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national archives responded to the group.e've performed a look for those requests and identified identified 5,138 emails and other records that must be processed in order to respond to your request. >> our goal is to get these and put them out in public. maybe there is nothing in them. maybe it's one of these nothing to see here. i doubt that. why else would you use an alias? >> a source with the national archives says there is a multi-year backlog requests for records of this volume. and certain restrictions of information act and law enforcement matters. emails from the biden vice presidency fall under the presidential records act. that means as you mentioned in your intro that former president barack obama's representatives, also the current president, joe biden, who was vice president at the time. representatives for him would have a say on what could be released. it is possible these won't be released. the group is suing and they've been sitting on it for over a year with no response and they are still in the queue. >> s

the national archive have thousands of messages from joe biden's office. jrb ware. the national archives responded we have performed a search of the collection for vice presidential records related to your request and identified approximately 5,138 email messages, 25 electronic files and 200 pages of potentially responsive records that must be processed in order to respond to your request. however, a source for the national archives tells fox news there was a multi-year backlog for records and requests of this volume and told there are certain restrictions and the freedom of information act process for national security and law enforcement. beyond that hurdle emails from the biden vice presidency fall under the presidential records act needing to go to representatives for the former vice president joe biden, the current president, joe biden again, and the former president barack obama, meaning likely it will be difficult to get these emails. i will note that the group the southeastern legal foundation asked for these emails more than a year ago. that's why they are

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comer gave the national archives until the 31st of august to turn over detailed information about the pseudonym emails. the agency did forward on to the current president himself, in a statement from comer's office says the committee has spoken with the national archives with chairman comer's request. national archives officials have indicated they have sent some of the records to representatives for former president barack obama and president biden for approval to be released. president biden promised the most transparent administration in history and we expect him to release the records. however, a source told fox news there are certain restrictions in the freedom of information act for issues such as national security and law enforcement and beyond that, there could be another hurdle, emails from the biden vice president fall under the presidential records act during the obama presidency. southeastern legal foundation filed a lawsuit for the emails with aliases, and received a reply, i believe last june 2022, they say they are still in the queue, a sign it could take longer than an

their remarks came during an address from the national archives. ge on c-span. [cheers and applause] start. president zelenskyy: please. >> thank you. never made entrances before but never before our country has such reasons to be grateful. there are different times in ukn people. ukranians did not stop fighting cter realm, men and women equally. and now i'm not afraid that ukranian freedom will tall. because it can be confidences in america. york, my team and i immediately went to the staten island hospital where our guys, our heroes, we have visited the wounded are recovering. soldiers, sailors, sergeants, ordinary guys. some of them are learning to walk again. they get use but the ones who would not agree to the occupation. there are some the brief spirit and i am our soldiers, each ofhem. [applause] president zelenskyy: thank you very much. each ofhat i noticed during that staten island hospital. eyes, id that the people who work, they are in the hospital and return our guys life. also proud of ukranian values. never before has america been so proud of power

and the national archives and records administration reportedly has nearly 5,400 emails.t's a lot. and other documents related to those pseudonyms. we also know joe biden used those pseudonyms to email with hunter some of those could be simple check-ins between father and son. but we know some of them were not. like in 2014 when there was apparently an open position to work at the white house. so who better to consult about that than hunter biden who didn't work in the white house? but hunter, he appears to ask his dad for a favor. he wrote this, quote: before you fill position, please talk to me, j. mcgrail very much wants to serve as detail. then v.p. joe responds regarding johnny call me right away, dad. so, you see that, talking about a white house position between father and son who doesn't work in government. john mcgrail joined the white house as biden's deputy council two months later according to linkedin profile how convenient. joining me now is miranda devine new york columnist and fox news contributor. miranda, why would hunter biden, who is at rosemont seneca

cheryl: house oversight chair james comer is requesting the national archives provide the unredactednications between then vice president biden's office and hunter's business associates. the white house's ian sames is slamming the investigations into the biden family, saying if it's a day that ends in why james comer is lying about president biden. it's all part of the months long effort to waste time and taxpayer resources and evidence-free wild goose chase that does absolutely nothing to help improve the lives of americans which is what congress should prioritize and is own focused on politically smearing the president. i want to bring in congressman dan meuser. congressman, good morning. your response to ian sames and the criticism of these -- well, in particular, james comer's investigation but all the investigations against the biden family. >> yeah, good morning, cheryl. i think it's shameless. i just think they're doubling down on lies. i don't think it, i know it. here we had president biden lying during his campaign, lying in office. he knew nothing about his son's business.

, in addition, the funds of the national archive contain personal files on the commanders of the partisan, this pavlovsky bumashkov, these are our famous partisans who were the first in the soviet union to be awarded the high title of hero of the soviet union for partisan struggle. a month and a half after the organization of the red october detachment, bumashkov, being recalled to the front, transferred command to pavlovsky. he, sharp, strong-willed, and his permanent commissar, favorite of the partisans, soul-man makhonko. they sent groups of their partisans to neighboring districts and new detachments arose there. this responded to the passionate, spontaneous desire of the people to fight. this detachment became the founder of 13 other partisan detachments, which later united into the powerful legendary 123rd partisan brigade named after the 25th anniversary of the bssr. in november 1940, near the village of orzhitsa, poltava region, tikhan bomashkov died in battle. the fight continued to escalate. by the end of september , the red october partisan detachment under the command of pavlo

real quick, lucas, so when the national archives is asked from the house, which has oversight capacityr it for records, they are obligated to do it although it looks like they have kind of slow walked it. the administration is saying that there are a couple of hundred of these emails protected by executive privilege where secret stuff is and we will never see it, right? >> that's the big question, executive privilege. however does that go? how many emails? is it hundreds? is it thousands, steve? >> brian: lucas, this is just the gun. nothing about foreign trade. nothing about tax evasion. just the gun stuff, right? >> that's right. the tax evasion is what many people are looking at in fact many federal prosecutors, retired federal prosecutors here in town say most people would have gotten 3 to 5 years for those kind of charges, owing millions in cash to the u.s. government. remember that baltimore police commissioner. >> ashley: he got 10 months for the same exact thing that hunter biden was willing to plead guilty for. >> brian: right. >> steve: thank you for kicking us off today beca

james comer is demanding e-mails from the national archive which show joe biden's involvement in hunter biden's business. >> i think everybody in america needs to be paying close attention to this. they tried to sneak something through once, we need to make sure they don't do it again. again, this is the least of all the crimes that hunter biden has committed, this investigation has proven that joe biden has lied dozens of times to the american people. we will head to court as our subpoenas going more advanced with respect to specific biden bank account and biden correspondence that national archive is preventing us from having. >> harris: despite president biden constantly denying he has any knowledge of his son's business deals, american people feel otherwise. new cnn poll finds majority of americans, 61%, believe joe biden was involved with hunter biden foreign dealings while serving as then vice president. todd. >> todd: before we give david weiss credit for legal fortitude. he had no choice but to bring this. the judge what is going on with the plea deal, you have to do something w

for joe biden.repo the national archives and records administration reportedlyrt has nearly 5400 emails that's a lot. and other documents relatethosed those pseudonyms. we also know joe biden used those pseudonyms to emailr with hunter. some of those could be simple check inan s between father and son. but we know some of them were w wohet like in 2014 when there ws apparently an open positiorkn to work at the white house. so who better to consult about that than hunter biden,fo who didn't work in the white house? but hunter? he appears to asa favor. k his dad for a favor. he wrote this, quote, beforeyoul you fill position, please talk to me. j. mcgrail very much wants to serve as detail. then vp joe responds regarding johnny. call me right away, dad. jo you see that talking a white house position between father and son who doesn't work and got government. john mcgrail joined the white twy counselden's deput two months later, according to his linkedin profile. how convenient? w york >> joining me now is miranda devine, "new york post" columnist and st and fa fox news contributor. >> mir

the group that is suing the national archives tells fox news today that the issue is not the fact thatvice president joe biden may have used different email addresses with different aliases, they say the issue is that he discussed business with his son hunter, that's what they believe, even though he has said publicly many times that he never discussed business with his son hunter. a lawsuit filed this week by the southeastern legal foundation is asking a court to force the national archives to speed it up and turn over more than 5,000 records involving these three alleged pseudonyms. robertware 456 at gmail.com. jrwware at gmail.com and robert l. peters at pci.gov. >> we haven't moved up in the queue for 14 months. our goal to get these and put them out in the public. maybe there is nothing in them. maybe it's one of these nothing to see here. i highly doubts that why else would you use an alias. >> it's not unusual for public figures, republicans and republicans to use pseudonyms email or texts to keep certain things private. it's gone in washington for years. >> having alternate ema

so, that is something that the national archives needs to release.onewalling. >> the next time you're on this david weiss angle they are going over his head. he is just a shell. marine of the line thank so much. >> thank you. >> up next brett young perform stand with you for our all american summer concert series. either way he's going to start saying stick around. [singing] [ music ] d's education. introducing power homeschool the official provider of online acellus courses for parents independently homeschooling their children. i really love how flexible the program is. it allows my child to work at her own pace and on her own schedule. join the growing community of parents who have discovered the power of power homeschool. visit our website at power homeschool dot org to learn more and start your child's educational journey. ♪ today, my friend you did it, you did it, you did it... ♪ centrum silver is now clinically shown to support cognitive health in older adults. it's one more step towards taking charge of your health. so every day, you can say,

. >> we have patient, that was one of the first to the national archives in my predecessor was a little came and pulled up and officially gave we did keep thomas jefferson stroked. >> you still have that? >> we still have that. [laughter] >> before the archives. >> the library of congress is due to president george washington and they were all digitized now and it's wonderful. so we kept and have the pearl necklace and earring marriott lincoln for so we are partnership and will work with the smithsonian. >> all these presidential documents, wouldn't it be easier for the archives to have it? [laughter] >> no. nose legislation 1957 in the library has to digitized so into something years. >> with you have? the national park service, what is the most visited museum or memorial that you have? >> we have tens of millions who amazes me still coming out to enjoy those and we are telling a richer history will tell people the stories of lincoln and the lincoln memorial is making the most visited, how do you account go? we have this is a long time ago we that. >> allowed to warm up to the monument

the ceremony in the national archives was attended by tetyana vorozhko and dmytro melnyk president ofaine volodymyr zelenskyi and first lady of ukraine olena zelenskyi is not an evil empire but the lack of unity can put freedom on knees in his speech in the premises of the national archives, volodymyr zelenskyi emphasized the need to remain united in the resistance to russian aggression. we will do everything so that our unity, the unity of ukraine, the united states and the entire free world became stronger than ever. the ceremony , which began with a delay of more than an hour and a half, came some of the most influential politicians in the usa, leading members of congress , high-ranking government officials, ambassadors, representatives of the ukrainian community of experts and business zelenskyi emphasized that if ukraine half of europe will fall, it can become a russian sphere of influence, american investments in ukrainian security and global protection of freedom work one hundred percent, each center is a whole list of putin's other, instead of dictating conditions to america,

and his visit to washington, camped by his talks with president biden and his speech at the national archivesonight. cnn's senior white house correspondent kayla tausche is covering all of this for us. give us the latest on president zelenskyy's momene men tus tripd his appeal for aid. >> reporter: the u.s. and ukrainian teams sitting across with each other as zelenskyy shared a message of deep gratitude to the west and particularly to the united states for its long running investment in funding set to dry up in weeks. the biden administration sending more weaponry, himars systems, artillery and cluster munitions for money green lit by congress. >> welcome back to the white house and the oval office. >> reporter: zelenskyy in his trademark fatigues, sharing his battlefield perspective with the white house cabinet. >> i think the united states of america and mr. president for the new defense package. for ukraine, a very powerful package. thank you so much. and it has exactly what our soldiers get our fiscal house taken care of here in america. >> reporter: the white house says the weapons are

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after the mar-a-lago raid, we sent a foia request to the national archives demanding production of vicel records relating to hub's business dealings in sen california. when they didn't reply as required by law and obey that foia request we sued them here in washington, d.c. as a result of that litigation they started turning over large numbers of emails which document how extensively the biden vice presidency colluded and collaborated with hunter biden but here's the kicker sean. in the last batch of emails, they redacted fully redacted wiped out blacked out disappeared 200 emails relating to hunter biden's business operations in rosemont sen cat they swertd executive privilege over 200 separate communications. what is in those emails, sean? what is so sensitive about the operations of our federal government that hunter biden and rosemont seneca had access to? so we are in court announcement we will press in issue. we will see if we can get access to those emails coordinating with the incredible house oversight committee and james comer but we get to the bottom of what is buried inside

the then ex vice-president joe biden himself was involved in hunter's bills dealings and the national archive have some 4500 e-mails which appear to have allegedly been used by joe biden. e-mails he lists to use his fake name to get government information against them and others. robert wear, robert l peters, jb wear. known to be used during his time as vp with barack obama. the house oversight committee is pursuing the records from the archives, they want them unredacted as investigation into influence pedaling continues. >> also tonight a lawyer for irs whistleblower gary acceptly tells fox news he originally wasn't encouraged when he had a lawyer and that his client would be protected as a whistleblower. those protections trace disappeared almost as quickly as they were promised. of course chaply was the first to come forward and the doj was apparently slow walking this hunter biden investigation trace. >> joe: kevin corke live in dc. let's where i in house intel advisor. kash patel. great to have you on. i want to play this sound bite of james comer but he wants these 4500 e-mails where j

monday first lady jill biden meets with leaders at the smithsonian, the library of congress, and national archives to discuss preserving historical presidential site. watch that live on c-span2, c-span now our free mobile video app or online at c-span.org. and now from the white house, president biden and vice president harris discuss efforts to curb gun violence and announce the creation of an office of gun violence prevention. distinguished guests, the president of the united states accompanied by the vice president of the united states. ♪♪

the national archives wrote this organization and said we performed a search of our selection for theseentified approximately 5,138 e-mail messages, 25 electronic files and 200 pages of potentially responsive records that must be processed in order to respond to your request. >> we haven't moved up in the cue in 14 months. -- in the queue. we've been trying to get these. it's not where we just file this without my back and forth as anyone can see by reading the complaint. so we're hopeful they'll start or producing them. >> reporter: a source familiar with the process at the national archives, brian, tells fox news that it may be some time before they get these documents if they get all of them because a lot of them may be covered under the presidential records act, aka the obama administration. both sides would have a chance, meaning barack obama's representatives and joe biden's representatives, to look over some of these e-mails, but group remains hopeful they'll get something out of this. brian? brian: a long way to go, david spunt. thank you very much. >> reporter: you're welcome.

a new lawsuit is demanding the national archives hand over thousands of emails and documents containing pseudonyms that biden reportedly used when he was vice president. ok. >> john: southeastern legal foundation says it filed a freedom of information act request more than a year ago but still has not seen a single document, so the group decided to sue. house republicans investigating the biden family say the aliases were used so biden could communicate with his son. miranda devine agrees. >> they are emails where joe biden has used various aliases. i think up to five aliases to communicate with his son hunter, including about a sensitive issue such as ukraine that hunter was making of course millions of dollars from. l so, x that's something that the national archives needs to release and they are stone walling. >> sandra: david spunt, is it likely we will see the emails? >> i wish i could give you a better answer but it's hard to tell. it appears they may get these documents because there has been cooperation as far as writing letters back and forth, but it's over a year and the group

meets with leaders of the smithsonian library of congress the national park service and the national archive to discuss preserving historical sites. watch that live at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. c-span now our free mobile video app or online at c-span.org. >> the administrator warned lawmakers the agency would have difficulty responding to any natural disaster as a government would have shut down as congress faces a september 30 deadline to approve additional funding. this came as testifying on disaster preparedness before the house transportation and infrastructure subcommittee on emergency management.

if we look at our veterans, a stifling backlog at the national archives and national personnel records center. could be the difference between receiving military benefits and not receiving them at all. it could be the difference between receiving assistance and a homeless shelter for a veteran or living out on the street. what really pulls at my heart are the countless continues to and -- constituent stories that are relayed to me as we go through our weekly staff meetings. there was one case i would like to call to the attention of those who are here and for lack of a better term, we will say that this is andrew's story. andrew has multiple sclerosis. he contacted our office in february of 2020, filed his disability claim in 2019, three years prior. the social security administration would not release his benefits. my district staff and myself got involved. we were able to work with the agency and to finally, after all that time, secure and are the benefits that he desperately needed and that he was entitled to. that process extended nearly a year after he had already received a favor

if we look at our veterans , the stifling backlog at the national archives and records demonstration, national personnel records center says it could be the difference between receiving military benefits and not receiving them at all. it could be the difference between receiving assistance in a homeless shelter for a veteran or living out on the street . and what really pulls that my heart are the countless constituent stories that in particular my district team relays to me each and every week as we go through our weekly staff meetings. there is one case i'd like to quickly call to the attention of those that are here and we will just select a better term and say this is andrew's story. andrew as multiple sclerosis. he contacted our office in brewery 2020. filed his disability claim in 2019 three years prior and received a favorable decision in 2021. yet the social security administration would not release his benefits. so my district staff and myself got involved. we were able to work with the agency and to finally after all that time secure andrew the benefit he not only desperatel

stephen miller, he's now suing the national archives why he has to force them to release biden's government. emails related force to his son business. we're told that the last batch to the archives.t releas they were fully redacted. in other words, they were useless. more obfuscation, more delays, more lack of cooperatione . and but they're the most transparent administration in history. trent administrati former senior adviser to the president, stephen miller, along with foxe contributor lisa boothe. stephen, let's go to the the foyer requesa t that you and y your group made. let's go to the hand. you redacted materialsou whichs are absolutely useless. they're specifically claiming executive privilege on on emails under pseudonyms to his son joe biden and what he might clve shared as it relatewhats to top secret or classified information. do we know anything more about thato wenythin. >> yes. well, this is really a staggering developments , seaa after the mar-a-lago raid, we sent a four to request freedom of information act to the national archives demanding production of vice presidential

moving forward, we have requested unredacted pseudonym enos -- emails from the national archives. there are over 5000 we want to review. we have to get obama, president obama has to sign off on those, so he supposedly reviewing them as we speak, we hope to get those. we hope to get the president's son and brother's personal bank accounts. we also want to interview people who have knowledge of some of the things that president biden may have done in exchange for the millions and millions of dollars that his family received from these foreign nationals. and lastly, we plan on having a hearing in september that will kind of evaluate some of the things that we believe have happened from the biden family that are in violation with the law. with that i hope and -- i hope i answered some questions to the evidence that has been found. the purpose as to why we have moved to impeachment inquiry, and the path forward. what i said in january, holds true to today. we are following the money and we will see where that leads us. thank you and i yelled back. >> we will go to -- i yield back. >> w

the national archive sent 14 of the 5200 e-mails yesterday and i'm sure you're going to be surprisedo hear this. the 14 did not state anything but the media as soon as we got the e-mail, the 14 out of 5200 said this is a big nothing burger. this is another example of the biden white house coordinating to the media to pay a false narrative. were not satisfied with 14 out of 5200 e-mails. we expect all 5200 e-mails and that's why we had to go deep to the impeachment inquiry route to try to speed the process up from where the government agencies are stonewalling and obstructing our investigation. >> chairman you're going to need to give me a second to restart my heart. i was shocked to hear the d.c. media was not interested in a public investigation. equipment tax returns, whatever evidence do you need that you currently do not have. we subpoenaed the bank records from the shell companies. the problem the biden family has in the president has his families received over $20 million from foreign nationals. the biden family in the white house cannot say one thing that this family did to re

the americans and all the documents i saw here today today the national archives of the united states and what if from abraham lincoln to general -- [indiscernible] holds on and talked as much as possible. lincoln's worst reflect the courage and safe that helps america which helps ukranians to fight. in our victorious batfuls forl ukraine and snake island in the black sea and where our soldiers are pressing forward, no matter the challenges in our battle each of ukranian land. every day of this war, ukranian are solders hold on. they chew and choke the russian occupy years and never before have they met strong resist ties and they will no longer destroy any other nation. [cheers and applause] putin's list was long just recently after half of happen but american in ukranian security and global protection pass workingd 100%. now putin's goals are different. ip of going to europe and the whole feel world would bell himself in from an allege from inerm and this is clear weakness. and ukraine faced the highest price for freedom and global security. every day, every night, our soldiers sacr

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monday first lady jill biden meets with leaders at the smithsonian, the library of congress, and national archives to discuss preserving historical presidential site. watch that live on c-span2, c-span now our free mobile video app or online at c-span.org. and now from the white house, president biden and vice president harris discuss efforts to curb gun violence and announce the creation of an office of gun violence prevention. distinguished guests, the president of the united states accompanied by the vice president of the united states. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> good afternoon, everyone. please be seated. good afternoon. i will start by thanking our president joe biden for his long-standing leadership in the fight to save lives from gun violence. i want to thank my husband the second gentleman of the united states and the extraordinary members of our administration, the members of congress, survivors, advocates and our incredible young leaders who raise their voice and demand change. so we are all gathered here today for a simple reason. we agreed that in a civil society, the people must be able to shop in a gr

the washington field office opening the investigation based on referrals from the national archives which is also in dc. >> who made the decision to have the washington field office execute the search warrant rather than the miami office? >> this i cannot speak to as you know this is an ongoing case with internal deliberations. >> i'm not asking about the facts of the case but who made the call to go to washington and use the washington field office as opposed to miami would this have been you? >> the washington field office opened the investigation because they are the office were the national archives is what is what kicked off the investigation. >> on may 15 what kicked off the investigation. >> on may 15, 2023, or special counsel or excuse me your general counsel sent a letter to counsel durham. the fbi said management has instructed an investigation to be run out of the field and not from headquarters. despite the location of this search. occurring in a territorial of the fbi field office. they constructed the raid inconsistent with them two months ago. >> i have one minute left, dir