AG Garland Doesn’t Recollect The Answer If He Had Contact With FBI HQ On Hunter Biden Probe

On 9/20/2023, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and House Republicans grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland. Attorney General Merrick Garland testified that he never had any discussions with U.S. attorney David Weiss regarding details of the Hunter Biden investigation, while at the same time affirming to the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday that the prosecutor had total authority over the probe — despite just granting him special counsel authority last month.

Garland testified before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday as part of the panel’s hearing to examine how the Justice Department has “become politicized and weaponized under the leadership of Attorney General Merrick Garland.”

AG Garland Doesn’t Recollect The Answer If He Had Contact With FBI HQ On Hunter Biden Probe

Garland also said he does not know “the specifics of the investigation.”

Garland repeatedly said during the first hours of his testimony that he never had discussions with Weiss about the investigation, and said the prosecutor had the necessary tools to continue his years-long probe into President Biden’s son.

AG Garland Doesn’t Recollect The Answer If He Had Contact With FBI HQ On Hunter Biden Probe

Key Points

On 9/20/2023, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and House Republicans grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland

• Attorney General Merrick Garland testified that he never had any discussions with U
• attorney David Weiss regarding details of the Hunter Biden investigation, while at the same time affirming to the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday that the prosecutor had total authority over the probe — despite just granting him special counsel authority last month
• Garland testified before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday as part of the panel’s hearing to examine how the Justice Department has “become politicized and weaponized under the leadership of Attorney General Merrick Garland

Transcript Highlights

Transcribed from the video audio:

• Have you had personal contact with anyone at FBI headquarters about the Hunter Biden investigation
• I don’t I don’t I don’t recollect the answer to that question, but the FBI works for the Justice Department It’s I’m sorry
• You don’t recollect you don’t recollect whether you’ve talked with anybody at FBI headquarters about an investigation of the president’s son I don’t believe that I did I promised the Senate when I came Before it for confirmation that I would leave mr
• Weiss in place and then I would not interfere with his investigation Okay, did you ever I have kept that promise