first off, to be clear -- new interviewees, the only other one who took notes was special agent gary shapley'sisor, and he has said that he has long since shredded those notes but his contemporaneous response to a special agent shapley -- you covered it all -- and lying it or misleading -- and anything -- definitely would have -- on the substance, there are two key points, i think, that are important. the first is that all the other -- that they were not familiar with the testimony that attorney general merrick garland gave before the senate appropriations committee five months before this meeting in question. because, and that hearing, garland was grilled by senator hagerty on whether biden's political appointees would be involved in weiss's approvals in -- and garland's number one response was they put the -- special agent gary shapley was very aware of that testimony going into the meeting and i think that helps to explain why others, for whom this meeting was a year ago, and not particularly significant to them, because cases had been declined in d.c. and california throughout, that is why

>> gary shapley, the irs whistle-blower testified before lawmakers saying that u.s.he hunter biden investigation said in october 2022 meeting among law enforcement officials that he didn't have the decisionmaking authority over whether to bring a case and that he as asked for and was denied special counsel status. now we're learning through transcripts of interviews that my colleagues annie grayer and jeremy read through that three top officials including the head of the fbi office overseeing this investigation, his deputy and gary shapley's former supervisor all provided testimony that is casting doubt on that. they're saying specific to shapely saying that he didn't have decisionmaking authority. saying if my recollection if he would have said that i would have remembered. shapely's lawyers have said unlike those officials, shapely has taken notes during the meeting he's provided the handwritten notes and he memorialized the meeting in an email to his supervisor so is standing by his recollection of the meeting. now, these officials don't dispute everything that sh

>> yeah, this is an interesting development, boris, gary shapley, the irs whistle-blower had testifieds saying he attended this october 2022 meeting with a bunch of law enforcement officials including david weiss. he said at this meeting, weiss said he didn't have the ultimate decisionmaking authority on whether or not to bring a case against hunter biden and asked for and denied status as special counsel. so now they've talked to a number of agents including the agent, conducting the investigation against hunter biden, his number two, and also gary shapley's former boss at the irs. these officials have testified they don't remember it the way shapley does. specifically, the fbi supervisor said in my recollection, if he would have said that, i would have remembered that, that's specifically talking about weiss saying he doesn't have decisionmaking authorities. those other officials saying they don't recall that coming up in meetings. shapley's lawyers say unlike the others, shapley took handwritten notes during the meeting and memorialized those notes in an email to the supervisor. the

attorney and now special counsel david weiss retaliated against whistleblower gary shapley., john, this lawsuit, as i mentioned, comes just days after hunter was indicted on three counts involving his purchase of a gun in 2018. may not be his only legal problem in a federal courtroom. weiss in a court filing announced that hunter could face tax charges, perhaps in california where he currently lives or washington, d.c. where he once lived before. we'll follow it, john? >> john: every day something new. david spunt for us from the doj. thank you. the white house is getting involved in the strike against detroit automakers, even if the parties involved do not want the interference. this comes as union leaders and company negotiators continue to talk. fox business correspondent grady trimble is in wayne michigan tonight. he has the upgrade for us. hi, grady. >> hi, john. the big three automakers and the united auto workers were back at the bargaining table today. by all accounts though, progress has been slow. at this ford plant, picketing workers have been blocking semi-trucks

in a statement through gary shapley's attorneys, he says quote, neither the ssa, irs, gary shapley nor his attorneys have ever released any confidential taxpayer information, except through whistleblowers authorized by statute. this is in many ways, an effort by the hunter biden legal team to go on the offensive and paint him in this situation as being a victim of a political process here as opposed to being given a fair legal acquitting by both the irs, the department of justice, and the united states congress. >> ryan noble, thank you very much. >>> and coming up next, four days into the uaw strike, what role is the white house playing in the negotiations between the auto workers union and the big three auto makers? >>> plus, house republicans release a bill to avert a government shutdown for another month. what's in it, and what chance if any does it have of passing the house or the senate? >>> and five american prisoners held in iran are now free, and they're on the way back to the united states. what we know about the prisoner swap. nsc coordinator for strategic communications joh

what they're alleging in this lawsuit is that those two irs agents turned whistleblower, gary shapleynd joe feoff ziegler, went beyond what is normally allowed for whistleblowers. they're alleging in multiple television interviews, including some on cnn, they said things that went beyond what is protected, specifically getting into the details of what was on hunter biden's tax returns. here is gary shapley during a cbs interview in july -- excuse me, in june -- that hunter biden's lawyers have focused on in this lawsuit. take a listen. >> there were personal expenses that were taken as business expenses, prostitutes, sex club memberships, hotel rooms for purported drug dealers. >> reporter: those are some of the details they say went beyond what is permissible, including saying hunter biden had more than $2 million in unpaid taxes and along with broader allegations about how agents allege they were impeded from taking certain steps as part of their investigation. i have a statement from gary shap lee's attorney in which he says, this suit against the irs is just another frivolous smea

the closed door sessions last week, you had multiple fbi agents and irs agents, colleagues of gary shapleye nature of the investigation, that david weiss never asked special counsel status in that conversation that was talked about in that committee hearing. clearly there were more questions than answers, i want everyone to come forward and i want as i said before, you know, hunter biden to be treated like anyone else that we see in america. >> gillian: to that point, david, this fourth official said to congress, this is a quote from the transcript as reported, that he disagreed with gary shapley's conclusion that all of this was some kind of a political hit job. he said, or the doj was, you know, protecting hunter biden in some way. here is the quote. he also "felt that shapley attempt to blame the roadblocks were unsubstantiated." >> kevin brings out more questions that need to be answered but some dots can easily be connected. one we do know, from the political side, the president will require this administration and campaign to defend hunter biden. this will continue to be an issue thr

now there is a number of fbi and former irs colleagues of gary shapley who are disputing at least hisvery key meeting back in october where a lot of this came to a head, erin. what shapley says is that david weiss, the now special counsel who's overseeing this, he admitted or said that he was not the final decider in this case, and that also that he had been blocked from bringing some of these charges. what these colleagues are saying is that they don't remember that exact interaction or certainly that's not the words they remember david weiss saying. they also came away from that meeting not believing that the investigation was being blocked. they seem to also be disputing that there is politicization involved in this investigation. now, what shapley's attorneys are saying is that he took contemporaneous notes during that meeting as opposed to some of his colleagues. so therefore his memory of it is more vivid, or certainly more accurate, at least according to their telling. but what's important here, erin, is that this is forming a lot of the evidence, or a lot of what republicans a

hamstrung by prosecutors assigned to the case constantly >> reporter: attorneys for whistleblower gary shapley calling the lawsuit a, quote, frivolous smear by biden family attorneys to intimidate any current and future whistleblowers biden was just indicted on three gun charges and faces the possibility of additional tax charges after the plea deal struck with prosecutors that would have allowed him to avoid prison time imploded under a judge's scrutiny and a spokesperson for the irs tells nbc news they do not comment on pending litigation lester >> all right, ryan, thank you. >>> tonight no resolution is in sight on day four of the strike against the big three automakers but the union and the companies are talking. chrysler owner stellantis says its discussions today with the uaw was constructive and the union called its weekend talks with ford reasonably productive >>> in 60 seconds, the sighting at disney world that triggered multiple closures. plus the state that's resuming abortion services what led to the change and what it could mean, next >>> planned parenthood resumed offering aborti

my name is gary shapley, i worked as a special agent for 14 years. i have recently become a senior leader in the organization, i supervise told agents of the financial crimes group. i have are the united states attorneys in multiple districts and have supervisor investigated cases across the country. i have executed undercover operations or search warrants for more than a dozen club trees i have investigated and managed some of the largest cases are covering more than 3.5 billion of the united its taxpayer. in this country we believe in the rule of law and the ice to everyone there should not be a to check justice system depending on who you are and who you are connected to. in this case there was. based on my experience, i am here to tell you that the delaware attorney's office and is handling the hunter biden tax investigation was different from any other case in my 14 years with the irs. at every stage decisions were made the benefit of the subject of this investigation. example prosecutors concealed contents of hunter biden's laptop from investig

. >> emily: neither irs or gary shapley released anything except whistl whistleblower.cuss public information, direct quotes from the attorneys. >> kayleigh: one democrats and one was apolitical, no motive whatsoever. lisa, fact of the general lack. interesting piece from peggy noon an. biden can't risk the power. only joe biden can remove joe biden. she makes an interesting point, he is weakest candidate on the democratic side of the aisle, but too stubbon to remove himself. >> lisa: i've been saying, stay in the race, i want to go against joe biden, the weakest candidate. they are also running out of time in the democratic primary. unless done at the conviction, they are running out of time. >> harris: nadler and others trying to get trump's name off and better concentrate on getting his name on a ballot. >> lisa: run, joe, run. >> kayleigh: you are getting a feel of hillary clinton. just when you think you have seen it all in the border crisis, a train packed with cheering migrants seems to go for miles heading north to the u.s. and did not get biden administration m

. >> lawrence: attorney levitt represents gary shapley.timidation? >> yeah. his mike pence is not up, hope it will get up. >> ainsley: turn up the volume. >> okay. >> steve: we hear you now. >> very frivolous lawsuit. what you see here is that hunter biden attorneys are accusing whistleblowers of releasing this information and they have legal authorize agz, that is who released this information. prior to that, whistleblowers did not share. this is public information and people can speak in whatever context. >> steve: this is a shot at house republicans doing the investigating. they are saying your client and the other fellow were behind closed doors and they spilled the beans. were they authorized to reveal tax information to congress? >> yes, whistleblower or taxpayer protection statute has a provision for whistleblower disclosure. any wrongdoing in investigation of tax return can be disclosed to congress. they had every right to talk to congress about the matters. >> ainsley: we asked sean hannity about this and he said i would counter s

essentially asked to cough up as many documents as possible, it goes back to that irs whistleblower gary shapley, who in front of congress and on television said we were about to interview hunter biden after joe biden was elected before the transition occurred and before the inauguration so fbi contacted the secret service and james comer said they tipped him off and they want answers why that happened. >> ainsley: then they were not able to interview him. >> steve: they weren't, they were told okay, you want to interview him, why don't you wait in the car and they waited in the car and it is like hunter biden will be interviewed when hunter biden wants to be interviewed and that never happened. >> brian: here is the thing, unlike ken starr, who had one in to investigate, no one doubted he wanted to get to bottom of things with clinton. david weiss, nobody thinks he was trying to get to the bottom of thing and been proven through shapley and the other whistleblower he embarrassed himself by bringing a deal in front of a judge and now he has status he denied he wanted, but shapley said he request

he believes hunter biden was not given favoritism and claimed testimony from irs whistleblower gary shapley were influenced by politics and miscommunication, saying, my recollection of the meeting, i think there is confusion or misunderstanding in things communicated. >> carley: the images you are about to see are graphic. the escaped pennsylvania prisoner is back in custody after evading law enforcement two weeks. daniel cavalcante was found yesterday in chester county after nearby residents claimed he broke into their homes and stole a rifle. an eyewitnesses dozens of officers surrounded the area before he was taken down by a police dog. >> 30 minutes in, border patrol, swat, two armored vehicle, it became a show. they entered into the brush and within 15, 20 minutes, they emerged and had the fugitive. >> carley: law enforcement agents are facing backlash for taking a photo with daniel cavalcante after his capture. a state police official dismissing the criticism. >> those men and women worked amazingly hard through trying circumstances, they are proud of their work. i'm not bothered beca

brave iris whistle-blowers, gary shapley and others, came forward and made a big difference.s is a new whistle-blower. it what it tells us is the u.s. government knew as far back as the spring of 2015. hunter biden involved in those activities. to look for fraudulent, like it might have taxes and money laundering and other things involved with it. it is rare for a bank to go to a th.one of the top vice president and morgan stanley went to the security exchange currency. they were clear what they were looking out. opening picture of the whistle-blower's presentation is picture of joe biden, barack obama, hunter biden sitting at a basketball game. read below is a picture of money laundering. there's a dossier presented on hunter biden and his past controversies including being kicked out of the navy, being involved with a corrupt company known as burisma in ukraine. morgan stanley figured out it's been a problem even though joe biden spent trying to tell us it was not. back to 20081 he was sued over a hedge fund deal that he had done. they wanted security exchange for and the c

gary shapley said he heard mr. weiss complain about this issue. >> in october 7, 2022, said the d.c. u.s. attorney's office will not allow us to charge there and then he added that he would requested special counsel authority and was denied. in that meeting, i even had him repeat that because i knew how important that fact was and wanted to make sure i understood it. >> both david weiss and matthew graves deny the allegation from shapley. jordan expects david weiss to testify in the coming weeks. there was original plans for -- it will happen in the near term. the d.o.j. writing the department is committed to taking this step because we remain deeply concerned about any misrepresentations about our work that could harm public confidence in the even-handed administration of justice. source familiar says weiss will come before congress. dates are being worked out. republicans want it to happen swiftly. he is eyeing charges for hunter biden in either washington, d.c. or california for potential tax crimes. >> bill: so

here's gary shapley who said he heard mr.s complain about this issue when it comes to charging hunter biden on tax crimes. >> that's when david weiss in october 7, 2022 said that the d.c. u.s. attorney's office will not allow us to charge there and then he added that he would request special counsel authority and was denied. in that meeting, i had him repeat that because i knew how important that fact was and i wanted to make sure i understood it. >> weiss and graves denied the allegations from shapley. jim jordan says he expects weiss to testify in the coming weeks. the original plan was for a transcribed interview october 11th and public testimony a week later on the 18th. that won't happen, but will happen in the near term. doj writing to jordan, the department is committed to taking this extraordinary step because we remain deeply concerned about any misrip sentations about our work that could harm public confidence in the even-handed administration of justice. weiss is eyeing washing in washington d.c. or california for

. >> hunter biden's team alleges his right to privacy was violated when irs whistleblowers gary shapleythat their investigation into hunter biden taxes was stonewalled by higher-ups, hunter biden's lawyer say he was unfairly singled out the irs agents have targeted and sought to embarrass mr. biden the public statement of the media in which they and their representative had confidential information about a private citizens tax matters, whistleblower is supposed to uncover government misconduct not the details of that employee's opinion about the alleged wrongdoing of a private person. the whistleblowers testified under oath there was indeed government misconduct, they claim hunter biden got special treatment and he was treated like every other american you would been charged with tax fraud along time ago. the whistleblowers lawyer saying they did not violate privacy or leak any sensitive tax information. instead congress the house ways and means committee released hunters tax information that they had a legal right to do so and once it was public knowledge, the whistleblowers had a righ

whistleblower gary shapley's legal team fired off a statement reading this suit is just another frivolousmily attorneys to try to turn people's attention away from hunter biden's own legal problems and intimidate any current and future whistleblowers, end quote. house republicans say they'll subpoena hunter biden when the facts lead them there. the white house does not want to talk about any of it. >> how much has the president talked to his son -- >> nothing new. i won't get into private conversations the president has with his family. not going to speak to it. i'm not going to get into private conversations the president has with his family. >> harris: a new op-ed, hunter's gun charge is a big problem for the biden crime family. one republican says there is a mountain of evidence against the president. >> we have got literally dozens and dozens of suspicious activity reports for banking anomalies connected with the bidens. transmissions between the president and his son under fictitious name. all that leads to corruption and influence peddling. >> harris: matt whitaker, former acting u.

but a lot of court evidence that was turned over by gary shapley, joe ziegler, the irs whistle-blowers, could come out tomorrow. there's also two more irs agents who have given testimony that corroborate shapley and zigler and those could be voted out in the coming days. >> sean: john solomon. justthenews.com. thank you. since his indictment on federal bribery charges was unsealed, growing number of senate democrats have called for bob menendez to resign. my question is, why are some on the left, democrats calling for menendez to resign over corruption allegations. but not joe. here with mark, fox news contributor jason chaffetz. good to see you, sir. i look at these charges against menendez, they are serious. that he breached official duty, benefited the government of egypt. they talk about $480,000 in cash. most of it all around his house, suit jacket with his name on it. another 70 grand. his wife safe-deposit box. all these big gold bars and him googling the price of a bar. some of the more damning evidence as the envelopes with cash in it, dna belonging to the people they believe

one was from upstate new york, gary shapley, the other one ziegler, also claiming to be a democrat.smith of the ways and means committee that is how we got all this bombshell testimony. how we got proof there was slow-walking by special prosecutor ag wales from delaware to tip off the biden administration, cover up the storage area this virginia that may have contained information, gave them ways to destroy evidence and yet they're claiming hunter biden's attorneys they violated disclosure requirements of federal statutes. it is garbage. it is not going anywhere. kudos to chairman jim jordan, james comer, jason smith, demanding a letter on this to prove this is something that actually went on. we know it is more bluster. really unprecedented the bullying tactics from the biden administration and from hunter biden they have no shame and no ethics. we need to expose them. i am sew greatful we're going to impeachment inquiry using ways and means, injury, and oversight and i'm proud to being member of that committee with the great jason smith leading our side. larry: claudia, one more,

. >> gary shapley, one of the whistleblowers, testified that ausa leslie will told investigators, quote, optics were a driving factor in the decision not to request a search warrant for the guesthouse at the biden's delaware residence where hunter biden had stayed for a time. ausa wolf told the investigators that, quote, there was more than enough probable cause for the physical search warrant there, but the question was whether the juice was worth the squeeze. and she further said, quote, a lot of evidence in the investigation would be found in the guesthouse of former vice president biden, but there is no way investigators will get that approved. now, do you agree with ms. wolf that optics of an investigation should be the driving factor in law enforcement decisions when investigating potential crimes? >> as i said before, singling out assistant u.s. attorney's is a dangerous matter. the supervisor of that case, mr. weiss, he is the one who made the decisions in that case. he is the one who can answer questions as to whether those things happen. >> so let's take her out of the equatio

first to mark lytle, an attorney for gary shapley, statements that lytle made are included in this newgood to have you with us today, mark. it's interesting. >> thanks for having me. >> martha: they're going after interviews that you did and shapley and the others did surrounding this. but it seems like they're angry that you talked about the fact that there was an investigation going on here. but not a lot of specifics about what is in those -- what is in those files. >> yeah, martha. this lawsuit is a frivolous fear from blocking whistle-blowers. congress wrote the law so whistle-blowers could come forward in a protected manner and shine the light on government misconduct. that's what happened here. as a result, the sweetheart plea deal was revealed and came to light and the judge rejected that. they're mad about that. they're coming after the whistle-blowers. it's frivolous lawsuit, martha. >> martha: one of the things that they do cite are the specificing about the things that were in some of those returns. including business expenses that were written up as prostitute payments, se

the lawsuit argues irs whistle-blower gary shapley and joe zeigler in public statements and interviewss code by engaging in a campaign to publicly smear mr. biden. it says he has all the same responsibilities as any other american citizen and the irs can and should make certain that he abides by those responsibilities. mr. biden has no fewer or lesser rights than any other american citizen and no government agency or agent has free reign to violate his rights because of who he is. i mentioned those three counts involving purchase of a gun in 2018. that may not be his own legal problem in a federal courtroom, neil. u.s. attorney david weiss announced he could go after hunter biden and indict him on the tax charges that were part of the plea deal. we could be watching for indictments in either california where hunter biden currently lives or washington d.c. where he once lived before. neil? >> neil: thank you for that. now to the former federal prosecutor, katie, what due think of this? >> as a criminal defense attorney, i'm sensitive to claims of governmental violations of rights. so i

. >> to be clear, john, david weiss and matthew graves denied the allegation from gary shapley.s weiss to testify in the coming weeks. the original plan was for a transcribed interview for weiss, and public testimony on the 18th. doj write late friday the department is committed to taking this extraordinary step because we remain deeply concerned about any misrepresent additions about our work that could harm public confidence in the even-handed administration of justice. weiss is eyeing charges in washington, d.c. and/or california for potential hunter biden tax crimes. >> john: david spunt, thank you. >> jacqui: any moment now karine jean-pierre is expected to take a series of questions during the white house briefing over the president's job so far as brand-new polling shows president biden down on the economy when it comes to the high cost of food and energy prices and much more. so, can he turn things around ahead of 2024. bringing our panel. juan williams, and chris bedford. thank you for being with us. >> glad to be here. >> jacqui: juan, start with you. poll looks not so

. >> sandra: the attorney for irs whistleblower gary shapley, after a new lawsuit filed by hunter biden'shim and sought to embarrass him by disclosing confidential tax information in testimony and media interviews. just last week, special counsel david weiss filed federal gun charges after his plea deal collapsed. fox news contributor and law professor jonathan turley. do you believe hunter has a case against the irs? >> i don't. you know, this -- they may be able to find a sympathetic trial judge, but in the long run, i can't see how this plays out because the federal law expressly allows the house committee to release tax information. there's a special exemption for certain committees, including this one. and if you look at the senate report that went into this law, they said that public disclosure of tax information is part of investigations was part of the intent of congress. so, what these whistleblowers did is they spoke to these -- to this committee. committee released the information. you'll notice from the hearing the whistleblowers repeatedly refer to that statement. they are ve

remember gary shapley and joe ziegler who said they were unable to proceed?uldn't interview the grandchildren, they couldn't interview joe biden, and we were told by merrick garland and david weiss that they had complete access to everything they want, and and now we know that's not true. so that's just, i -- it casts a pall over the entire new special counsel that is david weiss because we know they weren't truthful in how they conducted this investigation before. i don't know where we go from here, i don't know. elizabeth: well, voter polls show they feel this white house has been corrupt. they feel the vice president, when he was vice president, they fear they engaged in wrongful activity. we're going to stay on this story. jon levine, thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. elizabeth: we are breaking down this story, accusations that big city officials in places like new york are using the illegal immigrant crisis as costly boondoggles, giving out no-bid contracts. and the 2024 race hit by the crime wave slamming u.s. cities. democrats literally ru

one was from whereupon state new york, gary shapley. democrat. that they went through a lawful whistleblower port ifal that was created by chairman jason smith of the ways and means committee. that's how we got this bombshell testimony, how we got proof that there was slow-walking by now-special prosecutor a.g. weiss from delaware to try to tip the off the biden administration that they needed to cover up the storage area, for example, in virginia that may have contained information, gave them ways to destroy evidence. and yet they're trying to claim, hunter biden's attorneys, that somehow they violated the disclosure requirements of federal statutes. it's garbage, it's not going anywhere. kudos to chairman jim jordan, chairman also james comer and also chairman jason smith for writing a letter and demanding evidence on this to prove that this is something that actually went on. we know it's more bluster, but really unprecedented the way -- the bullying tactics coming from the biden administration if hunter biden. they have no shame, th

he is an attorney for irs whistle-blower gary shapley. thank you so much for being here tonight. continuing to be a very big story, and i'm glad to have your insight in particular. you've obviously heard, tristan, that there are new witnesses throughout that are now rebutting two of the key contentions made by your client about david weiss, that he said he was, quote, not the deciding person, and that he was denied a request for special counsel status. what's your response to these different recollections? >> first off, to be clear, out of those new interviewees, the only one who took notes was special agent shapley's immediate supervisor. he's said he has long since shredded those notes, but his con comment was you covered it all. he acknowledged if he thought he was lying or misleading he definitely would have corrected that with his supervisor. from the substance, there are two key points i think are important. the first is all of the others acknowledged they are not familiar with the testimony that attorney general merrick garland gave before the senate appropriations committ

chris clark and abbe lowell are intimidating and harassing two irs whistleblowers their names gary shapley and joe ziegler who investigated hunter's taxes. the letter out earlier this morning reads in part, quote: hunter biden's legal team is engaged in a brazen effort to intimidate and harass the brave internal revenue service whistleblowers who exposed irregularities in the investigation of hunter biden. david weiss says he plans to indict hunter biden before the end of this month. abbe lowell new lead on the case screen right. chris clark with the glasses has since left the team. we have reached out to them and are waiting to hear back some sort of response. the president is not the only person who may be attached to the i-word, meaning impeachment, bret. republicans have had their eyes on attorney general merrick garland for several months on several issues. surrounding that controversial school board memo that critics say unfairly compares angry parents to domestic terrorists and the special counsel is looking at both joe biden and hunter biden along with donald trump. the attorney ge

as for the irs whistleblower that republicans often point to as the basis for their questions, gary shapley, who you have seen on this program, a high ranking u.s. official has disputed his claims. let's get straight to "the source" with congressman mike johnson of louisiana, a member of the house judiciary committee. thank you for joining me tonight. what will we saw when we looked at that hearing, is that a roadmap of what republicans' impeachment inquiry is going to look like? >> i wouldn't say that. we were performing or constitutional function there. the judiciary committee has responsibility over the department of justice. . so, the attorney general routinely appears before our committee to answer questions. we found the attorney general today to be very evasive and non-responsive to some of the most important and i think fair questions that were asked. and, you know, we have a problem with it. >> a lot of the questions seem to be centered around david weiss himself, the u.s. attorney, and his recent elevation to special counsel. but to the point that your fellow congressmen and repub

. >> brian: gary shapley came out and flat out i hope the republicans have in front of them what shapleytus. directly contradicts mr. law and order, the department of justice. so the judge rejects the sweetheart deal. all hell breaks loose. days later garland says i have an idea. i'm going to give special counsel authority to david weiss who basically has been totally defraught. no one believes he has any credibility. steve. >> ainsley: out of the hague for this case. >> brian: not out of the hague. special counsel for hunter biden. >> ainsley: 11th, weiss drops the delaware tax charges and says he i object tends to drop them in california. and hunter biden is indicted on felony gun charges 2018 that never would have happened if it weren't for these whistleblowers. >> brian: i want to point out, this delaware, he wanted to move it out of delaware. he wanted california. they said no. wanted d.c., he said no. now he has got this status. is he going back. why does it matter? that's where he did his transactions. that's where he did his banking that's why he wants to get cooperation. he plea

the two irs agents at the center of this who both testified publicly under oath to the congress, gary shapley, and joe ziegler, both have said that they have the ability and the right to answer these questions because, a, they were under protections afforded them through whistleblower protections but then at the same time, this was something that congress authorized to be made public, and that's why they did so. now, in terms of how this affects the ongoing efforts to prosecute hunter biden, heroes of course facing multiple charges, gun charges, and the possibility of being indicted on tax charges from the plea arrangement that fell apart a couple of months ago. this information is out there, it's in the public sphere, you can't necessarily take that information back. it shows that biden and his team are trying to show that this is a political exercise, and that he has been unfairly targeted by those who would like to harm his father in the court of public opinion. so the sum total of all of this is it doesn't change the dynamics of the potential charges against him, but it is an effort for h

is yesterday the ways and means committee voted to release additional information provided by gary shapley and mr. ziegler. one of the documents shows that assistant u.s. attorney leslie wolf ordered investigators not to pursue leads into possible campaign finance violations. we know that over $2 million of hunter biden's tax liabilities were paid off by a big democrat party donor and hollywood lawyer who is named kevin morris. james biden, the president's brother, told investigators he did not know how hunter biden even knew this individual. but was later asked to thank him for the payment, quote, on behalf of the family. the biden family. the family. so how would such payments that essentially pushed under the rug the president's son's tax problems, at least for one year, be considered a campaign finance violation on part of the biden campaign? >> thank you for the question. i have no idea. i thought you were going to ask me why would leslie wolf not look into that. the answer to that is probably if it's a campaign contribution then it im me indicates political person number one and that

they point to among other things, this testimony from irs whistleblower gary shapley. >> the justiceartment allowed the president's political appointees to weigh in on whether they charged the president's son. i watched weiss tell senior leaders that he was not the deciding person on whether charges were filed. >> so what he was talking about there was then u.s. attorney david weiss who is now, by the way, a special counsel in this probe. cnn did just get ahold of new transcripts from a number of fbi and irs officials that say they do not remember weiss ever saying that he was not in charge of this decision about where to charge and attorney general garland said as much when he testified. this is all the way back in march. >> i promise to ensure that he's able to carry out his investigation and that he be able to run it, and if he needs to bring in another jurisdiction, he will have full authority to do that. >> let's bring in cnn anchor and cnn political analyst john avlon. what i said and read is confusing probably to a lot of people. it's confusing to me. i had to go through it a

can you explain why this doj official, james comer, met with the attorney for gary shapley before he testified before congres s? r in light of the letter that mr.p shapleply said he had informatin to give congress, which is oversight, which is your committee, which is, of course, the otheter committees as well. can you explain the purpose of that? and then turning aroun turningdg immediately thereafter and going right to to hunter biden's attorneyt tos? >> that would seem likem they tipped him off to me. thats absolutely. that's what it looks like. and that'sit looks happened.staa and we have instance afterst interest throughout this wholeae investigation to where we've uncovered more information hunter about where the irs investigation into hunter whisn, whichich ase've as we'ved from the irs whistleblowers, was leading directly to joe biden, waswas leg obstructed. and i can tell you from ove my experience over the past nine months leading this investigation of biden's all the influence peddling schemes that we've been ing it at every turn,t on not only by the biden attorneys, but a

those brave irs whistleblowermer as gary shapley and others, they came forward. they made a big differencewaand right? this is a new whistleblower. what it tells us i.s that the u.s.it government knew as far back as the spring of 2015f that hunter biden was involved in activities thatved in t lookd suspicious, looked fraudulent, looked like it might have taxe,s ,money laundering and other things involved with it. it's for a bank to go to theto a securities exchange commission to have a direct contact. often they just file o the suspicious activity reports and move on it. nt one of the top vice presidents in morgan stanley went to theng securities exchange commission. you got to look at this. they were very clear what they were looking at. the opening picture of opennhistleblowers presentatio is a picture of joe biden, barack obama and hunte rme biden sitting at a basketball game. right below, it was a picture of money launderin. of moneyg. there was a whole dossier presented on hunter biden and his past controversies, including being kicked out of the navytbein i

evidence released in response to questions raised by members of the committee on both sides and gary shapleynd joseph the two iris whistleblowers testified enjoy painting a disturbing picture of a revolving door between joe biden's office and hunter biden's business partnership. according to a worksheet provided by irs whistleblower then vice president biden's april 2014 official visit to ukraine occurred only days after a series of white house meetings with hunter biden and his business associates regarding ukraine. shortly after joe biden returneu stateside the ukrainian company burisma announced hunter biden's appointment to its board. new evidence provided shows hunter biden using his father's position to gain favor with a billionaire including having joe biden hosted them at the white house in february of 2014 at the vice president's residence alongside mexican billionaire carlos in november of 2015. and then in 2016 using air force to to shuttle hunter biden and his business associate to mexico city. with its lunches, phone calls, white house meetings or official foreign trips hunter b

others, including my colleague, supervisor gary shapley, here with me today, have their own he isn't understandings of what took place during this investigation. i have been an agent with the irs since 2010. in 2007 i received my undergraduate receipt degree from ohio university. why mba from john carroll university. upon starting my career at the irs, i worked at urged in young as an extra auditor. throughout my career with the irs, i have worked a variety of successful criminal tax and money laundering investigations. in 2018, i transitioned into being a part of the international tax of financial crimes group out of the washington d.c. crime office. i was a lead iris kates agent on the hunter biden investigation. i recently discovered that people are saying i must be more credible because i'm a democrat who happens to be married in a man. i am no more credible than this man sitting next to me due to my sexual orientation or my political beliefs. the truth is, my credibility comes today from my job the variance with the iris. and my intimate knowledge with the agency standards of an

ask gary shapley. 14 year veteran at the irs. handled some of the biggest international tax fraud cases at the agency. he comes forward, and the justice department kicks him off the case. but here's what's truly unbelievable. here's what's amazing. with all that history, with all that, the justice department and the fbi want the taxpayers they censored, the parents they labeled, pro-life catholics they called radical, they wanted to pay for a new fbi headquarters. and they want pfizer reauthorization of the 702 program in its current form. it's in the director's opening statement. i mean, you can't make this stuff up. there are 204,000 reasons why republicans will oppose fisa reauthorization in its current form. 204,000 times the fbi improperly searched a 702 database. and unlike the fbi censorship, in the courts opinion, that was focused on conservatives, the fbi to legal scrutiny wasn't just limited to conservatives. blm supporters were illegally scrutinized by the fbi as well, and i hope our democrat friends will join us in op

new evidence released in response to questions raised by the committee, on both sides, from gary shapley and joseph, the whistleblowers, testified in july and painted a picture of a revolving door of joe biden's office and hunter biden's business partners. according to a worksheet provided by irs whistleblower, ziegler, then vice president bidens, april 2014 official visit to ukraine, occurred only days after a series of white house meetings with hunter biden and his business associates regarding ukraine. shortly after joe biden returned stateside, the ukrainian company, announced hunter biden's appointment to its board. new evidence provided, shows hunter biden using his father's position to gain favor with billionaire, including heaven joe biden host them at the white house in february of 2014. at the vice president's residence, alongside, mexican billionaire, carlos. in november of 2015. in 2016, using air force two, to shuttle hunter biden and his business associate to mexico city. whether it was lunches, phone calls, white house meetings, or official foreign trips, hunter biden cash

o'connor, yesterday, the ways and means committee voted to release additional information provided by gary shapley and joseph ziegler , one of the documents shows that the assistant u.s. attorney, leslie wolf, ordered investigators not to pursue leads into possible campaign- finance violations. we know that over $2 million of hunter biden's tax liabilities were paid off by a big democrat party donor and a hollywood lawyer. named kevin morris. james biden, the brother of the president, told investigators that he did not know how hunter biden even knew this individual. but was later asked to thank him for the payment, "on behalf of the family." the biden family. the family. so, how would such payment, that essentially pushed under the rug the president's son's tax problems, at least for one year, be considered a campaign- finance violation on part of the biden campaign? >> thank you for the question. i have no idea. i thought you were going to ask me, why would leslie wolf say don't look into that? i think the answer to that is probably, if it is a campaign contribution, it implicates political pers

o'connor, yesterday, the ways and means committee voted to release additional information provided by gary shapley and joseph ziegler , one of the documents shows that the assistant u.s. attorney, leslie wolf, ordered investigators not to pursue leads into possible campaign- finance violations. we know that over $2 million of hunter biden's tax liabilities were paid off by a big democrat party donor and a hollywood lawyer. named kevin morris. james biden, the brother of the president, told investigators that he did not know how hunter biden even knew this individual. but was later asked to thank him for the payment, "on behalf of the family." the biden family. the family. so, how would such payment, that essentially pushed under the rug the president's son's tax problems, at least for one year, be considered a campaign- finance violation on part of the biden campaign? >> thank you for the question. i have no idea. i thought you were going to ask me, why would leslie wolf say don't look into that? i think the answer to that is probably, if it is a campaign contribution, it implicates political pers

>> i think as a general matter, that's correct. >> gary shapley, one of the whistleblowers, testified that ausa leslie will told investigators, quote, optics were a driving factor in the decision not to request a search warrant for the guesthouse at the biden's delaware residence where hunter biden had stayed for a time. ausa wolf told the investigators that, quote, there was more than enough probable cause for the physical search warrant there, but the question was whether the juice was worth the squeeze. and she further said, quote, a lot of evidence in the investigation would be found in the guesthouse of former vice president biden, but there is no way investigators will get that approved. now, do you agree with ms. wolf that optics of an investigation should be the driving factor in law enforcement decisions when investigating potential crimes? >> as i said before, singling out assistant u.s. attorney's is a dangerous matter. the supervisor of that case, mr. weiss, he is the one who made the decisions in that case. he is the one who can answer questions as to whether those things