00:00 Hunter, what do you hope to tell the committee today?
00:03 Mr. Biden, can you hear me?
00:05 Thank you very much for being here this morning. Obviously, this is a big day.
00:09 This is the day that the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees will be deposing Hunter Biden.
00:15 We're deposing Hunter Biden because he's a key witness in our investigation of President Joe Biden.
00:21 I'm ready to try to begin to close this investigation.
00:27 This has been a very difficult investigation. This administration has been very obstructive.
00:31 They haven't been cooperative. I feel like we're having to battle the Department of Justice and the FBI on a daily basis to get basic information.
00:39 Many of our witnesses that we brought in would be what I would consider hostile witnesses.
00:44 But at the end of the day, I think with every interview, we've learned new information.
00:49 And the basis of what we've learned is that the Bidens didn't have a legitimate business.
00:55 Their business was selling access to Joe Biden, the brand.
00:59 We have a lot of questions for Hunter Biden, specifically revolving around the 100-plus suspicious activity reports he got,
01:07 specifically around what some of his associates have testified, that Joe Biden communicated frequently with all of these shady characters who were wiring the family money.
01:18 So we have a lot of questions for Hunter Biden based on financial crimes that he was being investigated for by the IRS,
01:25 Criminal International Crimes Division, Shapley and Ziegler.
01:30 But most importantly, we'd like to get this entire investigation done.
01:34 It's cost a lot of time and money, and they've evaded up until now giving us honest answers.
01:41 Even a month ago when Hunter Biden appeared on the North Capitol, he did so to say some things that his father wasn't.
01:51 He never said he I didn't tell him. He never said he wasn't involved.
01:54 He simply said he wasn't an equity partner and so on.
01:57 That nuanced statement will be cross-examined today to find out not what he wasn't, but what he was.
02:05 Since he was someone who was seeing the correspondence, he was someone that was transporting his son to and from important business opportunities at government expense.
02:16 And most importantly, he was aware of things that he previously said he wasn't aware of.
02:22 The constitutional standard for impeachment is treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors.
02:30 We're still waiting for our Republican friends to articulate what they think the high crime and misdemeanor is.
02:40 In this case, we have gotten extremely far afield from the constitutional standard.
02:46 Nobody can state on their side what they think Joe Biden did, even as a private citizen, that would constitute some kind of criminal offense.
02:59 You know, every other witness that we've spoken to has confirmed this basic conclusion that Joe Biden was not involved in Hunter Biden's business ventures.
03:12 He did not profit from Hunter Biden's business ventures, and he rendered no official favors or benefits to Hunter Biden's business ventures.
03:23 So I hope that we will test those propositions, and if we are satisfied that he and the dozen other witnesses we've spoken to are telling a coherent and credible story, then this thing is over.
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