Last week, when President Biden announced his trip to Maui, The Post asked: How much do you want to bet he will act inappropriately to family members and try to make it all about himself?
i ll make the case under joe biden this country is in decline. focus on telling our story. continue what we ve been doing. who will lead us after 2024? harris: eight presidential candidates looking for a break-out moment in tomorrow night s pivotal first debate here on fox. all met the rnc s requirements for polling, fundraising and signing that pledge to support the ultimate republican nominee. rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniel wants to remind them don t attack each other, target the guy they want to replace. we really do get to talk about joe biden and what he has done to this country. you can talk about crime surging, talk about the deficits that kids are facing in the classroom. talk about school choice and law and order and closing the border and shutting down fentanyl. we can make a mark. it will be independent voters that we are going to need to win this general election. this isn t the primary now. i think the general election
race. listen to this. does he plan to watch the republican debate on wednesday? i don t know. i sure hope not. [laughter] for his sake. but i don t know. we are not scheduled to see the president again during his time in lake tahoe. he remains on vacation until saturday. harris: jason chaffetz, good to have you in focus this morning. jacque s reporting has been balanced. moments the president can connect. how would you describe this trip? there is but one president, harris, and in times of mourning and of difficulty and extreme loss of life, we need the president to express all of our feeling and heartache and to
tone deaf. it was worse. it would have been better to just not show up than do what he did. harris: i m sure east palestine ohio is looking at this and saying they begged the president to come there. take his bully pulpit. no one expects him to do anything physically on the ground but to get the world to pray, to notice and to take the bully pulpit and say fema, do this, do this, get everybody motivated to do it. ohio didn t get it at all. i don t know what is worse. it is all really bad. he does not do this well. all right. we ll move on. two house committees issued four subpoenas for witness testimony on allegations of special treatment and political interference in the hunter biden investigation. the subpoenas targeted i.r.s. and f.b.i. employees connected with an october meeting where u.s. attorney for delaware david weiss claimed he was prevented from bringing charges against
the president s son, hunter. here is judiciary chairman jim jordan. what prompted them to come forward? this meeting, october 7th, 2022. you got david weiss, gary shapley, the whistleblower and four other people in the meeting. we want to talk to those four other people. that s the meeting that gary shapley said was the red line meetings when i decided there was no way this investigation was going to do the right thing. harris: really eye opening reports coming one after another now. the washington post has detailed how david weiss once worked with president biden s late son, beau, when beau biden was delaware s attorney general. he reports hunter s legal team threatened the d.o.j. would put the president on the stand in his defense. he had everybody working for him. the new york times reported that david weiss didn t plan to charge hunter until those i.r.s. whistleblowers came forward about his alleged tax fraud.