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Come as early as tuesday. we have more details in just a moment, plus ron desantis suspends another elective prosecutor in a move divided as politically motivated this as his campaign continues to implode. and the chair of the house oversight senate committee says the vote to impeach joe biden even though he has found zero evidence of wrongdoing by the president. what a sad state of affairs for republicans. im ayman mohyeldin lets get, started. tonight we begin this hour with breaking news. form...

Comer has now vowed to subpoena the entire biden family for his investigation into hunter bidens business dealings. there is no evidence so far like in hunter bidens alleged wrongdoing to president biden. but, hey. comer says hes good to impeach the president nevertheless. >> id vote for impeachment right now. i dont have to think twice about that. ive always seen enough public corruption that makes me fear for the future of our country. >> yeah. im sure. as comer continues to conflate president...

To play out among republicans? surely, not everyone in the party is going to go along with james comer. do you think this could potentially backfire if republican candidates have to begin to distance themselves from impeachment talk? >> it will be the litmus test for 2024. the problem with that for republicans is that that might score them -- it kills them in a general election. there is your appetite from the majority of the american people for the impeachment of joe biden, who has done nothing...

Next week in an atlanta—area case against donald trump and his allies for alledgedly interfering in the 2020 election. on saturday the states former lieutenant governor geoff duncan and an independent journalist confirmed that they both have been asked to testify before the grand jury on tuesday. fulton county district attorney fani willis is thought to be seeking more than a dozen charges against the former president, including conspiracy and racketeering. those charges could happen in the co...

The crossings are perhaps using a defective batch of boats, boats which are already dangerously overloaded, and that is making the crossing even more perilous. butjust hours after the deaths were confirmed, more people from other migrant boats were being brought ashore, their desire to reach the uk undiminished. the home secretary said her thoughts and prayers were with all those affected by the tragic loss of life. simonjones, bbc news, dover. a georgia grand jury is expected to hear evidence n...

Today. we need to prioritize accountability to understand what happened, and if wrongdoing took place, to respond to it. the pardon didnt work, and i think it would be even more calamitous right now for that to happen. >> yeah. and just before we let you go, in these last few seconds we have, the country has been through a lot in the last several years, thats the understatement of the year. how do you think it begins to heal? and what role does accountability for the former president play there,...

First, it has to find out the facts and we have to reach a conclusion. but if the wrongdoing was done, what do we do about it? what does the government do about it? do we allow this to be acceptable? and that is extraordinarily important for all of us. >> if you look back when president ford preemptively pardoned nixon for any crimes he might have committed, president ford argued it was to avoid bringing any more trauma and let the nation heal. and some are saying the prosecution of trump is fur...

So this promises this is going to stay in the spotlight for quite some time as the presidential cycle is just ramping up. politically speak, sir, as a democrat who clearly will be backing the bandy democratic president, are you wet weather about this dragging out and getting a lot of attention during the presidential election? >> no, i dont think so, only behalf this, which is that my republican colleagues want to somehow connect hunter biden to somehow the president himself committing wrongdoin...

Biden case? >> i think all along the justice department said to attorney weiss if he requested the designation, that they would grant it, but i think it doesnt take away the flaws in the republicans arguments with regard to hunter biden. i had a chance to actually question the whistle-blowers who came forward with allegations of wrongdoing and investigation of mr. hunter biden. the problem with the fundamental allegations alleged wrongdoing t. allegations of political bias dont seem to hold weig...

Should the democrats abide by their own principles in the case of hunter biden, even if the republicans are not? >> i think the house has the ability, the authority and they should be able to conduct oversight investigations with regard to the prosecution of anybody. thats what theyre doing, but the manner in which theyre doing it is highly problematic. remember, jared kushner was a member of the government the hunter biden is not. again, theyre trying to attribute somehow wrongdoing to the pres...