andrew biden's political opponents, judging negotiations. what's next? major, a senior mentor for logistics and attend the general. ben hodges was commanding general of the us army in europe during the minutes agreements on ukraine. he commanded the 100 and 1st abalone in operation iraqi freedom and was the director of military operations and kind of afghanistan and he joins me now from frankfurt in germany. lieutenant general, thank you so much for coming on going underground. we've had assistant secretaries of state on national security advises presidents never come under of the and tell us so. i mean your of, i have to say, so let's just start with them. i don't know what you thought of the salzburg in new york times claiming its sources, told them from the us administration and european bows that ukraine just as too many soldiers in the wrong places. that's why it's all going wrong. yeah, well i'm, i'm always annoyed with people from a 1000 miles away making commentary or judgments about technical situations of people who are actually on the ground i

andrew: the biden administration created this cyber safety review panel to look at major cybersecurityvents to figure out ways to prevent it from happening in the future but what they did here was followed a hack in july that included a bunch of u.s. government email accounts including gina raimondo they look broadly at malicious attacks on cloud security and the hack by suspicious chinese hackers that got access to these email codes. ed: let's go to microsoft. what have we learned about what investigators are looking at microsoft role in all the is. andrew: in this attack the suspected chinese hacker got what is known as an encryption key that allowed them to generate authentication tokens which allow them to act as the legitimate use in the systems and get access to emails and senator ron white wrote a letter last month asking for u.s. officials to investigate microsoft's role in this. he accused them from -- for negligent cybersecurity practices and that their products were involved in the solar wind attack so he has broadly asked for an investigation of microsoft. the panel is look

andrew m thank you. >> the biden administration is vowing to appeal a ruling that would limit access to a widely used abortion pill. the federal appeals court upheld a lower court's restriction on mifepristone that would ban telemedicine, prescriptions and shipments through the mail. that decision will have no effect on access to mifepristone until the supreme court weighs in. >> secretary of state antony blinken has spoken with paul whelan, an american citizen wrongfully imprisoned in russia for nearly five years now, whelan's family tells abc news that paul described his conversation with blinken as long and frank when he called them afterwards. they also say that blinken assured him us officials are doing everything possible to secure his freedom. >> time now for a look at your thursday morning weather. storms are expected today from the carolinas to florida. the storm in north carolina was part of that same system that killed a woman in her car near duke university. the winds strong enough to push a barbecue right off the deck. also, more rain and storms today in upstate new york

her account resurrected encounter between biden and sergeant tyler cadorette vargas andrews and here the sergeant recounting the moment biden visited him at walter reed. >> one hour goes by, nothing, two hours goes by, nothing. four hours at this point and my mom is furious. right away, i remember him coming up to me trying to shake my hand like my right hand and i look at him and i'm like, i don't have an arm. almost immediately starts talking like about how their son served in the military. doesn't say anything about what happened and he leans over close to me in my face and he's like, what do you want? i'm confused, i got blown up, saw my friends get blown up next to me, i was like, i just want to be myself. >> laura: remember when we had a two-week -- furious news cycle after congressman wilson spun what trump said to a gold star family? where is that media now? not only are journalists happy to hide the truth to protect biden, thrilled to pick up the grief baton and run with it. regarding hunter and burisma, you can't blame hunter biden, tragedy made him sloppy. >> when hunter b

andrew, special counsels are supposed to come from if outside the government. both a.g. garland and wise, they told congress weiss had total charging authority or in the hunter biden case, now he needs special counsel status and why? and who does he now report to? andrew, these are are major problems exploding right now in d.c.. >> there's always been ambiguity about the authority that weiss had to investigate both hunter biden and people closely affiliated with hunter biden to include joe biden. the appointment of weiss as special counsel is improper under the federal regulations because it's supposed to be somebody with who actually the is outside of the government. and when you're outside of the government, that gives you the autonomy to be able to investigate things fairly. weiss remains an employee of the department of justice, remains subordinate to merrick garland and to the president of the united states. this isn't the independence that you think of when you assign a special counsel, and it's just plain wrong. les. elizabeth: yeah. we have, you know, david weiss also separate from all of this in a court filing saying that the hunter biden tax evasion case could

andrew. where is kamala ? in theory, if something happened biden must be kamala why writes this is chunga-changa?is brownie kuzya well, it’s not enough that brownie kuzya works for a person who simply, well, listen for real, he is lying, and he , he, he doesn’t even understand what he is saying. he says it so confidently, well, right now , confidently, you just think where you got it. you know that it turns out that his federal debt has decreased, but trillions, in contrast to the previous president during the first 2 years of my tenure. even despite everything we've done. i was the first to cut the federal debt by one trillion the $700 billion reduction of $1 trillion 700 billion was because we delivered the growth. but at the same time, it should be noted that he does not know, in fact, anyone grandfather. bring a statistical handbook, because the national debt has increased by 3.84 trillion. the rose did not fall by 700 trillion, but rose by 3.800. this is without taking into account the 1.8 trillion new debt ceiling adopted in the twenty-third year. well, somewhere he does not understand how

and her account resurrected a previously little noticed encounter between biden and sergeant vargas andrewsst an arm during that withdrawal. here is the moment sergeant recounted the moment he visited at walter reed. >> going to be here in an hour. >> one hour goes by, nothing. two hours goes by, nothing. like four hours at this point. and my mom is furious. right away like i remember him coming up to me trying to make my hand. trying to shake my right hand and i look at him and i'm like i don't have an arm. almost immediately starts talking like about how their son served in the military. doesn't say anything about what happened. he leans over me and he is like this close to my face and he is like what do you want? i'm like confused. i just got blown up, i just saw my friends die next to me i just want to be myself. >> laura: remember when we had a two week furious news cycle after congresswoman frederika wilson spun what trump said to a gold star family? well, where is that media now? well, not only are journalists happy to hide the truth to protect biden, they are thrilled to pick up the

biden is expected to depart from joint base andrews 3:45 this afternoon, and of course he and the first lady will visit maui on monday. they're expected to meet with first responders and the families of victims following hawaii's devastating wildfire. >>> disturbing threats are emerging ahead of former president trump's election interference case in georgia. coming up, new safety measures law enforcement say they're taking. >>> welcome back. a live look at former spouse nancy pelosi marking the 103rd anniversary of women getting the right to vote in the united states. just about a half hour ago, a roundtable discussion in san francisco ahead of women's equality day got under way. you're seeing a live look at that right now. pelosi hosting the event with other gender equity advocates. her office says today's discussion is focusing on ongoing work for gender justice in san francisco and around the country. women's equality day is august 26th. >>> former president trump's legal team asking to push back his federal trial over election interference to april of 2026. that's more than two year

. >> john, president biden is in the air is going to land suited andrews air force base. table from the print pool while president biden's motorcade was in route to the airport in carson city to fly back east, some people gave him the middle finger it says. then of course he was booed. we talk about for president trump's mug shot the other day. [inaudible] quickly using donald trump's mug shot yet? >> >> excited seen on television. [inaudible] >> ukraine's former top prosecutor says he was fired because then vice president joe biden's had to stop them from investigating burisma the former ukrainian energy company were sent hunter was a board member. >> i did not want to deal in unproven facts. but my firm personal conviction is that yes, this was the case. they were being bribed. the fact that joe biden gave away $1 billion in u.s. money in exchange for my dismissal, my firing. isn't that alone a case of corruption? >> viktor shokin said this admission from joe biden years later validates his claim. >> is i'm leaving in six hours the prosecutors not fired you are not getti

andrew weissmann. >>> and moments ago, president biden announced that he and first lady jill biden are going to visitawaii to see the damage from the most deadly wildfire in u.s. history. it came as he was speaking at an event talking about his inflation reduction act in milwaukee. let's watch. >> we got to talk a little bit about hawaii. we've been on the phone with the governor coming up here, and let me say, in the devastating wildfires, some of which are still burning in hawaii, that the claim of lives of 99 people so far and they haven't cleaned things up, the deadliest wildfire in more than 100 years, a whole city destroyed, generations of nativen hawaii has been turned into ruin. and i talked to the governor and said they will have what they need from the federal government. and we have a declaration assistance, and they will get what they need, getting aid into the hands of those who have daechtly needed it, who have lost loved ones and livelihoods and damaged in this storm. and think about this. all that area, they don't know how many bodies, they don't know what's left, and imagine being a

host: that is just in the bronx talking about president biden. andrew in ohio, republican.ho is your favorite president and why? caller: who the best president of all time? that is easy, calvin coolidge. he said it best the business of america is business, not government. if you look at his record. income tax rate dropped from 65% and then he dropped it 20%. he balanced the budget every year when he was president. if you look from 2001 we ran deficits every year, bush, obama, trump, biden. now if you look at just the gdp, it increase about 4.7% every year in 1920's. that is why historians call it the roaring 20's. if you look at his record, he signed in 1924 the citizenship act. he was just a fantastic president. host: i was going to notice and the's rankings they came out last year had him -- siena college rankings they came out last year had him at 32nd. they wrote he is rated poorly for leadership, lack of imagination, and failing to work for equal justice for all americans. refused to use the countries economic boom to help struggling farmers and workers in other indust

host: that is just in the bronx talking about president biden. andrew in ohio, republican.ho is your favorite president and why? caller: who the best president of all time? that is easy, calvin coolidge. he said it best the business of america is business, not government. if you look at his record. income tax rate dropped from 65% and then he dropped it 20%. he balanced the budget every year when he was president. if you look from 2001 we ran deficits every year, bush, obama, trump, biden. now if you look at just the gdp, it increase about 4.7% every year in 1920's. that is why historians call it the roaring 20's. if you look at his record, he signed in 1924 the citizenship act. he was just a fantastic president. host: i was going to notice and the's rankings they came out last year had him -- siena college rankings they came out last year had him at 32nd. they wrote he is rated poorly for leadership, lack of imagination, and failing to work for equal justice for all americans. refused to use the countries economic boom to help struggling farmers and workers in other indust

biden destroy free speech in america. stuart: mr. attorney general, thank you very much and keep fighting. andrew state of missouri. thank you, sir. thank you for being on the show. >> thank you. stuart: listen to this one, millions of sensitive tax records are missing. do you know what happened? lauren: well, we know they're missing but don't know what happened. the irs is required to keep backups of business tax records and individual ones. they're kept for decades on microfilm cartridges. several batches are missing. that's millions of taxpayer information. so the inspector general for the irs says seven boxes filled with these cartridges are empty in a utah facility, and then they also said many more are missing when they were transferring from a california location to a missouri location. so -- right. we don't know if someone stole this information, that cobbe potential tax fraud. identity fraud. this is a huge deal. stuart: blackmail. lauren: yeah. and the other question is we do know that the irs works with outdated software. i mean -- stuart: yeah, they do. lauren: outdated technology. th

andrew clyde stuff. the impeachment of joe biden. even impeachment of joe biden. a whole lot of republicans who don't want that baggage. they don't want that albatross. they might think it's interesting that the far-right republicans talked about this all the time. when it comes down to an actual impeachment trial, and voting for impeachment, that's problematic. do you think there's any muscle in any of this nonsense of the trying to do in congress, to try to counter donald trump's actual legal woes? >> you know, i feel like maybe the house republicans think that they're some strategic, you know, they are there, to what they're doing that is in fact going to help donald trump or the republican to general defeat the democrats come the general election. it's important for us to remember, the folks who really want, for example, the impeachments, if you will, of president biden or the far-right members of the house of representatives in the republican caucus, there's a very small group. they have a large microphone. there are 18 republicans, ali, who currently sit in

biden's accounts. maria: joining me now is georgia congressman, andrew kline. good to see you. thanks very much.od morning, maria. well, i'll tell you, congress needs to hear from eric schwerin. i think that's very, very important. with all these shell companies out there, if this is the guy who moves the money around, then this is the guy that knows where it came from, where it went and what happened to it. so i think it's very important for congress to hear testimony. it will be enlightening to the country, to say the least. this is a very important guy. maria: we're waiting to hear this testimony. i know you and your colleagues are on recess right now but this is a priority for judiciary in september. but i want to get your take on where you sit in terms of where this is going. would you be poised to vote for an inquiry into impeachment for biden? >> oh, well i think an impeachment inquiry is certainly something that needs to go forward. i think that's a very important aspect of where we are. we have seen incredible criminal activity, evidence of it time and time again. the fbi, fd1023, the f

laptop coffer-up, doj officials stonewalling robes into hunter biden and the plea deal giving him blanket immunity for future crimes. andrew, how are they going to do a speedy trial before the 2024 election? this indictment literally lists election issues in at least seven states. >> yeah. and, obviously, what they're trying to do is push it, the whole point is to litigate the days case close to the time of the election. but i think, liz, they've put themselves in a real box here. if you're myth and you really want to get -- smith and you really want to get this case to trial, you indict this one first. so what he's done is he indicted the mar-a-lago case first. he got a judge to set a may trial date because he's hammering for a trial in that case too. and is now he's going to try to push another judge in a jurisdiction far away to set a trial date in this as well. and i think no matter how unfavorable the court may seem, i think trump has a powerful due process argument that he's being deprived what every defendant is entitled to, which is the right to mount a defense. when is he supposed to get ready for trial? when is h

i want to bring in senior law enforcement analyst andrew mccabe with former deputy director of the fbi. president bidento land in utah any minute now. just how imminent and serious was this death threat to him? >> well, wolf, it was extremely serious coming from an individual who was already under investigation for lodging disgusting and serious threats against other pol titicians and political figures. you mentioned the threat he made in march against alvin bragg in new york. that's what initiated the fbi's investigative interest when they received a tip from a social media company that brought that threat to their attention. so this wasn't the normal chatter that you hear in the run-up to an event that might include a politician or a president. this was someone they were already concerned about and then they started talking about acting out against the president in this tip and i'm sure that fwrazed everyone's concern to the absolute highest levels. what goes through your mind, and they're all included in this 49-page complaint that was just issued by the united states attorney against this defendant

just going to see off the top my head, just off the top of my head, joe biden, barack obama, hillary clinton, eric holder, andrewbert mueller, how many people has donald trump said openly he wants locked up over the years? >> listen, it's always projection with the republican or trump allies, i should say, you know? when they are talking about what they are accusing democrats of doing, it's what they internalized and what they have been doing for the last couple of years. what can we say, then? we are going to have to wait and see how this all plays out. mehdi, great to see you, as always, my friend, enjoy the rest of your evening. and good evening to you tonight on ayman. the range, that is how one high-profile democrat describes the trump legal defense strategy in the election interference case. this, as we look ahead to a possible fourth indictment in georgia. then, vindication. vindication, excuse me. i will speak with the january six committees lead investigator on how -- efforts laid the groundwork for the criminal charges brought by jack smith. and going broke, republican state parties are struggling for

missouri attorney general andrew bailey saying i will not stand idly by while the biden administrationcan agriculture. podcast host. these psychos are willing to starve millions of people to get to net 0. and now banning the sail of all new incandescent bulbs in favor of energy-friendly alternatives. they are pushing us and not talking about what it takes to take many of these going. more electric vehicles on the grid, it will pump up the usage and our needs on the grid up to 50%. by the way, those incadsents that people aren't going to buy will cost them more to destroy them and take them out of circulation. that gets passed on to us, the consumer. >> they never explain the economics of it. what it will truly do to the climate. they started with global warming. then they are trying to say it's climate change. remember, this is the same john kerry who told us there would be no ice in the arctic and there really is ice in the arctic. you look at the "wall street journal" editorial that just came out talking about how forest fires are down. but the big question there for joe biden is why

biden himself, who remains the race's clear frontrunner, has no plans to attend. andrew justin, thank you. >> supreme court justice clarence thomas is accused of taking even more luxury trips and gifts from billionaires than previously believed. propublica found that thomas accepted at least 38 vacations, 26 flights on private jets and a dozen vip passes to sporting events. the news site said it has not identified any legal cases the benefactors had before the supreme court, but that thomas may have broken the law by not disclosing the gifts. >> five americans being held in iran are now a step closer to freedom. they were transferred from a notorious prison to house arrest in a deal that calls for the release of $6 million of iranian funds frozen in south korea. three of the americans were accused of espionage, and the other two want to remain anonymous. abc's martha raddatz reports. they could be back on us soil by next month. it will likely take at least 4 or 5 weeks for that money to come through. >> and the prisoners hopefully brought back to the us. the white house

andrew morgan in for a wet week. >> melissa, thank you. we turn now to those deadly wildfires. president biden is heading to maui today for an up close look at that devastation. >> the death toll in lahaina now stands at at least 114 and hundreds are still missing. and several wildfires are still burning out of control in washington state this morning. the wildfire emergency in eastern washington turning more deadly. at least two people have now died and hundreds of buildings are destroyed as three fires burn out of control. the largest, the gray fire, is being fueled by dry grass and wheat fields, forcing the closing of interstate 90 in spokane. >> and this has been horrendous fires the aridity, the wind. this fire moved seven miles in one afternoon. >> thousands of people have been forced to evacuate, some returning to the town of silver lake to find out they've lost everything. >> this is mom's house. it comes as new video surfaces of the wildfire on maui showing what firefighters faced as they arrived to the historic town of lahaina engulfed by the fire. >> at one point, flames surround a

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in 2020, andrew bates, a spokesperson for the campaign at the time said no meeting ever took place between biden and a burisma executive. this is russian disinformation operations, said biden adviser michael carpenter to politco. what's going on here? it's a fair question. fast forward to this past monday. devin archer told congress in 2015 in april, biden "entered the room where they were having dinner, shook everybody's hand. he came to dinner and then the burisma dinner companions, all they all talked about the world and the weather." those are archer's words to the house oversight committee. pat fallon sits on that committee and he joins me now. congressman, thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> what i find interesting, we've been following dan goldman, the new york democrat congressman. he has gone -- leaned very far in order to support the idea that joe biden wasn't involved in any of this, it was all above board. interestingly, we played yesterday that devin archer said when he talked about the phone calls, that biden talked about "the weather", he said there were calls about

biden administration their decision on. this is undoubtedly helped him with his base. >> andrew, let me bring you in here to talk about the argument that they are going to make when they get before the trial judge of a change of venue. how the legal issues stack up there. they are going to argue washington is not neutral. it's heavily democratic. they want to talk about moving it to west virginia. that is not only contiguous in terms of as close as virginia or maryland, but it's also arguably not neutral, having been overwhelmingly voting for donald trump. what about a change of venue in general? >> it is common -- i have litigated this in d.c. and elsewhere. when there are two arguments that defendants make. one is that because the scene of the crime is the location of the court, you need to be somewhere elsewhere there's calmer waters. that's an argument that was made in the enron case. it was made in the watergate case. it was made in the special counsel mueller case. it was made in the boston bombing case. when you have a matter that's so high profile that every district knows about it, that argument fails. the supreme court h

customs and border protection commissioner mark on the biden administration's implementation of cdp 1, a mobile app. he was joined by andrewrthur and mark who are at the center for immigration studies. on capitol hill, this is just over one hour. >> thank you for coming. it has been clear from the beginning of this administration that if approached, the border specifically is to accommodate the flow of inadmissible aliens, rather than to stop it. the problem is that that has caused nonpolitical headaches as people notice the magnitude of the border crisis. just at the southern border, since this administration took office, there's been more than five and a half million so-called encounters, that is the pc term and now, at the southern border. so how to do damage control? they can enforce the law and reduce the number of illegal immigrants. that is apparently off the table, so to accommodate the flow, they have turned to a strategy the linchpin of which is cbp 1. it's a smart phone app, it you can download it, i haven't used it because i don't have to schedule my illegal immigration, but it's there for anybody to see what i

eric holder, close to jim comey, andrew wiseman, this isn't an independent operation, i explained it on my show sunday. they took the worse actors under the obama, biden, holder administration, they set them apart, called them special counsel. they have up to 60 fbi agents, 60 fbi agents and prosecutors, we brought in his old chums from the public integrity section, he was sent to the hag, he was so bad he was sent over seas. this march has been reversed by three separate injuries, he was reversed by an 8-0 supreme court, as i explained on sunday, he takes statute that is don't apply, takes statutes and rewrites them. he knows he is in washington d.c., grand jury in washington d.c., he has the worse radical left wing obama judge in america, somehow gets the case. she is in charge of the case. he is going to indict trump for drinking too much orange juice and everybody would say great, he is not above the law. let me tell you something else. this case in florida, this documents case, you also have former federal prosecutors, that's a serious case. that is an unserious case. there are motions to be filed here, he brought that case in washington d.c. in

andrews. he is a marine that survived the bombing in kabul that killed 13 american soldiers and watch what they say happened with president bidenh this. >> when joe biden entered the room, his words to me were my wife jill and i know how you feel. we lost our son as well and brought him home in a flag-draped coffin. my heart started beating faster and shaking knowing their son died in cancer and they were able to be by his side. also wondering how someone could honestly be so heartless to say he knew how i felt, a little over 24 hours in learning of my son's death. after this encounter, i have never had any personal correspondence nor has my son be honored or his name spoke by this commander in chief. >> my arm is gone. i don't have an arm and he says, oh, he was like, okay, that's weird. you know, almost immediately starts talk like about how their son served in the military. doesn't say anything about what happened. just start talking about how their son served in the military. and my mom is just like -- she's furious at this point. helenes over to me and he's this close to my face and he said what do you want? i'm confused a

biden or donald trump. >> let's go back to jake in d.c.. >> anderson thank. so much here with my panel now. abby bash, andrew mcatee. andy let me start with you because one of the strengths to the case put forward by both the special counsel and also the january 6th committee is how much of the testimony is not just from republicans but forms trump supporting republicans. people who were with him at the very, very end. one of them is the then acting attorney general, acting deputy attorney general, richard donahue. i interviewed don here and i talk to him some months ago about the scheme put forward by jeffrey clark who's mentioned as i think coconspirator number four. in which he was trying to get donahue and the acting attorney general, jeffrey rosen to write letters to states, specifically georgia, but also others, saying that lying that the justice department had identified serious problems with the election. i asked donahue about. that let's roll a clip of we can. >> a letter claimed that the u.s. department of justice has signify identified quote significant concerns it impacted the election in multiple states

apparently, biden wants to forgive the debt of 800,000 borrowers totaling nearly $40 billion. now, the supreme court just rec told joe andrewand you may recall that he doesn't have but authority to forgiveal student loans, but he won't let a little thing like the constitution or the supreme court stop him. and he's got one major cheerleader in congress rooting him on. alexandria ocasir o cortez. >> congress has given the president that authority in the higheven thr education ie higher education act. the president squarely has as well using his secretary of education the ability to cancelt student loans. >>y to so why is aoc beggingging joe for student loans? stud, maybe it's because she needs a handout herself. new financianeeds l disclosuresu aoc still owesre as much as $50,000 in student loans. so it certainly looks likeing li she's pushing legislation that will benefit her personally and financiaatl elite.u to she wants you to pay forege degr her college degree even though she makes almost $200,000 a year. so based off these new findings, she doesn't seem to bem te paying much of her student loans back herself. perhaps s

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biden that trump is in a courtroom. how is that justice? >> joining me now, justice and intelligence correspondent ken saturday lane yan, former u.s. un barbara mcquade and andrewssmann. ken, i want to start with another excerpt from the indictment. he writes, these claims were false and the defendant knew that they were false. in fact, the defendant was notified repeatedly that his claims were untrue. often by the people on whom he relies for candid advice on important matters and who were best positioned to know the facts. he disregarded the truth. ken, this indictment gives us a strong sense of how the special counsel is going to approach this prosecution and pushing back against the free speech defense that he heard from john lauro. >> it does. it says up front that donald trump had the right to say that there was fraud in the election. he even had the right to lie about it. the passage you read goes to the crux of the case, because they have to prove that donald trump knew that the things he was saying and acting on crucially were lies. to do that, they have to show criminal intent. of course, he is going to argue -- you heard his lawyer -- you heard them

biden. i have a suggestion for republicans. grow up. stop being idiots. thank you. host: that is dennis in iowa. andrew on the independent line. what do you think about the indictment today and the four counts against former president trump? caller: i think the indictments are a beginning point. certainly there are more crimes that could have been indicted for and i expect that jack smith will keep those for a later time to be filed in new jersey. i have to say that the response to the press release and the press conference that was given was very interesting in the way that many of the facts were mischaracterized to spin a narrative, like the throwing out of a hunter biden plea deal. [inaudible] because they couldn't decide. they are trying to use a, i don't know, how best to put it. they are trying to create a parallel where there are no parallels. host: andrew in georgia, thank you for your voice. this is the third time that former president trump has been indicted. it was april in new york city when the state of new york indicted him on business practices. it was june in miami when jack smith and the special counsel indict

andrew, chuck, thank you. >>> and this indictment a potential turning point for congress, but the gop has its sights set elsewhere. how it could affect their investigations into president biden, next. investigations into president biden, next. at pnc bank, you can find us in big cities and small towns across the us, where our focus is to always support the people who live and work there. because you call these communities home, and we do too. pnc bank. have fun, sis! ( ♪♪ ) ( ♪♪ ) can't stop adding stuff to your cart? get the bank of america customized cash rewards card, choose the online shopping category and earn 3% cash back. >>> donald trump continues to head to the airport ahead of his third criminal arraignment in four months, he's sending a clear message to house republicans and it is this, impeach president biden or risk losing your job. and there are plenty of signs that message has been received. joining us now from coach bowl jake sherman and also correspondent eugene daniels. so i should read to you the way punch bowl put it, politically this indictment will be a challenge for republicans for the next 460 days leading up to the election. instead of a laser focus

andrew. yes, shocking news yesterday at least for some of those in the biden administration seeing that downgrade in the u.s. credit ratings from a aaa to a a-plus this is only the second time the u.s. credit rating has been downgraded like this treasury secretary janet yellen is quickly depending the biden administration she says the data they were using is outdated data and calls the numbers arbitrary. it's not only yelin pushing back against these numbers. other democrats are pointing the finger at donald trump and the republicans saying they're the ones to blame. taking a look at the ways and means committee, they're saying the gop is responsible for the downgrade and the american people will be forced to bear the consequences from the debt crisis and tax cuts for the wealthy, although, if you look in fitch's report, they say the recent debt crisis is really the only latest incident in a dysfunctional government they say there's been deterioration for to years in the u.s.'s government and other things that contribute to the rating is the rising deficits, medium-term fiscal challenges unaddres

biden? >> peter: not much depth today at the white house or in scranton. >> can you tell us about your hawaii trip, sir? >> no. not now. >> peter: or at joint base andrews. >> are you willing to share what your goals are for the summit, sir? >> not until i finish them. >> peter: silence comes as americans struggle financially just 35% of voters say their personal financial situation is excellent or good. 65% say it's fair or poor in a new fox poll. grocery prices are a problem for 87%. gas prices for 85%. utility costs are for 81%. leaving just three in ten voters satisfied with how things are going in the country. all of this undermines president biden's boasting about bidenomics yesterday. >> guess what? [whispering: it's working. >> that's as house republicans wonder is joe biden robert peters? oversight committee chair james comer writes to the national archives on may 27th, 2016, president biden took a call with the president of ukraine, petro poroshenko, it is concerning to the committee, however, this document was sent to robert l. peters, a pseudonym the committee has identified as then vice president biden. adding, quote: joe biden has stated t

andrew ma cake, james clapper not only lied under oath they did admittedly so. they admitted they did without consequences. donald trump makes a phone call, and what happens? he's impeached. joe bidenkes a phone call. he doesn't threaten to delay, he says he's going to cancel and he doesn't look for corruption he adds to at this time, he fuels it, nothing happens. he takes documents as vice-president and as senator for a decade and a half, three locations, nothing. he sends the fbi after donald trump. the american people, you know, they're sick of the conclusion of 2016 farce, they were sick of the russian disinformation laptop of 2020 and they can't even wait until 2024. and i think at some point people are going to conclude that if they don't say something and rise up, they're not going to have a country left >> sean: you expressed in the sale column a thought i've been making, to be the blunt biden is one more serious fall from physical incapacity. i've been saying, he's one fall away from an avalanche of democrats abandoning him coupled now with significant very real bribery scandal allegations. what happens to him? >> absolutely. and, well, i mean, the conversation, the narrat

andrew johnson who violated the tenure of office act, bill clinton for lying under oa and perjury with monica lewinsky. and then for inciting the insurrection. mcconnell actually argued against impeaching biden. he said impeachment should be rare, not common. but boy, it's getting common. >> it's getting very common. i was on two of those impeachments i helped cover under trump. and at the end of the last one, i thought, well, you know, maybe we'll do this again in a year or two. and it seems like that's what's happening. but what happens is when you use these mechanisms over and over again, they become meaningless, because it becomes clear that impeachment will not be used to remove anyone from office. it just becomes a political tool. >> but one of the biggest differences here between impeachment under trump, this is about an obsession with the president's kid. >> right? >> yes. >> and we can all agree, this is like a tale all the time as you said that children of politicians benefit off of their family name. it might be unseemly, but it's certainly not illegal. i think vice president pence's daughter got a book deal. i think, as we said, neil bush was on the board of a bank in colorado th

president biden because it is the his team doing all of this to the chief political rival of the president of the united states. completely outrageous and dangerous. elizabeth: got it. andrew, we'll have you back on. don't you worry, now. andrew and monica, that was terrific. thank you for joining us. now look who's back with us, congresswoman beth van duyne. this news coming in, congresswoman -- it's a pleasure having you on tonight -- can reports based on hunter biden's laptop e-mails that hunter used burner phones, told biden insider devon archer to get a burner phone before they started to do their work with ukraine's burisma. if everything is so legit, my what -- why are they using burner phones? >> that's a perfectly great question that i wish somebody from the doj would be asking hunter biden to get this information. again, what we have seen is time and time that they have not pursued a legitimate cause of complaint against hunter biden, against the president's son for political reasons. we have uncovered in ways and means just from the irs whistleblowers that we heard from the fact that they were lying when they said that joe biden did not have contacting with hunt

biden or donald trump. it's a sad day in america. >> back to jake in d.c. >> thanks so much. back now with the panel here, abby phillip, jamie gangel, dana bash and andrewccabe. andy, let me start with you. because, one of the strengths to the case put forward by both the special counsel and also the january 6th committee is how much of the testimony is from not just republicans, but from trump supporting republicans, people who are with him at the very, very end. and one of them is the then acting attorney general, acting deputy attorney general rather, richard donoghue and i interviewed him and talked to him some months ago about the scheme put forward by jeffrey clark who is mentioned as co-conspirator number four. in which he was trying to get donoghue and the acting attorney general jeffrey rosen to write letters to state, specifically georgia, but also others, saying that -- lying that there were -- that the justice department had identified serious problems with the election and i asked donoghue go that. let's roll that clip if we can. >> that a letter claimed that the u.s. department of justice's investigations have, quote, identified significan

andrew dymburt, abc news, new york. >> florida governor ron desantis spoke at tonight's vigil, saying we are not going to let people be targeted based on their race. president joe bidenued a statement saying white supremacy has no place in america, adding silence is complicity and we must not remain silent. governor newsom also wrote california stands with you. america's diverse communities are under attack. we cannot remain silent in the north bay. the highway patrol is asking for help to find a hit and run driver who killed a male pedestrian. it happened on river road near rio vista road at 730 this morning in forestville in sonoma county. these are images of the vehicle believed to have been involved this dark colored suv, possibly a buick, has damage to the front passenger side. the driver is described as a female adult regional medical center in san jose. held a valuable event today to promote safety on the road. the event gave life saving information on what motorcyclists and the general public can do to help accident victims that included lessons on how to handle trauma injuries that happen after a crash. >> we taught some of those bleeding control techniques.

issue, but i am curious whether you think emotionally president biden and this administration see this the same way you do or not >> andrewtration, okay i think that everybody is going -- they're working in way they think is responsible. i think there is a better way that we can do it by looking at how we interpret pieces of legislation. and how much cost it is to that legislation. the biggest thing that got us to this point here is legislation that is well intended, and if you don't put caps on it, if you don't put absolute spending parameters on it and if you just deal in good faith, i can tell you a liberal interpretation sometimes will bust that budget. if you think you're going to have a trillion dollar bill and you show us how you pay for it and the bill comes into $1.6 trillion after a ten-year period, that's $600 billion, it is basically debt financed that's how we have grown this debt so quickly over a period of time so, to blame one administration is wrong the trump administration is guilty as is any other, the obama administration and then the bush administration, they're all guilty we were in a downward trajec

biden's behavior as president with donald trump's behavior, just within the 24 hours after he was indicted last week, the judge warned him in the arraignment, don't intimidate any witnesses. and as andrew says, what does he do? he goes in and intimidate witnesses. so i am 100% behind jack smith on this. i think this is tremendously despicable behavior on the part of any defendant. and i sure hope that judge chutkan reigns it in this weekend in the hearing. >> harry litman, the question of how far apart are these two sides over this question of a protective order, because of a trump team is saying, yes, there should be a protective order. it doesn't have to be as expansive as the government's protective order. it should be somewhat narrower. jack smith came back criticizing the changes that the trump team wanted to make. but when you look at it, how big is the difference between these two positions, and where do you expect the judge to come down? >> as a practical matter, the difference is modest. but as a philosophical matter, it is enormous. and it is for the reasons andrew says. we go to great care and expanse to have a trial process that is fair, under certain rules, the way evidenc

especially toward the end of the year potentially president biden and president xi jinping at a most senior level. >> thank you. joe? >> thank you, andrewng deputy trade representative under president obama. she's now vice president of the asia society. do you envy the commercial secr commerce secretary or envy any of us trying to thread this needle? >> and the secretary will have a challenge of threading this needle because on one hand she's responsible for trade promotions, improving commercial relations and trying to get chi china to address business concerns but on the other hand, she's responsible for export controls and we all know these controls continue to be rolled out. so she will have a balancing act to perform in beijing. she's skillful. i think if anyone can pull it off, she can, but i don't envy her. >> i would think maybe china would be more conciliatory given some of the news that's come out recently with the sort of the domestic issues. i'm starting to think they might really need us or might need the west. >> exactly. the chinese economy is being hit by all sides. they need investment now to help improve the economic s

andrew. >> kelly if. >> coming up, senator chris coons will talk to us. he's one of president biden'ssus 2021 we'll tell you about that and more when "squawk box" returns >>> welcome back to "squawk box" live a shot of the capitol. take a look at futures we are in the green this morning. nasdaq looking to open about 40 points higher and looking for the s&p 500 to open about eight points higher. >> here are the stories investors will be talking about today. elon musk -- you'll only laughing because we've been talking about this for a couple hours. musk posting a match will be posting saying he was been lifting weights. and the more perhaps relevant comment is that he may leave surgery before a potential fight leaving the question open as to whether it will actually happening. zuckerberg saying he's ready to fight but isn't holding his bre breath zuck's personality really coming out. >> and investors grapple with anxiety about china's growth post pandemic. they've been told to refrain from negatively talking about topics like fears of capitol flight and softening prices. this comes as c