a career supervisory special agent with the irs to find something so compelling that he has to break ranksh with. his unit, any criminal defense lawyer who s ever deal tan with one of these fellows knows how committed and dedicated they are to theid r job and to the irs, and they re a real pain in the neck to deal with because of that. in a case, what this guy is doing is courageous, and.n ab but what we re seeing here is making an absolute mockerso l of the mantra that attorney general garland keeps using on the equaland keep of t remember, we now know froml agen the special agent,t, the special agent that they had probable cause to search a locker ofrthen hunter biden s in northern virginia. president biden a, presidents mn delaware and so on. and it was all called off. think about this f th. the the idea of the equal application of the law. and then consider what they did d that in mar-a-lago and elsewhere when they decided to execute warrants en masse. so it s really this is why
the most naive attorney general in the history of the countrunt or he s lying. and clearly somebody is lying here. here.i mean, he stood up and he said at a press conference a few days agoys that weiss had more authority than a special counsel that he had alld al the authority that he needed. as as i saidauthorit the other y you can t just give that authority orally. where is the proof of that?an and why didn t david weiss when he was asking permission of main justiceg , if he didn t ask merrick garland that merrick garland said he wasn t asked. sn t ask well, who did he ask? did he ask the deputy attorney general, lisay monaco? to tdid she then refute or refuse or fail to tell merrickt garland it? so we either have an incredibly intentionally dysfunctional doj where they re looking for plausible deniabilitg y orjust attorney general garland is just flat out lie. o now, david, i need to play
f you.s the best legal analysis around. now, our next guest has an interestin around s g on the hunter biden news, both as a former u.s.and o attorney, these types of casesrm and as the former director of the national intelligence agency that dealt with the fbi and its handling of the hunterfh laptop back in 2020. joining me now, john ratcliffe, formern trump director of national intel john. now, you ve heard all ofw you v in all, when all the details of the hunter biden laptop came out back in 2020, everything on it was quickly as disinformation get everybody off the scent. but this whistleblower reveals something that the fbi and the irs knew before the laptop w wep public. what can you tell us? yeah, laura, i ll just say, first of all, i watched the whistleblowe iwatched r tod credible, competent and everything that hehing t said added up made sense consistent with department of justice an od the u.s. attorney manual policies. whereas what garland
yes, we believed so and but we ll never know now because we weren t allowed to access it. laura: never know now. is that really accurate, too? could we learn more? well, the more we peel back this onion the more two themes emerge. one, everything that garland claimed about the supposed independence of the investigation seems tonight to have been a lie. and, two, the suggestion that this was solely a hunter biden problem was and continues to be impossible to believe. joining me now is david schoen form trump impeachment lawyer and form assistant us attorney as well. sol i want to start with you. i want you to examining what looks like doj malfeasance here especially as it relates to merrick garland and the u.s. attorney david weiss. well, merrick garland is either the most naive attorney general in the history of the
there was crucial to the case? yes, we believe so and. and but we ll never know now because we weren t allowed to access it. urate, never know. now, is that really accurate too? ack could we learn more? well, the more we peel back the sun and the more to themes. emerge. one, everything that garland claime d about the supposed independence of the investigation seems tonight to have been a lie. and tand, twoo the suggestiot this was solely a hunter biden problem was and continues to be to believe. joining me now is david schoen, formerme trump lawyer, and saul wisenberg, former deputy independent counsel, formerchment u.s. attorney as w. saul, i want to start with you. i want you examinet wi what certainly looksth like doj malfeasance here, especially as it relatealfeasans merrick gd and the us attorney, david wis e . well, merrick garland is eithe r