he has sent to the department of justice. ke a look. >> i believe what today is is another example. it's a building block. it's important information. so specifically, the house intelligence committee of republicans have referred to the department of justice criminal referrals based on conspiracy. now, with that said, looking at this, what do we now know today? a very important piece of evidence that i think was lost on a lot of people. james comey came and breached the conference in early july of 2017. he then went to brief the president-elect trump. the inspector general found that he was acting as parts of the investigation. so comey himself was involved in the investigation followed up with a cross fire hurricane team that was running the investigation of the president and his team. they actually determine the classification of this. so very important pieces of evidence that would build into the conspiracy complaints that we have sent to the department of justice. >> i think devin nunes makes a very good points. of course,

at my direction from her the department of justice -- at my direction, the department of justice banned bump stocks and last year we prosecuted a record number of firearms offense is. -- offenses. but there is much more we have to do. now is the time to set destructive partisanship aside. so destructive. and find the carriage to answer hatred with unity, devotion and love. our future is in our control. america will rise to the challenge. we will always have and we always will win. the choice is ours and ours alone. it is not up to mentally ill monsters, it is up to us. if we are able to pass a great legislation after all of these years we will ensure that those who were attacked will not have died in vain. may god bless the memory of those who perished in toledo, may god protect them, and may god protect all of those from texas to ohio. may god bless the victims and their families. may god bless america. thank you very much. thank you. announcer: former president barack obama released a statement on the shootings in el paso and day, calling for stricter gun long and better strategies to

department of justice refused to prosecute that person as well. i mean, take your analysis if you will of how this relates to general flynn because flynn is sitting here over on the sideline saying hey, what about me? i'm about to get sentence over here. you prosecuted me, how come you are not prosecuting them? >> yeah, and in general flynn his situation is interesting because both mccabe and comey were involved in it and comey even said that he took advantage of an early administration that it was just getting organized and went into a situation and told his investigators to go in and interview general flynn and then mccabe told flynn that they didn't need the white house counsel there and you know there's a lot of these names strzok, mccabe, that were all a part of this flynn investigation and now i see today's headlines that the new defense team is having a hard time getting some key documents in this and so i think we're going to learn a lot more about the flynn case and together with the origins of this investigation that you mentioned, durham

why is the department of justice not here participating to protect the office of the president? that is the primary basis of the argument. it is a personal issue. >> the department of justice theicipated in addition to private attorney. why is the department of justice not participating? [indiscernible] your compelling argument here --constitutional requirements to the presidency estimate your argument is that the legislation -- adds to the qualifications to the president. [indiscernible] the idea that congress -- >> i got that paired what about financial disclosure? -- i got that. what about financial disclosure? justice encircling the presidency. >> i understand. ethics, anyonee who is constitutionally eligible to run for president come over 35. anybody meets those can run for president for and after. -- or they limit the terms in congress. --on't see [indiscernible] j. tatel: those could prevent a president from running because he has a conflict of interest or as you also say would prevent him from exercising the power of presidency. i am asking about the disclosure. lot about

the department of justice. the press. the white house. this is the story set at one of the most powerful capitals in the world a political and judicial conflict. a battle that has pitted tromp against those who believe he was an accomplice and russia's interference is. a battle for the truth about the president of the united states and for the principles of american democracy. according to top u.s. intelligence chiefs the russians interfered in the 2016 presidential election. puton they say developed a clear preference for trump over clinton so russia's intelligence services stole and leaked thousands of clinton's e-mails to discredit her. 2 weeks before his inauguration they brief trump. trump rejects their conclusions he does not want his victory to be questioned. the intelligence agencies maintain their findings and partially release them to the public they say putin ordered an influence campaign to help trump win the election. to control is immediately raised in congress which calls the chiefs of the intelligence community to testify.

today i am also directing the department of justice to propose legislation ensuring that those who commit hate crimes and mass penaltyface the death and that this capital punishment be delivered quickly, decisively, and without years of needless delay. these are just a few of the areas of cooperation that we can pursue. i am open and ready to listen and discuss all ideas that will actually work and make a very big difference. republicans and democrats have proven that we can join together in a bipartisan fashion to address this plague. year we enacted the stop school violence and fix nics , provided grants to improve school safety critical background checks for firearm purchases. at my direction the department of justice band bump stocks. -- banned bump stocks. but there is so much more to do. now is the time to set describe it partisanship aside. so destructive. find the courage to answer hatred with unity, devotion, and love. our future is in our control. america will rise to the challenge. we will always have and we always will win. the choice is ours and ours alone. it is not up to me

today i'm directing the department of justice to propose legislation ensuring that those who commit hate crimes and mass murders face the death penalty and that this capital punishment be delivered quickly, decisively , and without years of needless delay. these are just a few of the areas of cooperation that we can pursue. i am open and ready to listen and discuss all ideas that will actually work and make a very big difference. republicans and democrats have proven that we can join together in a bipartisan fashion to address this plague. last year, we enacted the stop school violence into law , providing grants to improve school safety and strengthening critical background checks for firearm purchases. at my direction, the department of justice banned bump stocks and last year we prosecuted a record number of firearms offenses. there is so much more that we have to do. now is the time to set destructive partisanship aside. so destructive. and find the courage to answer hatred with unity, devotion and love. our future is in our control. america will rise to the challenge. we will always

he recommended prosecution but the department of justice decided not to prosecute. a lot of us were scratching our heads, why not do that? now you have mr. comey again releasing potentially classified information out in a public square. but remember, the department of justice wouldn't prosecute clinton or anybody else. so the big key question, the seminal question for the department of justice, which is really a shift in the last 24 months, are they going to prosecute the mishandling of classified information or sealed documents? it looks like the answer is no, but what mr. comey has done in the department of justice is try to prosecute people like flynn and papadopoulos for lying to prosecutors. and mccabe, remember he's the number two person, acting fbi director at one point, for lying multiple times under oath to the apartment of justice officials. that seems to be something that they might prosecute, and so they're going to have to kind of separate out comey, separate out the deputy assistant director, a different person -- >> martha: my question is where is this

and finally what i would say is this work unfortunately will continue but here at the department of justicethe civil rights division of the department as a whole will continue to prosecute anti-semitic hate crimes vigorously so that all people no matter the faith throughout the united states can live freely, can worship freely and without fear. thank you. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> mr. shivers, go ahead. >> good afternoon. my name is calvin shivers, deputy assistant director of the fbi's criminal investigative division. what i would like to do is give you an overview of the fbi's civil rights program which encompasses hate crimes. within the fbi civil rights program, hate crimes is the number one priority, and this is based on the significant impact that these types of crimes have on communities. understanding the fbi how we work and the definition we define hate crime as a criminal offense motivated in whole or part by the offenders bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity. in order for the fbi to initiat

believe he needed to issue without running afoul of these administrative principles on the department of justice. >> one of our team members points out people who blow the whistle as julie in aly talking about, do so often and off in violation of their department poll tice, doesn't always necessarily mean they acted wrongly. is that an assessment you agree with? >> look, i think you have distinguish between whistleblower and leaking. whistleblower is defined to channels in the agency, department of justice andphobic in this case or sometimes within congress. there are established and prescribed channels for whistleblowers to put their concerns forward, so those concerns are treated with discretion. if it's a classified matter, the secrecy that's required. that's very different from the actions of a leaker. a leaker knowingly in most cases gives classified or highly sensitive information to the media for going those channels and essentially making the calculation. look, this information needs to get out there even if it violates administrative or even in some cases criminal law. i wouldn't call j

then we get the department of justice in the civil rights act of 1957 which is in power to protect african americans in the right to vote. to investigate these kinds of racially motivated crimes to coordinate with other departments within the department of justice to try and address this issue. it doesn't mean that we haven't had any white supremacist violence in the last few decades. but what it does mean is that the marshaling of that apparatus toward this violence was important. then we had the passage of the hate crimes legislation. the matthew shepherd james bird hate crimes act. once again showing a targeted intention of the federal government in the justice department. what we do not have at this moment despite everything you described at the top of the hour, chris, and the moment that we're in, is we have no concerted plan. we have no concerted articulation. we have no sense of urgency that has been communicated to the public about the department of justice and the need to lean in to this white supremacist violence. >> how much does it matter, the leadership at the top? i know it m

>> the department of justice is right. we cannot ignore this when subpoenas are targeting the president because he is president. >> how is it -- how can the separation of powers be separated with his being in the individual capacity? >> the proceedings are against the banks. >> i think your point is that really doesn't matter and it is still the president's papers. >> that is correct. i think when you look in some of the comments -- in particular, we cite some of the comments that the chairs of the committee have made, we specifically are talking about the need to investigate and expose whether or not the president has ties to russia and whether there is for eign leverage over the president. chairman waters has specifically said that she is going to find out where the president's money is coming from. i don't think you can look at the basis of these and conclude that this is some kind of brought investigation into -- broad investigation into anybody who has significant real estate investment and money laundering practices.

department of justice released the redacted version of special counsel robert mueller support. it concluded there was no conspiracy between the trump campaign in moscow. the democrats demanded the unproductive report and for mahler to testify before congress. on july 24th 2019 now former special counsel robert mueller testified before 2 congressional committees. muller concluded there was insufficient evidence to charge any trunk campaign member with conspiracy but he cannot exonerate president trump on obstruction of justice and would have a total exoneration you actually totally exonerate the president. there was no defense for this ridiculous hoax just what chuck has been going on for. a long time. the bitter battle for washington still continues. hello there mostly fine and dry across much of the middle east we have of course been things among seen or showers across into pakistan also in the last 24 as that there's a few more on the cause what we've also been seeing is some pretty strong winds particularly working the way southwards across much of iraq but not cooling thing

the department of justice. the press. the white house. this is the story set at one of the most powerful capitals in the world a political and judicial conflict. a battle that has pitted tromp against those who believe he was an accomplice and russia's interference in. a battle for the truth. about the president of the united states and for the principles of american democracy. according to top u.s. intelligence chiefs the russians interfered in the 2016 presidential election putin they say developed a clear preference for trump over clinton so russia's intelligence services stole and leaked thousands of clinton's e-mails to discredit her. 2 weeks before his inauguration they briefed trump. trump rejects their conclusions he does not want his victory to be questioned. the intelligence agencies maintain their findings and partially release them to the public they say putin ordered an influence campaign to help trump win the election. putin's role is immediately raised in congress which calls the chiefs of the intelligence community to testi

and the justice department's crediblility is increases becaue of that failure. if barr can rescue that justice department, even given his credibility. lou: i think if anyone can it is william barr. just quickly. john solomon -- george soros secret 2016 access to state department it looked like he he was running the obama state department, your thoughts about that reporting. and the import. >> it conforms with our other documents that we have gotten showing that you had soros organization helping state department direct spending abroad to help them review grantees. and you have soar soros funded through state department funds. and in europe. and you know, george has every right to engage in politics but, attack -- taxpayers fair it ask. lou: tom thank you. >> thank you. >> illegal immigrant accused killing mollie tibbetts in iowa last year, now claim his constitutional rights have been violated. defense attorneys for christian rivera filed a motion charges iowa police, integrated him before he contacted the mexican consulate, violates b thereby hs constitutional

department of justice now we did see a couple of crewmembers a short time ago back there on shore busy total confusion about really what happens next because the attorney general michael lama who was in court represented by a lawyer he was very ruffled when he appeared at the 1st hearing which was very brief simply because of this he had gone there all prepared for the release of this ship with its 2100000 barrels of crude oil and he was going to put before the court the lifting of the detention however he'd also go before him this approach from the u.s. department of justice in which the cole walls to continue with the detention order but having said that he'd already lifted by all through the court on 4 officers on the ship one of them the captain indian national if they had that passports are handed back and we've heard that the whole indian national fortune of the crew which is the vast majority of it $24.00 members they all reportedly all effectively free now now it's unclear whether they're still on board although not so it is a clear picture and now we're waiting for the 2nd hea

some of my friends were investigated by the department of justice. n terms of the program itself my friends look back and say we were a piece of a the difficult time in america that will never happen again and maybe we helped ensure another kid gets to grow up with their parent. terms of the ethics the best capture of this was with one of the most awful lot as yours but i don't mean people in the typically because i told them i would not and i don't want them getting an e-mail. one of the most thoughtful op sirs ever worked with gave me a snapshot of ethical thinking that captured a lot of what i witnessed. there are technical pieces of ethical thinking. what is the law of the u.s. government text of the law allow you to do something quick that the department of justice piece of paper this is where you are doing applies to the constitution. what are the regulations of your agents? is their formal guidance this is what you are doing complies with what the agency is written down as formal policy. then you start getting tough. those are pretty straightfo

department of justice a pretty last minute thing to say the least because the u.k. had evidently come to an agreement for major is possibly with the iranians for a guarantee that these 2100000. barrels of crude would not go to syria in line with the sanctions imposed by the european union sometime back so we have a situation where no one is quite sure which way the attorney general will push this and which way the judge will go we're going to find out later andrea and i guess you know there's an awful lot done sasson see surrounding this but in order for the department of justice to make this application for the detention order to be continued presumably they're having to provide some sort of additional evidence to suggest that this was indeed breaking sanctions. you hit the the key point one assumes there has to be some evidence those referenced by the lawyer for the at the attorney general michael law mass that document was sent last night that's wednesday night to gibraltar whether that's in new intelligence or something else is unclear but where does the u.k. sta

the department of justice is well, what about the clear statement rule? everyone knows, it is clear. if president trump had decided to comply with the subpoenas, he can do that. the justice department can say, you know, if you had chosen not to do it, there are some arguments you could have made. clearly, the justice department could say that, but if president trump said i don't care. i'm just going to comply. leave me alone, justice department. he could do that. mr. trump chose to raise certain arguments. he obviously quite deliberately to chose not to raise clear statement in this case. judge newman: do you attach any significance to the fact that the united states did not intervened but filed an amicus brief? mr. letter: i'm trying to figure out whether the department of justice could have intervened. whether it could have -- -- i've workedo 40 years at the justice department and i have some idea of how they think, but i will not try to -- judge newman: one small question. within the deutsche bank subpoena but not capital one there are some reductions.

and this department of justice does not exactly inspire confidence, let's just be blunt. m barr's justice department is not one you can readily simply rely upon and feel confident in. so what do we make of all this now that in this federal facility, this person was allowed to be alone long enough to either harm himself or be killed -- we don't know what happened. we simply don't know what happened. your thoughts? >> that's exactly right, joy. the investigation we noted is was another inmate clued in to help him? and was his suicide allowed to happen? he was a prime candidate for taking his own life. why? his difficult adjustments to jail, his depression, his leaked outlook on his criminal case and his previous suicide attempt. i can say from a mississippi jail because we know how who rid the conditio -- horrid the conditions are in a mississippi jail. this was run by the department of justice. how was this allowed to happen? somehow mr. epstein allowed or set up to take his own life. >> danny, you had someone who attempted to be remanded to his own home to await trial, whi

the department of justice is what about the clear statement rule? if president trump had decided to comply with the subpoenas, he can do that. the justice department can say you know, if you had chosen not to do it, there are some arguments you could have made. clearly the justice department could say that. but if president trump said i don't care, i'm going to comply, leave me alone, he could do that. mr. trump chose to raise certain arguments. he quite deliberately to chose not to raise clear statement to this case. judge newman: do you attach significance to the fact that the united states did not intervene and file an amicus brief? mr. letter: i'm trying to figure out whether the department of justice could have intervened. i worked for years at the years at the justice department and i have some idea of these things, -- judge newman: one small question, within the deutsche bank subpoena but not capital one there are some reductions, who made them? which side? mr. letter: the committees made the redaction's because these are subpoenas that go to

joining us tonight, victoria, former deputy assistant for the criminal division of the justice departmentin general former u.s. attorney for the district of columbia, founding partner of the law firm. great to have you both with us. your reaction to these reports and let me b specific. this could come within 24 hours. your thoughts? >> i want to say congratulations on being number one for 40 months. i want to know when you get tired of winning. will you please tell us. >> be prepared to wait. [laughter] >> now regarding the comey report, it does not make sense to me that there was a decision not to prosecute comey and other id report is coming out so i don't think it's any big deal as far as is going to come out into the pros, they may criticize him but the decision is going to be made and i hope he is included in the fisa abuse part because he sighed the first fisa application with verification on the top of it and it was not verified and that is an error in taking away the due process of carter page. lou: to questions, one is why why the inspector general carried a separate report on th

i have been authorized by the department of justice to confirm that the f.b.i. as part of our counterintelligence mission is investigating the russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia's efforts and early may 2017 as he is grilled over the involvement of tromping camp told me himself this gets into a minefield and have you ruled out the president out of state i don't. know what people over interpret his answer i'm not going to comment on anyone in particular so potentially the president ited states could be a target of your ongoing investigation right. i just worry i don't want to answer that that that's seems to me unfair speculation we will follow the evidence we'll try and find as much as we can we'll follow the evidence wherever it leads by refusing to say publicly that trump is not under investigation komi is just put h

super patriot he claims, we know him to be a leader and a buyer, the inspector general of the department of justice found the disgrace former fbi director set a dangerous example for the 35,000 current fbi employees in today's report was an unprecedented rebuke of an fbi director surrounding his nefarious plot to seek revenge against president trump. if it shows how political he was from the get-go. america's self-proclaimed super patriot is nothing more than a dirty, corrupt former bureaucrat that will be in serious significant legal jeopardy as this all unfolds. after he was fired, he lifted sensitive information and some cases classified government memos about conversations he had with the president of the united states and then he stored these documents at his home and leaked these sensitive documents and the contents of them i'm a one of the memos to the press using a close friend as a conduit -- that went to "the new york times." he also used a personal email address to disseminate classified material to his own lawyers, he's supposed to get the approval to the fbi, he didn't get the approval

when i make my application, i want to send it to the president and the department of justice because something is wrong with those in charge in the state of south carolina. they don't want to evaluate anybody with a mental health case. i even know somebody that's getting disability based on something with mental health. host: ok. we'll go to mike. mike is mechanicsville, new york. republicans' line. caller: thank you for taking my call. basically, i think the president pointed out a lot of good things. ok. and basically i think the major cause of this whole situation, ok, that hatred, the dirtiness that comes out in people is basically the media. the media is throwing bitterness. like msnbc, cnn, they're killing the president. they're giving them -- they give him no positive feedback whatsoever. i think faith in the family, you know, believing in christ, i think that is a big factor and it's missing a lot of these families that these people are doing this. host: the president spoke about eliminating hatred. do you think that's something washington can do? caller: yes. i think if the c

the department of justice certainly -- >> they declined to prosecute. >> yes, they did. i believe that was a choice they made that was not proper founded upon adequate facts. there was dissent in the justice department. you don't make a decision based on whether we're going to win. let the jury decide. if you believe there's enough evidence to move forward, let them do that. it was an straightiadministrati hearing, the judge made her conclusion. she needs to make the determination to terminate him and lose his pension. he could be and should be in jail. >> the whole delay in a lot of this was because there was disagreement in the department of justice how to proceed on this. there were fbi agents investigating this in new york who felt they could improve. there was a different standard from the administrative hearing to obviously the criminal case. they felt they couldn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this violated eric garner's civil rights. there were attorneys, prosecutors at the department of justice for years who said he needed to be prosecuted. and really the

yet, the department of justice refused to prosecute. t while the disgraced former fbi director has escaped criminal charges for now, the department of justice's investigations into fisa abuse and the origins of the russia witch hunt are still underway. yesterday on twitter, freedom caucus chairman mark meadows of north carolina court pointed out comical, as the ig reported on comey, we are getting the sound of silence. no coming tweets, no softball interviews be less be tougher when you get questions by a department of justice inspector department general gave the truth is coming. his actions will come to light in the verdict won't be pretty. unsurprisingly, the always indignant james comey responded writing, quote, "i love trance fancy. i just wait for the facts before i talk about them." i'm confident the results of all ig reports will show honest, public servants work hard to protect this country from a threat this president and his enablers won't acknowledge. and, at me next time, bro. james comey may want to get off of his high hors

>> it was ultimately up to the department of justice. spector general here made their finds, made their referral to the department of justice. ultimately when the department of justice looked at everything, they said there's not enough here to bring any kind of charges against the former fbi director. i think one of the key things here is that, yes, he violated policy, the fbi's policy on releasing sensitive information, internal information, that's very clear. but it's not so clear on the classified aspects of it. in fact it appears from the inspector general's report that he didn't release any classified information to the media, and those memos were classified after the fact. so what happened is after comey writes these memos, these memos get out there, the fbi then takes a look at these memos and said there's a couple of words here, a couple of things that should be classified on the lowest level, confidential. so they looked at everything at the department of justice. given all the facts, they decided there wasn't enough to bring cha

there are thousands of others that we don't know, it's key for the next president to have a department of justice cannot like this president who is pulling back investigations and consent decrees on police departments. we need to have a department of justice that is actively working to stop oppression of poor communities, minority communities and the use of force that is unacceptable in a nation with our values. >> what is africa matter to this country? >> look, we are a nation that is a part of a larger planet and so from issues of climate change to issues of dealing with our economic security as a nation, africa is a continent of extraordinary value not just in the words of the people but in the larger global context what you see now is a competition on the planet earth between authoritarian regime and free democracies. i was going in, i was ahead in the senate of the democrats on the africa committee and i was going with the republican and agreed to talk to the new leader of zimbabwe we don't care about free elections we just want to extract your industry, extractor mineral, this is the kind o

we could get a reading next week of the justice department preliminary findings in the epstein case. ey are investigating how the bureau prison staffing and overtime may have contributed to the events surrounding his death. william barr you mentioned dispatching two of his top aids to independentl --aides ton where epstein was being held. the team has been on site since thursday. separately, there is a review team under the bureau of prisons that falls under the justice department. they are still on the scene analyzing what went wrong. nearly a week out from epstein's death and the key issue is staffing, who was working overtime shift and whether the protocols monitoring epstein were followed after he came off the suicide watch as well as the removal of the cell mate. fox news reports tonight that the officials found 94% of the overtime hours in the critical period were done voluntarily and also this evening, new information from the producer that there are indications that there was a lack of cooperation among some of the m.c.c. staffers. >> catherine herridge in washington. thanks v

we could get a reading next week of the justice department preliminary findings in the epstein case.hey are investigating how the bureau prison staffing and overtime may have contributed to events surrounding his death. the attorney general william barr, as you mentioned, dispatching two of his top aides to independently gather information and speak directly with the bureau prison staff at the mcc where epstein was being held. that b team has been on-site sie thursday. separately, the department of justice has an after action review team working through the bureau prison, which falls under justice department authority. that team is still on scene at mcc preparing a high level debrief, analyzing what went wrong. f we are nearly a week out from epstein's death, and the key issues remain: staffing, who was working overtime shifts, and whether protocols on monitoring epstein were followed after he came off suicide watch, as well as the removal of his cellmate. fox news can report tonight that officials i found that 94% of the overtime hours during that critical period were done voluntari

department of justice looking for things like identity fraud and whether owners of the raided plants to ensure they were not hiring undocumented labor. [ crying ] >> my dad didn't do nothing. he's not a criminal. >> caught in the middle, hundreds of children separated from their parents. some of the adults were taken first to a national guard hangar, others sent to i.c.e. facilities in neighboring states. the administration tells cnn that all children have either been reunited with their parents or family members. one family we spoke to here says a 3-year-old who is currently with family members has not been able to be in touch with her mother and they believe she's currently being held at an chlt i.c.e. detention center in louisiana. i.c.e. could not corroborate. almost half of those detained were released most with court dates. >> government, please put your hearts and let my parents go with everybody else. don't leave the childs crying with everything. >> towns like miss missippi. local latino-owned businesses are closing early while others are afraid to go outside altogether. som

some of the times under oath and for somebody so senior within the department of justice, they know betterappened on multiple occasions. that's why he was fired and there were a lot of us who believe you should be prosecute prosecuted. >> jon: now they are nearing this decision on whether or not to indict him. what are they weighing in this decision? >> the department of justice has indicted people for far less. the people are losing confidence in our justice system because when it somebody else, they go ahead and fire them loosely dealing with classified information, lying, certainly in the mueller situation, when after a number of people in the trump organization for doing the same types of things. when it comes the department of justice holding themselves accountable, they are horrific. the deputy assistant director was recommended for criminal prosecution by the inspector general and the doj said we are not going to prosecute. not going to prosecute or go after mr. comey. if so here they have the deputy director, former acting director recommended for prosecution and now they have a de

at my direction the department of justice band bump stocks. -- banned bump stocks.

department of justice would conduct their own investigation into mr. eath and will bring civil rights charges against officer pantaleo. in the intervening years, the justice department made on going requests of the nypd asking us to delay our internal disciplinary process until the civil rights investigation was complete. and we honored the requests as the process stretched from one administration to the next with no action by federal prosecutors. and so on july 21st, 2018, we decided to begin nypd proceedings. members of the public in general and mr. garner's family in particular have grown understandably impatient. the trial began on may 13th, 2019. july 16th, 2019, one day before the five-year statute of limitations expired, the justice department announced it would not file federal charges against officer pantaleo. then on august 2nd, 2019 with officer pantaleo's trial concluded, the trial commissioner ruled that officer pantaleo's use of a prohibited choke hold was reckless and constituted a grove deviation from the standard of conduct established

that's precisely what the department of justice, the special prosecutor, and the courts found. of course mauri stans had to have his book published privately. he's the one that so famously said where do i go to get my reputation back? because every one of these things was featured in the papers. then cox was so worried that sirica was so pro prosecution that they'd win at the trial and lose on appeal. had he a secret meeting with the chief judge of the appellate court and he told him he should stack the deck on the appeals so the five liberal judges could be sure sirica was never overturned. there are 12 criminal appeals from judge sirica's trials. every one is heard by the full court enbonk, remember the words, sue sponte enbonk. it's on the exam. at the same time there are four criminal appeals from judge gasell. he's liberal but competent. he did the plumbers trial, the chapin perjury trial. none of his appeals are heard out of rotation. it's the traditional three-judge panel. so the corruption, the prosecutorial and judicial abuse even reached the d.c. circuit court. so we'r

justice. and i believe that they should go forward with impeachment proceedings. as to the question of what my department of justice would do, i agree with those who say that