GOP lawmakers seek answers on alleged effort to discredit Hunter Biden laptop story.

Republican lawmakers are seeking information from Secretary of State Antony Blinken regarding a public letter signed by dozens of former intelligence officials weeks before the 2020 presidential election, which cast doubt on the Hunter Biden laptop story and suggested it could be Russian disinformation. The lawmakers claim that Blinken's outreach to former CIA deputy director Michael Morell set in motion the events that led to the issuance of the public statement. Democrats on the committee pushed back on the claims, stating that no part of Morell's interview demonstrated that Blinken or any other Biden campaign official asked Morell to write a letter about Hunter Biden's laptop.