david weiss, the u.s. attorney, i heard him with my own two ears say i'm not the decider, five other people in the room said they heard him say the same thing. meanwhile merrick garland saying no, david weiss. call them all together to get them to testify. wouldn't that be delicious? that way they can go down the row, okay, what did you hear? what did you hear? one of you guys is lying. >> ainsley: that's exactly what sol wisenberg the deputy independent counsel said. listen. >> somebody is lying. either merrick garland has lied under oath to congress or david weiss lied to the irs agents. merrick garland has testified that david weiss, the u.s. attorney in delaware, investigating biden, had complete authority, more authority than even a special counsel did to do anything he wanted. david weiss told the two cracker jack irs criminal agents heading up the investigation that he had been denied the authority to prosecute hunter biden. it's something that congress can actually easily get to the bottom of. they

in the david weiss came in at the beginning of the meeting the jubilantly congratulat the investigative team for keeping the investigation a secretinvest. hmm. david, what about that? yeah, i think, first of all, this whistleblower shapley and whoeve therer else there is deserve great credit. they've shown great courage in coming forward. but part of the problem here, saul, what's the problem here? there are many problems with. but part of the problem is the integrity of our system. and the stability of this justice system depend on the public's belief i s n m integrity. and it seems to me this kind of affair challenges the public. and when merrick garland says criticizes people, who suggest the department of justice has been weaponized as being sort of anti-americanweap, that's not fair. it's not fair to politically weaponize it and then accuse the accusers is no . t but the other problem is, i think it tears down the morale o of lef the workingn the system. i'm always proud to say my father was an fbi agent . i always will be proud to say that. but take a look, for example, just yea y

david weiss, the u.s. attorney for delaware said i'm ultimately not the decider, merrick garland said he was the decider, mr. weiss and the decider for dc, according to david weiss, he said it will have to be matthew grace and he will not allow me to charge in d.c. everybody is saying it is someone else's problem. >> they will say we need to pinpoint where the decision tree was and there will be questions raised by this whistleblower, one of two whistleblowers working with congress in terms of what ledz with the investigation, who decided to do what and when. in terms of the white house, they said this is out of their hands and they are not involved. more pointed to garland overall. >> brian: was raskin also in the original meetings with shapley? he doesn't seem to have a problem. you see interviews on cbs and fox, obviously there is a problem. did jamie raskin hear this stuff? >> i have not heard from raskin's office. i was traveling yesterday, they may have weighed in and i have not heard it. it will be

attorney for delaware, david weiss.den took office, he could have easily replaced delawares you s attorney. delaware is biden's home state. presidents replace u.s. attorneys all the time. it would have been -- trump appointed prosecutor with someone more in line with the goals of his own administration. but here's the thing, he didn't. biden kept trump's own pick for u.s. attorney in place so it did not even give the impression that he was interfering with this investigation. on top of that, biden's attorney general, merrick garland, as explicitly and publicly pledged not to interfere at all with the investigation. garland has said that the trump appointed u.s. attorney leading that investigation is, quote, not to be denied anything he needs. okay. so, that is one example of our justice department at work. the biden ministration, doj bending over backwards to not show any favor, or even any appearance of favor to the presidents son. then, there are the investigations into president trump. just last, week we got this rep

david weiss was not in charge. were you? truth when you said in thursday's press conference. here is what was going to happen. here was kevin mccarthy telling us this on the couch yesterday. >> because of the allegation from the irs, because of the whistleblowers, and the doj, garland, what he is saying and what david weiss are saying privately are two different things. >> steve: right. >> if it comes true what the irs whistleblower is saying, we're going to start impeachment inquiries on the attorney general. >> brian: does. so dealings with the biden family was involved in do they influence policy and was he trading on the biden name. what else key possibly be trading on? that's a quick look at the biden bunch who might be in a whole lot of trouble. meanwhile, straight ahead. chip off the old block. watch, as children are taught to throw toy bricks at pictures of he republicans. that's classy, isn't it? but, first, polling says that donald trump, yep, and ron desantis two frontrunners to get the g.o.p. nomination. i ask yo

attorney david weiss was not making it is decision. merrick garland denied preventing weiss from charging hunter biden. both whistleblowers who spent years investigating hunter told congress they made several attempts to bring charges against hunter biden and were blocked. so explosive, not just fox news asking tough questions. >> was the president involved, yes or no? >> steven, i answered the question. it is not up to you how i answer the question. >> was the president there or not? >> i refer you to my colleagues at the white house counsel. >> have you spoken to the president, have you asked him if he was there with his son? >> this is not a conversation i had with the president. >> emily: legacy media has been unable to ignore the scandal. abc, cbs and nbc covered the story. >> there is evidence that the president's son pressured a business partner to move ahead with the deal by invoking his father. >> if true, this would contradict comments from president biden that he was not involved. >> karine jean-pierre told me, i was not inv

attorney though led that federal investigation into hunter biden, david weiss was briefed on the fbi form that contained allegations that then vice-president joe biden and a foreign national were engaged in a criminal bribery scheme. and as to weiss listen to what the whistleblower gary shapley told our own bret baier tonight. >> i called us attorney david weiss and we need to execute the search warrant. he respondeded that the prosecutors didn't want to. no sooner had gotten off the phone with david weiss had we learned that the prosecutors were informing defense counsel of the storage unit and the evidence that existed there. >> and you believed what was in there was crucial to the case. >> yes, we believed so and but we'll never know now because we weren't allowed to access it. >> laura: never know now. is that really accurate, too? could we learn more? well, the more we peel back this onion the more two themes emerge. one, everything that garland claimed about the supposed independence of the investigation seems tonight to have been a lie. and, two, the suggestion that this was s

attorney david weiss have said u.s. where, when, and whether to file charges as he deems appropriate. he needs no further approval to do so. questions about his investigation should be directed to the u.s. attorney's office for delaware and what they're saying is, look, he has got the right to do what he wants. and if you want any more questions, talk to him. >> we do need to hear from him. i think there is no doubt about it. this was a really, really big day in the hunter biden investigation. obviously, a couple of days ago we had the indictment, which seemed like a real slap on the wrist to a lot of republicans. now we learn from irs whistleblowers that the irs wanted to charge hunter biden with felonies and their recommendation went over to the justice department came out as a couple of misdemeanors. then we did hear about david weiss wanting to charge hunter biden and the district of columbia and in california but being denied that and then finally that what's app. message. the committee said this is unverified. we s

now, there's a notion out there that david weiss was told not to bring charges against hunter biden last year, according to a whistleblower. weiss announced a plea deal with hunter biden on tuesday. irs supervisory agent sat with a six-hour interview after he cape forward publicly, he told congress that david weiss who entered into the plea deal champions he tried to bring charges against him in 2022 and was denied. >> notes from october 7, 2022, meeting with u.s. attorney david weiss and his supervisor was there, agent in charge, and that's what weiss told us. >> i asked garland about this assertion that weiss was told to stand down. >> he sent a letter confirming he had that authority. i don't know how it would be possible to block him from bringing a prosecution, given that he has this authority. >> garland mentions a letter, to jim jordan from june 7th, weiss insisted he was fully in charge of the probe since the beginning. letter reads in part, i have been grant ultimate authority over this matter. hunter biden will plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax offenses. he learned more than

is he irrelevant so naive this he thinks that he can give oral authority to david weiss to bring this prosecution? he can't. david weiss needed a letter from merrick garland designating him a special counsel or grand or what you want to call him to bring this case that it is how it it is done. first, you need to prove doy tax and if the u.s. attorney refused you you need a letter from garland where is the prove? where is this letter? great to see you, them yoochl because of the allegation from the irs and the whistle blower president doj are garland what he is saying and what weiss is saying privately are 2 different things. if it come true when the irs whistle blower is sayings we the start family. related to the violations you had. . the testimony the biden administration blue it off >> president respects the d. justice independence. respects the rowel of law and that is had you will see under the administration i will not speak to the anything related this. this is not the main priority of american families. >> nothing to see here. you will not talk about the economy we know that.

david weiss, in october 7th, 2022, said that the d.c. u.s. attorney's office had will not allow us to charge there. and then he added that he would request special counsel. he requests a special counsel authority and was denied in that meeting. i even had him repeat that because i knew how important that fact was, and i wanted to make sure i understood it. you were there and you remember it crystal clear in your mind. not only do i remember it crystal crystal clear, but i documented it. the email this an exhibit in the house and means committee testimony was when i returned home that i documented it in an email. >> merrick garland, your attorney general, tells you the american people answers. and again, if he is unable to provide those answers. merrick garland has to be impeached. in the meantime, his sweetheart deal with zero experience. hunter. that has got to be tossed out. the judge should not sign off this sweetheart slap on the wrist deal of hunter biden until all of this is sorted out and it's looking more and more like joe biden's. yo

attorney looking into hunter biden david weiss had broad complete independent authority to prosecute hunter biden nationwide. we know according to multiple as many as six whistleblowers that is simply not true which may mean your attorney general merrick garland at the top of the united states justice department could have lied to the u.s. congress meaning he might have committed personally an offense by the way that would be obviously impeachable and tonight a key whistleblower allegation was quote confirmed independently to the "new york times" by a person with knowledge of the situation and here's what that whistleblower gary shapley had to say on fox news. >> david weiss in october 7th, 2022 said the d.c. u.s. attorneys office won't allow to us charge there and added he requests a special counsel authority and was denied in that meeting i even had him repeat that because i knew how important that fact was and i wanted to make sure i understood it. >> you were there and you remember it crystal clear in your mind. >> not only do i remember it crystal clear but i documented it. the

attorney david weiss was not the one making the decisions and was not really in charge. david spunt live at the justice department with the details on this. hi, david. >> hi, that first whistleblower is i.r.s. supervisor special agent gary shapley. he is 1 of 2 from the i.r.s. who came forward to sound the alarm. the second whistleblower who worked under shapley as a case agent came forward with his own op sirvations. he wants to remain anonymous. his attorney refers to him as mr. x. he says it was clear to him that donald trump appointed u.s. attorney david weiss in delaware was not calling the shots. according to mr. x he, meaning weiss had to follow the normal process. go to washington, d.c. he really wasn't in charge. he had to follow the process. three weeks ago david weiss wrote and signed a letter addressed to jim jordan over in the house of representatives. we obtained a copy and it reads i want to make clear that as the attorney general has stated, i have been granted ultimate authority over this matter including responsibility for deciding where, when and whethe

attorney david weiss -- >> barbara, i have to interrupt you quickly again.thority to charge and where to charge. but on the specific allegations that these whistleblowers brought forward, i think there's very detailed allegations. would you authorize him to answer to some of the more specific allegations that these irs whistleblowers have come forward with? >> look, i would support mr. weiss explaining or testifying in these matters when he deems it appropriate. >> one more question. in the front. >> reporter: mr. attorney general, republicans in congress have flirted with the idea of holding the fbi director in contempt. it has become a talking point on the campaign trail, the alleged crux in the fbi and other law enforcement agencies. do the american people have cause to be concerned about the integrity of this justice department and what do you have to say about how they're reacting? >> i certainly understand that some have chosen to attack the integrity of the justice department as components and its employees by claiming we do not treat like cases alike

david weiss had complete charging authority in this situation. he tried to bring charges and was denied that, according to the whistleblower. i think the whistleblower is very credible. >> brooke: more of the same from president biden who is denying involvement in his son's business dealings. watch this. >> how involved were you in your son's text messages? were you sitting there? were you involved? were you? >> no. >> brooke: hunter will be questioned this morning in delaware. unclear if that will be released to the public. >> carley: i hope it is. >> todd: i'm looking for documentation from merrick garland that he gave david weiss authority to do what he needed to do. rosenstein gave it to mueller. >> brooke: a lot of lawmakers are asking merrick garland. did you give weiss the authority to charge and do what he wanted? garland has said that there is no political interference from the doj. according to the whistleblower allegations, that is not true. >> carley: i smell a new round of testimony on capitol hill, get david weiss to testify. he rel

attorney's office in wilmington and david weiss said i will not be the decider on this. he said because hunter biden was living in washington dc at the time of those serious charges that it would apparently have to go through the u.s. attorney for washington who is matthew grave who's is appointed by biden and he would not allow him to charge in his direct. to weise said he knew for months that grave's office rejected filing the charges against biden but grave's spokesman says weiss had the authority to charge where ever he want today. you merrick garden who says that weiss was the decider. and then you have jim jordan and mr. weiss himself says he had the authority to charge where ever he wanted. this is why people hate government. there is so much buck passing going on here. one guy says i could not do it. that guy could do it, and now they're pointing fingers at each other saying david weiss could have done it all along. >> and we kept hearing that hunter biden should have been charged with more crimes, for tax evasion for 2014. he made $200,000 with burisma and he ne

attorney david weiss tried to bring charges against hunter biden but was told no by higher-ups. his testimony challenging attorney general merrick garland's statements to congress in march when he said weiss had full authority to carry out the investigation however he wanted. let's bring in jonathan turley, constitutional law attorney and a fox news contributor. jonathan, let me set the stage here before we get your comment on it. i want to go to call for number 2 here for the control room, here is what gary said in his am t, biden appointed d.c. u.s. attorney graves would not allow him to charge in his district. u.s. attorney weiss stated he subsequently asked for special counsel toronto from maine doj and denied that authority. call for number 4, what merrick garland said moments ago. >> this constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to american democracy and essential to the safety of the american people. nothing could be further from the truth. you've all heard me say many times that we make our cases based on the facts and the law. these are not just words, t

shapley said he was blocked by senior prosecutor working for david weiss, the u.s.ttorney in delaware. who is that person and why exactly are they the gatekeeper over whether or not you can look into a dirty deal. >> brian: tristan levett will be on with bret tonight. he talked about what will be next. he's already not gotten a promotion and raise he feels he was entitled to. what happens when shapley is questions and maybe david weiss, too. >> this is not about me, this is about information there and attorney general merrick garland tried to make it gary shapley versus the attorney general. further investigation, middle of july, if everyone is bringing this forward, it will be a disservice to the whistleblowers. it is up to congress to interview other witnesses and advance the investigation. >> brian: gary shapley said that david weiss tried to bring this criminal case forward in dc, rejected by matt graves and wanted to bring to los angeles and was rejected. yesterday the "new york times" confirmed l.a. prosecutor did reject and this is new, did reject david weiss

i guess he just wound up getting away with and david weiss hitting roadblocks along the way. the whistleblower is saying weiss wanted to be named special counsel and was denied. merrick garland is denying that happened fchl true, remember what kevin mccarthy said on "fox and friends" this week fchl it comes true what the irs whites saying, we will start impeachment inquiry on the attorney general. >> if you are not watching our show and reading the "new york times," you did not get that, because "new york times" buried this whole thing. paragraph 21 underscores issue republicans are facing. this is tremendous potential scandal involving the president of the united states. if the majority of the country does not know about it, how much of a scandal is it when people go to the ballot box? it is incumbent on both sides to delve into this in congress and figure out what is happening. with that, religious freedom at forefront of major debate at one maryland school district and has parents taking to the streets to protest a controversial classroom policy. >> our choice. we will rai

does the doj main have the authority to are prevent david weiss from testifying? >> they can try but, again, we've gotten even harriet myers, the white house counsel, in front of committee under john con jers -- conyers when democrats were in charge based on decisions. if chairman jordan wants it badly enough and we're willing to push hard and long enough, we will get it. david: hasn't, let's get to a -- hans, let's get to a specific charge about david weiss and his inability to charge outside of his district. according to irs whistleblower, he wanted to charge hunter biden in california and elsewhere, in the district of columbia, but was prevented from doing so by those u.s. attorneys. how difficult, or is it unusual at all, for u.s. attorneys to be able to charge outside of their district? >> well, it's not that unusual because you often have cases that span different areas of the country. you know, problem here is that attorney general, merrick garland, has said that he had given david weiss complete and full authority to make all final decisions on this, and n

we >> well, i'll tell you, we have a lot of questions for david weiss. that's why you see myself, jim jordan and jamie colmer hase jim jordan and jamie colmer hase for a transcriptth oftransc the interview. mr. weiss is requested to go before the houseribed . wise juy committee. in fact, there's eight employees of the department of justicy e that have been asked to go before the judiciary committe te. two irs employees are asked to go before the ways and means committee and. two fbi agents are asked to go e tofbi agents are asked to go to get down to the bottom ofn what happened in the october 7th meeting, where mr.. mr.. shapley and along with theg witt other whistleblower, has stated that mr. weiss directly said that he did not have the authority to bring charges that someone else above them did. them that sounds like a first question to me. joestion to me. today that it was just total independence, that he was not engaged in any meddling in any of this at all. >> this is on msnbc. i made commitment that i would not in any way interfere with the justice

and to get david weiss there? >> yes. our client will testify where he needs to but the key thing is that this can't rely on his shoulders. he doesn't know what the interactions were between weiss and injustice. weiss needs to explain this. if it gets down to the middle of july and gary is still the only one bringing this forward, that will be a really significant disservice to the whistleblowers. they is given the important starting information. now it's up to congress to interview the other witnesses and advance the investigation. >> brian: do you think it's important for the country to know if the biden family was involved in hunter biden's dealings? >> in terms of the knowledge that gary has, he has brought forward these representative examples. and that information that i'm privy to is limited to what the investigators had. but they weren't able to follow up on the leads on the laptop. they don't even know that they got all the information from the laptop, because prosecutors blocked them from getting it. even though

we will talk to david weiss. chris is right. we want to talk to david weiss, the us attorney. we want to talk to leslie wolf, she's the one that stopped the search warrant. she's the one that said you can't ask questions during the investigation. you can't bring up the term, the big guy. stop and think about this for a second.joe biden said he wasn't involved in the sense business dealing. that shoebox looks like it wasn't accurate. eric garland said he took a hands off approach investigation, that looks like it was not accurate as well. those the questions we have doubts. the first one will be done i think interment commerce committee. he is focused on that. the entire 6 months who's been in congress. we will continue to focus on the justice department. we want to talk to david weiss. we want to talk to mr. estrada. we want to talk to leslie wolf. all this us attorney's estate wanted to do it this way? this is a credible whistleblower, 14 years experience been handled some of the biggest international tax cases in that timeframe. handled the biggest once the irs has dealt wit

attorney for delaware, who everyone reminds us was appointed by donald trump, said that he, david weiss, had wanted to bring charges against hunter biden in the district of columbia and california but he was stopped from doing so. so that he was not the one who had the final authority about what charges he could bring in this case. a number of democrats said look, there is no way that can be true. an i.r.s. agent wouldn't know the inner workings of the justice department. that's just not true. well, what happened was that shapley said first of all that he, gary shapley, heard it with his own ears. he was in the meeting. then he produced the names of 4 or 5 other people, the names of people who said they were in the meeting and they also heard david weiss say this same thing. so that really gave this allegation a lot of credibility and after that, kevin mccarthy sent out a tweet saying we have to get to the bottom of this and we have to have testimony from david weiss to congress and then we'll find out what's going on. >> dana: a.g. garland set to testify september 20th. a ways away. i

whistleblower number one in his notes wrote down that david weiss, the u.s.y in tell delaware said i'm not the deciding official on whether charges are filed. now, i'll remind the audience that two whistleblowers who came forward, when they gave their statements, they had to testify truthfully or they could be prosecuted for not testifying truthfully. you've got the attorney general of the united states that said u.s. attorney did have -- so one of those two people are not telling the truth. and to your point, i believe right now that merrick garland is set to testify before the house judiciary committee in september, maybe september 20th. the u.s. attorney david weiss should come forward hopefully before then and testify about the whistleblower's comments and whether in fact he actually said that because if he did, if he did make that claim, then merrick garland's not telling the truth. maria: what about the testimony of hunter biden? i mean, the computer salesman is suing him and he's got to testify as well, right, he's got to go into a deposition. >> that'

authenticity of the what's app messages, that will be found out and the communications between david weiss and the justice department, it wasn't merrick garland, he wanted plausible deniability to tell david weiss and say i never told him he couldn't be special counsel. i never told him he couldn't bring charges in california or washington, d.c. we will be able to find answers, but unfortunately, i think a lot of conversations happened over the phone and we don't have the documentation necessary to prove a lot of actors are really impeachable. >> kayleigh: i want to hear from the other six people in the room with david weiss and gary shapley. tell us the story. stay tuned for bret baier's interview where gary shapley that airs tonight 6 p.m. eastern. coming up, flight delays and cancellations are rocking the airports and travelers may be in for yet another flight mare, with 4th of july weekend coming up. veteran homeowners , with things costing more you've probably been ♪ # # pedialyte. 3x the electrolytes. hi, i'm jill and i've lost 56 pounds on golo. hi, i'm barry and i've lost 42 pounds

attorney david weiss.e it clear that he has ultimate authority over the criminal investigation. asked about the doj deal on tuesday, the president expressed support for his son. >> i'm very proud of my son. >> reporter: and we are waiting for a date to be set for hunter to go to crt for his arraignment and to plead guilty. i want to emphasize everything about this deal is still subject to approval by a judge. poppy, you and i were talking during the commercial break about this deal and whether this is something that would happen to anyone else. but based upon previous cases, while no one is exactly like hunter biden, for someone who failed to pay taxes on time for the first time, and for someone who failed to disclose their addiction on a form when purchasing a firearm, especially in the wake of last year's supreme court decision expanding second amendment rights, asl as a similar case working its way to the appeals court, this seems like a pretty average resolution. diversion, which is what is getting for

. >> brooke: tony bobulinski and his attorney contacted david weiss to give testimony on his joint ventureny could have been key to provide information into hunter's business deal and whether joe biden was involved. the fact that key witness was not brought in to testify proves that the justice department is engaged in a cover-up. irs whistleblowers, testified federal investigation into hunter biden was to benefit the biden family. house republicans are telling me they are demanding federal officials to appear for interviews regarding the claims. comer judiciary committee chairman, jim jordan and ways and committee chairman jason smith, sent a joint letter to the secret service telling me, we need to hear from federal employees and other witnesses about weaponization of federal law enforcement power. americans are counting on us to ensure accountability. here is more on how hunter biden got off so easy. >> everybody from david weiss to career agents, everybody agreed hunter biden should face more serious felonies and recommended cases to u.s. attorneys in california and in washington, d.c.

this is david weiss. a quote from david weiss in october of 2022. this is around the time that your client says that he hit his red line with this thing. he was told after years, started in 2018, they connected hunter biden, one of his phone numbers to an amateur porn website. that's what begin this whole thing. so after your client worked on this account for several years on this case, suddenly in 2022, they sit down and the united states attorney, weiss, who was present for the meeting, surprised us by telling us on the charges, i'm not the deciding official on whether charges are filed. shortly after that, your client decided that he needed to go public with all of this. so there's a discrepancy here. you heard merrick garland. he said weiss was always in control. you heard weiss say to your client, i'm not actually. >> i would love to point people to some of the records that have just been released yesterday. exhibit 10 to gary shapley's transcript is around page 178 of the transcript, it's a copy of the e-mail that gary shapley, where he took c

attorney david weiss was blocked from prosecuting hunter biden last year. he have is the u.s.at entered into the plea deal with hunter biden. authorities say he has full authority over the probe from the beginning and garland said he never came to him for a special counsel appointment. >> i don't know how it would be possible to block him from bringing a prosecution given that he has this authority. >> we reached out to david weiss to clear things up. according to the whistleblower he said something opposite in 2022. according to shapley the united states attorney was present for the meeting and surprised us by telling us i'm not the deciding official on whether charges are filed. he wrote and signed a letter addressed to jim jordan. we obtained a copy. i want to make clear that as the attorney general has stated i have been granted ultimate authority over this matter including responsibility for deciding where, when and whether to file charges. hunter biden will feel guilty to two misdemeanor tax offenses. they say he earned more than $1 million in 2017 and 18 and owed 100,00

and just a little primer here, david weiss wanted to be special counsel. ok? he didn't want to stay just united states attorney. because everyone knows here in and in the department of justice that you do not get an indictment especially against a high level person unless it is approved by the attorney general. and i bet my house on that. so let's go back to yet another dichotomy where we've got these two whistleblowers. one is a high level career i.r.s. agent. the other, and this individual has spent years in the criminal investigations and then we've got a second whistleblower and neither of them has a political axe to grind. they talk about rob walker, the guy who set up the llc's saying that joe biden actually made an appearance at a meeting with hunter and that walker and the others set up the deal with the chinese energy conglomerate cefc. and then we've got bob olinsky that has already told us, lieutenant retired that joe biden came into another meeting with hunter and the chinese. and specifically, that there was money, a percentage put aside for the b

the attorney general, david weiss, every ada, wolf, bring them in.paul's point, there's a constellation of alleged and frankly known criminal behavior of this individual. if you had a ton of different symptoms, your arm is falling off, you have a cold, ulcer, and you're only addressing one, there's 90 more% of that whole circle left to investigate as taxpayers, we need to understand what's going on with any type of improper allegation of influence, with foreign registration. we have seen people go to prison and have felony convictions for a lot less. the misdemeanor from a tax charge which personally i've never seen in a plea deal and slap on the wrist for the gun charge which i have always never seen, those are a tiny portion of what he is responsible for. for viewers to understand it is not just about a president who denies having involvement, it is about the fact that at every level of government we have conflicting testimony involving suppression of search warrants, of prosecutions, of things that we pay in full faith tax dollars to have people p

david weiss got a letter from jim jordan saying, we want your testimony and david weiss fired back andu, i decline. and he made it point of thing, i've been granted authority over this matter, including responsibilities for deciding where, when and whether to file charges. saying it was my decision, not merrick garland, not the brass at doj. the timeline is important. like we said, they started five years ago in 2018, 2021, to -- and he leaves them in office. i want to point out, the doj, under the trump administration, under a republican administration had two years where they did not bring any charges, they did not bring any more serious charges and hunter biden has now seen. to keep that in mind wheyou hear complaints from the public and cumbersome in. but the white house has not suggested it could happen but a potential part in. at is the history? >> certain, joe biden has the constitutional power to issue a part in. i would not bet on that before the election, if ever. there is interesting history unfamiliar presidential patterns. bill clinton, issued aardon to his half-brother wh

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host: and what is the role of david weiss here? guest: he basically has been part of the investigation at a local level. for five years going back to 2018. when merrick garland came into the justice department, they made a confidential decision while it is normal to run they see you as an attorney when the new administration comes in they did not replace him because they wanted to avoid any appearance of interfering with the hunter investigation in particular. host: the most interesting reaction you have seen. you mentioned the criticism and does on capitol hill. what do you watch for? guest: the thing i am most interested in is the reaction that i hear in the white house. and hunters team. there's profod sense of relief that hunter will likely not be serving jail time. i think there was a real fear and also some fear on his team that this investigation is never going to end. essentially the prosecutor not wanting to upset either side essentially would not make a prosecutorial final decision until after the 2020 election. joe biden

we don't know what david weiss told or what a.g. garland knew about david weiss's predicament there in delaware without seemingly having the authority to do what merrick garland told the american people he did have authority to do. clearly, he was obstructed or refused the ability to charge hunter biden in the two jurisdictions where those tax charges had to be brought because that's where hurter lived, whether washington d.c. for the early part or he was in malibu in venice beach so that was the central district of california and the u.s. attorneys in those jurisdictions are both biden-appointed and they refused to allow charges. that's what gary shepley, the irs whistleblower says and he has memorialized conversation s, he has witnesses, he has another one of those irs whistleblowers part of his team has come forward, whose anonymous so far. he has transcripts of interviews his testimony that was released on friday is not just him talking. he brought receipts. he has documents. there are about six exhibits that are part of that te

. >> david weiss has a deadline of next thursday to answer questions about the probe. kevin mccarthy is threatening an impeachment inquiry around the same time if he discovers he was not calling the shots in the investigation, which has been the narration since garland took office. hunter biden will sit for a deposition for several hours in delaware. it is in a separate civil case brought by the computer shop owner in delaware. he dropped off his computer and never collected it. he gave it to the fbi at the end of 2019. as far as the transcripts, no word if and when that may be released to the public. >> bret: thank you. joining us tonight to talk about the investigation, irs whistle-blower who has given information into the business dealings of the president's son. why are you doing this? >> every taxpayer deserves to be treated fairly. it was my oath of office to make sure that happens. we wouldn't meet our message as an agency, we would lose the trust of the people of the united states if we didn't ensure everyone was treated fairly. >> for people who say this is a

david weiss, a trump appointee in delaware, ran the hunter biden probe according to his own words. he said he had ultimate authority in a letter. however, gary shapley said weiss complained he was not in charge and could not charge in hunter in other districts outside delaware. we looked back to pull tape of attorney jern raleigh garland and he said this about the probe. watch. >> he is in charge of that investigation. there will not be interference of any political or improper kind. i would then have to authorize it and permit it to be brought in another jurisdiction. and that is exactly what i promised to do here already. if he needs to bring a case in another jurisdiction, he will have my full authority to do that. would be permitted to continue his investigation and make a decision to prosecute anyway in which he wanted to and in any district in which he wanted to. >> matthew graves. jim jordan wants david weiss to answer a myriad of questions by the end of next week, martha. >> martha: david, thank you very much. with that, republican congressman and chair, jason smith, of the

attorney, david weiss, and we said we need to execut e search warrant.ors they he responded that the prosecutors didn't wandidn.t to no sooner had gotten off the phone with david weiss had we learned that the prosecutors were informing defense counsel of ense that storage unit and tl evidence that existed there. and you believed what was inie s there was crucial to the case? yes, we believe so and. >> and but we'll never know now because we weren't allowed to access it. urate, never know. now, is that really accurate too? ack >> could we learn more? well, the more we peel back the sun and the more to themes. emerge. one, everything that garland claime d about the supposed independence of the investigation seems tonight to have been a lie. >> and tand, twoo the suggestiot this was solely a hunter biden problem was and continues to be to believe. >> joining me now is david schoen, formerme trump lawyer, and saul wisenberg, former deputy independent counsel, formerchment u.s. attorney as w. saul, i want to start with you. i want you examinet wi what certainly looksth like doj malfeasanc

attorney for delaware david weiss, david wofl, i asked about this earlier in the program today. >> better have first foremost when they rolled out sweat heart detail on hunter seemed justice department wands to tight up with a bow. >> is it faction show might very well be attorney general himself -- >> at that point we will have an enticement kwin inquiry. >> thanks very much for being here what are you getting at where is this all going. >> you know i think where it is headed at this point is getting to the niksz what we're seeing stories from people in the field offices, sometimes have been whistleblowers, that are getting good information, to us, and we want people to get stories straight, those people in d.c. offices, versus those people in field office that are telling in some instances much different stories, lets bring inconsistency out of stories get to the truth. >> now white house has been omitting hunter biden from visitor log since president biden took office, why isn't his son in the visitor log we understand has been living there, when pressed by fox news digital a spokes pe

attorney david weiss was blocked from bringing charges in washington, d.c., california, and sought socialtus, a claim denied by the attorney general. >> the only person with authority to make somebody a special counsel or refuse to make somebody a special counsel is the attorney general. mr. weiss never made that request to me. >> reporter: garland strongly disputed allegations of interference and left the door open for weiss to answer congress' questions. >> i would support mr. weiss explaining or testifying on these matters >> reporter: shapley claimed there was a recovered 2017 whatsapp message from hunter biden apparently sent to a chinese businessman over an outstanding payment stating "i am sitting here with my father. we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled," hunter biden allegedly texted, according to the transcript.if o contradict comments from president biden that he was not involved in his son's business deals. cbs news has not independently confirmed the text. after the attorney general spoke, the whistle-blower said his claims about interfer

attorney for delaware david weiss in relation to hunter's charges and crimes.efully someone will finally hold the bidens accountable. republican ron johnson is one of the senators leading the investigation into the biden family and he joins me now. welcome senator. >> hello kayleigh. hope you're doing well. >> kayleigh: you been that. senator johnson i want to put up the time line because it's crucial and no one's using the laptop and what it means to whistleblowers. 2018 irs opens hunter's investigation. 2019, the fbi learns about hunter's laptop. weeks later, according to shapley, fbi agents confirmed the authenticity of what is on that device and even so, fast forward, a year later essentially, august of 2020, the fbi sits you down and says they worry you're advancing russian disinformation. was the fbi running cover for hunter biden? >> i believe they were. i think it started when they left the jon mcisaac -- john paul mcisaac's computer shop and said it's our experience people don't talk about these things don't get in trouble. and that began their pre sab

it came from david weiss to congressman jim jordan dated june 7th.r writes i want to make clear as the attorney general has stated, i have been granted ultimate authority over this matter for deciding where, when, whether to file charges and for making decisions to ensure the integrity of the prosecution. it's signed david c.weiss, united states attorney. he was appointed by the former president, by president trump. in his letter, of course, it does not conclusively prove his impartiality. it bolsters the notion. it stands in stark contrast to the former president's former plans to politicize the justice department if elected again and the promise he made the night of his arraignment. >> i will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the united states of america, joe biden, and the entire biden crime family. >> now that's an open promise to do what there's no evidence that president biden did in response to being charged with crimes that are in no way comparable to what the president's son is pleadin

he said david weiss the u.s. attorney in delaware has complete jurisdiction to do anything he wants. he knows that is not true. he was a federal judge. maybe he was a lousy federal judge. david weiss's jurisdiction ends at the state line. he tried to go for other tax cheating violations, felonies, to washington, d.c. these are places where hunter biden also committed crimes. he was denied by biden appointed u.s. attorneys. it's not just that. we learned today the irs wanted to raid joe biden's home in delaware. they had probable cause for a search warrant that in terminating documents were there. hunter biden was living there and an assistant u.s. attorney shut it down. they wanted to raid hunter biden's storage unit. the same assistant attorney shut it down. she said the optics of this are not good. look, this is rank corruption. >> wear the optics at mar-a-lago okay? >> that is perfectly okay because it is donald trump. the trouble with this is americans realize what is going on. you saw it in one poll. i have

attorney david weiss. president biden has repeatedly defended his son amid the ongoing investigation. >> he's established a new life. i'm confident that what he says and does are consistent with what happened. for example, he wrote a book about his problems and was straightforward about it. i'm proud of him. >> reporter: moments ago biden's lawyer weighed in on the investigation, calling it dogged but fair. let's take a listen. >> this was a five-year very diligent investigation pursued by incredibly professional prosecutors. some of whom have been career prosecutors one at least was appointed by president trump. they were very diligent, very dogged. this was -- you know, it took five years and it was five years of work they put in. and even throughout working out the ultimate resolution, i think they were always driving for what they thought was fair. >> reporter: we're still waiting for a hearing date to be set for hunter biden to be arraigned and plead guilty. we expect that will happen in the coming we

attorney david weiss is said to have said by the two -- well, by one of the whistleblowers who was thereesses who were there in the meeting when david weiss said that he had applied for special counsel status and the doj had knocked him back. and also said that he did not have the authority to charge in the central district of california or washington, d.c. so there is -- somebody is lying in that entire scenario. and they need to by them all in and question them preferably all at once on the same table so they can't can sort of squirrel out of it. maria: yeah. and you've got an op-ed in the new york post this week, quote, allegations against biden and his family are too credible to wipe away with father's love, shortnesssob story. you write protecting joe has been the hallmark of the doj, fbi and perhaps the cia over both the trump and biden administrations during which time damning information has flooded in from a variety of sources alleging a foreign bribery scheme. miranda, i mean, every day it feels like we get more information in terms of these bank records, this whistleblower tes

it was struck with a trump appointed federal prosecutor, david weiss in delaware.eement will likely keep hunter biden out of jail, though weiss said the probe is still ongoing. let's get to senior justice correspondent evan perez. evan, we now have the charging documents. what do they reveal? >> they tell us, boris, on the two counts of failing to pay taxes, that is part of the plea agreement that has been struck between david weiss' office and hunter biden's attorneys. according to prosecutors for the years 2017 and 2018 he had income of more than $1.5 million and failed to pay on time. and so that is the reason for that part of the charge. by the way, his attorneys say hunter biden has now paid the sums owed, and he's paid the penalties. now, as far as the gun charge, this has to do with a gun that hunter biden purchased during the time he was addicted to drugs. he has, you know, talked about this in a book that he published as well as in television interviews, talked about how he was struggling with substance abuse and clearly should not have been able to buy a

they will know that david weiss would be a witness against them. all people john durham where you had matt gaetz suddenly attacking him as being part of the conspiracy. so really what is going on is if you don't tow the line suddenly you're part of -- john durham of all things is part of a deep state conspiracy. and so here i do think, though, that merrick garland was asked do you have any objection to or do you support david weiss speaking out on this, and he said he did whatever is appropriate under the circumstances, and he also made the point that merrick garland was never asked by david weiss to be a special counsel. and to glenn's point he said not only was i not asked, but why would he even want that because he had broader authority than a special counsel. and i could say the ultimate authority that is broader than the authority given to special counsel. >> all right. no one's going anywhere. up next for all of us, former president obama weighed in today on what he calls growing anti-democratic sentiment in the country. named the world's num

we now have sworn testimony from a supervisory agent at the irs that david weiss, who was the u.s.e looking into hunter biden, that he did not have the ability to bring charges in several jurisdictions. that david weiss wanted to be a special prosecutor so that he could be free from the clutches of merrick garland and the department of justice and he was told no by merrick garland. merrick garland, meanwhile, says very glibly in a highly legal statement that basically, david weiss had full control and autonomy to do whatever he wanted. well somebody's lying and it appears to me that's merrick garland and the reason why that does not shock me is because this is the same attorney general who tried to have parent s become domestic terrorists because they cared about what was going on in their kids classrooms. this is the same attorney general that prosecuted a father trying to protect his son who were actually protesting peacefully in front of an abortion clinic and he went after that father. so in my view, merrick garland doesn't have clean hands. in my view with respect to these mat