gillian? gillian: good morning. major news out of the justice department. they are going to offer public testimony in front of congress from u.s. attorney david weiss. weiss being the official who oversaw, was really the key official into investigating hunter biden. take a look at what the doj says, quote: the justice department believes it s strongly in the public interest for the american people and for congress to hear directly from u.s. attorney weiss on these assertions and questions about his authority at a public hearing. two irs whistleblowers last week testified that weiss, despite his claim to have full authority over the probe, was sidelined by more senior officials seeking to protect hunter biden s father. yesterday the white house said the president has never been in business with his son hunter. a subtle messaging shift from many prior claims that he had never, quote: spoken to hunter biden about his foreign business. listen. i m curious if the white house and the pre
world. this community s going to come together. i m going back there right now to be with my family and to be with my hometown. reporter: we re also hearing from the front-runner in the 2020 race, former vice president jee biden. he put joe biden. he said, quote: heart broken to hear the news from el paso. our thoughts are with those impacted by yet another senseless act of gun violence in america. how many lives must be cut short, how many communities must be torn apart? it s past time we take action and end our gun violence epidemic. that s the tweet we got from the former vice president, joe biden, the front-runner for 2020. we know that the president mentioned that he has been working with, not only with the federal agencies including the atf and the fbi, offering those resources to texas, we also have herald from the attorney general, bill barr. he put out a statement in the last 90 minutes or so, he said, quote: the justice department joins in mourning with the people of el p
there was very little preparatory work that went into it. the two heads of state showed up and it lasted an hour to together and then came went back to north korea. eric: kim certainly did not get what he wanted. and speaking of kim and china, they are not putting the arm and him come this comes as theirs a story that the group you represent, critics saying that the justice department of the united states of america basically working hand-in-hand with north korea reported on this before.because your client, while two of them, you present a human rights activist, leader of the free north korea group and christopher a former u.s. marine, there he is serving iraq, he s in jail right on los angeles. in court this last week trying to get him up he was going on with the case? you, you said as it is, is remarkable, the department of justice executing arrest warrants against u.s. persons
christopher dossier was not credible and they did a rush to make sure that they could to rehome, that will come out because of the cover up the happen within certain rounds at the fbi. eric: that was republic congressman, who is on the news is money. the new justice department document expected to shu shed me light on the origins of the russian investigation. this comes as democrats and house plan and new pairing to the russian probe as well as an expected contempo against attorney general william barr and former white house counsel don began let s bring in former d.o.j. counsel and former chief counsel and senior advisor for the senate foreign relations committee. you ve explained to this. it could be the result of holding the two officials in contempt. obviously that is going to run its course over a long . . . they have to go to federal court and try to force the contempts of subpoenas. i will be a challenge, you saw what we happened we did try to
accountable, no answer she believes she has a constitutional responsibility to do so she should take it on and do that. you think the democrats will eventually looked impeachment. it would be surprising unless something new comes out only because the president is very effective undermining arguments for the investigation and the running scared. the thing about it, if they wanted to conduct impeachment, they have all the evidence that they say they need. they are the ones that are playing insanely of obstruction. that s their and see what happens, even in the senate, at least you can say you did your part, it s no excuse to ignore your duty and say it s too hard at the senate. meanwhile, more information coming out of the origins of the russian probe d.o.j. documents. a lot of controversy about that. what do you think will come out of ig, michael horses and desiccation in the special counsel investigation about the whole thing starting in the first phase? obviously we have very