joining me right now is wisconsin republican senator ron johnson.ont in this investigation into president biden is and his family's business dealings from day one. senator, thanks very much for being here this morning. >> morning, maria. maria: your reaction to gal lift's testimony9 and the fact that now he's on the run afraid for his life because he exposed biden family business dealings. >> i'm glad you're bringing it up. miranda devine did great work again with, he got the video. what's very interesting about dr. luft is he's an energy expert, had a think tank, consulted with people like cia director james woolsey, and he was consulting with cefc, the same company connected with the communist party that was paying biden millions of dollars. he knew how compromised joe biden would be, so he met with two prosecutors from the southern district of new york and four fbi agents in brussels for two days in march of 2019. what's interesting about those individuals, one of the prosecutors from the southern district of new york is the same prosecutor that

. >> there you go two irs whistleblowers saying same thing joining me wisconsin senator ron johnson great to see you. thanks so much for being here this morning, what is your reaction? >> good morning, maria. well, you know first of all, i thought interesting that democrat party members on that committee that that were leading the defund police moment now defending the corrupt partisan actors inside federal law enforcement i thought one take away they made a big deal, that u.s. attorney weiss was appointed by donald trump, in fact matter is recommended by democrat senators canyons, are, a delaware guy he was appointed by trump but recommended by those that's, i thought also, democrats making a really big point that the president biden wasn't even present when a other of obstruction interference was occurring under psychos my point infiltrated agencies inflated not only congressional investigation public scrutiny but insulated from management by republican president, i certainly saw that i subpoenaed chris bove, a reaction confirmed all points i have been making that it is cup, it is parti

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senator ron johnson is saying u.s.weiss, this is a problem, this is a problem with the doj, that they're stonewalling house judiciary, oversight and the fbi and doj is sheltering themselves from accountability. watch this. >> we need more whistleblowers coming forward. but heavy done a really good job of setting up their procedures in the fbi and the department of justice to insulate themselves from scrutiny. you look at the letters that david weiss sent to jim jordan june 7th, june 30th. they're basically giving jim jordan the middle finger. you can't investigate us because we have an active investigation. that's what they always use as an excuse so they've insulated themselves from scrutiny. elizabeth: final word with, jon levine. >> i mean, someone is lying. i mean, the key thing is we have to see the receipts, we have to see the papers. everyones has to put their cards on the table. elizabeth: got it. jon levine, you'll be back soon. he's a great writer. >>> this 2024 race is the kitchen table race. we've got more

but on this hearing that happened on capitol hill today you hear from ron johnson there.to the national chair of the 9/11 families united earlier today about their view of all of this. this is what they told you. >> what we are trying to do is hold the kingdom, the saudi government, the same house of saud that was in power in 2001, is still in power today, and we need to hold them accountable for september 11th. and this deal that they made in the darkness of the night, they gave us no details today. they couldn't tell us anything about what's coming next. it was just very bizarre. >> jake, given saudi arabia's abysmal, to say the least, human rights record, where does this leave the families who were just in the wake of this entire merger and hearing comments like that from people like senator ron johnson? >> well, they feel betrayed by pga, the pga tour, which spent a year lobbying, telling the american people just how horrible the saudi-backed liv golf organization was because of saudi complicity in 9/11, not to mention human rights abuses, not to mention the murder of

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elizabeth: senator ron johnson, thanks for joining us. >> have a good night.zabeth: look who's here, former house intelligence chairmaning devin nuÑes. it's good to to see you, sir, did the fbi spy on you? i mean, that's what we're hearing out of house judiciary, that your staffers were spied on. what's going on? >> yeah, look, i think it's a real concern for all of congress today because we've seen, as senator johnson was saying, just how bad things have become where things are being treated differently under the law. so i think the warning to the republicans in congress, if they were spying on republican staff at the time, this is back in 2017, i might add, what are they doing today? and so i think chairman jordan doing what he's doing, hopefully the fbi will -- and doj -- will provide what evidence they had to actually go and subpoena records of my lawyers. it wasn't just that it was staff, it was my lawyers. so effectively -- elizabeth: so you were spied on. wait, let me understand this. house judiciary's probing why the fbi allegedly got google e-mail inf

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. >> todd: bring in ron johnson. senator, great to see you. your reaction. we know the news that came out, sweden is in and maybe turkey wants to play ball more with the west. we'll see how that goes. ukraine is disappointed there is no blueprint going forward to become a member of nato. >> nato is defensive organization and maintains the peace. vladamir putin is a war criminal, i have no sympathy for him whatsoever. i will say, there is no acceptable result of the war that we'll like and everyday that goes by, there is more destruction or killing. >> steve: to your point, senator, that is what griff sounded like, our president will sit down with president zelenskyy and they will discuss the future. we've run out of bullets, the president revealed a few days ago, what would you say to zelenskyy? >> i was at president zelenskyy's inauguration, he was sincere about having peace with russia, this was after russia invaded crimea and eastern ukraine. i don't know what happened, obviously putin invaded. we need to get president zelenskyy, difficult as it is going

senator ron johnson has also said he's an important witness. the republicans are interested in investigating the department of justice's handing of their investigation into hunter biden. hunter biden is emptied to plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors later this week. gal luft has been on the run and was initially arrested in february on this indictment but then jumped bail. at the time, he did tweet denials and here's what he tweeted. i've been arrested on a politically motivated extradition request by the u.s. claiming i'm an arms dealer. would be funny ift were not tragic. i've never been an arms dealer. doj is trying to bury me to protect the bidens. his lawyers also saying these charges are a vicious attempt to silence a witness. obviously a lot of attention by republicans on hunter biden and the biden family. fbi director christopher ray will be testifying tomorrow before one of the house committees. >> and several republicans are looking for his impeachment over this. thank you so much. >>> vermont ravaged by historic rainfall and extreme

but the idea is, as richard blum blumenthal, one of the heads of the committee, along with ron johnsononsin. this is a beloved american institution. and the players and fans don't want to be complicit in something that elevates a regime that many people find objectionable. that's going to be one of the questions. monahan of the pga tour says, there will be a supermajority of pga representatives on the policy board. the saudis will not be the ones that control the sensibility and the direction of it. it will be recognizable in a traditional sense to american golf fans. there's another question, which is an antitrust question. and the pga tour enjoys tax exempt status. they will be looking into that, as well, beginning tomorrow. >> bob casses to, always an honor. we have to cut it short. we have breaking news just in. tomorrow's breaking news, really tonight. this just in. former president donald trump's lawyers in a new filing, are requesting that the court, the court hearing the mar-a-lago documents case, the one that former president trump has been indicted, they are requesting a cons

senator ron johnson joins us.r's team is scared of what may come down the line with future prosecutions. what should they be most concerned about, given the facts of the case, fara charge, the foreign agent registration act he did not register under while operating overseas? >> my concern there, it is difficult to convict a democrat in washington, d.c. under the fara statute. you can convict republicans, convicting a democrat is difficult in this jurisdiction. they should be concerned about the tax evasion. excellent "wall street journal" yesterday by the former head of the department of justice said any other american would be in jail had they evaded jail the way hunter biden does. what i'm looking for, who will advocate under equal justice under the law. prosecution has not been doing that. the prosecution has not done that. i hope the judge will do that and call for a thorough investigation and honest prosecution because we have not had that yet. that is what i think hunter ought to be concerned about, a thorou

. >> reporter: senator ron johnson is concerned about the optics of the merger but johnson is cautious about criticism of golf because it's associated with the saudis. >> no amount of money can wash away the stain of the jamal khashoggi association and other human rights abuses. it would be unfair to expect the pga tour to bear the full burden of holding them accountable. >> reporter: the senate wants to hear from live golf founder greg norman. lawmakers are considering legislation which could revoke the tax-exempt status. ashley: could they do anything to stop this? it is supposedly a done deal. >> reporter: at the testimonies this morning we had folks on the pga tour board say it is not completely wrapped up. they have this framework, senator ron paul from texas, rand paul, i should say, from kentucky, he has indicated i have trouble with the saudis but why are we involved in this? that is what senator johnson was commenting. i talked to him in a separate interview and he said i don't think you can wash away the jamal khashoggi murder but the problem johnson has, he wants to protect

>> only people in the senate that have talked about this is senator ron johnson and senator grassley.ch mcconnell, no. we talked about mitch mcconnell does not want to have an open conversation about chinese financial ties involving american political families. his family is one of those so he does not want to have this conversation and i would argue some of the other people aren't talking about it and they may not have chinese ties but aspire to have a financial tie with foreign entities and they see politics as a moneymaking opportunity in they believe foreign oligarchs present the opportunity. why muddy the waters and draw attention to this. let's keep focusing on the less important issues. this is a critical turning point i'm very encouraged. if you look at the public opinion polls there shifting on this and what the bidens are doing. i think this is going to be the end of joe biden's political career. mark: peter schweizer you write this book in 2018 we have a new attorney general who sworn in an early 2019. his name would be bill barr, did he ever contact you or send out one of

joining us now wisconsin senator ron johnson. senator, good to see you.r's team is obviously scared of what may come down the line with future prosecutions. what should they be most concerned about, given the facts of this case as they are developing? ask it the fara charge, the foreign agent's registration act that he did not register under while he was operating overseas? >> well, you know, my concern there is it's very difficult to convict a democrat in washington, d.c. under the fara statute. can you convict republicans but convicting a democrat is pretty difficult here in this jurisdiction. they should mostly be concerned about the tax evasion. an excellent article by eileen o'connor in the "wall street journal" i think yesterday she was former head of the tax division department of justice saying that any other american would be in jail had they evaded taxes the way that hunter biden does. what i have been looking for, laura, is who is going to advocate for the equal application of justice under the law? you know, obviously, the prosecution has not

senator ron johnson of wisconsin told the new york times in his report that there was a misconception on the part of the public that there would be. but if at first you don't succeed, try and try again. >> republicans are so desperate to get hunter biden and his father that they don't even care how they do it. if you have an allegation against the family, come on board because you could be the next whistleblower. annie annie anti-biden is inherent and welcome. they found a whistleblower who claims that he would prove that president biden and his son accepted bribes from china. but when asked to provide proof, republicans claimed he vanished. >> hold on a second, did you just say that the whistleblower is now missing? >> we are hopeful that we could find the informant. they are kind of in the spy business. actually accused of having nefarious ties with china. according to the indictment, being charged with arms trafficking, sanction violations and acting as an unregistered agent for china. a lot of republicans don't like doing business with china because it is the threat of our lifetim

right now and we're waiting for the call so jason smith will discuss all of that and of course ron johnson has been among the first to investigate biden family influence peddling, wheeling talk about that as well. we are also kicking off our series on sunday morning futures, speaking to the candidates. we kick it off with ron desantis, the governor of florida is my lead guest, the exclusive interview coming up. we'll take a look at governor desantis' campaign. some say it's stalled out in his effort to topple donald trump. we'll get into it. we're talking about 2024 and issues that matter to the american people, number one, china and the economy number two. newt gingrich will assess the field for us, he's coming up to talk about the 2020 election with now just a month and week away from the first primary debate right here on fox news and gordon chang will weigh in on all of this china situation that keeps unfolding, showing weakness on the world stage by america. a bow from janet yellen, really. where is the pushback for all of this aggression coming from communist party officials. we don'

no.e the only people inpr the senates that arehave talked about this e been senator ron johnson andhie have talked in this program before, mitch mcconnell does not want to have an open conversation about chinesean financial tiest involving american political families because his family is one ofes those. so he doesn't want to have this conversation and i would arguedo that some of thor people that aren't talking about it, they may not have chinese ties nowr pebut they aspire to have some kind of financial ties with foreign entities. they see politics and publicwi service as ath money-making opportunity and they believe that foreign oligarchs present that opportunity so why muddyt ththe waters, why draw attention to, this let's just keep a focusing ondn the less importani issues but this is a critical turning point, mark, i'm verysu encouraged. if you look ates i thes public opinion polls, opinions are shifting on this and what the bidens are doing and i think this is going to be the end of joopine biden's political careee >> peter, yo bu write this bookn 2018, we have a new attorney g

moving on, republican senator ron johnson told the daily mail the link between the prosecutor and hunter's business associate calls into question the integrity of their entire investigation. after hunter received a slap on the wrist do you think it adds to the fear that the president's son was handled with kid gloves by the d.o.j.? >> yes, senator johnson is one of the best and understands this case inside and out and reported in the daily mail you have david weiss, the u.s. attorney looking at this. he has four key people that are his assistance. one of those people, derrick hines, happens to have worked for louie free. he got a referral by hunter biden to get business out of romania and as a thank you louie free wired $1 hundred thousand to joe biden's grandchildren as a thank you for doing who knows what. and of the 110,000 people at the department of justice, he just happened to pick part of the prosecutorial team, somebody who worked and got a benefit via hunter biden? it's also part of the prosecuting team on hunter biden. the statute is clear, you cannot do that. you are highly conf

. >> jessica: i am just saying and chuck grassley has been clear about this on ron johnson, when pushedonsible anchors, that they do not have it yet. they are working on it, that is what kevin mccarthy is doing commode doing the we are working on it, but what he is not telling the viewers is 18 republicans were elected in democratic districts who are not going for an impeachment so you are not going to get it. and also, just quickly on dana's point about what peter baker pointed out, democrats will remind you of this, "the new york times" was responsible for getting hillary email server scandal out there and uranium one, so it is not like we think -- >> jeanine: coming out with -- they had the laptop. >> jessica: what i am saying is "the new york times" does not help democrats all the time here at >> greg: all right, they are yelling at me. they are yelling at me. who are they? i don't know if he. >> dana: weird, i never met them. up next, cnn suddenly discovers america's out-of-control crime crisis. ♪ ♪ i was told my small business wouldn't qualify for an erc tax refund. you should get

who wants to wrap himself in the cloak of the house oversight committee and we have got senator ron johnson on the other side of capitol hill saying he should be given immunity. in other words, he should be given a clean slate for all of his arms trafficking crimes and false statement crimes and failing to register as an agent for the chinese government, so he can talk to the oversight committee about tips that have already been discredited and re reputed by donald trump's department of justice. we are in "alice in wonderland" here. >> thank you. >>> a key witness in the house january 6th committee hearings cassidy hutchinson will release a moemoir this fall. she was pivotal in the year-long investigation of the attack. hutchinson provided damaging testimony against former president trump alleging that the secret service resisted his demands to join the insurrectionists at the capitol and that members of trump's inner circle offered jobs and money while she was cooperating with the committee. enough, the title of the book, will be released september 26th. >>> and moderate democratic senator

you saw this in wisconsin with ron johnson.d this massive reelection and was working on these tax benefits for wisconsin. we've seen this everywhere. it is really quid pro quo. it's totally disgusting. also, if we will talk about this, we should talk about how members of congress and members of the senate should not be trading stocks. because that is such a conflict. >> and i don't know, i don't know, called meal fashion, but if you are sitting on the supreme court of the united states of america, you should at least report hanging out with billionaires and have cases that come before the supreme court. really quickly, you said something really fascinating before we went on the year. you said trump world was thrilled with its horrifying times piece. why? >> i think they like strength. i think it makes them look strong. i think there are people, they just want him to win. again, it is like this adam piece. the cruelty is the point, right? they don't care about the legislative priorities. and they are not policy people. and they

. >> ron johnson said saudi involvement in professional golf is no different than other routine businessements. execute use oil you are basically supported the saudi regime as well. rather have saudi's investor dollars in the u.s. rather than to russia or china. >> he senate panel wanted to hear from liv golf founder greg norman he will not appear. there is legislation to strip the pga of its tax-exempt st status. on capitol hill, chad pergram fox news. eric: up next sees the mob boss you never heard of. he said he did business with a lot of big names that you know. we will tell you the surprising revelations about a new book about billy d'elia. is here with those revelations, next. hi, i'm sharon, and i lost 52 pounds on golo. on other diets, i could barely lose 10-15 pounds. thanks to golo, i've lost 27% of my body weight, and it was easy. (soft music) (suspenseful music) ♪ ♪ it is cooked. and cremated and a furnace. do you think it is possible jimmy hoffa, his body was brought back from detroit in bearded new jersey? >> no. arthel: that is what billy d'elia says happened to jimmy hoff

in the past, you also have to believe the ukrainian oligarch and a lot of republicans including ron johnson have said, we are not sure that this oligarch is telling the true -- telling the truth. then you also have to believe hunter biden was telling the truth to that oligarch, because hunter biden could also just be telling them that, to use his father's name to get more money. it is a very interesting detail, as part of this whole mosaic. the fbi ultimately found it, not a credible tip that they could prosecute on. amy: ryan graham, thank you for being with us, washington, d.c. bureau chief for the intercept. he writes the newsletter bad , news on substack. we will link to your piece for the intercept. this is democracy now. coming up, a police officer has been fired in ohio for siccing and attack dog on unarmed black man during a traffic stop where the man had his hands up in the air. we will look at the use of attack dogs by police and prison guards. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ [music break] amy: sinead o'connor has died at the age of 56. this is democracynow, moxie now.org, the war and peace r

judiciary and oversight committees' demands for these documents and i spoke with wisconsin senator ron johnson pointed out the amount of money that was spent when you look at all of these investigations against trump versus an investigation of joe biden, the money and the resources allocated to these two investigations very different. here's the wisconsin senator. watch this. >> the russian collusion with trump hoax, 32 million bucks. john durham in over three years spent $7.7 million and delivered virtually nothing, now you've got jack smith. in a few months he spent $5.5 million. robert herr who is investigating biden's classified documents spent $616,000. so when you just see the resources and effort put behind targeting republicans or donald trump versus what little resources and how corrupt and unthorough the investigations are against democrats, it's pretty revealing. maria: and now we understand that somebody's lying in terms of the special -- you know, the u.s. attorney, david weiss, who said he did not have full authority over the hunter biden investigation. ag garland said the comple

agent arms trafficking and making false statements to prosecutors i spoke with wisconsin senator ron johnsonbout his credibility on "sunday morning futures". >> he was consulting with cefc, the same chinese company connected to the communist party that was paying the biden's millions of dollars. when he heard joe biden was going to be running for president that alarmed him he knew how compromise joe biden would be so he met with to prosecutors from the southern district of new york and four fbi agents in brussels for two days in march of 2019 a wealth of information and they never followed up on the meeting instead they arrested him and cyprus to silence him. maria: joining the south carolina congresswoman nancy mace, member of the house oversight arm services and veterans affairs committees, good to see you again. thank you for being here what is your reaction of this indictment of galba. >> nobody should be surprised i don't trust the d.o.j. or the fbi they are trying to silence our witnesses, he deserves to testify before the oversight committee we have a lot of questions, we want to know

ron johnson has said take it with a grain of salt.ck edwards, seems like the only honest republican on the oversight committee, said that president biden hasn't been implicated. then you look at someone like jim comber, who was on the most embarrassing press to and should stop doing interviews, ted cruz said, what is going on here, well, biden has been selling access for decades, how do you know that? jim comer says if you study joe biden like i have, he has always been cash-strapped. okay. well, that means that you took $10 million from ukrainians. also, this viktor shokin controversy about the ukrainian prosecutor that was fired, this story has been gone over a million times. that prosecutor was removed by the entire western community, by the prime minister of the u.k., french, germans, the imf, senate republicans supported removing him because the guy was not investigating corruption. it actually ended up hurting burisma to remove viktor shokin from his position, and i see you snickering and he will go next and i get it and i will

they actually, in the case of senator ron johnson when he put an alternative view out on, like, a senateng, youtube actually took it off. i mean, they literally, you know, memory holed it, and -- douglas: with a senate hearing. rachel: with a u.s. senate hearing. wow. will: so america's crime crisis continues in san francisco. d.a. brooke jenkins, she dropped charges, quote, pending further investigation, existence a car-- against a carjacking pair accused of crashing a vehicle down the famous sanchez steps last saturday. now, this was despite those two being warned by cops to stay away with each -- from each other. look at that. they crashed their car -- see this happen -- down those steps. how do you drop charges penning investigation? -- pending investigation? this seems pretty -- whoa. look. rachel: wow. will: dang. rachel: well, the san francisco standards, san francisco court filings show jennifer bond was released from parole on march 2nd. she was banned from contacting kevin nelson as a condition of her release. well, i mean, i -- will: so they steal -- that right there, they car

questions that officials behind the proposed liv golf pga tour merger today, wisconsin republican sen ron johnson major investments raised saudi arabia's past, but pga officials defended the decision saying the pga will benefit from the deal and it prevented live golf from taking over entirely. >> little golf would have continued to recruit our players and put our tour jeopardy and they could have become the leader professional golf and operated for the benefit of the kingdom of saudi arabia. >> congress may not have the ability to block the deal, but blumenthal did encourage the pga officials to reject it on the road. the chairman of the house oversight committee, james comer is pressing federal reserve chairman jerome powell for information on the historic collapse of silicon valley bank. in a letter to powell comer says the agency has not been responding to previous request as it should. the committee is investigating the role state and federal regulators played the bank's failure back in april. a spokesperson for the fed says, quote, we have received the letter and plan to respond. and a live

elizabeth: we've got this story coming up, top lawmakers including chuck grassley and ron johnson, jamesith, they say a special counsel must investigate government officials retaliating against irs whistleblowers who blew the lid off of justice department political interference9 and the cover-up in the hunter biden probe. we've got the new york post's jon he screen and the washington examiner's sarah bedford. stick right there. ♪ h ♪av it's a little pill with a big story to tell. ♪ ♪ i take once-daily jardiance, ♪ ♪ at each day's staaart. ♪ ♪ as time went on it was easy to seee ♪ ♪ i'm lowering my a1c. ♪ jardiance works 24/7 in your body to flush out some sugar! and for adults with type 2 diabetes and known heart disease, jardiance can lower the risk of cardiovascular death, too. jardiance may cause serious side effects including ketoacidosis that may be fatal, dehydration, that can lead to sudden worsening of kidney function, and genital yeast or urinary tract infections. a rare, life-threatening bacterial infection in the skin of the perineum could occur. stop taking jardiance and call

they either bribe you, they threaten you, or they kill you progress ron johnson said saudi involvementsional golf is no different than other routine business engagements. >> if you use oil you are basically supporting the saudi regime as well but i would rather have saturday's investor dollars in the u.s. rather than to russia or china picked a senate panel wanted to hear from liv golf founder greg norman he will not appear and there is legislation to strip the pga of its tax-exempt status. on capitol hill, chad pergram fox news. >> well it's only going to get harder from here and know we are not talking about the weather braid the race for the republican presidential nomination really started to heat up as the candidates traded jabs and important caucus and primary dates artificially set straight washington examiner geva political correspondent byron york has all the analysis for us after the break. my a1c was up here; now, it's down with rybelsus®. his a1c? it's down with rybelsus®. my doctor told me rybelsus® lowered a1c better than a leading branded pill and that people taking rybe

republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin today defended the pga tour's position of negotiating thisng. >> but it would be grossly unfair to expect pga tour to bear the full burden of holding saudi arabia accountable. after all, anyone who drives a car or uses oil-based products has helped fill the coughers of the saudi public investment fund. >> how do you respond to that? >> what do you make of that argument? >> yeah, i was disappointed in that being an argument made against holding the kingdom accountable for september 11th. yes, we do business with them on that level with the oil. we all know that, but that doesn't excuse what they did to us on september 11th. and we were not asking the pga tour to hold them accountable. we're asking them to stop allowing them to sports wash away the sins they committed on this country and that they killed nearly 3,000 americans on american soil and that the pga team is now giving them a much larger platform to wash away their sins. and i think they have the nerve to say today that the governor he just wants a membership at augusta. i mean that's

in front of families of 9/11 victims, senator ron johnson defending the pga tour's decisions, sayingsports moral compass. >> the pga tour accurately viewed liv as an existential threat. it would be grossly unfair to expect the pga tour to bear the full burden of holding saudi arabia accountable. after all, anyone who drives a car or uses oil-based products has helped fill the coffers of the saudi public investment fund. >> reporter: the framework agreement between the saudis and the pga tour must still be approved by pga tour's ten-member policy which includes rory mcilroy. if and when it does go through, it will be tough to heal the wounds of the last year. >> i hope it goes away and i fully expect that it does. >> i want to have faith that this is the best thing for all of us. but it's clear that that's not the consensus. >> i think this is the best thing that could ever happen for the game of golf. and i am extremely proud to be a part of that. but i truly believe in the end the game of golf wins. >> reporter: as part of today's hearing, the senate subcommittee released documents

that when you talk about cleansing the saudi arabian image, there was questions raised by senator ron johnsone to wear the saudi flag and would there be events in that space? all of that is important, when you think about the international pr, and then there are concerns like the 9/11 families that want more transparency into their role in the terrorists attack. >>> for charles brown jr., he is expected to take questions on anything from ukraine to threats from china, and brown's nomination may be at a standstill because alabama republican senator has placed a hold on hundreds of military promotions to protest the military's abortion policies. >>> next on "ana cabrera reports," parents you have to pay attention to this. there's an energy drink popular among kids that has as much caffein as six cans of coke. every day, more dog people are deciding it's time for a fresh approach to pet food. developed with vets. made from real meat and veggies. portioned for your dog. and delivered right to your door. it's smarter, healthier pet food. (bobby) my store and my design business? we're exploding. bu

applause seth, look at all these statements ron desantis called alvin bragg soros backed senator ron johnsonhim soros funded look at all these times fox news mentioned soros. >> george soros funded d.a >> george soros funded d.a >> soros funded d.a. >> george soros. >> george soros. >> george soros. >> soros >> soros >> soros >> i'm sorosed out [ laughter ] even trump mentioned soros in his speech from mar-a-lago why you got to keep bringing soros into this? let alvin bragg enjoy his time in the spotlight [ applause ] >> seth: sorry, so you -- you want alvin bragg to get all this scrutiny that comes with indicting trump? >> seth, this is black people's moment, okay having a black president was great. but letting a black man take down trump that's the final boss level. [ cheers and applause look, think of it in hollywood terms. it's great when they let a black guy star in a movie. but true equality can't be achieved until black people are allowed to play the bad guy. okay, forget idris elba playing bond why can't i be a bond villain? ♪ i see you finally figured it out, mr. bond. it is i who h

candidates for the likely front runners in 2024, nevertheless, you're hearing from people like senator ron johnson who are saying they're happy about the way this plea deal has been derailed. congresswoman lauren boebert saying mark my words saying the biden crime family will go down as the most corrupt family in american political history. again, i think it's really important to underscore that event though republicans are taking investigation, they have not found any tangible evidence tooling the president with his son's business dealings. nevertheless, they continue investigating until they can find that. >> i need you to wax poetic for me for a moment, ali visit tam -- vitale. we're hearing from the likes of lauren boebert. they're celebrating what has taken place today. are we looking at a 2024 in which this is becoming a tit for tat, right? as you talk about. they want to attach the word investigation there talking about an impeachment inquiry to the president of the united states. how dirty could this get? >> pretty dirty. the fact that you have speaker kevin mccarthy talking about the idea

i had conversations with mandela barnes who nearly lost his senate race last year to ron johnson, a closemp. i talk to tim ryan who lost by a decent margin in ohio senate race to trump ally j.d. vance. there are realities in these battleground states that in 2020, don trump turned out a record number of votes on behalf of republican nominees in each of the battleground states. more than any republican nominee ever. that is where these conversations are heading. if you look at some of these new numbers from nbc polling, this is where that begins to open up, that conversation. let's get to those numbers right now. >> despite facing federal charges, the new polling shows that donald trump is expanding his lead in the 2024 republican primary. in the latest nbc news survey, trump is the top choice of the 51% of gop voters. that is up from 46% in april. in second place, with 22% is florida governor ron desantis. his forte has fallen by nine points since the last poll which was taken before he officially entered the race. although trump remains popular among republicans, just 34% of all register

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someone in his position like ron johnson and charles grassley and james comer, they are all multimillionaires who is in that position can get all of the money they want from making speeches and being on boards of organizations. all this talk about joe biden being corrupt is nonsense. host: that is brian in lincoln, nebraska finishing off the round of calls on this open forum. appreciate all of you who participated. thanks for doing so. tomorrow two governors joining us to thought about -- to talk about issues in the states. the house of representatives just about to come in for a session of work. we take you to them now. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order.

the biden crime family, and my question to you is there has been a hint that perhaps with senator ron johnsonnt to offer immunity to mr. luft. how does that work? >> first of all, that won't happen and they won't go through it especially now that he has been charged. senator johnson said he should receive immunity and that's after senator johnson knew mr. luft had been charged with crimes. it demonstrates where the conspiratorial republican party is right now, that they would want to give immunity to somebody charged with such serious crimes just to further their own politicized investigations. they are misusing and abusing the committee process, the official committees of the congress in order to try to make a political hit on the president. none of their allegations, nothing they have come up with, nothing they have said, connects to president biden. that's very important to remember. they can call it the biden crime family and all this stuff, but nothing they have found made any connection to president biden, yet they will lump him in with anything they have to say. it's a disgrace to anyb

that's what happened in wisconsin to donald trump, as ron johnson explained. >> yes. >> help me. >> sure> in all of your reporting, help us all understand why republicans are still attracted to a guy that they know, most likely, is going to lose. >> well, i think the easy way to relate this is that you've got two parties effectively under one tent now. you've got traditional republicans, what i call kind of the pre-trump party, that still places the biggest premium on winning. they're making a cold-eyed assessment that trump can't win and they have to find an alternative. you see this in the u.s. senate. you see it among governors. certainly, you see it on the editorial pages of the "wall street journal," which nearly every day is pleading with the republican party not to pick trump again. but you also have a post-trump party, which is significant. you see it there, that national survey, joe, that you posted. frankly, doesn't think trump lost the last time and thinks that he could win this time. simply does not believe the polling data. frankly, is attached to trump for reasons that are

congressman comer, head of oversight, senator ron johnson has been on tv talking about this man, as welley've hung their case. they said he can tell the story of the alleged biden crime family doing business with china, et cetera. >> yes. >> he is accused an eight-count indictment of being an illegal arms broker, among other things -- >> hold on, illegal arms dealer, okay. >> unregistered agent for the chinese government. >> working with the chinese illegally, okay. i got that one. >> helping china to get iranian oil in violation of u.s. sanctions. >> okay. hold on, i've got to put down, illegally -- hold on -- illegally smuggling, smuggling iranian oil for the chinese communist -- there's a lot to write here -- chinese communist party. okay, so wait, hold on a second, this is a lot, and i'm a simple country lawyer. so we got the chinese espionage. we've got the illegal arms dealer. we have got him illegally smuggling i iranian oil for th chinese communist party. >> to put the period at the end of the sentence, then lying to agents about it. >> he's on the run. >> fugitive from the u.s.

. >> reporter: perry johnson, senator tim scott, and florida governor ron desantis making their appeal to voters. >> freedom has been under assault in this country. we need people to stand up and fight back and that's exactly what we're doing here. >> reporter: and at the white house, president biden and the first lady celebrating independence day with a barbecue, honoring active duty military and their families. >> democracy is never, never, never guaranteed. every generation must fight to maintain it. >> reporter: biden trying to turn the page after a series of defeats handed down by the conservative majority supreme court last week. li linsey, missing from the campaign trail this holiday, former president trump. his campaign blasting those arizona election allegations, calling them a witch hunt, and saying that he did nothing wrong. linsey? >> linsey: alex, thank you. >>> when we come back, shark scares have beachgoers on alert this fourth of july. >>> and a terrifying roller coaster malfunction at a festival in wisconsin. es, i want to keep it real and talk about some risks. with t