attorney general matt whitaker.e evidence we just heard from james comer came across your desk when you were a.g., what charges would you bring? >> what i known about this case, there is ongoing investigation in delaware with the u.s. attorney and should be even more investigation because everyday it seems new revelations come about that we learn more and more about this corrupt waterfall of cash that is spreading through the entire biden family and it is unbelievable to me at this point in time based on this evidence that joe biden didn't know, his entire family was being enriched. >> todd: influence pedalling is uncouth, bribery is a crime. do you see enough evidence to charge president biden with crime of bribery? >> i don't yet, but remember crime has specific element and high standard of beyond a reasonable doubt. i think the american people have made up their mind that the bidens were influence pedalling and were under the influence of places like china, romania, ukraine and otherwise. i don't think we have di

attorney general , matt whitaker.bi will not release it and james comer says there's serious evidence in they that document. it's unclassified. >> correct. and it's good to be with you this morning. i think they need to go further. they need to demand it and i saw jim jordan on your show on sunday and his point is tying their funding, the fbi's funding to their cooperation with congress' oversight responsibilities and this document's important for a couple reasons. first of all, it does outline a potential bribery scheme involving vice president at the time joe biden but more importantly it goes to the broader question of the biden family and their ties to both china and other international organizations but here's the real question. the fbi claims it's unverified and therefore congress can't be trusted with unverified information. why didn't they investigate this claim? you know, i think that's the bigger question. we know what the claim is. but they went obviously very far with the trump russian collusion, trying to

matt whitaker? >> yeah, this was the issue.his investigation in the first place can tell you there was medication but it was this conversation that was transferred from australia to our intel community that papadopoulos had -- mr. papadopoulos had in london. and it's hearsay on hearsay. it was uncorroborated. they didn't even try to substantiate it. and then they went and tried to get fisa warrants on both carter page and george papadopoulos. i mean, this is not how it's supposed to work. me meantime, brian, brennan at the cia and others knew that hillary clinton wants campaign was doing -- was executing a plan. and, for some reason, the fbi had no interest in the broader context of what was happening. i just -- you know, i knew some of this at the time. to see it laid out though, like changes everyone's decisions along the way. and we should have never gone through the pain of the two or three years of the russia hoax. >> brian: think all the people legal fees. thought he was going to jail. did he nothing. you told me in the b

and former actinvance g attorney general matt whitaker witnessed their lies firsthand. ed theirhe joins us now. matt , great to have you on the program. ogram.seven years of this now. i three hundred pages todayve c as you comome e to i don't knowf you've come to an understanding of something you already knew , but in>> essence, the the revelation of stuff that everyone should know that re you've always known. >> what's your reaction? yeah, well y, will ,ea it'h, w . to be with you tonight. i'm not sure everything was known. kny i think what reall frustrates me and should frustrate every americanme and f goodwill is that when this information was received from the australian intelligence community and andy mccabommunit, and peter struck received it,din they didn't verify it. they didn't check it out.'t t they didn't compare it to what other intelligence operations knew about what the hillary clinton campaign was planning on doing. they immediatelyry clint open ant investigation and then almost immediately try to get fisied ta georants on carter page and george papadopoul

for more on this we are joined by former acting attorney general matt whitaker.s for joining us on this saturday. i want to play a quick soundbite from andrew mccabe, former deputy director of the fbi who oversaw crossfire hurricane. this is what he said about the durham report. what is your response? >> john durham is wrong, don't think this investigation was legitimate. it is disappointing. it continues to fuel a false narrative about alleged fbi malfeasance that continues to this day, almost seven years after the events in question. >> reporter: what you make of the response? >> he was the one that made the decision to open up a full-blown investigation that became the special counsel's investigation. he can't admit i will -- that he was wrong. we worked together at doj, he had a bit of an air about him. he was unwilling and inflexible as they related to this. what durham found was an exhaustive, well-documented sort of story about what happened, the decision points that would ultimately be found to have no collusion between donald trump and russia. my hats of

as the news breaks let's bring in former acting attorney general matt whitaker you talk about a revolving door at the border.he went down there was deported four times or five times he was accused of assault and then they deported him and they could not find him. they couldn't find this guy. what you make of all of this? >> each time he was deported that say crime in itself. in addition to being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm a series of crime here and each chance that law enforcement had they were able to get him on the assault charges with the wife but now we have a horrendous crime that has been committed and five souls have been lost. it's a tragedy. >> i want to play this sound by april 19 the dhs secretary alejandra mallorca >> we are working every day day and night to ensure security very soon if this was two weeks ago we have this guy coming back and forth across the border numerous times and you have the dhs secretary saying the border is secure. we have millions of people coming across. smoke all reports suggest he wanted to flee to mexico but it was going to be har

. >> harris: matt whitaker former acting attorney general during the trump administration said this. >> the first two years of the trump administration we were ham strung by this invest gays. the media, every night it was bombshell, bombshell. people won pulitzer prizes and folks got million dollar book deals and people on cable tv making money and were all part of this conspiracy to lie to the american people. >> harris: david spunt is live for us at the justice department with more. david. >> i remember back in 2019 then president donald trump multiple times touted the john durham investigation anxiously awaiting it. here we are four years later. 306-page report dropped yesterday. it is scathing toward the f.b.i. no question about it. but an important note, this is the f.b.i. of 2016 and 2017. the f.b.i. includes in a statement to fox news they have made multiple changes over the past four years. let's read some other parts from the report, durham writes our investigation revealed that senior f.b.i. personnel displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor towards the information that

matt whitaker. the next hour of "mornings with maria" begins right now. maria: and it is time for the word on wall street, top investors watching your money. joining me a right now is laffer tangler investments president, art laffer junior and strategic resource group managing director. burt, great to see you. joining stacy and myself this morning. i want to get your take on the issues of the day. we've got a death ceiling negotiation so far no deal. we've got evidence of a rough or mixed bifurcated season for retail. burt, let's weigh in on that. lowe's reported a double he beat this morning for the first quarter earnings but it cut its full year sales forecast. dick's sporting goods earnings crossing right now, reporting a double beat on earnings and revenue. lowe's is down 1 and-a-half percent. dick's sporting goods up almost 3%. your reaction to what we're seeing in retail, burt. >> market reaction at lowe's is better than home he depot and lowe's has great leadership and a lot of fantastic management -- great management team that's all alums mostly o

>> matt gates went further and said defend and defang and said indict the agents responsible for this so now that we have the report, i think we will hear more about this. stuart: matthew whitakering attorney. the critical, no charges against anyone. does that make everything okay? >> of course not and it's good to be with you. i think frustrating for a lot of people, not only are there no charges but we have a damning report. we end up with a world upside down where the people that were biggest offenders made millions on both deals currently on television getting paid as inhibitors, it's outrageous that these folks still have careers after this report and what we have is it connected picture where we finally can see the full picture and it's not only embarrassing for the fbi but my concern is yesterday didn't go far enough, they haven't fixed the problems and it's likely to happen again unless there's fundamental change. stuart: mr. trump spoke to fox and he says this was the trees >> including members of congress including adam schiff that all colluded to not only go after candidate donald trump but ultimately president donald trump and undermine, hamstring and prevent him fr