senator chuck grassly questioning whether then-vice president biden took foreign bribes to enrich hisamily. republicans have issued subpoenas on that, but they found no direct tie to biden. instead they are citing an fbi document that summarizes unverified claims by an informant. and that informant alleging that a ukrainian executive offered bribes of $5 million. now, cnn's sara murray reports that investigators haven't been able to corroborate those claims. here's grassly earlier this week on the senate floor. >> that the foreign national who allegedly bribed joe and hunter biden allegedly has audio recordings of his conversations with them. 17 such recordings. these recordings were allegedly kept as a sort of insurance policy for the foreign national in case that he got into a tight spot. >> but just days after raising the possible existence of those tapes, grassly is now saying something different. >> i just don't insist because of what the report says. maybe they don't exist, but how will i know until the fbi tells us are they showing us our work. >> some republican colleagues in

and chuck grassly says, quote, we don't care if they're true or not. >> right. 2020, in fact. and they may even predate 2020. but scot brady, the u.s. attorney of pittsburgh, is tasked by bill barr at looking all it materials who is rudy giuliani, president trump's personal lawyer at the time is trying to accumulate this dossier of negative information against joe biden. and people familiar with this review of the evidence say a lot of it was junk, a lot of it was pretty worthless. he did end up forwarding some materials to other u.s. attorneys offices. there may have been some things useful for further investigation, but most of it -- most was discounted and was not elevated to a formal investigation. there were a lot of facts that we really need to launch an investigation into this stuff. it was sort of a way to filter the investigation before it went out to prosecutors who were doing, you know, real serious work. >> and the ethics of having rudy giuliani import information into doj under bill barr's tutelage while at the same time john durham is out trying to

i'll leave that to the professional people says that last senator there was chuck grassly, a man head of the senate judiciary committee until not that long ago. saying he's read everything he could find out about it, but, oh, i don't understand these things. he told another outlet he hadn't read the indictment itself, because how could he possibly? the chairman of the senate judiciary. that's the reaction of elected republicans, elected republican senators on capitol hill tonight. online the reaction of trump supporters is following its own set of contours. that's next. stay with us. that's next. stay with us ah, these bills are crazy. she has no idea she's sitting on a goldmine. well she doesn't know that if she owns a life insurance policy of $100,000 or more she can sell all or part of it to coventry for cash. even a term policy. even a term policy? even a term policy! find out if you're sitting on a goldmine. call coventry direct today at the number on your screen, or visit coventrydirect.com. >>> so it is a picture of what former president trump looks like i think from a military

an effort to include something like this in the omnibus spending bill was held by senator chuck grasslyobjections over what he says are lax criteria for special visa priority. i don't know what his position is going to be on your legislation here. but does he need to be pushed? can you get him to stop obstructing this? >> we have to talk to any of those that don't quite understand what we understand. it's easy for someone who hasn't been there, that doesn't fully appreciate what actually takes place in war and how these are people that are loyal to the united states of america and that we need to fulfill our promises, and that's a big part of it. america has got to be a country that fulfills its promises, especially when they're helping us during war, and that should be the number one priority for people that maybe don't think it's the greatest program. in many ways, it is a great program, because these are people that deserve what they have earned. >> congressman brad wenstrup and jason crow, thank you so much for your service and thanks for pushing for this. it's an important piece of

don't care, i don't have to read the indictment, i was shocked the bulwark reported this week that chuck grassly, the former chair of the judiciary committee in the senate said about the indictment i haven't read it at all, i'm not a legal analyst, i'm going to leave that to the roprofessionals to tell us about it. i've read everything i can of secondary sources of it but not the original. this is the former person of the senate judiciary committee saying i can't read about the indictment, i'm not a legal analyst. >> yeah, and he's the same guy running around saying that somehow the justice department is being weaponized. how do you know, chuck? you know, stop running for a minute. god love you, he's a very old man who has kept himself in great shape physically, but mentally he has got to absorb the fact that this indictment is full of evidence. it's evidence. and they don't want to read it because they don't want to be confronted with evidence. they're way more comfortable doing this. and my question for them is this, too. you know, the fbi is widely respected around the world in terms of its t

a us senator from arkansas, a senator with chuckfrom grassly gets up there and read something like this. it's pretty significant. its impactn chuck . what c >> what changes if these recordings exist? >> ron, first off, let say grass god bless chuck brad, chuck grassley, he has beele n titan of oversight for decades in the senate. and again today, he revealede shocking new information that when the fbi allowedi allowe hoe members last wee rk to review a report from a confidential source, they redacted not just o the names or the identities of people. they redacted the fact that this sourc e has 17 different recordings with hunter bidenthat and joe biden. it's not possiblhee that the existence of those recordings could be someho sw cr classified or sensitive or compromise investigations. om the only explanation for such a redaction is that the fbi and the department of justice didn't want republican republisd conducting oversight to know they existed because bethe obvip is, okay, where are those recordings? let's hear them. let's see ifings?hear the they v exist, if they actually do involve joe biden or hunter bideolter biden, beca