in this role i was inspired by the department of justice's commitment to the principle of equal justice under law. i will always remember the presentation i received from a gray-haired veteran of the department explaining the motto on the seal. those who sue on behalf of the lady justice. a few years later, i was blessed with the opportunity to serve as a solicitor general of the greatest state in the union missouri under the leadership of two great public servants. in this role, i was called upon to resist the overreaches of the federal government that trampled the fundamental rights of ordinary american citizens. i began to see as our founders did that fidelity to the constitution and the rule of law required constant vigilance and struggle. then, during the most recent two years, i've had the great honor to represent president trump. in fighting back against the politically motivated prosecutions and campaigns -- l'affaire campaigns against him. to me, these cases reflected a profound and dangerous perversion of the ideals of the department of justice where i proudly served as a youn

of justice will be rebalanced. the vicious violent and unfair weaponization of the justice department and the government will and. and never again will the immense power of the k -- state the weapon eyes. instead, president trump pledge that we will restore fair, equal and impartial justice under the unconstitutional rule of law. i pledge to work with attorney general bondi to support them proceed the provision of fair equal and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, chairman grassley and ranking member durbin for convening this hearing and providing my fellow nominees and be the opportunity to participate in the time-honored advice and consent rule under the constitution. the predominant feeling that i have today is gratitude and because of that i want to say thank you to several people. thank you to each of the individual members of this committee both republican and democrat as well as their staffs for taking time to visit with me over the past couple of weeks. as i hope i've made clear during the meetings it is my goal to earn your support. thank you to m

request by the biden department of justice. ying it slightly, but they're not changing. >> the core. >> requirement that google be broken up. >> a couple. >> of points to highlight for you here. one is that ai investments would be allowed under this new proposal by the department of justice with advance notification. that is, if they want to make ai investments, they're going to have to work with the department of justice on giving them a heads up about that. that's one way in which this is being loosened up a little bit. there's this question about android, which is very important here. the android divestiture provision. my understanding here of looking at this for not very long is that it is still possible that android will be forced to be divested by google if things don't go well, as they negotiate the future. so watch that space. there are a couple of other items here, including search, text, ad modifications, syndication and data access provisions being clarified. but by and large, melissa, what you have here is the trump

importantly, am i allowed to consider evidence outside the four corners of that motion that the department of justiceefore me, namely, all of the correspondence that went back and forth between the department of justice and the prosecutors handling this case, including. >> the very sharp. >> resignation letters from danielle sassoon, who was the acting u.s. attorney, and hagan scotten, who was a line prosecutor who essentially said, you may be looking for a fool or a coward to do your errand here, but that person is not me. >> so on one hand, we have these resignation letters that you just talked about from the prosecutors who actually gathered the evidence, determined that there was probable cause for an indictment, and brought forward the indictment to prosecute the mayor. yes. on the other hand, you have, for example, these communications that were filed friday by. >> i'm glad you. >> raised that. donald trump's defense. i'm sorry. bye bye. the defense team in this case basically just i'm sorry, the former prosecutors in this case to say, hey, listen, this may be politically motivated. how do you

of justice will be rebalanced. the vicious violent and unfair weaponization of the justice department and the government will and. and never again will the immense power of the k -- state the weapon eyes. instead, president trump pledge that we will restore fair, equal and impartial justice under the unconstitutional rule of law. i pledge to work with attorney general bondi to support them proceed the provision of fair equal and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, chairman grassley and ranking member durbin for convening this hearing and providing my fellow nominees and be the opportunity to participate in the time-honored advice and consent rule under the constitution. the predominant feeling that i have today is gratitude and because of that i want to say thank you to several people. thank you to each of the individual members of this committee both republican and democrat as well as their staffs for taking time to visit with me over the past couple of weeks. as i hope i've made clear during the meetings it is my goal to earn your support. thank you to m

and when you want to work in the department of justice, it's because you care about that. respected person. and so to take those people and trash them is done both to get them out of the way, but. >> also to send. >> a message to everybody else, we don't care who you are, we don't care how good you are. >> we're throwing you out. >> of the department. >> if you. >> don't kowtow to our. political motivations here. and what they don't seem to understand is it is the job of the senior fbi people to stand watch and police those institutional guardrails that protect the integrity of the fbi. so they're doing their job when they're doing this, and it's causing them to be fired. and the signal. >> what can democrats do in the minority to be debriefed by folks like danielle sassoon or james dennehy about the weaponization and about what is actually happening right now? >> yeah, i think we've got to step a little bit carefully because they've done a very professional thing. they have been asked to do something that violates the rules of the department and the standards for the admi

department and, quite frankly, not provide that much information about the goings on of the justice department, much to the chagrin of reporters who cover the institution because of the fact that they want the work to at least appear to be not politicized in the way the white house would be. >> so one of the reasons why this is is problematic. there are lots of them, but one of them is just because of the disrespect for expertise. yeah. and i mean, a doj comms person would theoretically know what are the epstein files that are actually missing? what are the ones that haven't been released, et cetera.. stephen miller might be very learned when it comes to any number of issues, but you can't be an expert on everything. how is all of this impacting career officials who have decades of experience, who have served across administrations? obviously, trump's priorities become the department's priorities. but you know, one man can only do so much. >> yeah, and he does have a staff of junior aides, political appointees at the justice department. but career officials, some of whom, again, hav

we asked the department of justice about it, since the marshals are part of d.o.j.tatement at this time. we do request that you please verify with your sources to ensure your reporting would be accurate. we absolutely are trying. it would help a lot if you guys would answer the question, are those us marshals? that said, while that sort of unsettling detail remains outstanding, while we literally cannot tell who it is that's showing up, apparently armed to let doge staffers into locked doors that legally they may not be allowed to be in, while that remains unsettled, whether this question of who is the armed escort for what doge is trying to do, the justice department appears to be conducting another one of their friday night purges of career officials firings at main justice in washington, d.c, tonight and at the u.s. attorney's office in manhattan. two prosecutors from the corruption case against new york city mayor eric adams were placed on administrative leave tonight. reporting from nbc news indicates that in manhattan, those prosecutors were walked out of the

reminder the justice department is not the personal law firm of the president. eral prosecutor and former justice department lawyer brendan ballou. welcome, mr. >> mr. ballou. thank you for being here. i have talked to a number of people who have either been fired outright or who are currently placed on administrative leave. and one person i spoke with is a general counsel at an agency. they don't want to say which one because they'll be found out quite easily. who is career nonpolitical administrative leave with the promise of being fired? and i said, what do you want people to know? what should people know? and they said that we are living through a coup. that, to me is very chilling. is that the feeling inside the justice department? >> i mean. >> whether or not you describe. >> it as a coup, this is a. fundamental change in what the department of justice is supposed. >> to be. >> you know. >> after watergate, you. >> know, the department of justice really reformed itself. >> to become. >> a much. >> more nonpartisan institution, to try to build up its own cre

because the department of education and the department of justice. >> asks. >> a judge can say, yeah, there is no reason why i would institute an injunction bond. >> but all it is. >> is to. say. if you. don't actually win you're injunction, you're putting. >> up money. >> against what would be a. frivolous case. >> and what would. cause financial harm. >> hard to say that the financial harm to the government of the. united states of america requires us to prevent people from vindicating their rights. >> what's so funny. >> about that is that it reminds me of. >> donald trump, when he. >> was. >> a builder. >> and would. >> basically let people come on. >> susan. right. like he. would say, go ahead. >> sue me, let's go. >> to court. >> and he tried to outlast. >> all. >> especially the mom and pop places that. >> did work for him. >> and he just. >> knew the. >> longer he stayed. >> in court. the more unlikely he would have to have. >> someone suing him, which. >> you fast forward. >> as he knows, the. >> more you. >> stay in. >> court, guess what? the less. >> they're going to be abl

of my constituents. >> he said he was going to report, reach out to the part of justice. >> i intending out of the departmentthe trump administration who is threatening and seeks to open an inquiry and are you going to do it? it is important to know where this administration stance and if they intend on using political intimidation to silence their critics. stuart: aoc was referring directly to you. what is your response? >> she needs to understand this country gave donald trump a mandate and he is carrying out the mandate. he promised to make our communities safer especially against illegal aliens who are public safety threats and we are prioritizing, the worst first, i look at the number this morning, ice has taken 30,000 people off the streets of this country that were in the country illegally in a public safety threat. i asked the department of justice with for clear guidelines, when you cross a line, educating criminal aliens how to evade law enforcement at what point do you cross that line? giving it to ice agents to perform civil law. what she needs to understand, she said she's educating people to th

have uncovered waste, fraud, and abuse to a level that would require the -- referrals to the department of justice for investigation. can you give any specific examples of illegal things or what the department believes is illegal. tammy: this is my first chance to say what i can't comment on. in general, certainly, any possible litigation, the nature of borics or contemplates regarding action that the government might take. certainly not -- whether it's diplomatic conversations or issues of determining what we might do and what might not do, it also go into hypotheticals. so no, i can't answer that. what i can say, again, is that is that the level of what we discovered at usaid is troubling enough to where this is the kind of conversation that is perhaps going to have to be had by the american people and even perhaps congress. but i think at this point, when we're looking at this kind of an issue that we've -- we see through our existing investigations and inquiries that we've clearly got some problems. and so we're determined to correct those problems. where it ends up is going to be, of course,

while that remains unsettled, whether this question of who is the armed escort for what doge is trying to do, the justice department officials firings at main justice in washington, dc, tonight and at the us attorney's office in manhattan. two prosecutors from the corruption case against new york city mayor eric adams were placed on administrative leave tonight. reporting from nbc news indicates that in manhattan, those prosecutors were walked out of the building by us marshals. joining us now is ryan riley, nbc news justice reporter. ryan, thanks very much for being here, i appreciate it. >> no problem. thanks for having me. >> this is a question that ultimately will have a simple answer. while it remains outstanding, i will admit to being a little unnerved. doge is involved in actions that a lot of people in government agencies say are not legal. this small agency that they tried very hard to get into and ultimately succeeded in getting into today, said that they did not have the authority to come inside their offices, that congress was the only entity that could dissolve this agency or fire its members. neverthe

mean, what we are seeing right now, i would say that it is not business as usual to have the department of justicey withdraw its claims. but of course, we saw in georgia the request being made to the new attorney general for the department of justice to withdraw its claims against a voter suppression law in georgia that's been litigated there for a while. and then just now, we've seen the department of justice withdraw its redistricting claims in texas. unfortunately, the department of justice is no longer working to ensure that civil rights are protected. and my law firm, elias law group, and other organizations around the country are filling in that void. >> so, elizabeth, let's also talk about a proactive lawsuit that was also brought by you guys going on behalf of the dnc, going against the administration. it was filed last week. there's been a flurry of litigation activity, especially focused on the doge stuff, which is why i really wanted to have you on today to talk about these voter rights. talk about why it was so important to sue on a particular executive order that trump entered, that p

requiring deferrals to the department of justice. n you provide any specific examples of illegal wrongdoing, what the department believes is illegal wrongdoing at usaid? >> my first chance to say -- what i cannot comment on, which in general is certainly any possible litigation, the nature of negotiations or contemplations regarding action that the government might take. certainly not only because i have not been in the room, but because you have got, whether it is diplomatic conversations or issues of determining what one might or might not do. it also goes in the hypotheticals. so i can't answer that. what i can say is that the level of what we have discovered at usaid is troubling enough to where this is the kind of conversation that is perhaps going to have to be had by the american people and even perhaps congress. i think at this point, when we are looking at this kind of issue, that we see through our existing investigations and inquiries, that we've clearly got some problems. we are determined to correct those. where it ends u

on february 10 of this year, the trump justice department instructed federal prosecutors to drop charges against you. this decision caused seven federal prosecutors, including a trump appointee, to resign because they believed this was such an enormous miscarriage of the rule of law and law enforcement. now, as some of my colleagues have pointed out, this was widely reported as a quid pro quo. i know you've denied that and you're probably limited in what you can say but a lot of people out there, including a lot of people in new york city that i know, believe that these charges were dropped in exchange for a quid pro quo for your agreement to help the trump administration enforce its immigration policies. so my question for you, mayor, adams, is a very simple one. it's clear that whatever your intentions, whatever actions you take, whether on immigration or anything else, you do not enjoy the trust and confidence of the people of new york city. so my question, is why you have not resigned yet and do you plan to resign today or any time soon? mr. adams: i'm really surprised after you laid

on february 10 of this year the trump justice department instructed federal prosecutors to drop charges against you. this decision because seven federal prosecutors including a trump appointee to resign because they believed this was such an enormous miscarriage of the rule of law and law enforcement. now, as some of my colleagues have pointed out this was widely reported as a quid pro quo. i know you denied that. i know you're probably limited to what you can say. a lot of people out there including a lot of people in new york city that i know believe that these charges were dropped in exchange for a quid pro quo for your agreement to help the trump administration enforces immigration policies. so my question for you mayor adams is actually very simple one. it is clear whatever your intentions, whatever actions you take, immigration or anything else, you do not enjoy the trust and confidence of the people of new york city. .... congressman turner was a member of our freshman class and his office is right next to mine and as such an opportunity to work to and from votes, found him to be

kind of in this vein and it may be too early to know because literally you just got to the department of justicet and jack guy jack smim of lawyers and so forth and so on, knew we know it yet i happen to know that is a big apartment with the part with a lot of people take some to figure things out. do we happen to know yet whether they replied with all of the requirements of the presidential records act and espionage act? did they store all of their materials for you folks to look at when you choose to look at it? do we know that or did they remove and destroy any of it? quick sense we are looking at now. we are going through all of that and now they just got kash patel innes fbi director he is of course a tremendous help. i have been in office barely two weeks and it feels like two years. we are going nonstop. we will get to the bottom of the and you know the first thing i did was fire at the jack smith seeteam. that is ultimate weaponization of our country and our government. mark: don't you get a little frustrated or worse, i would reading the stories about how you have weaponize the departme

my opinion is trump department of justice will be friendlier to the big tech companies. stuart: donald trump's busy untruths social, he posted this, the head of the united auto workers of america stated tariffs are necessary to correct years of abuse of the usa by other countries and companies. we lost 90,000 factories and plants, he is one hundred% correct. that's posted from the president. still ahead. have you seen this? migrants cloning border patrol vehicles, looks like desperation. democrats went viral for the wrong reasons. ♪ stuart: hard to believe serious politicians but that outcome of the trump team responded with their own video, we will show that to you later. are the democrats in disarray? leadership is, quote, confronting members who disrupted trump's speech as ten house democrats voted to censure congressman al green katie pavlich on that next. ♪ it's backed by science it is clinically proven to strengthen our teeth. i would recommend this toothpaste to everybody. it's really an amazing product. (♪) ♪ i have type 2 diabetes, but i manage it well. ♪ ♪ it's

soaring egg prices have prompted the department of justice to launch an investigation. trust enforcers are apparently trying to determine if large egg producers conspired to limit the egg supply and then raise prices. all of this as a bird flu outbreak has wiped out millions of hens, resulting in a nationwide egg shortage. abc news reporter alexis christoforous has more. >> the u.s. justice department is in the early stages of investigating the country's largest egg producers for what some are alleging is a, quote, coordinated effort to restrict supply and inflate prices. the egg industry says the worst bird flu outbreak in u.s. history has forced them to cull tens of millions of hens, leading to consumers paying an egg surcharge at chains like waffle house and denny's and empty store shelves across the country. prices have nearly doubled in the past year, averaging about $5. a dozen eggs now cost nearly as much as a pound of ground beef, and the usda predicts egg prices could increase another 40% this year. at small businesses like new york city, square diner owner theo

well, soaring egg prices have prompted the department of justice to launch an investigation. antitrust enforcers are apparently trying to determine if large egg producers conspired to limit the egg supply and raise prices. all of this as a bird flu outbreak has wiped out millions of hens, resulting in a nationwide egg shortage. abc news reporter alexis christoforous has more. >> the u.s. justice department is in the early stages of investigating the country's largest egg producers for what some are alleging is a, quote, coordinated effort to restrict supply and inflate prices. the egg industry says the worst bird flu outbreak in u.s. history has forced them to cull tens of millions of hens, leading to consumers paying an egg surcharge at chains like waffle house and denny's and empty store shelves across the country. prices have nearly doubled in the past year, averaging about $5. a dozen eggs now cost nearly as much as a pound of ground beef, and the usda predicts egg prices could increase another 40% this year. at small businesses like new york city's square diner, owner the

first, most have to see an immigration judge, an administrative law judge working for the department of justicep administration has fired some as part of workforce cuts and makes no sense whatsoever to fire immigration judges. matt biggs is the president of the union representing some of the 700 immigration judges. he says the recent firings left about 28 probationary judges without a job. when you fire immigration judges, you're effectively increasing the already huge backlog. the congressional research service says the backlog for immigration courts past 3.6 million cases by the end of 2024. republican congressman pete sessions says he supports some of the workforce cuts. as you know. that's a that's a roadblock to a lot of these deportations. very aware >> that they that they fall across the board on a lot of things. there's an opportunity for all these people once were abused and to come back. we've also reviewed department of justice memo that says immigration judges can be fired more easily. it says workforce protections for administrative judges are unconstitutional. when i tell you that

somebody really bad may have gotten away and can harm somebody else, i am sure department of justice ith appropriate resource with intention of holding people accountable? >> carley: what about people online hearing from sources within the government and posting on twitter, can they be prosecuted? >> i think that is an interesting question. if you are basically promoting information for the sole intent to obstruct or impede an investigation, that is something they'll look into. that is more of a aggressive approach, it is certainly people leaking it in the crosshairs and subsequent from there. these are putting people in danger and if you are doing something with intention to obstruct or impede investigation that is obstruction of justice and you could be prosecuted for it. >> house oversight committee will have a hearing and mayor of sanct sanctuary cities will testify. it is going to be a public dressing down. how important and significant do you think this hearing could be and will anything change as a result of this? >> this is extremely important for one reason, public need to kn

attorney for the district of columbia, but this is sending shock waves across the justice department.itics say they are under the thumb of president trump moving forward. >> john: remind us again of who ed martin is. >> report: ed martin is one of those people who has a nickname he self proclaims. he calls h himself ed "legal" martin. he was part of the stop the steel movement after that election and was a generate sixth defense attorney appointed to the job after the inauguration of president trump. he was the one who disposed of those cases after the pardons were handed down. >> john: what has been the reaction to these demotions? and what are they being demoted to, by the way? >> report: some are being demoted to the position of handling this misdemeanor crimes. they were tackling the highest profile prosecution in america a american history a few months ago. there is a broad concern that fbi agents to prosecutors inside the department of justice, everybody is looking over their shoulder, worried and email will pop up in a few minutes that they have been moved or have lost their jo

the catalog, including the agency headquarters of the department of agriculture, the department of health and human services, the department of justice, the department of labor, and the va. by this morning, less than 24 hours later, the entire list had been removed. quote. the about-face capped a stunning 18 hours that shook federal agencies and threatened already wobbly commercial real estate markets. the sale of some of these properties could have created unique problems. the inventory of properties for disposal included. for example, one specialized satellite facility for the national oceanic and atmospheric administration in maryland, also a three point 1,000,000 square foot fda research lab. also get this, get this. look at this. a northern virginia campus that doesn't appear in federal property records, but has long been associated with the central intelligence agency. they tried to sell the cia. the president had his top campaign donor try to sell the cia. and the headquarters building of the department of justice and the headquarters of the va and the specialist satellite facilities, without which we cannot have, i don't know

protest leaders and nonprofits for protest groups or failing to register with the united states department of justiceed the foreign principal you've heard of that law before. open investigations into protest leaders who were in direct contact with the u.s. and designated terror groups or front groups while advocating on their behalf. those are just a handful of things that can be done. what else? our friends at heritage pointed out several years ago federal anti- right act. let the federal government to go after anyone who travels the interstate i quote or foreign commerce or uses any facilitate of interstate or foreign commerce including but not limited to the mail, telegraph, telephone, radio, television to incite a riot or to organize promote and encourage participation or commit any act of violence and furtherance of a riot. anyone who travels from outside the state uses the phone or computer with a specific intent to integrate and participate in rights as a violent federal law. it also applies to those who aid or abet anyone to carry out such acts that could be fined and imprisoned up to five ye

would be to cut those in half but would we have been able to cut them in half if we had the department of justicefter january 6? that was one of the largest criminal investigations in the department of justice, they sent swat teams for misdemeanors. >> nicole parker who contributes to fox, she's amazing -- hi nicole. [laughter] she brings this up consistently and talks about the fact that the fbi wasn't doing the job she remembers she was called to do, to catch the bad guys and get out there do the job to pull the criminals off the streets. >> in thinking about getting law enforcement, pete hegseth pentagon is doing the same th thing, i see the common denominator, he's working out with the troops. >> strong hot bodies all the way around. big weekend flops are next and don't forget to follow the "big weekend show" on x, facebook and instagram at big weekend show. ♪ at university of phoenix, we're earning career-relevant skills with every 5-to-6 week course. and updating our professional profiles in weeks, not years as we pursue our bachelor's and master's degrees. earn career-relevant skills in we

>> currently, the department of justice and department of state are examining what has gone on on the campuses. first of all, let's be clear, anti semitic behavior, anti any group behavior on campus should never be with allowed if it involved any type of violence itself. so what you have here, obviously, you have that fine line between the ability to protest and then the safety of other students. and president so the county of justice is taking -- the department of justice is taking this very seriously. the department of state has announced today they're revoking visas for several of the students that have been pro-hamas supporters who have committed violent acts. see, that should be the metric. if you commit a violent act on campus, you shouldn't with allowed on campus, period, and you have a visa or if you're with here illegally, you should definitely be deported. in terms of columbia, columbia's always a been a little bit of a hotbed of dissent and voices in protest. that, again, should be allowed, but in a i way where you don't discriminate against any other group or provide any t

that's your justice department, not my justice department. the head of the justice department has pledged to me, not me. let me see you get my justice department to enforce your order, mr. judge. more specifically, mr. john roberts. get my justice department to enforce your order. let me see you get my marshals to enforce your order. this president whether witnessingly -- wittingly or unwittingly has put himself in a position that the justice department has pledged to him. generals in the military you don't get these positions unless you pledge to him. we ought to be ashamed to allow such a thing to happen. yes. generals in the military, justice department, the courts, many of them, are bending knees, again you flects. somehow you believe you are showing respect, i suppose, or just currying favor. be that as it may, justice department, generals in the military, many of the courts giving a genuflects, he is setting himself up such that he is in a position such at the end of his fourth year he will attempt to do what he tried to do and failed at the end of

we're starting at every level of the justice department and getting rid of the worst of the worst buthere are a lot more people that shouldn't be there but there are a lot of good people who are out there now risking their lives every day making these cases. today we made a huge case involving a guatemalan, and illegal from guatemala, 1 of the largest human trafficking rings in the country. 20,000 people being smuggled into this country from guatemala. that was made in california. last week and illegal was arrested in new york for isis -- funding isis. we are going to get out there and arrest the bad people, take them off the streets and restore the justices -- justice department to what it was me to do, fight violent crime. >> sean: are you at all shocked at how things were running before you got there? >> shocked. we talk about this all the time, we knew it was bad. we never knew how bad. and especially on the criminal side and on the people who were in there, you've heard the story of course. i was visiting the floors, i walk up to the seventh floor and i couldn't get in there beca

and the pam a bondi department of justice and the donald trump administration. always been a civil rights attorney i think this position you are in, is really a pinnacle of your life. a pinnacle of your career. you are a national spokesperson for your national lawyer to fight this. and so given president trump's directive will these funding sources, these front groups that are backing these terrorist organizations, these terrorist countries that put up or billions of dollars into these universities and colleges. is this something that just us or other departments like treasury and education are going to take a very close look at? >> i can honestly tell your viewers, tell you and tell american a special these universities president trump is going after you in every aspect pretty asked about the ad department the answer is yes. this force is every agency is involved homeland security's involved for the fbi is involved. hhs, the ad department and the treasury department we are going after the 5o1c3 status. some of these people getting tax exempt status for this type

of these different actions taken together. >> susan, the trump administration fired several more veteran career lawyers in the justice departmentof trump reshaping the nation's top law enforcement agency to his whim. how dangerous is this politicizing the department of justice? and where do you see this ending? >> it's one of my greatest fears because now you have basically law enforcement on the ground that will end up being only loyal to donald trump because he's going to fire those who are not and put people in who are. and when you have attorney d.o.j. attorneys having to take a field, an oath to donald trump as a result, this puts our democracy in a very perilous situation because it affects who where we find justice. it's supposed to be blind. we're supposed to go after, you know, criminals and investigate things. it doesn't matter who you are politically connected to. and this is something that will empower trump. and should he try and make other moves down the road, this will be the arm where he could do it through. >> ahmed, you're in alabama right now for the 60th anniversary of bloody sunday. i'll be there tomorrow.

the department of justice has been very inconsistent in seeking these bonds. pres. trump: from a legal standpoint, really a very big thing. >> thank you, sir. in order to protect american car manufacturers and american farmers, we have two modifications to the usmca tariffs that have already been announced against canada and mexico. this first order relates to canada. essentially, what it will allow for is the flow of parts and subassembly products into america to allow american car manufacturers to continue building cars. it basically excludes usmca-eligible goods from existing tariffs. and also, in order to help our farmers at this crucial time of year we're going to be reducing the tariff imposed on canadian potash from 25% to 10%. so, this is a modification to our tariff regime to protect american car manufacturers and american farmers. it basically makes it more fair for our car manufacturers during the short-term period before april 2nd. april 2 is a little different. but during the interim periods between now and april 2, this makes it much more favorable for

of office. if this continues, we will be left with a justice department leadership populated by only cowards and fools. a justice department used both as a sword to go after the president's enemies and a shield to hide its corruption, then what will remain of our nation of laws but a sad memory of a time when we lived up to our founders' dreams only to squander the gift of our inheritance. mr. president, i yield back. ms. klobucher: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobucher: mr. president, i rise in support of senator durbin's simple, but necessary, resolution. it reaffirms three basic principles that should be self-evident to all senators serving in this body. one, that there are courts established under the constitution as a coequal branch of government. two, that in the words of chief justice marshall in marbury v. madison, the court's role is to say what the law is. and, three, that the constitution requires the executive branch to comply with all federal court rulings. as i reminded all of the senators that were assembled for the president's inauguratio

$10,000 fine. >> our thanks to you tonight. >>> now to the soaring egg prices prompting the department of justice to launch an investigation according to sources. antitrust enforcers apparently trying to determine if large egg producers conspired to limit the egg supply and raise prices. all of this as a bird flu outbreak has wiped out millions of hens resulting in a nationwide egg shortage. >> reporter: tonight, the u.s. justice department is in the early stages of investigating the country's largest egg produces for what some are calling is a quote, coordinated effort to restrict supply and inflate prices. the egg industry says the worst bird flu outbreak in u.s. history has forced them to cull tens of millions of hens leaving customers to pay an egg surcharge and empty store shelves across the country. prices have nearly doubled in the past year, averaging about $5 a dozen, they now cost nearly as much as a pound of ground beef and the usda predicts prices could increase another 40% this year. at small businesses like new york city's square diner, the owner is trying to hold off on raising pri

because the department of justice is a very important part of our american. >> life. >> and its integrity is very. >> important to. >> our american life. >> so when you both. humiliate seasoned. prosecutors for perfectly. >> good cases that they brought, in. >> fact, they won. >> them and. >> then send a. >> message to all. of the. rest of the employees. >> if you're not bringing. >> the kind of cases that we like politically. you're in for the. same humiliation. >> even when you. >> do a great job. even when you get the conviction, even when. >> you're the best. >> we've got. >> so it's a doubly evil message. >> all right. thank you. senator sheldon whitehouse turning back to the clash between the white house and ukrainian president zelensky yesterday. joining me now is democrat democratic roll out in congressman gabe amo. congressman, you are the vice ranking member of house foreign affairs committee. what's your reaction to yesterday's meeting? >> well, first off, thanks for having me. >> rep. >> my reaction is that was not a meeting. that was a gift to vladimir putin. it is so apparen

of this? do they need the justice department to help get this under control? >> absolutely.ide for four years. the joe biden/merrick garland administration looked the other way. donald trump and pam bondi we are looking at these campuses and telling them get their acts straightened up and tell them that in the ten campuses, something else. lawsuits going down the pipeline before the end of this week and next week we'll sue these universities that are not on the list that are basically committing the crime. we want to deter this, dana. jewish american students should be treated like everyone else. i submit to you the following. if these were black american students being harassed like that massive lawsuits. this wouldn't happen. jewish americans need to be protected. >> dana: read to you from a potential teacher. she wrote this in the free press. until last week i was seriously teaching at columbia at a visiting professor. to serve as a prop or fig leaf would be folly and putting myself and students at risk. by next fall, do you believe that professors, students and their par

earlier today about how stephen miller was controlling the pr, the public relations part of the justice department, the office of public affairs. um, further down in the story, that is not getting a ton of pickup is the fact that stephen miller isn't just controlling the office of public affairs. he is making every major decision when it comes to personnel and policy at the justice department. and my understanding it's going straight from trump. stephen miller to bovey. um, and and this, this is this ranges from the epstein files, this the firings with january 6th prosecutors. and that's something that's very concerning. and we haven't seen that at the justice department before. >> but jake, let me just say this. you were a presidential appointee. so was i. and i recall at the department that i was at briefly almost eight years ago now, when we came in, there were certain people that were indeed demoted and others who were promoted, who were in sync with the secretary's objective. for that, i was at hud in this particular example. this is not new. and you know this very well. >> for a. >> very dif

going to visit 13 schools with an army of lawyers and fbi agents and individuals from hhs, education department and from linda mcmahon and the department of justice these universities, clean up your act, now. immediately. and if we have to get injunctive relief and court orders we will do it. what is happening right now is a legal. jewish american students because they are jewish-american, because they are jews are being denied the opportunity to go to school. that is un-american and it will stop. what you saw today with the withdrawing and the cancellation of $400 million is only the beginning. we have a notice of investigation against the entire uc california system for anti-semitic behaviour. not just on the east coast, trace but on the west coast and midwest. >> trace: it really is. you mention 13 schools leo. i want to put them on the school because the doj task force has identified ten universities we know of. put them on the screen. talking about columbia, george washington, harvard, john hopkins, new york university, northwestern university, uc berkeley, ucla and the university of southern california. it is a big signifier that the trump

department of justice and the fbi, deputy attorney general he opened up another criminal investigation we will prosecute them. the least you are going to do is lose their job but they need to be prosecuted and sent to prison because this job was already dangerous enough. president trump has promised american people we will concentrate certificate worst of the worst safety threats the drug was already dangerous. it is only a matter of time before an agent walks into an ambush because tda doesn't care about life or death he does ms-13 that is what we are looking for. discuss in every level whoever it needs needs to be prosecuted. >> sean: bringing lawsuits to states like new york and illinois. how many states do you identify right now that you think are having sanctuary status and aiding and abetting the lawbreaking that also need to be sued? >> you have california you have illinois you have new york you have colorado you have washington state, you got many of them. we have prepared a list for the ag and everybody she needs to look at. yesterday hearing yesterday of the sanctuary cities