MORNING, WE'LL BRING IT TO YOU. WILL: MEANWHILE ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND PUSHING BACK AGAINST TESTIMONY BY AN IRS WHISTLE BLOWER THAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INTERFERED WITH THE INVESTIGATION INTO HUNTER BIDEN. >> HE WAS APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP AS U.S. ATTORNEY IN DELAWARE AND ASSIGN BID THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION. I DON'T KNOW HOW IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE FOR ANYBODY TO BLOCK HIM BRING AGO PROSECUTION GIVEN THAT HE HAS THIS AUTHORITY. WILL: WHISTLE BLOWER REVEALING HOW LONG THE FBI KNEW ABOUT HUNTER'S INFAMOUS LAPTOP. RACHEL: SAYING THE FBI VERIFIED THE LAPTOP'S AUTHENTICITY IN NOVEMBER OF 2019 BY MATCHING THE DEVICE NUMBER AGAINST HUNTER BIDEN'S APPLE I CLOUD ID. PETE: TRISTAN LEVET IS THE ATTORNEY AND PRESIDENT OF EMPOWEROVERSIGHT.ORG AND JOINING US NOW. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. TELL US HOW HAS IT BEEN SINCE YOUR CLIENT HAS COME PUBLIC WITH THIS. DO YOU FEEL LIKE WHAT HE KNOW AND WHAT HE'S ALLEGING HAS BEEN FAIRLY CHARACTERIZED? >> WELL, DEPENDS ON WHO'S CHARACTERIZING IT, DOESN'T IT? A BIG AMOUNT OF WHAT HE'S BROUGHT FORWARD IS OBVIOUSLY BEEN PRETTY SHOCKING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THAT'S RECEIVED COVERAGE AND HIS MOTIVATION AS A LONG TIME CAREER INVESTIGATOR, SOMEONE THAT'S WORKED ON HUGE INVESTIGATIONS LIKE THE CREDIT SWEISS INVESTIGATION WAS VERY DIFFERENT THAN ANYTHING HE HANDLED IN HIS 14 YEAR CAREER AND HE FELT LIKE CONGRESS SHOULD KNOW AND UNDERSTAND HOW THIS CASE WAS DEVELOPED AND CONGRESS MADE THE DECISION VOTING TO RELEASE THE INFORMATION THAT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC DESERVED TO SEE THIS. A LOT OF INFORMATION I THINK HAS RIGHTLY SURPRISED THE AMERICAN PUBLIC AND DISAPPOINTING TO SEE THAT SOME INDIVIDUALS OF COURSE HUNTER BIDEN'S DEFENSE ATTORNEY IS OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, MAKING STATEMENTS, VAGUELY THREATENING TO OUR THREATENING TO OUR CLIENT AND, YOU KNOW, MIS-CHARACTERIZING WHAT'S BEEN RELEASED AND SO ARE SOME OTHER OUTLETS AND HOPE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE LOOK AT THIS INFORMATION AND JUDGE FOR THEMSELVES. RACHEL: WE USED TO LIKE WHISTLE BLOWERS AND USED TO CELEBRATE THEM. WE CELEBRATED ONE NOT LONG AGO. WHAT WAS HIS NAME AGAIN? PETE: VINDAMIN? RACHEL: YEAH, THAT'S THE KIND OWE LIKE. THIS CASE IS INTERESTING AND THERE'S SO MUCH EVIDENCE BECAUSE, A, HUNTER BIDEN WAS EXHIBITIONIST AND NOW THERE'S PHOTOS AND E-MAILS AND VOICE MAILS AND HERE'S ONE THAT WE HAVE ON WHAT'S APP THAT SOUNDS LIKE IT CAME RIGHT OUT OF A MOVIE AND SAYS I'M SITTING HERE WITH MY FATHER AND HE'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND WHY THE COMMITMENT MADE HAS NOT BEEN FULFILLED. TELL THE DIRECTORS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO RESOLVE THIS NOW BEFORE IT GETS OUT OF HAND. NOW MEANS TONIGHT. ZI IF I GET A CALL OR -- Z, IF I GET A CALL OR TEXT FROM ANYONE OTHER THAN YOU I'LL MAKE SURE THE PERSON KNOWS MY ABILITY TO FOREVER HOLD A GRUDGE YOU'LL REGRET NOT FOLLOWING MY DIRECTION. I AM SITTING HERE WAITING FOR THE CALL. THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART, WITH MY FATHER. MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT INVESTIGATORS AT IRS SAID WE CAN VERIFY WHETHER USING LOCATION, GPS LOCATION, WHETHER JOE BIDEN WAS THERE OR NOT AND THEY WERE DIRECTED NOT TO DO THAT. THEY COULDN'T DO THAT. >> THAT WAS ONE OF MANY STEPS WHERE THE INVESTIGATORS WERE BLOCKING AND EXTENDING THINGS FROM HUNTER BIDEN AND E-MAILS OUT THERE FOR SOME TIME AND HELP BY THE BIG GUY AND THERE WAS -- ALL THE INVESTIGATORS KNEW WHO THE BIG GUY WAS AND THEY'RE SPECIFICALLY TOLD YOU CAN'T ASK ANYTHING ABOUT THE BIG GUY AND SUBPOENA AND SEARCH WARRANTS AND BIDEN'S DELAWARE RESIDENCE AND ANYTHING THAT WENT BEYOND HUNTER HIMSELF, THEY WERE BLOCKED FROM. PETE: IS THAT -- IS IT COMMON THAT PROBES STAY ON JUST THE PERSON YOU'RE INVESTIGATING THAT YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO SNAKE OFF OF IT? JUST FORGIVE MY NAIVETY ON THIS. >> NO, THE INVESTIGATION IS PUBLICLY OUT THERE AND I'M LIMITED TO WHAT'S IN THE TRANSCRIPTS SINCE IT'S BEEN RELEASED PUBLICLY. THIS SPUN OFF FROM THE DIFFERENT ONES AND IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. GET INFORMATION AND GET LEADS AND THEN DEVELOP THOSE. THESE ARE LEADS THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED SUCH AS THE WHAT'S APP MESSAGE AND SINCE THEN IT'S BEEN REPORTED THAT THERE'S PHOTOGRAPHS THAT SHOW HUNTER AT HIS DAD'S RESIDENCE THAT SAME DAY AS THAT WHAT'S APP MESSAGE. WASN'T A VOICE MAIL TO BE CLEAR. JUST A -- THEY GOT RAW DATA FROM APPLE FOR THE WHAT'S APP MESSAGES AND TEXTS THERE. IT SHOWS THAT WE KNOW TEN DAYS LATER, THE COMPANY IN QUESTION TRANSFERRED $1.15 MILLION, THE QUESTION IN HUNTER'S NAME AND THE ACCOUNT IN QUESTION. WILL: WHAT'S YOUR REACTION TO -- I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT TWO INDIVIDUALS AND ONE IS MERRICK GARLAND AND HE CAME IN AND BASICALLY SAID, I GUESS THAT YOU OR YOUR CLIENT ARE LYING ABOUT THE PROSECUTOR AND THE POWERS THAT ARE GRANT TO DO THE PROSECUTOR IN THIS CASE BUT SECONDARILY, I'D LIKE TO GET YOUR RESPONSE TO HUNTER BIDEN'S LAWYERS, WHICH YOU SAID YOU BELIEVE, I HAVE SEEN WHERE HUNTER BIDEN'S LAWYERS SAID, LOOK, MY CLIENT WAS ON DRUGS BUT YOU SUGGESTED AS WELL THEY'RE MAKING VAGUELY THREATENING STATEMENTS TO YOU. PLEASE ADDRESS BOTH GARLAND AND HUNTER'S ATTORNEYS. >> SURE. AS IT RELATES TO MERRICK GARLAND, WHAT ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND SAID IS THAT U.S. ATTORNEY DAVID WISE HAD FULL AUTHORITY TO INVESTIGATE AND BRING CHARGES IN THIS CASE. HE SAID THAT TO SENATOR GRASSLEY ON MARCH 1 OF THIS YEAR AS WELL. WHERE APPLY COMES INTO THIS AS IRS INVESTIGATOR, HE WAS AT A MEETING AFTER INVESTIGATING THIS FOR ALL THIS TIME, HE WAS AT A MEETING ON OCTOBER 7, 2022, AT THE DELAWARE U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE AND AT THAT MEETING, U.S. ATTORNEY WISE, HIS FIRST ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY, AND HEAD OF THE CRIMINAL DIVISION THERE IN THAT OFFICE WERE MEETING WITH BOTH THE BALTIMORE FBI, THAT'S WHO HAS THE JURISDICTION OVER DELAWARE WITH THEIR SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE AND THEIR ASSISTANT SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE AND WITH THE IRS SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE, HE AND GARY OUR CLIENT SERVING AS ASSISTANT SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE. U.S. ATTORNEY DAVID WISE TOLD THE WHOLE GROUP HE DID NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO CHARGE, HE TRIED TO BRING CHARGES IN DC FOR THE 2014 AND 2015 TAX YEARS, WHICH IS WHEN THE BARISMA INCOME CAME IN AND YEARS THAT HUNTER'S OWN ADVISERS TOLD HIM YOU FILED FALSE STATEMENTS IN 2014 AND NEED TO AMEND THOSE AND THERE'S UNFILED INCOMES AND THOSE WERE SLAM DUNK YEARS AND 2014 WOULD HAVE BEEN FELONY CHARGES BECAUSE OF FALSE STATEMENTS SO THOSE CHARGES HAD TO COME THROUGH DC BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE 20 -- THAT'S WHERE HUNTER WAS LIVING AT THE TIME. WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT AND WHAT'S MORE WHEN WE WERE DENY THAT, I REQUESTED SPECIAL COUNCIL AUTHORITY. GARY SHAPPLEY DOESN'T HAVE INSIGHT INTO WHAT HAPPENS FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OR ANYONE ELSE AND HE ONLY KNOWS WHAT HE WAS TOLD IN THAT MEETING BUT HE WAS SO SHOCKED BY IT AS WERES OTHER ATTENDEES OF THE MEETING THAT IT BECAME CONTENTIOUS WHEN THEY ASKED HIM ABOUT IT BUT GARY AND SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE WENT BACK AND GARY TOOK CONTEMPORANEOUS NOTES AND E-MAILED THEM TO THE DIRECTOR FIELD OPERATIONS AT IR SCCING AND COPYING SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE. YOU COVERED ALL THIS CORRECTLY. THERE'S CONTEMPORANEOUS DOCUMENTATION OF WHAT DAVID WISE SAID AND NOT ABOUT GARY SHAPELY VERSUS ANYONE ELSE'S WORD AND THAT'S WHAT HE SAID AND IT'S FOR OTHER INVESTIGATORS TO FIND OUT AND IT'S HIS JOB TO BRING THIS FORWARD AND PEOPLE NEED TO PULL ON THE THREADS AND DAVID HAS TO ANSWER TO THAT. HE SENT A LETTER TO CONGRESS SAYING IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THAT LETTER WAS UNCLEAR IT WAS DRAFTED BY HIM AND SENT A LETTER TO CONGRESS SAYING I HAVE THE AUTHORITY AND HAS TO ANSWER FOR THESE CONFLICTING THINGS AND NOT WHAT HE TOLD THE FBI AND IRS. WILL: HOW DID HUNTER'S ATTORNEYS VAGUELY THREATEN YOUR CLIENT? >> LOOK AT STATEMENT FROM YESTERDAY AND HE QUESTIONS AUTHENTICITY OF WHAT'S APP MESSAGE AND SAYS IT LOOKS LIKE -- HE SAYS OUT THERE THIS INFORMATION MAY BE DEFAMATORY OR LOOK AT STATEMENT HE PUT OUT, SAYING IT WAS PUT OUT BY SOMEONE WITH BAD MOTIVES AND GARY SHAPELY WENT THROUGH THE ENTIRELY CORRECT PROCESS OF TAKING THIS LEGALLY TO CONGRESS AND CONGRESS ON ITS OWN VOTED TO RELEASE THE INFORMATION. WILL: REALLY GOOD STUFF. GREAT INFORMATION. TRISTAN LEAVITT, THANK YOU FOR SHARING IT WITH US HERE ON "FOX & FRIENDS" AND THE PUBLIC AS
