earlier as the house ways and means committee releases stunning testimony from two agents. they say the lead prosecutor overseeing hunter biden s investigation was not actually in charge of the outcome, thanks to meddling from the justice department, despite attorney general merrick garland insisting it s not true. mr. weiss had more authority than a special counsel would have had, as complete he had and has complete authority to bring a case anywhere he wants in his discretion. we will get reaction from republican 2024 presidential candidate will hurd, he s joining us in just a moment. david spunt, you got to ask a.g. garland about all of this today. what did he say to you? aishah, about 90 minutes ago and the attorney general has remained consistent over the past two years saying that david weiss has fully been in control of the hunter biden investigation. now, there s a notion out there that david weiss was told not to bring charges against hunter biden last year, ac
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race this week. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill hemmer is off today. great to have you with me. bill: i m bill melugin. at this time president biden set to start actively holding campaign events. voters who put him in office will have resumed paying their student loans, which he promised to eliminate. but for now there is little sign of biden out on the campaign trail following a series of stumbles, trips and falls in public and that has some democrats defending the president s health and his age. i think that joe biden rightly says that he has grown very wise in his many decades in public office and i respect that. so i think that he deserves to be judged by the results of his administration and what he has gotten done in terms of a bipartisan infrastructure law, the inflation reduction act. lowering prescription drug prices. that s what should matter. jack dorsey who started twitter now says on twitter open the democrat primaries a
the strength to win. martha: so he s on the ground in crucial battlegrounds next week. iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. we have all the angles covered this hour. lara trump is here and chris coons is here, the national co chain for president biden s campaign and a panel of gop voters to respond. first, our presidential politics panel up top for their fresh reaction to this. salina, columnist from the washington examiner and mike huckabee, former presidential candidate and ken cuccinelli, a former dhs official under trump but now he s the founder of the never back down pac supporting ron desantis. so ken, let s start with you. a lot of reaction today. a couple of different ways that people are looking at this. some are saying it was a missed opportunity and a glitch. others saying they re impressed by the number of people trying to get on to twitter. do you wish you did this differently? in the super pac, we don t get to describe that. the breaking of twitter, as
the way here. we will be joined in a moment. john: but first, a fox news alert, a furious china and military on high alert. house speaker pelosi s trip to taiwan is now over, as the world awaits the fallout promised by the chinese government. good wednesday to you. gillian: pelosi met with taiwan s president and other senior leaders during her 20-hour stay in taipei. reaffirming the commitment to taiwan s democracy and supporting the island militarily. critics say it does more harm than good in an already unstable region. john: communist regime planning a series of live fire exercises tomorrow. ten miles off the coast of taiwan. tennessee republican senator bill haggerty has expertise as a former ambassador to japan. gillian: aishah hasnie joins us this afternoon. how is the white house responding to china s plans? hey there, good afternoon to you, gillian and john. the white house is really trying to get china to not increase tensions any more, to not escalate the