earlier as the house ways and means committee releases stunning testimony from two agents. they say the lead prosecutor overseeing hunter biden s investigation was not actually in charge of the outcome, thanks to meddling from the justice department, despite attorney general merrick garland insisting it s not true. mr. weiss had more authority than a special counsel would have had, as complete he had and has complete authority to bring a case anywhere he wants in his discretion. we will get reaction from republican 2024 presidential candidate will hurd, he s joining us in just a moment. david spunt, you got to ask a.g. garland about all of this today. what did he say to you? aishah, about 90 minutes ago and the attorney general has remained consistent over the past two years saying that david weiss has fully been in control of the hunter biden investigation. now, there s a notion out there that david weiss was told not to bring charges against hunter biden last year, ac
again, like john kirby refusing to answer any questions about the irs investigation, about the special counsel david weiss or about the alleged whatsapp message that gary says was sent to his business partners in china, so it s not likely we are going to get anything from the white house on all of this. karine jean-pierre referring journalists in the room to the white house counsel s office. and we don t very often publicly hear from them, so for the moment at 2:32 eastern time on friday afternoon, that s br all of this stands. aishah: so the house-led gop is taking a stand on the biden administration new mortgage rule. some democrats joining the republican counterparts in voting to reverse that plan which they say punishes responsible americans. you at home trying to buy a house by making them pay higher borrowing rates. grover norquist, president of american s for tax reform is
john: you would know, you just bought one. and it s not just white house policies making it harder for the middle class, low housing inventory, rising mortgage rates are pushing many buyers out of the market. grover nar norquist, average 30 year fixed mortgage, 6.67%. i remember when i bought my first house, my first mortgage was 15%, second mortgage was 20%. the house did not cost a lot. there was back at a time when jimmy carter was president. it was. double digits and unfortunately, with biden s extra spending you are seeing over the last may to may, 12 months, 5.3% inflation, that s added into anything you borrow money on. increase the interest rates. and make it difficult for every american. the democrats are trying to make some fight about middle class versus poor people.
if you were concerned about the former president working with the russians, then you should also be concerned about hunter biden and his drama and problems because of his drug addiction and things like that. john: and ties to china. and ties to china. and we should be concerned the department of justice is doing things and upholding the law in the same way. so i think all of these things we should be concerned with. personally, my problem with the classified documents, someone who had spent time, i spent nine and a half years overseas, stopping terrorists from trying to blow up our homeland, preventing nuclear weapons and bringing dirty bombs into the country, if any of these are true and you are innocent until proven guilty, if any of those things are true it s devastating someone that the former leader of the free world was had this kind of information strewn about his business.
standing by to weigh in. first hillary vaughn is live on capitol hill with the latest. hillary, so it passed the house, what are the odds it passes the senate, too? not impossible, aishah. 14 house democrats voted with republicans to overturn president biden s new mortgage rules that basically mean if you are a home buyer with good credit, you are paying more so that home buyers with bad credit are paying less. you, the middle class, are now going to be punished under the new biden rule because, guess what, people who didn t do the hard work that you did to make sure that they maintained good credit so that they could participate in the same way, you and i are now going to subsidize them. this is harming home ownership and it s attacking the middle class. and when you do the math, that s exactly what the mortgage rules do. according to bank rates analysis, for homeowners looking to take out a $350,000 mortgage,