This week on 'Fox News Sunday,' host Shannon Bream welcomes Rep. Michael McCaul, Rep. Adam Smith, and more to discuss the week's top political headlines.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, says the committee seeks answers into the 13 service members killed in the Kabul Airport attack two years ago.
Take a look at this before and after satellite imagery of the historic town of Lahaina. It was nearly burned to the ground. A spot beloved by locals and tourists alike, decimated. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right over there. I'm born and raised here and I was planning on raising my 3-year-old daughter there.
LA JEUNESSE: Gary Savage jumped off the break wall with dozens of others spending the next eight hours in the water before being rescued. LA JEUNESSE: The search for victims continues with just 3 percent of structures inspected by cadaver dogs. Countless remain unaccounted for. FEMA is mobilizing resources and the biggest challenge is housing, 4,500 need shelter.LA JEUNESSE: FEMA Director Deanna Criswell and Governor Josh Green say hotels promised a thousand rooms.
It's an unprecedented time in American politics ahead of 2024 with three active special counsels whose investigation all have ties to the leading candidates from both parties. Jack Smith heading both of Donald Trump's cases into his handling of classified documents and his alleged efforts to overturn 2020 election results. Then, there is Robert Herr investigating President Biden's classified documents case.
For years, Republicans have accused the Justice Department of interfering in the probe. The chairman of the House Oversight Committee says Hunter received $20 million from foreign sources, including China, Russia and Ukraine while his father was vice president. TOMLINSON : Georgia's former lieutenant governor will appear before a grand jury on Tuesday ahead of a possible fourth Trump indictment. When Trump was sworn into office in 2017, Georgia had two Republican senators. Today, it has none -- Shannon.Now to our legal panel. George Washington University law professor Jonathon Turley, and Thomas Dupree, former principal deputy assistant attorney general.I -- there's plenty of legal wrangling going on in D.C.
But I think the jury is still out, literally, on whether the special counsel is actually going to bring more serious charges against Hunter Biden or potentially name additional defendants as a result of this probe. I mean, this is a point of clarity, because otherwise, you're telling the rank-and-file, we aren't necessarily going to investigate the president. There's still that a sense of reluctance. And, you know, God help us when we have another special counsel. I mean, you're talking to the only two D.C. lawyers who are not currently serving as special counsels, right, yes.TURLEY: Yeah. We're busy.
What about the congressional investigations? Because let me read something from the"Wall Street Journal" editorial board. I have absolutely no doubt that now the administration is doing a 180 on this. I strongly suspect Weiss is going to say, wait a minute. This is an ongoing investigation, the world has changed, I can no longer come and testify. I'll take a rain check and I'll see in a year.I think it's critical for Congress to keep its foot on the accelerator here.
The president -- former president and his legal team have talked about his First Amendment rights. You know he likes to talk about this, the prosecutors, the judge, everybody else involved. I mean, how much does he risk here in potentially violating that order or getting himself a gag order? And I'm more concerned with the definition of sensitive material, that as the judge said, I'm going to go with a definition of sensitive material. It's a very ambiguous term. So it does -- right now, this does not look good in terms of the chances of a confrontation and the potential of a gag order. I hope she doesn't go in that direction, because I think it would be reversed.
In a moment we will bring in Michael McCaul, Chair of House Foreign Affairs Committee and Adam Smith, the top Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee. HASNIE: Christy Shamblin chokes up as she remembers her daughter-in-law Sergeant Nicole Gee, one of the 13 U.S. service members killed by a suicide bomber at Kabul's Airport during that chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. This week, Shamblin and five other Gold Star families spoke out at a public forum, accusing the Biden administration of failing their children and then trying to cover it up.
HASNIE: These grieving parents now just want an apology and department leaders to resign, but have little hope that will ever happen. MCCAUL: I will not rest until we do get answers and accountability and transparency as to what happened. How did this go so wrong? And the Gold Star families are the best, you know, witnesses to this nightmare. They lost their 13 servicemen and women, Abbey Gate. We had the testimony of Tyler Vargas-Andrews, who said,"I had the suicide bomber in my sights, but I was not given permission to engage him." And after that, the bomb went off killing 170 people, 13 servicemen and women.
We've been denied access to these witnesses. And we're prepared to go forward with subpoenas to get to the bottom, because these Gold Star families that you just showed deserve the truth as to what happened to make sure this never happens again. BREAM: Well, it brings up another item I want to ask you about which is this deal that's apparently coming together to free Americans from being held wrongfully in Iran, it would free up $6 billion in frozen assets for the Iranians to use, I believe, we're releasing some Iranian prisoners as well. We are told that there will be strict guardrails on that money that Iran will now get access to. Here is Democrat and veteran, one of your colleagues, Congressman Seth Moulton.
Look, I want to get these Americans home more than anybody. And one of them is a critical asset. I agree with that. But we have to go in eyes wide open. $6 billion that now is going to go into Iran and prop up their proxy war, terror operations, and their nuclear bomb aspirations. They are now starting to talk about the JCPOA all over again, which in my judgment, will lead us down a course to a legal nuclear bomb in Iran. Prime Minister Netanyahu came out strongly against this.
SMITH: There's a fundamental misunderstanding about what's going on here. The money that's going from Korea to Iran is money from oil that Iran sold to Korea and Korea did not pay for that -- South Korea, sorry, because the sanctions that were imposed on the Trump administration. SMITH: But again, it's not as I just said, where were those real concerns during the Trump administration, when money from a bunch of other countries was being transferred to Iran, no strings attached, no prisoners returned?SMITH: So it just doesn't seem like a legitimate complaint based on the facts of the certain -- facts of the situation.
Afghan is -- Afghanistan is also going to humanitarian disaster right now. People are starving to death. They can't get access to health care. We're getting a lot of pressure internationally. What can the international community to do to stop that humanitarian disaster? And I suppose one answer is, you got the government, you got you got the Taliban leading you. This is where you're at. We can't help.
Look, Russia has engaged in a brutal invasion of Ukraine, you can see the pictures of how they're destroying cities, killing civilians. I think defending Ukraine is something that is in our interest and overwhelming majority of American people seem to agree with that. It is time now for our Sunday group, Julia Manchester, National Political Reporter for The Hill, former Special Assistant for National Security to President George W. Bush, Michael Allen, Contributing Writer for Forbes, Richard Fowler and Katie Pavlich, editor @townhall.com.
But the question is, what happens after Iowa for Ron DeSantis? How does he compete in New Hampshire and South Carolina? We'll have to see but for now, it's all eggs in Iowa basket. BREAM: So it's not just Republicans who might be taking notice of this and the impact because there are Democrats that potentially sound like they may be souring on President Biden. York Times reports this,"Representative Dean Phillips, the Minnesota Democrat who has called for someone in the party to challenge Biden, said the Special Counsel news is, quote, my entire rational for urging a Biden alternative.
I think the - the good news here in this special counsel announcement, that you haven't heard a lot of people talk about, is this. Once the special counsel is over, they will issue a report. It's very likely that Merick Garland will make that report public to the American people.
BREAM: Yes, from a grand jury to a real jury where you'll have opposing arguments, you will have different evidence. There will be an opposition there. And innocent unless proven otherwise in this country. I don't see him mounting a third party campaign and No Labels have said very clearly that they don't want to be a spoiler in this election.ALLEN: If he does run, that's bad news for President Biden. There's low enthusiasm for the president and I think it takes out from his vote.And a reminder, we are a little bit more than a week away from the first `24 Republican primary debate in Milwaukee. Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum will moderate. Coverage begins August 23rd, 9:00 p.m.
WINANS: I wanted to offer hope, because no matter where you are, no matter what you're going through, no matter where you are in life, you're praying for something. You're believing for something. And you need hope.
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