Jim Jordan concedes FBI informant lied about Bidens when confronted by CNN host

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who is chair of the House Judiciary Committee, is refusing to relent in his investigations of President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, despite his primary source of information under indictment for lying to the FBI.

On Wednesday, CNN congressional reporter Manu Raju confronted Jordan about whether he still wanted to continue pursuing the Bidens despite FBI informant Alexander Smirnov's indictment, and his recently unearthed connections to Russian intelligence agencies.

"It doesn't change the four fundamental facts," Jordan said, who went on to state that Hunter Biden was put on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, that he wasn't qualified to do so, that Burisma officials sought help from the Bidens amid an investigation by Ukrainian authorities and that Joe Biden traveled to Ukraine to condition the release of US tax dollars supposedly to help his son (when in reality he did so to force the ouster of corrupt Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin).

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Raju then reminded Jordan that he said the "most corroborating evidence we have is that 1023 form from this highly credible confidential human source," referring to Smirnov. After more pushback from Jordan, Raju pointed out the FBI said that "what Smirnov said was not true," and asked Jordan to concede that point.

"Well, yeah, that's what the FBI is saying," Jordan said.

Last week, the Department of Justice announced it had indicted Smirnov for fabricating his testimony that, among other things, the Bidens had solicited $5 million in bribes from Ukrainian officials. Then this week, a new filing submitted to US District Court alleged that Smirnov had conversations with "high-ranking" officials within Russian intelligence agencies. And while Smirnov claimed to only have access to $1,500 in cash and $5,000 in a separate checking account, bank records showed he had withdrawn more than $1.7 million between 2020 and 2022. It wasn't made clear from the filing where that money originated.

Both Jordan and House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky) have been investigating the Bidens since 2021, though they have yet to produce any smoking gun directly implicating President Biden in any corruption.

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Watch the video of Raju's confrontation with Jordan below, or by clicking this link.