Its citizens in pursuit of that sacred Duty House Republicans have worked tirelessly on behalf of the American people for months to deliver transparency following the money and the facts to uncover what I believe will prove to be one of the largest political corruption scandals of our lifetime and
Potentially in our nation’s history this impeachment inquiry led by the chairman here today Jamie comr Jim Jordan and Jason Smith continues to provide the American people the answers they both demand and deserve they have found over 10 million doll from China Russia Ukraine and Romania funneled through the corrupt influence pedaling schemes to
Line the pockets of the Biden crime family the doj FBI and other federal agencies mobilized to play coverup and attack Biden’s leading political opponent Donald Trump in a desperate effort to distract from Joe Biden’s failings and Joe Biden has lied continuously to the American people
About how he was not only aware of but was involved with and financially benefited from his family’s corrupt influence pedaling schemes look around this room on these poster boards the evidence is here and unlike Joe Biden the bank records do not lie the Biden crime family sold out America and the
American people have had enough and while extreme Democrats pursued a sham impeachment of Donald Trump focused on baseless lies driven by partisan politics House Republicans have and will continue to follow the facts uncovering more damning evidence each and every day this week the house Republican conference is unveiling an impeachment
Inquiry website providing the public with a One-Stop shop for updates from each of our committees and the evidence they are uncovering it also includes a timeline which lays out exactly what the Biden crime family did to get us to this point transparency is the Hallmark of
America with each new fact we find it becomes more clear that Joe Biden is compromised and unfit to lead I’m honored to pass it over to our chairman who have worked so hard on their committees on behalf of the American people and I’m going to start with our oversight chairman Jamie
Coler thank you Elise Joe Biden has repeatedly lied to the American people about his family’s corrupt influence pedaling schemes our investigation has revealed how Joe Biden you up participated in and benefited from his family cashing in on the Biden name around the world first President Biden told the American people he never
Spoke to his son about his family’s business dealings that was a lie President Biden spoke by phone attended dinners had coffee with his son’s foreign business associates these individuals include Russian and kazaki oligarch a barisma executive and a Chinese National who funneled Millions to his son President Biden claimed there
Was an absolute wall between his official government duties as vice president and his family but there was no such wall the door was wide open to his family’s influence p schemes but Joe Biden allowed his son to catch a ride on Air Force 2 at least a
Dozen times to sell the Biden brand around the world the the National Archives has also identified the office of Vice President emailed with the Biden family and their businesses over 29,000 times however the White House is withholding these emails from Congress in addition to the 82,000 pages of ponm emails 82
2,000 Pages President Biden claimed his family didn’t receive money from China but we all know they did President Biden’s son brother sister-in-law and daughter-in-law collectively received Millions from CCP linked entities we’ve also revealed how Joe Biden received $40,000 in laundered China money in the form of a personal check from his
Sister-in-law the White House and corporate media continue to move the goal post as they seek to cover up for President Biden and his family but Nate make no mistake Financial records emails text messages and witness testimony reveal that the Biden family Enterprise is centered on Joe Biden’s political career and
Connections Joe Biden you about participated and benefited from these schemes this is a national security threat at the highest level of government and Americans demand accountability for the Biden corruption over the next two months our committees will interview members of the Biden family and their Associates about this
Record of evidence we expect full compliance with our lawfully issued subpoenas no one is above the law even if your last name is Biden our committee will first interview and depose Witnesses we then of course would welcome Hunter Biden to testify to public hearing at a future date
Democrats should have no concern with first deposing and interviewing Witnesses This Is How They conducted their impeachment inquiry of former president Trump and the January 6 committee President Biden’s pattern of Lies corruption and obstruction Demand Action from Congress we will continue to follow the facts and hold President
Biden accountable to the American people it’s now my pleasure to introduce the chairman of the Judiciary Committee Jim dord uh thank you Jamie this story is as old as as old as time uh you have a politician who does certain things those actions benefit his his family financially and then there’s an effort
To sweep it all into the rug and we know this has happened the best example is to use the Ukrainian Energy company barisma four key facts Hunter Biden gets put on the board of barisma fact number one fact number two he’s not qualified to be
On the board he said so himself in an ABC interview he said he got the job because of his last name fact number three the executives at barisma asked Hunter Biden specifically will you weigh in with folks in DC to help us deal with the pressure we are under a few days
Later Joe Biden gets on a plane flies to ke and announces that you will not get the money that was already approved unless you fire the prosecutor who was applying the pressure that all happens that all happens those key facts happen and those facts are confirmed by some of
The evidence we’ve uncovered already already this 1023 form where the confidential human source told the FBI and it was recorded in this form that those are the key facts and now it’s important we got a lot of those key facts when we interview interviewed one of Hunter Biden’s business partners Mr
Archer it’s important we talk to the others we need to talk to Eric scherwin we need to talk to Rob Walker we need to talk to Tony balinski and we were in conversations with their lawyers and we think those are going to happen and we
Need to talk to Jim Biden who was also in business with Hunter Biden those things need to happen and then as the chairman just said as chairman CER just said we will uh have Hunter Biden in a deposition and frankly I think in a in an open hearing I think that would be
That would be great that’s what needs to happen so the American people get the facts get the truth and we can make a decision on how we move forward as a conference with that I would recognize the the next chair the chairman from the Ways and Means Committee Mr
Smith thank you all for being here today thank you chair stepanic for for having us most Americans they work hard to provide for their families they follow the law they pay their taxes but the Biden family has been playing by different rules two Brave whistleblowers came forward to expose the political
Interference impeding an investigation into the tax Crimes of the president son Hunter Biden these are serious credible IRS investigators who risked their career to come forward admits threats from those representing the president’s son that anyone Prosecuting the case would be committing career suicide and as one might expect they
Provided substantial evidence backing up their testimony that we have reviewed and released over the course of our work to hold government officials accountable in the days since their initial testimony we have learned that President Biden wasn’t just aware of his son’s business dealings he wasn’t just involved but he appears to have directly
Benefited from them this directly contradicts the presid what President Biden said throughout his presidential campaign and while being president we have learned about what can be described as the International Bank of Joe Biden a lending scheme that saw special loans to Biden family members repaid with funds from Chinese
Executives we have learned about a Hollywood attorney acting as a special benefactor by paying off at least 2 million of hunters tax debts in order to keep it out of the press at the beginning of the 2020 campaign when confronted with this potential campaign VI Finance Finance violation an
Assistant us attorney refused to investigate because quote she was not personally interested in pursuing it we have learned that doj officials went out of their way to remove the mention of political figure one AKA Joe Biden from search warrants as wayin means chairman there are three major aspects that fall
Into my committee’s jurisdiction first we need to get to the bottom of what exactly happened at the Department of Justice and the IRS to impede the hunter Biden investigation did Jo Biden use his administration to protect him from the scrutiny second the Biden family appears to have used numerous accounts
Transactions and Loans to mass the flow of money if these loans were in fact legitimate they should be interest income there should be interest income reported on tax documents was such reported third how did Hunter and his associates move money through the Min shell companies that have been
Identified is there tax information that would help explain the complex web the Biden’s created over the next week the Ways and Means Committee will take further action to pursue the truth and follow the facts wherever they lead we will be holding a hearing with the IRS whistleblowers to discuss the
Investigation as well as releasing additional material that they have provided the American people expect no less I am pleased to recognize the great majority WB from the state of Minnesota Mr Tom em thank you Jason thank you very much uh Robert Gates who served as defense secretary
Under President Obama wrote in his 2014 Memoir that Joe Biden has quote been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades that statement couldn’t be more true today from Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal to his failure to stand up to the Chinese
Communist party to cutting billion dooll deals with Iran his blatant incompetence has been a slap in the face to our allies while embold our adversaries our house Republican majority was elected to counteract the Biden administration’s failed policies and that’s exactly what we’re going to continue to do this week
Chairman McCall’s no fun for Iranian terrorism act which will be considered on the floor tomorrow effectively freezes the $6 billion excuse me the $6 billion Ransom payment Biden handed over to Iran this is a common sense bill that every lawmaker in this building should unequivocally support Republican and
Democrat if you care about protecting American’s National America’s national security extinguishing terrorism and standing with our TR groups who have faced Relentless attacks from Iran back proxies then a yes vote on this bill should be a no-brainer weakness invites aggression and House Republicans refuse to sit on the sidelines as Biden’s
Disturbing pattern of weakness on the world stage continues to endanger us all and with that I turn it over to our Majority Leader Steve scal well thank you whip as you can see we have three different committees that are relentlessly working to get the facts out about this investigation
That’s been ongoing for months the one thing that you can see as a steady consistent theme where it started with Jamie Comer’s committee Jim Jordan’s committee ultimately Jason Smith’s committee is that every step of the way they’ve been consistently going after the facts to try to find out exactly
What happened with all of these web companies these shell companies that whistleblowers were coming forward saying it wasn’t just about Hunter Biden that ultimately money was going into Joe Biden’s checking account what you saw at the White House over and over again was a constant changing of the story The
White House has changed this story multiple times as the facts have emerged over and over again and different if you look at some of these poster boards you see checks you see more facts that continue to be released and as more facts come out the White House continues
To try to change their tune to cover up what really happened as Jamie comr talked about tens of thousands of pages of Alias information still at the White House that they won’t turn over to Congress what are they trying to hide at the White House why won’t the White
House fully comply so we’re going to be relentless at continuing to get the facts all three committees working through this impeachment inquiry to ultimately get the facts out and find find out where all this money was coming from foreign countries uh ultimately into the pockets of various members of
The Biden family to the tune of millions and millions of dollars so this will not slow down and in the meantime the house will continue to do its work here as the whip talked about today uh we start a process of moving a few bills on the
Floor this week tomorrow we’re going to actually have a vote on that Iran Bill $6 billion Joe Biden NE negotiated to give to Iran now let’s think about what happens here this was negotiated prior to Hamas invading Israel murdering Israelis taking hostages we see a ceasefire right now as more hostages hopefully get
Released but in the meantime Hamas still holds hostages where does Hamas get their funding they get their funding from Iran everybody knows that the Biden Administration knows it yet the Biden Administration opposes this legislation because they want the Ayatollah in Iran to get that $6 billion why would Joe
Biden want the Ayatollah to have access to $6 billion do knowing it goes to fund Hamas and other terrorism we’re going to be taking a strong stand to freeze that money tomorrow that will be a vote on the house floor we also say as more illegals pour into our country Millions
More illegals come into our country they’re using Federal lands in the Biden Administration to how illegals they’re waving environmental regulations that military veterans can’t use homeless veterans cannot use today but they’ll wave every environmental regulation to allow people coming here illegally to use those very same Federal
Lands and we’re saying you can’t use those Federal lands to house illegals that vote will be on the house floor tomorrow as well so the house is going to continue to do his work as we relentlessly pursue the facts in this case and leading that effort is our speaker Mike Johnson
Thank you all for being here these are um these are serious times and this is a very serious matter and i’ I’ve said many times over the last few years because impeachment has been an issue that we’ve all become all too familiar with that next to the declaration of war
You can make an argument that impeachment may be the heaviest power that Congress holds that that constitutional responsibility lies with the house we we have a duty to pursue the facts where they lead John Adams famously said facts are stubborn things and you heard a recitation of that here
This morning these facts are alarming they’re alarming to the American people they are alarming to us and so while we take no pleasure in uh in the proceedings here we have a responsibility to do it we’re very proud of the work of these three chairman that you’ve seen here chairman comr and
Jordan and Smith they’ve done an exceptional job in uncovering the obvious corruption and you’ve heard it here summarized this morning very succinct president Biden and the Biden family we we owe it to the American people to continue this process but to do it methodically and transparently many of you know I was on
I’m a lawyer I’m constitutional law attorney I served on President Trump’s impeachment defense team twice and we lamented openly and we decried how the Democrats politicized that process they were brazenly political and how they they brought those meritless impeachment charges against the president this what you were seeing here is exactly the opp
Opposite we are the rule of law team the Republican Party stands for the rule of law and the people in charge of this are doing this thoroughly carefully methodically they’re investigating and Gathering all the facts and to do this appropriately and to do it in a manner that upholds our constitutional
Responsibility requires time it requires a sound process you don’t rush something like this you can’t if you’re going to have Fidelity to the Constitution these chairman are committed to proceeding in that manner and that’s what you’re seeing we we’ve heard from whistleblowers Biden business associates legal experts and now we have reached
The point in the investigation that we need to hear from a handful of really key Witnesses in this the the chairman have issued a few dozen subpoenas and we expect that those would be complied with in an expeditious manner we’re not prejudging this we will follow the facts
Wherever they lead again that’s our constitutional Duty and and I fully support our chairman and their efforts and we’ll have a lot more to sh sh on this in the days ahead we’ll take a few questions there’s also going to be a vote on the house FL tomorrow to expel
One of your members George Santos you have not said if you support this do you support expelling George Santos um I’ll say this we had a uh a republican conference meeting in the last hour um there were opinions shared on both sides I’ll answer it this way M listen I said
That the Republican party is the rule of law team and we are we believe in the rule of law there are people of good faith who make an argument both pro and con for the expulsion um resolution for Santos the there are people who say you
Have to uphold the rule of law and allow for someone to be convicted in a criminal court uh before this um this this this tough penalty would be exacted on someone that’s been the precedent so far there are others who say well upholding the rule of law uh requires us
To take this step now because some of the things that he’s alleged to have done the house ethics commit having done their job uh are infractions against the house itself and so what we’ve said as a leadership team is we’re going to allow people to vote their conscience I think
It’s the only appropriate thing we can do um we’ve not whipped the vote and we wouldn’t um I I trust that people will make that decision thoughtfully and in good faith um I personally have real reservations about doing this I I’m I’m concerned about a precedent that may be
Set for that um so where everybody’s working through that and we’ll see how they vote tomorrow front row and there go here welcome back thank um there are complicated negotiations under way over supplementals supplemental or supplementals you’ll be meeting with and Senate Republicans later today um many
Questions you could ask but I want to ask first do you believe there should be conditions on any aid for Israel and then what are your priorities or any redlines for border security in such a bill yeah there there’s a lot of uh very deliberate negotiations that have been
Going on on the supplemental and that happened all the way throughout the Thanksgiving uh holidays and um and it’s gone on in Earnest and it will today I’m going to go visit the our Senate Republican colleagues at their steering launch uh in a couple of hours um and
We’ll be talking about that in detail um I’m not going to give you a lot of that detail today because some of those neg negotiations are going on I’ll tell you with regarding Israel the house did our job we passed a bipartisan uh support package 14.5 billion which is exactly
What was requested and we sent it over to the Senate and it’s been sitting on Chuck Schumer’s desk if they really believe in that priority they’ll take care of it we added a pay for as you all know and it shocked the system of Washington we’re we’re trying to get
Back to this fundamental principle of fiscal responsibility I don’t want and I don’t think we should go and borrow money from some other country to help one of our allies I think we can take care of our responsibilities but do it in a responsible Manner and we’re trying
To reintroduce the idea of fiscal responsibility here let me remind everybody here we have a 33.7 trillion federal debt I think is the latest figure if you if you pull up US debt clock on your on your smart phone you can’t even follow the debt with a naked
Eye it goes up so quickly um we Moody has downgraded our credit rating the treasury Department announced a few weeks ago that we have to borrow $1.5 trillion over the next two quarters to keep the government in operation we are not on a sustainable trajectory with
Regard to spending and so part of the negotiations on the supplemental part of the negotiations on the remaining Appropriations bills and everything that’s on our plate is is viewed by us through that lens that we have to restore this idea of fiscal sanity and so we’re we’re pressing that matter with
Regard to red lines we we believe that the Border must be secured and the vast majority of the people in this country agree with us wholeheartedly and when we all went home for Thanksgiving and met with constituents and friends and family and had dinner as you all did this was a
A big topic of discussion because people are deeply concerned about their Safety and Security and all the things all the societal ills that happen at the border so that is a top priority for us and all these negotiations to get that secured and we need policy changes not just
Further funding to process people um so you’re going to see that as a continuing theme and I I’ll leave it there for now hang on the official act that was corrupt that Republicans are alleging today was that when he was Vice President Joe Biden pushed for the firing of a
Ukrainian prosecutor and this was the subject of the impeachment of of Donald Trump and you had a lot of State Department officials who came in and said this wasn’t Joe Biden’s policy this was our policy he didn’t do this to benefit his son he did this because we
Wanted him to do it so did they all commit perjury uh or are you going to bring them back for more energies why why are Republicans just ignoring all that testimony no no one’s ignoring testimony let me tell you the top four pieces of evidence with regard to the B
I just have a pullet points here from 2014 to 2019 Biden family members and their affiliate companies received over $15 million from foreign companies and foreign Nationals these are all facts facts are stubborn things that included Ukraine Russia Kazakhstan Romania and China by business associates received an additional 9 million the the the
Chairman here have uncovered a lot of facts President Biden has of course lied at least 16 times about his involvement in his family’s business schemes there are at least 22 examples of Joe Biden speaking with or meeting with Hunter Biden’s foreign business associates the oversight committee recently released
Two checks you see the graphics up here today uh these checks are to Joe Biden one is for $40,000 from China and another is for2 200,000 from a now bankrupt Healthcare company that his brother James Biden apparently swindled listen this op this U this investigation has to continue because again as we said
Those facts are stubborn things I I’m I’m not going to answer um outside questions about this we let the facts speak for themselves and I think you’re going to see a lot more developments over that in the days ahead that that was our last question will you allow a motion to table Call you
