Jim Jordan says special counsel in Hunter Biden probe to come before congressional committee

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said Sunday that the special counsel appointed in the Hunter Biden case, David Weiss, will come before a congressional committee next month.

“David Weiss has committed to come in front of the committee on Oct. 18, so we can look forward to that,” Jordan said on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo.

Weiss, who is also the U.S. attorney for Delaware, was appointed as special counsel in August to investigate President Biden’s son after a previous plea deal fell apart in July during a hearing in Delaware. A grand jury later indicted Hunter Biden on three gun-related charges as part of Weiss’s elevated investigation.

The Hill has reached out to the offices of Jordan and Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chairman of the Oversight and Accountability Committee, for clarification on which committee Weiss is slated to go before.

Meanwhile, Weiss has found himself also involved with the House Republicans’ widespread investigation into the Biden family’s foreign business dealings. Jordan, alongside Comer, has spent recent months probing Hunter Biden and his time on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, while his father was vice president.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced earlier this month he was moving to launch an official impeachment inquiry into President Biden in the wake of these investigations. The House will hold its first hearing on that matter this week.

Earlier this year, the Oversight Committee heard testimony from two IRS whistleblowers who said Weiss was sometimes hesitant to aggressively pursue the younger Biden’s case, which included alleged tax crimes.

Jordan told Bartiromo that his committee has a number of witnesses at the Department of Justice (DOJ) it is looking to depose. Pointing to a series of allegations about Hunter Biden and his father’s involvement with Burisma, Jordan echoed previous claims that the DOJ mishandled the investigation.

“And then what does the [Attorney General Merrick] Garland Justice Department do? They try to sweep it all under the rug,” Jordan said.

The investigations so far have not found the president directly financially benefited from his son’s business dealings or proved that he made any policy decisions because of them when he was vice president.

Jordan’s comments follow his request earlier this month to the DOJ to turn over a series of documents related to the two IRS whistleblowers. In a letter to Garland, the committee asked for an Oct. 11 interview with Weiss and other top DOJ officials mentioned by the IRS whistleblowers, including U.S. Attorney for D.C. Matthew Graves and Lesley Wolf, a deputy to Weiss.

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