what, what do we know about the issues currently being examined by the house judiciary committee? well, the star witness before the house judiciary committee was robert kennedy junior. the nephew of john f. kennedy, the former us president. and he was on the defensive. he made clear in his testimony that was not anti semitic, and she was not opposed to vaccines in principle. he was simply in favor of transparency and accurate medical information. but he base some pretty harsh accusations in questioning at the hands of democrats on the committee. now, also testifying was a bright bar order, and one of the issues that came up before the house judiciary committee, that was a big point of contention. and the hearing was the hunter bide, laptop story. you'll recall how us media declared the story to be russian propaganda, how facebook and twitter, even the outlaw on lot the sharing of the link band blank from being shared to the new york story. and now we understand the story about hunter biden's laptop used against back through yours a moment, the got rather jas, between a member of co

now we now have a deposition that was put forward by the house judiciary committee, confirming what was put forward and the hearing today that it seems like the, the, i knew this story was in fact true, but labeled a russian propaganda in this information for purely political reasons because they wanted to swing the election in jo biden's favor against donald trump. now at this point that brings us back to what was one of the main points of the hearing. voice rose, government suppression of freedom of speech and government agencies like the app, the i guiding social media and using social media to highlight certain messages while suppressing others that became a very big point of the hearing. let's listen because what we have seen in the last couple of weeks is irrefutable evidence of the fact that the f b, i has not only been systematically working to sensor american speech, but they have been facilitating it. and that in some cases that the has of foreign governments. so now we have an f, b i that is not just saying that they're going to fight for an interference. they're facilitating

now we now have a deposition that was put forward by the house judiciary committee, confirming what was put forward and the hearing today a that it seems likely api. i knew this story was in fact true, but labeled in russian propaganda. and this information for purely political reasons, because they wanted to swing the election in jo biden's favor against donald trump . now at this point, that brings us back to what was one of the main points of the hearing which rose governments, suppression of freedom of speech and government agencies like the app, the i guiding social media and using social media to highlight certain messages. wow. suppressing others that became a very big point of the hearing. let's listen because what we have seen in the last couple of weeks is irrefutable evidence of the fact that the f b, i has not only been systematically working to sensor american speech, but they have been facilitating it. and that in some cases that the has a foreign governments. so now we have an f, b i that is not just saying that they're going to fight for an interference. they're facilita

director christopher wray who defended his agency admits charges of weaponization before the house judiciary committee refusing to comment on investigation relating to the biden family scandal. more on all of that with house judiciary committee member south carolina congressman russell fry coming up. joy to the conversation strategic wealth partner mark tepper, the president daniel garza in restoring america editor for the washington examiner kayleigh mcgee white. mornin"mornings with maria" is e right now. ♪. maria: house republicans grilling fbi director christopher wray during the house judiciary committee. watch this. >> i'm sitting here with my father. i will make certain between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. it sounds like a shakedown, doesn't it director? >> i'm not going to get into commenting on that. >> are you protected the biden's? >> absolutely not. >> so the president is under investigation question. >> i'm not going to confirm or speak to who is or is under investigation. >> i

and one of the issues that came up before the house judiciary committee that was being part of contention in the hearings was the hunter by laptop story. you'll recall how us media declared the storage, the russian propaganda and how facebook and twitter even outlaw on lot the sharing of the link and the link from being shared to the new york coast story. and now we understand the story about a 100 buttons, laptop is in fact true. here's a moment that got rather dense between a member of congress and a bright bar report. i can say with confidence, what is going on with the binding family? is it absolutely it is, is absolutely horrific and undermines the very foundation of our country and our, the integrity of the people in the highest, highest elected and appointed offices in this country. the thing about the censorship was not only that it was or you know, deleted or whatever from twitter, but also it tested in a spurs and on, on the reporting on me that was literally made up. do you think the f b i tried to ensure that the american people didn't hear the story in order to change the out

the whole, the star witness before the house judiciary committee was robert kennedy junior. the nephew of john f. kennedy and the far us president i and she was on the defensive. he made clear in his testimony that he was not anti semitic, and he was not opposed to vaccines in principle. he was simply in favor of transparency and accurate medical information. but he faced some pretty harsh accusations in questioning at the hands of democrats on the committee. now also testifying was a bright margaret corridor. and one of the issues that came up before the house judiciary committee, that was, i'm seeing point of contention in the hearings, was the hunter by laptop story. you'll recall how us media declared the story to be russian propaganda and how facebook and twitter even outlaw on lot the sharing of the link and the link from being shared to the new york co story. and now we understand the story about a 100 minds laptop is in fact true. here's a moment that got rather jas, between a member of congress and a bright bar reporter i can say with confidence that what is going o

there's this, house judiciary committee considering a vote to hold mark zuckerberg in contempt of congressmean for his political influence going forward? we got a report on that next. ♪ big text censorship, house judiciary committee could hold a vote as soon as thursday to hold mark zuckerberg in contempt of congress. hillary vaughn on capitol hill. what has mark zuckerberg supposedly done? >> is to avoid this, all they have to do is turn over internal documents the committee is requesting but if they don't do that, sources tell me thursday would be the day they would vote hold mark zuckerberg in con contempt. an escalation in the building pressure cooker around the not just capitol hill but attorneys general who made moves to hold social media accountable for unfair politically biased censorship on their platforms. >> if mark zuckerberg is allowed to consolidate power and make it easier for the federal government to violate americans free speech rights on his platforms, that's what it's about, we can't let cover consolidate power and make it easier for the federal government to violate ou

now, jim jordan does his job as the chairman of the house judiciary committee in a way that even joe mccarthy would think was out of control. the witness at today's hearing of the house judiciary committee was fbi director christopher wray. jim jordan and other republicans used to hearing and others to pretend that the fbi is an arm of the democratic party, that the fbi had no legal reason to search trump's florida residence for government documents and classified documents, and that the fbi's investigation of hunter biden was designed to protect hunter biden. >> the idea that i am biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me, given my own personal background. >> you started out as an a usa, and i'm getting this information from wikipedia, the great font of knowledge in the digital age, but you started out as an a usa. you are nominated by republican president bush for the position of assitant attorney general and the assistant -- you are confirmed by a republican senate, if i'm correct in that. >> yes, by unanimous voice vote. >> and you are the nominated by republican pr

he is a member of the house judiciary committee.how did you and your democratic colleagues approach this hearing with christopher wray, knowing you would have to contend with so much crazy, the accusations, the unsubstantiated allegations? and i wonder if john durham's time before your committee last month provided you with some kind of a blueprint of how to approach this. >> thanks for having me, michael steele. and we have known all along what the playbook is going to be for republicans during the 118th session of congress. it is not to work on behalf of making life better for the american citizens. but instead, it is to tear down our governments, tear down our agencies. it's to muck up the fbi and the department of justice in the eyes of the american people, trying to taint the jury pool because they knew that donald trump would have to face justice -- and so, they want to take that jury pool, they want to stoke fear and intimidation in the hearts and minds of fbi employees, witnesses against donald trump, and anybody else, like

david: that was house judiciary committee chair jim jordan with us early on the gop's move to hold markg to comply with subpoenas to turn over documents related to the panel's investigation into whether or not the company censored free speech on its platform. house judiciary will consider the measure on thursday. meanwhile, here with me is author, investigative journalist math to -- matt taibbi. what do you think about the gop taking on zuckerberg? if. >> well, it's an extreme step, you know, contempt of congress. but i think, you know, chairman jordan, he's correct in identifying that there are a lot of indications that the same things that went on at twitter were going on at facebook. in fact, we had in the twitter files joint e-mails that were going from meta or facebook to both twitter and the fbi, for instance, so we mow they were talking about the same kinds of things. so he's right, i think, to look for that same kind of evidence. david: do you think that facebook is still in some way working with government agencies? >> i would imagine so. i would imagine all the platforms are,

it should be interesting when he goes before the house judiciary committee. what are your thoughts? >> it sure should. i've been on record saying let's give david weiss the benefit of the doubt. it's hard to ignore a few things. the hunter biden deal is extremely lenient. if most of us failed to pay $8 million in taxes t, we would not off so lightly. we heard from whistle blowers that serious impedements was put in the path of their investigation. david weiss was in charge. what happened there? what really gets me, the third one is they were instances where these investigations were drawn out so slowly that time simply ran out to bring charges in certain years. that's inexcusable. i think it's a lot of explaining that david has to do. >> you talk about inexcusable, nicole. former ag bill barr gave this 1012 1023 that's been released. weiss' team never gave it, imagine if you're an investigator with the irs, never gave it to them. that's a big missing piece of the puzzle. >> in listening to the whistle blower earlier on, he said i never heard or saw this. he also never had full acces

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i gets thrilled over unprecedented loss of trust as he testifies before the us house judiciary committee. you preside over the, the trust in the f, b. i's history. people trusted the f b. i more when chair for hoover was running the place the when you are. and the reason is because you don't get straight answers the, the thursday afternoon for moscow. this is our t international with the latest and world news today. i'm here, elizabeth black to have you with us, china, russia relations like a threat and behaves like, megalomaniacs, that's according to russia's foreign minister while speaking on the sidelines of the audience. that the premium to do so, she is told and breaks that even the relationship between rushing china is a threats. and the to this only proves the urgency of our task, of going through the molding forms of colonialism and had gemini, needa is non threatening to respect the solvency of other states. this is miguel, the many deadlines, this leadership to your car there is more than 10000 kilometers away from builders . but the sort of deal is right in the fact that the b

two investigation, that seem to capture headlines joining me california congressman member house judiciary committee foreign affairs committee select committee on witnessing of the federal government darrell issa back with us a pleasure to see you. thanks so much for joining me. >> thank you for having me one we are going to certainly thank director wray for the good, hard work that so many fbi agents do. but just as a police force has 99% good police, and 1% on the take, from criminals, you don't ignore the wrongdoing we can't ignore wrongdoing much of which emanated from headquarters of the fbi, including, suppressing america's free speech. >> goes back several years at this point russia collusion story fbi pursued russia collusion charges against president trump spied on his campaign. you know destroyed lives like carter page, others to the sitting on hunter biden laptop president trump getting impeached new hunter biden, family mexico had taken in money on biden laptop censoring information working with twitter all of this has taken place last several years the american people are on to it. how

and a very inappropriate. >> joining me now, maryland jeopardize glenn ivey, member of the house judiciary committeefor joining us. i appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> that shocking moment on the house floor, what was your reaction? >> i heard it as it was being said. i cringed, frankly when he said that. i was quite surprised. and i appreciate the fact that congresswoman beatty responded immediately, and asked that the words be taken down. i'll say this about congressman crane. i've served with homeland security, i don't know that it was badly intentioned. but this is exactly the reason we need the type of diversity and inclusion efforts and training that the republicans were trying to strike down this week. so it is the irony, it should be lost on any of us that this happened. and they have been fighting to prevent us for making sure it doesn't happen in the future. >> so i want to talk about these amendments on diversity, abortion, and transgender care as well. they are expected to die in the senate as we well know. but is there a concern about getting a clean version of this bill acr

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congressman wesley hunt a member of the house judiciary committee. you guys have been talking about impeachment, congressman, i know the people of texas, especially your district would support something like this. but how do you make the case to the american people? >> you know, in has actually been one of the most corrupt administrations we have seen in modern history. we could literally track $10 million being funneled through the biden family from burisma and we have the evidence of this. i cannot imagine any president using his power former president, vice president, any politician for that matter, using their power to funnel money to their family through their siblings. this is ridiculous. it's up to us on the house judiciary committee to continue to make this case to the american people. i also want to say this, too. quite frankly if we do impeach biden it's only going to rally the troops around him. politically it may not be the best move but in my opinion he least us no choice. and if articles of impeachment are brought forward, wesley hunt w

you have people like house oversight committee chair james comer, at least playing along, and house judiciaryow much they actually believe what they are saying. as far as the facts of the matter. like, how much they believe that they are, that they are this close to actually proving that joe biden got several million dollars from ukraine, the story that they have been pushing, just based on someone who told rudy giuliani something, who he did not hand over to doj. and then, this person was interviewed by doj. and there's a form out there with that interview. no proof, but they have been saying that this form, with this story, it will show that, yes, there is a biden crime syndicate out there, both beneath the surface. and that is so ridiculous. and that is because they need something to blame, someone to blame -- something to say, okay, we are almost there, we've almost got this. they keep finding new little crumbs to pick up and say, look at this delicious cake. >> christina, attorney general merrick garland was asked to respond to the gop's attacks on the department of justice. watch what h

eastern with christopher wray the fbi director at testifying before the house judiciary committee. lso watch on c-span.org and the free c-span now video app. members starting to arrive in that room for the house judiciary committee on capitol hill. in the meantime, some news this morning. first on the domestic front, the numbers out on the inflation consumer price index that is the measure of inflation in the past month. consumer prices in america rose at the slowest pace since march of 2021 showing signs of cooling in juneau. that is from the bureau of labor statistics this morning. they say it cpi rose .2% last month and 3% over the prior year in june. a slighted celebration for may's .1% month over month increase meta-slowdown compared to the months 4% annual gain. good news on the inflation they are. and overseas president biden is that the key nato summit and he spoke this morning while standing next to ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy about efforts to aid ukraine in its ongoing war against russia. this is some of what he said earlier this morning. >> you just concluded

joining me now is house judiciary committee chair jim jordan. congressman, what was that post?oh, it was a people. it was one of these class action lawsuits that said, you know, if you have been harmed by covid call 1-800. one of these things. they were even censoring a meme, humor. here is the kick core. they knew it was wrong one of those facebook executives said this is significant incursion into the boundaries of free expression. that is a fancy way of saying this violates the first amendment for goodness sake. but, because they were -- the white house was outraged because jen psaki stood there at the podium what you played in the white house and demanded this happen because the white house was demanding it. and they wanted to keep their cozy relationship with the biden administration they censored first amendment speech. more documents going to slow it even more so. >> laura: what can be done about this because biden is still in the white house. >> i hope it's not continuing because we had that great federal court decision on july 4th in western district of louisiana. grea

. >> carley: the house judiciary committee will hold a hearing with mark zuckerberg for failing to providee censorship accusations. >> todd: cheryl casone has more. >> cheryl: fox business learned house judiciary committee is moving forward with plans to possibly hold zuckerberg in contempt of congress. republicans say meta ceo and the company refused to comply with request for documents surrounding communication with white house request to censor information on the platform. meta saying meta operated in good faith with request for information. we have delivered 53,000 documents internal and external and made current and former employees available. meta will comply with the committee. the committee, under leadership of jim jordan alleges meta played a central role in the censorship plan. >> carley: company bought land near an air force base, tell us about that. >> cheryl: eyebrows raised as flannery and associates have purchased land around an air force base. purchases started in 2018 and it is worth $800 million. this land is zoned agricultural use. there is concerns the company has ties

i'm not on the oversight committee, i serve on house judiciary and the weaponization committee. this is specifically oversight committee hearing, so we have key members there, jim jordan, the chair of the house judiciary committee as you know and also on oversight is in the room as are other members and of course our expert professional staff who are deep in the weeds on the evidence, and the republican side has two full hours. we'll find out. >> bill: when do you believe we will learn about what he said? could that be this afternoon? >> well, it may be -- i expect some of our members may be talking to the press after this. chad just mentioned there in his report that the full transcript will be available in 3 to 4 days, and that will be anxiously anticipated by a lot of people. you know, what we believe mr. archer is going to say is that he was involved in these exchanges on the telephone, for example, you know, conference calls where the president himself was involved being introduced to these foreign oligarchs and business dealings, and goes against everything he has said abou

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the chairman of the house judiciary committee jim jordan wants the fbi's headquarters out of d.c. does he want him out and where does he want him to go? >> alabama and wants him out of d.c. because being centered in the nation's capital you are more political. they are building a new estimated 3 billion plus headquarters or trying to and maryland and virginia, everybody is fighting where the headquarters will be and jim jordan is saying they already have an office in alabama, why don't you make that the headquarters and get them out of the country entirely? he's withholding money, appropriations of it doesn't happen. stuart: check those futures, love it. the dow will be up 200 plus points, opening of the market in about six or seven minutes time. the opening bell is next. ♪ on the futures market this morning, that looks like a rally, does up 200, nasdaq 252. if you're just joining us, the news is inflation and the consumer level of 3% in the last 12 months. mark is with me now. inflation is clearly slowly and the market is rallying nicely. are you on board with this rally, are you

maria: house judiciary committee jim jordan is asking the house appropriations committee did not grantor the fbi's new headquarters unless it relocates to huntsville alabama the house judiciary writing this on twitter the benefits of moving fbi headquarters to huntsville alabama 20 - 30 fbi already have a presence there, the fbi already considers the second headquarters and already a runway for christopher ray's private jet, joy to be ohio congressman max miller the house agriculture science basin technology committees, let's talk about this. is this a joke? or are you trying to push the headquarters to alabama? >> i don't think it's an actual joke. i think what congressman jordan is doing is a first step in the right direction there is a liberal bias within the department of federal bureau investigation and agency should say. we do not trust in the american people from what i've seen of the constituents that i listen to every single day when i go back home that they believe we live in a two-tier justice system and i believe that we saw that come full circle when hunter biden got the s

on capitol hill, and he faced a steady stream of attacks from republican members of the house judiciary committee from the role of the fbi, classified documents case, to the recent investigation of hunter biden. wray tried to push back on accusations of partisan bias. sara murray has more. >> reporter: fbi director christopher wray -- >> thank you, good morning. >> reporter: pulling no punches in critiquing former president trump's sloppy retention of classified documents. >> i don't want to be commenting on a pending case, but i will say that there are specific rules about where to store classified information, and that those need to be in a scif, secure compartmentalized information facility. and in my experience ball rooms, bathrooms and bedrooms are not scifs. >> reporter: and insisting that the bureau is not protecting the biden family. >> are you protecting the bidens? >> absolutely not. the fbi -- >> you won't answer the question. hold on. you won't answer the question about whether -- >> reporter: he also disavowed some of the behavior outlined in john durham's probe which documented miss

security service , defended the internet scandal after the publication of reports by the house judiciary committeeso ukraine sent representatives of the us congress for ocean accounts, which it considered unreliable fbi agents, as it turns out, they didn’t even check the information received, what is called tightening the screws? here's what the report says. at the beginning of the conflict , the ukrainian security services handed over to the fbi lists of social media accounts that allegedly spread russian disinformation . the fbi, in turn, regularly handed over these lists to the social media management bodies. during the course of the judicial investigation committee. senate it turned out that the fbi ordered the hut to mark, including the real accounts of americans, including verified accounts of the us state department and american journalists, the committee was instructed to investigate the violation of the rights of citizens of the united states completed tasks, the declassified american atomic project, and his ability to persuade people to cooperate are legendary, and the operations that he

let's bring in congresswoman madeleine dean of pennsylvania, member of the house foreign affairs committee, the house judiciaryttee, which means you will have a busy moment at some point. i want to start on the foreign policy side of things. when you take a look at what is course of the last several days, how do you feel like the nato alliance is coming out of this? >> i feel like it's coming out very strong. i think about it and the conversations that are going on, the progress that has been made in the support of ukraine, the robust support of ukraine and how indispensable the united states and this administration have been in summoning the support of nations through sanctions or munitions and other humanitarian aid. so while i imagine that it's extraordinarily frustrating for president zelenskyy not to have a roadmap and a calendar and timeline or invitation, i think it's understandable why we wouldn't want to invite now into nato as nato is growing and becoming more robust and more unified, because of article 5. we know all about that. an attack on one is an attack on all. i hope that we will do everything

it is the house judiciary committee being stonewalled on any communication between -wise and attorney. this does not surprise me, a few weeks ago when hunter biden took the plea deal the d.o.j. came out with a response little bit later the said this is the plea deal but we're still investigating, that was specific and they did that on purpose, when they say they're still being investigated the d.o.j. and fbi will hide behind that and they were talking to provide details to anybody because it is still under investigation. the minute they said that i knew this was going to happen jim jordan is going to have to subpoena the documents you may have to go further than that but at the end of the day it's d.o.j. from congress and they are not going to do it. they still say is under investigation. this is what makes people know there's two tears of justice going on right now and it's really good to be abided with the d.o.j. >> to golf executives are skipping the senate hearing about the league's merger with the pga, here's what connecticut senator chris murphy had to say about the merger last

. >> bill: next we can chris wray will publicly testify at the house judiciary committee. republicans on that committee are investigating allegations of political bias within the f.b.i. and d.o.j. meanwhile, law enforcement agencies bracing for a legal battle that may ultimately reach the u.s. supreme court. d.o.j., david spunt, picks it up from there. >> it is picking up as we await an appeals court hearing on the social media order. several federal law enforcement sources privately told me there are serious concerns about this injunction that on the surface would block them from talking to social media companies. d.o.j. is appealing that ruling from u.s. district court judge based in louisiana who issued the injunction on tuesday on july 4th stopping top biden administration officials and other agencies, including the f.b.i., a.t.f. and d.e.a. which fall under the umbrella of the d.o.j. from talking to social media companies about content containing protected free speech. the problem for federal law enforcement agencies, those agencies talk to social media companies abou

house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan is asking the house appropriations committee to hold backeadquarters unless it relocates the headquarters to huntsville, alabama. joining me is north carolina congressman, greg murphy, member of the house veterans afares, ways and means and administrative committees, the co-chairman of the gop doctors' caucus. great to see you. thanks for being here. is this realistic to move fbi headquarters to alabama. >> sure, administrations move different parts of agencies all the time. we did it back in north carolina. so it's a good idea. i think it's a fascinating one because it gets you out of the swamp as it is in d.c. to get away from all the influence and actually so you can do your job and not be so influenced by politics. they shouldn't being influenced by politics in d.c. maria: i don't know what other levers you all have to pull. you're getting stonewalled left and right. somebody's lying in terms of the hunter biden had investigation. and you're not getting the witnesses that you need because many of them are getting intimidated, gal luft wa

but at today's house judiciary committee they not only acted as director chris wray's body guard theyabeled charges against legitimate whistleblowers. here's congressman jerry nadler. >> chair man jordan invited some of these so-called whistleblowers to testify before the weaponization sub committee in may. as it turns out two of the witnesses were ultimately paid $250,000 each for their testimony, money raised in part by former trump aide kash patel and paid by a check whose memo line reads, quote, for holding the line. >> laura: joining us now is tristan levitt from empower oversight and jason foster from empower oversight both representing whistleblower marcus allen. tristan your response to nadler as allegations. apparently your client is only in there for the money. is there truth to that. >> pretty outrages. isn't the first time it's shoot first and ask questions later from him and his staff. they did it in march and obviously haven't learned from their mistakes but as the world saw when marcus allen testified at this last hearing, he is someone without a paycheck for a year and

house committee to get it. grady trimble has more. >> the house judiciary committee was set to go forward with a vote to hold markerg in contempt of congress. but jim jordan called it off and posted a long threat on x, formerly twitter. he's calling this thread the beginning of the facebook files. he says it contains a trove of internal documents never been released from meta, formerly facebook, and he says these documents show that the biden administration basically asked me too to take down content that it deemed misinformation. here's one of the posts from jordan's long thread. he says in april 2021, a facebook employee circulated an e-mail for facebook's ceo mark zuckerberg, cheryl san berg writing that we're facing continued pressure from external stakeholders, including biden white house to remove posts. other documents jordan posted appeared to show that facebook even changed its content moderation policies because of the political pressure. >> it's pretty sad that you have to threaten a subpoena for documents to get the information that we've requested in a professional manner. right before a vote on cont

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the house judiciary committee called off that vote, the contempt vote, and just hours before it was supposedthat committee, jim jordan, are released this long thread on x, formerly twitter. of he's calling them the facebook files, and they detail never before released internal documents if from facebook. in one of his tweets or posts on x, jordan includes a screen shot of one of the documents and says in april 2021 a facebook employee circulated an e-mail for facebook ceo mark zucker bear, coo sheryl sandberg writing, we are pace thing continued pressure from external stakeholders including the white house to remove posts. jordan goes on to to say these documents and others that were just produced to the committee prove that the biden administration abused its powers to coerce facebook into censoring americans, preventing free and open discourse on issues of critical public importance. jordan says the documents show facebook caved to pressure from the white house and removed content that expressed skepticism about the covid vaccine. in some cases he says facebook even changed its content mod

maria: and that was house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan on this program two weeks ago on thetment over two misdemeanor tax charges and a felony firearm charge which is expected to result in probase. probation. this despite a pair of irs whistleblowers saying their work head to the agency recommending felony charges against hunter biden, but they were not pursued by the doj. while fbi officials finally that handed over the deal document republicans wanted to see, but the fbi redacted the part vealing a foreign partner -- revealing a foreign partner of the bidens recorded their deal conversations 17 times, 17 recordings that we want to know where they are. mean while, a new poll from rasmussen shows a majority of voters, 55%, disapprove of hunter biden's plea deal. joining me right now with more on this is the chairman of the house ways and means committee, congressman jason smith. mr. chairman, always a pleasure. thanks for being here. >> it's great to be with you, maria. maria: you are going back in session beginning on tuesday, and you and your colleagues will be here until

attorney weiss wrote to house judiciary committee chair jim jordan on june 7.authority over this matter, including responsibility for deciding where, when, and whether to file charges and for making decisions necessary to preserve the integrity of the prosecution consistent with federal law, the principles of federal prosecution and departmental regulations. but according to shappley's testimony in mid 2022 weiss reached out to the top federal prosecutor in washington to ask his office to pursue charges and was rebuffed, as was a request to prosecutors in the central district of california. much has been made over the reporting from "the new york times" piece, quote, a second former irs official who has not been identified told house republicans that same story. that episode was confirmed independently to "the new york times" by a person with knowledge of the situation. on friday, hunter biden's lawyer abbe lowell pushed back in a letter to the gop chair of the house ways and means committee. called them, quote, disgruntled agents with a bias and axe to grind a

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back in washington, the fbi director christopher wray testified before the house judiciary committeequestions from republican members on a range of rather controversial issues. cnn's sara murray has the story. >> thank you, good morning, chairman jordan, ranking member nadler, members of the committee. >> reporter: fbi director chris f toe fer wray weighing in on some of the most hot button political investigations in testimony on capitol hill, critiquing former president donald trump's sloppy retention of classified do you means. >> i don't want to be commenting on the pending case, but i will say that there are specific rules about where to store classified information and that those need to be stored in a scif, a secure compartmentalized information facility, and in my experience ballrooms, bathrooms, and birms are not scifs. >> reporter: insisting that the bureau is not protecting the biden family. >> are you protecting the bidens? >> absolutely not. the fbi does not, has no interest -- >> you won't answer the question about whether or not -- >> and disavowing some of the behavio

he sits on the house judiciary committee and participated in the hearing. thank you for joining us. you said kind of tongue in cheek you hope fbi director wray doesn't change his party affiliation after today's hearing. he's a registered republican. do you think that the fbi is pursuing conservatives unfairly? >> no, i don't believe that. i think director wray is a good person. i think he's doing his very best to make sure the fbi follows the evidence. and i think that the fbi is largely treated unfairly in how it has been perceived and portrayed in the public. >> so some of your republican colleagues are talking about using the power of the purse to punish the fbi and the department of justice by eliminating or reducing significantly their budget. politico reported that you said in a closed door meeting you cautioned your colleagues to be careful on this front and that you, quote, are not in favor of cutting doj. tell us why you think it would be a mistake for them to do so. >> well, first of all, we have used the defund the police movement against the democrats politically. the am

if we don't, we move ahead. >> the house judiciary committee will move forward with plans to site markerg for contempt of congress. mark said we began sharing documents before the committee's february subpoena and if continued to do so, to date we have delivered over 53,000 pages of documents internal and external and have made nearly a dozen current and former employees available to discuss external and internal matters including some scheduled this week. if zuckerberg were held in contempt, he could face up to a year in jail, up to a $100,000 fine. that's only in the doj or the u.s. attorney were to prosecute, which is unlikely. neil? >> neil: hillary, feel better. on capitol hill reporting on that. the homeland security secretary of the united states on capitol hill today. didn't go well. >> i'm tired of the open boarder. >> point of order. >> this is my opinion -- >> it's based on the standard that chairman set out in previous hearings. calling a witness dishonest -- >> is it your intempt to not respond to any questions to republicans, you came with that intent? >> that is incorrec