belonged to any member of the biden family, including hunter biden. those questions are not allowed. they were not here friday, not here saturday, sunday or monday. they come back tuesday. so to ask that question is incredibly irresponsible. so they were there friday actually, which we have reported here. so this as we re also told that despite more and more substantive information that comes out about biden s business dealings, shakedowns, bribes, the fbi director said you can t ask me about that. that s an ongoing investigation. can t talk about the intensity, the focus of it. can t talk about anything. so merrick garland, the attorney general face as deadline, which is now less than two hours away to allow congress to interview, to talk to the u.s. attorney, david weiss. you know, what is going on with this investigation. there s a lot of conflicting stories. can you tell us a little bit about what is happening? in moments,ly speak with the speaker of the house, kevin
so their actual records can be assessed. for only understandable focus on trump s nickel problems and controversies and rhetoric, it was his substance handling of the covid pandemic that impacted so many laughs and dragged him down in the eyes of mary and americans who concluded he found the task when faced with that all-important leadership test. as for trump, he said at the time he did not see the emergency as his test of a lifetime. was there a moment in all of this, the last two months, where you say to yourself, a, this is the leadership test of a lifetime. no. no. no hesitation. that is a small part of one of trump s new for the interviews with bob woodward, conducted across the upper of the pandemic and through the campaign. wilbert secured more time with trump than any other writer. 20 and others across that stretch, trump sometimes making the calls, something he apparently not regret. the former president is so when woodward, we should note, over publishing the
an fbi form which senator grassley says includes the claim that a burisma executive has 17 recordings of meadings with the bidens discussing bribes for policy. could it reach president biden? that is also an open question today based on weiss s latest comment. but weiss is also arguing strongly that the doj did not impede his investigation into hunter biden. that is the that is not what the whistle-blower, gary shapley has claimed. he says he never saw an investigation that was so buried, so back burnered intentional as what he witnessed in the treatment of hunter biden. so who is telling the truth here? we re going to sort it out with shapley s attorney, mark lytle in moments. first to david spunt. good afternoon. a lot going on here. david weiss for the third time contradicted irs whistle-blower gary shapley. in his third letter to congress yesterday, he once again said that he was fully in charge of the investigation, he never asked for special counsel status and never
his top military adviser says a hold on military promotions by one republican senator is having a negative impact not just on those officers but their families. air force chief of staff general charles q. brown is up for the chair chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. alabama republican senator tommy tuberville is blocking more than 250 military promotions over opposition to the pentagon s abortion policy. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin leads us off tonight with that from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. the pentagon said this months long standoff with the senator from alabama is now threatening readiness and benefiting russia and china. general c.q. brown is the president s pick to be the next chairman of the joint chiefs but his confirmation and that of 265 senior officers are being held up by one senator tommy tuberville of alabama. for the first time in 150 years, the marine corps is without a come dantd because of
pandemic that affected so many lives and dragged him down in the eyes of americans who concluded they failed when faced with that all-important task. as for trump, he said at the time he did not see the emergency as his test of a lifetime. was there a moment in all of this last two months where you said to yourself, ah, this is the leadership test of a lifetime? no. no. and no hesitation. now, that is a small part of one of trump s newsworthy interviews with bob woodward conducted across the outbreak of the pandemic and 2020 campaign. 20 interviews across that stretch. trump sometimes making the calls, something he apparently now regrets. the former president is suing woodward, we should note, over publishing these interviews that he agreed to. any legal expert say trump would be likely to lose based on the law. we published the interviews in the trump tapes , his assessment that trump is a unique danger to network. that conclusion goes parter quite frankly than much o