. >> harris: former c.i.a.tor john brennan testifying right now behind closed doors about the now infamous letter he signed down playing the hunter biden laptop story calling it russian disinformation. that man in the hot seat right now. house republican report says the c.i.a. pushed other former intelligence community members to sign on to that letter and then fast tracked it to give then-candidate joe biden political cover. democrats clapped back on those claims calling them unexamined allegations on an incomplete record. and another attempt to mislead the american people. congressman jim jordan does not agree. >> it sure looks like you have someone from the c.i.a. actively recruiting people to sign the letter. he wanted joe biden to have something to use in the final debate with president trump. he new president trump would bring up the laptop story. that's not fair to we the people, the voters of this country. that letter was used to suppress the story that the country didn't get to fully appreciate. >> har

he says according to mike morrell, the c.i.a., he was the impetus. now, the secretary of state is saying it wasn't his idea. somebody else comes up with the idea and you participate in drafting the letter, which may be, we don't know, or you are out there pushing to get the 51 people signing up on it, then you are pretty much ingrained on this. senator johnson from wisconsin asked some very direct questions when he was going to be confirmed. i think the rub right now is he lied to congress. he lied to the united states senate in order to secure his position and get the votes necessary to become the secretary of state. >> harris: you know, jason, when you look at this total picture, you put it so succinctly. hunter biden has now brought on a new wave of difficulty for himself through this whole i've got to prove that i make far less money than i did and i didn't really make money off my heart work. because of that, money around hunter biden is a key issue. the original money, though, had to do with the shady business deals with countries like china. t

there is a reference to a c.i.a. employee who may have played a role as a facilitator of the letter. that is very troubling because it indicates that somebody who has been paid by the american people may have played a role in giving what was called a talking point to then candidate joe biden. when biden used the letter he never mentioned his campaign pushed the letter or was involved. another recent allegation is that the campaign helped determine who in the media would first get the letter. these are all levels of involvement that really we weren't aware of earlier. >> bill: it seems there is a striking lack of curiosity on behalf of most people in the media. >> dana: we have to apologize to jason chaffetz for making fun of his book "deep state." it might have alive and well. >> bill: thank you, professor. have a great weekend. thank you very much. >> dana: i just feel like i probably should call him and say something. >> bill: 14 past. let's move to this. >> his attorneys will surely invoke self-defense. self-defen

on the blinken issue, last month the former deputy c.i.a. director testified that blinken was the impetus behind the letter that dismissed the hunter biden laptop story as disinformation. in his interview he says mike morrell's testimony somehow proves that was not the case. blinken does not explain how he can make that claim saying he doesn't want to get into politics. house oversight republicans are very interested in testimony relating to a number of their probes right now including that one and also including one in independence county, arkansas where he sought to lower child support payments to lunden roberts. the mother of a 4-year-old girl he fathered. hunter's legal team says biden had a material change in his income and lunden roberts testified before a grand jury in delaware last year as part of a federal probe into the biden family finances. listen to this. >> this has the potential to be very helpful. first of all, what in fact is his income from his artwork? and who the buyers are? that's the most important part. secondly, we wa

i think the testimony that the former deputy director of the c.i.a.t forward confirms that. >> house republicans say morrell's testimony shows a call from blinken triggered that letter. democrats say it's nonsense and accuse republicans of cherry picking morrell's interview. >> bill: breaking news that happened a short time ago. russia claims ukraine tried to assassinate vladimir putin. moscow saying it thwarted a ukrainian drone attack on the kremlin. that is the video on screen. calling this a terrorist act, threatening retaliation. the u.s. says it is trying to verify the claim which ukraine denies. robert o'brien, former u.s. national security advisor. your timing is pitch perfect, sir. thank you for being here. antony blinken is doing an interview right now with the "washington post." he said cannot validate the reports about a drone strike. he also said anything that comes out of the kremlin you must take with a large shaker of salt and again we simply do not know. if you were to fly a drone from the ukrainian border to downtown moscow and hit t

so go check out c.i.a. we also have a twitter account as well and you can look at many different artifacts there as well. in the early part of the 1950s, the cia had a real problem. it extremely hard to get into the soviet union to get information out. and so the cia decided, well, if you can't go in, what if you go over and was this period of time incredible creativity to try and figure out the secure ity issue? it first started off with the bomber. the idea that the soviet union had many more nuclear bombers than the us did, and that really worried over here. so president eisenhower came to cia and said, we to know. and so what is cia do in 18 months? they go from the drawing board to operational status of the u-2 airplane. it flies at 70,000 feet and it flies so high that neither missiles nor airplanes from the soviet union get to it and on its very first pass over the soviet union collects information on their military airbases and dispels the bomber gap. in fact, we had many, many more bombers than the

he had covid, he had big tech and the c.i.a., f.b.i., he had everything going for him and it had to workfectly. are they going to be able to pull that off again? i mean, if he's at 36% now, with a summer of high gas prices, the economy, bank records that are about to explode and spring offensive in ukraine that could go side ways and title 42 ending, it could only go lower. i had a dream last night, i often don't tell people my dreams, but this is so good i have to share. i had a dream on saturday night, the elders of the democratic party sat joe biden down and wheeled him out in front of the american people and said it is time to go. i'm not going to read into it anything more than that. i always had a dream i could dunk. but this is a powerful and symbolic dream. the fact that he said he's honorable after denying responsibility for the ill legitimate granddaughter and he called half of the country neo-nazis and then says effective. effective at what. he broke the border, prices are up, wages are down. the stock market is only up 7% since being in office. that is not a good record. i wa

those two names former c.i.a.tor john brennan will sit for a transcribed session behind closed doors with on thursday. the following wednesday a week from this wednesday james clapper, the former director of national intelligence. there are just more questions that continue to spout out about that 2020 letter that was just released weeks before the election. that 51 former intelligence officials signed saying this is russian disinformation, which we found out it wasn't. >> bill: we want to get to the bottom of that one. nice to see you. department of justice, david spunt. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: philadelphia 76er star james hardin has a heart as big as a game. he invited a fan to a playoff game against the boston celtics. he was paralyzed from the a waist down in the february campus shooting that left three people dead and got to see hardin lead all scorers and sink the winning three-pointer in overtime. he signed the sneakers and gave them to howe. >> bill: i watched that. a great moment. >> dana: you had

the house government weaponization subcommittee will interview former c.i.a.ector john brennan and former director of national intelligence james clapper. phil holloway, criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor is in "focus" now. great to see you. those two names. what does it tell you about this case? >> it tells me, harris, the congress is taking a very close look at this. i don't know, however, that the department of justice will base any charging decisions off what they may hear this week. listen, this is a long investigation. this gun application thing goes back to 2018. there is a general five-year statute of limitations on federal charges. so this recent meeting between biden's lawyers, hunter biden's lawyers and the department of justice, that tells me that there is probably some type of negotiated plea deal in the works. this is what it looks like when the parties come together, they will bypass and forego a grand jury indictment and agree on charges and agree on the language in the charging document called an information as opposed to an indic

i think the testimony that the former deputy director of the c.i.a.e morrell put forward confirms that. >> harris: chairman led by republican jim jordan, that committee firing back saying quote, transcript doesn't lie. blinken's call helped set it in motion. and the drip drip doesn't stop. fox news learned of new 2011 emails revealing that hunter biden helped his business associates get access to vice president biden. richard, the president has said over and over again he never had anything to do -- didn't know of anything with these business associates. didn't know of his son's business dealings. but now there are receipts he met with them. >> since 2018 senate republicans have been investigating hunter biden. after that since the republicans took control of the house of representatives they've been coming on. >> harris: just approach the receipts that were just thrown into the public sphere about the fact that the secretary of state -- we'll start with the president. the president actually met with hunter biden's business association. >> what you ha

when i was working for h w bush who i had known since c.i.a., where i first started, and the cia, i met h w but when i was his attorney general, we probably talked times in a year and half and i was probably in the oval office by myself with him on something four times, but trump stayed in contact with his printable cabinet secretaries, a couple calls a day sometimes. frequent meetings in the white house, very informal. it was sort of a chaotic way of running things, but i sort of enjoyed it. sort of picked up meetings in the oval office where -- hey, what do you think about this? [laughter] dan: you can laugh now. [laughter] but it sounds in some ways you write about that in the book that it reminded you of a room in your fraternity house that this intense informality that can be great because it sort of is dynamic. dan: it's dynamic and makes people more accessible who might not be put much less critical. a.g. barr: in my fraternity in college, we had the cardinal -- we called it the card game, it seemed like eight when he 47 card game. you could never detect to was there and who wasn