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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has resorted to juvenile threats against FBI director Christopher Wray after Wray refused to turn over confidential information that is being used in the agency's investigation into Hunter Biden. The agency has made it clear that releasing this information would jeopardize the investigation in multiple ways, but McCarthy isn't looking for justice - he is looking for a political victory after a rough start to the year. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Republican Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy made it clear yesterday that he was prepared to move forward with contempt charges against FBI director Christopher Ray if Ray missed the deadline to turn over all of their Hunter Biden materials to the House of Representatives. Well, folks, that deadline was yesterday afternoon and Mr. Ray did not turn over all of the Hunter Biden documents, as the FBI said they wouldn't do because they cannot do. But it is weird, isn't it? I mean, Kevin McCarthy is not the one in charge of the committee. That is actually James Comer and Comer's been having this very public fight with Christopher Ray and the FBI for many weeks now. The FBI has said, we are willing to work with you to the extent that we can. We will give you everything that we are able to give you. But please understand there are things we cannot give you.

The F B I told James Comer because if we do, you are gonna make them public, and that's pretty much gonna destroy our investigation. So you want Hunter Biden behind bars. If we give you this stuff, you are going to destroy our ability to possibly do that in the future. Is that what you want? Well, apparently the answer is yes. They do want that. They would rather blow up the Hunter Biden investigation and embarrass him than let the investigation play out and possibly result in jail time for Hunter Biden or any of the other parties involved. Doesn't make any sense whatsoever, unless you remember that this is not about criminality. This is a political hit job being performed by Republicans. But it still doesn't answer the question, why is Kevin McCarthy having to go out there and threaten to hold Christopher Ray in contempt? Well, the answer to that should be obvious to everyone, right?

Kevin McCarthy, as I'm sure everybody is aware of right now, has negotiated a debt ceiling deal with the Democrats, a debt ceiling deal that a lot of Republicans in the house don't like. I don't think it's a majority of Republicans, but I think it's a lot. We already have one Republican saying, I'm gonna get Kevin McCarthy ousted his speaker. So why did Kevin McCarthy come out and start talking about the Hunter Biden investigation and that we're gonna, you know, issue a contempt charge against the director of the F fbi? Because Kevin McCarthy needed a political win because Kevin McCarthy needed a way to placate his fellow Republicans who may not be happy with that debt ceiling deal. So Kevin McCarthy strategically came out and he said, don't worry comer, I'll take it from here. I will issue the threat. I will show the country our Republican voters, that I am not a coward, that I am not going to negotiate with everybody, and I will be the one to issue this warning to Christopher Ray.

That is what this is about. Again, this has nothing to do with actually uncovering any criminality by Hunter Biden. The FBI has made it clear, if you expose this information that you're asking us for, you're going to destroy our investigation, which is why we can't give it to you. Republicans say, we don't care. We just wanna embarrass him. Kevin McCarthy says, well hold up. If you're not gonna do what we're asking you to do, I do have the authority to hold you in contempt. So I'll go out there in the media and I'll say that because everybody's at me about the debt ceiling.

Day 462: May 31

The day started with a successful drone strike on the Russian oil refinery plant in the Krasnodar region. This is one of the biggest oil refinery plants in Russia that processes more than 6 million metric tons of oil every year. Russian sources reported that the drone happened to hit precisely the oil distillation facility, which is the most important facility in the entire plant. The explosion caused a massive and intense fire that the firefighters struggled to put out the whole night.

Simultaneously, the second swarm of drones attacked another oil refinery plant slightly to the west. Russian sources reported that 1 Ukrainian drone managed to pass through the air defense, but failed to detonate due to malfunction. Fortunately, Ukrainians conducted another strike 3 days ago, in which one drone successfully damaged one of the oil distillation facilities.

There were already more than 10 strikes on the oil-related facilities only in the Krasnodar region, and even though half of the time Russian manage to protect their facilities, today, Ukrainians successfully destroyed the 5th facility in the region.

However, this is only the beginning. Today Ukrainians released the results of yet another Storm Shadow missile strike that took place several days ago. This time Ukrainians struck a base in Yurkivka, which is located between Berdyansk and Mariupol. Mariupol Mayoral Advisor Petro Andryushchenko reported that Russian forces created a base on the former kids camp resort and that a Ukrainian strike on a Russian concentration area killed 100 Russian personnel and wounded at least 40 others.

At the same time, a lot of local residents were also reporting about hearing explosions in Mariupol, Berdyansk, and Melitopol and posted footage of air defense rocket contrails. The Ukrainian city council of Berdyansk reported that there were at least 5 Storm Shadow missiles that directly hit Russian objects. In Melitopol, explosions were recorded near the airfield, and shortly after that local residents posted confirmation that the explosions caused a fire on the Russian base.

Ukrainians also continue destroying Russian forces with HIMARS strikes. Ukrainian Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov reported that Ukrainian forces targeted Mykhailivka for two days in a row: on May 29 and 30. Zaporizhia region occupation official Vladimir Rogov confirmed that Ukrainian forces struck Mykhailivka. He also stated that Ukrainian forces are striking roads and bridges, in particular, those connecting Vasylivka and Dniprorudne.

Lastly, HIMARS strikes were also recorded in the east. Russian sources claimed that Ukrainian forces conducted a HIMARS strike on Almazna in the Luhansk region. Local residents of the Donetsk region also reported that there were strikes on the Russian bases on the outskirts of Horlivka. The footage seems to confirm these claims as huge plumes of smoke were seen above the city.

Russian forces continue redeploying their forces across Ukraine, further giving more and more opportunities for the Ukrainians to destroy areas of forces concentrations. Right now, Russians are redeploying Motorized Rifle and Airborne units from the Svatove direction to the northern Bakhmut’s flank, and the DPR forces from Avdiivka and Vuhledar to the southern Bakhmut’s flank, including the city. In the meantime, Wagner forces are moving to the bases in the vicinity of Luhansk. Today the Head of the Chechen Republic announced that Akhmat forces are redeploying to Donbas as well. The increasing presence of Chechen forces is noticed around Bilohorivka, Marinka, and Kherson.

Overall, Ukrainians continue degrading Russian forces, taking advantage of the ongoing changes in the composition of troops behind the front. It is also important to note that the targets of the strikes are gradually becoming objects closer to the contact line, and the fact that Russians started complaining about the destruction of critical logistics infrastructure, such as bridges in the Zaporizhia region, mirrors what we saw ahead of the Kherson counteroffensive operation and signals that that we are getting closer to the next one

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has resorted to juvenile threats against FBI director Christopher Wray after Wray refused to turn over confidential information that is being used in the agency's investigation into Hunter Biden. The agency has made it clear that releasing this information would jeopardize the investigation in multiple ways, but McCarthy isn't looking for justice - he is looking for a political victory after a rough start to the year. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Republican Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy made it clear yesterday that he was prepared to move forward with contempt charges against FBI director Christopher Ray if Ray missed the deadline to turn over all of their Hunter Biden materials to the House of Representatives. Well, folks, that deadline was yesterday afternoon and Mr. Ray did not turn over all of the Hunter Biden documents, as the FBI said they wouldn't do because they cannot do. But it is weird, isn't it? I mean, Kevin McCarthy is not the one in charge of the committee. That is actually James Comer and Comer's been having this very public fight with Christopher Ray and the FBI for many weeks now. The FBI has said, we are willing to work with you to the extent that we can. We will give you everything that we are able to give you. But please understand there are things we cannot give you.

The F B I told James Comer because if we do, you are gonna make them public, and that's pretty much gonna destroy our investigation. So you want Hunter Biden behind bars. If we give you this stuff, you are going to destroy our ability to possibly do that in the future. Is that what you want? Well, apparently the answer is yes. They do want that. They would rather blow up the Hunter Biden investigation and embarrass him than let the investigation play out and possibly result in jail time for Hunter Biden or any of the other parties involved. Doesn't make any sense whatsoever, unless you remember that this is not about criminality. This is a political hit job being performed by Republicans. But it still doesn't answer the question, why is Kevin McCarthy having to go out there and threaten to hold Christopher Ray in contempt? Well, the answer to that should be obvious to everyone, right?

Kevin McCarthy, as I'm sure everybody is aware of right now, has negotiated a debt ceiling deal with the Democrats, a debt ceiling deal that a lot of Republicans in the house don't like. I don't think it's a majority of Republicans, but I think it's a lot. We already have one Republican saying, I'm gonna get Kevin McCarthy ousted his speaker. So why did Kevin McCarthy come out and start talking about the Hunter Biden investigation and that we're gonna, you know, issue a contempt charge against the director of the F fbi? Because Kevin McCarthy needed a political win because Kevin McCarthy needed a way to placate his fellow Republicans who may not be happy with that debt ceiling deal. So Kevin McCarthy strategically came out and he said, don't worry comer, I'll take it from here. I will issue the threat. I will show the country our Republican voters, that I am not a coward, that I am not going to negotiate with everybody, and I will be the one to issue this warning to Christopher Ray.

That is what this is about. Again, this has nothing to do with actually uncovering any criminality by Hunter Biden. The FBI has made it clear, if you expose this information that you're asking us for, you're going to destroy our investigation, which is why we can't give it to you. Republicans say, we don't care. We just wanna embarrass him. Kevin McCarthy says, well hold up. If you're not gonna do what we're asking you to do, I do have the authority to hold you in contempt. So I'll go out there in the media and I'll say that because everybody's at me about the debt ceiling.

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