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Speaker 1: The House Oversight Committee is inching closer this morning to

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Speaker 1: saying its scope does not include his client, who is

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Speaker 1: a private person. White House correspondent Alison Harris explains where

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Speaker 1: this could go next. Good morning, Alison, Good morning, Mitch.

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Speaker 1: Subpoenas could be imminent for Hunter Biden, as well as

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Speaker 1: the President's brother, James Biden, and a business associate of theirs.

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Speaker 1: As of this morning, the Biden surpassed the deadline set

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Speaker 1: their family business dealings overseas in Ukraine and in China.

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Speaker 1: A spokesperson for the committee tells me that Hunter and

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Speaker 1: James Biden's attorneys have sent letters acknowledging the requests, but

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Speaker 1: they have not provided materials themselves. The committee is, however,

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Speaker 1: Eric Schwerin, and expects him to start producing documents soon. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is just one of a slew of investigations that

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Speaker 1: we've been recovering by this Republican led committee, vowing to

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Speaker 1: with them. Hunter Biden's attorney has called the committee Wonderland

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Speaker 1: and its leader, Representative James Comer, the Queen of Hearts

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Speaker 1: for commerce quote inaccurate and baseless conclusions, Mitch so Allison,

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Speaker 1: Subpoenas are going to be a last resort, according to

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Speaker 1: adding that if all parties involved refuse to cooperate, then

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Speaker 1: all tools, including those subpoenas, are on the table. Let

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Speaker 1: me just be clear here. They are going to get subpoenaed.

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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden's going to get subpoenaed. So is James Biden,

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Speaker 1: the brother of the President of the United States of America.

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Speaker 1: They're going to get subpoena because it's very clear that

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Speaker 1: the Deep State. And that is exactly why they chose

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Speaker 1: deliberately to miss the panel's deadline to turn over these

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Speaker 1: records on foreign business dealings. Now, the committee first made

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Speaker 1: doesn't know specifically what services hunter James Biden provided in

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Speaker 1: That's why they're asking for questions, asking for these documents.

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Speaker 1: Now we've just found out scent letters acknowledging the request.

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Speaker 1: But if not providing any of the materials either. Why

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Speaker 1: The former Obama administration official further claimed Ukraine has made

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Speaker 1: So this is the woman, this climate change whacko who's

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Speaker 1: what we really need to be focused on. This is

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Speaker 1: the woman that is to the accounting of all your

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Speaker 1: and she celebrated fertilizer shortages that will force farmers to

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Speaker 1: have been in the interest of farmers to make eventually anyway,

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Speaker 1: So never let a crisis go to waste. But we

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Speaker 1: really do need this financial support from the Congress to

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Speaker 1: see the cascading, deadly effects of Russia's war extend into

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Speaker 1: because it will force the farmers to change how they

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Speaker 1: doing the accounting in Ukraine, which I'm just curious here

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Speaker 1: which one is it to samanth the powers, Like, what

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Speaker 1: is her her actual job? I can't understand. I really

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Speaker 1: cannot understand what it is she's supposed to be doing.

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Speaker 1: What I do know is she's a crazy anti right individual. Right.

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Speaker 1: She is somebody that has been out there and she

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Speaker 1: said in her own words, the president is blatantly extorting

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Speaker 1: a foreign leader. This was her testimony about Zelenski and

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Speaker 1: what Donald Trump wanted to do in Ukraine. Listen carefully.

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Speaker 1: An idealist a memoir Samantha Power. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us. Thank you, Anna. I want to get

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Speaker 1: your book, of course, in just a moment, but first

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Speaker 1: I have to ask you about the fallout from the

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump thought it was a good idea to release

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Speaker 1: this transcript as a staggering testament to the endemic corruption

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Speaker 1: of his administration. He and his close advisors have lost

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Speaker 1: the ability to even see what's incriminating. Master of that

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Speaker 1: is quite a statement. Well, I mean, I think what

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Speaker 1: a pattern where what matters most to the President of

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Speaker 1: United States is his own welfare, his own self aggrandizement,

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Speaker 1: many examples of this. But here's an example where the

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Speaker 1: president is blatantly extorting a foreign leader, a foreign leader

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Speaker 1: who's governing a country that has been invaded by Russia,

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Speaker 1: a country that interfered in our election. Previously, and our

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Speaker 1: president is trying to advance his own political welfare rather

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Speaker 1: than look out for an ally and deliver what that

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Speaker 1: fact that people put that transcript out and thought that

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Speaker 1: just speaks to how accustomed the people around President Trump

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Speaker 1: this woman. This is a woman who goes on national

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Speaker 1: have been impeached for his conversation with Zelenski, and also

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Speaker 1: then said that Donald Trump is compromised by the Russians

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Speaker 1: the woman who loves Zelenski. This is the woman who

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Speaker 1: hated the prosecutor that was looking into corruption. This is

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Speaker 1: the woman that didn't want corruption to be looked at

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Speaker 1: in Ukraine. And this is a woman who's now saying,

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Speaker 1: I've done a forensicic accounting of every dollar that's been

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Speaker 1: even though all the top ministers in their government have

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Speaker 1: just been fired for corruption. Not a single American dollar

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Speaker 1: has been used for anything that looks like corruption. Really,

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Speaker 1: they didn't do any audit. They just center out there

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Speaker 1: is a useful idiot for this administration to justify sending

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Speaker 1: more money to Ukraine, and they justified it. They justified

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Speaker 1: it by doing one thing, and one thing only, by

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Speaker 1: having her say we did an accounting, even though they

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Speaker 1: clearly have not, and I wouldn't trust her accounting on

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Speaker 1: anything at this point based on her own political statements

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Speaker 1: in the past. Make sure you share this podcast with

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Speaker 1: your family and friends, write us a review. It'll help

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Speaker 1: us reach more people, and I'll see it back here

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Speaker 1: tomorrow