thank you very much. >> you going to reelect chuck grassley? [applause] [indiscernible] >> ready to go? >> mr. vice president, are you saying -- >> how are you today, sir? >> thank you. i'm doing well. >> rob, rob, walk that way. get cameras. what do you want me to do? >> how are you? >> i'm good. how you doing? >> we're going to go right here. >> thank you. [laughter] >> thank you so much. >> can i get a picture? >> i'm in this one. >> mr. pence as well. 1-2-3. thank you very much. thank you. >> yes, you can. we're not worried about the 2024 hex. we're worried about the 2022 election. -- >> i looked for some information. and i want to thank you for your -- [indiscernible] >> i got a little wet out there. we were having a press conference and it started raining. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. it's a privilege. >> no, this is a privilege. >> we're going to go -- it's pouring aaron. -- pain. >> we can head there. we'll stay in the building and stay as dry as we can. >> ok. >> i'll go that way. >> hello. >> thank you. >> i'm good. >> here we

the only grassley i like better than chuck grassley is misses grassley. [applause] thank you. thank you. i knew that this was the right state when i went to my first fundraiser for chuck grassley and he said, "are you going to eat?" i said, i was thinking about it. he said, it will cost you $18. he is cheap. send that man to the u.s. senate! [laughter] and your governor. kim reynolds. i have been working on the issue of school choice for eight years, and your governor is going to get it done in 2023. [applause] because every child in every zip code deserves quality education. and your governor is committed to it. i know one thing for sure, every child in america deserves good education. and kim reynolds is the champion . when she gave the rebuttal address, she talked about it and it warmed my heart. god bless you all for reelecting her as well. but i got to say, think of the woman who led the charge to try to make up for the supply chain shortage caused by this administration when it comes to baby formula. that was ashley hinson. [laughter] -- [applause] now, think about the w

i just want to highlight something that senator grassley said. i think he said something about how the irs would be coming after middle class taxpayers and people who have small businesses. the treasury department has said pretty explicitly we are not going to be increasing audit rates for taxpayers making under $400,000 per year. host: with us this morning as we talk about the irs, this additional money from the irs, the concern that sparred safety and security review that is ongoing. phone lines if you want to join the conversation, republican, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independent, (202) 748-8002. we will start in kingston, new york, line for democrats. bruce, are you with us? caller: yes, good morning. i want to make a general statement. first, i tried to watch c-span regularly and i agree with the idea that too many trolls are all in talking points that just really interrupt real conversation. i'm going to leave it at that. it is trolling and is talking points in it is interruptive. but the main point i want to make about th

senator grassley? sen. grassley: did the fbi take any steps to uncover any bias from tebow, including postings that reflected a partisan disposition that would disqualify him from involvement in sensitive criminal investigations? dir. wray: well, senator, i want to be careful not to comment on ongoing personnel matters. certainly we want to take advantage of all the tools in our disposal to make sure that people are following the rules. sen. grassley: can you just say this -- do you generally take any of that into consideration with any of your people that are in sensitive positions? dir. wray: you mean in selecting them for the position? sen. grassley: whether they have any political bias or not. dir. wray: we expect our people to comply with a number of rules, including the hatch act. so we have a number of rules and policies that govern not just -- sen. grassley: let me go onto to my next question. what field offices are responsible for monitoring and investigating those afghan evacuees that pose a natio

senator grassley wants to know if the fbi was playing politics too?or what prompted you to write this letter? >> , whistleblowers coming to me and i listen to a lot of whistleblowers because they know where the bodies are buried. and with evidence a special agent in charge was making decisions of what investigation should go ahead and which ones should be stopped. and we know by his social media comments that he is very, very liberal. very, very partisan. and we have evidence from these whistleblowers that he would have fuzzy information from newspaper reports about trump. and would allow investigation go ahead. you do not let innovation go ahead on fuzzy newspaper reports. then we had concrete information about of lot of things of hunter biden has done a stock that and labeled it as disinformation. now that is political interference in the fbi. and it is going to cause people to lose credibility in the fbi, and every citizen ought to have the most confidence you could ever have an agency like the fbi. now were going to go before the committee and dir

there have been 20 whistle blowers that have come out to chuck grassley, ron johnson and jim jordan the last few months. 20. that's more than i've seen in my entire career as a reporter, all alleging the same thing. the washington field office, the fbi in general, politicizing cases that shouldn't have politics involved. specifically, the washington field office, which led the raid on mar-a-lago, there are claims that in 2020, during the middle of the presidential election, that office did two things. one, it opened up an investigation of president trump and his campaign based on information from democrats, liberal sources. oh, that sounds familiar, right, the 2016 russia collusion hoax started with the democrats and hillary clinton. they opened up another one that didn't meet the standard for predicating an investigation, meaning it was an unlawful or unwarranted investigation. that's the first thing whistle blowers say. the second thing is they came in with the memo trying to pretend that information on the hunter biden laptop was disinformation and there should not be any investigati

senator grassley. ok. mr. shepherd, in your testimony you highlighted how people work on the organ transplant networks 40 committee come from dashboards commit he come from all -- comes from -- and how effectively the system works to protect patients. yet, the way you describe these people and the peer review process in the documents you provided to the committee was very different. i would like to enter into the record to emails that you wrote. here is how you describe the principal transplant oversight committee in one of your emails produced to the committee. you said, allowing the committee to fill these jobs increases communities beliefs in the validity of the document. you go on to say, it is like putting your kids artwork up at home, evaluate because of how it was created, rather than -- value it because of how it was created rather than how it was done. we persuade ourselves that it was well done anyway. in email you describe the organ transplant network that you are in charge of as nothing more than a

senator chuck grassley says similar claims that the f.b.i. wrongly labeled evidence on hunter as quoting disinformation indicated quote deeply rooted political infection in its d.c. field office. grassley says his letter this week to director christopher wray is his fourth request for that information and he writes quoting here, the bureau has failed to address concerned i raised. the consistent failure to respond to congress continues to erode trust in the f.b.i. it is all hands on deck in the trump investigation. when it comes to the hunter biden investigation we can't find any hands on deck. >> that's true. three years they have had the hunter biden laptop. first d.o.j. and f.b.i. off the record suggested it was disinformation. we found out that is authentic and is his laptop. that investigation doesn't seem to have any force behind it. we don't see any overt acts or search warrants being executed. we don't hear of grand jury witnesses. the american people continue to believe there is an ever-increasing two-tier system of justice and can't

senator grassley did as well. i was told by. senator grassley referred to four. you have said how difficult it is to really make a case even when they have the evidence we described this way. tell me the dilemma we face here. people don't want to work supervising elections and follow the law if they're going to be harassed and intimidated i don't want them to be harassed and intimidated but it is happening. so what is your task force doing about it? >> first of all let me just say i certainly show the department, shares the concerns related to the election community that have been raised in the video from ms. freeman in particular. it's very powerful testimony. the number of cases of the task force is charged to date is five. in addition there been a number of state prosecutions, i believe the number is three at the state level. what i can tell you is that the task force over the last year has been committed and, in fact, has conducted a review of every referral of a harassing and offensive communication that members have received. that number is over 1000. and a

>> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ >> welcome back sunday night america senator grassley very direct letter to attorney general garland informing them that highly credible whistleblowers have come forward from the fbi and doj in the handling of hunter biden he is asking if the beer and the department covered up in with the allege criminal activity and derogatory information was called russia and disinformation by the media and some democrats in the weeks before the 2020 presidential election ahead of our intelligence community at the time. >> and givingat the reason for the story and the media obliged i don't think anybody would be surprised to play politics senator grassley wants to know if the fbi was playing politics what prompted you to write this letter, senator? >> whistleblowers coming tois me and i listen to a lot of whistleblowers because they know where the bodies are buried. and the evidence a special agent inn charge by the name of people was making decisions of what investigation should go ahead and which should be stopped. and then to be liberal and partisan

i yield. >> thank you senator grassley. this judiciary committee has held hearings on law enforcement officer safety, mass shootings, msa terrorism, protecting children from gun violence, carjackings, hate crimes, inducing violence and violence against women and more, including people oversight hearings of law enforcement agencies. have another oversight hearing tomorrow with the director of the fbi schedule. the subject of this hearing as threats to election workers. the first pen we welcome the assistant attorney general. the assistant attorney general police is a longtime federal prosecutor who oversees the justice department criminal division between the threat task force. we also welcome ken wyman -- kim wyman. she is a republican who served from weird -- nearly a decade as a secretary of state so she knows this field very well. welcome her. i will ask them both to be sworn in. then, and where aunt of questioning from the senators, of to five minutes each and then our second panel will be recognized. if you would pleas

we've had more than that.ight, r grassley said there'that.ight, r infl senator grassley said there ispolitical influence at the fbi and it's alls that is aboute whis politics. t that is certainly the casean because all these whistleblowers come to us and talkd ta polit about the politil pressure they're under. and now we see thandert it maybe be in the inspector general'sce. office by statute, the inspector general is supposed to provide independent oversight ofus the justice department. well, how can you do that?tice se investigation and understand what happened herederstand? we' the fbi came to the inspector general and said we're going to we're going to tak phonee a phof a sitting member of congress. we're going to take his phone one day after we have raided president trump's home. and we're going to do it whiletg resscongressman henry is on vacation with his family. the inspector general should have said to him, are you freaking out of your mind? this has got all kinds ofonal constitutional concerns. you should not do it. but if you do, we will noty. participate. but instead, he s

when senator grassley asked me for the hearing i didn't object. it was within my control, i trust him and he makes a valuable contribution. you've seen several members of the committee raise the question about appointments by the biden administration. she comes up at every hearing from the other side of the table. i want you to know the position in the department of justice was supported by the fraternal order of police, national sheriffs association, major cities chiefs at the international association of the chiefs of police. the other woman supported by the association of the chiefs of police the major cities and many more so there's always a little more to the story then you might hearing the testimony that i want to thank you all. i can't thank you enough for what you've done with your lives and what you've decided to do to protect others. it's something and none of us could say enough for but thanks for coming today. the testimony is usually reserved for police week but there's controversy and comments made today that are timely as of now an

senator grassley? sen. grassley: did the fbi take any steps to uncover any bias from tebow, including postings that reflected a partisan disposition that would disqualify him from involvement in sensitive criminal investigations? dir. wray: well, senator, i want to be careful not to comment on ongoing personnel matters. certainly we want to take advantage of all the tools in our disposal to make sure that people are following the rules. sen. grassley: can you just say this -- do you generally take any of that into consideration with any of your people that are in sensitive positions? dir. wray: you mean in selecting them for the position? sen. grassley: whether they have any political bias or not. dir. wray: we expect our people to comply with a number of rules, including the hatch act. so we have a number of rules and policies that govern not just -- sen. grassley: let me go onto to my next question. what field offices are responsible for monitoring and investigating those afghan evacuees that pose a natio

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senator ted cruz was here in iowa campaigning for grassley wednesday. larry hogan visited the iowa state fair last week. ron desantis, his schedule looks a lot like a presidential election cycle this week as well. he's in pennsylvania and ohio today after stops in new mexico and arizona last week. then finally, senator tom cotton, he visited the granite state on tuesday. all of the names that i mentioned have been floated as potential 2024 presidential candidates even if former president trump chooses to run. it's important to note that the democratic national committee is already coming out swinging. they had a virtual press conference this morning bashing former vice president mike pence on his politics, but the dnc faced questions about where they will hold their first in the nation caucuses or primaries. there's word that they might not kick things off in iowa as has long been the tradition since the 1970s whereas republicans, trace and the rnc have already committed to kicking things off in the 2024 cycle right here in iowa. so we will see what the

elizabeth: hans, to your point, senator grassley says bias inside the fbi predates trump.ck before hillary clinton. >> yes. elizabeth: he is saying es, tense sieve information from whistle-blowers, fbi whistle-blowers to senator chuck grassley office around senator ron johnson office, asking doj to look into this, basically relying on reporting information from hillary clinton's campaign and the dnc-funded steele dossier which hillary paid for and campaign paid for. also information from left-wing non-profits, that is they're using to launch probes. that is what he is hearing, what they're hearing from whistle-blowers. what do you say, final word? >> what that says the fbi is not acting properly. they should only be opening investigations when they have properly verified real evidence, not things coming in from organizations that have a bias and a prejudice and are trying to get someone targeted for a political investigation. elizabeth: yeah. we should say there are thousands and thousands of good men and women working hard in the fbi to catch the bad guys and you know, it

. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier, chuck grassley raced red flags about theeb weeks ago demanding the fbi take action. >> i talked about and released information of the political biassed of guy named timothy thibault on fuzzy newspaper reports. he started an investigation on trump, on evidence of criminality and hunter biden, he stopped that investigation. if you go back and look at timothy thibault's social media, you know he's highly partisan guy. >> todd: jackie ibanez has more. >> jackie: good morning, the fbi agent accused of running interference in the investigation of hunter biden laptop is resigning. he called it a career a month after accusation of political bias in the handling of the hunter biden probe. timothy thibault was accused of slow walking the investigation in 2022. in july 18th letter to director of the fbi chuck grassley cited two whistleblowers who claim high-ranking officials including timothy thibault were not following guidelines to open a proper investigation. grassley and ron johnson demanding answers after ceo of facebook zuckerberg. >> the fbi got possessi

there was a subsequent letter sent in july of this from senator grassley who said two whistleblowers came forward to him indicating that this former assistant special agent in charge of the washington field office attempted to close in a permanent way the investigation into hunter biden. if should be noted that the investigation into hunter biden continues. it's an investigation being led by an entirely different field office. the fbi field office in baltimore and is primarily led at this point by the irs criminal division there, the ones looking into the tax issues 14 that we have reported on involving the current president's son. that's where that stands. that case remains ongoing and there has been activity over the course of the last several months. there is no indication it's concluded. within the fbi it would be extremely unusual if not impossible for an investigation of the perhaps notoriety and profile into then-presidential candidate's son to be closed at the asac level. that would go to the sperk agent in charge or assistant director level when we are talking about the wash

what happened to chuck grassley and by extension to all of the people who used to be like chuck grassley in the republican party who now talk this way? >> i like it to an infection. an infiction that could have stemmed back to 2016 on that stage where 15 republicans stood next to dot and refused to cauterize the wound he be beginning to open. instead, they again saw value. one, we can control this bay because he does not know what he's talking to and then stir the base and we want them to turn out. chuck grassley, even though he's stepping down and going on is still now infected by that particular aspect of republicanism and to ben's very important points and i hope people really listen to what he's talking about because the boy is dropping some knowledge because you have to understand what we're up against here and how it works. this is ultimate tail wagging dog. chuck grassley and the leadership in the past would either ignore or shoot that stuff down. now they're consumed by it. they are fed from it and they regurgitate it. chuck grassley knows damn well the irs is not armed with ar-1

i want to play one thing from senator grassley. just last week on this very issue. watch. >> there is evidence of the you handle one thing one way for democrats and another way for republicans. i think i have proven some political bias in regard to hunter biden and trump in the f.b.i. so i think full transparency is what's really called for in this very extraordinary situation. >> dana: what do you think about all of this as we see a little bit more information? >> senator grassley is right. people wonder why people don't automatically trust the f.b.i. when it comes to the mar-a-lago raid or any other actions. this is case in point. last month senator grassley announced that whistleblowers had come forward including senior f.b.i. officials came forward to him and accused this agent of having suppressed the hunter biden investigation by dismissing credible information as russian intelligence and disinformation. and now we're learning from mark zuckerberg that the f.b.i. went to facebook and are urged them to suppress information on the hunter biden laptop as russian

. >> greg, i remind people howly this is with members of congress amiddisclosure by senator grassley or jim jordan last night or senator ron johnson saying they have spoken to the whistleblowers and people clearly putting their jobs at risk, is this to intimidate, to silence opposition voices or people that are showing politics has taken over the fbi and the doj? >> it seems like it, doesn't it, sean? and joe biden in his speech says he's sickened by the attack on the fbi, he has it backward, he should be sickened by political attacks launched by the fbi against people who are his political opponents, anybody in donald trump's orbit or the former president himself. secretly joe biden is in favor of it. biden and merrick garland are mimicking each other, how dare americans attack integrity of the fbi, wait a minute, the same fbi that used unlimited resources to target people for political reasons, the fbi that launched the greatest mass delusion in the russia hoax, they lie to the fisa court, doctored evidence, they confessed and admitted to it to gain search warrants. we learned a to

ted cruz was here in iowa campaigning for grassley wednesday. outgoing maryland governor, larry hogan seen as a moderate came to the state fair about a week ago. senator tom cotton was in new hampshire on tuesday. all of these names have been floated as possible candidates in 2024. we have seen them visiting these key states, although none of them have officially announced. we'll keep an eye on things here in iowa and elsewhere in these important swing states. >> neil: great job. grady trimble in des moines following that. notice the way we started the show with the sound bite from mitch mcconnell. that was yesterday. because everyone has been pouncing on those remarks since we thought it wise to replay them for you and add them to the significance some of these polls that showing there's a lot going on for the republicans in november. what mitch mcconnell seems to be telegraphing or warning is fellow republicans is not to get ahead of the proverbial skis here. a lot of people have talked about that since. things are changing. why are they chang

he came under fire as you mentioned when senator chuck grassley argued that he personally tried to runference in that investigation into hunter biden. hunter biden, as we've been reporting for two years, is under federal investigation for his business dealings overseas. he's not been charged with a crime. gra grassley's office uncovered social media posts where thibault liked negative posts about former president donald trump. christopher wray during testimony this month called that revelation deeply troubling. fox news has learned that thibault was not involved in the investigation at mar-a-largo. at any level, it's been a little over three weeks since fbi agents went inside. speaking of that investigation, that former president's legal team will be in court thursday to argue for a special master. martha, a special master is a neutral third party arbiter, someone to come in, look at the evidence to make sure doj is handling it properly and potentially return some of that evidence that is not needed and not part of the scope of the investigation. we're waiting for another filing of the

chair wyden: thank you, senator grassley. next is senator cardin. >> i have another responsibility in addition to being on this committee. i am particularly interested on the impact that on small businesses of the wayfair decision. we have two competing goals. one, i come from a state that applies the sales tax. our retailers need to compete around the country with other retailers. they want a level playing field. we want to have a level playing field so that you are not discriminated against because of online customers. i am extremely sensitive to the problems of small businesses. mr. hennessey, your testimony was powerful in terms of the costs that you incur. i am interested as to how we can act, the federal government, to preserve both of those. a level playing field and removing unnecessary burdens on small businesses. we have threshold issues. there are other areas that we can access. i am interested as to your assessment as to how effective the streamlined sales tax agreements are. and whether congress can do something

the fbi also gave a fake defensive briefing, basically to chuck grassley and ron johnson, the two republican senators in august of 2020 who were uncovering darrell under derogatory information about hunter biden the joe biden's involvement and influence peddling game. the fbi defensive briefing was linked to the media to damage the two senators. it was the defensive briefing that was bogus and that in itself is serious concern about what's going on inside the fbi which christopher wray thinks is not a problem at all. >> the last lack of accountability we have seen somebody scandals around the fbi with the russian collusion hoax that we talk about in the hunter biden issue and yet christopher wray is able to dock the senate and able to bury the questions. were not getting a proper accountability. >> were not he is very evasive and there's a big problem which is determined this conflict of interest between the department of justice investigating essentially the president of the united states is the boss of all these people. we need a special prosecutor, merrick garland needs to recuse himself

that's according to grassley. the whistleblowerring told that the has to follow strict guidelines involved in investigations. he said that thibault did not follow those guidelines like you said he wanted this investigation close sod that no one else could see or reopen it. >> brian: ainsley, how the hell does this guy get to retire you? this guy in 25 years just for one year defies logic to think for one year he is off the reservation deciding to have his political views go be altered by his investigation. this guy goes in and suppresses a major story involving the future president of the united states. that is a big deal. he also tweeted out some horrible things about kentucky give kentucky to the russian federation, again, he also tweeted some respect for the lincoln project. they are corrupt, horrible people who have already been exposed as. >> ainsley: is he an fbi agent. he retweeted that lincoln project. >> brian: yeah. unbelievable. >> ainsley: interrupt you really quickly i will tell you what that said tha

in iowa, chuck grassley and i do what's known as the full grassley, or the 99 county tour. we visit every county, every year, holding public town halls and walking up and down our main streets. we do this for multiple reasons, top of importance, hearing directly from the constituents we are so fortunate to represent. we are accessible and accountable to the people who have offered us the great opportunity to serve them, as our founders' intended. and in order to uphold the founders' intent, there were select powers prescribed to the federal government. and arguably the most important of these powers is to protect our people and our way of life. protection starts with the basics, right here at home. we have to secure our borders. i know you hear that phrase a lot. but it has to be done. the reality is, an enforceable, clear boundary and preserved border is statecraft and deterrence 101. it is that simple. without it, there's a clear incentive to take advantage of america's compassion and our rich history of immigration. just last month, border patrol told me 30% of the young

chuck grassley, fox business host larry kudlow, former nypd detective dr. oscar odom, "the hill"'s kristin tate, vince colanese from "the daily caller" and heritage foundation, jonathan butcher. speaker pelosi triggers major conflict between china and taiwan. remember when speaker pelosi attacked former president trump, he would ignite conflict. that didn't happen. the arrogance of democrats getting rid of trump economic policies. krysten sinema will she kill the bill. how they plan to pay for the bill with tax hikes and sticking irs on middle class and small businesses. cbo agrees with experts that it will not do much to kill inflation at all. we have results how many more candidates that president trump backed that are winning. fbi director christopher wray by lawmakers. what he said about biased fbi officials blocking probes into hunter biden. parents open up a new front that their battle taking on toxic schools hurting their children. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: we begin with your money. stocks ending mixe