timothy thibault was accused of slow walking the investigation in 2022. in july 18th letter to director of the fbi chuck grassley cited two whistleblowers who claim high-ranking officials including timothy thibault were not following guidelines to open a proper investigation. grassley and ron johnson demanding answers after ceo of facebook zuckerberg. >> the fbi got possession of hunter biden's laptop, they said you will not look at the hunter biden laptop and the fbi will not change the outcome of the election began and preceded to do so by asking social media companies like facebook not to cover it. >> jackie: the republican senators demanded letters related to contact with the social media playoff in connection with the biden family. the american people deserve to know if the fbi used facebook or others as plan to discredit information about hunter biden. the senators are asking for names. >> todd: thank you. miranda devine had this reaction to the news of timothy thibault's resignation. >> miranda: he is one of the cabal of the fbi officers who have b

. >> todd: timothy thibault.ackie ibanez live with the latest. >> ashley: accused of running -- is resigning, timothy thibault was escorted out of the washington field office on friday calling it a career after more accusation of political bias in the handling of the hunter biden probe. timothy thibault is accused of slow walking the investigation over concerns it would influence the presidential investigation. chuck grassley cited two whistleblowers who claim timothy thibault were suppressing information and not following guidelines to open proper investigation. both grassley and ron johnson demanding answer after facebook ceo zuckerberg revealed the playoff took steps to sensor information based on the fbi guidance. >> the fbi got possession of hunter biden's laptop, they said you will not look at the laptop and the fbi will not change the outcome of the election again and preceded to do so by asking facebook not to cover it. >> jackie: the republican senators demanded records relating to the doj in connection

timothy thibault retired after fbi whistle blowers went to congress over his political bias in the handlingf hunter biden's laptop. >> isn't it true that mr. thibault, agent thibault, excuse me, and fbi supervisory analyst covered up derogatory information about hunter biden while working for the fbi? >> well, again, i want to be very careful not to interfere with ongoing personnel matters. i should say that when i read the letter that describes the kinds of things that you're talking about, i found it deeply troubling. >> sean: and that's not all. whistle blowers told senator chuck grassley in the fbi that thibault was opening up into trump campaign based on information of a leftist organization. he scrubbed it from a memo seeking the full investigation. joining me now is chris swecker former fbi assistant director and miranda devine new york post columnist and fox news contributor and author of the great book the laptop from hell. chris, i want to come to you first. what's your reeks to this fbi agent thibault leaving? should we be celebrating or is this just the fbi covering its back sid

>> yeah, we are hearing from timothy thibault through his attorney.e was an assistant special agent in charge at the washington, d.c. field office. he says it is not true that he helped run the investigation in to president biden's son hunter. we know that hunter is under federal investigation though he has not been charged with a crime. thibault says he had nothing to do with running that investigation. thibault also, through an attorney, said he had nothing to do with the investigation that is unfolding behind me here at mar-a-lago. john? >> john: senator charles grassley begs to differ on some of those points. we will keep watching this. david spunt mar-a-lago. thank you. president biden continues his assault on the political opposition ahead of the midterms elections. he plans a "primetime" campaign speech tomorrow on what he purr receives as threats to democracy by pro-trump republicans it is just the latest continuing effort to blame his political problems on other people. white house correspondent peter doocy has the story for us tonight. is he

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so let's get back to not the tim bow we know but the timothy thibault.started with chuck grassley's letter to the fbi, christopher wray. when wray was on capitol hill he said the allegations of political bias at the hands of fbi agents is deeply troubling. so this guy has been on leave for a month. and apparently what is suggested by the grassley letter is that he and an fbi is supervisor intelligence analyst by the name of brian oughtn't were allegedly involved in the scheme to undermine information that the fbi might have about the laptop. this will thibault ordered the matter closed without providing a reason. and this is the key. he closed the deal, without a reason which flies in the fails of fbi guidelines and subsequently tried to mark of the matter in the fbi system so that it could not be open in the future. and that's what got him in trouble. >> ainsley: yes. it seems very complicated or confusing at first. we saw chuck grassley in that senate committee meeting mentioning these two guys because the whistleblowers had told him these two guys are

and ensure politics in fact and appearance does not compromise ap appearance of our work and timothy thibault breaks his silence. firmly believe any investigation will show his decision-making were not impact by political bias or partisanship of any kind. the former president and his legal team not buying any of it. >> they are coming forward saying there ortega something wrong with what ortega happening in the fbi, i commend them and encourage them to come forward, merrick garland saying you can't speak to congress, i find that ironic, january 6, had no knowledge. >> marianne: trump's team not alone in criticism of the fbi and doj, more republicans are demanding answers and trans transparenty. >> todd: here ortega senator lindsey graham's take. >> after the clinton debacle when she was secretary of state, people will lose faith in law enforcement. you don't hear the president talking about the pooib telling social media his son's laptop ortega a bunch of russian disinformation and it turns out it was actually true. what happens in america, when in charge of corrupt investigation you get hire

and work for you lately, andy, but dig into this one for us, a pic up of the resigning agent, timothy thibault >> andy: that they have a real political bias problem, sandra, at the fbi, and what i find annoying about this is the claim that, you know, this is a bunch of conservative people criticizing the good men and women who work at the fbi with whom, by the way, i worked for about a quarter century. so i don't feel like i need to apologize to anyone about this, but they have a problem and you know, there has been hundreds of pages of reports that have been written, not by conservative commentators but by the justice department's own inspector general about political bias, leaking, corruption, all kinds of stuff, and it seems to me that they know they have a problem but we only, you know, something like what they did last week where they dismissed someone who merits dismissing, that happens only when some news leaks out and they are embarrassed, so then the guy getting shown the door. but otherwise they are not dealing with the problem from what i can see. >> sandra: we remember those moment

the latest coming with the resignation of timothy thibault over the weekend.ton field office and the focus of f.b.i. whistleblower accusations. he was escorted out of the building on friday. customary practice. it comes as the former f.b.i. agent has been accused of political bias ordering the matter of the hunter biden case closed without providing a valid reason as required by f.b.i. guidelines. senator grassley, a leader in bringing investigations to light sharing a statement with fox news quote, mr. thibault's partisanship undermined the work and reputation of the f.b.i.. political bias should have no place at the f.b.i. and an effort to revive the f.b.i. doesn't help just by his leaving. facebook limited distribution of the hunter biden story following an f.b.i. warning ron johnson and chuck grassley are demanding they hand over more information in a letter sent to the ceo they said quote, the american people deserve to know whether the f.b.i. used facebook as part of their plan to discredit information about hunter biden and demands record of all communi

timothy thibault is facing accusations that he allowed political claiming he slowed down the investigation business dealings a month before the 2020 presidential elections. his attorney in a new statement writing his client firmly believes that any investigation will conclude that his supervision, leadership and decision making were not impacted by political bias or partisanship of any kind. he did not supervise the investigation of hunter biden. sean duffy former wisconsin congressman. great to see you. what do you believe ultimately -- where do you believe it will go and what will it reveal? >> if this is a one off story we would be shocked you have this kind of politics inside the f.b.i. but not the first time we've heard about the politics of the f.b.i. and d.o.j. going back to strock and page and changing the meaning of the document to the fisa court. it runs rampant. the question is, is this a wholesale change that will happen inside the f.b.i. or are they covering their back side? they are covering their back side. you have to fire people. people have to lose their jobs. if you are

fbi agent timothy thibault has resigned after being under the congressional microscope for months as the political agent bias particularly in the hunter biden case. whistleblower allegations claimed thibault protected the president's son criminal investigation by closing the case without providing a valid reason required why fbi guidelines. senator charles grassley leading the effort to highlight allegations sharing a statement with fox news saying quote mr. thibault's blatant part shanship undermind the work and representation of the fbi. political bias should have no. it can't stop with his exit. he is not alone. other g.o.p. leaders are calling for swift action. >> but that is something we will be able to investigate and find out exactly who all is involved in this political cabal. and, each and every one of them that have decided to use their position at the fbi to push forward a political agenda they should be removed. >> relationship with meta days after mark zuckerberg shared with joe rogan facebook limited distribution of the hunter biden story. republican leaders are demandi

a source familiar with the departure of special agent in charge's departure, timothy thibault says they'reng it as a retirement. but his alleged actions certainly sped things up for him to leave the fbi. he's 1 of 13 assistant special agents in charge specifically with the washington field office here in d.c. he retired over the weekend. he was walked out of the building after turning in his gun and badge, which i'm told is standard procedure. he came under fire as you mentioned when senator chuck grassley argued that he personally tried to run interference in that investigation into hunter biden. hunter biden, as we've been reporting for two years, is under federal investigation for his business dealings overseas. he's not been charged with a crime. gra grassley's office uncovered social media posts where thibault liked negative posts about former president donald trump. christopher wray during testimony this month called that revelation deeply troubling. fox news has learned that thibault was not involved in the investigation at mar-a-largo. at any level, it's been a little over three we

both timothy thibault and cluck grassley with the whistle blowers from the fbi but there's many othersbrushed aside just by one man being marched out the door. ashley: no, that's true. you have a new op ed out saying the fbi put the hunter biden story in facebook's lap. miranda, the fbi basically told facebook this was a high alert story. why did they immediately suppress it? >> well, neither the fbi nor mark zuckerberg and facebook will fess up exactly to what the fbi told them in that briefing. in fact, they won't even say the exact date, but we do know from zuckerberg's various revelations, including to joe rogan last week, that it was weeks before the election, our story about hunter biden's laptop broke three weeks before the election, and within hours facebook seemed to recognize immediately what the story was fbi warn him about and they throttled it immediately and it was on our website at 5:00 a.m. and before lunchtime, they'd throttled it. that's curious and i do know from my questions to the fbi -- to facebook that they told me that it was not what the -- the fbi did not ment

fbi agent timothy thibault resigned last week. thibault was under fire from senator chuck grassley who accused him of trying to close the hunter biden investigation. also accused of political bias for liking a number of anti-trump tweets. nbc news investigations correspondent tom winters. bring us up to speed. we haven't covered a lot about this investigation. where does it stand and who is thibault. >> there is no indication he is under investigation. our colleague mike is told he was eligible to retire. so he chose retirement. there were a number of reports that he was walked out of the fbi. that's standard procedure when somebody is done with their career in case anybody is unhappy about their retirement. don't want anybody to do anything on the way out the door. that's not particularly unusual. this all came up as you alluded to from senator grassley back in may, may 31, when he sent a letter to attorney general garland as well as fbi director wray calling into question a number of social media posts not just likes but re-twee

timothy thibault resigning as zero nothing on allegations he tried to interfere with the hunter bidenptop investigation. you're watching "fox and friends first." i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier, chuck grassley raced red flags about theeb weeks ago demanding the fbi take action. >> i talked about an

we are hearing from the lawyers from one retired fbi agent timothy thibault they are defending their bault's lawyers call it false. >> firmly believe any investigation will conclude that his supervision leadership and decision-making were not impacted by political bias or partisanship of any kind. you know, one person has been speaking out about this is iowa senator chuck grassley. heard from whistleblowers who claim that there has been misbehavior happening in the justice department. he has even mentioned thibault specifically. obviously with the fallout from this search and what is happening inside the justice department there seems to be continued outrage but also a lot of questions. steve, ainsley and brian back to you guys. >> brian: pushback from thibault's office but we still don't have a good explanation of why he suddenly decided he needed to retire, do we. >> steve: a month ago. >> yeah. they are saying that he had fulfilled his duty this was simply the end of his term. like you said obviously they expect symptom sort of investigation to come out and senator grassley has bee

. >> sandra: timothy thibault's legal team denies he was escorted out of fbi headquarters.an congressman ken buck, a member of the house judiciary committee. you know, everybody sees the story and that this is happening and want to know, how much political bias is there in the fbi? >> i think, sandra, it depends on what level you are talking about. certainly at the upper levels of the fbi we saw with jim comey and andrew mccabe and peter, there was a bias and yet at the lower levels a lot of hard working men and women out enforcing the law and doing a great job. and so we need to make sure that this particular director, christopher wray is able to clean house and get rid of those who won't enforce the law impartially. >> john: he says this was a case of an fbi agent reaching the age of retirement and retiring. nothing more to it. but he was removed from his position. former president trump certainly does not believe that it was just routine retirement. he wrote on truth social security "people that retire from the fbi are not perp walked out of the headquarters on a hot sun

special agent timothy that thibault closing the case without providing a valid reason, that is requiredelines. senator chuck grassley is leading the effort to highlight these allegations sharing a statement with fox news, quote, mr. thibault's latent partisanship undermined work and reputation of the fbi bill. political bias should have no place at the fbi. the effort to restore their crediteddability can't stop with this. the relationship with meta, days after mark zuckerberg revealed to joe rogan that facebook limited distribution of the hunter biden story following a fbi warning republican leaders are demanding answers. senators ron johnson, chuck grassley sending a letter to the ceo last night the american people need to know whether the fbi used facebook as part of a alleged plan to discredit information about hunter biden fbi warning made no mention of the laptop story specifically gop leaders are seeking records of all communication and names of those privy to the exchanges. regardless this growing scrutiny of the fbi and facebook continue a trend of waning trust of these inflew

lost counted how many but you got the top fi agent facing kwufgs accusations of political bias timothy thibaultuck grassley citings two whistleblowers who claim including thibault suppressing investigation into open investigation into hunter biden. your reaction. >> when the fbi became a politicized agency people started to distrust what they were doing, now there are some really good fbi majority will are effective good keep integrity many have whistleblowers revealed information to senator grassley to us at the judiciary committee they have raised their concerns. but when you have a political cabal inside the fbi agency deciding whether they are going to push forward information or suppress other information, cheryl we saw this with the russia collusion hoax, of course, i asked christopher wray about that when he came before us at our oversight committee hearing earlier this month. when you have them deciding to suppress the information on hunter biden, and about his laptop even going to facebook and saying you might want to be wary of this, and we don't know if they went to the other social