so this will take us to past the election because it s going to be,sel earl you know, oh, twe you know, it always takes forever to get these it investigations. they have everything already. but, you know, they got across all the things that all the eyes and make all the excuses. so the whole is, uh, is a sham. it s a sham. it s a sham. and that was a great anformative, but joke, joke, free analysis. thank you. that s tru free that s true. ths i heard. i m going to move on to lauren. can you say say what he said, but funnier. good luck. good luck. and rememberfu what you said. that s. that s the impact i have said on the discourse. kind of like merrick garland, the ag. in announcing of this through the hip side of you passive of. yeah, well, you know, be sd weiss asked me to be the special counsel. yeah. and then he took no questions. so which is very, you know
it s not a complicated commodities scheme. odity schemeit s literally wheto on an application to purchase a firearm. these cases cannot be that i used to do them, but d they were that hard.th i wouldn t have beenem able to a . the house gop does have a tool in its arsenal to gain to ga compliance. it s called appropriations. but will they use itt will the? james gagliano is a retired fbi supervisory special agent and he joins us so. so the house wants documents. a. the fbi says, no, this is where i m torn. prosecutor. i used to be a prosecutor.ation. i understand ongoinge in t investigations. i used to be in the house.he hou i understandse, rstanding ca yoo your job without access . what happens now? trey? you know that sourceat documents. you can you can redact names on them and the ten ,e fbi twenty three , which is the document that the fbi is being asked to turn over, essentiaa is essentially a statm a confidential human source. we understand thatnfidential hue uncorroborated. we
the house can now vote to get rid of him? , . ., ., the house can now vote to get rid of him? , ., , ., ., , him? it is a good question. it does ut in a him? it is a good question. it does put in a straitjacket him? it is a good question. it does put in a straitjacket but him? it is a good question. it does put in a straitjacket but it - him? it is a good question. it does put in a straitjacket but it is - put in a straitjacket but it is possible to overestimate the degree to which this puts republicans in a bind over the next two years. conventional wisdom of the mccarthy and his colleagues have been hamstrung out of the gates and that they will have difficulty governing as a result but it is important to remember, samantha, that governing was never really part of the plan, or at least not legislating and passing laws and trying to reach compromise with democrats. instead, what we ve been promised is pure obstructionism and looking it investigations a hunter biden s laptop, of of
he s continued to be short of votes, white house officials are watching. not getting involved or put their thumb on the scale in any way, shape or form but using it as an illustration what a house majority will look like and how to interact with that majority. you know this building as well as anybody right now. they are planning how to operate in a new legislative environment, in a new political environment and, of course, hanging over everything is president biden s decision about whether or not to run for re-election, but doing so with a clear momentum in their view behind him in the wake of legislative victories including that $1.7 trillion spending bill and a real sense president biden s theory laid out in the campaign and into the first couple months of his time in office essentially has come to pass. that should kind of define how things operate in the next two years. yeah. we ll see what that looks like when it comes to those it investigations as well. phil mattingly, thank y
2024 to be in charge. they can t make it investigations. that sounds like a recipe for gridlock for the next two years. well, i m a little bit more optimistic than that. remember, we had a couple bills last year, one on guns between cornyn and murphy, a bill on infrastructure. we had a freshman senator, a republican from indiana, todd young, and a senior democrat from virginia, mark warner, let s do something about semiconductors, the threat that china represents. these happened without the president s involvement. i think there are a lot more members of congress who want to do that kind of thing, that is to say actually legislate. it would be great if something got done in the next two areas. no question, we have a lot to keep track of over that period of time. thanks for joining us. have a great weekend. you too. sandra, another big friday. sandra: another big week, rolling into the holiday week,