In an influence peddling scheme. Its a stunning allegation that raises a number of questions. Who is the whistleblower making this claim . Is that person credible . And what are authorities doing about it . The white house says the president has an unprecedented level of transparency and calls this a political attack. Senior National Correspondent rich edson is here with our top story. Good evening, rich. Rich good evening, bret. House Oversight Committee chairman james comer claims the fbi likely has a document describing this alleged Criminal Activity involving then Vice President joe biden. Comer has issued a subpoena for the purported document. He and senator Chuck Grassley have been investigating the biden family and their business conduct. They sent a letter this afternoon to attorney general Merrick Garland and fbi director chris wray claiming, quote a highly credible whistleblower maintains the Justice Department and fbi likely have a form that, quote describes an alleged Crimi
of course, you are sitting in iowa and you have republicans flocking in fast and furious to try to win iowa and get ready for the caucus as biden is trying to seize the national stage here. it is hard to imagine either side getting a lot of credit from the country for what is happening this week. it s a significant development. for the president, for doing what he said he would do, work with republicans and for speaker mccarthy as well. he has been underestimated throughout the first part of this year. the white house never thought he would be able to keep his republicans unified. that is what happened. i can tell you, being out here for several days talking to voters on both sides, there s not a lot of applause for washington. there s not a lot of credit for averting a crisis from happening. there is no doubt president biden despite if he doesn t on a friday night, how we consume the news now and everything that is chopped up and shared, this will get into the bloodstream
she lost her husband in combat when her youngest was three weeks old. these families have given up everything for us and i hope before people go out and celebrate, which i think today needs to be a day of celebration. we are a free country and need to celebrate their service and what they have done and remember them. i hope they take time to dedicate to what today really is all about. todd: that spouse had a three year old, one year old and a three week old and then i just finished with that panel of gold-star parents and you heard us joking, not joking but talking about how stories hit harder when you are a parent. you are about to experience it and understand what that is and listening to cheryl rex, the mom we just interviewed saying what she s going to do today. go to the grave site of her son to be with him. just think about that for a moment and think about so many parents. regardless of the war, who got that call, got that telegram, that no parent wants to get. the c
But when you think of d. C. , you mostly think of dead white guys, am i right . Like washington, jefferson, lincoln. Well, guess what. Latinos have been here every step of the way. [upbeat latintinged music] in fact, Latinx Heroes Have fought in every war for the United States for centuries. This goes all the way back to the revolutionary war. American forces got major financial contributions from cuba, and they also got help from the spanish forces led by A Young Venezuelan commander named francisco de miranda. And then during the civil war, more than 20,000 hispanics served. Almost half of them were mexicanamerican, and that was only 13 years after the mexicanamerican war. Now wheres the monument for that . Huh . Huh . Huh . Now, today, nearly 20 of the u. S. Population is latin, and our numbers are growing. Our voting power is growing too, and about one in ten votes are being cast by latinos, and yet we still make up less than 2 of our elected officials, but the good news is, we do
it is an entire capitulation. kevin mccarthy is emasculating himself and the republican majority. emasculating. the republican chaos caucus is this mad about the debt deal,ia know president biden got a good result. also tonight, new reporting on the growing bad blood among trump s lawyers, including that one of them may have been misled about where trump was hiding classified documents. and presidential candidate and toy sized mussolini ron desantis unveils his authoritarian manifesto, vowing to destroy leftism and wokism. so, tell us how you re going to do that, ron. we begin tonight with a debt ceiling deal. and the wrath of the pro-default caucus. i m sure you have heard by now that after marathon talks over the weekend, president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy reached an agreement on a deal to suspend the debt ceiling. suspend, not raise. that s important, and i ll get back to that in a minute. the house is expected to vote on the bill tomorrow. the house rule