to a poll from the delaware journalism collaborative, that was released this may, 66% of delaware residentsthat economic issues are more important to them than social ones. you are a former secretary of labor in delaware, a former president and ceo of the urban league in that local urban league. all dealing with economic issues, how would you work with republicans in the senate because republicans in the senate seem to like to emphasize the social issues and divisive once if i will be honest. >> you know, i think you really had on. it and i talk to delawareans, what they care about is the bread and butter issues. they care about the fact that we are lowering the price of prescription drugs for our seniors. they care about the fact that i have worked on strengthening our supply chains, which i've been able to do on a bipartisan way. we still have more to do in that regard but that brings down the price of things and that also helps with the national security. i have been able to work with republicans in the house and will continue to find those areas that we can do together because it is abo

that would make her delaware's first-ever female senator and delaware's first ever senator of color.r house seat is another potential trail blazer, sarah mcbride, a delaware state senator who aims to be the first openly transgender member of the u.s. house. she has a strong ally in a fellow delawarean with whom you might be familiar. >> i'm proud that back home in delaware the first transgender state legislator in american history, sarah mcbride. [ cheers ] >> and state senator sarah mcbride joins us now. so delaware has a crazy primary system. it's the last one in the country, september, 2024. as of now, you're the only announced candidate for the u.s. house seat. do you think you're going to get president biden's endorsement? >> well, i think the president is going to be focused on running and winning re-election in 2024. but i am so proud to call this president a friend and an ally. and so grateful for his leadership not just for the country writ large but fighting for lgbtq equality here in delaware and nationally. so i think he'll be focused on his race. but i'll be grateful to

i am a member of the delaware tribe of indians stop that's our colonial name delaware. came from a british colonial governor sir thomas west. now the one abe people became known as the delaware throughout this historic period of time but as we encountered more and more of the europeans the hedutch followed by the british and ultimately the americans as a hunger for more land and opportunity to have a free and independent land to live on, they displace the original people who were already free and independent people living on the land. our stories and much of what you will see in this exhibit will tell our story of how we were forced away from our homeland and in an environment in a water if you listen to the news or watch the news and see about other countries and people being displaced in their own country in the fear of war, that's what the letter abe went through. this exhibit will not only tell that story she's à trail of force removal where today the lenape today's modern descendants known as the delaware my tribe and i'm an enrolled member of the delaware tribe. w

lee: delaware could do more -- is i believe delaware could do more in combating gun violence.d to be a cosponsor and help to pass the most significant gun safety package in delaware state street. legislations that included in assault weapons ban, a ban on high-capacity magazines, a form of the blanket dealer and manufacturer liability shield that existed that even if these gun dealers and manufacturers demonstrated negligence, they could not be held to account in our courts. and running for congress to make sure we're delivering that at the federal level, to reform the shield we see come to pass in assault weapons ban at the national level and in a small state like delaware, we can pass that the state level but it is very easy for assault weapons to come over our borders from a place like pennsylvania where they are still legal. ultimately, we need federal action to address gun violence. i will be a strong unwavering voice in favor of those types of commonsense measures in the u.s. house of representatives. i believe with a growing number of senators that recognize we have to

that's why ran for the delaware state senate.ed in past policies like paid family medical leave. it's also where morning for congress now because ultimately, to address the needs that workers and families across the state of delaware have. to address those issues, we need federal action and federal investment to guarantee affordable early childhood education, to make sure that we have as robust a paid leave policy as possible. to pass common sense gun safety measures at the national level and to truly enshrine the right to choose under federal law. those are the reasons why i'm running. as you mentioned, there are certainly a whole host of attacks on a community that i'm a part of. what those attacks reinforces that if you are not at the table than you're on the menu. this year, we have an opportunity, but more importantly responsibility to demonstrate that our democracy is big enough for all of us. i'm very proud that, as you mentioned, delaware up and down the state, have visited serum right.com to donate, to volunteer, to make

when he came and gave a social call to the delaware u.s.orney's office when his son was being investigated, that's interference. when his two hand-picked political u.s. attorneys, one in washington, d.c. and one in los angeles turned down david weiss and said we are not going to let you prosecute hunter biden in our district that's interference. as these things build up, we are getting closer to that point but i agree with you there is a real danger of moving too quickly. investigate all you want. don't necessarily call it an impeachment yet. >> laura: speaker mccarthy was discussing his call for this potential impeachment inquiry earlier today. watch this. >> you have the president saying one thing that we is not true. irs whistleblowers saying something when it comes to government treating the bidens different. you've got an informant claiming that the biden family had been bribed. should you ignore that or investigate that. the only way you can investigate that is through an impeachment inquiry. >> laura: sol, is that the case? i mean, t

that's what delaware talk to me about. i also think in the senate, it provides an opportunity to really dig deeper into these issues. to be one of 100. to represent strongly and also to deal with what i was talking about the fundamental rights like voting rights like making sure that we have protections for reproductive rights. to me that would be a great opportunity. our theme, you might know reverend al it is hope it came from the church that my grandmother attended for 70 years. our goal is to there's so much darkness. every single one of us needs to bring not just hope but some hope to not just the campaign but also to the senate and there are no black women in the senate right now either. that's not lost on me. >> bright hope, that will preach on a sunday evening. you talk about black women only two black women have ever been elected to the senate a black woman has not served since camila harris our vice president took office as vice president nearly four years ago. you are one of several black women seeking elections

attorney here in delaware. we should remind everyone, a trump appointee who was agreed by president biden to stay in his post because of his role investigating his son, that they wanted to hear from him about why more serious charges were not being brought. this is only further potentially in the views of republican legitimatizes their investigation, their contention that this was an indication of interference by the president into the conduct of the justice department. potentially, more significantly, remember, hunter biden was front and center in the 2020 campaign, the impeachment of the former president donald trump began with his efforts and the efforts of his allies to allege that vice president biden had engaged in wrongdoing because of his son's involvement in business dealings. just as in 2020 when hunter was part and parcel of a discussion and potential overhanging then candidate joe biden, this now further complicates that as we head into 2024. >> paul, i have so many questions. mike and i both need a

to build on a progress we have made here in delaware, but to truly protect our rights.rights, to ensure that assault weapons aren't getting into our borders, to afford early childhood education to every family here in delaware, we need congress to act. that's why i'm running. ultimately to, we need diversity in a government. we need representation at every level. and so while i'm not running to be the transgender member of congress, i am cognizant of that this is an important opportunity at this moment in our country to prove that our democracy is big enough for all of us. and i think here in delaware, we'll do that in 2024. >> as i listened to take through those variety of policy issues that are front of mind for voters, it strikes me that what is happening among republicans, at least republicans who are running for president right now, is this who can be the most hateful, who can be the most anti-immigrant, anti-lgbtq, that is the battle that they are locked in, not an actual policy or ideological battle. i know you saw governor desantis's trains phobic at, i don't wa

debate on whether the state of delaware owned the delaware river, along the delaware shore up to theigh water mark in ne jersey. they said no, we went to the supreme court and got something right. they said yea we do. anyway. i want to say, we're praying for those who los their lives in the flooding in bucks county. the idea that there is not global warming, it can't be denied by anybody anymore. we're grateful for th first responders who continued to look for 2-year-old maddie and her baby brother conrad. b the grace of god maybe somethin will come. i want to thank governor shapiro and all the buck county officials for their leadership in that tragic time. we provided all we could from fema but there's a lot to be done. i'm here today to talk about what we're doing to inves in america. invest in pennsylvania. invest in our clean energy future. talk abou the progress we have made building the economy from the middle out and bottom up. i came to office determined to strengthen the middle class. i often say and i mean this sincerely, wall treat, good folks, but they didn't build th mid

he is from delaware as you know. is, overall, doing really well, job creation is, up unemployment is down. wages are up. and, yet the president's approval rating on the economy, where did i put that? 34%. it's just 34%. why isn't the administration getting the credit for its economic record? why can't it breakthrough? >> first of all, i'm glad you highlighted the 13.2 million jobs created. the lowest unemployment rate in half a century. the fact that he has been able to, through bidenomics, not have a trickle down that nevers trickles down to people, but from the bottom up, and the middle, out we able to have an impact. what i'm excited about is there is now new data out showing that consumer confidence is rising and people are seeing it. they are feeling, it and i can tell, you knowing joe biden for his many years as i have and also seeing him in his administration, he is a person who is about getting the work done. and we hope that -- and also making sure that we earn every single vote. that is what he will do and

what she's running on in delaware. it is an at large seat. state of delaware, not that it's that big, in the house of representatives. senator harper is retiring. that sets off this chain reaction. she would be the first african american ever to represent delaware in the senate. and will the first woman to ever represent delaware in the senate. and will then of course, she would be replaced in the house by another trail blazer, sarah mcbride, state senator sarah mcbride who won with more than 70% of the vote in 2020. interesting, president biden credits sarah mcbride who worked for him as helping to shape views. i don't know if he would say open his mind. but as a life-long catholic who has been more conservative on issues than other democrats, hoping to make him see things through her eyes in a way. >> i wonder, i'm sure you have a million things to ask her. is one of the questions, does she plan to make this central to her cause? >> that's a good question. she's not running to represent the trans community in delaware. she's running to repr

and we're going to go straight to the breaking news out of delaware. moment now we expect the son of the sitting president to appear before a federal judge in wilmington. hunter biden is set to plead guilty to two tax crimes and admit to pesing a gun while he was addicted to drugs. there was a bit of a curve ball just ahead of today's hearing, a last minute deal, a legal dispute between hunter biden's legal team and lawyers for house republicans. here to help us understand what is happening right now and where things are headed, msnbc legal analyst lisa rubin, state attorney for palm beach county, florida, dave aronberg, and former fbi assistant director frank figfigliuzzi. let's begin at the courthouse with mike memoli. walk us through what we expect to see in court in just moments. >> reporter: ana, as you say, this closed proceeding beginning shortly if it has not already begun in which we really see the beginning of the end of this five-year investigation into the president's son, both his personal and business dealings. it's going to be the formal

a biden insider worked in the attorney's office in delaware. alexander mackler worked for vice president biden, beau biden, and biden-harris, and work for the same prosecutor who gave hunter biden the sweetest of sweetheart deals in the history of sweetheart deals. if the family is so clean, like the democrats insist, why the massive cover-up? why is the fbi and cia lying? why is the department of jus justice -- just leave biden's name out of it? why does the story change and why does joe biden keep lying and why are all of hunter's business partners in prison, awaiting sentencing, or disappearing and why can't anyone tell me what the biden family business is. how can the democrats claim joe biden is not involved in the biden family business when he took over 200 meetings with hunter's business partners. they both like to eat lunch at the same place? hunter biden put his dad on speaker over 200 times. did you think they were talking about the redskins game? now bidens partners are fli flipping. archer has been through it all. he played ball wit

live look now federal courthouse wilmington, delaware. hunter biden about to plead guilty to avoid jail time. could a last minute legal dispute derail this thing? republicans are waiting on this moment for five years. that day is today. it has arrived. i'm bill hemmer. next two hours. >> dana: it will be a big one today. i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." we have a lot going on in the show today. hold on tight and we'll take you through it. hunter biden's court appearance is 10:00 a.m. eastern expected the plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and entering a separate agreement on a gun felony. >> bill: the deal has outraged republicans. they say prosecutors were pressured to go easy on the president's son and urging the judge to disregard the agreement. >> dana: and here is what happened. republican congressman jason smith tried to intervene in the case. he filed whistleblower testimony on the public docket detailing allegations of political interference. >> bill: the allegation. apparently a member of hunter's legal

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attorney's office in delaware.at that point, and he said, quote, what was the potential issue with working the case in delaware. we were working with a small u.s. attorney's office who might not have ever worked a case of this caliber. bill barr was appointed by donald trump, correct? we >> yes, that is correct. >> let me turn to another concern you lay out in your testimony. you are concerned about the quality of the prosecutors on page 14. you say, quote, the prosecutors were the j.b. squad. they weren't up to the task of handling such a big case. now, sir, u.s. attorney white was also appointed by donald trump, right? >> as far as the actual nomination and what went into why -- >> i'm not asking you why. i'm saying, it was appointed by donald trump, correct? >> that is. correct now, another concern you lay out in your deposition. page 21. you talk about your concerns about this investigation having been made over, being publicized. you said, quote, one of the first disagreements i had was the idea of going publi

and it was ag barr who sent this to delaware. >> laura: mistake.here was no venue there, it is tiny incestuous district and office and given power of the bidens, everyone is connected to the bidens there. huge mistake. i think the relationship with her is indicative of that problem. >> laura: sol, quickly, plea deal with hunter tomorrow, do you being the judge, there is chance judge would say no to that deal given everything we have learned? >> there is a chance and i hope she will hold off and ask for more facts. people forget this was done in the enron investigation. an andrew faushg ustou's wife. we have not seen the terms of the plea deal, the hearing is a day away, we need to know what those are, that will tell us a lot. >> laura: insane issue but predictable. thank you, great to see you. new details about hunter biden's art deals, plus how does healthy eshg lite 18 year old basketball player suffer cardiac arrest? examine the near tragedy of bronnj james in moments. ealt h c? christian health care ministries could save you up to 40% today. as

he's got a house in wilmington, delaware. as andy mccarthy and phil holloway, it is a tight group of people in the city. what is it like outside the courthouse? >> griff: you described it perfectly, harris, it is fever pitch. all this here and networks here and reporters and cameras. let me give you a pan, if you will. show you behind the scenes, you see the reporters outside of the courthouse on the plaza. this is the scene. we thought it would be routine plea deal that would take about 30 minutes. everyone standing in earshot of hunter biden hoping to shout a question he would answer or his lawyers would talk to us or prosecution, who knew this was taking on different tract and ultimate takeaway, if this plea deal does fall apart as it appears it is, we are headed for a trial and now all of us have learned there is a current additional investigation into hunter biden. remember, just to reset the stage, this plea deal was reached months ago in the very recent days we've had the irs whistleblowers testifying before congress a

>> david: terry moran leading us off in delaware today.ry, thank you. >>> we turn now to the terrifying scene here in new york city, that massive crane fire and collapse, slicing into a neighboring building as it came crashing down during rush hour. multiple injuries. the giant construction crane on fire 45 stories up. its arm snapping off, crashing down to the street. several people hurt. and what we've just learned tonight about that crane company. abc's erielle reshef on the scene in midtown manhattan. >> reporter: it was a terrifying morning in midtown manhattan. a giant crane on fire, collapsing, slamming into a nearby skyscraper. plunging at least 45 stories to the street below, sending people running for their lives. >> the [ bleep ] crane fell. >> reporter: this video showing panicked construction workers inside the building. >> should we get out? i don't know. is it going to keep falling? >> let's go. >> as i'm in the building, i could of swore it was my last day. >> reporter: that crane was lifting 16 tons of concrete. you can he

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and delaware hunter biden investigations, correct? >> i did testify to that, correct. >> a few weeks after that testimony, your attorney wrote in a letter, to congress, i quote, mr. ziegler's confidence he was told by the supervisor that the merging of the cases was at the direction of an official at the department of justice. however, on further reflection, mr. ziegler cannot definitively state that is then supervisors said that the department of justice official directed a merger of the cases was attorney general barr, correct? >> that is correct, i can tell you that i actually refreshed my memory from looking at that email. there was an email that i found for my supervisor at that time, that stated what had happened. i can turn that over to the house ways and means committee at some point. >> and in that updated email, didn't include attorney general barr or not? >> i can't speak to the content of that email. >> no problem. i think in light of the correction, and truly in good faith, these things happen all the time, right? the rec

what reaction are you hearing on the hill to all this unfolding in delaware. hearing from republicans and democrats walking the hallways what are they saying? >> they are trying to digest this. today has been a big day on capitol hill with mayorkas, the homeland security secretary testifying, and the ufo hearing, and republicans are saying this is what we have been talking about and democrats are having to recalibrate this. they then circumspect, they thought that hunter biden had, you know, reached this plea agreement, this thing was done, off the table, something they could put to bed and focus on the re-election of president biden. so whatever the democrats come up with, whether it's spin or moving in a different direction, that's going to be the thing to watch. because the republicans have said for quite some time they think there is a lot of fire coming from this smoke. >> john: let's turn to mitch mcconnell, a moment there, he was speaking to reporters, he had to step away and then come back. what happened. >> every tuesday or wednesday in this case wedn

attorney's office in delaware. alexander mackler worked for senator biden, vice president biden, beau biden anrd biden. harris and coincidentally worked for the same delaware prosecutor who gave hunter biden the sweetest of d sweetheart deals in the history if tweetheart dealthe his. so if the biden family is so clean, like the democrats keep insisting, why the massive cover upe democr? why is the fbi and the cia lying? why is the department of justice obstructing? why are hunter and his his business partners texting? j just leave biden's name out of it. why does the white house story keep changing? wh keepenoes joe biden lying? >> and why are all of hunter's business partnerans either ins p prison awaiting sentencing or disappearerid? and why can't anybody tell me what the biden family businessessappeari owned? why did ten bidens get 17 mil from dirty foreign nationals? bank records show at least ten of them were involved. so how can the democrats claim that joe biden isn't involved in the bidenaim family business

the delaware u.s.ney's office and department of justice handling the hunter biden tax investigation was very different from any other case of inmy 14 years at the irs. at every stage decisions were made that benefited the subject of this investigation. for example, prosecutors concealed content of hunter biden laptop from investigators. d.o.j. slow walk steps include interview serving document requested executing search words. words that were ready as early as april 2020 but were delayed until after the november 2020 election and never pursued. investigators are not allowed to follow up on what that message from hunter biden's applelike cloud backup he suggested you sitting next to his father. assist united states attorney cited the optics of executing a search warrant present biden's residence as a deciding factor for not allowing it. even that she agreed the probable call existed. not to ask about the big guy for dad when conducting interviews. off went over the fact my fbi counterpart confirmed this

delaware and los angeles. less than a month later, gary shapley and i met with with stairways who stated that he agreed with us. but that this could somehow affect the later year misdemeanor and felony charges that he conveyed were stronger. despite these facts, the plea deal that is being discussed occurred. to this day, i do not have a reason why this occurred appeared from my perspective, this might not have been problematic, had the investigation been handled in the ordinary course. as i previously testified and is contained in my written testimony, i have outlined for you some instances in which a sign prosecutors did not appear to follow the normal investigative progress, so blocks the investigation, put in place unnecessary approvals and roadblocks from effectively and efficiently investigating the case. a number of times we were not able to follow the facts. i am happy to respond to questions concerning these instances. next, i will also note that while the impression has been conveyed by the u.s. atto

and we moved down to delaware -- claymont, delaware. we would go home all the time to scranton.nd one day, we went back to -- i was back in scranton, and a lot of my friends -- i moved there to delaware when i was in third grade, but we went home a lot. we still called scranton home , and we were up there on st. patrick's day when i was 14-years-old. and i was standing on the corner watching everybody go by; they're going to the event. and harry truman was a speaker at the truman dinner that year. and the sort of the david broder of the scranton times -- it was a guy named tommy phillips, who was an elderly man -- younger than me, but elderly man -- [laughter] -- who was the chief political reporter. and they got a picture -- and i hadn't thought about it a long time, but i'll send it over to the library -- of me at 14-years-old standing on the corner, and it was a warm day for february. and i'm standing on the corner in a long-sleeve shirt with my buddies. and president truman was coming around the corner, coming off of dimmick avenue, and he was in a convertible. and purely by

i would say that there's something rotten in the state of delaware. what has happened here with hunter biden would not have happened to other americans. this is totally unfair and i think it's very important that we get to the bottom of this investigation and find out who has been obstructing this sense of justice. the american people demand justice. this committee demands justice along with the other committees inv involved. i thank you for your hearing. >> chair recognizes mrs. stansbury from new mexico. >> thank you. i'd like to get right in to some basic vetting questions. unfortunately, our colleagues across the aisle with some of the previous witnesses that they called. so mr. zeigler, mr. shapley, i'm hoping that these are very simple, very straightforward questions. so i'd like to ask that you answer them with a yes or no answer. mr. shapley, are you now or have you ever acted as an unregistered foreign agent for the chinese government or for any other government? >> no. >> and mr. zeigler, are you now or have you ever acted as an unregistered

right now, drama in delaware. hunt e er biden's plea deal is crumbling.efense attorneys are trying to see if they can put it back together. let's go to evan perez what happened? >> the judge is saying in court to the two sides she has concerns as to whether the two agreements that the two sides had come to terms with, one of them having to do with hunter biden agreeing to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges, failing to pay his taxes on time. and the second agreement having to do with a gun charge, under which the government says they will wipe it away if he agrees to a diversion program, where he satisfies all of the conditions that the court sets out. that goes away. this is him purchasing a gun at the time he was addicted to drugs and did not qualify to purchase a firearm under federal lu. this is a serious charge and could get up to ten years in prison as a result of that charge. so it's very much in hunter biden's interest to have these two things linked. and what happened is during this court hearing, the judge is a trump appointee, she start

i don't want -- in newark, delaware. i don't want to give more details on them other than to say that i remember, that they and their children are waiting and watching to see what we will do here in the senate. i want to thank my colleagues, senators klobuchar and moran and blumenthal and many others, senators graham and shaheen, murkowski, durbin, wicker, and tillis, who have been cosponsors of this bill from the last congress. it also has support, support from the iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, blue star families, the american legion and many other veterans groups. some of the most prominent leaders in the military, mike mullin, stan mcchrystal, winning craven, but some of the most respected leaders in our military have endorsed this legislation. if you are worried as some colleagues have said that the folks brought here by the american military were not thoroughly vetted, this is the way to address it. it requires in-person interviews, oversight, consultations that will ensure that everyone currently here c

attorney's office in delaware, actually worked there for a while as the case was beginning. what do you make of what we saw unfold today? >> i think everything that happened in the courtroom today corroborates what the whistleblowers have said, every piece of documentary evidence, and some anonymous testimony from fbi officials, the case was handled improperly by the u.s. attorney's office, the biden family received preferential treatment at every step and this is not a partisan republican coming out and exposing the weaknesses of the plea deal. this is a judge who everyone believed was going to sign off on the plea deal, a judge who has donated money to hillary clinton. this is not someone who was in position to, you know, trying to score points for republicans, and what we saw i think absolutely verifies these allegations that u.s. attorney david weiss did not handle this properly. >> sandra: thank you very much for joining us. as we continue to learn more, we are just sort of digging through the details that we are getting from our producer inside the courtroom that john

washington crossing the delaware wants them. well, first, though, he's got it. he's got to be chased across the jersey's got going all the way back to this year. it is it is. i mean the continental army. i know i'm not going back to when the earth cooled. so i believe the army has diminished. they've been chased out of new york. and so we get we've had to cross attempt the ten days first first and second trenton we get crossing the delaware woops the germans at trenton cause the biggest cross drawn them again goes around them and run around the tanks princeton then. yeah then we get general howe talks to talking to his brother the british admiral. yes, his plan. his campaign plan is to take the american capital by threatening philadelphia. he hopes to bring washington to battle and win a decisive clash destroy the continental army, destroy the american push for independence. it's a good plan. i like it. it sounds good. it's uncoordinated, though, lord george germain, the colonial secretary in london. the distances preclude anything like, the sort of control that

kelly, i want to bring back mike memoli in delaware.with tom, who was inside there, just talking about how really at 11:31, there was a statement that there was no deal. is this something that was clearly unexpected by the hunter biden folks? >> reporter: well, this certainly seems to be a surprise because the -- simply the idea of a plea agreement you would expect both the prosecutors and the defense attorneys have dotted all the is, crossed all the ts and are in full agreement about what proceeds and the beginning of an indication that things were potentially heading in a different direction today is when hunter biden himself was questioned about whether these two separate tranches of charges in which he was pleaing about today, one, the federal tax charges, the failure to pay federal taxes and, second, the gun possession charge, were essentially linked. would he agree to the terms of these agreements moving forward if they were not linked? and hunter biden indicated, no, he was entering this agreement under the assumption these were

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>> senator from delaware. >> mr.resident, just about two years ago roughly 76,000 afghans, those who served alongside american forces during two decades of conflict and their families, were evacuated here to the united states on military planes and given two years of humanitarian parole. the biden administration has worked to is working to extend that parole but we have to ask ourselves to what end? these are our allies, those who served and fought alongside our troops, those who supported our mission and our engagement in afghanistan, and he worked in an incredible array of jobs, interpreters, medics, security guards, mechanics, intelligence officers, journalists, bomb technicians and pilots. and i know that today one family in newark, delaware, is waiting urgently to hear that we have taken up and passed this amendment of the defense authorization act. the head of household served as a bomb technician, as an eod specialist in the afghan forces, and i had a chance to have the blessing of meeting, the mother of a del

>> based on the limitations placed on us by the delaware u.s. attorney's office, that's likely. >> the committee recently reviewed a nonclassified the document from the fbi called fd 1023 form, which is a form used by the fbi to memorialize information related to it by confidential human sources, the 23 form was created in june of 2020. this isn't a tip sheet or hotline. it's not a suggestion box. it's a legitimate source used by the fbi and it was used here. mr. shapley, did you ever reviewed the 1023 form with information about hunter biden and president biden? >> no i did not. >> i reviewed the form, and there's startling allegations in it. what would you have done if presented with this piece of evidence regarding this potential stream of income? would that have constituted an additional area of investigation? >> since i've never seen the document i only know what's been reported, so i can say that there were investigativesa steps that involved president biden that were not allowed to be taken and that information like this would have been r

attorney for delaware, davidwise who is leading the investigation into hunter biden sent several letters to congress about the authority he was granted and refuting the notion that he was in any way hamstrung or reigned in by the justice department. he said i want to make clear as the attorney general stated i'm granted authority over this matter including responsibility of deciding where,hen, and whether to file charges. once again, he has asserted that his authority was paramount and said he had never quote been denied the authority to bring charge in any jurisdiction. with that said, irs special agent joseph ziegler joins us now. thank you so much for being here, we appreciate it. let me start with the big picture, what is the many allegation that you are making against hunter biden. >> i want to thank you so much for letting me be on the show. i think it's important that your audience hear the presented facts of testimony. it's the equitible treatment of taxpayers. we have to treat every taxpayer the same in investigating our cases with the justice department. and i think that's impo

attorney's office in delaware.at that point, and he said, quote, what was the potential issue with working the case in delaware. we were working with a small u.s. attorney's office who might not have ever worked a case of this caliber. bill barr was appointed by donald trump, correct? we >> yes, that is correct. >> let me turn to another concern you lay out in your testimony. you are concerned about the quality of the prosecutors on page 14. you say, quote, the prosecutors were the j.b. squad. they weren't up to the task of handling such a big case. now, sir, u.s. attorney white was also appointed by donald trump, right? >> as far as the actual nomination and what went into why -- >> i'm not asking you why. i'm saying, it was appointed by donald trump, correct? >> that is. correct now, another concern you lay out in your deposition. page 21. you talk about your concerns about this investigation having been made over, being publicized. you said, quote, one of the first disagreements i had was the idea of going publi

attorney in delaware was hamstrung, limited and marginalized by doj officials.ll think the special counsel is necessary for this investigation to further handle ancillary investigations that are spun off but may not have been you in delaware. i would like to conclude again by encouraging congress to consider establishing an official channel to pull the emergency cord and raise the issue of an appointment of special counsel. i don't want my colleagues at the irs to go through my frustrating journey. and that of our team. host: that was from one of the whistleblowers on the hill yesterday. i want to show you what marek garlic had to say when he was asked several questions about the scope and the power that delaware u.s. attorney had in this investigation. [video clip] >> yesterday testimony came out from an irs special agent who insist he was in a meeting with david weiss who claimed that he was told not to pursue the hunter biden investigation or bring charges in 2022. you said you stayed out of the investigation can you once and for all shed a little light becau

so, there was a debate whether or not the state of delaware owned the delaware river along the delawarere up to the high watermark of new jersey. and they said, no, we went to the supreme court. yeah, we do. anyway, i'm just kidding. [laughs] all the time. folks, look, before i begin my want to say i'm praying for those who lost their lives in the flooding in the county. the idea there is not global warning cannot be denied by anybody. anyway, we are grateful for the first responders. continue to look for 2-year-old patty and bro baby brother. by the grace of god. i want to thank schapiro and bucks county officials and leadership during that tragic time. you provided all we could from pima. there was a lot to be done. i'm here today to talk about what we are doing to invest in america, and fast in pennsylvania, invest in clean energy future and to talk about the progress made for the economy of the middle out in the bottom up. i came to office determined to strengthen the middle class but i often say and i mean it sincerely, wall street, good folks down there but they did not build the

it's delaware. it's j home state i wouldn't be holding my breath. >> steve: sure.terday, a chairman, republican, jason smith of the house ways and means committee submitted an amicus brief to the judge and said, hey: before you have go ahead and rubber stamp, this take a look at what these whistleblowers said. i understand that's some of the stuff that this call tried to seal so that the public couldn't see it and apparently the caller said yeah, there is tax stuff. there is social security stuff and there is grand jury stuff. and that would seal it; however, it's all fishy and thankfully they are going to work it all out. miranda, ultimately, though, this particular judge who was appointed by donald trump nominated by donald trump, you know, do you think it's just going to be a rubber stamp? don't you think she is going to ask a lot of questions? and there are a lot of people hoping that she reads what the whistleblowers said and says, you know what? can we go back and look at this a little more? >> yes, look. that's a 400-page something amicus brief that was file