the hourslong testimony democrats sought to chalk up the entirety of the whistleblowers claims as a disagreement between prosecutors and investigators on how to move forward with charges against hunter bidenmy view here is that were spending hours on a disagreement on whether to charge someone and we have a whole democratic process that decides that said rep ro khanna dcalif you dont get to decide thatrepublicans pushed back saying that beyond charging decisions it was clear that the prosecutors didnt want to touch anything that would include hunter bidens father in one instance shapley testified that in a meeting with weiss and assistant us attorney lesley wolf after the 2020 election he and other agents wanted to discuss an email between hunter biden associates where one person made reference to the big guy shapley said wolf refused to do so saying she did not want to ask questions about dadrepublicans have moved ahead issuing a series of requests for voluntary testimony from senior justice officials including weissweiss said in a letter to jordan earlier this month that he would be happy to testify before the committee when he is legally able to share information with congress without violating the longstanding department policy of discussing an ongoing investigationtestimony from justice department officials could come after hunter biden appears for his plea hearing next week