we didn't have that when we talked to ag garland. at is what we said today to chairman nadler, we need the ag back before us. i agree it ought to be the fbi director as well. elizabeth: officials. who knows if they're wiretapping parents. it is not a stretch to think of that, congressman issa, we've seen the fbi be a law unto itself in the past under trump russia. why didn't ag garland admit to this in testimony? why is the fbi still doing this after the national school board association disavowed its letter to the white house demanding this action? >> well you know if the ag had admitted to it he would admit to the kind of wrongful conduct we haven't seen since j. edgar hoover went after martin luther king. the fact is targeting the innocent, targeting any group simply because they're an "an inconvenient truth when they protest at school boards, no different than the civil rights movement, no different when lois lerner targeted tea party groups for their beliefs. it is weaponizing government agencies against people that are your poli

ag garland testified he could not cite a single example of a threat of violence beyond news reports.most of the quote, incidents leading to that nsba letter targeting parent not to involve threats of violence. he testified there was no evidence of widespread violent threats. what was he thinking? why did he fall, hook, line and sinker for a letter nsba then apologized for when his own son-in-law runs panorama, a consultancy selling toxic school agendas to school boards making millions off of that on things like crt? that is what the critics say, what do you say to all of that? >> attorney general merrick garland wasn't thinking. he was following orders from the biden white house who was taking their orders from the national school board association, which is an init grall part of the democrat's political machine. understand the teachers unions of this country, the democratic party are one and president biden is willing to do what they wish and want to quell the sense of school board meetings and schools across the country with concerned parents. one of the greatest things of the pand

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elizabeth: by the way, just a note, senator cruz is talking about ag garland, merrick garland's son-in-lawcy panorama that sells curriculums and tests for things like critical race theory to school boards across the country, making millions of dollars on that. your reaction to what you heard, congressman? >> swamp is deep in washington and you saw the attorney general react to a letter from the school board association of the united states through him, asking him to investigate threats against school board members, actions which can be investigated at the local law enforcement level but he has initiated an wrote a letter wrote a letter initiating this investigation trying to intimidate parents who want to stand up against crt. and against this woke indoctrination. parents are mad. so they will elect glenn youngkin tomorrow. they're going to the polls. they will take back their schools and take back their communities. elizabeth: bellwether race. surprisingly neck-and-neck. we'll see about the outcome. we'll stay on the story. congressman ben cline, good to have you on. come back soon. >>> u

. >> it's been 2 1/2 weeks since the bannon referral went over and still we've not heard from ag garland and what does this portend for any actions these people do not take. >> merrick garland seems to be taking his time. this does not seem to be a complex fraud case where you'd need months and months. i'm wondering what's taking merrick garland has long. what he does with bannon will set the tone. if merrick garland does not prosecute steve bannon, all the new witnesses, the six new ones, they'll have no deterrent and will see it as a free-for-all. there's a lot riding on what merrick glarnd decides to do. >> does this put pressure on garland? he said he'll make an independent decision. the fact the select committee is moving forward with subpoenas does put pressure on him? >> it has to. it's going to give him more and more decisions to make but also shows us the decision he's going to make on steve bannon is about much more than just will steve bannon be prosecuted. so i know merrick garland, it's his standard talking point. facts and law, he's got to be aware what's happening out ther

apply to reports of threats and violence against school officials to comply with a memo sent by ag garlandublicans seized on that directive. they used it to rile up their base by falsely claiming that the biden administration is targeting parents. watch. >> i'll leave it at this, general garland. you have weaponized the fbi and the department of justice. your u.s. attorneys are now collecting and cataloging autothe ways they might prosecute parents. what on earth does the national security division have to do with parents who are expressing disagreements at school boards? >> the full force of the fbi is something a parent has to think about before they go to a school board meeting and they get frustrated. >> no, it isn't. this is not what it says at all. not even close. let's look at what it advises. attorney general writes this, quote, i'm directing the fbi working with each u.s. attorney to convene meetings with federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial leaders in each federal judicial district to facilitate the discussion of strategies for addressing threats and will open dedicated

now todd, to kayleigh's point about ag merrick garland issuing parameters that were supposed to tightenment can go and search reporters and the like, really what this shows us is that it expands, it expands the government overreach and narrowd privileges and protections over their investigative material. >> todd: and that really does get to the bigger picture here which is absolutely frightening. and kudos to the aclu. obviously not an ideological partner of project veritas, but sticking up for this. because a closer and closer we get to government overreach like this, the closer and closer we get to communism. this is the stuff we see in communist countries. and this is absolutely frightening for anybody who cares about journalism, anybody who cares about freedom, anybody who cares about america. this is not the foundation on which our country is based. stuff like this absolutely cannot have them. >> emily: morgan. >> morgan: yeah, just remember back in the obama administration cheryl atkinson had her computer center phones illegally spied on by the obama administration doj. the same p

questions about the ag merrick garland testimony about a month ago. griff jenkins in d.c.ing. >> it is eye opening, we've been led to believe there is no coordination between the white house and attorney general garland acted independently, both may be false in newly released conversations, timeline is showing members in the white house meeting for weeks in september before sending that letter to the president comparing parents to domestic terrorists and it was before the doj took action in early october. nsba president confirms in mid-october memo saying nsba has been actively engaged with the white house, department of justice, department of homeland security, department of education, surgeon general on pandemic related issues. when garland was pressed under oath in late october about coordination with the nsba, he denied being influenced. watch. >> the letter that we -- that was subsequently sent does not change the association's concern about violence or threats of violence. it alters some language in the letter, language in the letter that we did not rely on and is no

if i could just say this, i'd submit this for the record to, ag garland refuses to rescind memo, asking fbi to probe school board threats. now, as we sit here and talk about real nation state threats and then we see news like this and then we're asked to give more resources. you all are coming here because you would like more resources, which there's bipartisan support for, no doubt. we need to firm up our our cyber it is a critical defense mechanism for our nation. but when we see resources in our intelligence agency being dedicated to probe school but -- investigate parents at school board meetings it really makes , it hard to, you know, just blatantly just give more money to these sort of resources. so could you speak to the talent pool and then using the resources of our intelligence agency and cyber security apparatus. thank you. >> sure. you know, i think i'm just a really squarely focused on one topic within the department of justice and with the fbi we are different from dhs and cisa and different from dod and nsa that we don't have a special pay scale for our cyber talent. so w

as you know very next day ag merrick garland testified doj was not using counterterrorism efforts against patriot act would be used in circumstances of parents complaining about their children, nor can i imagine a circumstance where they would be labeled domestic terrorism. >> and yet governor, the ag released a controversial memo last month targeting parents sicking fbi on them saying there are threats against school board members and fbi will respond. your thoughts on this issue? >> look. this to me is the most important domestic issue that the republican party should be discussing over the course the next year bigger -- what you talked about is awful, targeting parents who are objecting to what school boards are trying to shove down their children's throats, is restricting first amendment rights, rights as parents, to be involved in children's education, but that is what we've got to be talking about as republicans maria we've got to be talking about fact if we have to choose between parents deciding what their children will learn or teachers unions in this country shoving a curriculum

garland says this is about the rule of law. you can't just flout the will of congress the way steve bannon has done, the ag said, jose. >> reporter: and the january 6th committee says this indictment should serve as a warning to other trump officials considering defying their subpoenas. does something like this tend to get people to reconsider their actions and cooperate? >> oh, i think so. a big part of the decision making at the justice department when bringing charges is what will be the deterrent effect on other people, in order to promote respect for the rule of law. and so i suppose if i were somebody who were getting a subpoena from congress and i saw that steve bannon was being prosecuted criminally and could face up to a year in prison, actually two years, because of the to counts that the judge could stack, i think i would try to do my best to show up. and i think the reason steve bannon here has been singled out is that he hasn't even engaged with the committee. he hasn't said, i understand the power of this committee and i'll assert privilege on a question by question base, which is the way it needs to be done, instea

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