i thank senator grassley. he is at the judiciary committee and will be joining us shortly and will be recognized for his opening statements. the united states, the need for organs is far greater than those available. there are 104,000 add utilities and children on the national transplant wait list and every 10 minutes another person is added to it. there was an investigation into the system and documented significant failures. today we discuss the path forward to a better system. my constituents in maryland have access to two excellent transplant centers, maryland has a tear one -- entire one that is taking action in baltimore city to encourage organ donation. this is the top 10. access to transplants is far from perfect. despite the ecosystem due to the underlying issues, 148 people died while on transplant waiting list in maryland. that is unacceptable. other states are not so lucky. marylanders and people across the nation deserve better. nationally, 17 people die each day waiting for an organ transplant th

senator grassley and you have done phenomenal work.the question, do you see any jurisdictional conflicts from michael horowitz. i really don't quite get it. >> i would be interested in knowing what he is claiming. as i have set in the past, federal law enforcement and federal agencies in general have done a great job insulating themselves from congressional oversight and public scrutiny. so these folks view themselves as above the law. shout out to john solomon for piecing together these pieces of the puzzle to give us a clear view through his sources, other requests. it's great to go back there. something else to note. singing shokin's praises and then the ambassador gave a speech. it nudged him to investigating burisma. the innate investigation into burisma that panicked hunter biden and then because the turnaround in joe biden's attitude towards shokin and the billion dollar loan guarantee. totally responsive to what hunter's concerns work because hunter is making millions of dollars being on that board. >> sean: what do you make of

senator grassley and i laid out west, entanglements in our report september 2020 media ignored our reportour ranking members, by the way, democrats, colleagues during our investigation, accused of us of his veritating, his veritating dissemfaith if aing russian disinformation i wish senator warren would have prodded them to help us in our investigation we cognitive un-korred more in 2020 when person people have might have -- made fully aware of the fact joe biden highly compromised as president they didn't do that. ins instead sabtaijd. >> house members want an inquiry into impeachment for joe biden, what happens if it happens and comes to the senate does it die in the senate? >> well hopefully, impeachment inquiry would give the house greater powers of access and information, the problem we always have, certainly senator grassley and i had doing our investigation, is you go to the justice department you go to fbi, and they say well you know we would love to cooperate but we have an active investigation that was 2 way they were able to insulate from scrutiny that expert at doing that. you

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. >> sandra: real quick, chuck grassley is at the fair in iowa, asked about this. let's listen. >> a year ago we sent a letter, i was one of those that sent a letter saying we should have a special counsel so the short answer to your question is it's about time. on the other hand i have some question about weiss doing it because johnson and i sent all of this material we had from the cafe bank in regard to the payments that were made to hunter biden and we don't know what they did with them and we know from the irs whistleblowers that they never did anything with the 1023 document that i got released. so you just wonder how thorough weiss is doing it. and then you have this plea agreement that fell through and there's speculation now that the justice department can't work out another plea agreement so they are going to have to go to trial, so as a special counsel set up to interfere going to a trial right away or are they ready to -- there are some other reason for doing it. and since this administration has exemplified so much political bias and the fbi and the de

what you see instead looking at information that senator chuck grassley put out from unrelated whistleblowerswhen information about the fd 1023 from the fbi alleges burisma bribed hunter biden and joe biden, that being presented to delaware district attorney's office. the same attorney that received the allegations was telling investigators, you can't ask anything about the dad. this was hobbled from the beginning, people refused to see what was in front of their faces. >> laura: garland was saying weiss had comauthority, a wide berth in which to operate and that clearly is not the case. >> no question. what these articles revealed was something significant, less than five weeks after merrick garland swore to congress, in fact to senator grassley specifically weiss would not have any interference by the justice departments, you see an official from the deputy attorney's office responded to inquiry from chris clark, who is trying to get anyone at doj to say where to go if weiss charged him. for a deputy official to set up a meeting andin jo the meeting with chris clark and david weiss clearly

what you see, instead, looking at the information that senator chuck grassley has put out there fromnrelated whistleblowers is that when this information, for instance, about the fd 1023 from the fbi alleging the -- that burisma bribe not only hunter biden but joe biden, that being presented to the delaware u.s. attorney's office, the irs agents were cut out just five weeks later, the same as the attorney who received those allegations was telling investigators you can't ask anything about the dad. this investigation was hobbled and hamstrung from the very beginning because people refused to see what was right in front of their faces. >> laura: remember tristan garland was saying early on that authority. a wide berth in which to operate. and that clearly is not the case. >> no question. and what these articles also revealed was something that's very, very significant. which is that less than five weeks after merrick garland swore to congress, in fact, senator grassley specifically, that there would be -- that weiss would not have any interference by the justice department. you see th

chuck grassley was speaking live at the iowa state fair reacting to the news as it was happening. listen. >> we sent a letter, i was one of those that sent a letter saying we should have a special counsel so the short answer to your question is it's about time. on the other hand, i have some question about weiss doing it. they never did anything with the 1023 do you want that i got released. so you just wonder how thorough weiss is doing it. since this administration has exemplified political bias there is reason to raise questions. you can't do one thing for a democrat and another for a republican because the constitution requires equal justice. >> sandra: jason, that seemed to speak to the point you just made. also your reaction to this, peter doocy, and he was snapped at by the president for asking what president biden called a lousy question for hunter biden and his former business partner, devon archer. listen. >> there's this testimony now where one of your son's former business associates is claiming that you were on speaker phone a lot with them talking business. >> i neve

end offer -- on the other hand, i have some question about weiss doing it. >> reporter: grassley said that's because misconduct in the long-up running investigation was allegedly irs whistleblowers. former agent gary shapley testified that attorney david weiss previously sought special counsel status because he felt limited in his powers to fully investigate hunter biden. weiss and attorney general merrick garland disputed the claim. a spokesman for jim jordan stated we will continue to raise facts as well as weiss' inconsistent statements to congress. committee member, congressman mike johnson, weighed in. >>'re all scratching our heads here. they're not hiding the wall anymore. we have good reason not to trust mr. weiss with. remember that over the course of about five weeks this summer, he changed his story three different times. >> reporter: u.s. attorney weiss requested special counsel status this week despite previously stating he did not need it, and to gary shapley that sounds like vindication. >> this announcement yesterday is absolute, unquestionable vindication of special a

. >> john: desantis hitting 99 counties, refer to as a full grassley, we'll watch to see how that goes. alexis, time for another corn dog, you are getting low. >> that's right, got to go. >> john: see you, thanks, good work. >> gillian: duke it out in iowa, lots of americans are feeling inflation pinch. touting the president's legislative wins. celebrating the one-year anniversary of the inflation reduction act. let's bring in box business correspondent ed lawrence at the white house with all the details. ed, what is the president's messaging this week? >> so really, gillian, he's trying to message his way out of of the economic stresses that almost all americans feel every day. he wants to make bidenomics a household word but a good feeling when they hear about it. what they see is food prices are up about 20% since january of 2021, when the president took office. overall inflation is up 16% in that time. this means people are making about 3% less in their paychecks, everything else is so expensive. moody analytics said americans are spending $709 per month more than two years ago and

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investigation, our committee became aware through whistleblower disclosures provided to senator chuck grassley that the fbi had an unclassified record that details and extortion and bribery scheme involving then vice president biden and a burisma executive. this record was generated by a confidential human source that the fbi has used over a decade. it -- with a burisma executive complaint that he paid joe biden $5 million in exchange for certain actions. the burisma executive told the confidential human source that he didn't pay the, quote, big guy, and quote. directly, but that he used so many black accounts that it would take ten years to unravel. now that sounds an awful lot like how the biden family conducts business, using multiple bank accounts to hide the source in total amount of the money. today, we have to brave incredible whistleblowers who have risked their careers to come forward and provide testimony. thank you all for being here today. i know it was not an easy decision. their testimony about the doj, the fbi, and irs investigation of hunter biden confirms the committee's findi

[cheering] let me tell you, senator grassley would pass that in a heartbeat. gov. reynolds: that man is not slowing down one inch. i was trying to keep up with him all day. >> these are easy tests it is like name four words that start with the same letter. what town were you born in? , how many grandchildren do you have? [laughter] [applause] aside from all of that, the other thing you want to do is, when you go in there, make sure that you remember that government works for the people, not the other way around. you start doing that aspect of it, and then you get to work. i will tell you that the first thing i will do is we will stop the spending, we will stop the borrowing, we will eliminate the earmarks and i will veto any spending bill that does not take us to pre-covid levels. gov. reynolds: sounds like how we address biden -- whatever it is -- the bad stuff. you do bring a lot of diversity to this role because you have the opportunity to serve two years as the ambassador to the u.n., standing up against foreign adversaries like china and iran. i remember watch

[cheering] let me tell you, senator grassley would pass that in a heartbeat. gov.nolds: that man is not slowing down one inch. i was trying to keep up with him all day. >> these are easy tests it is like name four words that start with the same letter. what town were you born in? , how many grandchildren do you have? [laughter] [applause] aside from all of that, the other thing you want to do is, when you go in there, make sure that you remember that government works for the people, not the other way around. you start doing that aspect of it, and then you get to work. i will tell you that the first thing i will do is we will stop the spending, we will stop the borrowing, we will eliminate the earmarks and i will veto any spending bill that does not take us to pre-covid levels. gov. reynolds: sounds like how we address biden -- whatever it is -- the bad stuff. you do bring a lot of diversity to this role because you have the opportunity to serve two years as the ambassador to the u.n., standing up against foreign adversaries like china and iran. i remember watching

you have elected officials, grassley, he is 89, he is in a different category. father time is undefeated, we need to figure out how to make sure, voters elected john fetterman in the primary. look when you look at the president, who is most competent to be commander-in-chief? i look at joe biden, it is not him. >> everyone says put joe biden against trump and everyone will vote for biden, i no longer think that is true. you are comparing two octeganarians. no question. >> he told the fake fire story again yesterday. >> emily: president biden is breaking tradition and will observe the 9/11 anniversary in alaska to make a trip to vietnam to talk about climate change. that is next. (ella) fashion moves fast. setting trends is our business. we need to scale with customer demand... ...in real time. (jen) so we partner with verizon to take our operations to the next level. (marquis) with a custom private 5g network. (ella) with verizon business, we get more control of production, efficiencies, and greater agility. (marquis) so our customers get what they want, when th

at a minimum, the evidence brought forth by the house and by senator grassley in the senate is clear. was well aware of what his son was doing and he aggressively enabled it. >> sean: he also got enriched. what does this mean for our country, senator? >> hmmm. to me, it means one of two thing. it can many justice is the house is allowed to get the truth. ip the truth. -- i want the truth. it's up to the courthouse to decide if someone did something illegal. in no universe is this right? if the house is allowed to get the facts and show them to the american people, i think it can be good for our country. but if the justice department says we can't talk about it, we are investigating. they have been investigating 5 years. it's beginning to look more and more like weiss the u.s. attorney is compromised. i could not believe that attorney general garland made him a special counsel. >> sean: thank you. new studies reveal food inflation was caused by joe's economic policies. it's a disaster. you feel it every day. we explain when we come back. [ applause ] the day you get your clearchoice de

state of south carolina, but we want to welcome them, we want to stay neutral and senator chuck grassleye governor and i all remain neutral through the caucus process because we want everyone to engage in iowa. taxpayers great place to test your message to get out there, visit with voters, and eventually set that stage on the caucuses. >> before i let you go, what's your favorite thing to do at the iowa state fair? and you can't tell me it is to introduce or walk around with your colleagues because i know that cannot possibly be true. what is your favorite thing to do at the iowa state fair? >> well, probably my favorite thing, trey, is to get into the livestock barns. we have so many incredible young ffaers and 4hers that have raised these an mattes and know how to show them. i have a great group of folks up from southwest iowa that i grew up with and their kids are showing animals now and we love to reconnect at the iowa state fair. so it's incredible. if you're not used to agriculture, you're not exposed to it, this is the place to b. i grew up on a hog farm. i know other kids are rai

senator chuck grassley remain neutral through the caucus process, we want everyone to engage in iowa. it is a great place to test your message, to get out there, visit with voters and set that stage for the rest of the primaries and caucuses. >> trey: all right, before i let you go, what is your favorite thing to do at the iowa state fair and you can't tell me it is to introduce or walk around with your colleagues, because i know that cannot possibly be true. what is your favorite thing to do at the iowa state fair. >> probably my favorite thing, trey, to get into the livestock barns. we have so many incredible union faers and 4hers, i have folks in southwest iowa that i grew up with, their kids are showing animals now and we reconnect at the iowa state fair temperature is incredible. if you are not used to agriculture issue not exposed to it. this is the place to be. i grew up on a hog farm, i know other kids that grew up on a hog farm. >> trey: grew up on a hog farm and wore the uniform in this country, in defense of this country. thank you for joining us. >> god bless you. >> trey:

attorney, i'm in favor of and home state senator chuck grassley is in favor of broadcasting and allowing tv in federal court. that is all the way from district court to supreme court. american people should have transparency. the open record law and sunshine act require proceedings to be on tv, it will be the first chance the american people are able to see into the proceedings. yesterday when the indictment was presented to the judge, you heard everybody yucking it up in the courtroom. people want to see how justice works. >> ainsley: play it out, what does it look like in the future? if federal cases, if he wins p presidency, he could pardon himself, but he can't do this in georgia. how does this all work? >> brian: you get a snack? >> i don't know if there are snacks involved. on that question, there is a lot of twists and your honor its. biggest question is the timing of the matters. what trial goes first and when, before or after the primary, before or after the convention or the general election in november. the challenge with the georgia case, the governor, the president cannot pa

it took months for it to pry them out of their hands and thanks senator grassley for making that happenose reports, they were always available to members of congress without needing a subpoena or anything else. they only offer them in what's called a in camera review where members could look at them. they can't take notes, can't take it with him. silly thing that changes the biden administration came in and they realize there is more than 100 spo100 suspicious activity . they never let congress have full access. what the spokesperson saying is factually wrong. >> sean: let me ask, my interpretation of devon archer's testimony last week was not only $3.5 million from this russian oligarch, former first lady of moscow. what about the 120 million that he seemed to confirm, correct me if i'm wrong, in a real estate endeavor investment with their company or one of their suspsubsidiaries. you interpreted the same way? >> that is correct. 3.5 million went to an entity connected to hunter biden. hunter profited. your right to bring up archer's testimony. the burnham board meeting minutes which

governor kim reynolds, senator chuck grassley and i do not endorse in the caucus season.g all these incredible presidential candidates. i am so excited to host nikki haley at the bastion institute in iowa this coming friday. we will be talking about china, and all that that entails. we know that ambassador nikki haley is very strong and firm when it comes to foreign policy and our national defense. i can't wait to hear what she has to say. >> we will see what comes from that. finally, senator, i wanted to get your thoughts on inflation fears reuniting. we seen gas price pluralistic backup. how worrisome is this to you? >> well, it is worrisome. the administration out there, wonderful biden-nomics. but, all we see across iowa right now is very high oil prices, grocery prices through the roof, and families are struggling to make ends meet. this is not a good situation. they certainly feel the pain and the pressure. we need a change in leadership, whether that's for our own economics security, national security, food security, energy security, we need a change in leadership.

they didn't want to give that to you and you had a copy and you and charles grassley released it.isn't that the same informant that met with the ceo of burisma and chronicled that conversation and gave that information to the fbi? and in that information didn't it say that that is where he said he thought the head of burisma said he thought hunter was stupid and his dog was smarter? didn't they say he didn't want to give the bidens money but he had to and was forced to. $5 million for one biden and and $5 million for another biden. it will take 10 years to find out how that money was paid. did that happen, sir? >> yes, sir. you look at the 1023 form that allege the bribery. it is consistent with what we have seen in romania. it is consistent with the timeline that you and john solomon have documented on your show tonight. i believe that one reason why hunter was cced on the e-mails where joe biden was using a fake name is so hunter could prove to the ukrainian oligarch that help is on the way. we heard from devon archer say that the owners of burisma were squeezing hunter biden sa

>> it was certainly senator grassley's and my experience, we were denied access the all kinds of documents were = always under the the excuse, well, we have an active investigation. we can't turn that investigation over to you. so the d. of justice, the fbi is insulate aring themselves from congressional oversight and public scrutiny, and they do it by having an active investigation. i expect this is going to dramatically frustrate the house's ability to actually get to the truth of the matter here. will: senator ron johnson, thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> have a good day. will: okay. rachel, over to you. rachel: all right. thank you so much, will. we're going to turn now to some of your headlines. overnight, minneapolis police officer discharged from the hospital to applause after he was shot in the line of duty last night. police say he was ambushed while following robbery suspects. he was taken to the hospital while his fellow officers chased the suspects, taking two men, a woman and a boy into custody. >>> far-left congresswoman cori bush cashing in on a side hust

jordan's view was echoed by kevin mccarthy and chuck grassley and tim scott, who said that weiss isn'tunter biden's attorney said in a statement, the u.s. attorney has diligently been investigating my client for five years and had proposed a resolution. we are confident when all of these maneuvererings are at an end, my client will have a resolution and moving on with his life successfully. joining me now is whistleblower gary shaply, he worked for the irs for 14 years and was the first irs whistleblower to come trd in the hunter biden investigation. he testified before a house committee just last month. gary, thank you for being here. you testified that at this meeting on october, 2022, david weiss said he wasn't the deciding authority, and that's contrary to what he had been saying to letters to congress. does this recent move confirm or refute your testimony? >> thank you for having me. so yesterday's announcement was an admission by attorney general garland that they have not been truthful with the american people. it goes right to w= you just said. he did not have the authority to

. >> i would point out that the judge in this case is a trump appointee, a former chuck grassley chiefent that i would have on this sentence. >> bret: okay. we'll follow these cases. not a lot of places are. but we will. thanks, panel. ♪ finally tonight, tonight's throwback, august 31st, 1897, thomas edison receives a patent for his movie camera. he developed the camera and its viewer in the early 1890s. the initial idea was to put sound recordings with moving pictures to increase sales of the phone graph, which edison had invented in 1877. that's in the way back machine. thought we would bring you back. tomorrow on "special report," our common ground segment with the top members of the house select china committee dealing with bipartisan efforts to combat the growing threat from china. and don't forget, the second debate coming up from the reagan presidential library. you don't want to miss it. it's going to be a good one, dana, stuart and ilya, they have got the hymn. please remember you can't catch us live, set your dvr. fair, balanced and unafraid. "the ingraham angle" starts in ju

guy if you put together the bombshell testimony they came out from the fbi informant from senator grassleythe two whistleblowers in the irs thanks to jason smith created the whistleblower for irs agents and you put it together with the laptop this is a clear case against joe biden its ancient statutes being brought into play not relevant to donald trump and were criminalizing free speech and metaphor fight like hell now is a crime this is what our country was founded on is a dangerous path we are going down with this prosecution. >> it appears so but you hit on something that's so obvious to many of us every time there's serious evidence against as president, joe biden and his family through 176 specific activity reports massive testimony, stunning testimony or bank records to indicate all the millions of shell companies which made their way into biden family accounts the very next day we get an indictment of trump or extra charges of trump it's very obvious that they're taking the story out of the main street media headline so the mainstream media has something else to cover. even former

and i think that these are some of the many issues that ron johnson and chuck grassley but to attention2020. that biden's work and national security risk. those two senators, very capably argued this adds through the equation. it is another piece of this that i think is going to become more and more important. hunter biden's appearances on air force two. he is traveling around the country. he is also getting this information to use his son with the traveling with the travel preparation to score his deals. why is he on air force two? why is he getting government e-mails sent to his father -- why is his business partner getting to meet with joe biden at his swanky restaurant? these are why the biden schedule has gotten so much more serious in the last few months. >> sean: we come a long way, john, from joe biden saying repeatedly, it never once did he ever talked to his son hunter or brother or anybody for that matter about the foreign business dealings, you know that he had at least according to devon archer at least 20 calls that he knows of. it looks like a very, very bad timeline for

. >> there's been talk by grassley and others about a $5 million payment. that's false. he said that there's no $5 million payment to hunter or joe that he knew about. he said that all of hunter's payments from burisma went through their joint account during the time that devon archer was on the board. and he said that joe biden received no money ever from burisma. >> house republicans announced today a probe into the plea deal hunter biden got. the plea deal is up in the air after the federal judge balked at it. do you think the gop investigation on that is going to go anywhere? or is this just endless? >> it's truly stunning to me. this is the taxpayer funded defense and political arm of donald trump. the fact that a three-committee congressional investigation is looking into the plea deal of a private citizen -- by the way, a plea deal that was entered into by a trump-appointed u.s. attorney, who president biden kept on to ensure the independence of the investigation, that they would now actually use taxpayer funds in order to investigate a plea deal, is

over 10000 committed caucus goers in the governor over 38 in the nine counties he'll do the full grassleyine, seven of the ten counties in new hampshire, he is putting in the work, he knows he has to earn annie's really looking forward to the debate on wednesday. mike: today on "fox news sunday", former ambassador and governor nikki haley sold her qualifications to be the next president, let's play it. >> it is time for someone who has executive experience and has actually managed government like i was when i was a two-term governor and it's time for someone who has strong foreign policy experience that can focus on getting the world safe again, that's what i'm determined to do. mike: why should voters take a closer look at ambassador haley? >> of course i think nikki haley said at the best this morning. as a two-term governor and the former ambassador to the un, she has what no other candidate on that stage is going to demonstrate. she is a foreign policy, domestic with economics and she talks a lot about. she is not afraid to. she has been traveling quite a bit to 80 town halls across i

. >> bret: that's the similar argument you're hearing from republicans from chuck grassley to jim jordan james comer. is there another side to this? that there is a lot of jeopardy potentially for hunter biden, or is this -- does this sound like it is about protecting and preventing republicans from getting information. >> there's no question this magnifies the danger for hunter biden. his attorney told the prosecutor in the courtroom, well, let's just rip it up. that doesn't go over well with most prosecutors, and there are some major charges out there, like a fara violation with an unregistered foreign agent. they can up some of these accounts to felonies. he is not in a good place. the problem i think for people on the hill is that garland didn't expand the mandate. he's still talking about investing hunter biden, not his father. department of justice refused to answer whether president biden could be investigated. that's going to add pressure on the hill to say, all right, then we're going to have to go forward with this. >> bret: the other thing, shannon, broke when i was anchoring

. >> now, archer was also asked about this fbi form 1023, the tip sheet that senator grassley made public there were $5 million payments that were made to the bidens and suspicions of presbribery. archer said the allegations were not credible. his attorney said that, you know, it was clare to them that both sides are gonna be claiming victory here but all archer did was answer questions honestly. >> okay. we will follow this. thank you. >>> so this mora cardi b concertgoer claims she was struck by an item thrown from the stage. no arrest or citation has been issued. the video shows cardi b performing when an audience member threw a drink on stage. cardi throws microphone. this is the latest in a slew of incidents where artists have had objects thrown at them while on stage. cnn reached out to a representative for cardi b and to the clark county district attorney. >>> this morning asylum seekers in new york city camps outside the roosevelt hotel relief center which is at expressway capacity. there are told there is no more room and the wait could be two days to two weeks. omar jimenez join

i also think trump is old, and grassley is old, i think age limits need to be addressed. >> gillian: candidates are trying to stand out among the crowd at the iowa state fair as fox news releases the latest power rankings. former president donald trump maintains a strong lead in both national and the state polls. voters favored alternative as florida governor ron desantis despite some major recent campaign setbacks. we have fox team coverage, but begin with alexis mcadams on the ground in des moines. alexis, senator scott is gaining more support as the days go on. >> hey, gillian, that's right. we saw it here on the ground firsthand in iowa as he was working the crowds and connecting with voters. people were stopping him every two steps and trying to shake his hand and talk with him about his vision for america. so this afternoon senator scott in the top three in the power rankings. he says it's because of his common sense conservative views and he believes america is ready for a new face. listen. >> you think voters are ready to move on from donald trump? >> i'm running for presiden

for re-election in november, two weeks later the doj then appointments the special counsel, when grassley this essentially joe biden is alleged to be in a bribery scheme by an fbi source the next day, bomb, the docket in the case falls. and this, devon archer's explosive system that joe biden was potentially involved in hunter biden's business dealings, certainly had knowledge of them, why are they doing this now two and a half years later and because trump surges in the polls, biden takes a nosedive in the polls and investigations continue to get closer to joe biden. >> i disagree. i mean, i think the problem we see is that donald trump for the gop has just become too big to fail, no matter what happens republican loyalists are looking away, saying it's not -- not donald trump's fault, he can do no wrong, it's the doj, it's all a political witch hunt and that's what they are saying about the department of justice and i think it's a problem. when you just focus on the department of justice doing wrong and going after them for political witch hunt, it leaves the political -- the real nugge

senators, some of them still around today like mitch mcconnell, and until recently, pitt lahey, chuck grassleysome of the senators still around today. when he met with the senators, it was easy for him, who was so skilled in debate and logic and rhetoric, to feel the inquiries and charmed them as he had done some others. >> one last clip i thought would be interesting to hear, with joe biden in an exchange with nominee antonin scalia a. let's watch. [video clip] >> i intend to take a similar contrary approach not a public thought as there is no use preaching to the choir. >> i'm kind of fighting against that here, fighting against that inflation here. >> well, let yourself go. because it's pretty boring so far. [laughter] >> i can't answer that question by knowing what you mean by the right of privacy. >> can you acknowledge whether or not you believe that there is a fact -- that we start over again. do you believe that americans as a whole belief that there is a right to privacy that they have, inherent, they have a right to privacy. do you think that is a deeply and profoundly help belief by

then only thanks to senator grassley, we get to see it. anyway, that document bribery allegations against joe and hunter biden. from a credible source. a credible source because the fbi paid this informant in the past, hundreds of thousands dollars. the very next day, june 8, the doj jack smith, indicts donald trump in the mar-a-lago document case. okay, mere coincidence. july 26, hunter biden unprecedented sweetheart deal with the doj, was introduced in court. then rejected by federal judge. the very next day july 27, jack smith adds even more charges and the trump mar-a-lago document case. i guess pretty weird, another odd coincidence, right? but there's more. july 31, that will be yesterday. hunter biden former business partner, testifies before congress, that joe biden was on over 20 calls and in person meetings with his son, hunter's business partners. that of course, contradicted the big lie as both a candidate and as president, that he never one time, even talk to his son hunter, or his brother or anyone for that matter, quote unquo

so this is why chuck grassley on the senate budget committee and house ways and means chair jason smithletter to the irs wanting to know if the agency dropped the ball when it comes to scour and what exactly is missing. they say the irs's lackadaisical attitude with regard to millions of taxpayer records containing social security numbers tax records other sensitive tax information is appalling. the american people deserve better. it is a he not just individual taxpayer data that's gone but also sensitive business records as well, according to that ig report. >> trace: somebody dropped the ball. maryanne thank you. >> reporter: thank you. >> trace: coming up a new covid-19 vaccine will be rolling out very soon. what the biden administration wants you to do about it. but first, a police officer has an unexpected encounter during his nighttime patrol. and the queen of gymnastics is back with a record break performance. the day's best viral videos are next but first a live look tonight, downtown seattle. about 8:32 in seattle. we are coming right back. >> woman: why did we choose safelite?

breaking while we were here and we saw the ranking republican on the senate judiciary committee, chuck grassley and we asked him what he thinks. >> is the first time i heard of it, sounds to me it should've been done along time ago. lisa: that was generally the reaction early this morning as news was breaking, republicans applauding this. a sentiment from any voters that they know about the hunter biden case, it is a phrase in the minds of iowans. we talked to some who felt things are not there. here are some voters we talked to. >> i think there needs to stop being two sets of rules some for republicans, some for democrats. should be the same for everybody. >> it is way too biased. lisa: initially there was a lot of applause for the decision. as news stories came out, there was more skepticism about what it would mean. what might affect iowa more is the date of president trump's trial. there is a proposal for it to be in january. former president trump put out a statement saying he sees that as election interference in the iowa caucuses. no one in iowa wants to see the front runner candidate i

remember, we're still trying to figure out whether the fd 1023 form the fbi had that chuck grassley, gop senator released made allegations by this one source trusted by the fbi in the past, about burisma, bribery only gives to all that kind of thing whether it was the bestie had no one to it's factual but it needs to be investigated. we have asked questions all along about whether it was pursued, whether it's being pursued now. for shokin to say no and his top general reached out and people from that part of the interview among many others very interesting. >> it's important point we talked about the 1023 at the time. this respected confidential source alleged $5 million went to under 5 million to the big guy from the ceo of burisma in order to get this guy, viktor shokin fired from his position there is not investigation of that company. and yet viktor shokin said he was never contacted for follow-up that is staggering. by the way shannon who said the portion of what viktor shokin said last night with brian kilmeade. >> i have no doubt there were illegal activities inside burisma. i

senate chuck grassley, for him it's weiss that's the cause for concern. >> i sent a letter saying we. on the other hand, i have some question about weiss doing it. >> reporter: well, that's because there's been so much back and forth. in may, irs whistleblower gary shapley testified that u.s. attorney weiss sought special counsel status because he felt limited in his powers to fully investigate hunter biden. weiss and attorney general merrick garland disputed the claims, now here's shapley's attorney. >> to choose that very same person to go ahead and elevate them to special counsel status when he has been claiming to congress all along that he didn't need it is, seems like an odd choice. >> reporter: and, griff, last hour you spoke with democratic congressman ami bera, he provided his thoughts. >> it's good for the country to see a former president on trial or, you know, a president's son on trial. i just would hope that there's a way to resolve these without putting the country through either one of these cases. >> reporter: well, critics also argue that appointing a sitting u.s. a

he's going to walk through here with iowa senators chuck grassley and joni ernst.e is also scheduled in addition to the soap box he had yesterday where he had 20 minutes to talk to the crowd, he's going to be sitting with the governor of iowa for a fairside chat. the addition of other candidates, miami mayor, francis suarez. tomorrow is the big day. we're going to see donald trump arrive here. we're not expecting victor or poppy to see him flipping pork chops, or, you know, he's going to sort of redefine what it means to be at the iowa state fair as he has throughout this entire primary campaign. guys. >> i don't think we saw in 2016 he was flipping pork chops. even to the butter cow. >> those were butter cows. >> i know you guys do the butter sculptures but on iowa, what's the impact of this visit. i saw the schedule for the soap box, it's packed with candidates. how much of a difference can the visit to the fair make on a candidacy? >> well, kind of continuing on that theme that donald trump has redefined the primary. in a normal year, i would say that this is ve

i think that -- senator grassley of iowa, third conservative republican, introduced a bill earlier thisal trials. it had four democratic cosponsors, including senator amy klobuchar, democrat of minnesota. and i think, look, here the republicans are out there saying that this is a made-up case, that this is just free speech, that trump is being prosecuted in order to prevent him from running for president, and blah blah blah, and if they believe those things, let the american public see the trial and see how those defenses aaron a court of law. >> yeah, and i'm curious, stuart, in terms of the persuasive possibilities here. it is polling is interesting to me. reuters ipsos -- we cited this yesterday. republican respondents. would you vote for donald trump if you were convicted of a felony crime by a jury? yes, 35%. no, 45%. don't know, 20%. and then -- i like this one. would you vote for him if he was currently serving time in prison? yes, 28%. no, 52%, don't know -- my question to you is, do you think this can have an effect? a televised trial? or just the trial -- a particularly televi

senators grassley and johnson sent letters demanding information about those names they still have not. remember hillary clinton? how many of those did joe biden willingly send over to the national archives but how many didn't get sent back over in the end? those are legitimate questions, too. if he was using government business on those accounts, can we be confident that there is a full record of everything that happened on those accounts? >> bret: investigations continue. we will continue to ask questions. thank you. panel, stand by. up next, the panel on president trump's criminal charge scheduling and, later, "tuesday x-tras," previously "tuesday tweets" as we head to break. my new book comes out october 10th, "to rescue the constitution." that is in a series of presidential books. you see them all right there. the last one on the right there comes out october 10th. so check it out. ♪ ♪ ♪ chevy silverado has what it takes to do it all. with up to 13 camera views. and the z71 off-road package. ♪ you ok? yeah. any truck can help you make a living. this one helps you build a life. che