and suspicious network of companies used to enrich the biden family by more than $10 million. this comes as the g.o.p. presses the fbi for a document that supposedly details a whistleblower s claim that then vice president biden sold his influence for money a document that no one has seen as of yet. the fbi, however, is now responding correspondent david spunt starts us off tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. good evening, bret. we know right now that republicans are calling this judgment day for president biden and his family using bank records. they say they are taking their investigation all the way to the oval office. this committee is investigating president biden and his family s shady business deals that capitalize on joe biden s public office and risked our country s national security. house oversight committee chairman james comer went page by page through new evidence that he says shows the biden family and associates made more than $10 m
charges, in this case is jus the tip of the iceberg washington post reports that a federal judge has grante prosecutors requests to forc trump lawyer evan coren to testify before grand jury abou the former president possession of classified documents. he handled the initial respons to requests for trump s team t return the documents, an refused to until investigators questions, citing attorney client privilege that defense is now gone joining me now, former actin solicitor general of the unite states professor of law georgetow university, and msnbc lega analyst. anthony, holy former directo of the author of public affair in the department justice, and former senior adviser to attorney general merrick garland. and pulitzer prize-winning journalist charlie savage. washington correspondent for the new york times, msnb contributor, and author of power wars, the relentless ris of presidential authority an secrecy. what a powerhouse panel i have with me this morning i m going to st
brit: well, i think there is obviously more to come here, this committee is not done this is kind of an interim report on what they have uncovered so far. and so it s possible that, you know, more information will be coming out. and, if it does, there will come a point where it s hard to ignore this but, you know, i wouldn t be holding my breath waiting for any justice department indictments on this stuff or anything of the kind. i think that s just the political atmosphere in which we are operating. in which we don t have any real reason to believe that the department of justice is above politics. bret: brit, i m going to take you back a little bit. the first day of special report. my first day taking over for you. take a listen. brit: welcome to washington. i m brit hume and i will be here at this time each night with a special report on the events that have engulfed the clint presidency. bring you up to date each day. bret: i m extremely honored to have been given opportun
garland justice department, it was not the obama justic department that was the donald trum justice department, saying those things some of these already gone t jail for that when you hear republicans say, this is all spun up int nonsense, it s hard to explain that last trump justic department indictments right, anthony since her nam is been about a couple of time by neal, a couple of questions how does the justice departmen view what trump did yesterday? what he said yesterday in th social media post? speaker mccarthy s promis to use the highest power o investigation to investigate the israeli general. is this something that raise alarm bells within doj, and in particular maybe or maybe not?
sure. arthel: the first one here, should president trump meet with russian president putin? pardon me, 59% saying yes, the president should meet with president putin. 33% saying that he should not meet. in another poll i want to share with you, the trump putin summit meeting, who will get the better deal? vladimir putin, 31%. donald trump, 24%. and neither are the same, 26%, 18% unsure, so i ask you in the wake of these indictments, congressman, do you think the president should still meet with putin on monday? if he does, you ve already told me what you think the president should say to president putin. what else do you think should be discussed? who might come on top of this meeting? it s extremely important that two things take place. first of all, that the president make it very clear, it is not a matter of asking, it is a matter of telling putin what the situation is and what he must stop doing. secondly, he ought to have another people with him.