detailing damning claims by an informant that alleges that president biden, when he was vice president, was involved in a multi million dollars international bribery scheme. lawrence: this is insane but the white house is strongly denying the claims. ainsley: lucas tomlinson is here to breaker it all down for us. lucas? good morning, lawrence, ainsley and brian. explosive allegation from iowa senator chuck grassley releasing an fbi informant document alleging a $10 million bribery scheme against president biden and his son hunter who is a board member of the ukrainian energy company burisma the informant said, quote: don t worry, hunter will take care of all of those issues through his dad. in 2016, the informant met with krzyzewski the head of burisma after biden had made statement about victor shokin being corrupt and that he should be removed from was o. the informant secretary of state krzyzewski, quote: didn t want to pay the bidens and he was pushed to pay them. he has many
where they had a tense private discussion at the bench. meanwhile democrats in the white house are pushing back against an fbi memo that some republicans claim prove that joe biden and his son hunter took bribes. senator chuck grassly of iowa released the documents yesterday. it involves claims a confidential informant made in 2020 about hunter s alleged business dealings. he served on the board of a ukrainian energy company burisma, but the claims have never been verified, and even top republicans have acknowledged they cannot confirm whether the information is true, that includes senator grassly who last month admitted it didn t matter if the allegations were true or not. we aren t interested in whether or not the accusations against vice president biden or accurate or not. we re responsible for making sure the fbi does its job. now, congressman jamie raskin
recordings that show he was coerced to make payments. asked why krzyzewski wouldn t hire someone with more experience in the oil and gas market, the informant said krzyzewski replied, quote: hunter biden was stupid. my dog was smarter. burisma hired hunter to protect us through his dad from all kinds of problems. grassley says the informant is an ukrainian american who has been a trusted highly credible fbi source for over a decade and had been paid six figures, quote. the fbi says releasing this information puts the safety of the confidential source at risk. the white house responding to the release of this information, quote: it is remarkable that congressional republicans in their eagerness to go after president biden, regardless of the truth, continue to push claims that have been debunked for years. the house oversight committee chairman james comer says this fbi document backs up his committee s investigation that the biden family s business
care of all of these issues through his dad, according to this informant. brian: just to add to this, the ceo a krzyzewski laughed ats informant the number of 50,000. he said not because of the small amount because they suggested 50,000 to have a lawyer represent you with this burisma against the judge that was going to burisma why don t you hire a lawyer for 50,000. he laughed not because the small amount the number 5. 5 million to pay one biden and 5 million to pay another. ainsley: 10 million? brian: i don t know. give me a second well could be jim, maybe, that s devon archer sitting there devon archer could be front and center next week. so we have the irs last week. the business people two years ago led by tony bobulinski and now the other people that were loyal to the bidens finding themselves going to jail.
dealings. brian: 17 tapes, 15 with hunter, two with joe. ainsley: recordings. brian: william barr indicated you know what? they might be in ukraine. they heard about this. any word on where they might be or is there anyone pursuing it? certainly no word right now. immediately, brian, but certainly that could be the next shoe to drop. and democrats want to see more evidence, perhaps this could be the evidence. ainsley: all right. so the informant told the head of said to the fbi the head of burisma said he had a total of 17 recordings involving the bidens. two of the recordings including joe biden and the remaining 15 recordings only included hubbard. this is old information. we did know that but to your question, brian, excellent question. we want to hear those recordings. lawrence: yep. ainsley: if we do, that proves that joe biden was talking with burisma he was involved in his son s business dealings. brian: if they are in ukraine thanks, lucas. if there is in uk