Jersey governor chris christie, bret. bret: all right, rich, thanks. the first whistleblower associated with the hunter biden criminal investigation testified to congressional staff in a closed session today. correspondent david spunt has the latest tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. hi, bret. good evening. his name is supervisory special agent gary ha ha shapely he spex hours behind doors house ways and means committee. talking about staff members from both sides of the aisle, republicans and democrats. his attorney said he answered all questions. the reason he was on the hill today, bret, was to try to seek some protection so he can tell his story. he wants some legal protections from congress. he began work on what he calls a high profile investigation in 2020. sources confirm that investigation is the hunter biden tax investigation that commenced in 2018. shapely says a meeting between investigators and federal prosecutors last october caused him to speak up. the justice department declined
Was getting involved in slow walking, in his words, also another unnamed whistleblower who came forward last week, when an i.r.s. employee raises allegations the commissioners office doesn t run an investigation or intervene. the i.r.s. supports the inspector general. well, commissioner of the i.r.s. wrote to republicans and democrats saying he has not been part of any retaliation plot. i want to state unheically shapely will appear on capitol hill tomorrow for a transcribed behind the scenes interview. to be clear he won t confirm he is speaking out about the hunter biden investigation, although he is still an i.r.s. employee and has to follow rules. multiple sources confirm that s what he is talking about, dana and bill. f.b.i. director christopher wray
Declined to comment about this interview when i reached out last night. the commissioner of the i.r.s., who is under pressure to answer questions about i.r.s. whistleblowers and this investigation both to republicans and democrats says he hasn t been part of any retaliation part. i want to state i have not intervened and will not intervene in any way that would impact the status of any whistleblower. shapely will appear on capitol hill tomorrow for a transcribed behind the scenes interview. to be clear he actually won t confirm on camera or on the record that he is speaking about the hunter biden investigation. he didn t do it with cbs news and won t do it with anyone. he is still an i.r.s. employee and has the follow certain rules. multiple sources confirm to fox news that s exactly the investigation is talking about. christopher wray is facing a us to deadline to produce a document that republicans on capitol hill say contains an allegation that then vice
Waived taxes against him for alleged tax crimes and so far no charges have been filed, and hunter biden has been denying any charges. and so i know that they are very eager to hear from shapely. much more to come from this. john? a new public advise fri the department of homeland security says that they are in a heightened environment from extremists. earlier this month there was the mass shooting at a outlet in allen, texas, and the gunman espoused nazi views. and also, officials are assessing the man who crashed a u-haul truck into the white house, and he praised adoff hitler to investigators after he
there were a number of directions that were slow-walked at the hands of the justice department. had you ever encountered that before? no, i had not. these were deviations from the normal process, and each and every time, it always seemed to benefit the subject. and it just got to the point where that switch was turned on, and i just could not silence my conscious anymore. why do you want to navigate these waters? i do not want to. it is a mat over consciousness, and it is not something that i want to do, but it is something that i feel like i have to do. reporter: now, kate, shapely is saying that he is not a political person, and his decision to come forward with these claims was not driven by political motivations, but just to take a step back. we know that for years now, federal prosecutors have been investigating hunter biden three attorneys general and they have
Normal process and each and every time it seemed to always benefit the subject. that subject, according to multiple sources hunter biden. shapely joined the multi-agency probe in 2020 two months after it launched. he cited a meeting last fall that caused him to speak up. i couldn t silence my conscience anymore. when i saw the egregiousness of some of these things. it no longer became a choice for me. doj declined comment. shapely will be on capitol hill for a closed door transcribed interview tomorrow. n a separate investigation, fox news has learned fbi director christopher wray will speak on the phone next wednesday to house oversight chairman james comer. a day after an fbi deadline to produce a document republicans say contains an allegation then vice president biden took a bribe for a policy change. comer admits he has not seen the document but is still pushing forward with the deadline. comer is looking at contempt of congress charges if the fbi
Leave them as they are. i think it s terrific. [ applause ] amen. yeah. i mean, the scary thing is that classic books and i think this is what precipitated his tent, raul dahl who was a psycho and anti-semite and a good children s author. they change the most benal thing. you can t say fat. yeah. he changed it to nicely, shapely, i don t know. body positive is what what they probably changed it too. all right. this kind of thing is insane. they are changing books. that is literally orwellian. not the abuse of the word. we have to make way of commercials. we are here on cnn. thank you again. we will see you next week. [ cheers and applause ] you can watch real time with bill maher friday nights on hbo at 10:00 p.m. and overtime
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