democrat from california member of the judiciary committee. represent korea -- correa thanks for joining us read what you think about this being the first hearing out of the box for the judiciary committee. these are very important issues. the problem was we are here in washington to fix problems and yesterday in a few short hours we talked about porter policy, we try to talk about drug policy, drug overdose policy immigration policy refugee policy issues that we have had to deal with for 60, 70 years and so to do it in one quick shot that got to take the whole year maybe two years to address these issues. >> among those issues when it comes to your own personal take on border policy how would you rate the biden the frustration of that? >> it's not the biden administration. it's a less the administration's. we have invested record numbers of dollars on the border. we have probably one of the most secure borders in the world in terms of technology, in terms of border wall's in terms of border patrol officers. the challenges we have is a country

many of those fall under the purview of the judiciary committee. it appears that these bills were anything but ready to. go republicans unable to pass the bills that were exclusively or partially under this committee's jurisdiction. most relevant today's hearing the border safety act of 2023. this is been described as quote, not christian anti-american and trying to ban illegitimate -- and those are not my words, those are the words of tony gonzales of texas. he is not the only one. according to the washington post are concerned about the scope of this legislation. . let's turn to today's hearing. there is no doubt that the majority of witnesses will use the extreme rhetoric we've come to expect. they'll tell us at the southern border is open. president biden and secretary mayorkas -- mostly those smothering smuggling drugs across the border. none of those things are true. yes, significant numbers of individuals are arriving at the border, and the biden administration actually is 1.1 million people, recently expanded the use of title 42. much to the

record deposition from hunter biden. >> it shows his lawyers are scribbling in panic mode the judiciary committeealking to them and to hunter biden as is the select committee on the weaponization of our intelligence agency because information on hunter bidens laptop is a national security threat. when you're dealing with hunter bidens laptop in chinese by balloons we know we crossed over into a whole another realm. maria: that's right, that's why we've kept the spotlight on the story so much because we recognize number won this is not a hunter biden story this is a joe biden story this is not just about and drugs this is national security. we have the e-mails indicate hunter biden lobbying to get money for chinese officials, ukrainian officials. even alcoa in exchange for him giving them information and now we learn the pentagon has admitted the u.s. military is monitoring the chinese surveillance balloon hovering over montana. the government has detected a high altitude over the continental united states, what is going on? >> divided administration won't shoot it down that's what i don't underst

ron klain having worked the judiciary committee with joe biden when he was chairman and the business of confirming those judges. ron klein told me about is last week of working for the white house that he's their they are way to feeling every vacancy in the federal courts. they might get to a point this year where they are sitting there with no vacancies. >> wow. >> that's just an astonishing accomplishment. >> at a time when it is abundantly clear how very important the judiciary is to to a functioning democracy. so -- on the biden administration. >> we are going to be joined tonight by harvard law professor laurence tribe and andrew weissmann, to consider, among other things, mike

the latest from the border, bill. >> reporter: when the gop let house judiciary committee hold their first border hearing they will do so without any of their democratic colleagues, not a simple goal democrat on this committee showed up for this event today, they are boycotting it and calling it a political stunt, something the republicans reject. look at this video we shot last night as we were with those republicans on a tour of the yuma area from border patrol, chairman jim jordan was there, how markers and matt gaetz with her, andy biggs and a dozen other republicans on this committee, they see part of the border wall that end in the middle of nowhere and the yuma sector saw 310,000 illegal crossings last year, the highest ever reported in this sector and a tripling over 2021 numbers, no democrats on the committee showing up at this hearing so i asked republicans to respond to that. >> no democrats out here on the strip. they say this is a political stunt. what do you say? >> i say it's a mess and if the democrats know how about the policy has been millions of illegal migrants hav

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. >> latest on today's judiciary committee showdown, next. >> kevin mccarthy's extreme 118th congress is fully underway now. we're getting a preview of things to come at the committee meetings. yesterday was the first hearing for the new house oversight committee. marjorie taylor greene is a member, and she used her time to talk about ashli babbitt and the poor jailed insurrectionist. today was the first meeting of the house judiciary committee featuring florida republican and huge patriot matt gaetzs. gates, loving america the way he does, proposed a memory on thursday than every meeting from now on should begin with our members doing the pledge of allegiance. that is when we get our first preview of how democrats can handle republican antics. as congressman david cicilline proposed an amendment to the amendment. >> he made a reference to how important it is for us to display our commitment to the constitution and to defend it aggressively. so i like to offer an amendment to the amendment, adding, in the second paragraph, where the chair may designate an individual to add the followi

i believe it, passed the senate judiciary committee. i'm not sure about that. but again, it wasn't called by senator schumer for a vote on the floor. so think we have a good bipartisan coalition of members who recognize the role of antitrust law. it isn't the only solution, but it is part of the solution for this this problem. and the leadership in the democrat party on both sides refused to call bills that would have been part of that solution. now, see, with a republican controlled house, this congress, whether we are calling up some of those bills to be considered or not, what was your what was the recs or what is the reaction that you get when you speak to conservative and republicans about this issue? you know, at first it is it is a fairly technical issue. we're talking about the sherman act that was passed the 1800s, the clayton act passed in 1913, and of the case law that has been generated since that time interpreting this. and then a new economy, obviously our founders didn't anticipate, nor did the writers of the sherman act and clayton act anticipat

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it is about the border and the judiciary committee on the house side and the chairman of that committee the chairman republican jim jordan. let's listen to him. >> 5 million is the number of illegal aliens just in the time since president biden took office. 1.7 million, the number of illegal migrants that joe biden released into american communities, 2,378,944, the number of illegal migrants encountered by cbp on the southwest border in 2022. the highest number ever recorded in a single year in our nation's history. 251,487 the number of illegal migrants encountered on the southwest border in the month of december of last year. the highest monthly number ever recorded. 8,100, the average number of illegal migrants encountered per day on the southwest border in the month of december 2022. 717,660 the number of illegal migrant encounters on the southwest border in just the first three months of this fiscal year. 1.1 million. the number of known gotaways who have successfully crossed the southwest border since president biden took office. 856, the number of migrants who died attempting to

meanwhile, the judiciary committee, the judiciary committee has no interest in some fundamental questionslike who leaked the draft of the dobbs decision or why isn't the justice department enforcing the law to protect supreme court justices from intimidation at their own homes. or did the justice department really interfere in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. those are important questions. this is a theater of the absurd. it's how the left operates. outrageous and slanderous claims. when they're thoroughly debunk, they just move on to the next target. mister chairman, i am sincerely embarrassed for you. i am sincerely embarrassed for your colleagues. this hearing puts a punctuation mark on the whole sad proceedings of this committee. my problem and asking questions is simple facts are so damning against democrats make any further commentary pointless. so -- the thing speaks for itself. i'll simply ask mr. pull out of her any thoughts that he had in my remaining time. >> mr. mcclintock. thanks for the opportunity. it's a chest, as i said in my opening statements, we're left with r

listen, i serve on the judiciary committee. use nativist language, who use all kinds of language that is incredibly insulting, but i don't want to kick them off of their committees. there is no equivalence between what democrats and republicans did with marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar last session, which was for violent rhetoric, and what congresswoman omar has done or said. by the way, she has apologized for comments when she feels they have been the wrong comments or they've been taken out of context, she has actually taken ownership. so i think it's terrible. i condemn this move by republicans. i believe democrats will be united in saying that this is just a revenge move and a distraction from the real issues that republicans seem to have no ability to actually legislate on that would help the american people. >> and congresswoman, speaking of the judiciary committee, it held a hearing on the humanitarian crisis at the border. what did you take away from that hearing? >> it's the same thing, and you know, jose, i can te

this was used by senator james eastland of mississippi, the chairman up to judiciary committee during the civil rights hero to make sure that only segregationist judges would be appointed in southern state. it's got a bad history. during the recent years when the republicans were in charge of the senate, they got rid of these loop slips for the court of appeals. they said we are going to ignore this tradition. now the democrats in the position with many vacancies happening for the district court across the country have had to decide if they are going to let republicans use this failure to return loose lips as a way to prevent judges from being confirmed over the next two years and we had taken of you that that would be a mistake. this is not require a formal rule change, it's up to the chairman of the committee, and we have urged senator durbin to consider this and i think he is. i think he's trying to give the republicans a chance to not obstruct but we feel that may have to happen. there are other changes we think should occur in order to speed up the appeals process. right now, you

of the judiciary committee. there was an opportunity for democrats to remind many voters and americans that some of the members of the judiciary committee have apologized for or have condoned the events of january 6th, 2021. and, you know, by suggesting that they not be able to recite the pledge because they failed to uphold the constitution during that time period. so, it is going to be this back and forth politically. i think a lot of this comes from a tendency, i think carlos would agree, of republicans to kind of wrap themselves or try to wrap themselves around the flag. in the end, it is more of an embarrassment to them. >> congressman crawley, on the debt ceiling, we heard president biden say he and speaker mccarthy had a good meeting yesterday at the white house. they still don't have a deal. how sustainable is the president's strategy to not negotiate on this issue? >> well, i think the president's willing to negotiate and talk to speaker mccarthy. i think the onus because it is the republicans who i rem

>> he's the witness for tomorrow's hearing before the senate judiciary committee, which is being dubbed as a hearing to conduct oversight over the department of justice. the senate judiciary committee has put out few details about what will actually be seen in this hearing other than the title of it -- oversight and star witness garland. but there are two reasons why this is really significant right now. "a," this is going to be merrick garland's first time testifying before the 118th congress, and of course the senate is still in democrats hands, though he will be facing questions from some republicans because republicans of course sit on the judiciary committee. the other reason why this is really significant is because the doj is currently overseeing a number of investigations into very high profile political figures that are of immense focus to the american public, namely that issue pertaining to the discovery of classified documents at the homes of former president trump, president biden, and former vice president mike pence. special counsels have ben appointed for the trump and th

>> listen, ours doors are open on the house judiciary committee.the committee are ready to work with this white house to secure our border. to say make sure we reform our asylum laws. make sure we restore title 42. remain in mexico becomes a priority and we build a wall and invest in technology and over things that are necessary to secure this border. >> todd: congressman, pretty shameful that not one democrat was there. how can democrats say they are serious about border, securing the border, the border crisis at large when they dismiss republican efforts, their words, as a political stunt? >> it's not a stunt, they talk about education. let's talk about the impact of 300,000 migrants on education down here and education in all of our schools, english as a second language courses, hiring teachers. they talk about healthcare. let's talk about the impact of 300,000 migrants here on the healthcare system. hospitals at risk. all of our hospitals have beds that could be going to a community members being taken up by illegal immigrants and costing our h

the committee votes filed a series of important hearings in the senate judiciary and congress committee as well as the house that established it your record of harm and the need for new on line protections for young people. we have named the problem and the data solution now it's time to build on last years momentum andd disrupt the cycle of harm y adding safety by design legislation. thank you so much for having me here today and i look forward to your questions. >> i want to thank all the witnesses and some of the members are going to vote and will return. at the bottom of this discussion from a legal point of view is in section 230 of the communications act which i'm sure you're awaree of is the liability of these companies for speech that is broadcast or exercised over social media. it provides that companies will not be treated as a publisher or speaker of any information provided bypr another person. they earn an act would change that. and unless there's a provable effort by these companies p to police their own product they would be exposed to liability. i will tell you as a form

when the gop-led house judiciary committee holds their first hearing later today as you guys mentioned they'll do so without any of their democratic colleagues. not a single democrat on the committee is showing up for this event today. they are boycotting it and calling what's happening a political stunt. something the republicans say is utterly ridiculous. in the meantime take a look at the video. we were with the republicans last night as they toured of border patrol yuma sector from the border patrol union. jim jordan and matt gaetz and andy bigs and a dozen others got to see the border wall that end in the middle of nowhere. the yuma sector had more than 310,000 illegal crossings. the highest number ever recorded for the sector and a tripling of the numbers from 2021. again, no democrat showing up for this field hearing today. i asked some of the republicans to respond to that. take a listen. >> congressman, no democrats on the strip. they say it is a political stunt. >> i say it's a mess and frankly if the democrats knew how bad the policy has been, millions of people, illegal mig

introduce mm andha the house judiciary committee to recite the pledge of allegiance before everdgy meetingant to you up. [laughter] shout out to color me bad, rolla it n. o >> our pledge of allegiance is a national symbol of pride and unity. my amendments gives the committee the opportunity to begin each of its meetings with the pledge of allegiance. it gives our members the ability to invite inspirational constituents to be able to shar in late in the pledge of allegiance but. >> seems a pretty simple ask, right? not so fast person out thererett pretending to talk too. and then devolved into 40 minute fight over the pledge itself between republicans an thed democrats. here's the gop. >> a bit of absurdity to thinkso we couldn't take 30 seconds ofil beginning of the portable pickle express to sit here together and offer little homage to those that want to do that it's not nothing we shouldn't be doingfrm it's actually necessary for. >> a gentle lady from north carolina io s suggesting to the people of this great country that we should not be standingal in pledge of allegiance tole the flag

caller: in response to the judiciary committee hearing that was held yesterday, the first judiciary committee hearing in the 118th congress was profound. host: we had a representative at the top of the program talk about it. caller: i saw that. a democrat who talked about him wishing there was less rhetoric and more facts. his party -- i watch the whole thing and his party was all about rhetoric and not very much fact-based rhetoric. you might be thinking that this guy who is calling is a republican and he is biased but watch it for yourself. one thing that c-span omitted was a 20 minute debate at the beginning of the hearing on whether or not to have a national anthem -- sorry, the pledge of allegiance. to say the pledge of allegiance before each meeting. the two parties debated that for 20 or 30 minutes. host: they went for about an hour according to the story i read earlier but go ahead. caller: that specific debate was about 30 minutes but the democrats opposed, several of them, opposed saying the pledge of allegiance at the beginning of each day. i was shocked. i did not think they would

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house judiciary committee went to one of the hardest-hit areas of president biden's border crisis. not a single democrat on that panel showed up. members calling it a political stunt on behalf of republicans. bill melugin was there live yesterday. back with us today in yuma for more on what happened. hello. >> bill, good morning to you. republicans say if democrats had shown up yesterday they would have had a chance to hear testimony from the ceo of uma's largest hospital who said they're on the brink of financial collapse after having to spend so much money treating illegal immigrants and not being paid for it. the hospital told them they're $26 million in the hole. much are pregnant migrant women's. some migrants who need months of care on dialysis with damaged kidneys from being in the desert. as a result of all this some of their local patients, local residents, u.s. citizens have had to delay their care. listen. >> we've had that experience with patients who have had to delay elective surgery because other urgent migrant patients have come in who needed emergency surgery. we'v

complete coverage now house judiciary committee member darryl issa moments away. first to aishah hasnie live on capitol hill. republicans are making the border number one today. >> good afternoon to you. that's right. this is the first of two separate hearings on the border within just a one-week span that we are expecting to happen here so if that tells you how much of a priority this is for house republicans, and democrats not very happy with this particular hearing, first and foremost because of how it's titled. it's called biden's border crisis. they do not like that. today's witnesses primarily focused on the fentanyl crisis, including the father of a teenage boy who died of a fentanyl overdose. but in between the very emotional testimony, john, we have been watching plenty of shots being taken between republicans and democrats. >> this is the nightmare that the democrats have unleashed upon the country and the laws we write in the house i'm afraid are not going to survive the democratic senate or get joe biden's signature, it's going to worsen. >> many repub

the committee votes followed a series of important hearings in the senate judiciary and commerce committeesas well as in the house that established a clear record of harm and the need for new online protection for young people. we have named the problem and debated the solution. now was a time to build on last years momentum and disrupt the cycleon of harm by passing privy and safety by design legislation. let's make 2023 figure that congress finally takes a huge step towards creating the internet children and families deserve. thank you so much for having here today, and i look forward to your question. all thet to thank witnesses it and as you noted some of the nerves are going to vote and will return. at the bottom of this discussion from the legal point of view is section 230 of the communications decency act which i'm sure you're all aware of, as to the liability of these companies for the speech that is broadcast or is exercised over their social media. it provides companies will not be treated as publishers or speaker of any information divided by another person, gets them off the ho

chairman of the judiciary committee in charge of that first hearing on the border yesterday. welcome, welcome. first of all, the back and forth among democrats themselves going back and forth about just how bad the g.o.p. is. one upping each other. >> web what they said for two years. they said the border is secure. they said there was forproblem. now they are oaf saying it is your fault. you need to work with us to fix the problem. if there was no problem why work with you to fix the problem? or if you were lying to us when you said the border was secure and there really was a problem? why didn't you fix it. you have been in control of every aspect of federal government for two years? the inconsistency is striking. what we tried to show yesterday is why this matters. the impact this has on families, on communities, we had a dad who had lost his 15-year-old son because of fentanyl. we had a sheriff who has been in law enforcement for 38 years who said that two years ago the border was as secure as he has ever seen it in his 31 years and today it's the worst he has ever seen.

griff: you went from yuma, arizona where you were this week at the judiciary committee field hearingo here. what can you report to us? >> i can report there's a very serious crisis on the border and the current administration is, i wouldn't say ignoring it. i think it's intentional. going down there and meeting with people in the hospital at the food bank, the farmers and growers, producing our food down there. we're hearing live stories of the impact that this failed policy is having on real live people. it's a tragedy, a tragedy from the standpoint of the drug smuggling. it's a tragedy in terms of the human trafficking and we're dealing with a crisis down there and the-wide administration is only exacerbating it and making it worse every single day. griff: we should point out, none of your democrat colleagues chose to join you there. i believe we have a little bit of sound from that hearing from one of your republican colleagues. here is a little bit of what congressman jordan had to say. take a listen. >> the cvp has essentially become a concierge service for illegal immigrants. y

chance ending crisis and actually securing our southern border. >> republicans on the house judiciary committeeoff in yuma, arizona this afternoon as the committee holds first field hearing on the border crisis. >> while the border patrol has been overwhelmed, changing diapers and taking names, another 1.2 million known got-aways have entered our country as well. >> notably absent were all democrats on the committee who say they weren't consulted, called the event a political stunt, and boycott it. with ranking member jerry nadler writing in parted, quote: judiciary republicans will once again not hear from any federal government witnesses at their hearing. further cementing this hearing as a brazen act of political grandstanding. >> they owe it to you to be here today. >> this morning, the republicans met with leadership at yuma regional medical center, yuma's only hospital. the ceo there says they are on the verge of financial collapse after the hospital spent more than $20 million in six months providing care for illegal immigrants with no reimbursement and nobody to foot the bill. >> it is

one of his champions was senator joe biden on the judiciary committee.ship, where did he set up his base of operations? wilmington, delaware. his kids went to joe biden's alma mater when joe biden was the head of the fund raising committee here. one of his first clients was the delaware bank close to joe biden, hunter biden was working there at the time. and we know based on the laptop that louie freeh gave $100,000 for joe biden's grandchildren's college fund and that hunter was seeking to do business with louie freeh and refer business to louie freeh. so with all these questions about the integrity the of the fbi and law enforcement, very simple question, i mean, has louie freeh been going to the wilmington fbi office which would be part of this grand jury investigation, part of the inch dependent counsel investigation -- independent counsel. is he talking to anybody at the j. edgar hoover building? these are very serious concerns and one of the reasons i've said from the beginning going back to 018 you have to have -- the 2018, you have to have an ind

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we're going to start the senate judiciary committee with the hearing said the people of america knowat stake and what we are fighting for, then we will bring it to the floor and vote and get it on record as it should be. it is time for us to vote for equality. amy: that is senator did durbin. then they will take it to the floor and then there is the house. >> we also have the identical legislation being put forward in the house as well. ayanna pressley is leading the effort as the main sponsor of the resolution in the house. once we get through the fight in the senate to make sure we have the support -- which we think we do -- to get the e.r.a. affirmed , then we take the battle to the house and we will do the same there. we do have bipartisan support for both bills, which is a wonderful occurrence for all of us to have. it shows there is extreme -- there's a large amount of support for the equal rights amendment in both parties and both houses. amy: i want to go to a quote of professor catherine frankie who wrote -- linda coberly, if you can continue from there and your response to

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. >> a new member of the judiciary committee was there today. thanks for coming on, congressman. i know you're a former judge. you likely heard this from the cochise county sheriff in arizona, saying this and we'll then get your response. >> we had cartel members claim fear that were allowed in our country. that just executed somebody and then come in and claim credible fear because the other side was claiming to kill them. we have a problem. >> it's almost as if we're letting the migrants -- talk about what is happening in new york. they won't leave the hotels. we're letting them control their own destiny. the laws are on the back burner. >> trace, you're exactly right. a great clip to play. effectively what is happening on the border, people are claiming asylum and that definition is so expansive under the biden administration and their inability to secure our borders that anybody can come in this country now claim ago soil lump. we've seen so many that are on terrorist watch lists that have got in, some that got away. where are those folks at? we need to secure our border. >>

attorney general merrick garland testifies before the senate judiciary committee on oversight of the justice department. watch this week live on the c-span networks or on c-span now, our fremobile video app. also, go to c-span.org for scheduling information or to stream video live or on-demand any time. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. : we welcome farnousi to the washington journal. she is a journalist with the -- reporter with the associated press here to talk about a short week for the house and senate. what are the highlights, the things you are looking at going into the week? guest: it is a shorter week because of the retreats for houston -- house dems. how santa senate are catching up -- house and senate are catching up on the news of the week, the ohio trained a rail meant. both parties have -- train derailment. both parties have promised to look into it. host: one of your pieces last week, the headline of that piece said " biden casts a wide net in probes as far as oversight." what will we see this week in terms of oversight? guest: the main offering for house repu

they vote in relevant committee that say judiciary committee, comes to the floor for a vote, and then house has to vote it up or down, you would hope that republicans would vote it up, up. we do have a few stragglers out there. they seem to put that ahead of country. that is not acceptable in a case like this. we're talking about separation of power as a real battle, i can assure you if shoe were on the other foot, democrats would be quick to pull the trigger, then lay say house of representatives votes to hold that person in contempt, and referred to u.s. attorney's office, and they blow it off, do you remember when that happened before? it happened with eric holder when he was attorney general of united states on "fast and furious," remember? he authorized gun dealers to sell weapons to drug cartels for some strange reason they wanted to track the gun, one killed one of your border agents, remember that? and the house wanted to see some of the underlying mem randa and information he relied on. holder, and day which refused they hold him in contempt. nothing happened. the january 6 c

it means we will come together as a judiciary committee and put on the table the major uses of legislation and try to decide as a committee if we can agree on common goals and comment efforts to reach those goals. i think we can do this. just sensing what i heard today. i think it -- i think as a father and grandfather that me wes do it. -- we must do it. ms. bride and others have come here because of the passion for the children they have lost, it makes a difference. as painful as it is. ms. lemke, good luck at the hilltop with washington you. you have done great service to our country by coming here today. and to the others, thank you for sharing this information. now it is our turn we need to roll up our sleeves and get down to work. it won't be the bill that we want to write, but if it is a step forward, do it. we have to. the hearing record will remain open for a week for statements to be submitted, and you may receive some questions to ask you to respond to amply. thank you all for coming today and your patience. i think the witnesses, and the hearing stands adjourned. >> up live on