Hur and also a letter to Merrick Garland . Objection. And with that, mr. Chairman, i see my time has expired and i yield back gentlelady yields back the chair is recognized. Mr. Her, why do you do it . Why did joe biden your words willfully retained and disclosed, classified materials . I mean, he knew the law in an office like 50 years five decades in the United States senate, chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee, eight years as Vice President , he got briefed every day as Vice President. Hes been in the situation room. In fact, you know, he knew the rules because you said so on page 226 President Biden was deeply familiar with the measures taken to safeguard Classified Documents and joe biden told us he knew the rules mr. Armstrong said this earlier. Joe biden was deeply familiar with it. Youre exactly right because he told us when jack smith goes after President Trump, joe biden says, how could this happen . What data was in those documents that could compromise source
To Special Counsel hur and also a letter to Merrick Garland. With that, mr. Chairman, i see my time has expired and i yield back. The chair recognizes, mr. Hur, why did joe biden in your words willfully retain and disclose classified materials . He knew the law. Been in office for 50 years, five decades in the United States senate, chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee, eight years as Vice President , he got briefed every day as Vice President. He has been in the situation room. In fact, you know he knew the rules because you said so on page 226. President biden was deeply familiar with the measures taken to safeguard Classified Documents. And joe biden told us he knew the rules. Mr. Armstrong said this earlier. Joe biden was deeply familiar with it. You are right. He told us when jack smith goes after President Trump joe biden says what could happen it could compromise sources and methods and it is irresponsible. Joe biden knew the rules. Joe biden told us he knew the rul
donald trump in a defamation lawsuit. we ll explain why the doj is backing off its previous position. plus two months worth of rain in two days. vermont is just starting the recovery process from that disaster. we ll get an update from one of the state s top lawmakers. all right, good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, july 12th. i m sam stein in for jonathan lemire. we begin with the major developments out of the nato summit in lithuania. the alliance says it will invite ukraine to join but only when allies agree and conditions are met. the group did not give a time line or details on what those conditions might be. vague wording is in line with what president joe biden said last week, calling a pathway to membership for ukraine, quote, premature while it is at war with russia. as the new york times points out, it appears the president and like minded allies have prevailed over poland in baltic nations that wanted a formal invitation for ukraine t
criminal charges against trump. that is how you think when you are in a cult. that is how you think when you re in a cult. well put. you know, we hear about situational ethics, in the case of republicans, it s situational patriotism. they love the justice department when their opponents are being prosecuted. they love american democracy when their when their candidates win. but if they lose elections, suddenly, they hate american democracy and they think it s corrupt. if donald trump is convicted of crimes, of felonies 34 times, suddenly they hate the justice system. but if it goes the other way for them, situationally, it s okay. such hypocrisy. so is it biden s justice department being weaponized by biden or is it not? yeah. this lays bare everything we ve been saying on this show for many, many years now about the hypocrisy. i mean, when you look at the disappointment, frankly, for many republicans about the outcome of this trial, they wanted to be able to say
general election. i think whether that argument resonates is something that we re going to watch and see in the next couple of months among republican primary voters. in your time out there, though, is there any appetite among republican voters to see a candidate go hard after donald trump? it seems to me on the surface they generally are sympathetic to the guy. they may not like him but don t respond well to the attacks. yeah, in talking to the voters it seems some of the arguments that trump has made, like the justice department being weaponized in light of the indictments he s facing, so it s hard to see right now what arguments are. ing to stick. the other challenge that the competitors have in this field when you look at the polling the voters like the policies that