department of justice office of the inspector general and that is a position in which i investigate f.b.i. agents the agents u.s. attorneys and others. it's difficult to to handle both jobs well and i've been pretty successful of both areas. i believe that it's imperative for me to continue in my career in the federal government because. as a role model in both areas of life so people when they come to our church and they found out that number one i am bi vocational. that's impressive because they want to know how i can hold it all together and secondly because i am a man of god and i treat everyone fairly no matter where i'm at. i believe that is our. responsibility. as a god of 2nd chances. i am so pleased that we have so many people. that have been rehabilitated people been formerly incarcerated former drug addicts former prostitutes gay members and we accept everyone as they are and we let them know that hey they may have made mistakes in the past but they are god is a forgiving and a merciful god we're here to help. what happens with so many people there wind up being homeless is tha

sentenced to how many lifetimes in prison well here's the department of justice i want happens to these apex predators. department of justice office of public affairs electronic health records vendor to pay $145000000.00 to resolve both criminal and civil investigations so this is for practice fusion incorporated they've agreed to pay 140 $5000000.00 for these $70000.00 a year back 10 years up to 10 years so you know that's almost close to a 1000000 people they've killed directly who knows indirectly as a result of this of like family disintegration and stuff right of course that's no penalty at all $170000000.00 budget of $45000000.80 and $145000000.00 of course you can be gotten we borrowed from the central bank 0 percent interest and you could construct the forgivable loan that never matures so it's free it and there is no penalty so i think you know this is the lord of the flies on a global scale right if you put a bunch of if there's no if you have the worst most sadistic person in charge like an opium drug manufacturer and you give them unlimited money at 0 percent interest rate they will cause a genocide right so this is op

the department of justice office of the inspector general released a report entitled -- report.spector general found and systemic problems without the fbi has used the pfizer act to target the united states citizens. this committee expressed concerns along those lines in the last three or four years. the report found basic fundamental and serious errors of the process designed to ensure the factual information presented. the bureau fell short of what is rightfully expected from a premier law enforcement agency. simply put, the fbi failed at its response ability with fisa.t to encouraged that you have volunteered to make dozens of important changes to address the findings of the inspector general. a recent submission i of court-appointed advocate suggested new procedures and new training modules may not be enough. report, i. the we must address -- i feel strongly we must address these problems without delay. i want to thank the jomini from wisconsin -- thank the gentleman from wisconsin to encourage us to wait until the inspector general released his report to take up this matter

the united states department of justice and the united states attorney's office for the district of columbia that prosecuted this case and is still prosecuting this case cared. the jurors who served with integrity under difficult circumstances cared. the american people cared. and i care. this is amy berman jackson, the judge sentencing the president's longtime adviser roger stone in a climate that can't be denied and that she didn't deny today, in a climate in which the president and much of the trump supportive conservative media and many republican members of congress have participated in, have created, this climate in which not only roger stone has been defended and the prosecution of him has been attacked, but the judge has been attacked. the department of justice has been attacked for bringing this prosecution. and the president has gone so far as to personally attack individual members of the jury for having had the temerity to convict roger stone. those were remarks today from judge jackson today in sentencing stone for lying to congress, obstructing an investigation, and threatening

the united states department of justice and the united states attorneys office for the district of columbia that prosecuted the case and is still prosecuting the case cared. the jurors who served with integrity under difficult circumstances cared. the american people cared and i care. and how is the president responding to all of this? >> i'm not going to do anything in terms of the great powers bestowed upon a president of the united states. i want the process to play out. i think that's the best thing to do. because i'd love to see roger exonerated, and i'd love to see it happen because i personally think he was treated very unfairly. >> there's a lot more than that. the fact is roger stone has the right to appeal, but the president sure seems to be suggesting he intervene if things don't go the way he wants them to go. >> the forewoman of the jury, the woman who was in charge of the jury is totally tainted when you take a look. how can you have a person like this? she was a anti-trump activist. can you imagine this? >> so if roger stone's attorneys had any question at all whether t the f

there is a department of the justice department called the office of the attorneys and you go through a process of analysis, and a lot of these people have legitimate claims, maybe they were wrongly imprisoned. they're getting nowhere, yet the president is handing out sl celebrity pardons. >> what's the story we've been covering nonstop for the last week? >> roger stone. >> rodoes he pardon roger stone. if he's like all right, i'm going to pardon and commute the sentences for these three today. that means when i eventually want to pardon stone, flynn, maybe manafort, it softens the blow? >> and you have to wonder if he's sending a message, right? who's getting sentence insted i days. you have to wonder is he sending some kind of message? why do this today? and so perhaps that is what's going on here as well. the fact that he won't even answer -- you know, when reporters asked the president just now someone asked him, are you going to pardon roger stone, he says oh, i'm not even thinking about it, but what happened to him was unfair. what's happened to michael flynn has been unfair, wh

justice department did. senior justice department officials say they were blindsided by this and that there was a breakdown of communication between the u.s. attorneys' office in d.c. and department of justice. the prosecutors filed what they said they wanted with the sentencing guidelines that they backed and almost immediately the justice department said, you know, furious. attorney general barr was furious saying we are going to reverse this. they moved in to take over. it all happened in the last few days. >> what do we know about the earlier iteration of this. one thing that is so key is that it happened weeks ago with the flynn sentencing memo and everybody scratched their heads. the justice department wasn't on the level about it. it all happened. we were seeing it from outside the box. >> right. nobody resigned. there was not a public spectacle about it. this is the story that we did last night. officials outlined to us what they see as a pattern of barr moving in to exert more control over these cases that president trump is very interested in. it happened in the flynn case, things were contentious between flynn and the prosecutors. he accused them

who utterly disregards the law, utterly disregards the independence of the office of the attorney general and the department of justice. they would like to go back to a time where people understood the limits of their office and had respect for co-equal branches of government. >> tla do you think there's a way in which to go back to that? >> i believe there is a way and i think it will be at the ballot box. it will be by continuing oversight that congress must do but ultimately it will be at the ballot box. that's what my constituents tell me. they're excited about the things that we are working on. last week, we passed e.r.a. and got one step closer. i'm very excited for my granddaughters and my grandson, hopefully one day very soon our constitution will enshrine equal rights for women, for everybody. it's a long time past due. we passed hr-3. a president who said in his state of the union he cared about prescription drug pricing. if you care about it, tell the senate to take up hr-3 and sign it. if you care about building our infrastructure, protecting our planet, if you care about gun violence, do something about i

of justice. you look at the timing of this, how awkward it is, to have the justice department coming up gonzales the d.c.u.s. attorney's office and a lot of people will walk away with this is bill barr, the president's justice department weighing in to benefit the president's long-time political adviser roger stone. at the end of the date it's not going to be up to bill barr or the d.c. u.s. attorney's office. that's going to be up to the judge when she decides to sentence him next week. the big question lingering out there, after the president's tweet, now that the jnlt is weighing in, is how the president will react if roger stone is sentenced to jail time and if he'll pardon him. >> left-hand, right-hand issue. turning back to politics now, joe biden a short time ago telling reporters new hampshire is a priority, but his travel schedule suggests his attention is focused elsewhere. >> we'll stay here all day and fight for every vote and heading to south carolina. heading down there, doing a little rally and then getting on a plane and going to nevada. >> -- >> i'm not giving up on new hampshire. >> biden's spin is looking p

of growth medicine the teachers be targeted. so the cancer doesn't want to. welcome back the justice department's antitrust of course one officer has now recused himself from the department's investigation into whether alphabet the parent company of google has been unlawfully suppressing competition assistant attorney general mcindoe rai hema head had worked for google and had them as a client years ago when he advised the search giant as it sought approval from the f.t.c. to buy internet ad firm double click the justice department says that the current antitrust probe progressed and as it did realized that he needed to recuse himself of course for months there have been calls for direct him to recuse himself including from massachusetts senator elizabeth warren who's also running for president joining us now to discuss an editorial director of the american institute for economic research jeffrey tucker himself. so dorothy in took a long time to step down here i mean he really only recused himself as the justice department started to really focus on the doubleclick acquisition which arguably you could look at that and say that

justice in washington, d.c. and there are u.s. attorneys all over the country. we talk about the southern district of new york. it's really the justice department's manhattan office. let's call those justice department field offices. there's also one in d.c. the u.s. attorney for the district of columbia. but it nonetheless is a field office. there has always and often been tension between field offices and the home office, main justice. had you ever imagined anything like this, paul? >> this is unprecedented. it's not unusual for there to be conflicts between u.s. attorney's offices and main justice about important issues like how much time a defendant ge gets. but those are resolved behind closed doors. brian, it sounds corny, but when career prosecutors join the department it's because they want to do justice without fear or favor. they don't sign up to bring political prosecutions to help the president's friends and to punish his enemies. and so when these four prosecutors resigned they sent a very loud message. they're not allowed to hold press conferences or go on tv. the clear message from their stepping down is that the justice department is on life suppo

this was entirely outside the normal procedures of the justice department with the office of the pardonrotocol for getting a pardon. he doesn't care. he's basically using his power to reward his supporters and friends and he's showing that he is not going to be bound by the rules. >> and for the people on social media who send us things that are saying why is it always about race? when we say white collar, it's not -- we're living in those times, right? >> but these high profile guys, what do they have in common? they're very rich, they're very white and they're about the president's age. these are people he relates to. >> that's not what white collar means. >> i know. >> thank you. thank you all. thanks, laura. >>> with voters in nevada and south carolina going to the polls in days everyone's talking about who black and brown voters will support, but the question isn't as simple as that, we're going to break down the role of voters of color, that's next. (paul) some wireless companies want you to spend your tax refund with them. at sprint, we're doing things differently- we say, keep y

unprecedented has happened. 1,100 justice department official who is are republican as well as democrats call for his attorney general to step down for the abuse of the office. folks, i'm serious. no one has ever, ever weaponized the justice department like he has. >> reporter: in separate op-ed former republican deputy general went further writing bill barr's america is not place that anyone, including trump voters want to go. it's banana pe prepublic where all subject to a dictator president and his hench men. they said they work hand in grov. >> president has not asked or directed his attorney general to do anything in any criminal matter. number two, he works hand in glove with the attorney general as we all are privileged to do on any number of matters that affect this country. aides to the president say there's no way mr. trump will not tweeting his opinions about federal cases even as they vovr friends he want spared and enemies he want punished by prosecutors. >> it's helped elect him. it's one o of the things the american people can love about him. he's going to keep doing it. it's what he's done from the beginning and i think it's a effective way

for decades, the department of justice, the office of legal counsel, has been issuing opinions directing the federal agencies on how they should respond to requests for information from congress. and it's no surprise that those statements have favored the executive branch. congress has no comparable process or set of legal opinions from its perspective on how federal agencies ought to respond. if we had that kind of process, and we developed a bipart th pa thoughtful legal opinions, we would not only help members vet norms inside and outside of congress, but it would help us in the courts as well. right now the executive branch has that. we don't. that's one of our recommendations. the second one is more mundane. it has to do with bipartisan compensation of committee clerks. checkers clerks do a great deal of work. on the senate side, the majority and minority sides pay their satisfactori salary on a 50/50 basis. in the house we have a democratic clerk and a republican clerk. each of those clerks are hired to answer to a particular party instead of both parties. so one thing you could do

say, chris, the last two weeks have been really shocking in terms of what we expect about a justice department and the u.s. attorney's office in the district of columbia is a part, a very important part of the justice department. the idea that it should be without fear of favor and blind and objective, and in this case you have people who have a very vested interest in some of the plaintiffs who appeared before this -- forgive me, the suspects that appeared before this court trying to whisper in the ear of the president that this -- this group of prosecutors went too hard on these individuals, and, therefore, this u.s. attorney should be bounced from any future jobs. >> and in case -- barbara ladine is a close associate of michael flynn's. has a very vested interest. that shouldn't be the controlling opinion, necessarily. >> i'm very close friends with the flynns, the ladines are and her husband co-wrote a book with michael flynn. they were there for his sentencing that did not go as expected when judge sullivan said michael flynn would likely do jail time and was not convinced they should proceed with the sentencing at tha

of washington. it's the same office that roger stone is. >> thank you all. happy valentine's day. >>> so how is the justice department rank and file reacting to bill barr's doing, what he's doing? well, i'm going to ask someone who worked in the same office as the four roger stone prosecutors and knows two of them personally. i'm not hungry! you're having one more bite! no! one more bite! ♪ kraft. for the win win. (v...especially when your easily distracted teenager has the car. the worst... at subaru, we're taking on distracted driving [ping] with sensors that alert you when your eyes are off the road. the all-new subaru forester. the safest forester ever. are you currently using a whitening toothpaste, but not seeing results? try crest 3d whitestrips. its enamel-safe formula lifts and removes stains to provide 100% noticeably whiter teeth or your money back. try crest 3d whitestrips. think you need to buy expensive skincare products [♪] to see dramatic results? try olay skin care. just one jar of micro-sculpting cream has the hydrating power of 5 jars of a prestige cream, which helps plump skin cells and visibly sm

of the same u.s. attorney's office here in washington, d.c., that a lot of people inside that office are very unhappy with how the department of justice has been conducting some -- interfering in some of these investigations. anderson. >> david gurgen, cnn legal analyst, and david axelrod, currently, cnn political commentator. david axelrod, the way attorney general barr is handling these cases, do you see it as the attorney general running interference for the president? >> well, sure looks that way. and it feels as if what happened yesterday was kind of a head faint as he proceeded along a road to try to undo some of the -- some of the work that had been done before him relative to flynn and stone and others. and -- and, you know, the president's been pretty open about it. you know, i did a podcast the other day with adam schiff and adam schiff said the thing that's so chilling is it's all done in the open like this. the president's very blatant with his tweets and his comments and it -- and it normalizes that. because -- and i'll leave it to keri, who is more qualified to speak about this than me. there is no law that prevents a pr

on december 9th of last year, the department of justice office of inspector general released a report entitled, review of four fisa applications and other aspects of the fbi's "cross hurricane" investigation. they found deep and system sick problems with how the fbi has used the fisa act to target united states citizens. i will remind you this committee expressed concerns along those lines for the last three or four years. the report found, quote, basic fundamental and serious errors in the process designed to ensure the factual accuracy of information presented to the court. in so doing, the bureau, quote, fell short of what is rightfully expected from a premiere law enforcement agency entrusted with such an intrusive surveillance tool, close quote. simply put, the fbi failed in its responsibilities with respect to fisa. and that requires action. congress must address these systematic failures if we are to leave such a powerful tool in the hands of the fbi. i am encouraged, director wray, you have volunteered to make dozens of important changes to address the findings of the inspecto

of exists only if you want it to exist. but the way it traditionally has evolved to exist is that you apply through the justice department's office of pardon attorney. the pardon attorney's office makes recommendations to the attorney general, who then refers recommendations to the white house, which then reviews them itself. and so the process can be quite elaborate, and this has allowed certain presidents, most notably in recent years, president obama, to use the pardon power to create certain -- to effectuate certain public policy obje objectives. so president obama was concerned about overly lengthy drug sentences for non-violent drug offenders and use the clemency process by way of shortening a lot of people's sentences. donald trump's, you know, if you take his pardons altogether, i agree very much with joyce that one of the purposes is clearly to signal to people that loyalty to him will be rewarded. another purpose, frankly, is just to own the libs and some of the pardons he's issued, particularly to people like dennis d'souza, or arpaio, are efforts to take a pie and smash it in the face of his political enemies. so i th

he's not just flighted himself to the top floor of the attorney general's office, the department of justicequestion for attorney general barr who is an oath -- taken an oath, who's taken an oath as a lawyer, if he will make mockery of the constitutional process and responsibilities that we have, if he chooses to do that, we'll have to assess what our next steps are. but the american people cannot go on and on without knowing why the justice department interfered with roger stone, why the laws that we pass regarding the reform of the federal bureau of prisons are not being implemented, why the civil rights division has been decimated, what kind of cases are being pursued by hard-working prosecutors, do they have the resources, and by the way, i just want to say this -- he's not being bullied by the president or the -- or the lawyers that he's speaking about, he's being addressed and challenged by life serving, long-serving prosecutors with integrity who took their opposition to his behavior and walked off a case and some walked out of the department of justi justice. it's not the president.

of columbia every day. he then left the office to go to the public integrity section of the department of justice. in justice, as we called it. he distinguished himself over there. then he returned and brought that skill set back to the u.s. attorney's office. back to the people of the district of columbia. and was a shining star. he was probably one the best public integrity prosecutors this country has. and for him to have his legs cut out from under him, together with his three fellow prosecutors, by bill barr, who really doesn't give a whit about equal justice under the law is about as upsetting as it gets for former prosecutors. >> are there any limitations on jonathan kravis speaking publicly now about this? is there anything that follows him out of the justice department that can control what he's allowed to say? >> no. we don't really work in the national security arena typically as federal prosecutors. so the only constraints he might have is he can't share information about grand jury protected material. so i think we'll leave it up to him to say if he wants to now go public with what he

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. >> for us to, chris, i'd say shocking in terms of what we expect about a justice department and the u.s. attorney's officedistrict of columbia is a part, very important part of the justice department. the idea that it should be without fear of favor and blind and objective. in this case you have people who have a very vested interest in some of the plaintiffs who appeared before this -- forgive me, suspects that appeared before this court trying to whisper in the ear of the president that this group of prosecutors went too hard on these individuals and therefore, this u.s. attorney should be bounced from any future jobs. >> barbara la dean is one of the folks part of the group, close associate of michael flynn. has a very vested interest, right? if i'm working with someone and they probably get prosecuted, i wouldn't like the prosecutors very much. but that shouldn't be the contributor. >> i'm friends with michael phillip mena. they were there for his sentencing in december which did not go as they expected when judge sullivan said michael flynn would likely do jail time and he was not convinced they shou

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of what the justice system should be. as president, how will you restore the barriers between the department of justice and the oval office>> first of all, for years and years i was chairman of the judiciary committee. i have never, never, never, including when i got elected as a kid at 29 years old when nixon was president, this is not an exaggeration. no one, no one has ever abused that office or weaponized it. he has weaponized, flat out weaponized it. and he has made it real clear. whatever you do is almost like the biblical phrase. whatever you do in my name to help me, you will get pardoned. that's the message being sent. and the idea that roger stone and/or -- well, i won't go into all of them. roger stone, who is convicted of lying to federal prosecutors and a judge said whoa, whoa, whoa, i'm not going to listen to whatever the justice department has to say now, i'm sentencing this guy and i'm sentencing him to 40 months. 40 months. guarantee you, he is going to be pardoned. guarantee. guarantee. what's that message about? don't worry. do anything illegal for me and you're okay. i will pardon you. no one has weapo

whether we're talking about the department of justice, the secretary of state's office, the departmentrning group of individuals that make sure our constitution, that our processes are respected. there is a level of corruption that takes place. if you ask any immigrant cab driver in new york city why they left, they left because their government was broken. why was it broken? because oftentimes there was an authoritarian regime that oftentimes said, you can only play by my rules and i'm going to corrupt every single system to work that way. it becomes incredibly costly, expensive for the pocketbooks and incredibly dangerous because that's when democracy starts to die. when people are trying to say, what is slate on the democratic side versus donald trump? anybody. anybody on that stage actually believes in the function of government, they actually believe in the american people, they believe caging children is wrong. and for people to say, i'm going to vote either way, if it's bernie, i'm not going to vote for him and donald trump, then you are privileged. the day you cast that vote, y

of theal office department of justice memo says you cannot indict a president, but in the watergate proceeding, nixon was an unindicted co-conspirator, and that was sustained by the courts, so what is your thinking about whether it is ever appropriate, or would it ever be appropriate for a president to be criminally indicted, or commonly implicated , and have the courts play a role in the process? mr. butler: i am tripping because michael said he got a tax break. [laughter] says iler: my accountant don't make enough money to qualify for the trump tax break. i need to find out who negotiate your contracts, michael. [laughter] mr. butler: during the impeachment of bill clinton, chief justice roberts, who summed up his role -- i'm sorry, chief justice rehnquist summarized that saying during the drug, he did nothing and he did it perfectly. to the future of the president of the united states, that is a fairly accurate description of the role of the courts. thathere was some thought if the mother investigation uncovered criminality by president trump, there might be debt he might be charged as an u

department of justice's integrity. >> more than 1,000 former department of justice officials republicans and democrats are calling for the attorney general to step down for the abuse of the office. folks, i am serious, no one has ever ever weaponized the justice department like he has. >> reporter: in a separate op-ed in the "atlantic" former republican general donald ayer went farther saying that this is not a place that trump voters would want to go, and it is a banana republic where all are subject to the dictatorial control. and many others said they were working hand in glove. >> the president of the united states has not asked or directed the attorney general to do anything in any criminal matter including roger stone, and two, he works hand in glo with the attorney general as we are all privileged to do in matters that affect this country. >> reporter: and aides say no way he will stop tweeting about the federal cases, even though they are involving friends he wants spared an enemies he wanted punished by the prosecutors. >> and it is something that propelled him to the top, and it is how he communicates with the americans, and it is a effective way for him to communicat

of advisors to guide donald trump on clemency as he considers more pardons. is that a good way to cut through the bias that exists in the justice department? >> the officethe department of attorney, doj has been controversial among the defense community and the left, you have prosecutors fitting requests from prisoners that they themselves have imprisoned. it makes sense to me because the president has the responsibility and accountability ultimately for all pardons. i understand why he wants to bring that into the white house especially when you consider it seems to be important to him and there are bureaucrats at doj that he believes acted inappropriately and even illegally in the russia investigation. why would he trust them to do anything? heather: we will see what happens moving forward. he did indicate he would not do anything until after the election in terms of roger stone. thank you for joining us, appreciate it, have a great weekend. the time is 19 after the top of the hour. amazon wants to set up shop in a chicago suburb and add 1500 jobs. why the town's mayor is saying thanks but no thanks. a belly busting challenge. the nfl lineman who tack