GIVE YOU 30 MORE SECONDS. >> THE CHAIRMAN REFUSED TO TAKE YES FOR AN ANSWER FROM HUNTER BIDEN. INSTEAD ON DECEMBER 1ST THEY PULLED A
BAIT AND SWITCH. CHANGED THE TERMS OF THEIR REQUEST. THEY REJECTED HIS OFFER OR HIS ACCEPTANCE OF THEIR OFFER AND INSISTED THAT HE NOW COME IN AND SIT FOR A SECRET CLOSED DOOR DEPOSITION. ON DECEMBER 6TH HUNTER BIDEN’S LAWYER REITERATED THAT HUNTER BIDEN WAS WILLING TO ACCEPT THE CHAIR’S ORIGINAL REQUEST AND ONCE AGAIN OFFERED TO APPEAR ON DECEMBER 13TH OR ANY OTHER DATE IN DECEMBER TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS PERTINENT AND RELEVANT TO THE SUBJECT MATTER AND RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT CLOSED DOOR SESSIONS. THAT’S WHAT BRINGS US TO TODAY, MR. CHAIRMAN. HE HAS MATERIALLY SUBSTANTIALLY IN GOOD FAITH
COMPLIED WITH WHAT YOUR REQUESTS WERE. >> HE COMPLIED WITH THE SUBPOENA, YOUR TIME IS EXPIRED. DO ANY OTHER MEMBERS WISH TO BE HEARD? CHAIR RECOGNIZES MISS MAZE FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. >> MY FIRST QUESTION IS WHO BRIBED HUNTER BIDEN TO BE HERE TODAY IS MY FIRST QUESTION. SECOND QUESTION, YOU ARE THE EPITOME OF WHITE PRIVILEGE COMING INTO THE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE IGNORING A CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENA TO BE DEPOSED. WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? YOU HAVE NO BALLS TO COME UP HERE AND — >> POINT OF INQUIRY. >> MR. CHAIRMAN — >> THE LADY IS RECOGNIZEED. >> IF THE
GENERAL LADY WANTS TO HEAR FROM HUNTER BIDEN WE CAN HEAR FROM HIM RIGHT NOW AND HEAR FROM HUNTER BIDEN. WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? >> ORDER, ORDER, ORDER. >> ARE WOMEN ALLOWED TO SPEAK OR NOT? YOU KEEP INTERRUPTING ME. >> I KEEP INTERRUPTING THE CHAIRMAN. >> I THINK HUNTER BIDEN SHOULD BE ARRESTED RIGHT HERE AND NOW AND GO STRAIGHT TO JAIL. OUR NATION IS FOUNDED ON THE RULE OF LAW. AND THE PREMISE THAT THE LAW APPLIES EQUALLY TO EVERYONE NO MATTER WHAT YOUR LAST NAME. >> POINT OF ORDER, MR. CHAIRMAN. >> DOESN’T MATTER WHO YOU
ARE. >> POINT OF ORDER. >> DONALD TRUMP JUNIOR — >> STATE YOUR POINT. >> MR. POINT OF ORDER IS THIS. ARE WE GOING TO CONTINUE ON WITH THIS BLATANT INTERRUPTION? THIS IS ABSURD AND INAPPROPRIATE. I INTEND TO GIVE MY STATEMENT. I DON’T INTEND TO HAVE ANYBODY INTERRUPT IT. I WON’T INTERRUPT YOUR STATEMENTS. I THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE DECORUM AND COURT COURTESY AND DON’T ACT LIKE A BUNCH OF NIMRODS. >> THE ASSERTION I INTERRAPTED. I GOT PERMISSION TO SPEAK FROM THE CHAIRMAN. I SPOKE. I WAS INTERRUPTED YET AGAIN BY THE GENTLEMAN WHO DOESN’T CHOOSE TO GO
THROUGH THE CHAIR AND FOLLOW PROPER ORDER. I ENCOURAGE US. I THINK IF WE ARE GOING TO HAVE ANY RESPECT AT ALL WE NEED TO HAVE PROPER DECORUM. >> WELL SAID, WELL SAID. >> I WOULD LIKE TO FINISH. >> THE RULES ARE EVERYONE WILL BE RECOGNIZED FOR FIVE MINUTES. ANYONE THAT WANTS TO BE RECOGNIZED WILL BE RECOGNIZED FOR FIVE MINUTES. MS. MAZE. >> IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO YOU ARE, WHERE YOU COME FROM OR WHO YOUR FATHER IS OR YOUR LAST NAME. YES, I’M LOOKING AT YOU HUNTER BIDEN AS I AM SPEAKING TO YOU. YOU ARE NOT
ABOVE THE LAW AT ALL. THE FACTS IN THIS CASE ARE CRYSTAL CLEAR. THIS COMMITTEE USED AND ISSUED A LAWFUL SUBPOENA TO HUNTER BIDEN, A CRITICAL WITNESS IN THIS INVESTIGATION INTO BIDEN FAMILY CORRUPTION. HUNTER BIDEN AND HIS LAWYERS DID NOT CLAIM PRIVILEGE OF ANY KIND. HE HAS NONE. THEY DIDN’T CONTEST OF THE REASONS FOR ISSUING THE SUBPOENA. THEY CLEARLY ARE LEGITIMATE AND YET HE REFUSED TO COMPLY. TRUMP’S FAMILY MEMBERS, DONALD TRUMP JUNIOR, HE DID NOT DEFY CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENA AND SHOWED UP MULTIPLE TIMES FOR MULTIPLE DEPOSITIONS FOR SEVERAL HOURS. IN DOING SO HUNTER BIDEN BROKE THE LAW.
HE DID SO DELIBERATELY. YOU DID SO FLAGRANTLY. YOU SHOWED UP ON THE HILL ON THE SENATE SIDE THE DAY OF THAT CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENA TO DEFY IT AND SPIT IN THE FACE OF THIS COMMITTEE. THAT’S WHAT YOU DID. THE QUESTION THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE ASKING US IS WHAT IS HUNTER BIDEN SO AFRAID OF? WHY CAN’T YOU SHOW UP FOR A CONGRESSIONAL DEPOSITION? YOU ARE HERE FOR A POLITICAL STUNT. THIS IS JUST A PR STUNT TO YOU. A GAME THAT YOU ARE PLAYING WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. YOU ARE PLAYING WITH THE TRUTH. HUNTER BIDEN WASN’T AFRAID TO
SELL ACCESS TO JOE BIDEN TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER WHEN HE WAS IN ELECTED OFFICE OR AFRAID TO TRADE ON THE BIDEN BRAND AND SHARE THE ILL GOTTEN GAINS WITH MEMBERS OF HIS PROBLEM OR COMPROMISE THE INTEGRITY OF THE PRESIDENCY AND VICE PRESIDENCY BY INVOLVING JOE BIDEN IN SHADY BUSINESS DEALS WITH FOREIGN ADVERSARIES. BUT YOU’RE TOO AFRAID TO SHOW UP FOR A DEPOSITION AND YOU STILL CAN’T TODAY. I BELIEVE THAT HUNTER BIDEN SHOULD BE HELD IN CONTEMPT AND HAULED OFF TO JAIL RIGHT NOW BECAUSE IT WASN’T LONG AGO MY FRIENDS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE
AISLE THAT YOU BELIEVED IN THE POWER OF A CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENA. NOT LONG AGO AT ALL. YOU BELIEVED IN HOLDING THOSE WHO REFUSED TO COMPLY WITH CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENA ACCOUNTABLE. AND I STOOD WITH EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU. I AM THE ONLY MEMBER IN THIS ROOM TODAY WHO HAS HELD A MEMBER OF MY OWN PARTY IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS FOR NOT SHOWING UP FOR A SUBPOENA. I SEE NOTHING BUT COMPLETE HYPOCRISY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE. THE RANKING MEMBER OF THIS COMMITTEE SO ELOQUENTLY PUT IT THE LESSON IS PLEASE TELL YOUR CHILDREN OUT THERE
IN AMERICA IF YOU GET A SUBPOENA, TO GO BEFORE CONGRESS, GO. YOU HAVE A LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY TO DO SO. SO THE HYPOCRISY IS STUNNING. WHAT ARE WE TO TELL OUR CHILDREN TODAY? THERE IS NOTHING THE OTHER SIDE CAN SAY WITH A STRAIGHT FACE. AS THE ONLY MEMBER OF THIS COMMITTEE TO VOTE TO HOLD A MEMBER IN CONTEMPT OF MY OWN PARTY LEFT ME BE CLEAR THIS SHOULD NOT BE A PARTISAN ISSUE. IF CONGRESS ISSUES A SUBPOENA, YOU SHOW UP. PERIOD. THIS IS NOT A RESPONSIBILITY WE 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 OCCASIONS GAVE THIS WITNESS THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME BEFORE THE FULL COMMITTEE AND HE AGREED TO THAT? >> WE ISSUED A CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENA. I KNOW WITH YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL LAW BACKGROUND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS AND HE SHOULD HAVE SHOWED
UP. BECAUSE OF YOUR STATEMENTS YOU SHOULD BE VOTING TO HOLD THIS MAN IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS TODAY RIGHT NOW. IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE CONSISTENT ON YOUR OWN POLICIES AND YO
