and fbi. there's absolutely a rolea for congress looking at pfizer for one, the abuses of the unmasking for another raid the abuses of the indirect targeting which after the ciaes and i do other than fbi congress cannot legislate solutions to progress it seems as though those abuses become more acute the greater havoc geographic proximity to washington d.c. but would seems we don't see these abuses with thee brave fbi agents like ms. parker who i'm very grateful serve my fellow floridians in the mammy field office. ms. parker, if we got the decision-making out of washington d.c. into the hands of our field offices where we have so many patriotic and brave fbi officials, do you think will beto able to escape this politil capture that quite literally drove you out of the bureau? >> think that simply critical at this point in our american history. what i mentioned in the opening statement thereto fbi's, we in the fbi see it as the field offices, the standard rank and file are typically the agency

this was not the fbi responding to criticism of the fbi. it was generally policing this thing called this information. eventually, they tagged things like jokes. just a ridiculous scope of information that they believed could be removed. and then third, what we have here in these -- in terms of what the government is doing -- is what we've seen before. even if you assume this does not create an agency relationship, it's wrong. it's wrong for the government to be in the business of silencing citizens. it is wrong. we saw during the mccarthy period, where the government was behind the blacklisting of individuals. we said it was wrong. it was wrong then, it's wrong now. we have to have that debate. it has to move somewhere beyond our normal partisan divisions. stephenson said that when there is a loss of faith in the government, we lose everything. i hope that, senator stevenson's words resonate with members of this committee. -- i thank you again for allowing me to appear. i look forward to working with members on both sides to look at this i

the fbi. it was generally pleasing this thing called this information and eventually they tagged things like jokes, tag of ridiculous scope of information that they believed could be removed. and then third, what we have here in terms of what the government is doing is what we seen before. even if you assume that this is a great and agency relationship, it's wrong. it's wrong for the government to be in the business of silencing citizens hereg it's wrong. we sought during the mccarthy period where the government was behind the blacklisting of individuals. we said it was wrong, it was wrong then, it's wrong now. we have to have that debate and it has to move somewhere beyond our normal partisan divisions. adlai stevenson said that when there's a loss of faith in government we lose everything. i hope that senator stephen since words resonate with most of this committee. we have everything at stake. when you have the government involved through censorship. and so i you again for allowing me to ap

this is just the fbi. americans have concerns about the double standard that the department of justice -- american some concerns about the disinformation governance that the department of homeland security tried to form. americans have concerns about the atf and what they are doing to the second amendment. of course, they have concerns about the irs and the thousands of new agents who are coming to that organization. finally, there are concerns about what we have learned in the twitter files. big government and big tech colluded to shape and mold the narrative and suppress information and censor americans. over the course of our work on this committee, we expect to hear from government officials and experts like we have here today. we expect to hear from americans who have been targeted by their government. we expect to hear from people in the media. we expect to hear from the fbi agents who have come forward as whistleblowers. we think many of them will step in for transcribed interviews as wounded on tue

it cites the fbi. what is the determination by the fbi?> so, as you note, bret, the fbi has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in wuhan. let me step back for a second. you know, the fbi has folks, agents, professionals, analysts, virologists, microbiologists, et cetera, who focus specifically on the dangers of biological threats which include things like novel viruses like covid and the concerns that in the wrong hands some bad guys, a hostile nation state, a terrorist, a criminal, the threats that those could pose. so, here, you are talking about a potential leak from a chinese government controlled lab that killed millions of americans and that's precisely what that capability was designed for. i should add, that our work related to this continues and there is not a whole lot of details i can share that aren't classified. i will just make the observation that the chinese government seems to me has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here. the

, the full fbi and fbi agents in vitriolic terms. since in the fbi have observed an increase in violent threats posted on social media against federal officials and facilities including a threat to place a dirty bomb in front of fbi headquarters issuing general calls for civil war and armed rebellion. we have heard those calls before in this chamber august 11, lester person wearing a technical vest and armed with an ar style rifle and nail gun attempted to forcibly enter the fbi cincinnati field office when officers responded he fled the scene andd a pursuit followed. during a prolonged standoff with fbi the man fired multiple shots at ohio state highway patrol. mr. chairman the public is skeptical about this strange new venture with the strange new name that's being launched. so many members involved have done everything they can to block the generally sixth committee investigation of the worst violent attack on an american election and the american congress in our history. the public wonders whether members refuse to comply with co

it was the fbi.host: in 1999, 6 years later, former senator appointed as special counsel by janet reno. what was behind that decision? guest: it had come out that the fbi had not been candid about the fact on earlier occasions on the final day combustible military rows had been use to fire gas. when attorney general reno had been promised by the fbi that would not happen. there was a growing suspicion that these combustible rounds started the fire. they were fired around 6:00 a.m. in the fire did not start until noon. there is also the question of whether a couple of the atf agents involved, including chuck sarabyn had tried to alter documents showing why they had done what they did. there are the suspicions and so senator danford was tasked going in and investigate. he did but it is also true he made preliminary statements before the investigation was complete -- concluded that the fbi was not at fault for anything. a lot of people got the sense that this was a government cover up which is more cons

the fbi because he was being investigated by the fbi. that is what this subcommittee is all about. i yield back. >> i thank the gentleman for yielding back. i disagree with his conclusion. i would recognize the gentleman from north dakota, mr. armstrong. >> thank you, mister chair. shouting fire in a crowded theater was -- it was overruled in 1969 -- incredible -- if we will continue to use it in the setting, whether it is the twitter hearing yesterday or the hearing today, let's get the law right. secondly, as somebody who spent ten years, the first ten years of my life defending criminal cases in both state and federal court, i think the genesis of the garland memo is incredibly important. the point of the coordination between the doj, the department of education, and the national school board association was designed to create a federal nexus. local school board incidents are prosecuted locally. we elect local sheriffs, we elect local prosecutors, we elect local judges. only by fabricating a domestic terrorism nexus do you create a po

some of the fbi's actions have been cared -- been compared to the fbi's covert cointelpro program, whichivil rights movement and other activists movements in the 1950's and in a moment, 1960's. zebbodios hall will join us from denver. we will also be joined by former fbi agent mike german, who now works at the brennan center. but first, let's turn to trever aaronson, who created the "alphabet boys" podcast. trevor is an award-winning investigative journalist. he is a contributing writer for the intercept. he is author of the book "the terror factory: inside the fbi's manufactured war on terrorism." i mean, this is an astounding podcast series, trevor. you have got the undercover recordings of, for example, the black activist speaking to this man mickey windecker, who would travel around in a silver hearse . first, if you can tell us where you got these recordings if you can, but lay out the story for us. >> sure. i can't talk about sourcing the recordings or the record but what i can say what is significant about this show it is the first behind the scenes look at how the fbi infiltrated

april 26, 2022, another fbi whistle-blower discloses that the fbi employees are being run out of the bureau for attending conservative political events. september 14, 2022, an fbi whistle-blower discloses that the fbi used the betsy ross flag as a terrorist symbol. september 19th, 2022, another fbi whistle-blower discloses that the washington field office is deliberately manipulating january 6 case files to make it appear that domestic violence extremism is on the rise. november 4, 2022, another fbi whistle-blower discloses the fbi accepts private user information from facebook, without the user's consent and information is from only the conservative side of the political spectrum. this is only a sailing. >> sean: on top of that, high ranking officials at the fbi put their thumbs on the scale in the past two presidential elections. remember, let's go back to 2016. they smeared donald trump. then the fisa warrants, the fisa applications. they spied on his campaign, his transition team and yes, when he was in the white house as your. . they did it by using a fisa warrant that was full

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this is a recently retired high-ranking fbi official, one of what we expect to be dozens of fbi agentsnd officials tha will be whistleblowers and thes investigations, correct? >> that is correct fraid this i a man who served and finished his career as a senior supervising intelligence agent, he has been serving his country for decades and he is doing it one more time in retirement he came forward and a transcribed interview and laid out what he witnessed in the boston bureau of the fbi. the boston bureau had to resist enormous pressure. because they wanted to open up case of 140 people without evidence of any crime. they did was either use their bank card somewhere in washington in the timeframe of january 6 or take a bus ride down to the washington, d.c. area and that timeframe. the fbi said that is not a reason to open up a case in the washington field office kept saying will go to your phosphat to the credit of the fbi they resisted and refused to open up these cases. >> i'm having a bit of a hard time hearing you, just push you mic up if you can little bit so we can hear you more c

so that -- >> while he was at the fbi. >> while he was at the fbi.e at the fbi where it's filled with honest hardworking people, this is the worst thing ever. just imagine anybody in a workplace where you find out somebody you trust did something -- >> and someone high up, too. this isn't just some low level agent, as you were saying to me before the segment began. >> incredibly high up. to be a special agent in charge in new york is one of the preeminent positions and the kind of work he was doing gave him access to everything. so one of the reasons i think there are two indictments not one is it's sort of like playing russian roulette with two bullets, not one bullet. i mean, this puts a ton of pressure on him to plead guilty and cooperate, exactly. because if you're at the fbi you absolutely want to know what information did you pass onto albanians, russians, anyone. i mean that is -- that has got to be the main focus of, you know, chris wray, lisa monica. >> as of right now just to be clear because we didn't talk about the albanian indictment in

we come not to trash the fbi, i but to rescue the fbi. from political capture. seems and it seems as though that political capture was really enhanced when robert mueller and took a lot of the authority awa and power away from the field offices all over our country and centralized that power. it seems we don't see these abuses with the brave fbi gr agents like miss parker, who i'm very grateful served my fellow floridians the miamid field office. miss parker, i got, if the decision making more out ofo washington, d.c. and into the hands of our field, officest where we havice so many patriot and brave fbi officials, you think we'd be able to escape this political capture that quite literally drove you out of the bureau? i think that's absolutely critical.f e bureau. >> that's critical. it seems as though that politics isn't out in the field offices. it's here in washingtos here n, d.c. and that's precisely what we pri ought to deconstruct legislatively. >> wha here now with more, chain of the house judiciary committee, jim jordansman and florida congressman mac g

set up a channel between twitter and the fbi, who did not from the fbi? >> he was part of the. >> so you set up a war room, as well, right? >> i believe the fbi operated -- >> you participated in that. he did not? did twitter participate? >> i believe twitter may have. >> fair enough. he did the tabletop exercise about hundred biden and leak about hundred biden that would, right before the election essentially ten days in september right before the election and you participated in that, right? i did. >> who facilitated that i know the aspen institute but who facilitated the exercise proper? was anybody from the government agency facilitating any part of the? were they involved in the discussion during the exercise? >> i don't believe so. >> they were just spectators? >> i wasn't aware they were spectators either but i don't recall exactly who was there. >> i know you don't recall who was there, who facilitated it? do you recall? >> facilitated by garrett graff, a member of the aspen institute. >> do you find odd after the fact and i know you've already te

former fbi agent thomas baker said, things got really bad at the fbi after 9/11, when the fbi's mission emphasis on intelligence gathering, which is precisely one of the reasons the fbi pays so much attention to internet activity since 9/11. today was the kind of day that will no doubt recur from time to time. when the nation owes a huge debt of gratitude to the wisdom of the voters of brooklyn in and the lower east side of manhattan for delivering dan goldman to the congress and to democratic leader hakeem jeffries for appointing dan goldman to this committee. >> mr. baker, i want to turn to you. when did you retire from the fbi? >> i retired from fbi employment in about 20 years ago. >> 1999, right? it's a year. >> and i've continued to be engaged with the fbi in a number of levels since then. >> okay, so you retired two years before 9/11, right? >> that's correct. >> and are you aware that one of the reasons that 9/11 occurred with that the fbi and the intelligence community did not coordinate sufficiently? do you agree with that? >> that's the conclusion of the september 11th commis

>> why he was at the fbi.u are the fbi, where it's filled with honest hardworking people, this is the worst thing ever. to imagine anyone in a workplace where you find out somebody you trust did something. >> and someone high up, as well. not just some low-level agent, as you are saying to me before. >> incredibly high up. to be a special agent in charge new york is one of the preeminent positions. and then to be in the kind of work he was doing gave him access to everything. so one of the reasons i think that there are two indictments, not one, it's sort of like playing russian roulette with two bullets, not one. it puts a ton of pressure on him to cooperate. so if you are the fbi, you absolutely want to know what information did you pass on to albanian,'s russians, anyone? that is, that has got to be the main focus of chris, ray lisa monaco, merrick garland. >> as of right now, just to be clear, because we didn't talk about the albanian argument in the script. but that happened when he was in the fbi. from w

set up a channel between twitter and the fbi, who did not from the fbi? >> he was part of the. >> so you set up a war room, as well, right? >> i believe the fbi operated -- >> you participated in that. he did not? did twitter participate? >> i believe twitter may have. >> fair enough. he did the tabletop exercise about hundred biden and leak about hundred biden that would, right before the election essentially ten days in september right before the election and you participated in that, right? i did. >> who facilitated that i know the aspen institute but who facilitated the exercise proper? was anybody from the government agency facilitating any part of the? were they involved in the discussion during the exercise? >> i don't believe so. >> they were just spectators? >> i wasn't aware they were spectators either but i don't recall exactly who was there. >> i know you don't recall who was there, who facilitated it? do you recall? >> facilitated by garrett graff, a member of the aspen institute. >> do you find odd after the fact and i know you've already te

the fbi and police have yet to name a suspect. this is "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. remembering the councilwoman as a loving mother committed to serving others. >> what drew her to community engagement in sayreville was wanting to help people. everyone is grieveing and mourning this loss of life, senseless loss of life. >> ashley: marianne has more from the service, good morning. >> marianne: police are still on the hunt for the killer after the councilwoman was found gunned down in her car. eunice dwumfour was remembered as the first african american to hold office in her burrough. >> eunice dwumfour saw our community and saw her residents. we can all learn from her, her love of family and loyalty to her oath of office, she taught me to have faith in the process. and that is a gift that i don't think i can ever repay. >> marianne: surveillance footage shows a suspect running, the figure is seen running shortly after a 911 call was made after residents reported hear

set up a channel between twitter and the fbi, who did not from the fbi? >> he was part of the. >> so you set up a war room, as well, right? >> i believe the fbi operated -- >> you participated in that. he did not? did twitter participate? >> i believe twitter may have. >> fair enough. he did the tabletop exercise about hundred biden and leak about hundred biden that would, right before the election essentially ten days in september right before the election and you participated in that, right? i did. >> who facilitated that i know the aspen institute but who facilitated the exercise proper? was anybody from the government agency facilitating any part of the? were they involved in the discussion during the exercise? >> i don't believe so. >> they were just spectators? >> i wasn't aware they were spectators either but i don't recall exactly who was there. >> i know you don't recall who was there, who facilitated it? do you recall? >> facilitated by garrett graff, a member of the aspen institute. >> do you find odd after the fact and i know you've already te

for me at the fbi i also put obligations to protect fbi files of someone is still alive. i have an obligation to protect and not disclose a number of our human sources who might not be classified. but are still peoples whose identities the fbi protects. and so when i tell a story i can't always put all the details. that doesn't mean i can't tell a truthful complete story. depending on what we talk about there's more than enough to do the job about as humanly completely as you can. there are most things. the balance comes simply and knowing you have certain obligations under the law. we also have an obligation to tell the truth. and explain as completely as you understand what actually happened hopefully he do that pretty well. the bureaus willing to pay me for a good long time. they seem to be okay with me doing it. obviously redaction's are frustrating when your work with historical documents pressure said there is a story they're usually pretty don't always need all the details. what you do is try to negotiate we don't need this we don't need that but we need the story.

it's and pieces of the fbi's records ended up in public. but of course, it wasn't until the mid 1960s, early 1970s when a combination of government leaks, things like the break-in of the fbi's resident agency in pennsylvania that led to the exposure, among other things, of a program called cointelpro that everyone's heard the word. very few know what it is. this thing started command of the public. of course, it was on the mix of the watergate era to. in which case the use of the government reigns of power by the president, the president administration, the use and misuse of the intelligence committee by president nixon would of course to a sea change in washington politics. and a flourishing of exposure of what many government agencies, my bureau, we're up to in those days. the church committee of course it exposed a lot of this to the public. was at the same time as the freedom of information act was also bolstered, basically, so the fbi can say that investigative records are not able to be exposed to the public. so, all of a sudden, the

the fbi. facts here, the public source data, and i can tell you that there's a high potential, it's enough to open up an investigation and go the a grand jury at least, based on the attorney general guidelines that we operate under. elizabeth: now we've got house oversight chair james comer demanding hay deliver classified and unclassified documents, e-mails and more. it's pretty extensive what they're asking for, not sure they're going to turn it over. hunter biden's lawyers are fighting it. what do you make of that? >> again, another fight over documents. they shouldn't be fighting over classified documents because they shouldn't have them in the first place. none of this information is privileged if it's in the hands of hunter biden. it's already, you know, a lot of it's already on his lap op, the they're just trying to corroborate things they've already found that, you know, that are in evidence. they were given a reseat, the computer repairman was given a receipt that the had an fbi money

fbi files of somebody who's still alive. i have an obligation to protect and not disclose a number of our human sources who, you know, might not be classified, but are still people whose identities the fbi protects. and so when i tell a story, i can't always put all the details in it. but that doesn't mean i can't tell aut truthful, complete sto. you know, i put a lot of content up on fbi.gov. and the nice thing is at this point depending on what i'm talking about, there's more than enough to do the job as humanly completelybo as you can out thee on most things. and so the balance comes simply in knowing that you do have certain obligations under the law, but you also have an obligation to tell tell the truth and explain it completely as you understand what actually happened. frustrating when your work with historical documents pressure said there is a story they're usually pretty don't always need all the details. what you do is try to negotiate we don't need this we don't need that but we need the story. it's finding the o

enouknowme, on thiet s fbi store cannot say this enough thatt the leadership of the fbi working with big tech directlyh directly interfered in interfered in the twenty twenty election. there are independent analyzes. seanthere , that suggests thatpf the censorship of the joe biden laptop story cost donald trump millions of votes all across the country. tes across the country that is the election integrity issue that we should be focusing on . and the fact that we're not shows that so many democratsmany don't actually care aboutut our our so-called democratic institutions. dej.d., don't let that swamp bet you up. that changes a lot of people. i've been doing this a long time. i've seen the change. don't len't t happen to you. you're doing great so far . all right. j.d. vance, thanks for being with us.. straight straight ahead, marjorie t taylor greene called out biden's liesayloed out at last s state of the union. the left didn't really like itmu too much. chit's getting interesting. >> straight ahead, she'll join us . >> this is haratin debris where nail fungus grows nugenix, nails g

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what happens at the fbi? >> i'm not here to defend the fbi. hoover, the infiltration of the black panthers is leerily of opening up enterprise investigations. it touches on the first amendment. so i think they err on the side of the first amendment, certainly when they're not getting information about criminal activity. and clearly that played a role in what they did or didn't do. despite there being indicators that the oath keepers, for instance, had evolved into something more than an anti-government group, they had a rapid reaction force with guns in virginia, they attacked the -- the storm clouds were brewing but nobody recognized that. >> that explains why nothing goes into place after trump calls them. your colleagues have reported on trump's december 19th tweet where he goes, we know now from your colleagues that he leaves a meeting where he wants to overturn joe biden's victory and in sort of a fit of -- a peak at the pillow guy and the overstock guy and everyone he has working on the coup, he sends out the tweet, come to washington, i

isaac turned this over to the fbi immediately when the fbi came for it, too. he was being a good citizen in comparison to hunter biden. liz: they are asking the delaware attorney general who worked under beau biden when he was attorney general there. >> help me understand. i think that if people are being honest, not many people don't have a window into the disease of addiction which aflicked hunter biden at various points in his life. most people understand, the president's kids are not the path and haven't stepped into the arena. what is the political magic key? liz: senate homeland security released fears of extortion with hunter biden using secret service assets, air force 2, setting up deals and influence peddling. nbc reporting on the laptop last spring. that hunter's firm earned $11 million on the deal making. the fbi former assistant director for counter-intelligence saying this is a national security risk. so why isn't msnbc reporting on the story? >> they are basically the front for joe biden and the democratic party. you and i both know if donald tr

baker, you said y you think it talk with the fbi that day, did you talk with fbi about hunter biden laptop then or prior. >> i'm trying to make sure i can answer this consistent with restriction. >> a simple question, did you talk to fbi about hunter biden story. >> to the best of my r recollection, i did not talk to fbi about height high hunter biden story before that day. >> after. >> your response is real specific, i did not to fbi on that day, i want know if you talked to them before or after. >> i i can't recall speaking to the fbi about the hunter biden matter. >> why did you answer the way you did? >> -- mr. dorsey testified before congress, twitter changed policy within 24 hours. and admitted its initial action was wrong, twitter should have reinstated the post account. elizabeth: what do you think? >> i think that is a great display of jim jordan when he does best, the questioning in hearings, and a lawyer with real lawyers but not answering much of the question. i like that jordan is drill down on the r real issue, that was government role in persuading the companies to take down

the fbi won't do it border patrol and i.c.e. will.ds to be reorganized with a look at its various missions. history of civil liberties violations, goes back decades. and right now, it is taking place as well. fbi pro should be prohibited from investigating electoral challenges, like they are now. concocting laws, taking laws that are 100 years old. they are investigating republican state legislatures and republican state legislators, taking cell phones away from republican members of congress, violating attorney-client privilege of 7 attorneys who are targeted. we cannot allowance fbi and department of justice politicized on behalf of the democrat party to get involved in challenges to elections, elections can be ugly, challenges can be ugly. this is a purely political process, in the end congress makes final determination, not grand juries controlled by democrats, this needs to be an area where fbi, department of justice, u.s. attorneys cannot go. the attorney general. should be think subjected to removal by no confidence vote of con

>> so this is the first time that we know that fbi is there.ut we know from the series of statements we've been receiving over the course of the past month from the president's personal attorney and separately from the white house counsel is that after the discovery of those initial documents in early november at the penn biden center, there were searches undertaken by the president's own lawyers of all the additional locations, his wilmington home and his rehoboth beach home. i think what is also potentially interesting, jose, this is both an unexpected but a none theless important development. it stood to reason that fbi investigators would want to search the president's rehoboth beach home. now we enter the territory of what additional locations might they be interested in searching that are connected to the president, penn biden center in downtown washington was one obviously e location, of course, his home in wilmington another. might there be additional locations? we know, for instance, that part of what the fbi investigators took that th

the premise is the fbi is tented. the fbi is doing dirty work. its got the hob nail boot of government on the necks of the american people that are trying to express themselves. mr. williams. you think the insurrectionists, thousands of them that came here, many armed that led to five deaths and the storming of the capitol tried to prevent the constitutional certification of the counting of the ballots for the president of the united states on january 6, 2021? you think that was nothing more than patriots that got carried about way and expressing their first amendment rights and the fbi shouldn't be looking at it and shouldn't be prosecuting people for it? >> certainly, sir, i believe 1,000 or almost 1,000 people have be charged in crimes with that day. several people have now been convicted by jurors and also with findings that were affirmed by federal judges of seditious conspiracy, using force or threats to impede or delay the execution of laws of the evidence. >> so i guess i hear you saying we need to make -- >> martha: you can hear in congr

legend is on the fbi special agent for 33 years and am so u.s. law enforcement and agent civic western europe and much of african is one of the first fbi agents on the scene, president ronald reagan was shot in suite have you on tom, and personal schedule reaction the biden's justice department is going after you know, house gop and they want subpoenas in the house gop come the judiciary was his opinion of the fbi officials for using counterterrorism and criminal lessons to target the school board parents has domestic terrorist house do in the fbi said this is premature but tom, doj stumbled two years of this and we make of all of the. tom: well, as our friend and he entered andrew mccarthy since kind of ironic it, the fbi and the never already wake negotiating one of their subpoenas that i think that the cause of action is for the bureau in the department to cooperate to legitimate congressional committee looking some very important issues. liz: some talk of what is your sense closer today because you reports setting up its own rapid response te

it cites the fbi. what is the determination by the fbi?you note, bret, the fbi has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in wuhan. let me step back for a second. the fbi has folks, agents, professionals, analysts, virologists, micro biologists, et cetera that focus on the dangers of biological threats which include novel viruses like covid and the concerns that -- in the wrong hands, some bad guys, hostile nations, a terrorist, criminal, the threats that that could pose. you're talking about a potential leak from a chinese government controlled lab that killed millions of americans. that's precisely what that capability was designed for. i should add that our work related to this continues. there's not a lot of details that i can share that aren't classified. i will just make the observation that the chinese government seems to be last been doing its best to try to thwart an obfuscate the work here, the work that we're doing, the work that our u.s. government and close fo

it was the fbi. 6 years later, former senator appointed as special counsel by janet reno. what was behind that decision? guest: it had come out that the fbi had not been candid about the fact on earlier occasions on the final day combustible military rows had been use to fire gas. when attorney general reno had been promised by the fbi that would not happen. there was a growing suspicion that these combustible rounds started the fire. they were fired around 6:00 a.m. in the fire did not start until noon. there is also the question of whether a couple of the atf agents involved, including chuck sarabyn had tried to alter documents showing why they had done what they did. there are the suspicions and so senator danford was tasked going in and investigate. he did but it is also true he made preliminary statements before the investigation was complete -- concluded that the fbi was not at fault for anything. a lot of people got the sense that this was a government cover up which is more conspiracy. by 199

, the fbi was trying to stay quiet.at johnson said. >> as the fbi left his shop with the laptop, mr. mac isaac recalled one agent saying "it is our experience that nothing ever happens to people that don't talk about these things." that statement was the opening salvo in a coordinated effort over the next ten months to sabotage any public revelation of hunter biden's laptop or any wrongdoing connected to the bidens. >> john: sounds like that that the fix was in. >> look, that was a pretty sinister statement as retold by john paul mac isaac. when he first told me that, i thought well, look, he's a bit paranoid, often whistleblowers get nervous and i'm sure that's not true. but over the ensuing couple of years we have seen whistleblower after whistleblower come forward from the fbi and talk about how the laptop, which john paul mac isaac handed to the fbi in 2019, buried, put aside so no one could investigate it. and how other witnesses, any other material derogatory to joe biden, that was also buried, including the testi

we 11 that fbi was using twitter to do what fbi could not do that was to suppress speech. about this if not for elon musk, buying the company and being transparent and leaking out of this out in the twitter files. we need to ensure that this never happens again and hold people accountable. thihad a big impact on presidential election, and huge impact on our investigation of biden family corruption because the laptop contains so much damaging information about the biden family and their business schemes, yet twitter began the narrative it was russia disinformation. we now know it wasn't and day which admitted as much. trey: you raise a good point. john ratcliffe was in a unique position to know what was russian disinformation and what was not. he told us it was not. and chris wray head of fbi also in a unique position. he knew it was not. i guess, my question for the fbi would be, when do you decide to speak up? when do you is not? i did not hear the fbi speak up and say, wait, this was not russian disinformation? >> right. they never have. i think that will be one of the a

baker you said you didn't talk with the fbi that day. did you talk to the fbi about the laptop story prior to that or after that date? >> i'm trying to make sure i can answer this question consistent with the restrictions that a talk to in my opening speedy simple question. did you talk to the fbi about the hunter biden store? >> to the best of my recollection i did not talk to the fbi about the hunter biden story before that day. >> did you talk to them after it? [inaudible] >> your sponsor you said i did a talk that day. ice in the date is october 14. i wanted to talk to them on the 13th or before or if you talk to them on the 15th and after. >> i don't recall speaking to the fbi sitting here today at illegal speaking to the fbi at all about the hunter biden matter. >> why did answer the way you did. >> as i beg your pardon? >> i i yield back. >> the chair recognizes ms. norton for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. like benghazi before, republicans are on a taxpayer-funded expedition to attack their political rivals, and they a

. >>> also today, the fbi searched president biden's summer home in rehoboth beach, delaware. this is the third known search of one of biden's properties, as part of the investigation into his handling of classified materials. we're told that no classified documents were found during today's search. the white house press secretary will take questions on all of this and more soon. >>> meantime, the president will meet with house speaker kevin mccarthy next hour over raising the national debt limit. republicans are demanding spending cuts, but the white house insists raising the debt ceiling is not about future spending. and let's begin in washington, d.c., where the federal reserve has just announced its latest decision on interest rates. economists predicted an eighth straight rate increase as the central bank tries to tamp down inflation without causing a recession. matt egan is inside the federal reserve. what's the decision? >> reporter: 25 basis points, the fed just delivered its eighth straight interest rate hike, lifting interest rates to the highest level since 2007, al