And breaking today, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is now
inviting Hunter Biden to appear at a public hearing,
along with a few of his business associates,
including Tony Bobolinsky and Devin Archer.
Now, remember Hunter and his team?
They have been demanding a public hearing for months.
Originally, they said that he wouldn't show up for anything
other than a public hearing.
But now, Well, not so sure.
After his deposition, Hunter's lawyer said,
quote, there's nothing left to say.
Oh, there's plenty questions to ask.
So it's to be determined and terms of whether Hunter
will show up or not.
My guess is that was nothing more at the time
than APR stunt to get him out of the deposition
here with the very latest House Oversight committee Chairman James
Comer is with us now.
The the general practice is that if you subpoena somebody,
they come in, they give a deposition,
they give it underoath both Republicans and Democrats.
So my understanding is you get an hour each per
side,
then you go an hour you switch on and off,
correct. That's correct.
How did that, how did that go when Hunter was
in there in your view?
Yeah, I think it went great.
You know the Republicans, we went the first hour,
we asked a lot of questions that first hour substantive
questions about specific transactions
with some of these shady
LLC's that the that the
president's son had and we got him on record.
I'm not going to say yet whether or not we
believe the
the truthfulness of what he said about some of the
transactions and and some of the wires and some of
the sources of the money.
But we did that and that's what a
deposition's all about. Then the Democrats had an hour and
they spent they only took 20 minutes of their hour
and they were telling them how proud they were were
of him that he overcame his drug addiction and all
that.
I mean it was it was embarrassing how the Democrats,
they're not serious about an investigation.
They're not serious about preventing influence peddling.
They're not serious about holding one accountable.
But we did that deposition.
We got a lot of substantive answers.
But what we found was his answers,
believe it or not, Sean are very different from what
his associates answers were when asked the same question and
the questions revolving around Joe Biden's involvement.
So we want to bring everyone in together
and try to iron out the discrepancies in in testimony.
So we brought him, we're going to bring in three
of our of Hunter Biden's former business partners as well
as Hunter Biden and hopefully we can
figure out what the real truth is and the American
people can see it live and and in a transparent
manner.
Why do I suspect that that was APR ploy to
try to get him out of the deposition where the
real questioning takes place cause a lot of things probably
that you've been asking him behind closed doors underoath are
not things that maybe the public could know about.
So I I think it's doubtful
now I understand the issue of criminal referrals has come
up.
Are you prepared to bring criminal referrals to some of
the people involved in this
family endeavor, if you will?
I'm very prepared, Sean. The the purpose of this investigation
was to get the truth to the American people and
then hold people accountable for wrongdoing.
And we found a lot of wrongdoing.
We found a lot of criminal activity involve multiple people
involved in these schemes.
So we're going to do what we can to hold
them accountable.
You know, at the end of the day,
what does accountability look like?
It looks like criminal referrals.
It looks like referring people to the Department of Justice.
And if Merrick Garland's Department of Justice won't take
any potential criminal referrals seriously,
then maybe the next president
with a new attorney general will.
At the end of the day,
my goal has always been accountability,
and I think that's how you actually hold people accountable.
Look, we've got to set an example
for people that commit crimes.
And in addition to the crime,
Sean, what we found is a cover up.
I would like to name names of people that were
involved in the cover up.
Look, the Bidens have been investigated by the Securities and
Exchange Commission,
by the IRS, by the FBI,
by multiple US attorneys in multiple districts within the Department
of Justice,
but yet nothing ever happened.
We need to hold people in the government accountable because
we have government agencies.
We spend a lot of money
paying these investigators, paying for these investigations and people should
be held accountable.
We should not have a two tier system of justice
in America.
And by looking at all the Biden activity it's obvious
we do have a two tier chest just criminal justice
system in America.
Can you explain his answer on the WhatsApp message?
I believe it. He said that he was out of
his mind,
either high on drugs or drunk at the time.
I've looked at the message many times.
It seems fairly coherent for somebody that's claiming to be
out of their mind or high on on drugs or
or
or, you know, stoned out of their mind or drunk.
And it's interesting because my understanding is he didn't remember
a single thing,
didn't remember if he sent the message,
didn't even know if the message really came from him.
But he did remember one thing,
that his father wasn't there when he sent the message.
I find that highly suspicious.
He forgot everything else about the message except the fact
that Joe wasn't there.
That I remember.
Yeah, he played the drug card often when he would
get backed in a corner.
He never pled the 5th but when he didn't want
to answer a question he said,
look I was high, I was on drugs.
I can't remember anything but I do remember my dad
wasn't there.
He went on to say when when pressed further in
the deposition and you can do that in the deposition.
That's why I wanted to do the deposition first.
You're you're not constrained by that 5 minute clock in
a in a committee hearing and and we said well
you know
how do you remember that your dad wasn't there but
you don't remember sending the message.
He said well I don't believe I sent it to
that particular Chinese person that that last name that's a
common name in China and I think I sent it
to another person. But what's odd,
you look at the, the at the WhatsApp stream and
that person kept responding back to to Hunter Biden.
They were communicating back and forth,
it's obvious. And at the end of the day,
what Hunter Biden was doing was extorting money from that
Chinese national.
Days after that WhatsApp message,
the $5,000,000 was transferred into his bank account.
So for Hunter Biden to say he didn't remember sending
the message or he sent it to the other person,
but his dad wasn't there.
That's all he remembers. You know,
no one in America would believe that.
And and that money was sent only days later,
if my memory serves me right.
Correct. That's correct. That's correct.
Well, well, let me then ask you this question because
I think this is important.
Can you confirm and has your committee confirmed
whether or not Hunter was at Joe's house and whether
Joe was there at the time that the messages went
back and forth?
If you look at the laptop
that particular day, there are pictures
of Hunter in the house on that particular day.
Now we we haven't confirmed whether or not Joe Biden
was at the house,
but it was. But Hunter Biden was at Joe Biden's
house that particular day,
according to pictures on the laptop.
So, you know, the evidence would point that there's a
high possibility that Joe Biden was,
in fact, sitting beside his son.
But Hunter said underoath that even though he was high
on drugs,
he couldn't remember anything except that his dad wasn't sitting
beside him when he sent that message.
That's very convenient for his father.
Isn't it? Pretty amazing? All right,
we'll look forward. We're going to wait for those criminal
referrals and see what happens.
James Comer, thank you.