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>> attorney general merrick garland and fbi districter chris ray monitoring this with their teams. they're looking at these people as foreign terrorist organizations in the wake of this tragedy. we've showed this video over and over again. it's graphic. it shows people being pulled, the four people pulled from the white minivan and put in to the back of a flatbed truck. today the head of the cia and the fbi director pressed on what to do with the drug cartels. listen. >> what additional authorities, what additional resources do we need to defeat this threat to american lives? some have suggested that they should be designated a foreign terrorist organization. >> one of the things i've learned in the two years i've been there, we don't have as deep of a bench of analysts on these issues and we're not as resourced as we need to be in order to address this question. that's something that we've been building and that's something that we need to continue to build. >> senator lindsey graham says he's not talking but acting with legislation that will deal with them as foreign terrorist or

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whether it's this sort of smug and arrogant response given to you last night by chris wray or the smug, arrogant testimony by merrickter peaceful pro-lifers and not the people who are fire bombing pro-life centers and catholic churches because those fire bombings take place at night and it's easier to go after the peaceful pro-lifers, that is an absurd answer. so absurd almost like they want to celebrate how much the department has been politicized. so many ways not just the pro-lifers vs. antifa. it's not enforcing the border. going after parents. it's about this ridiculous raid at mar-a-lago compared to the very nice treatment of joe biden and his problem with classified documents and it's also about how they have not given the resources necessary to actually investigate the biden family business. it's not just that they didn't make that a special counsel in delaware, which a lot of people at the department of justice think it should have been, that is a very poorly resourced office in delaware. they also shut down a bunch of investigations, according to whistleblowers and it sounds like chuck grassley has been ta

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. >>> this hour on "chris jansing reports," in the hot seat, attorney general merrick garland facing some hostile questioning on everything from hunter biden to religious bias. frantic search for survivors, the latest on a fiery and fatal train crash that left at least 36 people dead and 66 hospitalized in greece. >>> an inside look at intelligence on the mysterious so called havana syndrome, and what caused it. >>> but first, that new video just in of the murdaugh murder crime scene and the same scene the jurors toured this morning, and closing arguments are set to resume just about 20 minutes from now. our nbc news reporters are here following all the latest developments, and we begin with what has truly been a fascinating day at the murdaugh murder trial. ellison barber is outside the courthouse for us. i know you've had a little bit of a chance to sift through some of the footage of the crime scene. what does it tell you? what might the jurors have learned from being there? >> reporter: they were able to see and we see in moments of this video the pool reporter when the press was

chris lehmann, -- with the d.c. bureau. we thank you both for the conversation. >> this afternoon, merrick garland testifies on president biden's 2024 budget request for the justice department. live coverage before a senate appropriations subcommittee begins at two eastern. you can also watch on our free mobile video app, c-span now. or online at c-span.org. >> a discussion now on the nations medicaid program with doctor avenel joseph who served as vice president at the robert wood johnson foundation. before we get there though, can you remind viewers what the robert wood johnson foundation is? what your mission? is how your? funded >> the robert wood johnson foundation way -- along with others, we recognize that health is not just the absence of disease. it's about the conditions in where you live work and play. hwe work to eliminate, address structural barriers to health, including racism and other forms of discrimination. with partners, we fund research to develop data and analysis that helps to -- we cultivate leaders that work. to address issues of health equity. our mission is that everyone in america has a fair and just

. >> todd: chris winkler let's start with the pledge to not interfere in the hunter biden investigation but still refusing to appoint a special counsel. were you sold by merrickland's assurances that you heard yesterday? >> not a bit. he didn't, he could not explain why the might and power of the justice department under his supervision only seems to fall on the right wing of the political spectrum who have conservative ideology. i was looking for answers to the questions but i saw were dodges and passing the buck could peer the agency did it, it wasn't me. i think he is probably the poorest leader, the weakest attorney general i have ever seen in my 40 years of this business. >> ashley: chris, is there any type of oversight that can be given to garland? he ensured that they wouldn't be interfering with this investigation, those two investigations with the house and with the federal government, but is it one of those situations where we have to trust that he says, "no, we will not interfere." it is his word good enough? >> this is the way it works. the u.s. attorney knows what it's supposed to do. merrick garland knows what he supposed to do. he is a surrogat

you heard what chris brown wants the definition to be, but a white house official told us that the language of this possible regulation will be decided upon by -- attorney general merrick>> have you been talking to your law enforcement sources many of themselves find themselves on the front line when it comes to gun violence in america? what did they think about the announcement? >> there is something for law enforcement specifically about the national integrated ballistics information network known as niben that helps law enforcement match cartridge casings to the guns that they are fired from. i spoke to jim pascoe, the executive director of the fraternal order of police and he had this to say about the presidents action on that list is information network. >> niben is purely an anti-criminal tool. and in terms of solving crimes, which is second only to preventing crimes in the minds of law enforcement officers, nothing is more valuable than to put the gun in the hand of the shooter and show where it came from. >> so, what this executive order does is it updates the requirements for law enforcement to more speedily report this ballistics data. so, they will report it

merrick garland when questioned about the politicization of the department of justice. what's your opinion on his performance? >> it was interesting also the interview this week with bret baier of chrisray from the fbi. both of those , the testimony and the interview showed a very smug and arrogant leadership of our department of justice. they know that they have politicized this department. they know that americans don't trust it, and they don't seem to care. it's almost like they're excited about what they've done but it's very bad for the american people to not have a department of justice or fbi that they think is a political or that they think they can trust. there have been so many egregious errors in how they run investigations and how they have been so politicized, leaking things to allies in the press instead of just being an impartial justice department, so it's a big problem for them. stuart: it sure is. mollie hemingway thank you very much, have a great weekend, see you later. two congressmen got into a debate over maybe a potential matchup in 2024 between desantis and biden. tell me more. lauren: it was the republican from florida that's frequently on the show, byron don

general merrick garland about this, he wouldn't comment on the status of the americans, but he did talk about the ongoing battle between the u.s. government and the mexican drug cartels. take a listen, chris. >> the general problem of the cartels, look, the cartels are responsible for the deaths of americans, and we are fighting as hard as possible, the dea and the fbi are doing everything possible to dismantle and disrupt and ultimately prosecute the leaders of the cartels and the entire networks that they depend on. >> and, chris, of course, this incident is putting a spotlight on just how much of mexican territory is really open to the cartels who seem to be operating with impunity and raising questions about what the mexican government is doing about it, and what the u.s. government is doing to help, chris. >> thank you so much. i appreciate that. i know you're going to continue to let us know if you get more information. frank in the meantime, you have been involved in the investigations like this. what are u.s. and law enforcement officials doing right now to get those answers and what resources do they have in place? >> so, first, ken already referenced the complete debriefing that

chris in auburn. caller: i wanted to congratulate be gentlemen for doing a exquisite job of spewing be disinformation from fox news. merrick garland never called parents at a school board meeting terrorists. there was a letter discussing and concerned that school board mentors -- members are getting death threats because everyone in the education system is apparently a groomer things to fox news. people were showing up in military tactical gear at a school board meeting. why are you lying so much and what you think about people coming to school board meetings dressed in military tactical gear? guest: i encouraged parents and certain citizens and others, the way you make sure you know that is happening in your school and one of the silver linings of the chinese virus, had the remote learning and parents were learning to a greater degree what was being taught and that is why parents are showing up in massive numbers to learn about -- to express their views on what was happening in their schools, their curriculum. the mandates, mass -- mask mandates or schools being closed. that was a good thing. schools will be better if par