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Transcripts for MSNBC Katy Tur Reports 20240604 19:42:00

let s talk about congress, garrett. does this dissuade anybody in congress who quit investigating this to maybe back off merrick garland? reporter: i don t think so. look, i hope our viewers at home are interested this this story line because they re going to hear quite a lot about it the next month or so. house republicans are interested in digging in further to what whistleblowers had to say about the hunter biden investigation. investigations have been where the energy is, at least on the house side. very little is going to survive a democratic senate or president biden s veto pen. the investigations were going to get the lion s share of the energy. this whistleblower gives them somebody testifying under oath to a lot of the things they have been interested, the idea of business dealings between hunter biden and foreign entities, that joe biden might have known about it. it s given them a figure hold, a foothold to pursue this deeply. i expect to see one committee,

Transcripts for MSNBC Katy Tur Reports 20240604 19:39:30

Transcripts for MSNBC Katy Tur Reports 20240604 19:41:00

is he saying that flat out, that this was not politically interfered by garland, nobody from the administration, he went where he needed to go. he charged what he thought he could charge and that this deal he made, this plea deal was not a sweetheart deal as republicans and this whistleblower are alleging, ken? reporter: we don t liken him to be that candid. he s constrained because the investigation remains open. he s not saying all of those things. what he is saying is he had the full authority to bring whatever charges he thought were warranted. that s important. it would be a problem if democratic u.s. attorneys had the ability to block potential charges against hunter biden and this irs whistleblower is a credible figure. he s a criminal investigator who was involved in this case. but, you know, case agents and prosecutors disagree all the time, katy, about the strength of criminal cases. and it often doesn t spill into the public like this one has. the republican majority in

Transcripts for MSNBC Katy Tur Reports 20240604 19:43:00

And possibly several try to get little pieces of that pie here in the next work period that lasts over the next three weeks or so. what is this interest among republicans in investigating the administration but using the holman rule, what s the holman rule? there s good reporting in politico about this this morning. the holman rule was revised by kevin mccarthy in this congress that essentially lets congress adjust the salaries of executive branch officials, potentially even zeroing them out. it s an idea that, you know, if you want to kind of punish an official for misdeeds or political disagreements you might have in theory, you could do this. it s something being discussed or explored as a way to go after cabinet officials with whom they have bigger issues like alejandro mayorkas. it runs into the same problem anything else, it has to pass the democratic controlled senate. it isn t going to go anywhere. you can think of this as a tool

Transcripts for MSNBC The 11th Hour With Stephanie Ruhle 20240604 04:01:15

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