if the prior doj under bill barr said no to this search warrant it would be kind of what we saw bill barr doing when he tried to save michael flynn and roger stone, and potentially in a position to give doj evidence implicating the former president. keep in mind, by the way, we have a brand-new doj here and the key decision makers, obviously the attorney general is the top decision-maker, but the deputy attorney general, she was just sworn into that position a couple weeks ago. if this tells me anything, it tells me there's a new doj in town willing to look at things on merits and not play politics like the prior doj did under bill barr. >> i want to go live to jake tapper who is joining us at the white house. he just left a background briefing about the president's joint address to congress, and so what can you share with us from your conversation? >> reporter: just to set the scene for you, what happens is normally before a state of the union address or joint address to congress, the president will invite a number of individuals from the major cable news networks and tv networks an

government on behalf of a foreign source, he needed to notify the doj, that is something we know iswarrant, the purpose of the electronics that they are now going to be recovering and in respect to our earlier conversation about what stage does a search search warrant become executed later on, here is? it certainly is not a fishing expedition, it is not a fact-finding expedition per se. when you execute a search warrant you have reasonable standard, reasonable specificity and particularity, you have articulated to a judge in that search warrant with reasonable cause and crimes have been committed and also that the nexus between what you are searching for, what you are obtaining and that being evidence of that crime. search warrants are executed later in investigations. >> harris: robert costello, the attorney for rudy giuliani confirming that the search warrant was executed at the apartment of rudy giuliani in manhattan today. and that statement is coming shortly and while we await that breaking news to heaven, more details in a statement from rudy giuliani's attorney we will go aro

things will change with the doj's involvement. new rules, new procedures, new training, so maybe this is exactly what the chief needs to shift that department in a new direction. >> it's just so interesting. do we know yet, if the doj finds there was gross, you know, malpractice, for lack of a better word, in the louisville police department, what will happen? >> so, essentially when doj starts an investigation like this, there's a hard way and an easy way. the easy way, which almost always ends up happening is a consent agreement. which means a settlement between the police department and doj saying, here's how we're going to reform, here's how we're going to change over the years. here are things we're committed to. the hard way, if the police department resists, is a federal lawsuit filed by doj, which no department wants. there's only trouble down that path. i do look for them to reach that kind of agreed upon consent decree here. >> elie, you have participated in a similar situation with the newark police department. and now

using the doj for political bias and political investigations? elizabeth: yeah.arass them. now it is payback. he was highlighting the fbi abuses of the secret fisa court, when the fbi was using the fisa court to wiretap carter page. the aclu is saying open up the fisa court basically we've got a lot of surveillance of americans we saw in the fbi trump-russia probe that was roundly criticized and condemned as botched. >> thankfully, right before trump left office john ratcliffe unclassified some of those documents but there is a ton of those documents that haven't been unclassified that all of those different things to get the subpoenas to surveil on the trump campaign went through the fisa court. we don't know any of that information because the john durham investigation is supposed to be investigating this but this has been going on for two years and the american public wants to know what happened. if there are things that were criminal or things that were happening to target conservatives by the mere fact that they worked with trump's campaign or worked in the

according to the doj. and we should mention, there is already an investigation going on. the federal criminal investigation of the killing of george floyd is still outstanding. now the doj is looking at something that is even bigger than what just happened with george floyd. looking at the department itself, to see if its pattern and practices have been unconstitutional beyond that. and this tends to be a very big investigation. you will remember, don, back when michael brown was killed by a police officer in ferguson, missouri, that caused unrest there for more than six months of protests. and in that case, the doj looked at the patterns and practices and saw a lot of things that they thought were illegal. and so we are going to be in the weeks and months ahead, we're going to be waiting to see exactly what that looks like. i should mention, the brass of the police department has said that they are going to cooperate fully with this investigation. the city council in minneapolis said they welcome this investigation into the police department's patterns and practices. and

i do see change. >> part of that change involves what we heard today from the doj. do you think the doj investigation into the minneapolis police department is a step in the right direction, a step forward? do you think further action is necessary? >> well, what the doj is doing, what they're saying, rather, is that police reform in minneapolis doesn't begin or end with yesterday's conviction, that there is going to be an investigation into other uses of excessive force, which have been systemic, which have gone on for a long period of time. what derek chauvin did was very likely a result of his lack of training or training in kneeling in that position, which leads to unnecessary death. so, i think this is a tremendous step. it's a tremendous step in leadership in order to look at this because the investigation itself will bring about positive change. >> tony romanucci -- antonio romanucci, thank you. >> thank you. have a good day. >> you too. >> president biden said it is ahead of its goal of 2 million vaccinations within his first 100 days but that's not enough. >

. >> i am don lemon and we have huge developments in the doj's, by the way, the trump doj, now it's the biden doj, but this is where this started, the doj's sex trafficking investigation of trump congressman matt gaetz. adam kinzinger calling on gaetz to resign. you hear a "daily beast" reporter telling chris they got venmo payments from the congress nan to a local official and hours later payments that add up to the same amount to three young women. again, we will have to see if this all plays out, how it plays out. he didn't speak with any women who received the payments, the reporter. and i should point out there is no conclusive evidence that this was for sex. none of the three women in "the daily beast" mentions were underage. while joel greenberg has been indicted on federal charges, including for trafficking, his connections to gaetz on these matters are still to be established. gaetz is denying all of it. greenberg, a friend of gaetz, who could face decades in prison on 33 federal counts, including identity theft and sex trafficking of a maynor, said to likely strike a plea deal

there's an established history of the prior doj using doj as a political weapon and political shield. i think this search now -- look, it has been approved not just by prosecutors but by a judge but there's clearly real merit to it. >> jonathan, come in on the politics and remind our viewers if they are trying to forget how important rudy guiliani was in the orbit of trump, and this was testimony in the impeachment case, where rudy guiliani was trying to get a remarkable u.s. ambassador in ukraine, and whether it's politics at home or an alleged scheme abroad, rudy guiliani is central to protecting trump? >> he's his person lawyer, his confident and long-time friend and fellow new yorker, and i think somebody who -- john, as you mentioned, it's kind of lost to history because of the second impeachment, but he was a key player in the first impeachment because of his active effort to try and find dirt on hunter biden in the ukraine that would damage joe biden in the democratic primarily, potentially the general election, because, john, the donald trump campaign and trump white house did

but the reality of it is, is what the doj are doing.y're bringing more resources, drilling down in detail and also providing the guidance of what it is the federal government wants to see nationally from law enforcement agencies. and there has to be clarity and uniformity on that if we're ever going to be in a space where policing is a profession that we can be proud of in every corner of america. to the officers, the employees, what i will say is this venture will only be successful if you are engaged. your feedback, your involvement and your observations are imperative. the job that you do day in and day out is extremely difficult, extremely dangerous. and that's the one piece of this equation, with all the criticism that comes on police, that we have to also deal with, and we have to get our arms around, and that is just the sheer volume of illegal guns that are on the street. because i think if we don't address that as well, we're going to have a much harder time getting our arms around this. and it is imperative, then, as you as of

i'm not sure there were any doj investigators in that crowd. news that gaetz's friend is cutting a plea deal ups the stakes for him. that deal has to mean that greenberg has been cooperating already and probably for a while. another key point. feds don't ordinarily cut deals with someone for information about lesser crimes by others. you understand what i'm saying? it's not for you to rat on people with information that is less than what you did. that means greenberg likely was offering information to fuel prosecution on equal or more serious grounds against others. remember, greenberg is charged with paying for sex, including sex with a minor, trafficking of girls for sex, girls provided drugs and money and a couple dozen related crimes. there will likely be other names introduced into this beyond gaetz, in addition to gaetz and a broader reach of allegations. one of the most troubling aspects so far on that point, gaetz has some explaining to do. you heard on this program last night, there's reportedly a trail of payments from gaetz to greenb

his message that doj is watching and watching closely. the attorney general made the announcement more than a year after 26-year-old emt breonna taylor was killed. three police officers entered her home where her boyfriend were inside. it appeared to be a drug operation. they announced themselves. taylor's boyfriend said he department hear anything on the door and fired a shot thinking they were intruders. police returned the fire, killing taylor. >> the investigators will seek input from every corner of louisville. they will work with the community, with public officials and with law enforcement officers. all of these steps will be taken with one goal in mind, to ensure that policing policies and practices are constitutional and lawful. >> martha, three days ago the a.g. was on calls. a.g. garland said more departments would be uninvestigation. minneapolis police department following the george floyd trial and the louisville investigation and the investigation into the minneapolis police department could take several months, maybe more t

that's for the good of doj.weeting about running commentary on your cases, as we saw with the prior president, but it's also really for the good of the president and the white house. there's no good to come of the president getting involved in any way in decisions to prosecute or not prosecute. there's no law on this, jake. it just comes down to norms and good government. as a doj aalulum, i hope doj is keeping itself completely out of the white how. >> giuliani's assistant is being subpoenaed to testify next month. what could she add to his activities in ukraine? >> obviously, it has two ends to it. when you're investigating, you want to seek both ends. you get rudy's phone, execute a search warrant on his phone. you also want to see who is on the other phone of that. that's why i think they went in search of victoria toensing. administrative assistants can be really valuable sources of evidence. it doesn't surprise me that the sdny is looking at her and questioning her as well. >> eli honig, thank you. appreci

the doj wants us to get this right. louisville is a major city. it has to get it right. i look at this as a partnership, someone is neutral, they're coming in, saying this is what you need to do. i mean, this isn't a surprise. we've had four years where at least for the last three consent decrees were really put on pause for largely political reasons and so we knew that they were going to come back and you're going to see more of them and it's okay. it's okay. i think one of the things you think about, always accused of right or wrong in policing is we investigate our own. i don't think it is wrong that someone who is qualified is coming in as an outside party, providing feedback. i'll take that all day long. thank you. [ inaudible ] >> i don't see it that way. look, under the trump administration they stopped these type of investigations, doj did. president biden, vice president harris, attorney general have entirely different type of perspective. to me, it shows the national government is working as i spoke about before. louisville has been in the news, we know that fo

it will do similar to what doj is doing on a bigger scale. talking to people. police been like, and what did they tell you? >> a quick clarification. george floyd was murdered in south minneapolis. the other part of the city. >> i'm sorry about that. i, of all people, should know that. it's my mistake. >> i want to make sure we had that on record right. it's about 15 blocks from where i'm sitting right now in my house. so in north minneapolis is however the historic heart of the black community in minneapolis. it is where jamar clark was killed, thurmond blevins was killed. the site of historic clashes between police and the black community in minneapolis. and what we found was that among black residents, there was a pervasive experience of police discrimination, police criminalization or police treating all residents as criminal suspects and verbal and physical abuse from law enforcement. and, you know, it tends to only break through in the mass spacex. lethal violence. but it's day to day friction and harassment getting pulled over, treated disrespectfully th

doj inquiry. how does this sound now, jennifer?i'll tell you how it sounds to a former prosecutor. it sounds like consciousness of guilt. so the notion that he wasn't to the former president to ask for a blanket preemptive pardon doesn't go to the elements of the crime that are reportedly being investigated. if they end up at trial with matt gaetz in the defendant's chair, you better believe they will try to put in this evidence because it demonstrates that at the time he went to former president trump to ask for, this, he knew he did something wrong, he had legal liability and he was speaking coverage. >> jennifer, i want to read from this reporting now. some trump associates speculated that mr. gaetz's request for a group pardon was an attempt to camouflage his own potential criminal exposure. is this something that investigators will be pursuing, do you think? >> i think that they will just because it's out there. listen, while you are investigating someone and talking to everyone about what they might know, this is something th

do you think will look back at this as one of the hallmarks of the biden doj? >> it's increasingly looking like what you're calling activism and what i would call just simply representing the people of the united states of america, delivering the product that doj is supposed to deliver to taxpayers who pay for its services which is justice. and doing it by using the laws in an aggressive way, brian, i think the reason you're right when you suggest that we should think about what this would look like four years down the road is because of the kind of leadership that joe biden has brought to the justice department. not just attorney general garland, who is both a scholar and a practitioner of prosecution, but women leaders like lisa monica who is just been confirmed as the deputy attorney general and funny to gupta as the associate. again, we have highly qualified people who bring an emotional miss amount of commitment and diversity to the justice department, morality aj is on the uptick. and doj at its best is the cabinet level agency whose name is a moral virtu

how are they reacting to not just the verdict, but also this new doj announcement? >> the folks here were glued to their televisions yesterday waiting for the verdict to be read, and after that happened right behind me at this court house, it erupted in celebration and there were hundreds of people that descended on this location, and celebrating because in their view there was a sense of justice handed down with the verdict of three guilty counts. the community continues to wait to see what will happen with the other three officers, and we know derek chauvin, the senior officer awaits his sentencing, but the other three charged with aiding and abetting him last may, their trial is set for august and this community will wait for that verdict as well, whether the other three officers will be held accountable for the death of george floyd. >> thank you for your ongoing hard work there. >>> let's bring in cnn federal analyst, ely honic. let's talk about sentencing. there's a range, right? what is the maximum prison time chauvin could get and what will go into the final

i'm not surprised by the doj investigation.rump out of office, this level of oversight was going to return, thankfully. we invite it. we think that we do have issues in our department. but we also understand that this is not just a minneapolis problem. this is a broader problem all across the country. we are waking up to the news of the death of ma'khia bryant. i think this is going to continue to be something an and an issue we can't ignore. >> what are you feeling for your city this morning after the three guilty charges -- the three guilty verdicts? >> it's what should happen. it's the right thing for this time. it's the right thing for this case. i think that's one of the things that can be hard for us to wrestle with for those of us like myself who deal with the social consequences, sometimes it can feel a little bit like not enough. at the end of the day, this case was about the legal consequences for these actions that derek chauvin did for the murder of george floyd. with that framework, this is exactly the outcome that

there are reports that were flashing lights here before this doj -- news of the doj probe came out. one saying he is a ticking time bomb. what are you hearing behind closed doors? >> well, believe it or not, my friends and i, we don't talk about matt gaetz behind closed doors. we are on recess now, doing district work, so we haven't been in the capitol to hear the gossip. again, this is not a good -- this is not a good look for him or for the institution. as i said, if he doesn't resign, he gets indicted, this matter should go immediately to the ethics committee and then you let law enforcement play it out. >> joyce, we keep hearing leaks of more information every day. right now what stands out to you as the most damaging from a legal perspective? >> it's an interesting sort of a situation, lindsey, because typically when i prosecuted sex trafficking cases, i was working with state and local counterparts. we were engaging in an investigation without prejudging whether we had federal or state charges, and then after all of the information became known, we went on to the charging phas

his female staffers defend him amid doj pro.et's go to the phone lines and talk to connie calling from west virginia. good morning. caller: good morning. host: go ahead. caller: i was calling because i feel with the situation we have now with this sex trafficking with these minors he is accused of, it is a horrible thing. on the other hand you have to prove whether or not he is guilty or not. i believe if he is guilty, it will be proven in court like it should be, not by people just saying that he is in the same situation with andrew cuomo in new york city. he has had nine women come out and say that he inappropriately touched them or did things to him that made them feel like they were being violated and i think he didn't have to resign. a lot of people were asking him to resign. when people start -- put a democrat to resign. let's charge a democrat. host: judith calling from tulsa, oklahoma on the democratic line. good morning. caller: good morning. i wanted to say to the gentleman who suggested this was a democratic conspirac

. >> i won't be extorted by a former doj officials and the crooks he is working with.th will prevail. >> headlining an event for a pro-trump women's group. >> take the words of margaret thatcher to heart. if you want something said, get a man. if you want something done, hire a woman. >> gaetz, speaking the same day the house ethics committee announced it had opened an investigation into his actions not just on sex trafficking, but also over allegations he showed nude images on the house floor and misused campaign funds. the congressman's heavily pro-woman message comes after a gaetz associate, joel greenberg was arraigned on an array of charges this week, including sex trafficking of a minor which drew the fed's attention to gaetz. federal prosecutors and greenberg's attorney telling the judge they expect a plea and not to go to trial. >> i'm sure matt gaetz is not feeling very comfortable today. >> gaetz, a close ally of former president donald trump, has hired attorneys and outside perk r firm to manage the scandal. gaetz will fight back against the unfounded allega

as i have been saying, we have huge developments in the doj's -- by the way, the trump doj -- that's where it all started. now, it's the biden doj but where it all started. trump-supporting congressman matt gaetz. adam kinzinger calling on gaetz to resign tonight. there is a tweet that he put up moments ago. and then, you heard a daily beast reporter tell chris they got ahold of venmo payments from the congressman to a local official. and then, hours later, payments that add up to the same amount to three young women. again, we will have to see if this all plays out. how it all plays out. he didn't speak with any women who received payments. the reporter, meaning. and i should point out, that there is no-conclusive evidence that this was for sex. none of the three women "the daily beast" mentions were under age. and while joel greenberg has declined -- excuse me, has been indicted on federal charges, including for trafficking, his connections to gaetz on these matters is to be established. gaetz is denying all of it. greenberg, a friend of gaetz, who could face decades in prison on 3

so he paid his firm $5,000 and then he meets his dad meets with this doj prosecutor, former doj prosecutor some extortion scheme that's connected to this investigation, and matt uses that immediately to counterpunch against the news. he takes that extortion scheme to distract from the fact he has been announced to be under investigation for sex trafficking, which he acknowledged himself. that has to be -- those two things have to be twinned together. it seems like maybe he some sort of consulting meeting with him around that time. >> let's talk about the timing of this spending. the $116,000 in direct mail spending on march 31st, the day after "the new york times" broke the story that gaetz was involved in this sex-trafficking probe. that does to tell you he is trying do with that spending? >> it seems like he is trying to bolster support, right? so it would seem he would be blasting out some sort of message to try to get ahead of the news as best that he could. he did do a p.r. blitz on tv. you have to remember the day that the story broke he goes on tucker carlson and seems pretty prepar

that doj report was done by eric holder. they went out and said, the narrative that was on the ground was inaccurate. darren wilson did not commit a murder. there was evidence to suggest that mike brown went for his gun and the people that were in the community testified that now that d.a. decided that he was going to go to a grand jury. he had the evidence to suggest otherwise. he almost punted it to the grand jury so he wouldn't get any blow-back which i felt was a disservice to the community. they already had all the facts there to let the people know. on the surface, that is the big picture. then you have the doj report. what did it find? although it had a different story for the department, what did you see? because of the city manager and the city council, they were policing for profit. what do you mean by that? low level charges, seat belt charges, illegal parking that was used to supplement their budget. they didn't give the police enough money in their budget so they punted it to the police and said just go out here

they have been asking for the doj to step in and ask what's happening for this department and others. listen to the department of justice coalition founder. >> this case is significant in the sense that it brought the reality of what black and brown people face into the living rooms of america. this is the same thing that happened when the march happened over the edmund pettus bridge, when the reality of what black people were facing was brought into the living rooms of america and that spawned a litany of legislation, and the same thing needs to happen with this as well. >> now, he was talking about this case referring to the derek chauvin case in which he was convicted of three different counts. two of them murder in the killing of george floyd. we should as tell you that derek chauvin is remanded to prison. we saw that live. he's being separated from other prisoners and is being kept in a safe and secure place because of the high-profile nature of the case and also because he's a former police officer and everyone is going to know his story. they are trying to keep him safe. they k

was busted in a doj probe. up. gaetz and stone are both known as colorful florida characters. they certainly swam together in the trump years. >> joining me now is one of the most impressive young, hard charging conservatives in the u.s. congress, matt gaetz. >> it's good to be on with you, roger. >> do you think trump should pardon roger stone? >> i do. and i think that it requires -- >> congressman, come on. >> matt gaetz shows tremendous promise. >> gaetz under investigation in this doj sex crimes probe. he denies all wrongdoing and he has not been charged. we are joined by michelle goldberg. michelle, look, a lot of important things going on. this is a probe that involves serious issues, obviously, because the doj already indicted someone on very serious charges. but the copyrights themselves, why do you turn to roger stone of all people? >> well, look, these are two very similar characters. what i am most curious to know in the daily beast article hints at this is what, if anything, roger stone had to do w

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because i think the announcement this week of the doj taking up an investigation into the pattern and practices of the entire minneapolis police department is a significant development. what does an investigation like this look like and what are the possible outcomes once the doj looks into the history of this police department? >> this is a significant -- i'm sorry, we have two professors. >> oh, i'm sorry. that's professor palos. i was not specific enough. there are two professors on this panel. >> my apologies. no, my apologies as well, to my colleagues. this is a significant step, zerlina, and so, what this says is that the department of justice does not find credible that derek chauvin was merely one bad apple on the minneapolis police force but believes there are systemic problems. these kinds of lawsuits brought under this particular civil rights statute, 14141 look into what you mentioned earlier, patterns or practices. it's very significant that in the announcement, the attorney said that specifically, the department would like to speak to community members and ascertain more

and in that tweet he called on the doj to release the tapes of the alleged extortion attempt and says all of it is there. kent, who he's accusing, says he hopes it was taped so you could hear what he said to gaetz's father. a really interesting part of this story because remember, it is a big part of the defense that gaetz has, it's all a setup, we're all coming after him, look at the extortion. bob kent did himself a favor by coming on and answering the questions directly, but gaetz won't take the same opportunity. so there's a lot to take apart tonight with that and we have former number two at the fbi to do it. but first things first. we're two days into week two of the george floyd murder trial. we've seen 20 witnesses up on that stand for the prosecution. week two has an interesting focus on the training here. what were you supposed to do? but more importantly, what was chauvin doing? was that right or wrong? the knee on the neck for that duration, was it ever taught? is it ever okay? if it is ever okay, under what circumstances? nine minutes and 29 seconds, does that fit into an

he's also claimed that he's nothing more than basically a willing subject in a doj probe of someone else. he's even buying ad time to attack the media and predicting he'll be vindicated and that there is no real story here. but thanks to legally required campaign disclosures, the world is learning that gaetz moved 85,000 intended originally for campaigning into his own legal defense. so something, something is costing him a lot as this goes forward, a probe he says is going nowhere. the fees started right after the initial indictment of gaetz's associate. gaetz for his part has vowed to fight to the very end. he talked about this at his recent defiant maga event. >> i have not yet begun to fight for the country i love and for the nation that i know benefits from america first principals. i'm built for the battle, and i'm not going anywhere. >> he is battling, but that's not all. a new washington post report on the tangles origins of this case, includes the bizarre and, frankly, despicable revelation that the gaetz ally take major steps to falsely smear a local teacher, falsely accusing h

a senior doj official says a civil rights division team is on the ground as the biden administrationntensifies its scrutiny of police practices. cnn's josh campbell has the latest for us from minneapolis. >> reporter: the biden administration apparently signaling that they will not hesitate to use the federal department of justice in order to investigate any police agency that may be accused of engaging in a pattern and practice of violation of civil rights. on wednesday attorney general merrick garland announcing the doj would do just that as it relates to the minneapolis police department. >> the challenges we face are deeply woven into our history. they did not arise today or last year. building trust between community and law enforcement will take time and effort by all of us. good officers welcome accountability because accountability is an essential part of building trust with the community and public safety requires public trust. >> reporter: and we know in the united states there is no national police force, police agencies fall under state and local control, butt the federal

but, look, doj's job is not to sit back and say, they're trying, they're making progress. on and put a stamp of approval on that or say, no, we need to investigate in further areas. so the important thing here, folks, is for the citizens of louisville to say, okay, we've looked at this every possible way, through community reforms, through hiring a new police chief, now the department of justice. and so that -- if you're looking for the ultimate arbitrator of what's taken place, they are it. and so that's why i think this is a win for the city and will remove any type of critics we might have from the most fierce critic on the left, the most fierce critic on the right, for different reasons, about the city having some agenda or some objective to approve with the way we're going about this. that's why this is a good and welcome thing for the community. >> mayor, this -- >> anybody new? yeah. [ inaudible question ] is that a cultural issue, something deeper? >> yes. i feel like it's a cultural issue. if you're looking at the use of force and who that force is used against an

and of course we know doj is getting help.uch with told me that last summer the fbi reached out to him and he spoke with him about his knowledge of giuliani. he appeared in a documentary with giuliani so he has knowledge of how interacted with the cannes. >> >> he definitely didn't declare or register as an agent of a foreign government as is required. as someone who was a u.s. attorney and ran a u.s. attorneys office, from that perspective and experience, what do you see when you see these big, dramatic moves from the southern district? >> it's an interesting point in that case when you make a decision to stop being covert and become overt. >> right. >> this case was never really covert. of course it was clear that there was an investigation going on to some extent, but now everything is over, and they're into the phone. what you can find in a cell phone after a search like this can be of immense value. maybe ultimately there's not a case, maybe you get passwords that let you take a look at accounts that you're just learning

do you think we'll look back at this as one of the hallmarks of the biden doj? >> it's increasingly looking like what you're calling activism and what i would call just simply representing the people of the united states of america, delivering the product that doj is supposed to deliver to taxpayers who pay for its services which is justice, and doing it by using the laws in an aggressive way. brian, i think the reason that you're right when you suggest that we should think about what this will look like four years down the road is because of the kind of leadership that joe biden has brought to the justice department, not just attorney general garland who is both a scholar and a practition of leadership, but moynihan who is the new attorney general and her associate. we have high intelligence at the head there, and the work that people inside the justice department do isn't for their own pleasure or career advancement, it's on behalf of citizens. that's what we're seeing restored at doj under this new leadership. >> peter baker, some democrats you and i both kno

that became very apparent today when kristen clarke, joe biden's nominee to lead the doj's civil rightsision, testified before the senate. she faced tough questions like "why did you want organize a conference of champion cop killers and domestic terrorists" and "why did you write an op-ed calling for defunding the police?" >> the title of your article was "defund the police," but let's not should look to the title. your article begins by saying the national protests we saw last year "opened up space for transformative policy discussions," you then continue to write, "into that space," and this is a quote, "into that space has surged a unifying call the black lives matter movement. defund the police." do you really believe defund the police is a unifying call? >> i don't support defund the subleased -- >> i'm reading from your article. do you disagree with your article? >> lawrence: you think that is controversial? just wait, buckle up, there is more. >> was officer darren wilson justified or not in the shooting of michael brown in ferguson, missouri, in 2014? >> as a private citizen, b

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he faces the sex allegations being investigated by the doj. he's been largely abandoned by donald trump in public and donald trump's white house reportedly rebuffed what was a very incriminating request from gaetz in private. he asked for a preemptive pardon. he faces allegations that range from paying for sex to alleged sex with an underaged girl. to be clear, he denied all of those allegations and he's not been charged with a crime. but the times reports something striking. they have two people who were told of high level discussions that gaetz was privately asking the white house for a blanket preemptive pardon for any crimes they may have committed. that's important. we'll come back to that clause because it is quite telling. now, trump's white house lawyers denied the pardon according to the times because they were concerned about the precedent. we also know as a public matter he wasn't federally pardoned. did gaetz know when he was under investigation? the times notes only he didn't tell the white house according to their reporting that

we know doj is -- a former ukrainian law maker who i was in touch with over the last 24 hours who told me last summer, the fbi reattached out to him and they spoke about his knowledge of giuliani. he appeared in one american news documentary giuliani. he has detailed firsthand knowledge as to when the former mayor was interacting with ukrainians. >> we should note giuliani's activities here have not been particularly subtle. he's been doing this all out in the public and iran was asking who was paying him? and he definitely didn't we declare as the law requires. as someone who ran, who was a u.s. attorney and ran in the office, from that perspective, and that experience, what do you see when you see this big dramatic move from the southern district? >> well, it's an interesting point in a case when he make the decision to stop being covert and become overt. this case was never really fully covert, of course it was clear there was an investigation going on to some extent. now everything is overt. they are into the phone, and what you can find in a cell phone after a search like this can

it is the second civil rights probe the doj launched in five days. also looking into the minneapolis police department. this is reversal from the trump doj which all but suspended federal oversight of troubled police agencies. >> the investigation will assess whether lmpd engages in a pattern or practice of using unreasonable force. it will determine whether lmpd engages in unconstitutional stops, searches and seizures, as well as whether the department unlawfully executes search warrants on private homes. >> the new probe launching as biden approaches 100 days in office with real momentum for his broader agenda. brand new nbc polling shows him at 53% approval. cbs news putting him at 58%. indeed, as of tonight biden has spent every day since taking office above 50% approval. his predecessor did not crack 50% once. the majority is with biden. it is not a clean partisan divide which may surprise those that depict the country as hopelessly gridlocked. >> ultimately, joe biden has high approval ratings, his economy is working. if it is 80% says we are d

that means data collection for doj. i talked about this a little bit in my testimony. a new mechanism for they will have to report to the counterterrorism section any cases that are dve related. it sets a dve related and centralized mechanism that will help track it going forward. we are taking steps in that direction. rep. cartwright: please pass it up the chain if more resources are needed to get that done. by the way, to both witnesses, you have received requests from members of our subcommittee, mr. klein, mr. garcia for more information. i would consider it the right thing to do on behalf of the entire subcommittee. please cooperate and give them what they need. ms. sanborn, fiscal year 2021 appreciation -- appropriation requires not later than 100 -- 180 days after the enactment of the act on the number of incidents in fiscal years 2016 through 2020 that requires surveillance, investigation and prosecution of white supremacist activity for racially motivated violent extremism associated with white supremacist ideology and available incidents where the fbi deferre

the doj and law enforcement would like to make this restriction is permanent.nd also criminal justice reform but we have a copy of this email that was sent from matthew axelrod, a senior counselor at the deputy attorney general in this email said once there is a cleared administration position, that position is doj's position. the choice here is the optional drug control policy statement or nothing. it looks like the white house is really leaning on the doj and i'm being told that they are being muzzled there. whatever happened to doj independence in this administration? >> we will see. the democrats talked a lot about that in this administration and we will see if it's really there or not in the biden administration. the analogs, the knockoffs should remain at the schedule one level. let's keep they do that. like i said it, everyone in law enforcement supports this and communities around the country know how important this is. >> john: it appears that if the restrictions come off then the overdoses will go through the roof. thanks so much and have a great week

scope and scale of this investigation are really unprecedented not only in fbi history but probably doj. i mean, he may be right. how big, how serious is this investigation and does insurrectionist? so serious the fbi stopped investigating other crimes and not minor crimes. according to "usa today," "investigators who typically work cases involving the trafficking of drugs, childes pornography, and have taken calls into employees turn tipsters. oh. so in order to stop people who might express on acceptable political ideas in washington, d.c., wee are not going after people who sell fentanyl, for example, or child pornography. they will not be punished. so who are these people who are being pursued in lieu of tracking down fentanyl dealers and child pornographers? who is administering the administrations shock and awe. people like anthony griffith from oklahoma. didn't throw fire bombs and police cars, didn't torch andn wendy's. according to kfor tv, griffith walked into the capitol building to open doors telling the agency he did not see any police officers when he went in the building.

. >> doj. >> did you hear trump defend gaetz? >> i heard him. it was silent. >> sounded like you when a check comes. >> what? >> no, no. m matte gaets? my pizza is here? >> i got to go. we'll see you. you can use that, don. >> all right. i love you, don lemon. >> i love you, too, talk to you later. this is "cnn tonight." we have some breaking news. "the new york times" reporting tonight that congressman matt gaetz sought a preemptive pardon for himself and his allies from the trump white house. a spoke man for gaetz has denied that his pardon request was related to the doj investigation of allegations involving sex trafficking and prostitution, including involving a minor. we have a whole lot more to come on this story tonight. so make here you stay tuned. all the details coming in, including new reporting from a reporter who has followed his career over a decade now. i mean, we also have new developments in the trial of the police officer who kneeled op george floyd's neck for an excruciating nine and a half minutes. we can't unsee it. we all s

obviously this is a significant development given what is going on with the doj investigation. crystal clear. these are two separate issues. this is not something that we know the doj is looking into, nor is there any indication that these women whose photographs were shared with other members, that they were minors. that's very important to underscore. >> lauren, thank you very much. let's discuss all of this. andrew mccabe is here. andrew, let's begin with this very separate allegation against congressman gaetz that lauren just reported on. sources telling cnn he showed nude photos, videos of women he said he slept with to some of his fellow lawmakers. what immediate concerns does that raise to you? >> it raises a lot of concerns. it's another bizarre chapter in this bizarre story. it would seem to be a matter for the ethics committee to look into. in terms of the investigation of the congressman's potential involvement in sex trafficking and prostitution, those sorts of things, there's no question that for the investigators this is going to provide a host of new leads. part

there are problems and whether systemically to doj or through other entities? i'm thinking in arizona from back in 2010, but you can imagine other situations like this to, ferguson police department was investigate by the doj. one idea to me is that i can choose not to rely on criminal convictions from the state system as a pipeline. where there is a jurisdiction which is been found to have these kinds of problems. >> i have not thought about it. it seems sweeping. it seems quite sweeping and my visceral reaction to that an immediate one i should say is too sweeping and interestingly, i don't know that the department of justice but it is undertaken the investigation of a police department has found problems and has entered into a consent to agree with the police department whether it has as a matter of course then to determine that for the. of time it investigated and determined that he to peak -- the police apartment was afflicted with fundamental problems that it would look at all of the criminal convictions that were born of the police work of that departmen

that is extremely troubling because when the doj takes steps like this that we know are very likely toase crime, it's going to be the most vulnerable among us that pay the most. >> ben: raffaele, thanks so much for taking the time to join me tonight. >> thanks again for having me. >> ben: coming up, lebron james, enemy of due process. how the nba star is putting a target on the back of a cop in columbus, ohio. senator ted cruz joins me on that point next. ♪ ♪ how great is it that we get to tell everybody how liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? i mean it... uh-oh, sorry... oh... what? i'm an emu! no, buddy! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ why do horses listen to us? they're much bigger than we are. eh, we're smarter though. we put a man on the moon. i don't see any horses on the moon. it would be cool to ride a horse on the moon, though. it's an important time to save. with priceline, you can get up to 60% off amazing hotels. and when you get a big deal... you feel like a big deal. ♪♪ priceline. every trip i