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The Daily Punch

House GOP gets ready for Garland contempt vote

The Daily Punch

Punchbowl News

Politics, News, Government

4.6666 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Attorney General Merrick Garland faces a contempt vote in the House for not releasing audiotapes of President Joe Biden's interviews with Special Counsel Robert Hur. Plus: Punchbowl News announces a new vertical! Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress? Subscribe to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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News. It is Monday, June 10th, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines

0:50.8

of the day. Number one, what to watch for in D.C. this week. Number two,

0:55.2

Punchable news is expanding into tech policy. And number three, Trump and the HFC butt heads on

1:01.3

endorsements. Let's get into it. So this is a, the last week, the House is in session for a while.

1:09.5

They have next week off.

1:11.4

And President Joe Biden is back in the United States, but heads to Italy on Wednesday for the G7 summit in Brindisi.

1:21.0

That's a lot of travel to Europe in a couple weeks for the president of the United States.

1:26.4

Let's talk about what's going on on the Hill this

1:28.3

week. The House is planning a vote to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt. The judiciary

1:33.9

and oversight committees are demanding that Garland turned over audio tapes of Biden's interview

1:38.7

with special counsel Robert Herr as part of the Biden impeachment inquiry. The DOJ is handed over

1:43.5

transcripts of these interviews, but not be audio tapes.

1:46.4

Now, the House is preparing for floor votes on the contempt resolutions this week.

1:51.6

This would effectively refer this case or this issue to the U.S. attorney for the District

1:57.6

of Columbia for criminal prosecution.

2:00.1

That's not going to happen. They're not going to prosecute the attorney general. That's not going to happen.

2:01.2

They're not going to prosecute the attorney general.

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