attorney leslie wolf, at the direction of the attorney general himself was protecting hunter biden. >to asa wolf. she supposedly told them don't ask about the big guy and resisted efforts to look into storage units and accused of tipping off the biden team. >> you have the assistant u.s. attorney leslie wolf who said that she tipped off biden's lawyers when they were getting ready to do something. >> cause and effect. nbc news, quote, prosecutor leslie wolf who has been a part of david weiss' team investigating hunter biden got such a barrage of threats she sought security help from the u.s. marshal service. according to unreleased testimony to the house judiciary committee last week. two irs agents accused wolf of making decisions favorable to biden. it's now life threatening work to be inside the u.s. attorney's office investigating hunter biden. >> the thing about leslie wolf is she was the point of contact for the biden legal team and the person who had come to the deal they made in june. she was also named extensively by the whistle blower and by the time that july comes around a

. >> what role did leslie wolf play? >> she was an assistant united states attorney out of the district of delaware assigned to the investigation. >> you met with her and her team during the case? >> correct. >> in your testimony you described leslie wolf who was once again overseen the case out of delaware as saying during the meeting that she didn't want to ask about the big guy and stated she didn't want to ask questions about dad and is that statement accurate. i want to remind you that you are under oath. >> and you asked that question one more time so i can understand. >> leslie wolf said during a meeting that she didn't want to ask about the big guy and stated she didn't want to ask questions about dad. >> there are twofold do that. there is the line in the email that said 10 held by h to the big guy and that was something that came up as a part of us reviewing what we were going to say during that day. she immediately says, no, we won't ask that. and essentially we had to argue our stance on why we should ask it

leslie wolf, he would not comment on her employment status. this is "outnumbered," here with harris faulkner and emily compagno, joining us former state department spokesperson, morgan ortagus and stuart varney. perhaps one of the most stunning moments of the attorney general testimony came into and a half hours in, a lot of questions and the question turned to the american people to catholics being targeted in churches, to pro-lifers, to school board members, parents going to meetings and it took the attorney general of the united states a minute to say that catholics are not extremists, take a listen. >> the doj is on you. attorney general, i need a simple yes or no to the following, just yes or no, we don't have much time. do you agree traditional catholics are violent extremists answer the question. >> i have no idea what traditional means here. >> catholics that go to church. >> may i answer. >> yes or no. >> idea someone with my family background would discriminate against any religion is so outrageous, so absurd -- >> mr. attorney gener

i thought you were going to ask me why would leslie wolf not look into that. the answer to that is probably if it's a campaign contribution then it im me indicates political person number one and that apparently is a big barrier that had been created throughout this entire investigation. as far as it being a campaign contribution, that $2 million was intended to satisfy the liabilities for two years of hunter biden's late filed and unpaid taxes. >> is it unusual for an assistant prosecutor to say don't look at this individual, this person is off limits? >> as i mentioned in my opening statement that's how investigations develop. the agents follow the leads wherever they take them. in this case, a legitimate investigation was being done of money that was being paid and for the assistant u.s. attorney, who is orchestrating the investigation, to say don't look at that anymore, i think the reason is related to another instruction of hers that she didn't want to get public integrity involved. she was looking beyond hunter biden and into a person whose activities wo

attorney leslie wolf said that she didn't want to ask questions about that meeting joe biden, is that correct. ? a that's >> correct. >> assistant u.s. attorney general wolf was you, felt, conceding the bigots joe biden? >> i think that's accurate. >> i don't want to conclude which he was thinking. >> he did have an interview with rob walker at arkansas correct, i? did not but agents >>, did. >> did rob what could tell you that the president biden hit ever showed up to a meeting with his business associates you? he told us that he hadn't showed up at that meeting can you elaborate. >> on the i? can a least to what's in the >> transcript and witness described since we're cfc executives was people -- on the cfc we're meeting at a four seasons subjects father president. biden,, showed up at that meeting president biden was. >> they're physically that's with the witness said? >> yes mr. xi, great maybe i'm going back here a little. >>, bit further but earlier today you wanted to elaborate. and one of your questions, you are cut off by one of the democratic congressman. is there anything y

i believe that leslie wolf and u.s. attorney -- for my work, they have said that. we did a great job in this investigation. i want to make that clear. . you'll we're not out here to get people. we're here for accountability. we learn from it. that's the most important part of why we're here. >> you are doing great. i know that you are not conservative. i know you're not a republican. i will say this, thank you for bringing faith back to some parts of the iris of people understand that just because your last name is biden doesn't mean your held above the law. thank you. chairman, i yield my time. >> the gentlelady yields back. that concludes our question. again, i want to thank you all for being here. i'm going to yield to the much-improved ranking member. mr. castillo cortez for york for closing statements. >> i will take the golden -- >> i'd like to thank the witnesses here today once again. we acknowledge fully that this is not easy. your respect, rather your service, your public service, your respect and value. thank you for your testimony. yeah, it's important

means committee from the irs whistleblowers that showed two things, it showed a coverup led by leslie wolfent in delaware and a text message from jim biden to hunter biden where hunter was about to go to drug rehab again, jim said don't worry, i'll continue to work with your dad, we'll continue to do all the things we've done, he's got a couple things he can help us with. this is direct evidence that shows joe biden was front and center in his family's influence peddling scheme with adversaries around the world. maria: i want to walk through some of that. the pushback from the white house and the democrats and by the way the democrat media is that you still have yet to come up with a direct line to joe biden and so, yeah, sure, pass it off as this guy was a drug addict and we're not going to put any information or real validity into that because a he was on drugs and no line to his father. this $250,000 wire that you're talking about, so it comes from this guy jonathan lee who i think was a member of the communist party of china. $250,000. and this was at a moment where hunter biden was ac

. >> one of the whistle-blowers testified that ausa leslie wolf said "optics were a driving factor in the decision to not request a search warrant for the guesthouse at the biden residence in delaware where hunter biden stayed for a time. there was more than enough probable cause but the question was whether the juice was worth the squeeze." "a lot of the investigation evidence will be found in the guesthouse but there's no way investigators would get that approved." do you agree that optics should be the driving factor in law enforcement decisions when executing potential crimes? >> before singling out u.s. attorney, that's a dangerous matter. the supervisor of that case, he is the one who made the decisions in that case. he's the one that can answer questions as to whether those things happened. >> let's take her out of the equation and the statement generally, do you believe that optics of an investigation should be a driving factor in law enforcement decisions, as to whether or not execute a search warrant or not? >> we have standards for the work and improper considerations are n

leslie wolf told you that you would get into hot water if contributed the presidents grandchildren. .in other cases that you've worked over your career have you ever had a prosecutor tell you that you couldn't interview a relevant witness? there are certain things that come into whether we talk to a witness or not. if they are an attorney if they are in some special situation that might come up it, might cause caution to interviewing that witness. i have never been told that we couldn't approach someone to interview them as a part of an investigation. yeah, there are certain situations to where you have to do a further analysis of the information you might get. like i, said if they are an attorney. yes, in this case, we needed to talk to witnesses related to things that were deducted on the tax return. in this case it was the adult children that we needed to talk to. >> thank, you mister chairman, my time is expired. >> the chair now recognizes law -- from illinois. >> thank you mister shabbily, thank you mr. ziegler for your services to this country. rhea pre-show you coming here and

did us attorney leslie wolf confirm your investigative efforts that you had sufficient probable cause for search? >> yes, she did. >> thank you very much. >> she told congress that official u.s. attorney wolf also said that the question was whether the juice was worth the squeeze. that is a quote. optics were a driving factor in the decision on whether to execute a search warrant. optics? have you ever run into that, mr. shapley? >> no. >> have you, mr. ziegler? >> i have not. >> why do you think the department of justice might be concerned and optics in the search of the president sun's residence during the course of a criminal investigation? mr. shapley? >> the sensitivities involved with that search warrant . >> pretty clear, isn't it? there is another search warrant. i am going to have my time expired here. let me just say gentlemen, you are courageous for coming forward. did your job begin with an oath? >> did. >> of you upheld the oath? >> i did. >> is it your core principle that has driven you to reveal the corruptions you have witnessed in your criminal investigation, coming b

leslie wolf, as a priority, someone needs to redraft attachment b. there should be nothing about political figure 1 in here. this is a response to an email delivered by joshua wilson, an fbi agent, please see attached draft for blue star search warrant. the strategies is a longtime lobbying firm that hunter biden used to put pressure on government officials to end the investigation. the department of justice was investigating blue star for these activities and allowed to retroactively register as a foreign agent. today, no one has been held accountable at blue star. that happened during 2020. months before your presidential election, america. you should be very concerned about this. mr. turley, based upon the constitutional parameters, the house of representatives, do you agree that the oversight committee, judiciary committee, ways and means committee, should be investigating reasonable suspicion of impenetrable actions of joe biden? >> i do. i think it is your duty to get answers to these questions for you to see if the president was involved. i th

attorney, leslie wolf, said she did not any of the agents to look behind the tions. the agent took from that ey told investigators that she was not quote onal interested in ng it. this is the sameatrney, in an eml reduced yesterday, responded to irs investigators, looking for a search warrant. there should be thinabout political figure one in here. that is a reference by definition of president joe biden. president joe biden family sold access to his power. >> this is a tale as old as time. they make money for his family. he tries to conceal it. never forget the four fundamental facts. he gets paid a lot of money. he is not qualified to sit on the board. not my words, his words. this is because of the brand, and because of the name. they were asking hunter biden to weigh in, and look at the pressure that they were under from the prosecutor in ukraine. december 9th, 2015. they told the fbi, is in a 1023 form. they didn't want to let this committee see. all of those facts were further confirmed yesterday. this was with the information that these committees released fro

aassistant attorney leslie wolf f with scott brady to brief investigators in delaware about the bribery allegations and wolf concluded this could not be credible because it came from rudy giuliani. this came from an informant that had nothing to do with rudy giuliani. >> right. this was not the only thing she did wrong. this was the same assistant u.s. attorney that refused the request of irs investigators to get a search warrant for the guest house in which hunter biden was living at the residence of joe biden, even though she acknowledged they had probable cause for it, but she didn't want a search to occur because i guess it would embarrass the president. by the way, the testimony by eilean o'conner, a former head of tax division was quite something because what she said was that supposedly the statute of limitations has run on some of the tax problems. actually she says they may not have run because he was hiding, not paying his taxes. elizabeth: so that means the statute of limitations could be extended on tax evasion? >> that's right. elizabeth: thanks for joining us tonight. good

. >> it states in there that even leslie wolf agreed with these charges going forward, the assistant prosecutor. on page 32 of the transcript of your testimony, you discuss the need to interview hunter biden's adult children that you listed earlier of hunter biden included on his tax returns. you also testified that assistant united dates attorney leslie wolf told you that you would get into hot water. in other cases that you've worked over your career, have you ever had a prostic or tell you that you couldn't interview a relevant witness? >> so there are certain things that come into whether or not we talked for a witness or not. if they are an attorney, if there is some thing that comes up to my cause caution to interviewing that witness, but have never been told we can't approach someone to interview them as a part of an investigation. there are certain situations to where you have to do a further analysis of the information you might get if they are an attorney. in this case, we needed to talk to witt this is for things on the tax return. in this case, it was the adult children t

a lot had to with assistant attorney leslie wolf. weiss has never spoken about that.'t ask questions about the big guy, all of those. weiss has written about this prosecutorial phase where he was trying to bring charges in other districts. and i think it's important to recognize that he himself has acknowledged in his letter, he actually wrote three to congress, two to chairman jim jordan and one to ranking member lindsey graham on judiciary, and he told lindsey graham he had in fact had discussions with the department about special charging authority months before this meeting. gary schlafly is an assistant. he was an acting special assistant in charge. he would have no reason to know that from the u.s. attorney with whom he had very little contact, unless it was actually discussed at that meeting. so people can argue that he took away a different understanding that they discussed that authority, and not that he had been asked for it. but again, all of the attendees questioned have agreed the facts are clear that the d.c. attorney declined to bring charges. that thre

the prosecutor now, leo weiss, has been brought in and replaced the previous team, particularly leslie wolfand joseph zigler as being not impartial, in fact being friendly towards hundred 00's lawyers, tipping -- toward hunter biden's lawyers, tipping them off when th there would be searches and fbi headquarters tipping off the joe biden transition team and hunter biden that the irs and fbi were outside his door wanting to interview him and of course they never managed to do that back in december of 2020. so there's been a very bizarre situation where the hunter biden and his lawyers and the prosecution team under david weiss in delaware have been working on the same team and that's what the irs whistleblowers were blowing the swhistle on. it seems there's a new prosecution team in town led by this sort of killer called leo weiss who has a lot of pretty aggressive convictions under his belt and seems that they're just playing it by the book. so as alan just said, there may be more indictments coming down the pike. i know that hunter biden's lawyers are not happy at all at the moment. maria:

attorney leslie wolf did not allow agents to investigate joe biden, joe biden for foreign lobbying as a fara probe. >> yep with. this is corroborating the whistleblowers. remember gary shapley and joe ziegler who said they were unable to proceed? they couldn't interview the grandchildren, they couldn't interview joe biden, and we were told by merrick garland and david weiss that they had complete access to everything they want, and and now we know that's not true. so that's just, i -- it casts a pall over the entire new special counsel that is david weiss because we know they weren't truthful in how they conducted this investigation before. i don't know where we go from here, i don't know. elizabeth: well, voter polls show they feel this white house has been corrupt. they feel the vice president, when he was vice president, they fear they engaged in wrongful activity. we're going to stay on this story. jon levine, thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. elizabeth: we are breaking down this story, accusations that big city officials in places like new york are using the illegal

investigation the special agent shapley and special agent ziegler so they were blocked from -- leslie wolfer spoken about that -- that's, you can't ask about the big guy, the next question is about the dad, all of those. weiss has written about this prosecutorial phase, where he was trying to bring charges that the districts. and i think it is important to recognize that he himself has acknowledged in his letter -- he actually wrote three to congress, two to chairman jim jordan, and one to ranking member lindsey graham on senate judiciary. and he told lindsey graham, he had sought or had discussions with the -- special charging authority months before this meeting. and gary shapley is -- he was an acting assistant special agent in charge. but he would have no reason to know that from the u.s. u.s. attorney when -- unless it was actually discussed at that meeting. so, people can argue that he took away from different understanding, that they discussed that authority, and not that he had been asked for it. but, again, all the attendees that had been -- that the facts are clear that the d.c.

according to leslie wolf objected to storage unit containing documents from the vacated office. is wolf still employed by the department of justice? >> i will not talk about any individuals in the justice department. like i said before, singling out individuals has led to threats to their safety. mr. weiss is responsible for all decisions that were made. excuse me. many of the things you are

is leslie wolf still employed by the department of justice? >> i'm not going to talk about any individuals in the justice department. as i said before, singling out individuals has led to serious threats to their safety. i will say the supervisor of this investigation was mr. weiss. he's responsible for all the decisions that were made. excuse me. many of the things you're saying occurred during the previous administration. i apologize.

there was absolutely a discussion by leslie wolf that if they were -- if they told investigators or got involved with this, that there would ultimately be issues. you still believe that at this point the entire investigation has moved in the correction -- was handled by the correct discretion? >> mr. weiss has a longstanding prosecutor appointed by mr. trump. he has an outstanding reputation. i have confidence he will proceed as appropriate. at the end of his investigation, he will submit a public report just like mr. durham, just like mr. mueller. he will be available for you to ask him questions about why he did various things that were done. >> i yield the balance of my time. >> what changed? david weiss said, i have not requested special counsel designation. what happened? >> as i said publically, several days before my announcement, i think three days, mr. weiss had asked to become special counsel. he explained that there were -- he had reached a stage of his investigation where he thought that appropriate. >> what stage is that? >> i promised to give him the resources he needed. >

attorney leslie wolf said she did not want any of the agents to look into the allegation. behind -- on the board are notes agent shapley took from that meeting. he notes that wolf told investigators that she was not, quote, personally interested in pursuing it. this is the same attorney wolf who in an email we released yesterday responded to i.r.s. investigators seeking approval for a search warrant with, quote, there should be nothing about political figure one in here. that being a reference by definition of joe biden. the biden family sold access to joe biden's power and the biden justice department protected the biden brand. we must continue to follow the facts. >> i yield to representative jordan. >> i think the -- this is a tale as old as time. politician takes action, that makes money for his family and then he tries to conceal it. never forget four fundamental facts. hunter biden gets put on the board of burisma. gets paid a lot of money. hunter biden is not qualified to sit on the board. not my words, his word. he got on the board because of the name. fact number

is leslie wolf still employed by the department of justice? >> i'm not going to talk about any individuals in the justice department. as i said before, singling out individuals has led to serious threats to their safety. i will say the supervisor of this investigation was mr. weiss. he's responsible for all the decisions that were made. excuse me. many of the things you're saying occurred during the previous administration. i apologize. >> there was a discussion if they told investigators were not involved with this, there would ultimately be issues. you still believe the entire investigation has moved in the correct discretion ands was handled by the correct discretion? >> mr. weiss was a long standing career prosecutor, was pointed by president trump. he has an jout standing reputation. and i have confidence he will proceed as appropriate and at the end of his investigation, he will submit a public report just like mr. durham, just like mr. mueller. he will be available for you to ask him questions about why he did various things that were d

leslie wolf, as a priority, someone needs to redraft attachment b. there should be nothing about political figure one in here. this is a response to an email delivered by joshua wilson, fbi agent, saying please see attached draft for blue star search warrant. blue star strategies is a long time democrat lobbying firm that hunter biden used to put pressure on u.s. government officials to end the investigation and protect burisma. the department of justice was investigating blue star when these activities and allowed to retroactively register as a foreign agent. today no one has been held accountable at blue star. that happened during 2020, just months before your presidential election, america. you should be very concerned about this. mr. turley, based upon the constitutional parameters of the house of representatives, do you agree that oversight committee, judiciary committee and ways and means committee should be judiciously investigating reasonable suspicion of impeachable actions by president joe biden. >> i do. i think it is your duty to get answ

leslie wolf, as a priority, somebody needs to redraft attachment b.here should be nothing about political one in here. this is a response to an e-mail delivered by joshua wilson, fbi agent, please see the attached draft for blue star search warrant. blue star strategies is a long-time democrat lobbying firm that biden used to put pressure to protect and allowed to register as foreign agent. today no one has been held accountable at blue star. that happened during 2020 just months before your presidential election, america. you should be very concerned about this. mr. turley, based upon the constitutional parameters of the house of representatives, do you agree that that oversight committee,ra judiciary committe, waysys and means committee shoud bee judiciously investigating of impeachable actions of president joe biden? >> i do. i think it is your duty to get answers to the questions to see if the president is involved and why i think is a confirmed corrupt peddling effort. >> okay, thank you very much. my time has expired. i yield. >> i recognize mr.

leslie wolf called off a search warrant for hunter biden's guesthouse., they advised against doing the search warrant of this storage unit and gave the team a heads up on when that was going to happen. in a criminal investigation, you don't give a heads up to somebody that you are going to search a storage unit that may contain evidence that incremented that person. and then say we are going to wait a few days and we may execute this warrant. of course it is going to get cleared out and you're not going to find the evidence you were looking for. we would not do that with any other criminal investigation, why in this case? and why was she one of the lead negotiators on the sweetheart deal that hunter biden got that fell apart? it seems odd. when you look at the dust general garlands determination through his oversight in his department and you say it looks like we've got a two tiered system of justice, truly when you look back at some of the reports about the investigations toward former president trump and the biden family, they are very disparate in the

. >> there was absolutely a discussion by leslie wolf that if they told investigators got involved with this that they would ultimately be issues. do you still believe that at this point, that the entire investigation has moved in the correct discretion -- was handled by the correct discretion of the individuals involved? >> mr. weiss was a long- standing career prosecutor. was appointed by president trump. he has an outstanding reputation and have confidence that he will proceed as appropriate under the end of his investigation, he will submit a public report just like mr. durham you're just like mr. mueller. you will be available for you to ask him questions about why he did various things that were done. >> i yiel10th, 2020 three. augu 11th, you announced that he's now the special counsel. >> as i said publicly had asked to become special counsel haney explained that it had reached the stage of this investigation were he thought that appropriate. >> what stage was that? >> i promise to give them the resources he needed. >> what stage are we in? are we in the beginning stage, middle s

possible finance violation for the campaign, leslie wolf said she didn't want any of the agents to look at the allegation and on the board of our notes, agent shapley took from that meeting and he knows that wolf told investigators that she was not personally interested in pursuing it and this is the same attorney wolf who in an email we released yesterday responding to irs investigators seeking approval for a search warrant with there should be nothing about political figure 1 and that being a reference by definition of joe biden. -- they protected the biden brand and we should follow facts. >> i yield. >> this is a tale as old as time and the politician takes action that makes money for his family and tries to conceal it and never forget four fundamental facts. he gets put on the board of burisma and he is not qualified to sit on the board and that is not my words but his but he got there because of the brand and name and fact number 3 the executives there asked him to weigh in and help them with the pressure they are under from the prosecutor in ukraine and fact number 4, joe biden g

. >> there was absolutely a discussion by leslie wolf that if they told investigators got involved with this that they would ultimately be issues. do you still believe that at this point, that the entire investigation has moved in the correct discretion -- was handled by the correct discretion of the individuals involved? >> mr. weiss was a long- standing career prosecutor. was appointed by president trump. he has an outstanding reputation and have confidence that he will proceed as appropriate under the end of his investigation, he will submit a public report just like mr. durham you're just like mr. mueller. you will be available for you to ask him questions about why he did various things that were done. >> i yield the balance of my time. >> esther garland, what changed? on july 10th, 2020 three he said i've not requested special counsel designation. august 11th, you announced that he's now the special counsel. what happened in that 31 days? >> as i said publicly several days before my announcement, i think three days, mr. weiss had asked to become special counsel haney explained tha

leslie will told investigators, quote, optics were a driving factor in the decision not to request a search warrant for the guesthouse at the biden's delaware residence where hunter biden had stayed for a time. ausa wolf told the investigators that, quote, there was more than enough probable cause for the physical search warrant there, but the question was whether the juice was worth the squeeze. and she further said, quote, a lot of evidence in the investigation would be found in the guesthouse of former vice president biden, but there is no way investigators will get that approved. now, do you agree with ms. wolf that optics of an investigation should be the driving factor in law enforcement decisions when investigating potential crimes? >> as i said before, singling out assistant u.s. attorney's is a dangerous matter. the supervisor of that case, mr. weiss, he is the one who made the decisions in that case. he is the one who can answer questions as to whether those things happen. >> so let's take her out of the equation, then. let's just take the statement generally. do you believe that optics of an investigation should be a driving factor in law enforcement decisions as to whether or not to execut