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LEMIRE: “Could you just, with specifics, tell us these phone calls that were a matter of discussion yesterday, what were they about? What would then-Vice President Biden say in these conversations? Walk us through what happened.”
Goldman: “Right. So, let’s put this in context. Beau Biden got very sick in early 2015. He died in the spring of 2015, which was right in the middle when Devon Archer had his business dealings with Hunter Biden. At that point, Joe Biden and Hunter Biden began to speak every day because they were both devastated by Beau’s death. They spoke every day. The witness testified that over his 10-year relationship with Hunter Biden, there may be approximately 20 times when in one of those conversations Hunter Biden would put his father at a dinner, not at a business meeting, at a dinner that he was having if he happened to get a hold of his father, and would ask his father to say hello to whoever was at the table. That was essentially the extent of it. It was unclear, and the witness testified — this is not me saying this. The witness testified that a lot of times, most of the time Joe didn’t even know who the people were at the dinner table. So, this was just simply — this may have been Hunter’s effort to say, ‘Hey, this is the vice president, this is my dad,’ but the critical part here for Congress — that’s what we have to make sure we understand — is that Joe Biden was doing nothing to benefit his son.”