Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees: Rep. Goldman Challenges Oversight Chair Comer On Biden- Ukraine Conspiracy Allegations
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Yes. And what is really dangerous about this is that the Republicans have made it very clear that they are on a mission to destroy Hunter Biden in every way they can. But Hunter Biden is a civilian. He is the son of a president. But unless there's some link to President Biden and any misconduct, then this is a gross abuse of power by this committee for political purposes. And it's a waste of taxpayer dollars and it's outside of the jurisdiction of the committee.
The point today that I was making is that there is no link, even if you give the Republicans the benefit of the doubt, there's no link to Joe Biden. Joe Biden did everything by the book, consistent with US policy. And in fact, his actions and the actions of our allies in Europe and ultimately of Ukraine were potentially hurtful to Burisma because they wanted more corruption to be charged. And so, it's yet another example of the fallaciousness of this Republican investigation that has reached a conclusion before they figured out the facts. And what we want to do and what we did today is we brought out the facts.
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And the facts are on our side. They are not on their side.
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Yeah. And remember that last congress, the Republicans talked on and on and on about how the January 6 Committee had no legislative purpose because there is no Oversight jurisdiction in congress unless there's a legislative purpose. And investigating a civilian son of a president is not a legislative purpose by -- for congress. So the only justification for these attacks on Hunter Biden is that it's somehow linked oversight of the president, but we've seen no evidence of that and if they have no evidence and I suspect they don't, then this entire investigation is illegitimate, overreaching and outside of the jurisdiction, and it should be stopped immediately.
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Well, I don't know what we are going to see. But I am confident that if they bring actual witnesses who have the firsthand knowledge and they testify -- and that's what evidence is. Evidence is not what the Republicans sit there alleging and accusing and saying without any support. The evidence is what the witnesses say, what the documents say.
They are not going to find the evidence to support their claims.
And we are all much better off if they don't waste the taxpayers' dollars, waste our time with these overreaching, purely political investigations. That's not what the American people want. That is not what the American people have sent us to congress to do. We should be legislating, we should be trying to help families across the country, not attack the president's son who is a civilian.
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Thank you.
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