Welcome back. I'm Ian Masters and this is Background Briefing, available 247 at backgroundbriefing.org.

And joining us now, Jacob Halbrun, who is the editor of the national interest,

a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center,

a columnist for the spectator and the author of The New They Will Write,

The Rise of the Neocons.

Previously, he was an editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times,

a senior editor at the New Republic, and he has an article at the national interest, Hunter Biden's

revenge. He could become the hero that saves Joe Biden. And his latest book available at Amazon

now is America Lost,

the Wright's Century Long Romance with Foreign Dictators.

Welcome to Background Briefing, Jacob Halberon.

Thank you, Ian.

Well, thanks for joining us,

and it looks like Hunter Biden, through his lawyer, Abby Lowell,

is trying to turn the tables on this

creton, this absolutely moronic guy that is the chair of the House Oversight and Accountability

Committee, Comer, who's one of a whole crop of really stupid people that have, that many of whom Trump has brought

into politics like Tommy Tuberville in the Senate. And he keeps promising the smoking gun and

it never delivers. So they called his bluff and Abbey Lowell wrote to Coma saying,

Mr. Chairman, we take you up on your offer.

Accordingly, our client will get right to it by agreeing to answer any pertinent and relevant question

you or your colleagues might have, but rather than subscribing to your cloaked, one-sided process,

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