aides are saying, quote, the doj already has access to raw footage. meaning what he said, don't take it seriously, the blurring weren't to interfere with the doj. that statement goes to the prosecutor's evidence. they have the raw tapes, not to speaker johnson's apparently anti-police motive that held hide fugitives, which is what he said. >> we're going through a methodical process of releasing them as quickly as we can. as you know, we have to blur some of the faces of persons who participated in the events of that day because we don't want them to be retaliated against and to be charged by the doj and to have other, you know, concerns and problems. >> those people broke into the capitol, attacked police, many officers -- several officers as you know were brutally attacked. some later died by suicide in the days after. and johnson says quite blithely, quite passively, we don't want them to be charged for storming the capitol, indeed saying he would hide it from the doj, which to be fair as possible, his office is walking back that part. we've seen p

to be charged by the doj. >> what? that is speaker of the house, you like to stand in the way, the way we identify criminals. now his office is revising those remarks plus how federal prosecutors plan to use donald trump has continued support. the rest of the presidents in court, warnings of an apocalyptic situation in gaza as israel takes intense deadly aim. welcome to the lead with jake tapper, we start with our law and justice. the new impact of the january 6th insurrection on trumps legal and political future. federal prosecutors say they plan to use drums continued with these lawbreakers against him at trial. the justice department saying the fact that trump continues to celebrate and support the insurrection is. he his intent was to commit federal crimes, trump quote sent supporters including groups like the proud boys who they knew were angry and now calls patriots. to achieve the criminal objective of obstructing the congressional certification, after a stunning comment by house speaker mike johnson, republican

that's what doj thought was an equitable and just result. that that deal fell through, doj sought to escalate in a dramatic way. this is after five years, and even five months i think since the deal fell apart. i think there are real questions about the delay with which doj acted here. i think that point from hunter biden's lawyer as to whether this would be happening if his last name wasn't biden is a real question. i would say as a former doj prosecutor, more and more it looks like that to me. it looks like someone who's not get ago fair shake and is being treated more harshly because of their proximity to the president. >> and ken, didn't hunter already pay back the taxes? >> he did pay most of the taxes and often prosecutors will take that into account, ana, in a tax case in a way that benefits the defendant. in this case they did that because in spite of all this evidence we're seeing now, they were ready to allow him to admit to only misdemeanors and serve no jail time, and republicans were furious about that. they called it a sweethea

the doj and the fbi knew all about this tax evasion a month ago. but they waited until the testimony on the record behind closed doors was a couple of days away. hunter biden was supposed to testify on wednesday for the house oversight committee and he was supposed to answer serious questions about why he accepted millions of dollars from communist china and now he's got this to hide behind. he can say i was just indicted, i'm not on lockdown and i can't speak and i'm not coming in on wednesday so once again i see this as a very convenient time for the fbi and the doj to roll this out to once again give cover to hunter biden. >> you know what? i have to wonder, you said these revelations have come over the last few weeks, maybe a month. they have known for years. come on, there's no way they haven't known. maria: that's definitely true, you're right. >> what's been going on. it's a blatant attempt, i go back to the doj and disappointment in the agency because they were obviously trying to cover cover all of ho protect prime minister boris johnson t

they the say the doj allowed statute of limitations on certain charges to run out.nvestigators, all while tipping off hunter's defense counsel about pending search warrants. john kennedy pressed chris r christopherwray on this yesterdy they handled the hunter biden laptop story before the 2020 election. >> why didn't the fbi say hey, the laptop's real. >> the fbi cannot -- especially at a time like that -- be talking about an ongoing investigation. we have to be very careful about what we can say especially in the the middle of an election season. maria: so then just allow lies to permeate so that your guy wins the election, is that the strategy? >> yeah, that's their strategy. that's the deep state and work t work right there and there's proof of it. to build on this, the whistleblowers talked about there were questions about tony bobulinski and the whistleblowers yesterday said i asked him, i said were there people in the doj that wouldn't you allow you to interview him because obviously based on what he had said on fox, there was information about that he had of

the factual and legal issues in this case are all very simple, our lawyers have provided the doj with absolutely everything they need like i said, if we went the normal steps through doj, he could be home for christmas, the other option, rich came home through the counsel of europe treaty in line with the treaty, the president retains his right to commutation or pardon, he could commute his sentence. the stroke of a pen, he could be home. he could have done it days ago and could do it today, or tomorrow. what the president will do, what doj will do i have no idea. >> i asked about that, i would defer to you but i was told that the president does not have the power to pardon sentences in this situation the same way he does if it is a state sentence, georgia or pennsylvania were to sentence. i hope you are right in the president can act, just an fyi, i was told by the doj or maybe it was by the white house that that's not the case. >> there has been a lot of lawyers going back and forth, i have yet to find a lawyer without a political agenda that agrees that the president does not have

nobody from the doj ever weighed into it. you're saying you could not go forward with that i find that absolutely astonishing. i'm sorry to take up all this time. for the record, and your article, the prosecutor says wherein it discloses that the individual shot at the police four times before fire was returned. i yield back. >> i will now yield stability from has a mania -- i will now yield to the lady from pennsylvania. >> received some questions about the d.c. jail that we heard increasingly from any of our colleagues on the right. since january 6, isn't it true that the d.c. jail had deplorable conditions for decades before january 2021? >> i cannot speak to formal findings. the more resources, we could do more. we want jails and prisons that comply with the constitution and the mandate of the civilized persons institution act. >> i would like to go to a time magazine article from 2022 entitled the d.c. jail again decades before january 6 defendant started racing concerns. >> thank you. >> yes. >> concerns had been raised

so far two key doj witnesses have failed to show for congressionally subpoenaed depositions after doj directed them not to appear. other witnesses have refused to answer certain questions from investigators, and the biden administration has refused to turn over many of the documents requested by congress, claiming this inquiry was not properly authorized. let there be no mistake. today's vote asserts congress's authority to conduct an impeachment inquiry and gather all the evidence to proceed with our investigation. the american people deserve answers. here's what we know so far. the existence of multiple email aliases suggest that joe biden was deliberately trying to conceal his activities from the public, including one-on-one communications with a key hunter biden business partner during his vice presidency. we also learned that investigators were blocked from looking into potential campaign finance crimes by the biden campaign. hunter biden had only known kevin morris, a democrat donor, for two months before morris started settling his tax debts to the tune of about $2 million, and

nikki haley claiming the doj, quote unquote, slow walked the case. let's bring in former u.s.ney, harry litman, along with nbc, is gary -- carey, i want to start with you on this one. digdeep or if you can on what these new charges are and are we hearing anything from the white house on this? >> in this 56-page indictment, special counsel goes into great detail. what hunter biden was spending his money on instead of paying his taxes. remember, for some context, here this was a time and hunter biden's life when he was in the throes of addiction, a very low time in his life. and what he was spending his money on makes that clear. i want to show you here, this was money spent on various women, hundreds of thousands of dollars for, quote, various women. hundreds of thousands of dollars as it relates to adult entertainment. one point $6 million in atm withdrawals, cash withdrawals. he was using cashed and spending it on things. a lot of it going to his alcohol and drug use. as f the presidents the white house ofly h not been saying hing. they're saying no comment, nothing on record

enforce that subpoena because the doj is the entity that -- >> neil: will this doj do it?s the big question here, whether they will pursue charges against him for that is really the decision of the doj. david weiss says there's an on going investigation. hunter has impending criminal trials. this could be an additional indictment. that's up to the doj and their discretion. >> let me ask you -- i know they're trying to have the gun charges dismissed and the seven additional tax charges come up. i know hunter biden's lawyers have said there's nothing there and this is just a pile on and add on. but they can't chase them away, right? what happens? >> those criminal cases that hunter is facing are still pending trial at this point. we don't know if there's ongoing plea negotiations. there seems to be significant evidence in those. he's not been convicted. he last to contend though through trial or root plea deal. right now he's pending the criminal matters. >> neil: he took the ball and ran offense here and speak outside publicly. he said if he had his druthers, he would be ha

we don't them charge by the doj. we want them out free. ready to do whatever they need to do, again. all of this is in further and have the same objectives, to protect and excuse a violent mob that attacked the capitol and that is now the official position for mike johnson slips to your ears, the most powerful republican in washington and the republican party as a whole. the simultaneous ludicrous believe the january 6th was a false flag but also was good, that it happened, rioters need to be protected, because as liz cheney, former vice chair of the geniuses committee pointed out to nicole wallace today, and helps to protect the man to encourage them, good them, to storm the capitol in the first place. >> i think this is a situation where you have the republican party actively trying to ensure the people, trying to ensure to, whitewash what happened on the sixth, to collaborate with the former president. i think that's a really important point because the threat that he poses wouldn't be so significant if people heard on the right thing,

if they had been, doj absolutely could have charged that.o when you see representative comer now trying to sort of -- it's a little bit of an awkward fit, but he's trying to pigeonhole this indictment into the impeachment inquiry, it's just apples and oranges. it just doesn't match up. >> all right. under the radar in the last 24 hours, a huge potential development in the federal case against donald trump for trying to overturn the election. his lawyers have indicated they are going to appeal a ruling from judge tanya chutkan, she basically said donald trump is not immune from these charges because he was president, which is something that he asserted. the trump team made clear they're going to appeal that as high as they need to. what does all of that mean? >> two different really important things happening in that criminal case. donald trump's team argue that because he was in office and they argue what he did relating to the lead up to january 6 was related to the office of the president, he's criminally immune. now, we don't know the ans

then, the propaganda war from both communist china and joe biden's doj. dr. carson on the impacts to america's freedoms. plus, drugs, weapons, human trafficking, would-be terrorists all flowing through america's wide open border as the fbi and the homeland security department warn of a potential terrorist attack to come on u.s. soil. house homeland security or chairman mark green on the threats today and just how vulnerable america really is. it's all right here, right now on "sunday morning futures." ♪ ♪ maria: and we begin this sunday morning with the gop's unanimous vote to formalize an impeachment inquiry into president biden. in a vote that went along party lines, house republicans signed off to formalize the inquiry end abling committees to enforce subpoenas and gather evidence about whether the president is compromised and, in fact, traded policy favors for foreign money. the vote came on the same day hunter biden defied a congressional subpoena if issued by house oversight committee chairman james comer to sit for a closed-door deposition. instead,-up

then, the propaganda war from both communist china and joe biden's doj. dr.en carson on the impacts to america's freedoms. plus, drugs, weapons, human trafficking, would-be terrorists all flowing through america's wide open border as the fbi and the homeland security department warn of a potential terrorist attack to come on u.s. soil. house homeland security or chairman mark green on the threats today and just how vulnerable america really is. it's all right here, right now on "sunday morning futures." ♪ ♪ maria: and we begin this sunday morning with the gop's unanimous vote to formalize an impeachment inquiry into president biden. in a vote that went along party lines, house republicans signed off to formalize the inquiry end abling committees to enforce subpoenas and gather evidence about whether the president is compromised and, in fact, traded policy favors for foreign money. the vote came on the same day hunter biden defied a congressional subpoena if issued by house oversight committee chairman james comer to sit for a closed-door deposition. instead,-

instead, biden's doj ad hoc and on the fly gave him the same power as u.s. attorneys.ial appointment, no senate confirmation. >> yeah, that's right. it was, he was picked, called back from the hague, put in place and put in place a partisan team. there's also anoth interesting historical aspect that i think people have missed here. in the past when you appointed a special counsel, you appointed someone from the opposite party. when archibald cox was a appointed special counsel and -- they were the top democratic constitutional lawyers a appointed to investigate the republican president, richard a nixon, by republican attorney generals. so that's another odd historical quirk here. elizabeth: is so they're just blowing through norms in the constitution to get what they want. i mean, it's bending and twisting how this country was set up. so if the supreme court agrees with this amicus brief and says, yeah, we've got to knock out smith's office, it's unconstitutional a, what would that do to the federal cases against trump? there's a classified docs case and the 2020 case.

did she cover for hunter biden during her time at the doj?hat people want to know. >> and that's what this interview is about, what the testimony is about. so we have had the whistleblowers saying that you know, she was really the lead in a certain way, she became a u.s., assistant u.s. district attorney in 2006, she had worked for a law firm, clerked for a judge appointed by bush, and a history, and we found with the new indictment of hunter biden is that the whistleblowers have been correct what they have alleged, and that they have alleged that there is, you know, she in particular was pushing back and hindering their investigation, ranging from not allowing certain searches to happen, like the delaware guest house where hunter biden was living at his father's house. there is also allegations that she alerted his attorneys, biden's attorneys to a search warrant prior to it being implemented, giving him time to change an environment. things like not wanting to have mentions of joe biden, not wanting to have certain words used. so it's a var

is hunter being used by the doj as the sacrificial lamb to protect the big guy.ivine. miranda, when you look at the laptop and you know it better than anybody else in this country. hunter biden implicates his dad numerous times. half of his income to pops and pays for pop's home repairs and other evidence. how bad is this for joe biden. this is devastating, sean. the indictment is a vindication of everything we reported for the last 3 years and a vindication of james comer and fellow presents in the house and their investigation this year and a vindication of those irs whistleblowers gary and joseph zigler. this is also an indictment of david weiss even though his name is on this. that sweetheart plea deal he tried to slip past the american people to give hunter immunity from other charges was a disgrace. you look at the depth of the crimes that are alleged here, hunter biden is accused not just of failing to pay his taxes, but of fraudulently trying to rip off the tax office. for instance, trying to game his hotel room charges when he was on a crack bender or pr

and requiring doj for example to establish a robo call enforcement and education office. right now at the department, much of the robocall effort is housed under the elder justice initiative and i think that is important but they can do more and i think congress can really look into that and impress upon them that this is a priority. >> to me, the focus on enforcement is two-pronged. we want to make sure the government is going after the bad actors and we want to avoid opening up legitimate actors to frivolous lawsuits. abusive litigation against businesses acting in good faith does nothing but stop criminals. would you provide some examples of tcpa filings that you view as litigation abuse ? >> certainly and unfortunately there are a lot and i would commend to anyone's attention, the work that the chambers institute has done, they have several reports that give examples. one example that stuck out to me recently, the city of albuquerque was sued after sending text messages to local residents during the covid-19 pandemic to notify them of the opportunity to participate in

but that doesn't really matter if the doj is going to fight it. by the way, alaska has offered $18 a share to all of the investors for hawaiian airlines. we reached out to the doj, as you would expect, early on, just a day or two after a proposed merger is announced, they had no comment on the specifics. i'm sure, melissa, we'll hear from him at some point. remember, the doj, as you look at shares of jetblue and spirit, they are watching the end of that hearing, that court case, final arguments, maybe tomorrow, maybe on wednesday, but it will be this week and we could get a ruling on that by the judge by the end of this year, though many believe it will be shortly after the new year. finally take a look at the airline stocks today. for the most part, they were, you know, moving higher. interesting to see what happens, not only with jetblue and spirit, but once that's done, what does the doj say about this deal? >> yeah, and regarding this deal, if it doesn't go through, is it thought that hawaiian could be purchased by another airline or that no d

smith is no doubt concerned that trump is going to win the election and either order doj to stand down or self-pardon. what remains to be seen is whether smith will ever knack knowledge the need for urgency due to the election or will he continue to beat around the bush and risk further delays. the supreme court is about to have more influence on a presidential election than any time since "bush v. gore" in 2000. there's the matter of weather j january 6th were defended. and there's the state of colorado challenge to trump's qualification under section 3 of the 14th amendment and there's this case, smith's challenge of trump's assertion of presidential immunity in the federal case pending before judge chut began scheduled to go on super tuesday. it is this case i've long said which stands the longest possibility of him being tried, but now that scheduling is in doubt. and smith's refusal to level with the public about why he's rushing to the court house, i think, diminishes the credibility of the doj. if the election did not loom large, there's no way smith would be in such a hurry. he

they said they're withholding thousands of pieces of evidence that the doj is so far.eceived 14 pages of e-mails out of the 82,000 e-mail pages that they have requested from the doj. so that is why they need had this necessary step to ensure that they start seeing some accountability. look, the american people are sick and tired of all of these reports that we're hearing about. we don't want another report. we want to see accountability. in fact this is the case a that the house republicans say there could be bribery, there is influence peddling, there could be money laundering, there could be tax charge as well. a lot of the money flowing among all of these accounts, hunter biden bank accounts, was not on the taxes, the tax returns. so they're saying these were loans and there's actually no documentation of any loan agreement that last piece of evidence that the republicans released last weeks was incredibly damning. that was an e-mail from a bank money laundering expert and he is telling his colleagues at the bank this is a you high risk individual. we know communist

since then we've seen a deluge of actions by the administrative state, by the faa, the doj, the ftc, even fish and wildlife services have been looking into elon musk. the fcc where i work this week, just this week, we issued a decision that raked back a 2020 award of nearly $1 billion to bring high-speed internet services to rural americans, a decision that simply doesn't make sense, when viewed from the lens of the facts or the law or the policy. in fact, we made up an entirely new standard and applied it to only one entity, which was star link. none of the other 180 entities that won awards back in 2020 were held to this standard. it was simply moving the goal posts. >> laura: so that sounds like the definition of an

office of affairs of doj, back to me. giving something of an answer to this. the third is a letter off of their website, reflecting the plea agreement between the southern district of new york, and the attorneys for charles mcgonagle. at this point, what i asked in the letter, was somewhat independent from the fbi? are they taking a look to see if there were fbi shenanigans during that period in that office? i have received no confirmation that anything is going on. the plea agreement reflects no signal or sign of cooperation. this is often a feature in plea agreements and sentencings. there is no assignment that they are looking to do, outside of the plea. i have been unable to determine whether or not the inspector general is eyeballing this, to see if somebody independent from the fbi, someone in the department, should take a look. what you know about the status of this? would it make sense? would it not make sense? let me put it that way, to have a look at what they know, to have a placement office at that time. this is while he is in this helpful position

. >> many of them have been charged by the doj. speaker johnson's office later tried to walk back that claim, saying that you did not hear him say that, that was not his intention. they issued a statement saying that quote, faces are typically blurred from public viewing room footage to prevent all forms of retaliation against private citizens from any non government actors. the department of justice, they, said already has access to raw footage from january 6th 2021. i have a feeling former deputy director of the fbi andrew mccabe might disagree. he joins me now. >> yikes. that is an exact quote from a top biden campaign advisor after hearing what he told donors behind closed doors tonight in boston. he offered a notably candid reasoning about why he is running for reelection. he told them, and i'm quoting him now, according to reporters in the room, if trump wasn't running, i'm not sure i'd be running. well, there is that. let's see what a former deputy assistant to president biden, jamal's events, has to say about it. also here,

as you point out, this is a broad issue at the doj according to you. back to august 7 of 2020. she says someone needs to redraft attachment b. she goes on to say please focus on fara evidence only, which is the ability to conduct foreign business without the license to do so or notifying our government. she says there should be nothing about political figure one in here. mr. zeigler, you're included on that e-mail. so what did she mean by that and does that line up with what she said yesterday? >> yeah, that told the agents who believed in that affidavit, the fbi agents have probable cause to include political one, former vice president joe biden. they presented the affidavit showing that they had enough probable cause for that. i think that limitation there, the evidence was overwhelming. this is about access to the administration. so access to hunter biden, to the administration. it is seen through the e-mails that have been turned over. there was former head of ice that was pulling immigrations. immigration system for burisma officials. so there's j

frankly it's because doj has the kind of tools that we didn't have.been a professional investigator, it was a professional prosecutors, the latter is where the power. is prosecutors can come and see, 's forcibly, your phone. >> exactly. so it's a whole other level of power and i think jack smith is taking what we started with and going even further and deeper. >> to give a top line here from the political reporting again on those exchanges, court filing reveals perry's vast contacts in the 2020 election, description a numerous exchanges between perry and top trump officials including clark, mark meadows, i imagine you had on the committee but also senior adviser eric herschmann, director of national intelligence john ratcliffe, a former house colleague of perry. perry does seem in the top three of congressional plotters here, if i understand this right. >> i think that's right. i think with the evidence shows today is that he really wasn't orchestrator. he was not someone who is cheering from the sidelines. he was someone who put himself directly in t

he secured a not guilty verdict on one charge and a mistrial on th rest which the doj tried again.s explaining that smith's prosecution team when they looked at the facts they just did not have the goods. >> i felt like the evidence just wasn't there. it could have been more. yeah. it could have been a lot more than what it was. >> it cld have been a lot more. it was a visible failure and it came at a context after that same department i mentioned at doj had been reeling from prior criticism that lost its nerve or gotten gun shy in these cases. they have to keep in mind, this kind of laws in court is rare. criminal prosecutors have very high conviction rates. indeed, they get most defendants on plead out and they go to trial in special cases and they win and it was cast as a blow to the justice department's beleaguered public integrity section held by jack smith. that's some conk coverage from the times and politico and smith convicted republican virginia governor bob mcdonald of corruption charges from his days of office, but even that case was complicated later on appeal when the

is this another question, is this another indication of a corrupt compromised doj? president biden is still denying politics played a role in the probe of his son, doug. your thoughts. >> i mean, how are -- leslie wolf is transitioning out but we saw this so many times in the judiciary committee, we saw this in depositions. maria: you were on the judiciary committee. >> ranking member. the doj would sit there and say don't answer that question, don't answer that question. and i mean, we offered to go into a secure -- we would of do this all the time. they won't take us up on the offer because they didn't want the questions. when you have a government separated from oversight that's what we have over here. congress has to get back into doing true oversight. maria: ryan. >> this inpr influence peddlins so blatant, i mean, come on. yeah, yeah. we know joe biden does love his son, he takes care of him really well. maria: you know what, it would be funny if it weren't so dangerous and it's happening all in the face of the other side saying that trump is the threat to dem

now, of course, the doj's original plan. let's take you back in time was to not charge hunter at all with nothing. they wanted to sweep all of all of hunter's misdeeds, if you will, under the rug, the biden family, misdeeds under the rug. and for a while, it was all going according to plan. >> remember, federal prosecutor david weiss? he'd been investigating this for years. he dragged on what appeared to be a fake investigation, allowing the statute of limitations. >> this is very important tonight as we go through all of this, to actually run out on several serious tax crimes alleged that corresponded with the burisma years. >> we'll explain that. >> and then he seemed content to just, you know, wrap up the probe without any charges at all up until the point where two whistleblowers, brave whistleblowers at the irs sounded the alarm. and according to six separate witnesses, david weiss said that his hands were completely tied in regards to his investigation. remember, they took contemporaneous notes. remember, david weiss t

this argument that the doj is working on behalf of joe biden to protect him and his family -- hunter was charged. >> this whole thing is so ridiculous, stephanie. it is plainly absurd on its face. and -- hunter -- this is the worst deep state of all-time, if there is a deep state block to protect the bidens. they've indicted joe biden's only surviving son on very serious charges. they have not done anything with joe biden's bidding. if anything, i think a criticism of the doj and merrick garland is that they did not move fast enough to go after donald trump, after his obvious crimes we all saw with our eyes on january 6th. and so the whole deep state thing is ridiculous. there is no evidence behind it. this impeachment inquiry is a total kangaroo court pr stunt. what is different, fundamentally, about an inquiry, then what they have been doing since the minute joe biden got in there? they've been having observed absurd oversight hearings and calling witnesses and bringing people forward for years now. with nothing. they have. nothing they can't even see what this inquiry is about. th

this argument of the doj is working on behalf of joe biden to protect him and his family. hunter was charged. >> this whole thing is so ridiculous. it is plainly absurd on its face. hunter might go to jail. this is the worst deep state of all-time, if there is a deep state plot to protect the bidens. leave undated joe biden's only surviving son on very serious charges. they have not done anything in joe biden's bidding. if anything a criticism of the doj is that they didn't move fast enough to go after donald trump after his obvious crimes that we all saw with our eyes on january 6th. so the whole deep state thing is ridiculous there's. no evidence behind it. this impeachment inquiry is a total kangaroo court pr stunt. what is different, fundamentally, about an inquiry, then what they have been doing since the minute joe biden got in there? they've been having observed oversight hearings and calling witnesses and bringing people forward for years now. with nothing. they have. nothing they can't even see what this inquiry is about. they don't have high crime or misdemeanors

hsi agents traveled with her doj in august 2022, thesehsi agents traveled with her doj -- there doj andbi partners to speak with an american citizen who had been executive from ukraine where he had been living with his wife. the u.s. it told agents how a few months earlier he had been violently abducted from his home by members of the russian armed forces. he told hsi investigators as the attorney general noted that these russians had stripped him naked, threw him facedown to the ground, tied his hands behind his back, pointed a gun at his head and severely beat him, including with the stocks of their guns. . the russian soldiers then took him to a nearby military compound and held him there illegally for 10 days. he reported that oil in forced captivity, he was subjected to two interrogation sessions during which he was tortured by the four defendants named today, he reported that the russian defendants had a stripped him naked, photographed him and severely beat him around the chest and stomach. one defendant staged a mock execution of him. after asking for the victim's last words, on

is he a doj career professional. these aren't maga people who indicted him.ou are absolutely right. another thing not to be forgotten. the felony counts that he was hit with the other day. >> hunter biden all occurred after 2020 after his addiction was done with we are absolutely ssympathetic to his addiction. it should be something that the judge considers as a mitigating circumstance of what his sentence should be after he is convicted, if that is what happens. >> laura: they were panicking over at the white house today. they clearly know that this strategy, coordinated or not, was not smart. mollie, sol, thank you both. hunter cover-up play is part of a two prong defensive from team biden and in moments we are going to tell you what is really behind prosecutor jack smith's push for this accelerated trump trial. stay with us. ♪ >> we have to go immediately before the supreme court. this thing would have all been over with two years ago. they waited and waited. they saw i was running. they waited and they saw i was hot and they filed lawsuits. >> laura: well

that undercuts donald trump's argument the doj isn't being independent. it's a partisan group out to get republicans. but the doj is simultaneously prosecuting trump, a republican candidate for president, and the current democratic president's son. trump blames the doj for most of his trouble, even if that has nothing to do with federal charges or federal court. this is civil court. he was in new york yesterday, nothing to do with the department of justice. listen. >> the doj, the white house, in order to hurt a political opponent and, actually, it's driving up my polls because the people of our country get it. >> it doesn't come out of the doj. the other major implication on this new indictment, of course, is how it affects his dad. the president is not accused of wrongdoing in the indictment, and a recent inquiry by the house oversight committee was unable to come up with any specific accusation against the president. but republicans are pushing forward with an impeachment inquiry anyway. they could vote on that as early as next week. now, note, this is

, but on the doj -- >> are you comfortable with that term? answer my question, though, governor. >> excuse me. what i'm not comfortable with is fbi agents going after parents going to school board meetings. i'm not comfortable with doj and fbi working with tech companies to censor dissent. i'm not comfortable with how power has been exercised, and you have an agency that has been very political. people say oh, their career, but it's 99% donations to democrats. you are seeing how that happens. so i don't use the same rhetoric that he does. i conduct myself in a way that's more effective as a leader part of what you have to do is you have to be strong and you have to deliver big results, but what you don't want to do is you don't want to alienate people for no reason, and i think some of the reasons why he's struggled electorally is because it's not even about the policy. it's about some of these other things -- >> so do you condemn the use of the word vermin? >> so don't shoot yourself in the foot, don't -- i don't use the term, but what i don

frankly it's because doj has the kind of tools that we didn't have. i've been a professional investigator, it was a professional prosecutors, the latter is where the power. is prosecutors can come and see, 's forcibly, your phone. >> exactly. so it's a whole other level of power and i think jack smith is taking what we started with and going even further and deeper. >> to give a top line here from the political re again on those exchanges, court filing reveals perry's vast contacts in the 2020 election, description a numerous exchanges between perry and top trump officials including clark, mark meadows, i imagine you had on the committee but also senior adviser eric herschmann, director of national intelligence john ratcliffe, a former house colleague of perry. perry does seem in the top three of congressional plotters here, if i understand this right. >> i think that's right. i think with the evidence shows today is that he really wasn't orchestrator. he was not someone who is cheering from the sidelines. he was someone who put himself directly in th

but on the doj -- >> are you comfortable with that term?on, though, governor. >> excuse me. what i'm not comfortable with is fbi agents going after parents going to school board meetings. i'm not comfortable with doj and fbi working with tech companies to censor dissent. i'm not comfortable with how power has been exercised. and you have an agency that is very political. people say oh, their career, but it's 99% donations to democrats. you are seeing how that happens. so i don't use the same rhetoric that he does. i conduct myself in a way that's more effective as a leader. part of what you have to do is you have to be strong and you have to deliver big results. but what you don't want to do is you don't want to alienate people for no reason. and i think some of the reasons why he's struggled electorally is because it's not even about the policy. it's about some of these other things -- >> so do you condemn the use of the word vermin? >> i don't -- i don't use the term. but what i don't do is play the media's game where i'm asked to referee

fox news has told doj several options and using the war crimes statute is just one option. doj also has additional tools to use given that hamas is recognized as a terrorist organization by the u.s. department of state. i'm told by a source familiar with the probes into hamas that things, sandra, are very fluid but the goal is to find the hamas fighters. the first time we have heard the justice department is actively going after hamas terrorists. federal prosecutors hope to identify these people by name, first and last name, at least put them on blast for the world to see what they did and who they are. >> john: a live look at the pentagon awaiting the briefing there, first since the u.s.s. mason shot down another houthi rebel drone yesterday in the red sea. dan hoffman, former cia station chief and fox news contributor. we see all the missiles and drones coming out of yemen either launched or fired by the houthis. american ships are taking them down, yet unlike what we see in syria, there is no direct response by the u.s. against the houthis as there was against iran-backe

he ran the doj department in public integrity, which deals with federal corruption. that wins no friends in washington. you spent all this time probing, for example, members of congress, across both parties, many people don't end up charging. but they know that you have been probing them. and in one of his own public opinions in that role, smith explained that fair prosecution for corruption requires proving intent. by the, way that something donald trump knows, which is why he is so careful about records. you have to prove that someone had the corrupt intent at the time. that could be hard to prove. smith also recounted in this video that i will show you how some government officials he thought were in denial about their corruption problems. >> what was that person's intent? did they do this for that? did they act corruptly? oftentimes, i go places and the first thing to hear is, we don't have a corruption problem here, jack. my immediate reaction is that you definitely have a corruption problem. >> that hand gesture, by the way, is the most emotive we have saw him

he ran the doj department in public integrity, which deals with federal corruption. that winds no friends in washington. he spent all this time probing, for example, members of congress, across both parties, many people don't end up charging. but they know that you have been probing them. and one of his own public opinions in that role, smith explained the for prosecution requires proving intent. by the, way that something donald trump knows, which is why he is so careful about records. you have to prove that someone had the corrupt intent at the time. that could be hard to prove. smith also recounted in this video that i will show you how some government officials he thought were in denial about their corruption problems. >> what was that person's intent? did they do for that? did they ask corruptly? oftentimes, i go places and the first thing to hear is, we don't have a corruption problem here, jack. my immediate reaction is that you definitely have a corruption problem. >> that hand gesture, by the way, is the most a motive we have saw him in any other footage we

any time any question goes down that line, the doj tells people to stop. say this is nothing but ongoing investigation. we have 84,000 or whatever the number is of email correspondents with pseudonyms and we have gotten 14, this body deserves more information. i yield back. >> is there further discussion or debate on the amendment? >> i want to say $2 billion from the saudi government to jared kushner, and not a word. that is just normal. come on, give me a break. a little transparency would be welcome here. quite frankly, this notion we should trust the chairs of these respective committees to tell us all they know when we know they have been misrepresenting publicly what has been said privately, we would like to see the transcripts and a little openness. the american people deserve that. the way this resolution is written, when it is all said and done with, no matter what happens, the american people may get nothing, may not get any report at the end of this process. $2 billion from the saudi government, come on. no questions? that is perfectly normal? g

he said they didn't want them charged by the doj. the republican congressman barry loudermilk of georgia remit explained further and more explicitly in an interview. >> we also want to protect the privacy of certain individuals, especially those who are innocent, who may have been at the capitol, didn't do anything wrong. there are insurrection hunters out there. >> barry loudermilk and -- i write about one thing. there are people out there helping the department of justice and the fbi helped find the insurrectionists and bring them to justice. one guillÉn told stories of the january 6th investigation, sedition hunters, a group of online people who have been combing through publicly bailable footage of the attack on the capitol and attempting to and often successfully successfully identifying the people of all. they have successfully identified hundreds of surrectionists, including, for example, 43 year old pesylvania mother rachael powell. powell became known as peak hat lady for the headgear sheep sport it at the capitol as she sma

is he a doj career professional. these aren't maga people who indicted him. you are absolutely right. another thing not to be forgotten. the felony counts that he was hit with the other day. >> hunter biden all occurred after 2020 after his addiction was done with we are absolutely sisympathetic to his addiction. it should be something that the judge considers as a mitigating circumstance of what his sentence should be after he is convicted, if that is what happens. >> laura: they were panicking over at the white house today. they clearly know that this strategy, coordinated or not, was not smart. mollie, sol, thank you both. hunter cover-up play is part of a two prong defensive from team biden and in moments we are going to tell you what is really behind prosecutor jack smith's push for this accelerated trump trial. stay with us. i'm jonathan lawson, here to tell you about life insurance through the colonial penn program. if you're age 50 to 85 and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three p's. what are the three p's? the three p's

civil case, the january civil case, doj weighed in on that recently and asked the court to assume for the sake of that case that donald trump's speech around january 6th was cause for incitement. they are not bringing the charge of incitement yet they want the court to agree, assume that was true, and the court said wait a second, that's not before us. the former president has not appealed that. so, and then lastly, his deputy, jack smith's deputy is aggressive prosecutor as well. fall 2020, when he was at the justice departments, he was not aggressive. doj has an interesting policy where you cannot investigate allegations of fraud in realtime when it's around an election, on its face strikes people as a little bit strange in terms of common sense. bill barr said wait a second, allegations of fraud, you should be able to investigate those in realtime, jack smith's current deputy wrote a memo to bill barr saying this was inserting doj into politics, they shouldn't be able to do that, and what do you know, now they are fast tracking the timeline to get these cases before the supreme cou

the doj is covered for the biden family for over a decade.ryone knew the biden were being accused of money laundering by the banks and they were influence peddling with enemies around the world is and not paying taxes on it and knew it was a national security risk and every instance, they turned a behind eye because it was joe biden. elizabeth: yeah, they purposely target the children of politicians. here's the other issue. what's the time line on impeachment? we're hearing there could be a vote to formalize the impeachment inquiry next week and hearing the time line possible articles brought in the first half of next year, is that the time line? >> we have the votes and i believe that member haves seen the overwhelming amount of evidence we've brought forward and concerns like overwhelming majority of americans and want answers to questions and is our president compromised with the millions families are taken around the world. elizabeth: that's the issue, americans deserve answers, chairman comer, thank you for joining us. good to see you. n