Fox News Anchor Asks Guest ‘Can They Go Arrest’ Hunter Biden After He Crashes House Hearing: ‘They Can’t Go Get Him?’
Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner asked criminal defense attorney Phil Holloway why the GOP-led House could not simply arrest Hunter Biden after he crashed a chaotic Oversight Committee meeting on Wednesday.
Holloway began by explaining why the Republicans had subpoenaed Hunter for a closed-door deposition, a subpoena he flouted while claiming he would only testify in public.
“They’ve got to be able to run their process the way that they see fit, which I think rightfully includes the first step of doing it in a closed setting with a transcriptionist there to take everything down. You got to be able to prepare for. This is why we have depositions and in cases before they go to trial in like a civil lawsuit, it’s so that people can prepare for the big show, which is sort of the analogy here,” Holloway said.
“Committee Chairman Comer and Jordan of Oversight and Judiciary, respectively, have stated that they are fine with Hunter Biden testifying publicly after he complies with a subpoena, a deposition with staff attorneys,” Faulkner replied, adding:
I mean, they’ve already said, look, you can go talk to the public. You know, they didn’t now after and his father, just remember, he’s commander in chief. He heads up the most powerful military in the world, and he wants to call a member of the media dangerous not once, but twice on tape. So we don’t know what his intentions are. And I know that that matters.
But those words matter, too. So was that just a dog whistle to say, I’m I want to I want to push these people back and let them know who’s boss. Well, he’s not boss, his dad is. And that’s problematic in this process. That’s going to get some attention. That’s one of the reasons I played it. But look, they said you can still talk publicly now I don’t know if that continues.
“Can they go arrest him at this point? As one of the congresspeople called for, I believe it was Nancy Mace today?” Faulkner then asked.
“Yeah. I don’t know of any mechanism to do that. There’s no rush for,” Holloway replied as Faulkner interjected, “For bucking the subpoena, they can’t go get him?”
“Yeah. I mean, you kind of have to, see the committee, it’s not like a court where if he shows up, if you don’t show up for court, the judge can issue a warrant for failure to appear and send law enforcement to bring it, bring you in in handcuffs,” Holloway replied, adding:
Uh, whether they have such a process, I don’t know, but they, I think they’ve got to go through the subpoena process and excuse me, the the contempt process first. And of course, if the U.S. attorney does his job and prosecutes him, why he’s done people that are affiliated with the former president, he had no compunction about prosecuting them when they, uh, failed to comply with subpoenas in much less egregious ways, I might add, if he does his job and prosecutes him, of course, then then he can be arrested.
But but, um, to to send the sergeant at arms to physically drag somebody in in handcuffs. Uh, I don’t know that that’s quite the appropriate thing right now. But if Hunter Biden continues this type of behavior, if there’s a way for Congress to make that happen, I think you saw in that clip we just saw, there are certainly at least some political will to do something, just like dragging him in.
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