Professor John Yoo served in the George W. Bush administration and teaches law at UC-Berkeley. You may know him from his frequent appearances in media. This week, he was on FOX News with Kayleigh McEnany who was filling in for Jesse Watters.
Yoo suggested that there should be a special counsel, and a special congressional committee to investigate Biden’s mental decline. Yoo stressed that this is about more than Biden, saying it is about the office of the president no matter who is serving.
Partial transcript via Real Clear Politics:
KAYLEIGH MCENANY, GUEST HOST: Immigration, releasing prisoners from Guantanamo Bay — these are serious issues, and yet Democrats, elected Democrats, questioned whether Biden’s acuity affected those issues that affected you. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. What happened in the Situation Room? How about the Oval Office when just a few people were in the room?My next guest says the way to get the answers is indeed a special counsel. Professor John Yoo worked on the Whitewater Congressional Committee and was also former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel…JOHN YOO, FORMER DEPUTY ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL DURING THE GEORGE W. BUSH ADMINISTRATION: I think the first thing it does is it would get people under oath. These people could then not lie, obfuscate, tell the American people things that are not true, in order to cover up President Biden’s health, and also, I think, to conceal whether they themselves abused power, broke federal laws by exercising the power of the office of the presidency without his authorization.And that kind of investigation usually has a single person, a special counsel. Here I say, let’s have Robert Hur come back and do it right, a special counsel who conducts it like a prosecutor.And if those Biden aides, Biden family members refuse to cooperate, then you have the Justice Department can go in and force those subpoenas and throw people in jail for refusing to answer Congress’ questions.MCENANY: So that is a fantastic idea. The special counsel. You were the first one I ever heard float that idea, and I’ve since picked up on it. I believe in it very much…YOO: We’ve got two special counsels. One is you can have one created by Congress. Congress can just put someone in charge of their own investigation, like you mentioned, Watergate, Iran-Contra, January 6, or the Justice Department can trigger those regulations that you mentioned earlier, that would be up to Attorney General Pam Bondi. She could just appoint Robert Hur special counsel, just like he was before.
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This scandal just got worse with Biden’s cancer diagnosis. Now we need to know when they really found that out and who knew about it before now.
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