house, some damage assessment report that s been waiting for better than a week. no progress i guess, right, aishah? yeah, they ve been waiting about nine days for that. they haven t heard anything from the administration yet, neil. republicans frustrated as they re also struggling to get any information. fox can now confirm that the justice department has sent a letter to judiciary committee members today. here it is. this is acknowledging chairman jim jordan s multiple requests for records and answers related to the biden documents. the letter, neil, does not say whether the doj is actually going to provide those records or reject his request. they re hiding behind what they call the accommodation process. let s read this. under this accommodation process, the legislative executive branches have a constitutional obligation to negotiate in good faith to meet the informational needs of congress while protecting the institutional interests of the
has to be an accommodation process. with the clintons and bushes, i m certain with president obama, there was a discussion with the national archives as to what they had and what should be turned over to the presidential record. i think this process should have played out here. instead they got the f.b.i. involved to raid his home. harris: the f.b.i. raid of trump s mar-a-lago, his primary residents has credits crying hypocrisy when it comes to hunter biden. you mentioned the clintons and i ll mention what is current. they say they aren t doing nearly enough when it comes to investigating the president s son. former a.g. bill barr calling for a special counsel after whistleblower s revelations how f.b.i. agents handled information about hunter. it time for merrick garland to give the current u.s. attorney in delaware the protections of the special and
subpoena. looks like he will cooperate in some limited way. why do you think he might cooperate now? well, don, he has three options. he can take the route of naked criminal contempt that has landed steve bannon and peter navarro in the dock. he s an officer of the court. he s not going to do that. he can attempt to negotiate a compromise. it happens so often there s name for it in d.c. the accommodation process. that s where he appears to be going. he could stall and ultimately litigate. that s the mark meadows route. that risk contempt finding and possible prosecution. the only option that really makes sense for him and i say this also knowing pat. he is a negotiator. he s an affable individual. we spent a lot of time with his counsel for this in the
he can attempt to negotiate a compromise. it happens so often, there s a name for it in d.c. the accommodation process. that s where he appears to be going. he could stall and ultimately litigate. that s the mark meadows route. and that risks contempt finding and possible prosecution. so the only option that really makes sense for him and i say this also knowing pat. he is a negotiator. he is an affable individual. we also spent a lot of time with his counsel for this, mike p porpora in the impeachment, also a negotiator. i think they re going to take the middle route. meaning? explain. well, right now they are signalling that a negotiation is going on. that means they re going to talk about things like, is the
come out. you heard the reporting about the investigation. why doesn t january 6 committee shared the information with the department of justice? eddie thompson said they will delay their work to explain things for the doj. couldn t they just email the transcripts or senator ron johnson send it over? it s never easy. we call it the accommodation process. i was involved in the conversation between the branches. congress and the executive branch. always the back and forth. on the committees part, their view is they are extremely busy processing the evidence. they want to share but do it on their own pace. there s a little bit of a feeling that the doj did not charge mark meadows despite the criminal referral. they did not charge dan didn t veto. i m confident they will work it