The Sunday morning talk shows got heated as Biden and Cheney sparred. Cheney told ABC's Jonathan Karl that Joe Biden was "dead wrong" in his assertion that a 9/11-style attack wasn't likely. Biden fired back, saying Cheney "either is misinformed or he is misinforming" when it came to fighting terrorism.
"All I know he is factually, substantively wrong on the major criticisms he has asserted," biden told NBC's David Gregory.
This video is from NBC's Meet the Press, broadcast Feb. 14, 2010.
The Lincoln Project on Thursday slammed Mike Pence in a newly released video that juxtaposes comments the former vice president made hours apart on Thursday over his complicated relationship with Donald Trump.
The ad starts out with video from Pence’s announcement that he’s running for president at Des Moines Area Community College in which he issued a strong rebuke of the former president.
Pence assails Trump over his pressuring him when he was vice president to overturn the results of the 2020 election that the former president falsely claimed was stolen.
“Anyone who puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United States,” Pence is shown saying in the video.
“And anyone who asked someone else to put them over the Constitution should never be president of the United States again.”
But the video points out that, hours later, Pence was singing a different tune during his appearance at a CNN town hall in which he promised to “support the Republican nominee in 2024, especially if it’s me.”
Dana Bash, who hosted the town hall, asks Pence to square the apparent discrepancy between his promise to support the nominee in a race in which Trump is considered a prohibitive favorite with his suggestion earlier in the day that he should never be president.
“So then how can you say that you would support him if he’s the nominee?” Bash asks him.
“Well, because I don’t think Donald Trump is going to be the nominee,” Pence replies.
Asked by Bash, “but what if he is,” Pence says that “I have great confidence in the Republican primary voters, very confident that we’ll be able to support the Republican nominee for president of the United States, and I hope it’s me.”
The video ends with text that says: "Mike Pence knows, but he’ll never say."
"It’s America or Trump."
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Former Trump Attorney General Bill Barr, once one of the ex-president’s top defenders, appeared stunned and speechless Thursday afternoon when a Fox News host surprised him by asking why the U.S. Dept. of Justice is pursuing a criminal investigation against Trump over classified documents while he is running again for president.
“Why is this process happening so quickly in the middle of a presidential election?” Fox’s Martha MacCallum asked. She neglected to mention that Donald Trump reportedly announced his presidential campaign to avoid being charged.
Barr, who is on record stating he opposes Trump’s actions surrounding the hundreds of classified and top secret documents he likely unlawfully removed from the White House and refused to return, paused for several seconds before replying.
“Uh,” Barr finally replied, “This, this was a fairly simple case,” he said, appearing to defend DOJ.
“The Mar-a-Lago case. This is a case that can be done relatively quickly, and that’s why I thought, it’s the main – because it’s a very limited question,” Barr explained, shifting gears. “It relates to, ah, one collection of documents and and why they weren’t given to the government once they were subpoenaed. And it’s a pretty simple case.”
Moving on, MacCallum asked, “And you believe that the charge will be obstruction, based on what you’ve said before?”
“Yeah, yeah,” Barr responded, seeming to not want to bet pinned down to an answer, “if I had to bet I think that that there’s going to be an indictment here on that basis, but it’s not going to be because he took the documents, or even had the documents for a while. I think it’s because they believe that he acted deceitfully once the government tried to get the documents back.”
On Tuesday, Barr spoke with CBS News to refute his ex-boss’s “witch hunt” claims, said the ex-president had “jerked” DOJ around over the hundreds of classified and top secret documents he refused to return, and added there was “no excuse” to do so.
The Republicans' investigation of the FBI hit yet another embarrassing snag as NBC News reported on Thursday that Garret O'Boyle, an FBI special agent the GOP billed as a whistleblower, was previously suspended for leaking classified information to the right-wing group Project Veritas.
"Lawmakers learned about the reason for O'Boyle's suspension, which was previously unreported, in testimony that Jennifer Moore, executive assistant director of the FBI for human resources, provided to the House Judiciary Committee's Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government," reported Ryan Nobles.
"Portions of her testimony are included in a letter that top Democrats on the Judiciary and Weaponization panels wrote to Garland, alleging that O’Boyle lied to the committee about leaking information prior to his suspension."
"House Democrats are now accusing O'Boyle of lying to the committee and are referring the matter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, according to a letter obtained by NBC News," said the report.
Project Veritas is best known for spearheading sting operations against liberal politicians and media organizations. The group was recently plunged into controversy after its longtime leader, James O'Keefe, left his position amid reports that staffers were internally making misconduct allegations against him. Last month, Project Veritas filed a lawsuit against O'Keefe, accusing him of wasting the organization's money on personal expenses.
This is not the first time the credibility of House Republican whistleblowers has been put on the line.
Two other whistleblowers brought in to discuss FBI misconduct last month, Stephen Friend and Marcus Allen, turned out to have had their security clearance revoked for a series of transgressions including promoting conspiracy theories about the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
And in a separate House investigation into Biden's family, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) admitted that they can't even find the whistleblowers they were planning to question.
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