case, but what we know is this, the irs whistle-blower s lawyers have written to members of congress saying that the whistle-blower and his entire team have been removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile controversial subject about which our client sought to make whistle-blower disclosures to congress. the whistle-blower previously alleged political interference in the investigation of that high-profile, controversial subject who fox has been told is hunter biden. as for the whistle-blower s removal from the investigation, his legal team says its client, was informed the change was at the request of the department of justice. the move was condemned as retaliatory action by house speaker kevin mccarthy who said by a twitter that republicans on the house, weighs and means committee, will expose any possible cover-up at the irs and republicans will protect the whistle-blowers who shine a light on government misconduct. congressman richard nea
conflict of interest when somebody, you know, puts this information forth and then they re part of the investigation? to me, that is problematic and to me, that wouldn t be a clean investigation. trace: but the doj should come out and explain exactly what is happening to the whistle-blower and find out what the status is. so far, that s not happened. i want to move on. here is bill barr talking about the big lie when it comes to this john durham report. listen to this. let s not forget what the lie was. the lie was russiagate. the lie was russian collusion. there was nothing to support it. these people were implicated in spreading that lie and benefiting from it personally and hurting the country with their conspiracy mongering. trace: you re talking about adam schiff and john brennan. new york times, cnbc and cnn are out there trying to explain this whole thing away, jason. it was just laughable today when
indicating there was direct contact with brett himself about debby ramirez before the new yorker article came out and what brett was looking for was some way to refute what debby would say. that s correct. and it was because my source who did ultimately go on the record about this memo about that potential collaboration, just yesterday she hired a lawyer to help her bring this information forth. because these text messages specifically say, brett. they say brett, wanted me, karen, her friend, to speak out to refute the claims. and then she says brett s team, brett s guy are trying to get her to do other things. i d to hand over this photo to brett s team, for instance. so clearly she s naming brett himself personally and his quote, unquote team trying to collect this information to essentially undercut ramirez s
debby ramirez before the new yorker article came out and what brett was looking for was some way to refute what debby would say. that s correct. and it was because my source who did ultimately go on the record about this memo about that potential collaboration, just yesterday she hired a lawyer to help her bring this information forth. because these text messages specifically say, brett. they say brett, wanted me, karen, her friend, to speak out to refute the claims. and then she says brett s team, brett s guy are trying to get her to do other things. i d to hand over this photo to brett s team, for instance. so clearly she s naming brett himself personally and his quote, unquote team trying to collect this information to essentially undercut ramirez s story before it came out.
affected by a decision. we re done. we re no longer that group in america that s apart from the partisans and can be trusted. we re another player in the tribal battle. there s no pres dent for putting out information like this at the end of a campaign. i ve never heard of it before. i think i did it the way that it should have been done. i m not certain of that. other people might have had a different view. what do you make of that? the way that director comey answered that question is it s dicy. it gives an opportunity for democrats to say he did play a bit of politics at the end of the campaigns and give republicans and president trump to say, look, he s not dealing squarely. he was not just a law man. he was putting his thumbs on the scale. why don t you think he ll do it again. he didn t break the law two weeks before the election by bringing that information forth. he went against departmental