BAIER: “Democrats had contended the boxes are illegal. The state says Republicans made a number of significant concessions, such as not condoning the use of unstaffed or unsecured ballot drop boxes. We have new information tonight concerning the emails allegedly coming from a computer belonging to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. Fox News has secured more of those email messages and the dollar numbers involved are staggering. Here’s senior political correspondent Mike Emanuel.”
[Clip starts]EMANUEL: “Fox News has obtained more emails purported to be from Hunter Biden’s laptop. From May 2017, correspondence with Chinese energy executives about remuneration packages which two sources have verified to Fox News. It discusses payment for six people, including a reference to ten percent of the equity in the deal be held by H for the big guy. Sources tell Fox News the big guy is Joe Biden, noting this was after he left office. Another email from August 2017 seeking $10 million per year in a deal that would be ‘interesting to me and my family.’ Today Arkansas senator Tom Cotton offered this assessment.”
COTTON: “What these documents reveal, if authentic, is largely what we’ve known all along about Hunter Biden, and really Joe Biden’s entire family, that they’ve been trading on his public office for decades.”
EMANUEL: “Fox also obtained alleged Hunter Biden emails about his business dealings in Ukraine in 2014 and 2015, when his father was vice president, playing a leading role on Obama administration foreign policy.”
GRAHAM: “While he’s talking to the Ukrainian parliament about corruption, his son is on the board of the most corrupt gas company in the Ukraine.”
EMANUEL: “Now, 19 House Republicans, led by Arizona’s Andy Biggs, are demanding the FBI reveal whether it was in possession of the laptop containing those emails during President Trump’s impeachment last December, writing ‘a large portion of the President’s legal defense case revolved around strong evidence that former vice president Biden’s son Hunter was peddling his influence to his father to land lucrative jobs overseas that he might not have otherwise been qualified for. The FBI acknowledges receipt of the Congressmen’s letter, but is offering no further comment. The contents of the purported Hunter Biden laptop were also given to Rudy Giuliani’s attorney. The Washington Post reports the White House was warned Giuliani was the target of a Russian intelligence operation to feed misinformation to President Trump. Giuliani responded today.”
GIULIANI: “One would think if I were dealing with some kind of agent of this and that, someone would have warned me, no one did. I’ve never heard of that before.”
[Clip ends]EMANUEL: “The office of the Director of National Intelligence referred our call to the White House. A spokesman for the National Security Council says national security adviser Robert O’Brien does not comment on sensitive intelligence topics or on the advice he provides President Trump. Bret?”
BAIER: “Mike, one clarification. You said that the May 2017 emails, that two sources have verified them to Fox News. So are we saying that they saw them contemporaneously at the time, that kind of verification?”
EMANUEL: “Yeah, one of the sources was actually on the email chain. There are a variety of people on the email and so we reached out to one of the people and that person responded back and said yeah, this is a valid email, I was involved in the communication, I can verify that that was the communication at the time. We went back and asked some more questions and that was kind of the limit of what the source was willing to say, but that source and another source who came forward with the email —“
BAIER: “Okay, sorry about that noise. Mike, thank you. The Republican National Committee has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging the censorship of the New York Post article about Hunter Biden’s emails amounts to an illegal corporate — “
