into the business activities of the president s son. all of this comes on a dayothers name, robert f. kennedy jr. officially launches a primary challenge. white house correspondent peter doocy joins us live on the north lawn with the latest. good evening, peter. peter: bret, this whistleblower s lawyer says that he is a career official in the irs criminal division and he is alleging that a political appointee at the irs lied to congress about the hunter biden tax investigation at some point in the last few years. and this whistleblower is alleging that politics and preferential treatment are interfering in the hunter biden probe. we are awaiting reply from hunter biden s representatives. the chairman of the house ways and means committee says they are going to meet with this whistleblower soon. and this does come at a politically delicate time for the president. remember, he and his political team retooled the democratic primary calendar to put south carolina first because
friday, they came up with a fourth batch. strange. more than a week ago, remember this, the search for documents was complete. [inaudible] it is completed, yes. not exactly completed. we do not know a lot about the amount of classified information let alone what the information contained in a seemingly carefully crafted statement. biden s personal attorney said the doj took possession of materials, including six items consisting of documents with classification markings and surrounding materials. a special assistant to the president will not say just how many classified documents in total were found across all three locations. that is a good question. it is a little bit complicated. we want to be very careful to be respectful of the integrity of that investigation. meanwhile, integrity. a funny word to use. nothing to see here. biden doesn t know anything. the important point as he had no idea. i do think this was inadvertent. how was this inadvertent? yesterda
photos were published by the progressive news outlet knock l.a. who got the information via a city records request. l.a. s inspector general is investigating whether it was a negligent release. i m concerned that the department s recent release of information will cause even more officers to leave. cities like san francisco and new york are also offering varying incentives to hire more police. the man, the changes we seek. the city of los angeles was largely credited with amplifying the defund police movement after george floyd s death in 2020. in the following years, crime surged in a city and the police department shrank so rapidly minneapolis began recruiting officers from other municipalities. and this evening the minneapolis police union tells fox pulling in officers is hard as their profession has been demonized. pre-floyd that department sat at 878. tonight it s down to 542 officers and roughly only 260 of
report. the biden private lawyers find the first batch of november 2 at the office. they notify, not law enforcement, they notify the biden white house which notifies not law enforcement but the national archives. this other step is important, too. they were hoping that the national archives would just tuck this away. who notified the justice department? it was not the top political officials, it was the inspector general whose job is to look for misconduct in the agency and reported to congress. it was the inspector general that reported it to the justice department. then the justice department sat on it until after election day. one thing to say, well, that is consistent with their practices, they try not to do anything any high profile that could influence an election, but that does not mean they could not
and more space to park airplanes. you wouldn t have had that problem it goes back to joe biden s ill planned disorganized chaotic decision to withdrawal from afghanistan. brian: don t you think the state department deserves some of the discredit because antony blinken, according to the defense department, it was up to state to organize a lot of this stuff? the reason why these people didn t get out. the reason why the manifest weren t full the state department sat on its hands. absolutely. we heard last week from the generals who helped organize this air lift that the state department refused to call for the evacuation of noncombatants for american civilians and green card holders until the very last minute. the military was planning for it as early as april and may right after joe biden made this decision should we do that tony blinken state s department sat on its hands the taliban on the gates of kabul what is so