grassley: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: could i have one minute for morning business? the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: long before he was sworn into the united states senate, my former colleague thoom harkin from iowa -- tom harkin from iowa served in the united states navy in vietnam. he and i represented iowans for 30 years together here in the united states senate. six years ago i came to the floor to wish my friend well in retirement, and i used these words so that he could enjoy the blessings of hearth and home. i'm not so sure that he took my advice to heart. i recently learned that tom has been moonlighting in retirement as an intrepid crew member sailing the icy waters of the north atlantic. in fact, he joined the crew of 59 north sailing for five voyages. his most recent adventure found tom aboard ice bear, navigating gale force winds in and around the rugged coastline of newfoundland. they say you can't take the farm out of the iowa farm kid. the same must be true for a lifelong sa

senate where most senate republicans are pushing back missouri senator roy blunt iowa, senator chuck grassley and utah senator mitt romney have all said they oppose the plan we can't you know have free money the senate will have to take up the bill before the end of the week or it will have to wait until next year and a new congress. >>in washington raquel martin. >>and this just in the house has voted overwhelmingly to override president trump's veto of the national defense authorization act that sets the stage for would be the first veto override of his presidency. house members voted 322 to 87 in favor. well above the two-thirds needed to override his veto. the senate which is expected to vote on the override this week also needs to approve it by a two-thirds majority, the president rejected the defense bill last week saying it failed to limit social media companies. he claims were biased against him during the failed reelection campaign. president trump also poses language that allows for the renaming of military bases that honor confederate leaders. >>in nashville investigators still try

republican senator chuck grassley said it's not unreasonable to demand stronger legal protections for already struggling businesses there needs to be protection against lawsuits because you can't tell where this virus is backed up that. but durbin says republicans are blowing the issue out of proportion and says the deal does include a compromise for we are proposing a time out in the filing of new cases friday speaker of the house nancy pelosi insisted covid relief negotiations are making progress. there is momentum. durbin says for now the plan still does not include another round of stimulus checks for families but it can change president trump says that he wants to sue those checks in washington raquel martin. >>still ahead, i talked with doctor deborah birx with the white house coronavirus task force earlier today. why she says outdoor dining is >>and other regions of california get ready to lock down many local restaurants are wondering why they have to shut down outdoor dining once again i had a chance to talk with doctor deborah birx from the white house coronavirus task force

over a year, and now we learn about the $400,000 that he did not put on his tax returns -- >> senator grassley and i were simply warning the american pluck that if you vote for joe biden, you're going to end up with a big mess on your hands. and that's, of course, what we're seeing right now. maria: all the good news fueled a big rally on wall street this week. of course, talking about the covid vaccine as well as hopes that congress will agree on a $900 billion relief package sent a number of the major indices into record-setting territory. the nasdaq up better than 40% in 2020, really record-setting levels here. joining us right now to talk more about that is kevin simpson, capital the wealth planning founder. he joins us now. you've been bullish on this market, you're bullish headed into the new year. tell us how you are putting money to work right now. >> thanks for having me. it seems like we got a santa claus rally a little early this year on what wonderful things have happened. wall street certainlies has put covid-19 in its rearview mirror, and i think the problem isn't a wall street p

grassley: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: one minute for morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: i want to visit with my colleagues about something that hasn't happened in iowa for over 100 years. over the weekend the iowa state football team completed their regular season play. the cyclones are having a noteworthy season. they secured the first place rank in the big 12 conference regular season after winning five consecutive conference games and eight overall conference wins this season. the good news doesn't stop there for the iowa state football program. the cyclones finished first place in the league play for the first time since 1912, when they won the missouri valley conference. this has earned the cyclones their well-deserved spot in the big 12 title game on december 19. the first ever big 12 championship appearance in iowa state university's history. i want to applaud the cyclones for their historic season. so many fans, including me, will be rooting them on for the big 12 c

the incoming chairman of the judiciary committee, senator grassley. in the current ranking member festein and i had the bipartisan bill to reform the foreign agents registration act. it is going to be front and cent in the confiationtr process for any nominees by the incoming administration. manages think it is fair to ple everybody unfair notice that full transrency is the only option. mr. president, on another matte the nate has returned for last end of the year legislative . we have a lot of work to do before we crossed the finish li. it is my, government funding will expire in lesshan two weeks. we had to reache an agreent as a senior senator from vermont mentionebefore the december 11 deadline ofhe current continuing resolution. with millions of americans already facing economic uncertainty, government shutdown is surely not an optn. lena passed the national defense authorization act and support as mayor bause the brave service members and ensure mitary leaders have the ability to plan and operate cerinly you provided peace tarmac and strength. d

neil: that was chuck grassley's way of saying mr. president, focus when you are in georgia this weekend. he will be there tomorrow, by the way, on behalf of the republicans, the senators who are running right now in that race. focus on getting them back to the united states senate and save any other problems you have with counts in the state for another day. not this state, not this weekend ahead of that january 5th runoff race that is as tight as a tick. steve harrigan with the latest on that. reporter: big day of campaigning and big weekend of campaigning for the two senate run-off seats set for january 5th. those two races could determine which party controls the senate for the next two years. today, vice president pence in town here in atlanta, later going to savannah to campaign with both republican senators. also on the other side, former president obama today holding a virtual rally for the two democrats. now, among republicans who are dissatisfied with the voting process here in georgia, how it's gone so far, some of them are

grassley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: one minute for morning business, please. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: i want to the tell my colleagues about a disappointment i have in some u.s. department of agriculture recent revisions of a proposed rule. here's background. i've long fought to strengthen the safety net so that iowa family farmers and other farmers are protected from natural disasters or other unforeseen events that they have no control over, like flooding or windstorms. family farmers work hard to make sure that americans have food on the table. these same family farmers operate on very thin margins. these farmers ought to qualify for help during tough times since losing these operations would risk our nation's food supply. however, taxpayers and nonfarm state lawmakers may stop supporting a federal farm safety net if spending programs aren't held accountable or left unchecked. losing urban support for this farm safety net is why i'm deeply concerned that the usda's recent prop

grassley: one minute for morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: history will look back at 2020 and find many lessons and even some silver linings to impact. the loss of more than 300,000 american lives so far will be worn for years to come, operation warp speed, which president trump launched turned out to be an historic public-private partnership. it's delivered a lifesaving vaccine in record time, shattering scientific benchmarks along the way. for the last nine months americans have pulled together and shared -- entershared sacrifice -- in shared sacrifice to do their part as the covid-19 moves through the country as it is right now, i encourage my fellow iowans to keep pulling together. when public health officials say it's your turn to get a vaccine, roll up your sleeve. i'll be doing the same when my turn arrives. getting immunized is the only way we'll beat the virus and get back to the normal way of american life. history will show americans turned the page on the pandemic when all of us roll up our sleeves. i yield the floor. mr

play schemes, invalidated by his own documents, his own emails and extensive report from senator chuck grassley of iowa and ron johnson of wisconsin, found millions of dollars in payouts 20 experience hunter, russian oligarch, ukrainian oligarch, burisma, national, bank of china, they found it all including money being transferred, despite a mountain of evidence the media ignored that story. big tech censored that story. remember the new york post, fifth-largest paper in the country marked for daring to report the facts. they have been vindicated. now that the election is over, got him elected, let him hide in the basement and won't talk about it again. that is not a service to we the american people the voters, take a look. >> no evidence to support the claims. >> hunter biden is under ongoing investigation for taxes related to business dealings in china. >> no evidence hunter biden did anything illegal. >> hunter biden is under investigation. >> no evidence he's done anything wrong. >> the justice department investigating hunter biden. >> we know hunter biden, no evidence of any wrongdoing. >

and senate pro tem grassley pro voo presides. anyone after the election questioning what role, effect, the lincoln project had it's getting inside donald trump's head. never shy talking about that. not hard. s somewhat terrifying to get inside the leader of the free world's head like this and highlight things. the fact he didn't even realize it was the vice president who presides over this proceeding, you know, tells you just how disengaged he actually is and how little he knows about how government actually functions. but, again, you know, it's for the lincoln project, at least, you know, our work is just getting started. what we've seen over the last few weeks since election days tell us the republican party is not going to do the right thing. not an awakening amp the election accepting joe biden, working with him. they're continue to undermine democracy and try to replace with a dictatorial regime and we won't stand by and led it idly happen. we will hold these people accountable. >> and there are new fund-raising efforts and

i think it was senator grassley who said mueller was a special counsel. we allowed him to proceed so this should proceed as well. >> i don't envy the attorney general, he is trying to hold onto his job for the next 50 days. he came out and said there was no widespread evidence of fraud relayed to the department of justice countering what the president has been saying, that this was a fraud with regard to the selection so he had to give the president something and gave him this nod to darren to continue the investigation in a different light. this probe is gone on for the last year and having yielded one lawsuit, one charge out of the entire process of the question is if it has been going on for your it happened only yielded one lawsuit against a former fbi lawyer where is the meet in the sandwich? what is happening here? it is continuing on. >> we also have the situation in georgia where the secretary of state has said this about looking at groups that may have been doing the various things with voters or voter registration. >> we have to remain vigilant.

falls and the democratic hands, let's be clear, all the great work done by senator ron johnson, senator grassley exposing the money flow of china to the biden family, those investigations will be halted and stopped. those are the stakes we are facing right now. mark: this is why at the beginning of the show i was talking about how corrupt and power-hungry the democrat party is in the media are as the democrat party. they are one in the same really. they really put power the democrat party head of the country. we see this time and time again, the candidacy and election of our president, donald trump what's taking place now, joe biden gives away with rope a dope and i don't really know, my son didn't do anything wrong. even in the debates, the moderators didn't really push joe biden when it came to hunter biden and all the corruption. we'll be right back. ♪ welcome back. peter schweizer, when it comes to the biden family, who barely touched the tip of the iceberg. >> united nations of corruption, hunter biden you've got deals done in china, deals done in russia, kazakhstan, romania. you look at

the republicans were pushing back on the bill as well as or a senator roy blunt iowa, senator chuck grassley and utah senator mitt romney arguing against the plan we can't you know have free money the republican majority senate could consider whether or not to sign on to the bigger tax later this week in washington raquel martin. and now to some national news, a new video of the christmas day bombing in nashville was released yesterday. >>it shows an officer walking out of frame just seconds before the blast. officials say 63 year-old anthony quinn warner is believed to be responsible authorities believe he acted alone. and the blast was a suicide bombing. investigators linked his dna to human remains found in the debris. warner also had experience with electronics explosion damaged more than 40 buildings and injured people and the motive is still under investigation. meanwhile 6 national police officers ran into danger on christmas morning as they helped evacuate residents before that explosion rocked downtown. officials say their heroic actions saved countless lives it was the plan has mor

holding firm over president trump's refusal to concede the election, the most senior republican chuck grassley saying he will consider joe biden the president in two weeks, he says, after we've counted the majority votes. someone who will not say joe biden is the winner is governor of maine, william cohen. you and i have talked about this before. when you look at the gop standing by trump, refusing to acknowledge biden as the new president, what do you think? >> i think where are you, joe i dimaggio? where have all the heroes gone? this is the same senate that honored john mccain a couple years ago in the head of state service on capitol hill in the cathedral here in washington? this is the same senate that once had howard baker, jack dent, morgan ruddman, dan coats, i could go on in the list of people who wanted in to that senate who would not for a moment cave in to a person like trump. they had courage, they had the willingness to defend our institutions and not in any way contribute to undermining them by their silence, so it's disappointing. i had hoped that the senate, senators individua

with the virus, chuck grassley, senator will be talking to us for the first time since getting diagnosed, he's doing just fine. on fox business, we will see you then. ♪ >> jesse: hello, everybody. i'm jesse watters along with dagen mcdowell, juan williams, sandra smith and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." ♪ president trump releasing a brand-new video statement amid new claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election. watch. >> the constitutional process must be allowed to continue, we are going to defend the honesty of the vote by ensuring that every legal ballot is counted. and that no illegal ballot is counted. >> jesse: the president's new comments, coming as post office whistle-blowers save thousands of mail-in ballots were either tampered with or thrown out entirely in key swing states. watch this. it's big i can tell you i saw 24 pallets, i picked them up in new york and drove them to harrisburg and from harrisburg i drove to lancaster. >> i had no ballots to take on election day, the day after the election i didn't really think anything of it until t

senator chuck grassley, longest serving senator, was asked if he would acknowledge it. he said i don't have to, the constitution does. the follow-up was do you acknowledge him as president-elect. quote, i follow the constitution. senator john barrasso calls the topic of whether biden is president-elect a gotcha question. only a gotcha question if you think the job of reporters is to participate in the alternate reality that senator barrasso is currently navigating in. senator lindsey graham said it is a very, very narrow path for the president. i don't see how he gets there given what the supreme court did, but having said that, i think we'll let those legal challenges play out, end quote. narrow path? there's no path for trump. it is a brick wall made of more than 7 million votes and 74 electoral votes. but the one that takes the cake is north dakota senator kevin kramers. and bear with me. this is a long trip through a river. he said well, it seems to me being elected by the electoral college is a threshold where a title like that is probably most appropriate and i su

i think it was senator grassley who said tonight, muller was a special counsel, we allowed him to proceed. they should proceed as well? >> listen, i don't envy the attorney general. he's trying to hold onto his job for the next 50 days. he came out today and said there was no widespread evidence of fraud that has been related to the department of justice. really counting where the president is saying this is a fraud. you have to give the president something. he gave him this nod. this is been going on for the last year and half. one lawsuit, one charge out of that entire process. the question is, if it's been going on for a year and have, it's only yielded one lawsuit against a former fbi lawyer. where's the meat in the sandwi sandwich? >> and they said this about looking into groups that have been doing the facings with voters and voting registration. >> we'd have to remain vigilant. that is why i am announcing an investigation into third-party groups working to register people in other states to vote here in georgia. >> shannon: registering and people in other states to vote in georgia,

involved in creating a false intelligence product that they leaked to the media that accused senator grassley, the president pro-tem of the senate and myself of accepting and disseminating russian disinformation from a person. i never heard of him until they brought it up. senator peters introduced that false russian disinformation into our investigation record. 50 people associated with the intelligence community after our hunter biden investigation and the revelations of the hunter biden computer said oh, this is russian disinformation. now we find out it's a real investigation by the justice department. so it is galling and i just have to point out that the per veh ors of russian dispower, the steele dossier, ranking member peters accusing senator grassley and i of disseminating did russia disinformation. that's where the false information and the lies and the false allegations. i can't sit by here and listen to this and say that this is not disinformation, this hearing today. this is getting information. we have to take a look at to restore confidence in our election integrity. we won't b

senator grassley's in my investigationhe to report on the conflicts of interest in foreign financial entanglements of the biden family is just one example of how media suppression can and does affect the outcome of an election. it's both amazing and going and all of a sudden, postelection, it's become a news story and scandal worthy of investigation. with less than ast month left of my chairmanship in this committee, examination of irregularities in the 2020 election will obviously be my last investigation and last hearings chairman. oversight into election security should continue into the next congress because we must restore confidence in the integrity of our voting system. this effort should be bipartis bipartisan. in my statement in this hearing, the goal was to resolve suspicions with full transparency and public awareness. what is wrong with that? that's what good oversight can accomplish. unfortunately, senators schumer and peters ignored my statement and chose to publicly attack me in this hearing. as ise commented on early treatment of covid, closemindedness is a root cause

neil: congressman johnson, i talked to your republican counterpart in the senate, chuck grassley, who was saying, you know, he's open to this , he's open to a lot of it but don't go crazy on another effort that be just as expensive if not more expensive let's see how this goes. are you in that camp that you're open to maybe this , but no more multi trillion dollar relief down the road? >> well, i mean, there are lots of voices that want to add more to this package but the reality is this is the number that can get done. i think as you make the package a lot larger, you lose a ton of republicans if you make it a lot smaller you lose a ton of democrats. if politics is the art of the possible, and it is, this is the right package, and i voted against, you know, big $3 trillion packages and $2 trillion packages and package s that the speaker had put on the floor in the past. this is the thing that can get done. this is the deal that can bring some housing and nutrition and unemployment and paycheck protection relief to the american people. let's get this thing done. frankly, neil, i can't

republican senators, chuck grassley and democrat demanding an immediate briefing. the president-elect joe biden following on his watch m malignd actors will be punished i will not stand idly by in the states of cyber assaults on our nation. >> i have not ever seen joe biden hold one actor anywhere around the world accountable for anything. >> and today, new alert from cyber security. infrastructure security agency. they warned that it may have been just one tool that hackers were using to attack the u.s. government but there may be other ones out there that are undetected. cyber security experts say it could take years to finally get to the bottom of all of this. and in some other places around the world too. bret. >> bret: just getting a scope of this. john, thank you. let's find out what they are saying about it at the pentagon about the hack on the threat. here is national security correspondent, jennifer griffin. >> good evening. the services committee has not yet been briefed on information emerging that that the department of energy is responsible for the nat

grassley: one minute for morning business, please. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: we're probably all guilty of not remembering the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform, but particularly during this time of year it is especially difficult for them to be away from friends and family. right now there are almost 1,500 iowans deployed overseas with the iowa national guard, just as one example of a group we should be thinking about. and i think about this group because that 1,500 includes one member of my own staff. we rely on our brave men and women in uniform to protect our way of life, our democracy, and the liberties we cherish. the sacrifices they make are not taken for granted and won't be forgotten by future generations. all of our nation's service members and their families will be in my prayer and i hope the prayers of all of my colleagues during this holiday season. i yield the floor. mr. mcconnell: madam president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: over the last four years our country has been benefited from a president

top republicans like chuck grassley as well as senator john thune and john cornyn told me it's over for the president but if he continues to get encouragement from the right and house conservatives, the president will continue to use that to push his case even though it stands virtually no chance of succeeding here. >> it's a political game, let's call it what it is. it does create doubts in the minds of tens of millions of americans. thank you very much. >>> already strained lab technicians are sounding the alarm as the demand for more testing, not talking about vaccines here, but testing grows. i felt like... ...i was just fighting an uphill battle in my career. so when i heard about the applied digital skills courses, i'm thinking i can become more marketable. you don't need to be a computer expert to be great at this. these are skills lots of people can learn. i feel hopeful about the future now. ♪ see yourself. welcome back to the mirror. and know you're not alone because this is not just a mirror. it's an unstoppable community. come on jessie one more. it's a race across time zo

>> we have senator ron johnson and chuck grassley, they had a senate report back in september about hunter biden. they said this is a national security problem. criminal, financial, counterintelligence and extortion concerns. hunter biden working ourau business dealings with china, russia and other u.s. adversaries that undercut america's interests overseas. china, we are also talking the first lady of moscow, russian, ukrainian, pakistan, the special counsel, do we need a special counsel to probe james a biden business with the bankrupt company americorps. joe c biden james biden evoked s powerful brother's name to convince america or get a bridge loan from a hedge fund after james biden promise he could get the hospital middle eastern investors because of the family name and then he got a personal loan from the hospital company. what do you think of that? >> the biden family has made money for years half the biden name. we definitely need special counsel to hone in on hunter biden. i am obviously upset about the entire family, but i'm very disturbed that hunter biden due to china and cam

so concerned about the possible impact on us taxpayers, chuck grassley and democrat senator ron wyden requested an immediate briefing from the irs on whether consumer data was compromised in the hack. and its alerts eisa said it was aware of compromises beginning in at least march of 2020 calling a grave risk to the federal government and state, local, tribal and territorial governments adding other private sector organizations, organizations like microsoft which has been hit by the massive breach. experts believe the tech giant was likely exposed because it used networking management software from solar wind corporation, the texas-based it company believed to be at the center of the hack. the fbi and other agencies scheduled classified briefings for members of congress coming up tomorrow. in the meantime the investigation continues as authorities look to assess the scope of the breach and tonight it appears to be massive and very disconcerting in washington. all sources i have talked to are really raising eyebrows and raising the alarm to see how far the breach goes. shannon: it may

know you didn't, you let joe biden bully you into silence on the campaign trail about what charles grassley and ron johnson say is a counterintelligence potential extortion, potential criminal activity involving his son. that is a senate report that came out in september yet christiane amanpour and lesley stahl of 60 minutes downplaying and dismissing it out of hand. your final word, dan. >> that is exactly right. they were not filling the role of investigative reporters. they went from being watchdogs to lapdogs. elizabeth: dan, good to see you come back soon. >> thank you. elizabeth: next up we have republican strategist ford o'connell. he is fired up and ready to go. he is joining other media like "the washington post" and "los angeles times." there is growing outrage in the media over politicians cutting the line to get vaccines before senior citizens and first-responders. the question is this, is this an eloquent case for term limits? that story next. taking prescrips shouldn't be one of them. cvs simpledose presorts your prescriptions into packets, so you know what to take when. deliv

. >> bill: chuck grassley talking about the hunter biden story. >> hunter biden is under criminal investigation for his taxes and financial dealings. you can understand why i think it's outrageous that they would choose to ignore facts when they're uncovered by republicans. >> bill: so where does this story go now? fox news obtaining a senate committee report detailing his business dealings with chinese nationals. want to bring in peter schweitzer. welcome back. i saw an interview with you on sean's show. when the story broke, everybody held their breath. when it started to go to a tax case, there seemed to be some exhaling. you, however, have a very different take on that based on international tax law. explain why that could be more precarious. >> yeah, it's great to be with you always, bill. look, the thing that people have to keep in mind, there's been a grand jury empanelled to look into his international business activities. they've been working for a while. this is the first hint via hunter biden that they're looking at financial transactions. they mentioned both issues related to taxes

you and senator grassley put out a comprehensive report. are you convinced there's some criminal wrongdoing in the biden family overseeing business dealings? >> it's not my call. i'm not a prosecutor. troubling and many connections with the chinese persons who have connections with the people's liberation army, the communist party of china which i think the main stream media would have paid attention to before the election. this is a mess. under the biden administration, it's a bigger mess, it's not going away. >> you know this week you held the final hearing as chair of the homeland security committee. what's the future of the hunter biden probe on capitol hill? will there be hearings in the next congress? >> it depends on what's uncovered. it's now in the hands of the justice department. i hope this is a legitimate and real and rigorous investigation. the only reason i say that, i have no suspicions one way or the other other than we did the investigation to the scandal, that was an investigation to hillary clinton's e-mail scandal. that

recent communications that were released just last week that thankfully senator ron johnson and senator grassley out of iowa were able to finally break free. for some reason, this will come as no surprise to you the fbi and doj were able to hide those from the united states congress and our investigation for a very long time. specifically what is and there is some very disgusting stuff as it relates to what our supposed to g men were doing, the dirty cops as i call them to access george papadopoulos who i had on there. it's sickening and frightening and unbelievable this could happen in the united states of america. when you go back to the origins of this, we still don't know yet to set up a george papadopoulos way back in early 2016. the guy was an innocent young man volunteering on a campaign who then was targeted by some group, someone where they had a bunch of people running into him over in europe. he's right about that, we just don't know who did it and you continue to go into those text messages and even though his name was kept from congress for a very long time, we didn't learn about th

i remember being at a hearing i the senate a few years ago when senator chuck grassley was asking questions about the four chinese students and whether they were coming here for valid reasons or whether they were coming here to spy and steal ou intellectual property. the responses were that he was it was xena phobic and it was just another ploy by the trump administration to engage in som kind of racism. in china is a threat, eve seen it from the fbi director and it's going to be interesting to see how democrats handle the chinese communist party moving forward per. >> look at where we are in the pandemic. all my goodness, there are just so many things. i heard you pipe up with when the word china was mentioned. >> katie was reading my mind, i stifled, but i was giving her a yes, katie, yes, and nodding my head. the pandemic is just part of that. don't ever forget that china about this virus late last year they knew there was human to human transmission and lied about it. and, the world health organization, backing up china lied about it. china unleashed the virus on th world killing more t

spokesperson for chuck grassley told politico in july after another rise in payrolls, jobs report underscores why congress should take a thoughtful approach, and before getting a better understanding of economic understanding of the country. white house surprisingly show claimed those job numbers were showing the economy was zooming upwards. >> we saved millions of lives. now we're opening with a bang. we were talking about a v. this is better than a v. this is a rocketship. >> green shoots popping up everywhere. stocks are soaring. potus policies are working. stay with the winners. trump and pence, and me! the best is yet to come. >> so all this rosie scenario, everything is going to be back to normal. then the constant concern from republicans about deficits and the horrors of government spending. one irony of all of this, of course, is that republicans passed another package earlier this year and made it big enough, donald trump might have very well have been re-elected. after all, there has been a constant democratic caucus in congress pushing to go big and republicans were constantly try

senior democrat leaders, including ranking member peters accused senator grassley and myself of accepting and disseminating russian disinformation. i had nothing to do with this report. >> you lied repeatedly in the press. >that was an outright lie and i told you it was alive but you continue to do it. >> mr. chairman, this is not about airing your grievances, i don't know what rabbit hole you are running down. >> jesse: greg, that's the kind of senate hearing that we like. >> greg: yes, and anyone who dismisses the topic or this hearing in general were likely drooling over the impeachment hearings and all those other hearings that were happening that robbed us of the essential mental space that was necessary to address things like covid. that's why you can't handle the hypocrisy, the famed philosopher peter marshall of the great hollywood squares once said, turnabout is fair play so if you were stupid enough not to see that this four year lie wouldn't come back and on your front porch you are going to be in for a hell of a year. it may only be a year because we are nicer people but this

we're also joined by iowa senators chuck grassley. where is chuck? chuck, congratulations on everything. chuck and joni ernst who just had a big victory. thank you. what a job. what a job. they had you down a couple points and you won by a lot. one of those things that you really -- you should be very proud of yourself. you campaigned hard. a tremendous victory. thanks very much. also, representatives jim jordan. where is jim? a great wrestler. really great wrestler. i won't go over the record because the only way you're not great is compared to this guy perhaps. he's a warrior in every way. we appreciate you being here. mark wayne mullen. thanks for being here. glad you're here and your son is setting records. two guys are great. fantastic people. dan was born and raised in the working class town of waterloo, iowa. his mother said she knew dan would be a wrestler the day they brought him home from the hospital. even as an infant, dan refused to let his back even touch the ground. that's an interesting statement. probably so. at 4 years old, his pare

information that came out during the impeachment proceedings, about hunter biden, whether it was the grassley johnson report that came out this fall that talked about suspicious financial transactions that had been flagged. that is an alarm bell for any journalist that there probably is a federal investigation. that's before you get to bobulinski. the blind eye that was closed to this is astonishing. i agree with ari, it's just a horrible press failure that denied the american public really crucial information. >> dana: ari fleisher, the biden team had joe biden up there for their weekly briefing. not a single reporter asked about this. i'm just being told about that in my ear. that's breaking here. i did want to ask you this, ari. president-elect biden has been dismissive of any of these notions for a long time, for about six months. he's just blown it off, said there's nothing there. is that sustainable? if they're not even going to ask the incoming press secretary, i guess so. i wonder how quickly this might be as he tries to get his administration out of the gate. >> you just put your fin

it's, to tom's point here, people are doing better dealing with the virus, chuck grassley, senator will be talking to us for the first time since getting diagnosed, he's doing just fine. on fox business, we will see you then. ♪ >> jesse: hello, everybody. i'm jesse watters along with dagen mcdowell, juan williams, sandra smith and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." ♪ president trump releasing a brand-new video statement amid new claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election. watch. >> the constitutional process must be allowed to continue, we are going to defend the honesty of the vote by ensuring that every legal ballot is counted. and that no illegal ballot is counted. >> jesse:

. >> harris: all right, i do want to get to this and it's from senator grassley as we go deeper into what we have learned about hunter biden, let's watch. >> but the liberal media and members of the other political party chose to dismiss our work. even falsely claimed that our work was russian disinformation. and i think they did this in order to protect the leaders of the other party. so you can understand why i think it's very outrageous that the fourth estate would choose to ignore the facts when they are uncovered by republicans. senator johnson and i don't do oversight work just for the fun of it. >> harris: they were looking into this, the finance committee, what are they looking at now? finances. >> they also found a major payment, large payment to hunter biden from moscow's former mayor's wife in the press ignore that story, too. this is serious, i can't think of the last time there was an actual ongoing federal criminal investigation of a president's child. i don't know that that's ever been done. so this is really serious from a criminal point of view and it of course it ra

falls into democratic hands, let's be clear, all the great work done by senator ron johnson, by senator grassley exposing the money flow from china to the biden family those investigations will be halted and stopped. those are the stakes we are facing right now. mark: this is why at the beginning of the show i talked about just how thoroughly corrupt and power-hungry the democratic party is in the media are as an appendage of the democratic party. they are really one and the same. they really put power in the democrat party ahead of the country. we see this time and time again, the candidacy and the election of our president, donald trump to what is taking place now. joe biden gets away with i don't know, my son did not do anything wrong and even during the debates i noticed the moderate moderators do not push to biden when he came hunter biden and all the corruption. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ you can count on me ♪ i'll be home for christmas ♪ if only in my dreams ♪ i waited to get treated. thought surgery was my only option. but then i found out about nonsurgical treatments. it was a t

hillary clinton's campaign, the dnc, the steele dossier, the ranking member peters accusing senator grassley and i of disseminating russian disinformation, that's where the false information is coming, the lies, the false allegations. i can't sit by here and listen to this -- >> mr. chairman, i've got to respond to that. you're saying i'm putting out -- >> [inaudible] >> well, one, i had nothing to do with this -- >> you lied repeatedly in the press that i was spreading russian disinformation, and that was an outright lie, and i told you to stop lying, and you continued to do that. >> mr. chairman, this is not about ouring your grievances. i don't know what rabbit hole you're running down -- >> senator paul. >> sum blue not what we're doing. >> senator paul. >> mr. chairman, you can't make false accusations and then drop it there. that is why -- >> senator paul. >> -- needs to return back to -- >> [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] >> this is, this is terrible, what you're doing to this committee. of all the great work that you -- >> it is what you have done to this committee. falsely usi

enough to warrant serious investigation by the fbi and i'm very glad that senator johnson and senator grassley took it up in the senate, maria. these are not popular issues to take up on capitol hill. i'm glad they have taken this and moved forward with it. maria: yeah, but people want to see accountability, senator. are you going to subpoena hunter biden? what's stopping you from subpoenaing hunter biden? are you getting pressure from within the senate? >> well, you do need support but you also need more documentation. you need to build the case before you kind of bring in the prime target of the investigation. so we're starting to get that information. our report basically broke a logjam. people coming forward. the computer shop repair owner stepped forward, tony bobulinski came forward. certainly i would want to start subpoenaing people like james gilead and rob walker, people that were involved with tony bobulinski as well. have you to build a case. it'se enormously frustrating tht it's taken so long. there's been resistance. they would rather concentrate on other things. now that so much

liz: we have senator ron johnson and chuck grassley and they had a senate report in september about hunter biden, they say this is a national security problem it raises criminal financial counterintelligence and assertion concerns because hunter and the bidens were working on business dealings with china, russia and undercut america's interest overseas. were talking burisma, were also talking moscow, russian, ukrainian, kazakhstan, oligarch, the special counsel, do we need a special counsel to probe james bidens business dealings with the hospital company lawsuit says joe biden's invoked his powerful brothers name to convince americorps to get a bridge loan for a hedge fund after james biden promising he could get the middle eastern investors because of the family name then he got a personal one from the hospital company, went to thick about the angle. >> is very clear that the biden family has made money for years off the biden name but we definitely need special counsel particulate to hone in on hunter biden. i am obviously upset about the entire family but i'm very disturbed the hunter