department of justice and fbi, which is a piece of the department of justice. anting to make a recommendation to you, each and every morn. that each of you file a freedom of information act request with the department of justice and fbi for any information that government might be keeping on you. with all of these stories of big tech and fbi. working together. and the massive databases now, and monitoring that is taking place. you may not believe it, because many of you most of you are patriots. but you may have a file. ask for it. they will try to do is change you a fortune. i'm asking republicans in house at least to start process of exempting any fees and costs whatsoever of any citizen who seeks through the freedom of information act and information they the federal government might be keeping on them. that will keep them busy a while, it will teach them a lesson. don't just gather information of law abiding citizens, you should find out what they have on you. what else should republican in congress do? whether in minority or majority. i am serious about thi

attention of key committees that had jurisdiction over the homeland security, the department of homeland and the justice department. that story really, you know, took was a, you know, a mississippi event and turned it into a national question of how was the the guest worker program being used. and it gave kind of it gave you know, it was reporting, but it gave a kind of legitimacy to, the men's allegations. so to from the backwaters of mississippi to the front page of the new yorker. exactly that changed their profile. yeah, but talk about the department of justice which was of the center of this investigation and campaign and you mentioned it went sort of radio silent for a little while and suddenly what they was obviously not everything about the book but there was a smoking gun event in that investigation that the face just tell us as much as you can. yes. well, you know, the the expectation we had that the department of justice would investigate the men would investigate the men's claims that they were trafficking victims, that, you know, there's legislation called the trafficking protection act tha

some of today's witnesses would have us believe that the department of justice and the federal bureau of investigation are part of a deep state cabal. warren even wrote a book describing the fbi itself as a threat to democracy. the department of justice and the fbi do not always get a right. history is full of examples of these agencies getting it very, very wrong. we have colleagues in this congress who have been subject to politically motivated hateful, racist investigations by our government. that does not logically follow that every investigation or a criminal inquiry by the department of justice is political or ideologically based. in our current climate, with domestic terrorism on the rise and hate speech normalized by national politicians, the department of justice and the fbi are doing their best to protect us from sliding into chaos. this past monday, the fbi captured two individuals, won a neo-nazi leader and founder of a group who were applauding a racially motivated attack on baltimore's power grid. they said their goal was to, quote, completely destroy this whole city, an

attention of key committees that had jurisdiction over the homeland security, the department of homeland security and the justice department. that story really took what was a mississippi event and turned it into a national question of how it was at the guest worker program being used? and it gave us a kind of -- it was reporting, and it gave a kind of legitimacy to the menopause of his allegations. mr. chishti: from the backwaters of mississippi to the front page of the new york times and that changes the profile. talk about the department of justice, which is at the center of this campaign. you mentioned it went radio silent for a while, and suddenly -- not revealing everything about the book, but there was a smoking gun event in the investigation. tell us is much as you can. mr. soni: yes, you know, the expectation we had was that the department of justice would investigate the men, it would investigate the men's claims that they were trafficking victims. that, you know, there is legislation called the trafficking victims protection act gives the department jurisdiction to respond to complaints into allegatio

americans have concerns about the double standard at the department of justice. americans have concerns about the disinformation, it's more to the department of homeland security form. americans have concerns about the atf andnd what they're doing to the second amendment and, of course, they have concerns about the irs and the thousands of new agents who are coming to that organization. finally there are concerns about what we've learned in the twitter files where big government and big tech colluded to shape and mold the narrative and to suppress information and sensorfi americans. over the course of her work in this committee we expect to hear from government officials and experts like we have here today. we expect to hear from americans who have been targeted by their government. we expect are in the media and we expect to hear from the fbi agents who have come forward as whistleblowers. we think many ofmm them both sit for transcript interviews as when did on tuesday and we put several of them will come and testify in open hearings. and finally we expect to br

were implemented in the kharkiv city hall during serhiy mokhochuk's time as head of the main department of justicer, from accusations against him regarding possible participation in such schemes , mokhanchuk was the head of the main department of justice in the kharkiv region from 2010 to 2016, precisely at the time when gennady kernes was the acting mayor of kharkiv, then the imam of kharkiv, and the publication states that in during the time of the head of the department of justice, serhiy mykhalchuk was one of the organizers of the enrichment scheme thanks to the registration service, we organize frauds in public procurement and received kickbacks from them . and what did he improve ? i knew him, if you ask me, did i communicate with him? yes, i did not communicate with him in the way that the media does not report , but we were acquainted. if you ask me, did he influence you? i will say that it did not influence me in making any decisions. it is interesting that it was during this period in 2014 that the 20-year-old son of a candidate for the higher qualifications commission, bohdan mohonchuk,

in the kharkiv city hall during serhiy's time working there mohanchuk as head of the main department of justice, in particular, due to accusations against him regarding his possible participation in such schemes, mohanchuk was the head of the main department of justice in the kharkiv region from 2010 to 2016, just at the time when the general trustee in our country was the acting mayor kharkov later became the imam of kharkov, and the publication says that during the time of the head of the department of justice serhiy mkhanchuk was one of the organizers of the enrichment scheme thanks to the registration service, we organize frauds in public procurements and received kickbacks from them and how did i actually improve my financial condition at the interview mokhonchuk commented on this information like this if you ask me if i knew gennady kernes yes i knew him if you ask me if i communicated with him yes i communicated with him not like that as the mass media do not provide, but we were acquainted, if you ask me whether he influenced me in making any decisions, i will say that no, he did not in

who knows what the department of justice would do? look at it from the lens of a prosecutor, the legal standard and at do prosecutors working with them. it will be interesting to see ultimately what the department does with the information. >> do you think it is the right thing to do? >> yes. i would expect that there would be evidence. you are a public entity, a potential violation of crime, i think you have a duty almost to turn that over to authorities to evaluate as further and make the right decision. -- it further and make the right decision. >> i do not have that perspective on it. i expected it but i also thought at the end of the day it was probably counterproductive for them to do it in the sense that they developed a large body of evidence. fully appropriate, that was their mission. they turned it over to the justice department although they took their time without doing that. as i understand it from the reporting the justice department was asking for things and there were refusing to give it to them for a long period of tim

of a former f.b.i. official, as well as several other ongoing justice department investigations. watch live coverage of the senate judiciary committee hearing on c-span3 and watch

washington today where right now a house committee is tackling alleged political bias within our department of justice. judiciary chair jim jordan checking off a list of examples that he calls the political nature of the justice department. listen to this. >> the fbi whistle-blower discloses to republicans on the house judiciary that the fib created a threat tag for parents

to do nothing, glenn, i mean, we covered and we were all so offended by bill barr's rule of the justice department quit cases that people like mike flynn pleaded guilty to. he pleaded not guilty multiple times in court. bill barr stuck his big thumb on the scales of justice and people quit. bill barr called prosecutors, he likened them to preschoolers, and that was politicization in our face. and so, we could reject it, we could study it, but i wonder if this paralysis, which is what it looks like from the outside, i mean, you mentioned donald trump, the people in suits include mark meadows. cassidy hutchinson offered pages of evidence of his role in this. rudy giuliani, the pillow guy, the overstock guy, scott perry. i mean, none of the suits, as far as we know, are targets of a criminal investigation into a deadly insurrection at the united states capitol more than two years ago. >> i think you can say that this feels like a political act, because we are forever hearing from attorney general garland and deputy attorney general monaco, that we will follow the facts and follow the law wherever the

and so they used the fbi, department of justice u.s. rney office and all of the rest to go after republicans. whether their state legislators or legislatures, that are republican, or pro lifers, whether they are people who were merely parading and quote, unquote trespassing on capitol grounds they went after them too, and going after former president trump, can you name any democrats they targeted? are they angels? no. we have a house that wants to do an investigation consider the biden family that is special counsel should be doing but the attorney general refuses to appoint in case of their finances and foreign dealings. i have looked into this carefully, the house of representatives republicans, need to preserve their authority under th constitution, it is called self preservation. the republican house has to preserve separation of powers and preserve our governmental system. there is supposed to be a balance of negotiation, you work things out one branch with the other, but if one branch is swrupt corrupt, you have to actor the house

so, it is nothing the national archives, it is the department of justice. is merrick garland's department of justice. remembering shawn, we would not know about the fact that joe biden had classified documents in his possession were it not for a leak to cbs news. so, someone leaked this out. we would never have heard it from this white house. they would have covered it up forever like all the other cover-ups they are doing with other major investigations into the biden's family. >> here is the interesting thing. they knew on november 2nd that joe biden had top secret classified documents, they didn't tell us before the midterms. in the interim they appointed a special counsel to donald trump. they gave joe biden the courtesy allowing the fbi to come in but they don't tell us any of that. we don't find out about that until 68 days. how should the american people interpret a treatment of a former president verses a president in light of the fact that the fbi had access to mar-a-lago. they were in the room where the documents at mar-a-lago were found. they jus

kharkiv city hall during the time when serhiy mohochuk worked there as the head of the main the department of justice, in particular, from accusations against him regarding possible participation in such schemes, mokhanchuk was the head of the main department of justice in the kharkiv region from 2010 to 2016, precisely at the time when gennady kernes was the acting mayor of kharkiv, then and and the mayor of kharkiv, and the publication says that during the time of the head of the department of justice, serhiy mikhalchuk was one of the organizers of the enrichment scheme thanks to the registration service, we organize frauds in public procurement and received kickbacks from them. actually improved his material condition at the interview mokhonchuk commented on this information yes if you ask me did i know gennady kernes yes i knew him if you ask me did i communicate with him yes i communicated with him not as presented by the mass media but we were acquaintances if you ask me whether he influenced me in making any decisions, i will say no, he did not. it is interesting that it was during this period

republicans are expected to use the subcommittee to investigate the fbi and the department of justicetelligence community. just last week the 12 republicans led by chairman jim jordan met to discuss the possibility of unilaterally issuing subpoenas to witnesses. and they held that meeting without their democratic colleagues, which is -- now that democrats are actually in the room what are they hoping to do? what can they actually do? joining us now is new york congressman dan goldman. may i say in advance good luck on this committee and what is the play book for democrats? we already have indications republicans are going to use this committee to launch all manner of questionable inquiries. what's the play book that you can use to effectively stop the worst -- the most adverse effects and narratives? >> well, you're right, alex, the breadth of the jurisdiction of this subcommittee is really stunning including having the authority to investigate ongoing criminal investigations, which is a very scary thought because of course the department of justice must keep confidential their ongoin

and in the department of justice began the standard kind of process for making sure they secured such up, let them know all the places where records could have been sent, and to stop reviewing and searching for any classified records. the result has been politically painful for president biden, because it's been a drip, drip, drip of discoveries. but behind the scenes, i am told that this is all about cooperating with the department of justice and trying to defer to them in their searches. >> we think today was the first day of work for the special counsel, robert hur. do you think there is any coincidence in the timing of this search of the beach house and his first state? what is your expectation as far as what he might be doing in this first week or weeks on the job? >> so, i don't think that there is a dramatic connection here. this is based on the fact that sources have told us the special counsel has been briefed for weeks while he has not started in the actual location of his workplace until today. that he's been briefed on what's going on, and staying abreast of developments.

biden department of justice, most political department of justice we have ever seen. when it comes to donald trump it is political. they want to take him down. when it comes to joe biden they are protecting him. we know he was raided in november. yet the fbi kept it a secret. leak like a sieve when it concerns donald trump. when it concerns joe biden, they keep it a secret. at this point, is there a place he doesn't leave documents? he leaves a cash of classified documents. this is something i discussed in depth on my podcast "verdict" " there is a special prosecutor appointed by the attorney general. there is a way to know whether that special prosecutor is trying to follow the law. in poker, you have a signal that shows what you are doing. if the special prosecutor following the law, they will be looking at the connections between joe biden and hunter biden. hunter biden made a career out of selling access to his father, making millions of dollars from communist china, barisma in ukraine. if they are trying to protect biden white house they will be trying to separat

will continue. >> it's a good question working directly with the justice department from the very beginning as soon as the initial set of materials was discovered and reported to the archives and notified the justice department above the finding working with the president's personal attorney and the white house counsel's l'office as well. we have been following the justice department's lead to coordinate the searches with them. so to have granular questions about the decision-making i refer you tot the justice department. >> has the fbi conducted any search at any other location that you are the white house quick. >> we are providing information as this goes on and the activities that have been happening want to speak to the doj practices with the ongoing investigation we have cooperated fully that the president's personal attorneys have provided information to the doj end those that the wilmington residents and today we saw in a statement released by the personal attorney no classified documents were found today we will provideot information with this investigation as it goes on any of the ability to share the american

and when the vice president's lawyer was on the phone with the department of justice to talk about a mera crews at the vice president's house and office because the department of justice was leaking that information at the very moment. it's not the way they treat the situation with joe biden. so yeah, i think that republicans have created a committee to say we are concerned about the politization of the department of justice and it continues to this day. >> gillian: quick last question for you. looking forward from this mess, i think the priority for most americans is this gets sorted out and also this, you know, the nation's secrets are protected by the president and the vice president in the future, what's your top recommendation for that process? it's being reviewed now, what would you like to see happen? >> i think our internal office did an exhaustive search, that as many records as possible are turned over to the archives. i suspect if there is more discovery you will find other previous administration's also had documents that ended up getting away. >> john: mark, great to see

some of today's witnesses would have us believe that the department of justice and the federal bureau of investigation are part of a deep state cabal. warren even wrote a book describing the fbi itself as a threat to democracy. the department of justice and the fbi do not always get a right. history is full of examples of these agencies getting it very, very wrong. we have colleagues in this congress who have been subject to politically motivated hateful, racist investigations by our government. that does not logically follow that every investigation or a criminal inquiry by the department of justice is political or ideologically based. in our current climate, with domestic terrorism on the rise and hate speech normalized by national politicians, the department of justice and the fbi are doing their best to protect us from sliding into chaos. this past monday, the fbi captured two individuals, won a neo-nazi leader and founder of a group who were applauding a racially motivated attack on baltimore's power grid. they said their goal was to, quote, completely destroy this whole city, an

president is, again, puts us in a very uncharted waters in terms of the justice department. which is why we saw the department of justice appoint a special counsel. because of the delicate nature of this investigation, because of the political implications. so we know that merrick garland has been incredibly thoughtful and careful in trying to balance what this means. not just legally but politically for our country. >> plenty of twists and turns to come. i am sure we really appreciate your analysis, areva martin, thank you so much. >> thanks kim. >> and, in the coming hours, the president of brazil will join president biden for talks amid a jump-start relation between the two countries. lula da silva arrived in washington, thursday, and you can see his motor -- performing with president biden at the white house, lula will meet with a number of democratic lawmakers. this is a lula's first official visit to the u.s., after defeating jair bolsonaro in october runoff election. ukraine takes more russian artillery fire, just as president zelenskyy makes a case for more weapons to

song it's not the national archives, it's the department of justice. it's garland's department of justice. and remember, sean, we wouldn't even know about the that had the fact that joe biden had classified documents in his possession, were it not fo ar a leak to cbs news. so someone leaked this out. head we would never have heard it i from this white house. they would have covered it up forever. like all the other cover ups are they're doing with every major part of our investigation intoere ie the biden family influence peddling. now, here's the interestintingg thing. so they knew on november 2ndnovn that joe biden had top secret h classified documents. e th they didn't tell us before the midterm. then in the interim, t they appoint a special counsel to donald trumappointep, but yet they give joe biden the courtesy of allowinge jo the fbi to voluntarily come in.o bun't they don't tell us aboutsn any of that.of they find the documents on november 2nd. we don't fin td out about that.8 sixty eight days. a how should the american peoplemt presshould the a

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of any priest moving quickly to get them information that they need. i'm going to be careful not to characterize what the justice department is doing in their investigation or at its more appropriate for a question like that to be asked of the justice department so i would point you to them. [inaudible] we received a few letters from the house oversight committee in recent weeks. we actually gave them letters early in the week or excuse me last week, white house house counsel. there are engage in good faith with them and reached out to the committee staff to ensure we are being responsive to these requests. obviously when you're in an ongoing investigation like this with this justice department that you are fully cooperate with you want to protect the integrity of that investigation and safeguard information from the investigation to protect the law enforcement decision-making and things like that. we are operating in good faith with the oversight requests. [inaudible] >> the president's personal lawyers have addressed the process of identifying locations where materials from their could then start in a been working an open consultation with the departme

this biden department of justic presidencn e is the most political department of justice we've ever seen. juave everwhen it comes to donao they come after him. their objective is political. they want to take him down. isen it comes to joe biden, their objectiv pe is to protect him. we now knom w joe biden's homes and offices have been raided by the fbi not once, not twice, but three times.. we know he was raide we know that that he was raided in november. no and yevembert the fbi kept it a secret. the doj kept it a secret. they look like a sieve when it concerns donald trump, but when it concerns joe biden,when i they keep it utterly secret. and the pattern at this point, sean, is there a place at thi joe biden doesn't leave classified documents? he it's just becoming weird. it's like wherever he goes, he just leaves a cache ofa classified documents.ca and i got to say, thissomethin is something i discussed in depth on my podcast verdict, as where i went into the details of this scandal. "verdict and in particular, there's a special prosecutor that's been appointed special by the ay atto

department of justice and oversees multiple departments within d.o.j. vil rights division, office of justice programs, office of violence against women and the office of community oriented policy services. please join me in welcoming associate attorney general. but back. >> thank you again for joining us today. this is so exciting for all of us. as i mentioned in the introduction you oversee a lot of divisions within the department of justice. to play a role in supporting justice involved individuals with mental health conditions. what do you see us on the challenges and opportunities and working across these different apartments toof assist that population of our residents? >> first, just let me say thank you. thanks to all of you. don't think any of us can take fort granted how it recently in the past were unable to come together to talk about the issues that we care about. we do not take it for granted it is really wonderful to see this room so full. and i appreciate at the intersection of these issues around people with mental illness. people who hav

these letters call on the department of justice, which joe biden controls and delaware attorney general cathy jennings from gio biden's state to file criminal charges against republican who is dared to possess and share the contents of his son's now famous laptops. that would include the owner of the repair shop where hunter biden abandoned said laptop. john paul john paul mcisaac didn't want joe bide ton become president and apparently that's not federal crime. wait a second, back up a sec. can we now say with certainty the laptop is real? if we can say that, that means adam schiff is running for senate in california had better issue a statement pronto correcting his previous categorical claims about the laptop. here was adam schiff in october of 2020 when he chaired the house intelligence committee. >> does it surprise you at all that this information rudy giuliani is pedaling very well could be connecting to some sort of russian government disinformation campaign? >> well, we know that this whole smear on joe biden comes from the kremlin. that's been clear for well over a year now th

government, the vice president, his number two, would likely have a lot of information the department of justice would like to get at that only he could provide. >> do we know if this is something he just doesn't want to do or is this just too much of a political hot potato for him because he might be running for president? he's heading to iowa after all. >> right, and i can't tell you, how many conversations i have had over the last two years, 762 days since pence left washington, d.c. with republican voters who, you know, outside of the four years that he served in that white house have a hard time seeing past the actions that he took on january 6th when he certified that donald trump lost. and a reality for mike pence who is here in iowa today actually trying to focus on gender affirming care in schools in the right wing culture war against transgender minors, this is topic that he would much rather not discuss. and if he is able to at least make the case to republican voters as he mounts a potential presidential run himself that he did not comply with what he says is the politicized biden de

by the department of justice, by the fbi, by the department of homeland security. that is the premise on which this committee was based. i just recall what the impact this is going to have on people who might otherwise consider serving in these agencies. i just wonder if you have a perspective on that as well? >> is us a briefly before in my experience the vast majority of people i work with if not all of them came to serve came to treat the rule of law as their guide and serve the american people. the fear of threats will chill people's ability never went to do their jobs. and also in terms of recruiting people will not want to sign on for a job that will come necessarily with being threatened on the absolutely grew that statement. >> took the gentleman from louisiana mr. johnson is recognized for. >> and gives her term allotment said about the fear of threats but we are concerned about the throughput of the threesome he is aen weaponization is becauset is appropriate. some examples of that across the many federal agencies that were designed to serve and protect t

anyone behind bars who dares to criticize his son in this way. these letters call for the department of justice, which is controlled by joe biden, as well as the attorney general of his home state dellada cathy jennings, to open criminal cases against any republican. who will take over and publish materials from the famous laptop. hunter biden on this list, among others, was john paul mckizek, the owner of the repair shop where biden jr. left the same laptop, according to hunter's lawyer john paul. mac isaac should be in jail because i quote mr macisaac knowingly collaborated with president donald trump's personal lawyer to fill hunter biden's computer with information defaming his father robin is biden in other words. john did not want joe biden to become president. and now it's considered a federal crime. we know what all this is. iodine from the kremlin - said, then adam shif and of course. he knew what he was talking about because he, unlike you, has access to top-secret information. you can’t see this, but he can, and on the basis of this information, the chief declared that he was to blam

>> they were way ahead of the department of justice, nicolle, as you know. but raskin is absolutely right that the department of justice has entirely bigger guns so to speak when it comes to getting specific information that somebody may say claim privilege. you know, pat cipollone, former white house counsel, had a lot of front row seat time with donald trump as he planned and plotted how he would block the peaceful transfer of power, how he would hold on despite the will of the voters that he'd be ejected from the presidency. now the department of justice has this route to getting a fuller account from pat cipollone than the committee did, and that's true for many other witness. i think it's possible for them to learn quite a bit more, however i'll just put a cautionary piece of tape around this conversation and say we don't know what they've obtained. they were far enough behind that we don't know how far they've gotten in terms of exceeding the information that the committee laid out to the public. those referrals for tv time were quite a while ago, but i

strengthened accountability measures which we think is important for federal it would give the department of justice expanded powers to go after departments that have patterns or practices of excessive force by its policing and other unconstitutional practices. it would require the department of justice to establish accreditation standards for law enforcement agencies. it would require officers to complete training on racial profiling and implicit bias and the duty to intervene when an officer uses excessive force. the president has asked to pass the george floyd act and organizations supported the reforms as well. and when they would not act, the president put forth an executive action and it was supported by families who have been affected and lost loved wops to police brutality and it was supported by law enforcement. it was from civil rights organizations as well. this is the first step. i was explaining that to peter, george floyd policing and justice act, it will start the process and deal with a systemic issue and problem, it is one of the ways we can start dealing with that. reporter: the is

okay, if that's the rules of engagement, the department of justice has implemented in the past year, nsistent now when we someone in contempt of congress because they ignore our subpoena. maria: it's quite extraordinary what's taken place here. there's been an investigation of hunter biden apparently for five plus years. so what's going on with that investigation? why are they slow walking the investigation? >> well, the answer to they that is very clear and that is what we've seen again and again and again and that is there's a double standard. there is a rule of law for someone like you and i and then a rule of law for these people. maria: wow. >> it's evident in the mar-a-lago raid. we made the case very apparent. they show up with, what, 30 plus agents and two dozen suvs with lights flashing and go through everything and stage a photograph where they throws classified documents on the floor and act like that's how they found them versus as we now know the biden center where they told no one and showed up you with one or two agents and kept it secret. the hypocrisy is impossible to

by department of justice, by the fbi, why the department of homeland security. that's the premise on which this committee was based. and i just, i just regret the impact that that's going to have on people who might otherwise consider serving in those agencies, and i just wonder if you have a perspective on that is a? >> as i said briefly before, people come come in my experience the best when judah people i worked with and, frankly, if not all of them came to serve, , came to treat the re of law as their guide and serve the american people. the fear of threats will chill people's ability, number one come to do their jobs but also in terms of recruiting. people will not want to sign on for a job that will come necessarily with being threatened or doxxedd online. i absolutely agree with that statement. >> my time t has expired. i don't expect the gentleman from louisiana mr. johnson is recognize. >> thank you, mr. chairman. a lot is been said about ther. fear of threats of what we are concerned about and the scope of this me is if you're a threats to the american