garland defending the justice department from allegations of political bias, reminding lawmakers that the doj had no role in donald trump's conviction in new york state. here's our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas. >> reporter: tonight, the attorney general firing back, rebuking republican claims the department of justice is being weaponized. >> these repeated attacks on the justice department are unprecedented and they are unfounded. >> reporter: in an intense, more than five-hour hearing, garland today defiant, even as he faces the threat of being held in contempt by house republicans for refusing to release the audio of president biden's interview with the special counsel over biden's handling of classified documents. >> i will not be intimidated. and the justice department will not be intimidated. >> reporter: and garland for the first time blasting false allegations that the doj and biden were behind the manhattan district attorney's prosecution and conviction of former president trump on 34 felony counts. >> that conspiracy theory is an attack on the judicial process itself. >>

yet the fbi and doj are largely absent.xperience runs in direct contrast of your testimony. have you been in about the impact that massive illegal immigration, human trafficking, and drug smuggling are having? >> not only have i been in contact with the tribes, have been on the reservation in montana and alaska. the answer to your question, congress is not giving out money for fbi agents to go into the reservations. >> this is congress' job that you don't do your job? that you won't protect our reservations, from the consequences of the biden and mayorkas open border policies. that is congress' fault, not theirs? >> if you give us more money for fbi agents. >> help out if they enforce the board, ask them to enforce the border. >> the time for the gentle lady= has expired. the gentle lady yields back. >> we are out on this side, i would offer unanimous consent for two letters that may address ms. hagan's line of questioning, what is dated april 20 22nd fr the department of treasury, it is from corey tellis, the acting secret

by the way it's not only the doj.when he sat in a deposit lawyers requested it was an audio or videoi have my suspicions lie and i think it's because things read differently than they think. in 2004 the fbi issued a report in favor of recording interviews because of the following bene for officers to appear at hearings improve court efficiency with fewerial motions and confessions. iciency no longer need to piece toget stemming from frivolous misconduct in 2014 and this is all before you were the attorney general you are in the big chair so we get that the present obama create a perception that interviewsws should be reluctant on a clear accorded to the problem is the reason which reduces both the doj's arraignment before trial trial -- so my question to which we can start with this why if they arere so essential for you to record them that it will chill extra for chill future cooperatio the recording and enough itself has no benefit.it to your guys do when you don't have to turn itgs are essential. you and i both kno

doj responded to you that they were being gathered. on february 27th, the judiciary and oversight committee gave subpoenas to garland for relevant information about the transcripts, and about the legality of it. the return date was march 7th. then the doj produced an incomplete set of documents comprising only corresponding to exchange. no audio. on march 9th, the committee notified the doj that his production was inadequate. and you often extend the date of production for the audios onto march 11th at 3:00. on march 11th the doj informed the committee the documents were undergoing reviewed by the agency. they would not meet the committee's deadline. why is he getting extension after extension? i think steve madden got that. and i think peter navarro got that. and i think you've demonstrated factually the great lengths we've gone to try to work with them to help them comply. it shouldn't take any time, but we've gone to great lengths. we've gone above, and beyond to make it as convenient as possible for them to turn over those tapes. w

yet the fbi and doj are largely absent. the tribes experience runs in direct contrast of your testimony. have you been in contact with any of our tribes about the impact that massive illegal immigration, human trafficking, and drug smuggling are having? >> not only have i been in contact with the tribes, have been on the reservation in montana and alaska. the answer to your question, congress is not giving out money for fbi agents to go into the reservations. >> this is congress' job that you don't do your job? that you won't protect our reservations, from the consequences of the biden and mayorkas open border policies. that is congress' fault, not theirs? >> if you give us more money for fbi agents. >> help out if they enforce the board, ask them to enforce the border. >> the time for the gentle lady has expired. the gentle lady yields back. >> we are out on this side, i would offer unanimous consent for two letters that may address ms. hagan's line of questioning, what is dated april 20 22nd from the department of treasur

the doj stood up to trump.st jeff sessions, but when it came time to do the right thing he did the right thing and recused himself. i have almost no respect for bill barr, but when it came time to do the right thing after he lost the election he would not do trump spitting and would not file frivolous lawsuits against the voting machines and what have you, so trump won't have forgotten that. project 2025 manifesto is his plan to remake the doj into an organization that would do its bidding. the key way to do that. look. the entire section is basically a seinfeld episode. just an airing of grievances that they have. >> can you talk about those grievances? there are many. one that i found particularly troubling is that project 2025 proposes to redirect the department of justices focus from white-collar crimes to violent crimes, and i thought this was really interesting given that many of the crimes of which trump and his others have been charged are often those white-collar crimes, so what do you make of this shi

doj and i.r.s. proved massive charges against hunter biden and decided to let them drop one by one. >> laura: given what we knew and what had come to light, it is curious they did not decide to plead this out. given utter disgrace reigning down on the biden family because of everything that has come out as a result of this, were they used to getting away with stuff or thought he could do no wrong or what? >> they flew jill biden back and forth from europe to delaware, i think as show of political force and it seems this delaware jury surprisingly did not go with the power play of the bidens and followed the facts and law here. >> laura: one thing in today's coverage of this is how the media quickly shifted to white w washing the concern about what has bveen done to president trup in state and federal court and isn't this great that the biden family is huddled up together supporting each other. comms director kate bedingfield said this. >> the biden family is close, close knit, they lean on each othe

not stand by while the doj cnd refuses to comply with our votes holding bayji inc. and temperate it's not that the doj cannot prosecute garland is that they are choosing not t protect the present and his. sounds extreme, it soundsthe a.g. in handcuffs and drag him in here. i here to say what motivates me. the doj is doing in hometown, they are willing to arrest a regular citizen put them in handcuffs charge them with the crime and for what? particular cit to expose the crime in texas and harmful practices on minors. he was violations. this demon merrick garland in this doj's determination to target whistleblowers who opposed -- impose their ideolog they want to attack regular citizens. they use the full force of our legal system to protect allies and we the motion to hold merrick natural s running roughshod over constitutional system. back to ms. hageman. thend point that i'm cosponsoring this contempt resolution because it is the job accountable for his actionsefusing to comply with a congressionalbpoena and the department of justice refuses to do super two weeks a

breaking, biden's doj was authorized to shoot me. joe biden was locked and loaded, ready to take me out and put my family in danger. now as we have seen, as i just told you about the guy who was threatening the fbi agent, those words are obviously very dangerous, which is why special counsel jack smith asked the judge overseeing the documents case, a trump appointee, to bar trump for making statements that endanger law enforcement. in the second petition after the judge denied his first request, he writes the former presidents deceptive and inflammatory assertions irresponsibly put a target on the back of the fbi agents involved in this case, as trump well knows. now here's the thing. in response a group of 24 republican state attorneys general from across the country filed an amicus brief. again, this is a gag order

it's essential that the next administration place a high priority on the reforming the doj. anything other than a overhaul will other further erode the trust of the significant portions of the american people and harm the very fabric that holds -- >> i get scared. i get scared for what is clearly an effort to effectively politicize and overtake our criminal system and the department of justice. i worked in the department of th justice for 10 years and worked with fbi agents. fbi is notoriously a republican leaning institution. it >> the notion it's a bastion of woke liberals. >> to their credit, did not know what their politics were because we checked politics at the door when you're career civil servant. that's what trump does not like. he wants to make everything political, it's part of the reason you say project 2025. i join date task force in congress that is being chaired by jared huffman of california that is the stop project 2025 because it's trump's former senior executives who have now gone over to the heritage foundation and to put together a 900 page playbook to t

doj says several north carolina synagogues received threats like this. just days later, i spoke with his rabbi and the department of justice had charged and arrested a california man, for these threats, and for a false bomb threat to the wake county sheriff's office and a threat to an elected official. mr. attorney general, today, we have her criticism of your office from the other side of the aisle. i want to share the story to shed light on the good work the department of justice is doing, work, in the past couple of weeks, has made a direct impact on public safety in my community. thank you for your diligence. not only in this case of horrific and violent anti- semitism, but in addressing threats against other communities. in addition to the recent uptick in anti-somatic threats, we have seen an increase in threats against muslim communities, which is equally troubling, the war in gaza has heightened emotions across the united states and unfortunately some of our most vulnerable communities are facing the brunt of this sentiment. which too often has t

the doj would have held a press conference, would have been a big deal.ge, large forces of doj prosecutors would be bearing down on these people right now. because we know what it looks like when the doj wants to get serious and send a message of deterrence. >> fbi is quite familiar with large scale complex and fast-moving investigation. we are up to the challenge. the brutality the american people watched, with shock and disbelief on the 6th will not be tolerated by the fbi. the men and women of the fbi will leave no stone unturned in this investigation. >> laura: even this year they are still sending out doj alerts about january 6th. did you see this guy? like someone with -- did any democrat on the hill though put a statement out calling for the prosecution of the people who did that in lafayette park? it's clearly the policy at this point of the administration and the doj that left wing groups can destroy any statue, any -- they can block any road. they can do any of that as long as the democratic party doesn't have to pay any political price. the doj

i think that's why democrats are trying to protect him and the doj.if these tapes come oue maria. ,i think they have big problems. i think his cognitive inability is the number one issue for them currently. maria: senator, what do you think about all of this and walk us through your meeting withut president trum ap this week? how did i it go, you came out of the meeting, republicans, yourself, jd vance and others in e senate announced a blockade of biden nominees to protest tht lea fare against president trump, tell us more. >> we'll use every procedural tool we have in the senate tous slow things down and block these nominees. the department of justice has been fully weaponized not just against president trump and the weamerican people, so unlike thm working outside the law, we'll work within the rules but this w is aor response. there has to be response. we cannot allow our country to descend into a ba an that that republic. these two tiers of justice under thhas e biden administration, pl politicaicl opponents to jail,pu censort americans, usher an

the doj also provided correspondence between the doj and presidents lawyers. the transcript of the special counsel's interview with the president's ghost writer, in complete detail, and response to the chairs request. the attorney general provided us the full transcript of president biden's voluntary five hour interview with the special counsel. 250 plus pages. they have given us all the information we asked for. now jimmy gomer and chairman jordan, who work subpoenaed by the january 6th committee and never rendered a single document and spent one minute testifying, respond by seeking to hold the attorney general of the u.s. in contempt based on preposterous claims of obstruction. like their slapstick impeachment drives against president biden and secretary meyer kiss, the new content drive is doomed because it's wrong on the facts and the law and who the real culprit is. the motion before you today projects they lawless conduct that republicans regularly defended when donald trump was president, onto and a ternary general who devoted his life to defend the ru

warning against going after the doj and politicizing the doj. he talks about a california man who was convicted of threatening to bomb an fbi field office and that california man wrote threats to the fbi that said i can go on a mass murder spree. in fact, it would be very explainable by your actions. and forgive me for reading for a moment, but i think this is important from garland. he says these threats, heinous threat of violence, come in the form of conspiracy theories crafted and spread for the purpose of undermining public trust in the judicial process itself. those include false claims that a case brought by a local district attorney and resolved by a jury verdict in a state trial was somehow controlled by the justice department. they come in the form of dangerous falsehoods about the fbi's operations that increase the risks faced by our agents. they come from the form of efforts to bully our career public servants by publicly sings ling them out. in the form of false claims that the department is politicizing its work to somehow influenc

is itthe doj is on pace to arrest roughly 1 pressed her a day in 2024 nearly incident?>> i don't know what the pace is. it is to bring justice people criminally responsible. as they are found, they will be arrested. >> is your office preparing to drop charges against more th 340 january 6th charged and released dozens from prison on that count of the supreme court this month reverses how your department has used to that statute against them? >> we respect the supreme court. whatever the court rules, we will act appropriately. >> you have to drop the charges eme court says you did that wrongfully. >> i will not answer hypotheticals. we will be and see what the t says. >> what you say in response to d.c. appellate court overturning two sends a request by your office? >> that is a united states system of justice working. of people think they have that is the way the system works. we respect the results. >> you have refused to answer questions before us, including my questions, about january 6th. on multiple occasions on this rt. co are you in receipt of that report yet?0;

attorney general, last week it was reported that house ethics panel subpoenas doj for records. i would like to submit it to the record with unanimous consent. i just want to get this straight. he wants the attorney general to reopen and publicize evidence from an investigation that a donald trump appointed prosecutor closed against president biden. >> can you address why that is the doj policy?ú, >> law enforcement files at the justice department so that in future investigations people are willing to cooperate with us. we understand congresses concerns and we have an obligation to assess whether the information that we have provided is sufficient to accommodate the legitimate needs of the congress. all of the reasons they have given us for why they need the audio are satisfied with respect to the tapes. that is all of the legitimate reasons given that relate to legislative work of the committee. as that we have accommodated by providing the audiowee provided his testimony in full, and we provided the testimony report. we have gone as far as we can go to accommodate. we are tryi

president trump is because doj á has determined the president is not mentally fit to defend thes- theseare not the justice department's successes and it's the countries. success relies on a partnership with state and local law order and weizing the gentle lady from texas. >> thank you, mr. chairman. first, i want to thank you and every member of your team for your decapublic service and for everything you do on behalf of our country every single day and i know this political environment is toxic and difficult and not just for you and your team but for your families as well. i do want to express my gratitude to you. i also wanted xovide a very distinct and different perspective on what the state of texas is doing from what one of my texas colleagues just described. the way he described it is really troubling to me. governor greg abbott, under the auspices of what a republican colleague of mine just described as texas defending itself ■has actually created an incredibly hostile environment for my community of el likely o communities around the texas mexico border. my constituents have see

their targets according to the doj, homeless people and minority communities, cnn's josh campbell is joining us now with more details on this this is a shocking report. i remember some of the local stations that investigations they're all sorts of things going on and now you have this doj report that is damaging. what can you tell us? >> no, you're absolutely right. and it was those initial reports, those high-profile incidents that actually launched this investigation, doj coming in nearly three years ago opening a civil rights investigation finally, coming out with this blistering report for the phoenix police department, i'll show you some of what their findings were. they essentially claim that over this period of time since 2016, some of the data they've been looking at that officers have flouted federal civil rights laws and using excessive force, they claim that officers at times had delayed rendering aid to people that they had shot. they had continued to use force against people who were already incapacitated. and then they also described this whole kind of mischaracterizati

he worries it could fuel a spike in threats of violence aimed at doj employees. david? >> david: pierre thomas, thank you. >>> we turn now to the president's son, the first witness taking the stand in hunter biden's federal gun trial. the prosecution entering hunter biden's laptop as evidence, and what the defense claimed today. abc's terry moran at the courthouse tonight. >> reporter: with his wife by his side, hunter biden today was back in federal court in delaware for opening statements in his trial on felony gun charges. first lady jill biden and hunter's sister ashley sat behind the defendant in a show of support, while prosecutor derek hines laid out the government's case, telling the jury, "no one is above the law. it doesn't matter who you are or what your name is." the president's son, hines said, "bought a gun and lied during a background check" in 2018, knowing "he was a drug user and a drug addict" when he filled out the federal form for gun purchases. and the prosecutor painted a vivid portrait of hunter biden the crack addict, including evidence from his

the doj doesn't work for you. y it works for joe biden and the democrat party.told you this from thehe outset. the statute takedowns and destructions, it was never about the confederacy or property lee or slaveholders or the 1800s, this was about their hatred of the american story. they do not believe in the constitution. they do not believthere in the n declaration of independence or whether we win another war, they don't care about that. for that matter, they don't cara california, illinois, new york, they don't care if it goes downs the drain, look what they were doing to migrants. it doesn't matter to them. as for the democrats in congress, they, too, know theey rules of accountability do not u apply to them not the same way as republicans. asy pe we told you from the very beginning, if nancy pelosi had done her job before january 6th, the breach never would have happened at the capital. and now, we have proof that shes knew she was responsible. this was footage taken by her own daughter of the day the attack. >> any did not have any accountability for what

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the leftovers from the trump doj prosecuted marilynmosby. the leftovers are still doing it, and democrats play nice, and say we don't want to move them out because it will look political. what happens is it's political. the two-tiered system is actually real. it's just that donald trump is trying to convince two rappers that it's really against him and that they should forget their own interests and only care about him, not even about their own lives, just him. >> right. and if you think that the justice department is politicized now, if donald trump ever gets back into the white house, hold on and strap in, because it is going to be a disaster. he is telegraphing in every way possible that he's going to use the justice department as his own kind of enforcement agency for all the things that he wants to do, including retribution. and that is what i think a lot of republicans are lusting for. his vengeance, his retribution, and that's why they're so upset, because the justice system is trying to hold someone accountable who they don't want to

well, the baseless accusation that the doj sent and directed one of its top deputies, a man by the name was matthew colangelo to join the manhattan da's office and their case again, so much now, if you had his name on your bingo board congratulations but you had no problem dispatching matthew colangelo's. >> how is it that a man matthew colangelo's communications with mr. colangelo's mr. attorney general. i want to go back to the mr. her collegial questions well, time and time again, they were a swatting at this fly of a claim that the doj had anything to do with the manhattan da's case he tried and my saying it's false, i did not dispatch mr. colangelo's anywhere. they had conspiracy theory is an attack on the judicial process itself. >> now, given the headlines, you might think that garland was actually brought in to testify about the manhattan da's case and conviction, right? >> well, you'd be wrong. >> he was actually there because republicans want to hold him in contempt for refusing to turn over the audio of the special counsel interview with president biden in the classified data

. >> johnson laid out his plan to go after the doj what he calls weaponizat doj against president trumpts to use everything from oversight to appropriations even legislative bills to go after the doj. your thoughts on that? should congress, shoul the speaker be playing that role for congress as well?■? >> well, the speaker has a role to play with respect to his■í extreme maga republican conference, let me speak to the as it relates to theffort■ to create in a political advantage for the extreme maga republicans by trying to raise this issue of so-called weaponization. they have a select committee on weaponization. it has been a complete and spectacular failure and so there's no reason for any of us on a democratic side to believe that based on the fact that the former president who went through a judicial process just like any other american and at the end of that process was lasted for five weeks, you had 12 jurors come to a unanimous conclusion that the former president was guilty of 34 felonies and that somehow is when i was a state prosecution that had nothing to do with president b

sadly, the doj is not looking out for you. their primary concern seems to revolve around protecting weak democrats from scrutiny, helping to elect joe biden while waging lawfare against donald trump. and needless to say, massive reform and accountability massym is needed in washington and in the swamp. and by the way, starting in september, early voting begins in 146 days. it's election day. only you 146s can fix it. here with reaction, fox news contributor jonathan turlean tuh we got over the case. to me, the evidence was overwhelming incontrovertible. what about this real big storyhs to me, which is now we that they've known from the beginning that the laptop begias rea. >> all these people lied. the 50 t one intel agents. you know what i guess at the direction of wink and tony blinken, you know, out there, they knew nothing about the laptop. t hu they all lied. joe biden lied. hunter lied. everybody liediden. the media lied. big tech lied. they censored the story. and that helped joe in 2016. i think i'm sorry. ndin 2020. >

if you are going to politicize the doj he would be at the top of the list and that did not take placeat is a lot of foolishness and a lot of gameplaying. unfortunately there is too much coming from comes to things like that. i think the american public are tired of the game that the republicans are doing with that committee. host: tomorrow is june 6, the 80th anniversary of d-day. the 320th barrage balloon battalion was the only union composed entirely of african-american soldiers, can you tell us about that and the efforts around that? probably 10 years ago i met a woman who wrote a book about the 320th barrage balloon battalion which is what initially gave me interest. i was a corporal at the time and there was a corporal called waverley woodsman who was a medic. they believe that corporal woodson probably at the time performed and helped save probably 5% to 10% of the combatants that were fighting on the allied side during that day on june 6, 1944. and there is a lot of history and sad history around racism gf honor and sadly, he might never be given a medal of honor because people

. >> johnson laid out his plan to go after the doj what he calls weaponization of the doj against president trump. and he wants to use everything from oversight to appropriations even legislative bills to go after the doj. your thoughts on that? should congress, should the speaker be playing that role for congress as well? >> well, the speaker has a role to play with respect to his extreme maga republican conference let me speak to the general issue as it relates to the effort to create in a political advantage for the extreme maga republicans by trying to raise this issue of so-called select committee on weaponization. it has been a complete and spectacular failure and so there's no reason for any of us on a democratic side to believe that based on the fact that the former president who went through a judicial process just like any other american and at the end of that process was lasted for five weeks you had 12 jurors come to a unanimous conclusion that the former president was guilty of 34 felonies and that that somehow is indication of weaponization. when i was a state prosecution that

where are you, doj?re hate crimes. >> gerri: i find this personally frightening, because this is anarchy, right there. and nobody is getting arrested, people are not getting arrested, they are not having to pay for their crimes, even the president is not saying let's meet out some form of punishment. and what this reminds me of, i don't know if you know joan didion's writings, but during the 60s she wrote about the drug culture which is horrific in san francisco, that the center cannot hold, that we are facing anarchy, because of this. and that's kind of where i feel that we are right now in this country. >> kayleigh: wears doj, where is doj, we know are some of them are, they are going after pro-life activists like this women, let's bring up her picture, 75 years old and her name is paulo parlett harlow, there she goes. her husband has feared that she will die in prison, into your sentence and a 75 years old, is sickly and in prison for simply obstructing the pathway to an abortion clinic. she did not e

and the doj sniffing around. julie: this could have been used as an excuse to solve them down. $18 billion worth of shares. >> a 10 plan filing, the full case is trading at 45 times earnings, growing earnings at 30%, 70% margins, your margin is my opportunity. i don't think all these companies will let them take all the share. he you will see some competition from intel, amd. neil: people look at forward earnings. and the earnings seem to justify it. >> if estimates are correct, it's not overvalued in the sense that it can grow 35% a year, what's questionable is whether the 5 year growth rate of 40% is going to be the case because i do think competition will come up and i think that's underestimated in the market. neil: kelly touched on it, why now? >> they saw what happened, got to it too late and couldn't to do anything about it. the bulls talk about nvidia ecosystem where they develop their software platform and the doj wants to make sure they don't run into a situation where no one can get in and all the othe

a target is acquired here with trump and then you assemble the legal talent from the doj, mr. bring everyone in to get him. >> i don't really -- >> and meanwhile, the judge is making money on it. the judges families making money on it for stuff that you no one is going to believe is going to great disruption. i've give my life to the law. i care deeply about the law and i thk the law fair we've seen against president trump will do great damage well beyond our time. i see my time is expiring. i yield. >> thank you. ranking member is recognized to talk. >> do you want to respond x9to anything from mr. gaetz's tira >> i don't know mr. porantz, i don't know what's in his book, these are decisions made in another office independent of the justice department. >> thank you mr. attorney general. journey of his peers convicted former president trump on 34 felony counts. the case was brought in front of the manhattan d.a. . it's a state case, not a federal case. i shouldn't have to ask you this, mr. attorney general, but since the majority seems to be confused, can you please explain th