White House delivered 'really shocking' response to Comer's invitation for Biden to testify, says Turley

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Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley slammed White House spokesman Ian Sams for "attacking" and "taunting" House Republicans after they extended an invitation to President Biden for him to testify in his own impeachment probe. The constitutional scholar addressed the Biden team's "shocking" response during "The Faulkner Focus" on Friday.

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JONATHAN TURLEY: While the Republicans are not being deterred by any of this, what is really shocking is that Sams is actually with the White House counsel's office. I can't remember an administration that had a White House counsel's office that engaged so directly in taunting and attacking legal inquiries from Congress... This is an impeachment inquiry. It's the most important possible process that a President and Congress are engaged in, and yet you have a member of the legal counsel's office mocking and taunting that effort. The fact is that the president's public statements to the public stand completely contradicted. He lied when he said he had not spoken to business associates. He lied when he said he didn't have knowledge of these business dealings. The point of this letter that is key is that in seven pages, it reduces all of those contradictions to ten simple