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>> harris: wow. questions about biden's age exploded after special counsel robert hur's february report called him an elderly man with a poor memory. hur interviewed the president for hours for his investigation into biden's handling of classified documents. the justice department released a transcript of that interview. however, republicans are demanding release of the actual audio. they have questions about what was edited and why. >> we have gone beyond precedent to provide the committee with the transcripts of the special counsel's interview with the president. >> your attorney also said that you did alter the transcript and they said it was filler words, repeat words, and, and, i, i. you know what?
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what she described him as being very friendly charming. she said he was really chatty. >> and at one point though, he stepped out onto a balcony in this room to smoke, which she now realizes was crack it. >> she said he actually blew through that 30 minutes that he had purchased without ever getting that private tab he was asked she said if you wanted to extend the time he declined, but he did invite her to his hotel room. she also declined but he got her number and they met have a couple of weeks later which kicked off this year long relationship all paula reid outside the court in wilmington, delaware. >> thanks so much. let's go now to capitol hill were house republicans, as we mentioned, have sets a criminal referral for hunter biden and president biden's brother, james, to the justice department. cnn's manu raju joins us live. but mine and what exactly are the allegations against hunter and james biden by these? three house committees? >> yeah, the republicans aren't alleging that james biden, hunter biden made false statements to the committee
critical data to protect, end quote. one of the committee on the house side that receives the most sensitive national information, information gathered from all over the world, to infirm policymakers who want to protect or national security, our men and women in the military, covert operatives, allies, that committee now has to two new members on it, who have proven that they will put what's good for donald trump over what's going for this country, including on the day of the deadly insurrection. joining our coverage, gerald conry, congressman, this is a story of "what" for me.
inappropriateness of that gentleman sitting in the speaker's chair in the house of representatives. ali vitali mav an answer to the question. what is mike johnson thinking? >> reporter: i asked him for his rationale of the question. that was mine when i saw that this was happening form of course, given the background of scott perry, having his phone seized, messages being looked through right now about his involvement around the january 6th insurrection. in the last few minutes, just in the hallway behind me i caught up with speaker johnson. he said that scott perry has wanted to be on this committee for a while. he's a good american who has served his country and will add a lot to this committee. i also asked johnson about the background of the phone series. johnson told me, in his mind, that was a closed matter behind us. of course, what the congressman
and if peter was an informant for our intelligence community that means our intelligence community knew before the covid-19 outbreak what was going on in that wuhan lab. and everybody worked together under doctor fauci and the ones who knew and the intelligence committee to cover the sub-, to say anybody would suggest the lab leak theory was plausible was a right wing conspiracy theorists. we are today when jim jordan asked the question, i'm open, it could very well have been a lab leak by did not come from the money that we sent over there. that was doctor fauci's answer. could have been a lab leak but not from the tax pair dollars. something else. that is complete baloney, i think the american people see through it. people are mad, and one doctor fauci to be held accountable. >> jesse: what the whistleblower told us was that he is being used by big intel to use that wuhan lab as a backdoor to spy as a condo on the defense
>> it sure looks like that is a strong possibility. i would do that and i think you will have to get together as a committee. we will go back, obviously we will go line by line through every entry he gave especially when he's stalling that when throwing all of his assistance under the bus and we want to bring some of those people back in, beardy have heard testimony from doctor morens act and i fauci said it was all him. we will bring morens back in and see if he has anymore recollection of how things really occurred? a doctor fauci with her everybody else under the bus, then that may change their tune as to how they do their answers. look, we know it we used taxpayer dollars to do gain a function research, doctor fauci and give it as like answered to change the definition but they knew what was going on in the evidence he produced showed a date they destroyed e-mails, did everything they could to coordinate with facebook agate
never allowed to review this. for three years i have been asking the nih for their deliberations, if this is not gain a function, want to see the discussion between the scientists, fauci says oh, the scientists! the i'll say it was on gain of function been! led me see the deliberations per! one is he the arguments for and against, they won't really we'll those, they were tattered lower than the cia on those, and they have insisted really requests from democrats and republicans, the democrat chair of my committee has cosigned this request, it's over a year old and my individual requester three years while gagging have resisted, they have obscured, and according to fauci's assistant, that he threw under the bus today, according to him it was a targeted cover up and they destroyed e-mails and evidence. today the most shocking and disgusting thing was anthony fauci through david annemac to 20 year assistance under the bus and acted he never met him, he was never part of the local, had
causes of infectious diseases and then stop them to protect the american people?>> yes, i have. my goal during the pandemic was to play a role with my team and the vaccine research center to develop a safe and effective vaccine. we did that in an unprecedented short period of time never seen before in the annals of vaccincology. we know those vaccines have resulted in saving hundreds of thousands of lives in the united states and millions of lives throughout the world.>> he did not have to be there. he was not subpoenaed. but there he was. with his wife sitting patiently and attentively and supportively behind him. he was testifying voluntarily. to a republican-controlled committee. he had already voluntarily testified in private to the same committee for 14 hours.
we are here to investigate covid-19 pandemic and to explore lessons learned. positive or negative and to better prepare future pandemics. >> that may have been why the republican chairman of that committee was there. he is a physician whose questioning was mostly respectful. but marjorie taylor greene showed up in her uncouth performance included refusing to call dr. anthony fauci a doctor. she, as the consistent front runner for the stupidest house member, said she does not think he's a doctor. most republican members of the committee spent their time trying to indict him for what they falsely said was his refusal to even consider that covid-19 could have originated in a lab in china. the top democrat on the committee, who is also a