the biden department of justice. the democratic party's department of justice.erfering in the election and trying to do many other things. i asked my brothers and sisters, i said go back about six months and pull out all the leaks from the new york times and washington post and cnn involving donald trump. here it is. look at this. you see this, these are the leaks from grand juries to witnesses to monologue go to the nature of the classified documents leak after leak after leak and i limited it to cnn, the new york times and the washington post. look at this. don't jerk around the former department of justice. is this how you run a case? is this how you have a tradition in the country that represents every damn thing. look at this. this is not intended to be a real case. here is the aba rules, special responsibilities for prosecutor, rule 3.8 and i cut through to the chase. the prosecutor in a criminal case shall, except for the statements that are necessary to inform the public, serving a legitimate law enforcement purpose, refrain from making extrajudicial com

the biden lawyers and the department of justice are used to being rubberstamped the department of justicerubberstamped all throughout the trump investigation for that is the judges have upheld virtually every single thing they wanted to do including all of the abuses this judge is not part of that circle. she isn't wilmington by the judge in florida, judge cannon is not part of the circle it's with a trash sure they're trying to influence her. she is not part of the circle. so that is what is important to understand the people say how did they expect to get away with this? because they are used to getting away with it. except when you move outside of washington, don't get me wrong the courts are not perfect. when you move outside of washington you actually have a chance at justice and due process. that is what happened in wilmington. let's hope it continues and that's hopefully what will happen in florida. i will be right back. so much more now? other companies are charging you more and more for less and less. and we hate that! that's why force factor has partnered with walmart to provide

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>> the department of justice. referred to the tax division for approval, discretion -- >> right, but then it all went to the u.s. attorney in del delaware. >> that's not entirely accurate because the tax division up through march 16th of 2023 had not yet approved, provided discretion, or decline charges. so u.s. attorney weiss had no authority to charge any of those charges without the tax division's approval beforehand. >> and i would like to say something about this real quick. >> let me get back to you. i only have a limited amount of time. mr. ziegler, you say that hunter biden's unpaid taxes were around $2 million, and he is now made those back taxes, and he is been criminally charged for not paying taxes. will you just explain how people can be charged for not paying taxes even after they've made amends and gone forward to pay them? >> under the statute, when someone fails to timely pay their taxes, usually due april 15th, once that date occurs, they have a known tax liability and have failed to pay it, the c

and so setting priorities is right and holding the department of justice accountable for it. whenever you're looking at the efficiencies, whenever you're looking at all the other operations of the department of justice, from their handling of, you know, grant programs, i want to make sure that our grant programs are going to cities that are enforcing the law, for example. well, that's a relationship between the president and the department of justice. so it's just in the area of, you know, once they started investigate -- once they start an investigation, there's always some exceptions of foreign interests that might come to bear on a foreign policy with the president, but by and large that has to be run by the department of justice, the investigative body, free of any influence from the white house. matt: you've said you would not pardon former president donald trump in the justice department's investigation into his handling of classified records. do you stand behind that statement and could you explain your thinking on why you would not consider a pardon of the former presi

the democrat party owns the department of justice. hear republicans doing this sort of thing and a republican administration. this is why i take the time to go through the attacks on donald trump. because he is illustrative of a problem. people who protested washing clinics. parents who peacefully protested school boards. traditional catholics. the internet. free speech. they are all under brutal assault. by federal law enforcement. and there sits the attorney general, the united states garland. like a mob lawyer. quietly directing everything behind the scenes. she can't see him. you can't hear him. you can't watch them. comes out like mr magoo makes a few statements and shuffles off the stage. he is diabolical. the people working for him or diabolical. what's going on with the special counsel is hideous and unconscionable. this is why this is such an important issue. this is why the pollsters can't understand these republicans. they won't move off target here. why do they keep supporting this kind so forth? because they know tyranny w

prefer you to the department of justice. i don't have anything to share beyond what i shared at the top of this briefing. >> it's extremely rare in a high profile case for the plea deal to fall apart like this. does the president believe the federal prosecutors have acted appropriately and confidently? >> as you know, jeremy, this was an independent investigation overseen by the department of justice. as we have been very clear, they are independent, we give them the space to do their work. we believe in the rule of law. i just don't have anything else to share on this. i would refer you to the department of justice. again, this was done independently and i would also refer you to hunter's representatives. >> senator tubberville and the military promotions, floated a way to move the nominations more quickly to limit the debate time on each individual nominee. does the president believe it's time to start moving some of these military nominations individually and voting on them individually? >> look, jeremy, i understand the q

from the department of justice and the u.s. ey and if they've had any documents they've been corrupted corroborative are my s own. >> i think that it's obvious. he said in the letter i have discussions with of the justice. i had to discussions with the folks. the deputy attorney general, whoever it was, he had discussions with people at the may injustice and suddenly things change and that all becamet evident on october 7. until october 7 the investigators to the point the investigators and the prosecutors were in agreement. here are the facts, here's how we've always done it. we've got the best agents in the place. let's go and then something changes and i think that it's what he conveyed when he said i have discussions with folks at main justice. we don't know what were in those discussions but it's pretty obviousi what happened. looks pretty obvious everyone, he has complete authority now suddenly he doesn't. because you came forward and told the truth. i yield back. >> firstly want to thank the witnessesor for their willingn

the department of justice is acting in a reckless way. doing what everybody is allowed to do, protest election results, criminalize election results, is very dangerous people see there are two standards of justice f you're on the left, you riot, you destroy statues, attack cities, attack the white house, threaten the life of president trump while he is in office very little is going to happen to you. if you have a rally and a protest that turns into a riot and you bring everything, every aspect of the department of justice to bear to criminalize everything while you did pretty much nothing other than maybe take a knee yourself during the blm riots as the department of justice that is very much a threat to the country. so the department of justice is acting in a very reckless fashion and a competent media would be accurately talking about that, what a problem it poses to the very existence of our republic. howard: liz, isn't some of that being debated right now? also i want you to address this question of a lot of journalists think the form

usually, and you worked at the department of justice, you know this. e, in order to seem like a fire broke, they bring cases that are certain. that you can win. that you've got that evidence. my fear is that when you bring a case that really seems like you just have to get into the presidents head, and it could go either way, you just not sure, you end up losing so many americans. this was my second point. this isn't gonna prevent another january 6th, if anything, it's gonna make it worse. because people feel as though the department of justice is one-sided. it's politicized. and when people lose that faith in their institutions, i think it actually is very dangerous to our republic. it makes you need to take over the government. if the wrong side gets the department of justice, they will use it against. you it creates a very high stakes, very bad situation. >> it also creates, as you're seeming to intimate, a self fulfilling prophecy on that very notion. it's interesting, of course, perception, as you know, can very well become king. how is trump unlik

attacking the department of justice. nd playing a quote double standard and committing a quote, miscarriage of justice. president trump also publicly attack to the department sentencing recommendation for mr. stone, leaving senior officials to overrule the federal prosecutors who had investigated and brought the case. this blatant political intervention, not complains at all by my republican colleagues at the time. it caused those prosecutors, some of, them to resign and withdraw from the case. president trump even congratulated former attorney general barr for interfering. that is what political intervention looks like. we know it on this committee. paul manafort who worked to elect a pro-kremlin president in ukraine. was convicted in 2018 of bank and tax fraud. ultimately pleading guilty against the united states. obstructing justice. president trump deemed it, quote, a very sad day for our country. in terms of sweetheart deals, and december of 2020, at the end of his term, president trump granted full pardon to his clo

but, by and large, that has to be run by the department of justice, the investigative body free of any influence from the white house. >> you've said you would not pardon former president donald trump in the justice department's investigation into his handling of classified records. do you stand behind that statement? and could you explain your thinking on why you would not consider a pardon for the former president? >> first of all, as a candidate for president, i'll never consider a pardon for anyone. and i'm talking about in my public statements. it's wrong. you're running as a candidate, and you don't bargain pardons, and you don't dangle them out aree there for voters or votes. and so i have great respect for the pardon power. i utilized that as governor of arkansas, and i accomplished with it mercy in some cases, justice in other cases and giving people a fresh start in other instances. and i have some guidelines that i followed. and so it's not that never will it ever be considered because you don't know the outcome of the case in court. but but if you start dangling or promisin

allegedly violating the freedom of back entrance the face act this is what the abortionist of the department of justicere using to go after pro-lifers the show of force was ordered by the department of justice despite his lawyer informing federal authorities will surrender voluntarily. he was charger to federal counsel violating the face act for allegedly pushing a poor abortion activist in front of an abortion clinic after the activist had shelved the 12-year-old son. brightest department of justice deliberately distorted the law in order to persecute threatening to land him with up to 11 years in prison he was acquitted on all accounts quickly by a jury in philadelphia under christopher wray. do you want to hear more i have more october 4, 2021 christopher dray director of the fbi infamous memo from the attorney general of the united states targeting parents in the fbi with national intelligence with the criminal division in all the u.s. attorney offices he says i am directing the fbi working with each u.s. attorney to convene meetings with federal, state, tribal and territorial leaders in each feder

this case was handled independently as all of you know by the justice department under the leadership of a prosecutor appointed by the former president trump. so for anything further as you know, she says, we have been very consistent from here, and referring you to the department of justice and to hunter's representatives who is his legal team, obviously who can address any of your questions. p so that was her preface to taking questions. if we could have our team alert us when we can get to the white house. but griff, a quick comment on that as we do await possibly his legal team to speak outside the courthouse in a moment. >> well, and i think that questions, sandra, will continue to be asked of the administration namely because i just watched for more than an hour, judge noreika questioning the prosecution, sandra, specifically going over portions of it, wherein, she said if i understand the way i'm reading this, you are asking me, the court to decide whether or not charges would be brought if the deal was breached, and that's not my job as a judge, it's the prosecution's job. so

of justice -- standard of justice, to end weaponization of these agencies. we're going to have a new fbi director on day one, big changes at the department of justice. he political spectrum need to have confidence that what is going on is based on the rule of law, not based on what political tribe you're in. if i'm the nominee, or we'll be able to focus on president biden's failures, and i'll be able to articulate a positive vision for the future. elizabeth: what do you think, jason? >> amen to what governor desantis is saying. i think what ron desantis is saying resonates with people across the country. not just far-right republicans, maga republicans, conservatives, but i think that's what independents ultimately want as well. that's the way you win an election. you've got to go get the independents and democrats who are willing to leave their party, and what i think ron desantis -- and others -- are saying about donald trump is exactly right. they just want a single standard of justice. lady justice is supposed to be blindfolded, right now she's not. elizabeth: got it. jason chaffetz, always terrific. thanks for joining us. >> thanks, liz. elizabe

attorney general merrick garland in his department of justice, the senior officials all obama -ites, cal leftists. everyone of the whistleblowers has claimed they have been retaliated against. every single one in violation of federal law they have a whistleblower statute and no special counsel is appointed because attorney general garland is running in obstruction in a cover-up operation. which would be revealed if you appoint a special counsel 70 from outside the government. he has the right to go any place in the country in the world to hunt down leads which is exactly what garland does not want. merrick garland is a mob boss lawyer. that's what he is. the person he's protecting is not only his self as he is part of it. because joe biden is running for reelection. i like the way they say trump is running for president so he can pardon himself. joe biden is running for reelection so he doesn't get indicted the department of justice as you can and die a sitting president. joe biden knows that if he stops his immunity in this protection is president he would be facing multiple serious

attacking the department of justice. nd playing a quote double standard and committing a quote, miscarriage of justice. president trump also publicly attack to the department sentencing recommendation for mr. stone, leaving senior officials to overrule the federal prosecutors who had investigated and brought the case. this blatant political intervention, not complains at all by my republican colleagues at the time. it caused those prosecutors, some of, them to resign and withdraw from the case. president trump even congratulated former attorney general barr for interfering. that is what political intervention looks like. we know it on this committee. paul manafort who worked to elect a pro-kremlin president in ukraine. was convicted in 2018 of bank and tax fraud. ultimately pleading guilty against the united states. obstructing justice. president trump deemed it, quote, a very sad day for our country. in terms of sweetheart deals, and december of 2020, at the end of his term, president trump granted full pardon to his clo

of justice to the scales and obstructed justice. the departmented justice whether merrick garland or the united states attorney in the district or somebody else that's what happened now we have a separate investigation, how far that leads to merrick garland it does require impeachment. i have articles of impeachment drafted for merrick garland for other issues regarding weaponize d.o.j. again spirits. but that being said this "other langford impeachments enter impeachment not only for the department of justice but joe biden. maria: thank you for being here scott. joining us. were getting started in the extraordinary story continues. president biden touting his bidenomics plan in the american people are not on board. we are talking about that. actor antonio salvador junior is here we'll talk about that impact of the hollywood strike. you are watching bernice and maria live on fox business. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ (man) what if my type 2 diabetes takes over? (woman) what if all i do isn't enough? or what if i can do diabetes differently? (avo) now

we're seeing it over and over again where there is a disparity of treatment within the department of justice chairman james comer of the oversight committee has called what he's seeing with hunter biden and joe biden, the biden family organized crime. do you think it rises to that level? is that what you're seeing? is that fair for him to suggest that this is organized crime? >> more than fair. again, what product or service was provided by biden inc. for the somewhere between $10-40 million the family members have received from, you know, from foreign entities, many of whom are our adversaries? and the problem, jason, is, you know, china's been engaged in a cold war with us for a long period of time, but now they seem to be preparing for kinetic conflict. so chinese nationals coming across our border, spy craft going over our military sites, chinese expanding their influence in cuba, you know, all in the event, the eventuality if they attack taiwan if the u.s. is in a position to defend taiwan, china wants to be in a position to address the united states with assets within our homeland, in

with that we know that you have not formally had any corresponded with the department of justice. what about informal? >> i have not been -- but there are lawyers who worked on our committee, who all have to pay special tribute to, they did one heck of a job. they worked night, days, weekend, they had no holidays. they did the work necessary to demonstrate how close we came to losing this democracy. but as in florida, simone, no one has come forward to question the work of the committee. they tried to say that it was a witch hunt. but you can't which hunt with people you hired to work for you, who came forward under oath and told the truth. -- >> let's talk about that, congressman. i'm sorry to cut you off but i think that you're making a good point. we all remember the hearings. but from what we know so far about the special counsel's investigation, it seems like he is focusing on the effort to overturn the election overall, and not necessarily the capitol attack. i think the committee made a wholesome case that the two are connected. so will you be satisfied if none of the charge

they're doing exactly what the department of justice should do. nbiased prosecutors should do. they're going to lay before him text messages, e-mails, hopefully recordings, other kind of information and ask him to confirm it. wire transfers, things like that, that's clearly, clearly going to implicate the bidens, the president, and his son, in what i believe is a clear-cut conspiracy. i prosecuted and super sized th- super sized the prosecution of -- super viced the prosecution of similar cases on much less evidence. this case should go forward. cheryl: that explains why the doors are closed today, it's not public testimony. that would actually make sense what you're saying. i want to ask about hunter biden's plea deal, it fell apart last week. the judge took issue after confirming the first son is under federal investigation for possible violations of acting as a foreign agent. he was ordered to look for a job, not possess weapons, not use drugs or alcohol. a lot of criticism about -- first off, two car suv escort. what did you make of the judge's

and right now they don't trust the department of justice. department of justice yourself? >> if i become president, the first thing we're going to do is we're going to make sure we clean up any -- we'll clean it up from the top and all of senior management. they have weaponized and put politics in the department of justice over years. >> you've said in the past, though, you would be inclined to pardon donald trump. that assumes he'll be convicted, that assumes he had something to hide here. has your position changed? would you still pardon him? >> well, what i've said is if he is found guilty, that is certainly showing that it was dangerous to our national security, but i'll take you back to nixon and ford. i think that one of the things we have to look at is not what's in the best interest of the president, but what's in the best interest of the country. we have to move forward, we've got to quit living in the past. and i don't want there to be all this division over the fact that we have a president serving years in jail over a documents t

this is the first time i've ever heard of the department of justice doing anything on a saturday. o what is this letter? can you walk us through it? the government is apprising the court of the status of devon archer's appeal of his judgment of conviction, and they request that the court set a surrender date for the defendant to report to a facility. please walk us through what this letter says. >> right. yeah. the letter prosecute department of justice is trying to nudge the judge to go ahead and sentence devon archer for something unrelated to what we're going to be talking to him about tomorrow. it's odd that it was issued on a saturday, and it's odd that it's right before he's scheduled to come in to have an opportunity to speak in front of the house oversight committee and tell the american people the truth about what really went on with burisma. so, you know, i don't know if this is a coincidence, mafia, or this is -- maria, or this is another example of the weaponization of the department of justice. but i can tell you this, the lengths to which the biden legal team has gone

what is even more troubling to me is the department of justice has brought no charges against hunter biden that will vindicate the rights of these women who are clearly victims under the law. i would like to talk about in your prior testimony you stated they were investigating violations of the mann act is that correct mr. zigler? >> that is correct. regarding the mann act if a person isr transported across state lines for sexual activities such as prostitution, that could be a violation of a federal law is that correct? >> actually recently looked at the federallo law regarding mann act and i believe that is correct. i would referrr you to the d.o.. manual. >> thank you. i would like to present this to the committee. this is showing hunter biden paying for a victims united flight from l.a. to dulles. i believe this is a violation of the mann act this is hunter biden's proof he bought the ticket. he bought it for this woman right here. he flew her from los angeles to washington on june 14. flew her back to los angeles, california on june 15 of 2018. and i would like to point out that

the department of justice is blatant to move. sex trafficking should be no surprise to any of us whips. ministration is comfortable with promoting. she ration is calls the justice department to it. implicates the by the, essentially you're dealing with a, a, a board of 10, a few years. and so in water is a major way of 3 in the world. and so if, if the it's leading to increase human trafficking potentially under that look at it as well. it is basically been politicized in a way that the, the just to clear that the justice department doing that. i saw the, well, it's good time this friday morning. plenty is be just the the, the more we are told to keep us help it, but they can't keep us from aging right until the to 90. we ship and it will be able to have an opportunity to create as soon as they don't need to create phyllis and root control the minds of thousands of on the 6. we should look at the most efficient with the start. when you play the waiting for the level of corruption from the printer, no, they chased me on the municipal the c i a m k ultra is 1st on my done. and then in th

all of this indicates the department of justice is wrapping up what has been a long and sprawling investigation led by this man, jack smith, for the past eight months. we do not have any indication of what the exact charges are that smith is considering. and the ex president said himself, a target letter like this, quote, almost always means arrest and indictment are coming. that is exactly what happened just last month, when jack smith sent out another target later regarding the investigation into classified documents. just days after that letter became public, smith brought a 37 count indictment against the ex president, charging him with seven federal crimes. of course, and that was already the second indictment against trump this year, following the 34 counts of falsifying business records charged by this man, the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg in april. this indictment, the third against the ex president and if and when it comes will be by far the most consequential, while some people may argue the charges about donald trump's business practices in new york, for instance, don't re

the department of justice engaged in a campaign to delay, divulge, and deny that investigation. they delayed investigators for years, leading to the expiration of the statute of limitations for many of the crimes involved. they divulged key investigative details to bidens attorney is and even the president's transition team. and they denied investigators the ability to authenticate evidence, serve warrants, question witnesses, and bring charges. this led to hunter biden sweetheart agreement announced five years after the investigation started. but mere days before my committee voted to publicly release this testimony. would americans in my congressional district or any others, ever receive the same treatment? after raising their concerns internally at the irs, these whistle-blowers were discouraged and demoralized and turned it to congress as a last resort. they bravely reported wrongdoing to us. and what have president biden's allies, including hunter biden's lawyers done? they responded with a vicious -- a vicious smear campaign to discredit these whistle-blowers and discourage

department of justice if statute of limitations hasn't passed can go over him. she then said to the prosecutors, is there any precedent in the department of justice for doing something like this with both of the version program with the gun, when she said was unheard of. i never heard of it. it's one of the things i talked about >> how can a guy plea guilty to a gun charge when he hasn't been charged with a gun charge? they didn't have answers to any of this. now this started, dana, last night right before the plea. there was someone who called to strike testimony of the whistleblowers, it happened i believe on tuesday or monday of this week, from the transcript. the judge tracked the phone call. the judge found out that it was traced back to someone connected to hunter biden's lawyers. the judge found that out. when the judge walked into the courtroom, she had a bad taste in her mouth from the beginning when they tried to strike the testimony of the whistleblowers. at the end, the doj couldn't offer this deal and say with a wink and nod, it's under investigation

they gave countless examples whereby the department of justice, biden's department of justice delayedlayed a lot of the investigations. they divulged a lot of information like to the transition team, to hunter biden's lawyers before they were going to issue a search warrant in the northern virginia storage unit. and then there's numerous examples where they denied prosecution. what's interesting these people always try to bring up is the fact that, you know, the tax years of 2014, 2015, 2016 is when joe biden was vice president. and they are like well, why wasn't there charges brought by trump? they were still gathering the information. but the statute of limitations ran under president biden for the tax years of 2014 and '15 which were some of the most horrendous crimes according to the investigators. >> laura: the chinese bank was sending millions -- the energy bank was sending millions of dollars and congressman donalds, ziegler, the whistleblower, who revealed himself today, was describing the intimidation that not just he but other agents experience dollars in this investigation.

that's for are traditional law enforcement agencies underneath the department of justice, underneath nt of homeland security. but what most people don't even know and we didn't know it before we found it in our, on our oversight investigation, was that the epa has also spent over $700 million on their criminal law enforcement division, and they have the epa's version of homeland security. so it's mission creep. homeland security at the epa was founded after 9/11, you know, to defend critical infrastructure like water supply in the united states against terrorists, but now it's involved in pandemics, it's involved in cyber attacks and natural disasters. maria: this is incredible. no wonder the republicans are trying to get the appropriations process to hold back some money. let's talk a bit about what they're doing and where this money came from. this is $100 billion of new money that's been siphoned into these agencies. it's not just the epa. the irs is also arming it agents with guns and spending money on am education in. ammunition. tell me what heir doing with that money and where

this political neutrality and reputational capital of the institution that he's running, the department of justice, garland, in the lack of oh invest to open an investigation for the top down didn't, until the department of justice was forced to. when trump declared his run for presidency, when he became officially a candidate, he forced garland's hand to appoint a special counsel, and the special counsel, jack smith, as i said, as moved with incredible speed and aggressiveness. but here we are now. it's july 2023. we now face the situation. the former president who tried to overthrow the american constitutional order and sick a violent mob mob on the capital on live television, is the current front runner for the republican nomination. he could be indicted for his attempts to and the constitutional republic. we don't know but possibly as soon as the summer. and subsequent to that indictment for the crime of attempting to end america's constitutional experiment, he could conceivably run the clock out and not face trial for what would be the grave is putting colin call crime since the civil war. an

very hindered by doing their jobs by the department of justice did today. as mr. shapley put it, quote, at every stage citizens remain to benefit the subject of this investigation. and quote. as hunter biden in my extension, joe biden. these men are not political people. they're hardworking agents, the last thing you want to do is -- i'm not gonna stick to, i'll stick to confirming the most egregious examples of prosecutorial misconduct in the doj. leave it up to the american people to draw their own conclusions. mr. shapley, under u.s. stacks law, taxes owed on all income received from legal service sources, right? >> yes. >> hypothetically, if a person subject to u.s. taxes receives 1 million dollars for serving oil company, those taxes on that 1 million, and what is 38%? correct? >> through u.s. taxpayers, yes. >> to declare the receipt of such income violate u.s. tax bill, correct? >> yes, it would. >> to paying the tax own in a timely -- violates the tax, code correct? >> yes, it does. >> and the tax code has criminal and civil penalties for violations, correc