relatively easy time passing its rules package, its first order of business, but the rules package includes provisions like the motion to vacate, which makes it easier to remove the speaker, kevin mccarthy. it also gets rid of pandemic era changes like proxy voting, it imposes rules and limiting spending and blocking tax increases. house republicans also passed a pair of disingenuous and deceitful antiabortion bills that were designed to push propaganda rather than addressing real concerns about women s reproductive rights. their decision to pass these bills during the first week of that new term, and despite the overall unpopularity of their antiabortion positions, demonstrates how they seriously are about governing in general. republicans made it clear months ago that they intend to use their tenure to investigate democrats. the rules package includes a provision that allows the house to create a new subcommittee to investigate the origins of covid and to scrutinize the wor
of democracy? really? yeah, no. and you look at what the general counsel for the national archives admitted was that he was not allowed to post things on the national archives website about the biden mishandling of classified documents and he was not allowed to respond to me because the doj or the white house, it was one of the two, block him. he could do whatever he wanted on the trumpet mishandling of classified documents. laura: the lawyer, one of the lead lawyers or top defense lawyers quit hunter biden s legal team. what does that say about the state of this case? it says a lot. i want to hope that that lawyer saw so much evidence of settlement that was abusing his power, abusing his family s name at the expense of american national security and he walked away or it could be because the new lawyer on the team, albiol,
bolton, this morning on krbcnn s morning who said the biden mishandling of the documents makes it less likely there will be charges filed against former president trump. what s your view of that, how these may play into or against one another, and what you hear from the ag garland? yeah. so it s a really big and vexing question. i know how it should play out, and i know how garland wants it to play, and he is the boss of the department which is, zero impact, and you can imagine, victor, the way this should actually unroll is smith will provide a recommendation to garland. probably garland will take it. hur will provide a recommendation to garland and as my last utility appearance, i was suggesting there s no criminal there there, and unless we find out more, and probably garland will take it. they are in separate offices.
jordan absolutely breathing fire over the national security issues and you don t have them speaking to the issues with respect to trump the, we it becomes a wash for the american people. it becomes that that beltway noise i was talking about earlier. see, i would have a challenge for democrats. can you please address the biden mishandling of documents without mentioning the word trump? is that possible? it seems challenging. howard: well, it may be a wash i think my first two answers showed that i did that. howard: all right. well, it may be a wash, but in any view, that s kind my view, that s kind of a win for trump. we ve been hearing about all the terrible things they did with classified documents. guy, i m reminded of the book, the best and the brightest, which was about the jfk whiz kids who led us into vietnam. here you had tony blinken who worked at that biden penn center, they had decades and decades of government experience, and yet they were so busy kissing up to
that is what we are going to do. including worked with the newly appointed special counsel in the case. you need special counsel to investigate the biden mishandling episode, if you re going to do the same for trump. a move republicans in congress have called for all week. given the prosecutor investigating former president trump in the mar-a-lago documents matter. though, that probe involves hundreds of classified records seized by the fbi after mr. trump refused to return them to the national archives. on friday, the gop led house oversight committee formally requested more information from the biden white house. following the revelations about the various locations and contents of the classified material. including nbc s reporting that at least one document was marked top secrets. the highest classification in the u.s. government. according to a senior u.s. official and another person familiar with the matter. republicans on the house judiciary committee also launching an inve