joe biden s d.o.j. when i could to control of his investigation, i immediately saw it was outside the norm of what i experienced in the past. there was multiple steps that were slow walk at the direction of the department of justice. had you ever encountered that before? i have not. deviations each and every time it seemed to always benefit the subject. it just got to where the switch was turned on and i couldn t silence my conscience anymore. being slow walk, it s taken five years for the irs to look in to hunter s potential tax crimes in the shady income he earned overseas while pops was peep. the first-hand account of prefrontal treatment days of the ag saying under oath. we will commit the investigation will examine the public corruption aspect and not simply scapegoat? hunter biden as an individual? i can t comment about the investigation of glidden to say matters involving hunter biden are in the purview of u.s. attorney in delaware. not restricted in the in
director wray is refusing to produce a do you recollect about the big guy himself. the fbi said that releasing confidential source information to james comber could put lives at risk. got to hide it. it s not a classicified document. there is no evidence of any on-going investigation. but the fbi needs to keep the anti-biden allegations top secret. more federal investigation into hunter biden. the high ranking irs investigator is blowing the whistle. multiple steps were slow walked by the department of justice. have you ever encounter that before? no, i have not. deviations from the normal process. they always benefit the subject. i took an oath of office. when i saw these things, it was no longer a choice for me. it s not something i want to did. to do. it s something i have to do pete: the evidence is clear. we have two major scandals. a compromised first family and a corrupt federal government driven by political bias. here is charlie hurt and amanda. comer wan
york. john, hello to you. john: hello to you, sandra. i am john roberts in washington. this is america reports. president biden and speaker mccarthy are working to nail down a deal. mccarthy says that could be any day now. despite both sides struggling to find common ground. sandra: the stakes couldn t be higher. rating agency putting the country s aaa rating on negative watch now as we approach the deadline. house majority leader steve scalise takes us inside the negotiations when he joins us live next h hour. let s go to the hill. what s the mood there? hey there, we are closer and closer to a deal, probably won t happen today according to folks that are close into the meetings and negotiations. this is all about leverage. and we are seeing clearly now that democrats don t really have much of it. a progressive chair woman a mill a eye a pal wouldn t admit to tanking a supposed bad deal if presented by the white house, and that is a huge take away because we are talk
thanks so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. a we begin with this ongoing and conservative hunt for some kind of evidence or damning narrative about political opponents and how this keeps coming up empty in revealing ways. this is one a those stories that s crested this week because we had the trump era investigation end. i have new material on that, including how it s playing on the right and why that matters. at the same time, house republicans are struggling with their own investigations into the biden family. but it is telling to watch how people are dealing with the evidence this week, especially evident that was channelled but none other than a trump/barr hand picked prosecutor. part of this is playing out on a platform that s been recently discredited. i m talk about fox news, which was caught lying to their own audience and lying so badly and blatantly they were worried they broke illegal lies and they broke history the bad way work a $787 million settleme
let s get started with five things to know for this tuesday, may 16th. new overnight, cnn obtained new video of a man chasing a screaming woman with a bat minutes before he allegedly attacked staffers at a congressman s field office. you hear the screams there. the suspect this morning is under arrest. virginia congressman says his staffers have nonlife threatening injuries. also in washington, president biden is going to meet with house speaker kevin mccarthy again today as both try to find a way forward when it comes to the debt ceiling. mccarthy said they re not closer than they were as a treasury secretary is doubling down that america is headed for a default as early as june 1st. durham is report is now out after three years in the making. the special counsel from the trump era the fbi should have never launched a full investigation into connections between the former president s 2016 campaign and russia. but he did not recommend any new criminal charges or, quote, w