then, after that debate, here's the kicker, stevery he chety, chair of the biden campaign calls up mike morellfor doing it all total political operation. >> pete: from start to finish. why jordan asked him why he did it morell says and i quote because i wanted him, joe biden to win the election. and he wasn't alone when the story first dropped in the "new york post" in october of 2020. the fbi went right to work debunking it. pressuring social media companies into believing it was a russian plant. but the fbi knew the laptop was real, hunter's laptop repairman handed it to them on a silver platner 2019. but that didn't stop them. they were trying to shut it down before it even leaked. remember, the fbi holding what are called table top exercises in aspen with twitter essex on, quote, a potential, hypothetical hack and dump operation on hunter. they were getting ready for something they knew would happen. and now we are learning the biden campaign was, too. by feeding lies to the intel community and then having them cover for him so joe could have a chance to beat trump. but the cover-up hasn't

so mike morel is a very respected intelligence career official. he rose to the deputy director level and twice as acting director of the most important spy agency. and he gets a call from tony blinken at a time mike morel's name is floated that he might be joe biden's cia director, doesn't get it but they float it. then dw he asks to get it out there. morel says he does it. only reason is because tony blinken asked him and he says his intention was to get joe biden elected. he intended to use a letter of disinformation to achieve a political goal in the united states election. he wanted joe biden elected and the letter was the vehicle by which he could do it. after the letter gets out and joe biden remembers it during the debate and brings it up, uses it to blunt donald trump's attacks on hunter biden, he gets a call. mike morel gets a call and says great job, the biden campaign congratulated him for weaponizing the letter in a way joe biden could use it to win the debate, try to win the debate. it was a political operation, masquerading as an int

what mike morell testimony is , according to u.s. intelligence officials who briefed me on it in the last 24 hours, is that anthony blinken called him and got him involved in getting this letter out there. and then a second person, nick shapiro, former assistant to john brennan, the former cia director , he was involved in distributing it to the media. so these testimonies are going to become public. we're going to see them are going to be able to watch what nick shapiro and mike morell told the committees. but u.s. intelligence officials today who are briefed on this matter know what mike morell told the committee confirmed to me today that he identified anthony blinken as one of the people who instigated and got him involved in this. and i'm going to add one thing to this. i want to know what joe biden knew and when he knew it. >> john solomon, great job. great reporting to right out of the fireworks on capitol hill today. where marjorie pellegrini humiliated fang fang to ex-boyfriend little eric swalwell during a hearing. >> take

day mike morell looks at it the next day. organizers on the 18th , all these other people to signn the letter, the 19th, the letter goes out and then on the twenty six . and the reason mike morell said he did the letter wassa he thought president trump wouldtr bring the issue up during thatwg debate on the twenty second of october. and of course, he did. and they wanted some statement that joe biden could use because as mr. morell said ,n th they wanted him to win. what happens on the twenty second? joe biden brings it up and then after that debate, here's steve the kicker. steve ricchetti, chair of the biden campaign, calls up mike morell. and thanks him for doing it all. it was a total political operation and the mostthanks h important fact is p laura , it was false. it wasn't russian disinformation. >> that laptop story looks to be true. well, just so people remember, it happened because there are a lot of facts lying around here tonight. this was during during the 20 20 debate. and this is what congressmansman jordan is r

the secretary of state contacts mike morell. he organizes on the 18 all these other people to send the letter. the 19th the letter goes out. the reason mike morell says he did the letter is because he thought the president would bring that letter up in the debate and he did. >> there are 54 intelligence folks who said -- 5 former heads of the cia, both parties say what he's saying is a bunch of garbage. nobody believes it except him and his good friend rudy giuliani. >> you mean the laptop is a russia russia russia hoax? liz: at that time, according to mike morell, the former chief of the cia, the biden campaign knew what it was doing. they knew they were misleading america. biden goes on tv and says it's russian disinformation. the audacity of this crowd is shocking. and how they went on this collusion hoax. it was hillary clinton who put that stuff inside the fbi. now we have this. this is squashing the hunter biden laptop story because it would damage the president and his lust for power. >> this is dirty tricks 2.0 in the 20

in the case of mike morel, he tried it in 2016. the former acting cia director did an op-ed in the new york times calling donald trump an unwitting agent of vladimir putin and fanning the flames of the steel dossier and the russia hoax 1.0. he wasn't successful there so i got together with antony blinken on russian hoax 2.0 in 2020. the question and in the case of secretary of state, antony blinken, it's not that he was trying to help joe biden win. he was try to hurt trump. in the process he framed a foreign government, foreign government he is now dealing with. he framed them for election interference that he himself was committing. if mike pompeo had done that, every media outlet would be demanding his resolution. and if he did not submit it then calling for his impeachment. that should be the case for an antony blinken as well. >> how is this not election interference? is hooper's coming election interference when they in fact were interfering with the election by keeping this critical information from the public and lying abou

other people to sign the letter, the 19th the letter goes out, and then on the 22nd, the reason mike morell said he did the letter he thought president trump would bring up the letter during the debate on the 22nd of october and they wanted some statement joe biden could use because as he said they wanted him to win. what happens on the 22nd? joe biden brings it up. and then after that debate, here's the kicker, steve row sheety chair of the biden campaign calls up mike morell and thanks him for doing it. it was a political organization and it was false, it wasn't russian disinformation, the laptop story seems to be true. >> laura: just so people remember what happened because there are a lot of facts going on here. this was during the 2020 debate and this is what congressman jordan is referring to, biden actually referencing this letter that we now know a lot more about. watch. >> look, there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he's accusing me of is a russian plant. >> you mean the laptop is now another russia russia russia hoax? you've got to be kidding me. >> th

welcome back the hunter biden cover-up new bombshell testimony from former acting cia director mike morelmonth before the presidential election in 2020, senior biden campaign advisor and secretary of state anthony plug-in reached out to mike morel to organize 50 current and past intelligence officials to sign onto a public statement which claimed the hunter biden laptop was russian disinformation. we do better because john ratcliffe appeared with me and said it was absolutely not disinformation this comes of a whistleblower at the irs who is now saying mismanagement of the agency's investigation of hunter biden, house republicans are demanding more from answers. nancy mace is a member of the house oversight committee and the committee has exposed all of this. she joins me right now. it's great to see you this weekend, thank you for being here. >> thank you as always. maria: what have you learned of the oversight committee of the influence peddling scandal. >> we learned a lot several of us from the oversight committee rapid department of treasury to review over 170 suspicious activity rep

a week after that, mike morel goes out. sisyncs with the hillary clinton campaign claim and says trump has been recruited by vladimir putin unwittingly pay that's a big allegation that by the way has been disproven. he did not even... bob mueller what all the resources he had couldn't find such a claim. that comes out and the story starts to hold where they start building with the dossier and the clinton campaign was blowing this up at the end of the election as a dirty trick, mike morel right in the middle of this and he's sitting so closely like what he was in the biden campaign in 2020. >> sean: if you doubted there is a deep state, this is it that you uncovered all of it and there's a lot more to come. john sullivan, we appreciate it. they are now calling on secretary of state tony blinken to resign over the allegations that he was in fact behind the infamous letter from 51 former intel officials falsely claiming that hunter biden's laptop was part of this russian disinformation campaign that fbi officials were warning

after that debate, here's the kicker, stevery chety, chair of the biden campaign, calls up mike morellt's the house judiciary chairman. obviously the chinese foreign minister was not weighing in on the hunter biden investigations. [laughter] in the beginning there here house judiciary committee democrats in an effort to smear secretary blinken and sensationalize a 3-year-old tabloid. jim jordan cherry picked excerpts of interview. no part of that interview demonstrates tony blinken or other biden campaign official asked write a letter about hunter's laptop. going back and forth there in the judiciary committee. bottom line is, it did have an effect, obviously, at that time, at that moment and turned out to be, you know, not russian disinformation. >> and republicans have said that they were going to investigate. this and that's what they are doing. this is part of their promise that they made coming into the house. i think that the transcript from that particular meeting did say morell, quoted morell saying it wasn't tony blinken who asked me to write this letter. but the letter was --

so just how long has mike morell been playing dirty politics on behalf of the democratic party? all right. here with the latest editor in chief, just news.com investigative reporter, our good friend, john solomon. is with us . >> john , good to see you . good to be with you, sean. okay, so we know now that morale was at the heart along tony blinken, of getting fifty one former intel officials to say that this has all the earmarks, meaning hunter biden's laptop of a russian disinformation campaign. >> correct. that's right. yeah, there's there's no doubt. and the same pattern repeats itself. >> four years earlier, a lot of people didn't pay attention. but slow down, sunny 16 . >> i want to stay on twenty twenty and then work my way back because you broke really big news tonight. i don't want people to understand the significance of it. sure. okay, so they got fifty one intel members. now, the fbi had that laptop in december of 2019, correct. >> they did. and they had authenticated by the spring of 2020. >> you know that for a fact. i do. >> that's news to me. i never knew that th

the group, the same group of people like mike morel who tried to do it in 2016 with the steel dossiere they were not successful, came back in 2020 and again knowing full well, deliberately when i had to mislead the american people and essentially said, love, we only need to keep us alive for two weeks. after that we can admit that the biden family laptop is real. but then it will be too late and that is exactly what happened met joe biden used it in the debate with donald trump. i have the letter care. fifty-one people have signed it. people abuse power back in 2016 and 17 with the russia collusion lie are in power once again and abusing the system once again. jonathan used the term maid men and his wonderful op-ed because he refers to antony blinken having run the pen biden center. funded by china. and then, you know, leading this letter, having the spies who lied go on the record and desk credit was a true story from the new york post. same with jake sullivan. the one who tweeted out hillary clinton's lie of trump colluding with russia and now he is the national security advisor. th

mike morel did not get the job he wanted, which is cia director. maybe that is why he has suddenly decided to come clean and expose the corruption. >> larry, what were you going to say? >> the scary thing, greg and sean, but for the computer store owner making a copy of this thing, we probably never would have known about it. as i said earlier the doj had this in their hands since 2019 and did nothing with it. we never would have known about it at all. talk about election interference. are you kidding me? >> what about the irs whistleblower seeking protection now, greg. and implicating the attorney general saying he may have lied under oath to congress. how real is that charge in your view? >> well, this is obstruction of justice by the department of justice. obstruction in the criminal code says corruptly impeding and influencing a legal investigation. that's what the whistleblower describes. two u.s. attorneys appointed by joe biden answerable to merrick garland came forward and stop to the criminal prosecution of hunter biden over his influence

this is acting ci director mike morel saying at the direction of tony blinken. who lied. that was the cover of the new york post 50, 51 former high level intelligence officials that told us the falsehood that that laptop story was disinformation. >> well, he also tells a story of how after tony blinken, who's now secretary of state called him and set in motion a series of events and executed over a couple of days leading up to have administer important presidential debate so that joe biden had the letter at the ready so that when this issue came up, he could say, listen, this is russian disinformation according to all these intelligence officials. this is very interesting and i don't believe tony blinken signed the letter. he had everybody else do it for him because he probably knew that it wasn't true, but he knew that he desperately and politically needed the letter to help his boss overcome serious allegations of corruption. will: i'm curious, matt, how would that work. blinken tells morel, go gather up these high level officials and do they have access to so

according to house republicans from former cia deputy director mike morelle.intent of the statement he was asked? he implied. there were two intents. one is to share our concern with the american people that the russians were playing on this issue and two, it was to help haven't biden. congressman jordan asks, you wanted to help the vice president? why? he answers because i wanted him to win the election. with that we bring in john ratcliffe, former director of national intelligence under president trump and someone that spoke out before and during all of this and said that from his perch at dni, he say nothing that indicated there was a russian information operation underway through hunter biden's laptop. mr. ratcliffe, good to have you here. what do you make of mr. morell's admission? >> i think you called it stu stunning. it is. it's also appalling. when you look at the details of what he tried to do and his testimony as you pointed out, i had already addressed this story publicly. adam schiff said the biden laptop was a smear campaign from the kremlin. i w

also breaking, is the acting -- the former acting cia director mike morell. he was in sworn private testimony. he told the house judiciary committee about the hunter biden story. the post, the "new york post" released that hunter biden story. remember then a few days later. everyone is reporting that's russian disinformation. how did they find that out? why were they reporting that? he says in front of the house judiciary committee that antony blinken who is now ourselves at the time he was working for the biden campaign back in 2020. he said blinken gets in touch with him. and he says i need you -- i need to you help biden by organizing 50 colleagues to sign a letter in october of 2020, falsely claiming that hunter's laptop story was russian disinformation. he said i wasn't planning on doing this but i organized the letter. he said over the next no days i gathered signatures from 51 foreigner intel jerusalem including john brennan and leon panetta we organized this letter. sent it to a specific reporter. politico published the letter on october 19th. the hea

maria: we've got new bombshell testimony from former acting cia director mike more morell.he election the secretary of state antony blinken reached out to morell to organize 50 current and past intelligence officials to sign onto a public statement which claimed that the hunter biden laptop was russian disinformation. of course, on that laptop was evidence of influence peddling. house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan and house intelligence chairman mike turner sent a letter to blinken, writing this, according to morell although your outreach was couched as gathering the reaction to the post story of influence peddling it set in motion the events that led to the issuance of the public statement. cheryl, we all remember this letter. it was on the cover of the new york post where 50 intelligence officials said the biden laptop was disinformation. the post was right. it was not disinformation as john ratcliffe came on this program, the former director of national intelligence, and told us exclusively this is not russian disinformation, i never shared this from the dni's

. >> norah: we ask mike morel former cbs news contributor is f his characterization is accurate and hed to comment. >> norah: thank you. if you're planning to travel internationally this summer you are not alone, millions of americans hope to get away and that has led to unprecedented demand for passports. cbs's kris van cleave reports on what you need to know. >> passport problems posing a threat to summer vacation. rachel quartaron's family is all booked up for two weeks in europe. >> this is our last a big family trip for a while with my son going off to college. >> the trip to paris, amsterdam, and bruges is in jeopardy because of a massive backlog of passport applications that can stretch up to three months. >> it's very frustrating because why does it have to be so convoluted? i've already made hotel reservations, train reservations, everything planned out. >> many passport offices are seeing long lines ahead of what is expected to be a record-setting summer travel season. >> it's impossible. >> others are taking their frustration to social media. >> 5 to 7 weeks, my flight is on

mike morell took his oath and said i was the cia guy. i rounded up the 51 intel experts to sign off and say the hunter biden laptop was classic russian disinformation. i was asked to do it by and tony blinken. they were i behind it. and the implication was catastrophic for the you sanctity of this election. this surprised you, why? >> i thought it was probably clapper or brennan. i night was a setup. the fbi knew that the hunter biden laptop was real. they had it in their possession since december 2019. they went and presabotaged just in case mr. mcisaac would ever have the courage to make that public. they warned him as they took possession of that computer, they said it's our understanding that those that don't talk about these things don't get in trouble. don't get hurt. then they gave up senator grassley and i a secure briefing where they said we were targets of russian disinformation just? case we talked about the laptop. i have known this was corrupt from many years ago. but the media played along. brian: the laptop is released, th

we asked mike morel, a former "cbs news" contributor, if the characterization of his congressional interviewlined to comment. >> norah: catherine herridge, thank you. well, if you're planning to travel internationally this summer, you're not alone. millions of americans hope to get away and that has led to unprecedented demand for passports. cbs's kris van cleave reports on what you need to know. >> reporter: tonight, passport problems posing a threat to summer vacation. rachel quartaron's family is all booked for two weeks in europe. >> this is sort of our last big family trip for a while. with, you know, my son going off to college. >> reporter: but the trip to paris, amsterdam, and baruch is now into jeopardy because a massive backlog of passport applications that can stretch after three months. >> it's very frustrating because why does it have to be so convoluted? i've already made hotel reservations, train reservations, everything planned out. >> the original... >> reporter: many passport officers are seeing long lines ahead of what is expected to be a record-setting summer travel seaso

former cia acting director mike morell claimed this is going on. let's watch former president trump here. >> i will be retiring the name crooked from hillary clinton and her moniker. and i am going to give her a new name like maybe lovely hillary or beautiful hillary. but i'm going to retire the name crooked sow we can use the name for joe biden because he will be known from now on as crooked joe biden. liz: what do you think, religion? >> well, our one sacred justice system has turned into a political cesspool and a half gate by left wing radicals. those 51 folks who signed that her committed fraud. they propagated information about this hunter biden laptop being russian propaganda with zero basis. it was flat out fiction. they did that to try to get people to vote for biden. i find it an incredible hypocrisy when president trump is indicted with the stormy daniels because he allegedly tried to influence the election? this is criminal. liz: let's watch msnbc. >> let me get something else out of the way. people like trumpers, they are obsessed with

outsource the campaign but when you have the fbi paying twitter to suppress information and you have mike morel, former decker squashing a story which they knew was true, you have a formidable formula and when you add mark zuckerberg $419 million, social media and traditional media, they feel they can make joe biden into an incidental candidate. they've done it before. in 2018 people knew that dianne feinstein was impaired my even then. yet they did the same thing. they use the media, the monitoring resources and the bureaucracies, they did it with john fetterman in pennsylvania. they have a new paradigm and that is if they have gained a dense that are flawed or impaired, they can outsource the campaign to the media, to the permanent administrative state, tilde silicon valley's market capitalization and they feel they can be negative, negative, negative, and they don't have to defend a record and appear in person or talk of the people and that the person we are going to see in 2024. he's going to be incidental, joe biden. >> laura: i want to get to that in a moment. but mollie, at some point th

people were picking up on tony blinken not only had that phone call with mike morel that instigated the letter, he later sends the article that injects the russian disinformation concept into the letter. tony blinken sends this "usa today" article. these fees are rapid response director from the biden campaign. he sent some of the material that ends up in that letter. they are waiting for his ans answers. waiting for antony blinken to answer questions. >> sean: do you agree with reports that are now saying hunter biden will be indicted soon? >> we are hearing that. it is up to the justice department first and it is up to the hundred biden lawyers to see if they want to get a plea deal. yesterday's meeting is the first step. a lot of people are thinking that way. i think the big question is and james comer interest on my show today mud did the justice department nail this down much smaller than what the irs warranted? that something will hear about in the next couple of weeks. >> sean: john solomon, how great is he? hunter biden didn't bring his kids to work in the white house. but try a

mike morel, fellow spook, ran cia, then claims blinken was the one working for biden.uch deep state stuff, it is insane. >> how often do you say things like the hunter biden laptop is more fodder for politics than something worth our time and effort, is this an investigation worth congress' time. >> never said it as eloquently as you. i think of put up or shut up. hunter biden, five years, judge, you're absolutely right, five years. money laundering, taxes, lobbying. are you telling me the best you have is another whistle-blower? if there's a whistle-blower, why isn't he a witness in the delaware u.s. attorney's probe? why isn't he a witness in one of the criminal probes? what's he doing hanging around with politicians and -- >> jeanine: he doesn't want to lose his job. >> geraldo: what about hunter biden has been accused of the most vile things for over five years. >> jeanine: not accused. you can see it on his laptop. >> geraldo: has he been charged with anything? >> jeanine: that is precisely the question. >> dana: that's why the whistle-blower is coming forward. >>

story too, jon, reports that house judiciary took sworn testimony from former acting cia director mike morell. the push by the intelligence officials, before 2020 election -- russian disinformation came out of joe biden's presidential campaign to pave the way for joe biden presidency that reportedly tony blinken was point man on that. do you know more about that? >> what is incredible. joe biden's presidential campaign is sued for defamation by john paul mack isaac. -- m macs isaac, they knew it was false. i think that more the committees look into this and important that process continue and they are making progress, the more smoke ththere is maybe we'll see results. elizabeth: final word congressman van drew. >> anything that donald trump ever did in his life, never caused nearly the harm that has been caused by this family, the biden family, i think we'll find that out. i think these will be very interesting and revealing ttimes. elizabeth: jon. >> famil follow the facts where of they lead. elizabeth: got it, why more and more doctors and scientists here and overseas are now just saying no

maria: we heard from mike morell because of republicans effort to get him to talk he told us, that itas actually antony blinken who was the ringleader on that hered to call biden tlaps disinformation stirred up the 15 spies who lied "the wall street journal" editorial board out with new column this morning, calling it joe biden and the 51 spies of 2020. because we are learning that the biden campaign was behind it, they ginned up disinformation bhurnt importants laptop congressman tell us about that what you have learned on weaponization committee. >> you are absolutely right we know for a fact that biden campaign was reaching out to individuals, 51, intelligence officials, to try to get them sign on to a statement so try to have the statement to wave say disinformation to point to from campaign perspective that wasn't true all individuals, were working for the campaign, communicating with the campaign, doing this on behalf of the campaign, and we know now that all of that was false, the hunter biden laptop is not russian disinformation, everything on there is factual, we are going to

this week former acting cia director mike morell admitted biden's presidential campaign was behind thatzing. we reached out to the president for comment but our hand came back covered in warm goo. yeah. yeah, it's cool because it's really vague. [laughter] >> greg: it is. and it was tony blinken who back then was a biden campaign advisor who urged morell to suggest russia was behind the laptop. this is collusion. so, yes, the deep state is back at it protecting the earth's most successful crack addict. and all these revelsations ooze out like sludge on the sides of the toilet in the view's green room. old man joe got lost again. roll the tape. >> go over and sign that executive order. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> greg: oh, boy. [laughter]. >> so bad. >> greg: i have a theory. they made an electric fence for him. [laughter] >> greg: what, what you got to say? >> all right, look, look, i'm just about as upset as i can be, right? i mean me and tony blinken and those 51 intelligence officers, we went through a lot of work to cover up that laptop story. and now that it all came out th

now this week former acting will director mike morell admitting that now secretary of state tony blinkenhen an aid to biden told russian plant collect signature frures from 50 respected or previous columbusly respected intel officers adding credibility to the claim that the laptop was fake and then we had an election. so, dolls it look like the president has been hands off on this investigation? and how about this? hunter's laptop repairman says he gave the fbi hunter's laptop backs in 2019. what did they do with it? nothing. we don't even know if they know where it is. we only found out about it a year later. fast forward to october 2020, after the "new york post" got his hands on it. they did the right thing, they published it. then the story was censored. now, thanks to the twitter files, we know the fbi had their fingerprints all over it. but, it doesn't stop there. a former obama-biden white house stenographer, we know about him now mike mccormick is also saying that the v.p., then v.p., joe biden flew to ukraine to push for fracking contracts in 2014 just days after hunter signed o

blinken reached out to m morell asking to organize present and past intelligence officials to sign onto a public statement that the hunter biden laptop was russian disinformation. mikener wrote in a letter to the blinken campaign and to blinken yesterday quote, you according to morell although your outreach was couched as gathering the reaction to the post story, it set in motion the events that led to the issuance of the public statement. joining me now, tennessee congressman, member of the house oversight committee and house foreign affairs committee, tim burchette. what have you learned in the oversight committee about this? >> we learned that corruption goes straight to the top, maria. it's obvious what's going on here, the influence peddling by this white house and everyone associated with them. this 51 people, it's just a big lie is all it was. and how they have that much power over these people is beyond me. you have to wonder what level of pressure that they president pue folks and what they held over their heads because there's nothing from what i've seen from the information we've gathered, there's nothing that they will stoop to to keep president biden ne

presidential election joe biden's presidential campaign had reached out to the former acting cia director mike morellaign official and now secretary of state, anthony blinken, emailed morell an article that claimed the fbi was investigating this story as part of a "russian disinformation campaign." morell has now given evidence to the housejudiciary committee that until that content he had no intention of writing any statement exonerating biden. but blinken's communication "triggered? that intent" in him. over the next two days, he gathered signatures for an open letter from 51 former intelligence officials, including four other former cia directors. the letter sent to the washington post said the allegations "had all the classic earmarks of a russian information operation." 0ur correspondent anthony zurcher is with us now. how important was that letter in the run—up to the vote but shallowjoe biden cited it in subsequent debate with donald trump to deflect from questions about the laptop. i think this is a textbook _ questions about the laptop. i think this is a textbook example - questions about th

republicans a 5 seat majority mike we would not have heard from former head of the cia executive mike morell if it weren't for those hearings. michael: you know you suspect things smell pretty bad, then when you peel back layers it is always worse beyond imagination. we saw the whole thing with russia-gate maybe a couple pad actors may be misunderstanding. no. a coordinated hit job to fame a sitting president as russian agent doesn't stop every time you peel layers back far more than you can possibly imagine. maria: not a lot of accountability to speak of next hour of "mornings with maria" begins right now. . maria: hsiao bi-khim whose legal team reportedly meet with department of justice lawyers this week fox news reporting that hunter biden could be facing two misdemeanor tax filing charges, a felony tax evasion charge and false statement over gun power chairman james comer joined me on "sunday morning futures" yesterday suggesting a lot more than that, that we should be focused on with hunter biden. he said there are at least 12 members of the biden family, who he believes received money

former acting cia chief mike morell just admitted that that was a lie fed to him by the biden campaignantony blinken our sitting secretary of state. now, we're learning that blinken's ties to hunter they go even deeper. newly uncovered emails showed blinken was planning behind the door meetings with hunter back in 22015. hunter emailed blinken who was then deputy secretary of state for the obama white house if he had time to grab a cup of coffee because, quote: would like to get your advice on a couple of things. blinken in another email told hunter it was great to see you and catch up and even told his assistant -- he told hunter that his assistant thought hunter was, quote. pleasant on the eyes. and hunter, just so we know, wasn't just meeting with blinken to say hey, what's up and get a cup of coffee. he was taking those emails that he was coordinating his calendar with blinken and looping in his burisma business partner devon archer. he forwarded and ccd. and fyid. archer on the meetings. what were they doing with the deputy secretary of state? that he was the million-dollar questi

ex-cia director mike morel revealing in sworn testimony that secretary of state, now secretary of stateony blinken, who was then a senior biden campaign advisor, led the effort to release that letter. republican jim jordan ripping into the revelation. >> that letter became the basis for keeping this information from the american people, and the other thing that was important we learned in that deposition with mr. morel, mr. morel was trying to direct who the biden campaign told him who to get this to in the media. it was that coordinated. that is the scary thing. it was a little political operation and the most important fact is, laura, it was false. >> jeanine: both joe and hunter used that letter as proof to dismiss the laptop. >> 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he is accusing me of is a russian plant. they have said that this has all -- five former heads of the cia, both parties, say what he is saying is a bunch of garbage. >> certainly, there could be a laptop out there that was stolen, it could be i was hacked, it could be that it was russian intelligence,

republicans a 5 seat majority mike we would not have heard from former head of the cia executive mike morellthen when you peel back layers it is always worse beyond imagination. we saw the whole thing with russia-gate maybe a couple pad actors may be misunderstanding. no. a coordinated hit job to fame a sitting president as russian agent doesn't stop every time you peel layers back far more than you can possibly imagine. maria: not a lot of accountability to speak of next hour of "mornings with maria" begins right now. . maria:

former acting cia director mike morell said that less than a month before the presidential election,etary of state anthony pancake , asked the cia to gather 50 former and current intelligence officers to sign a public statement that hunter biden's laptop is russian disinformation. and even after the victory of his father , hunter admitted the laptop really belongs to him blinkin, who composed the story about russian disinformation, is still the main american diplomat, the president himself, while making an ambiguous impression. our educational policy must reflect our knowledge of we know it isn't. no, there isn't one. there is still a lot more to be done, and we can do it, if you look at the number of strange reservations and hitches, the dynamics are negative biden, more and more often they extend their hand to an invisible interlocutor , wanders in three, the haparu pine behaves as if they don’t understand where it is either in asia or in south america we are all together again here in cambodia and i hope for even more progress than what we have already achieved the prime minister

but when you have the fbi paying twitter to suppress information and you have mike morell, a former deputy director of the cia and 50 intelligence agency, squashing a story which they knew was true, then you have a formidable formula. and when you add that mark zuckerberg, 419 million silicon valley, the social media, the traditional media, they feel that they can make joe biden into an incidental candidate. and i think they've done it before in 2018, people knew that dianne feinstein was impaired even then. and yet they did the same thing. she didn't campaign. they they use the media and their monetary resources and the bureaucracies. they did it with john fetterman in pennsylvania. they have a new paradigm and that is that if they have candidates are flawed or impaired, they and outsource the campaign to the media, to the permanent admitted administrator of state, to silicon valley's market capitalization. and they feel that they can just be negative, negative, negative, and they don't have to defend her record or much less appear in person or talk to the people. and that's i think we're

hey, last week, former deputy cia director mike morell testified that tony blinken played a role in the inception of the false narrative that joe biden's laptop was indeed russian disinformation. you following this? now we're learning that blinken, who served as secretary of state right now ,email frequently with hunter biden years ago. in fact, blinken held a meeting with hunter at the state department in july of 2015. charlie hurt is an opinion editor of the washington times. he joins us to break this down. >> we're getting all this information, trying to put this puzzle together. >> blinken is all over this. whether it's mike barrow, get me fifty one names or hunter biden. tell me about your career slugger. yeah, no kidding. no, his fingerprints are all over it and it really does underscore the idea of the whole concept of a deep state that was completely in the in bed with the biden with the biden campaign to get joe biden elected and whether it was the effort to cover up the misdeeds of the biden administration or going back , what would now been uncovered to these phone calls and

so, mike , morell is a verycarer respected intelligence career official. he started h o he rose rose to the deputy director's level and twice as acting director of the most important spy agency. o and he gets a call from tony blinken at a time where mike morrell's name is being floated that he might be joe biden. the cia director doesn't get it, but they floated right ben . and then tony blinken asked him to do a favor, get a letter signed, suggest this is asks to russian operation, a russian disinformation operation, and get it out there in. morell says he does it. the only reason he did it h is because tony blinken askeds n them and he says his intentionn was to get joe biden elected. he intended to use this letterlo of disinformation to achieve a political goal in the united states election. he wanted joe biden elected h and the letter was the vehicle by which you could do it.could it.after the letter gets outs t dut.after the letter gets outs t during the debate and he brings it up and he uses it to bluntbie donald trump's attacksn, on hunter biden. he

ex cia director mike morell revealing in sworn testimony s that secretaryworn of state, now secretary of state state anthony blinken, who was then a senior biden campaign adviser, led the effort to release that letter. republican jim jordan ripping t into the revelation that lettere became the basis for keeping ama this information from the american people. and the other thing that was im important, we learned that deposition with mr. morrell is they were even mr. morellh rt was even trying to directbiden who the biden campaign told himi who tos to i get to in the medi. it was that coordinated. that's the scary. itary thin was a totaland the political operation. and the most important fact. is it was false. >> both joe and hunter use that letter as proof to dismiss the laptop or 50 former national intelligence folks fols who said that what this he's accusing me of is a hav russian plan. they have said that this has iss all the cash for five formerf th heads of the cia. both parties say what he's saying is a bunch of garbage. certainlgarbage.y there could ba laptop out there that wass

not only had that phonote calldt with mike morell that instigated the letter, he letter, he later sends lete rusa the article that injects the russian disinformation concep the letter. it wasn't in the letter originally. then tony blinken sends this usa today article. he he's in a rapid responsecle. director from the biden campaign. ca blinken wasn't just the inspiration. th sent some ompaign.f the matel that ends up in that letter. they're waiting for his answers. congressman jordan, chairmantonk jordan waiting foren anthony blinken to answer question qs. e wi do you agree with reports that w are now saying that hunternter biden wbiden will be indicted . we are hearing that. listen, it's hard to know whate to agree with . it is up to the justicedepartmet department f first, and it's up to the 100% lawyers to see ift d they want to get a plea deal . but yesterday's meeting is a sort of step that typically occurs just before ane thin indictment. a lot of people are thinking w that way. i thinay. i think the k the big question d james comey addressed this on my show today, did the justice

now, in 2020, you've got the biden campaign that tony blinken convinces mike morell to get 50 other intelligenceofficials to lie. they knew there was no intelligence information, that this was a russian disinformation. this was a political operation, and it worked when joe biden held it up in the last presidential debate and said, my s look at this, my son's innocent. that influenceon id the election unduly. >> americans were deprived of te the full amount of information they needed and bring it madeere a difference. >> could there be a quid pro quo here, in other words? oh, you do this for me.me and i'll mak ie you secretary of>> a state. >> oh, yeah, oh, of course. is it any wonder that tony blinken was was given the prestigious coveted job of secretary of state mike morrell didn't get the job he wanted, which is cia director .ctor. maybe that's why he's now suddenly decided to come clean and expose the corruption right ,larry? >> what are you going to say? i was going to say and the scary thing, greg and sean is but for the computer storeuts owner,to a copy out of this thing, we probably neve

community was not in the casehi of mike morell, he tried is t inull off 2016. the former actinelection g cia director did an op ed in the new york times callingnew yk donald trump an unwitting agent of vladimir putin and fanningfl the flames of the steele dossier. and the russia hoax. >> one point. oh, he wasn't successful there. he got together with anthonyger blinke wn on russia hoke's 2.0 n 2020. so the question, you know, and in the case of secretary ofa state anthony blinken, it's not just that he was trying to heltp joe biden when he was trying to hurt trump, but in the process, he framed a foreign government, a foreign guy that he's now dealing with . he framed them for election interference that he himselferee was committing. you know, if that if mightwaevery medi pompeo had done that, every media outlet in the country would be demanding his resignation. and if he didn't submit it, calling for his impeachment, ifo that certainly should be thet case with anthony blinken as well. >> nowling for hisachment. , i mean, how is this just not election interfere