Hunter Biden agrees to deposition with lawmakers after resisting subpoena in impeachment probe

President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden will sit for a closed-door deposition with the House Oversight and Judiciary committees on Feb. 28, the committee chairmen said on Thursday, after weeks of back and forth with the younger Biden, who faced the threat of being held in contempt of Congress.

"[Hunter Biden's] deposition will come after several interviews with Biden family members and associates. We look forward to Hunter Biden’s testimony," James Comer, R-Ky., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the oversight and judiciary chairs, said in a statement.

Speaking with reporters later Thursday, Comer said, «He's going to be able to come in now and sit down and answer questions in a substantive, orderly manner.»

«We have a lot of questions,» Comer said.

Members from the three committees charged with leading the impeachment inquiry — judiciary, oversight and ways and means — will be able to attend and ask questions, he said.

The president's son had been subpoenaed to sit for a closed-door deposition late last year in the Republican-led impeachment inquiry into the president but said he would testify only in a public forum and previously castigated the probe as «illegitimate.»

A source familiar with negotiations on the deposition said that Hunter Biden was concerned any private comments to lawmakers could be selectively released.

Instead of sitting for a closed-door interview on Dec. 13, as required by his subpoena, Hunter Biden held a defiant news conference just outside the U.S. Capitol.

«Republicans do not want an open process where Americans can see their tactics, expose their baseless inquiry, or hear what I have to say. What are they afraid of? I am here,» he said then.

He faced a contempt vote for his refusal and, had he been held in