we might have an answer as we go looking today. good morning, it s wednesday. i m bill hemmer. dana: this is dana perino. a story like this with a new development every day insures the next day you ll talk about it again. the justice department reportedly considered sending agents to monitor the search of the president s home but according to the wall street journal officials decided not to in order to avoid complicating the investigation. bill: that s what we re told. the search was left to the president s lawyers and that revelation inspiring this headline in the new york post. nothing to seize here. dana: the post is on a role this week. it has put the white house on damage controller. reporters aren t buying their i have been forthcoming and clear about being prudent from here. guys, you guys can ask me this 100 times, 200 times if you wish. why is it the matter of this white house counsel to deal with documents from two administrations ago? we re not talk
Than a political side show. Could they go away altogether . The latest on donald trump calling for the gop to pull the Plug On Future Debates as he questions whether any of his opponents should even be Vice President. And is the shutdown a sure thing . President biden insists it isnt, but his hopes hinge on House Republicans, in his words, doing their job. And theyve got now less than three days to do it. So what happens next . Lots to talk about, but were going to start in washington where one small group perhaps ten conservative republican lawmakers are refusing to support any Stopgap Measure to keep the government from shutting down 59 hours from now. Instead, the far right is committing critical hours to an Impeachment Inquiry that a new poll shows most americans do not want, and not only is there little time or public appetite for this hearing, theres zero evidence to justify holding it. And of the three witnesses for the majority, none of them seems to have any evidence firsthand
allow the lawyers for the target of an investigation to take control of seizing and searching for evidence? it is so contrary to standard operating procedure that it is laughable they re trying to pass this off on the american public. this is in my estimation an attempt to control a narrative, to find out how bad the problem is, and then to try to control the narrative that is going to come out as a result of it. instead, you know, for those of us that have worked on these kinds of cases where even a defense attorney who represents a client accused of possessing classified documents, they won t even show them the evidence until they get clearance. now all of a sudden all the rules have suspended and we are allowing the target s lawyers to do the search. dana: the white house has a spokesperson who said when it comes to congress we intend to review and respond to oversight inquiries in good faith but expect members of congress to show the same good faith.
his own choosing. let s be clear, i ve been a part of a lot of investigations and oversight inquiries. this is the most nonpartisan investigation in the united states congress history, when you consider that we have republican members, a unanimous vote to move this referral outside of the committee. you could have that most of the witnesses or all republicans. let me just say, i m one of those guys rooting for kevin mccarthy to be speaker of the house, keep going, kevin. it s working out great. adam kinzinger and jimmy raskin have probably never voted for the same thing in their entire congressional careers. they agreed on this. eugene robinson, hugo, kurt, that s tonight s the reidout. stay right there, after a really quick break, i ll be joining rachel maddow, alex wagner, and ari melber for a recap special of today s committee meeting. you do not want to miss it. don t go anywhere, get some popcorn! popcorn!
hypocrisy run amok here. jim jordan and kevin mccarthy made it no secret that their entire agenda for 2023 is to launch investigation after investigation targeting the biden administration. i m not entirely sure how you could issue a subpoena with any credibility when you ve spent the last year ignoring congressional subpoenas, going to court, suing to try and prevent even compliance with congressional subpoenas, doing everything you can to obstruct a congressional investigation. how in the world to do expect anybody to take seriously your oversight inquiries, when this is how you have treated oversight ever since donald trump came onto the scene? we ve heard this entire time them winding, complaining everything but closer depositions, and not legitimate subpoenas, and all of this bellyaching, and now they want everyone to turn around and take them seriously. what they are counting on, joy, they re counting on the fact the media won t hold them to that standard, that the media won t po