case, but what we know is this, the irs whistle-blower s lawyers have written to members of congress saying that the whistle-blower and his entire team have been removed from the ongoing and sensitive investigation of the high-profile controversial subject about which our client sought to make whistle-blower disclosures to congress. the whistle-blower previously alleged political interference in the investigation of that high-profile, controversial subject who fox has been told is hunter biden. as for the whistle-blower s removal from the investigation, his legal team says its client, was informed the change was at the request of the department of justice. the move was condemned as retaliatory action by house speaker kevin mccarthy who said by a twitter that republicans on the house, weighs and means committee, will expose any possible cover-up at the irs and republicans will protect the whistle-blowers who shine a light on government misconduct. congressman richard nea
be that difficult to get to a deal by the end of the week. the president is canceling part of his upcoming overseas trip. returning to the u.s. sunday after the g-7 economic meeting in japan. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has our top story live tonight from the north lawn. kevin mccarthy says there is a gap between the two sides in moving forward but, as the president leaves for japan tomorrow, the white house is appointing senior adviser stevery chety, louise taylor and shah landra young to run point for the white house and talk to will deputies. pressure is on after the treasury secretary put the deadline at june 1st or the days following. we re having a wonderful time everything is going well ha ha ha. message of reassurance convening congressional leaders as the country creeps forward to possibly defaulting on debt with no agreement to cut spending and raise the debt limit. biden canceled plans to visit australia and pap go p&a new guinea he would be out
i m buckling up more on flights before. you didn t buckle up? always. tighter. on a flight. yeah. well, you know, i mean, this is a big problem. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. we have to talk about another alarming close call at one of america s biggest airports between a private jet and a jetblue flight coming in for a landing. that makes five close calls in just two months. that s way too many. i don t think it s normal. we re going to check. the faa have a serious problem on their hands? we ll break it down. also to chicago and the mayoral race there. chicago s mayor lori lightfoot lost re-election. didn t even advance to the runoff. rising crime a dominant issue. what does her defeat mean big picture? and a rare bipartisanship in washington. the new house select committee on china is vowing to investigate beijing s threat to america. is it all talk? can they deliver action here? we ll talk to af de democrat ont committee. lots to co
conflict of interest when somebody, you know, puts this information forth and then they re part of the investigation? to me, that is problematic and to me, that wouldn t be a clean investigation. trace: but the doj should come out and explain exactly what is happening to the whistle-blower and find out what the status is. so far, that s not happened. i want to move on. here is bill barr talking about the big lie when it comes to this john durham report. listen to this. let s not forget what the lie was. the lie was russiagate. the lie was russian collusion. there was nothing to support it. these people were implicated in spreading that lie and benefiting from it personally and hurting the country with their conspiracy mongering. trace: you re talking about adam schiff and john brennan. new york times, cnbc and cnn are out there trying to explain this whole thing away, jason. it was just laughable today when
this so-called investigation. you know, if it wasn t a witch-hunt, it s a damn good imitation of one. bret: as you can imagine, reaction has been all over the place. but pretty on other networks, pretty specific in the criticism of the report. take a listen. four years. millions of dollars, a record long investigation and he has nothing to show for it. there was just this real lack of substance to what he was doing. this was trying to say that there s a big there there when, you know, there is no there there. this was a whole big nothing. they did not prove this i deep state conspiracy because it never existed in the first place. bret: what do you say to that? let s not forget what the lie was. the lie was russia gate. the lie was there was collusion. there was nothing to support it. and these people were implicated in spreading that lie and benefiting from it personally. and hurting the country with their conspiracy mongering. my effort and durham s effort