knows, when someone is under investigation for fraud. republicans are demanding answers from joe biden on the weaponization of government. it s a damming new controversy after the irs showed up at the home of a twitter files journalist, the same day he was testifying on big tech censorship. seems like a pretty big deal that biden should want to address, but his administration has no explanation. what does bother you? it s certainly something that i would want to look into. i m not aware that irs agents do that except, as you said, in cases where there is an investigation. if you could respond to this. i m afraid i ll have to refer you to the irs. that s stonewalling, not sitting well with jim jordan. the chairman telling biden it s time to start talking. just give us the answer, and if it is chance, then just tell us but tell us what it is. i don t know how it takes so long to figure this out. we may look to subpoena the documents, any communications relativ
learned the fbi searched pence s home in indiana and looking for any classified documents. we understand an additional classified document was discovered and removed and this was a so you will can aed consent search. which means it is one that was agreed to by both sides without the need for a search warrant issues in advance. but he was not eager to welcome the investigators. the new york times has reported this. negotiations on such a search were a rising tension between the two sides. the historic nature of an fbi search of a former vice president s home should not be diminished. but as we said, all of that is a back drop, half of the complete picture coming into focus this afternoon. because on the other hand, as we sit here, pence is now the subject of a subpoena. from the justice department relating to donald trump s efforts to hold on to power in the aftermath of the 2020 election. remember mike pence never spoke to the january 6 select committee. but time and again,
Family while joe biden was Vice President and i will continue reading from Tony Bobulinskis report. Which says and i quote, bobulinski, hunter biden and james biden did not receive come pentation because joe biden was Vice President during the time period. There by cefs. Hunter biden and james biden both wanted to be compensated for assistance provided to Cefc Ventures and believed cefc through the use of the biden family name to advance Business Dealings. The bidens were paid over 1 million by Ccf Affiliated Chinese Company shortly after joe biden left off as Vice President. Now we know why, it was back pay. I will show you another image, a text message between hunter biden and gong ngueyen dang. He would like to say hello to the chairman, goes on, jims brother wants to say hello. His uncles brother, hmm, i wonder who that could be. Hunter biden puts brother in all caps, since im not always dealing with geniuses, ill spell it out. The brother of hunter, hunters uncle jim is joe biden.
This is cnn Breaking News. Breaking news here on cnn. Iran set to release five american prisoners at any moment. Right now, a jet is on stand by to bring them from teheran to qatar. Under this deal, the u. S. Has unfrozen 6 billion in iranian money that is supposed to only be used for humanitarian purposes. The u. S. Is also releasing five iranians from prison, two of them are planning to stay in america. Becky, this has been months of negotiations to lead to this point. Where do things stand right now as you sit . Reporter well, it should be the end of what has been a years long nightmare for these five iranianamerican citizens who have been held in iran, and are due for release today, expected to be delivered to the airport at any time, mediating this deal over months, being a friendly nation between the u. S. And iran. No direct negotiations between washington and teheran. Once those hostages are on the flight and wheels are up, it is about a twohour flight to doha, here in qatar, a
Newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. We begin with the breaking news and the surprise outcome of a republican versus republican political fight in the State Of Texas. Attorney general ken paxton is thanking his supporters and slamming what he calls the sham impeachment proceeding against him. Just a few hours ago the state senate voted to acquit paxton on 16 charges of abusing his office to help a donor. The Attorney General says now that the, quote, truth has prevailed he will get back to work defending the Constitutional Rights of texans, so he says. Ed lavandera joins me from the texas state house in austin. Ed, tell us more. Reporter hey, jim. The last few hours as reaction has been pouring in reacting to the acquittal of Attorney General ken paxton, it is exposing what can probably only be described as an allout civil war between various factions of the Republican Party here in texas. As weve mentioned just a short while ago, ken paxton was acquitted by the majority of republica