we've had to stop a range of these unlawful and disastrous. >> attempts by. >> doj's to run roughshodties. that affects everybody, and. >> it affects. >> people in blue states, and it affects people in red states, too. and so you're seeing people show up in red districts across the country saying, what is this about elon musk. having access to my personal data? what is this about me wondering if i am going to be able to rely. >> on meals. >> on wheels? >> what are you doing? we didn't elect this. we didn't vote for this. and so i think that there is a reckoning coming. i think the courts are doing a great job in giving the. >> time and the. >> exposure and stopping a lot of this harm in its tracks. and i think that. >> you know. >> i think those that are going to double down on the elon musk trump duo are going to face a lot of political accountability. >> one of the interesting. >> things that happened this week was that you had a judge. ordered doj's employees to testify in a lawsuit against the trump administration. >> what would you. >> ask them? >> oh, gosh. where do you. >> how

a very important doj. >> post. >> the one called.the united states. if you watch this program a lot, you might have seen. past solicitor general like neil. it's a big job. the name is familiar for the reason i. >> mentioned, because. >> this individual does have the relevant experience. i've told you about officials who don't. he does. he's a lawyer who has. litigation experience and has argued previously before the supreme court, including on behalf of then defendant donald trump in the notorious case that was trying to seek new and broader immunity for a former president. the headlines were bad. the open discussion, the advocacy, really, of legal immunity even for assasons in the united states. and that was a source of major. grilling at the hearing today. >> could a president who ordered seal team six to assassinate a political rival. >> who was not impeached? would he. be subject to criminal prosecution. >> if he were. >> impeached and convicted first? >> and your. answer is. >> is he could order the use of his office to use viol

and in fact, on doj's. original wall of receipts, the five. were all wrong and wrong. not by a little bit, by a lot, by the factor of 100 or 1000. and what it looks like is that the different agencies. >> are. telling dodge. >> hey, look what we cut. we cut this. contract and that contract. >> we saved this much. >> and that when they are wrong, whether on purpose. >> or by accident, dodge doesn't have. >> the time or the skill or the inclination to catch those errors. and so it claims these savings that are. far beyond what's real. to me, that raises a lot of questions about whether dodge knows. >> what it's doing. >> is it is it familiar enough with the government to be doing what it's doing to the government? >> so is there evidence, i mean, to your point there? is there evidence dodge is accurately keeping track of how much they've accomplished so far? because we remember. musk admitted dodge would make mistakes in the cabinet meeting. i mean, do we even know who in dodge is keeping track of the numbers? >> well, we've asked that to the wh

that was first buddy elon musk making his case for doj's work on dismantling the government with trumppodcaster joe rogan, the reactionary billionaire made a series of grandiose and unfounded claims to justify doj's mission in weeding out so-called waste and corruption. but back here in the real world, musk's erratic behavior is having devastating consequences. this weekend, for example, federal employees are receiving a second email that requests they list five bullets describing what they accomplished this past week, with a deadline to submit by monday night. however, unlike the first round of these emails last weekend, they are coming from the same agencies that told workers to ignore the last one, like the defense department and the department of homeland security, led by secretaries pete hegseth and kristi noem, respectively. this comes as the trump administration is cracking down on layoffs across agencies like usaid, giving employees 15 minutes to collect their belongings from their offices. fellow staffers were waiting outside to cheer on their laid off coworkers, and we're tol

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here to discuss is senior council to the assistant attorney general for civil rights, and the head of doje to combat anti-semitism, leo terrell. leo, good morning. >> good morning, peter. peter: leo, some of these topnotch colleges and ivy league schools had reputation tarnished for entire generation and entire generation of people my anyone that never want to send their kids to a place that had these protests, and now they're happening again. how is this happening again? >> well, it's going to stop. i want to thank president trump for giving me this opportunity. there was an executive order to pam bondi to combat anti-semitism and pam bondi told us to do everything possible. we're targeting these ten universities as a study and telling them we're taking your funding away under title circumstances six and suing you under title seven for faculty mcellroys being intimidated and harassed and telling the district attorneys in these cities, peter, do your job and arrest these individuals for hate crimes or the federal government and u.s. attorney's office will do your job for you. this is not

that the doj released an affidavit and indictment in early september, a handful of election security updates. a lot of messaging about the tactics we saw. and there was iran, which had three goals, to shape the presidential outcome. for them, it was to steer it away from an outcome they viewed as more likely to increase tensions. and to diminish confidence in electoral and democratic institutions and social splits. and then there is china, which focuses efforts at the subnational level seeking to influence congressional races. candidates regardless of party that they viewed as important for their core interests with respect to taiwan and paint our democracy as chaotic and ineffective. that is the influence landscape. they define influence as -- the intelligence community defines influence as efforts to disrupt or degrade our ability to actually conduct elections. the government consistently said it did not observe foreign actors attempting to seek to interfere in the conduct of the election. >> going back to your point about artificial intelligence, you seem to be saying it was not a

and so right now and not to mention he has decided that his doj will not prosecute cases that engage in any type of foreign nefariousness when it comes to getting money. so, unfortunately, we have someone that is occupying the white house, and as far as i'm concerned, he is an enemy to the united states. he swore an oath just like the rest of us. but right now, when you are literally putting us at risk. all because of what? because you want to convince your followers that you should be a dictator too. that you should never leave the white house because you don't believe that elections should take place. i don't really understand what is going on, and i don't know what it's going to take to get people to wake up. we are not living in a safe country. when we decide that we are going to weaken our national security by getting rid of those that are watching our nuclear stockpile, by giving everything over to a private friend known as elon musk. we are getting rid of all of the inspector generals. and so there's literally a lack of checks and balances all around us. and then we have someb

but the doj is part of the administration, and they are not holding them accountable. so we're having to bring suits through the states and nonprofits to stop them, to get emergency injunctions against the administration and stop these illegal activities. and we're going to have to continue to do so. and myself and the members of the democratic caucus are fighting back in congress. we're fighting back in the courts, and we're fighting back in our communities. >> and also, at a d.o.j. subcommittee hearing this week, you reiterated your call for elon musk to testify before the committee. what questions do you have for him? >> well, i think we have endless questions for mr. musk. i mean, first of all, what is he up to? what is his long term vision for the federal government? what is he trying to accomplish? you know, he says that his primary goal is to make the government more efficient and to root out waste, fraud and abuse. but the only receipts that he has posted so far don't even add up. his math doesn't math. this guy is not providing any transparency about what he i

neither the white house nor the doj replied to our request for comment. >> in washington the day, someow to the vatican where the vatican says pope francis has suffered a setback in his two-week long battle against double pneumonia. the positive reportedly requiring non invasive mechanical ventilation after suffering a broad kills 1000 that resulted breathing in vomit. the 88 year olds prognosis remains guarded, but he reportedly responded. well with a good level of gas exchange remaining conscious and alert at all times. >> we're following new details tonight about the death of legendary actor gene hackman and his wife. the cause of death is still a mystery. chip yost says the latest, though, on the investigation. >> hello there. we're outside the santa fe county sheriff's department where a little earlier the sheriff came out and gave an update into the investigation of the deaths of a gene hackman and his wife, betsy arakawa. and they were really 2 big headlines that came out of that news conference. one of the headlines could provide a clue as to when the couple died. that clue cou

so i guess we'll find out what real kansans think about doj's cuts and trump's priorities, and roger questions in 2026, when he's up for reelection. coming up, as donald trump continues to attack the media and seize control of who is allowed to cover his presidency, i'll speak with jim acosta, former white house correspondent, about why being white being a check on trump's power has never been trump's power has never been more important. nature knows best. that's why new chapter vitamins... ...follows her example. with key vitamins, minerals, herbs, and whole food ingredients... ...crafted to work with your body. ♪♪ bringing the power of nature... ...into your new chapter. . relief. >> work. >> play. >> blink. relief. >> the only 3. >> in. >> 1. >> extended relief formula. >> for dry eyes. >> blink. >> you know know know. >> that is against the hoa bylaws. >> bylaws, bylaws. >> we're showing. >> we're consumer cellular gets great coverage. >> you're making. >> everything orange. >> i know right. >> we use the same. >> powers as big wireless. so you get the same coverage. >> differenc

mergers and antitrust proceeds as doj.es not really have antitrust overseas but we do the federal seed act that was nice hundred years ago but today people find their seats online before it even was into yoga disclosure of the kind of variety or by. you can even get the disclosure till it lands on your farm in the magazines. there's a whole bunch of things that can be done we also need to be investing in new seed research in the same type of things goes on the bird genetics. a lot of places where the signs investments antitrust and fair market although national security concerns only to be brought together and worked on. >> thank you andy and john. we have given you a very quick peek under the hood of what is a very troubled sector. i think there's room for optimism but a lot of work to do here to promote competition and help consumers pay lower prices for high quality safe food and reliable food supply chain and there is a lot of work to be done for producers in the united states. there is this cry for support of antitrus

the doj said it was releasing the epstein files yesterday but it was a big nothing.redacted and what was released was stuff i think i have already seen when i was on the plane it. [laughter] many times. what is going on here? were you disappointed? >> i was disappointed and i thought it was extremely disrespectful to not only the victims involved about their families. and i felt like even some people on the right it was just a little bit tacky and distasteful and i expect more from us. the most frustrating part about this is why are we not focused on the one person who knows everything. which is a maxwell. even like a plea deal or something to get everything out of her and get those names and the american people have a right to know. why are we protecting the sick people any longer? [applause] >> greg: it is weird. i'm going to use an airline analogy because we are talking about jets. i think like i am a guy at a gate waiting for my plane to board and they keep pushing the time back. that is what they keep doing with the story. just come out and tell me it is cancele

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the safety of law enforcement agents are subject to to investigation and potential prosecution by the doj0 cartel members and leaders were extradited to the u.s. this week as the tariff deadline is fast approaching this coming tuesday. trump demanded mexico to crack down on cartels and the production and flow of fentanyl. c.b. cotton is here now with more on that. >> reporter: hi, griff. well, this surprise extradition leading to some justice here on u.s. soil because 40 years ago a dea agent was murdered in mexico by the sinaloa cartel. the mastermind is now behind bars here in the u.s. he was among the 29 cartel members extradited to the 8 different u.s. cities the pace u.s. charges. to face u.s. charges. this after the president threatened those stiff tariffs against our southern neighbor, and the administration weighed possible military action against the cartels, declaring them foreign terrorist organizations. friday, the former leader of the notorious sip low what -- sinaloa cartel was arraigned in federal court and pleaded not guilty. he's been under indictment for the past five ye

congress hasn't changed any laws, they haven't provided the president or dhs or doj any more authoritiesd, we see the executive using the authorities that that it has to secure that border and protect american and american communities. molly: yeah, you're talking about it right there, over 70 executive orders so far. there's a rapid pace. but one of the things that is also happening is that the president is saying we're coming after the cartels and actually doing it. and now we see these high-level cartel, longtime criminals that have this huge history locked up here in merck. in america. what sort of a message if do you think that is sending? if. >> well, i think it's sending a variety of different messages. of it's not only the decembering ig nation of the foreign terrorist organizations, but it's also the president, you know, indicating that he might tariff additional goods from mexico and canada for that matter if they don't step up and do for to discourage and stop the illegal, the human trafficking and the illegal narcotics coming across that border. so you've got both of these thi

. >> doj's very operations. >> are unconstitutional. >> their attorney said. >> during the hearing, quoteup super. >> agency with someone occupying a made up position. now, the democratic party entered the fray today. >> with its first. >> federal lawsuit of trump's. second term, arguing that trump's power grab over the bipartisan federal election commission violates federal election law. the executive order purports to provide president trump, the leader of the republican party. >> with the ability. >> to order the. fec to. >> take particular positions. >> on any question of law arising. >> in the commission's performance of any of its duties. >> the lawsuit states. meanwhile, the supreme court has not yet decided whether to uphold the federal judge's order, forcing the trump administration to pay more than. >> $2 billion. >> to usaid contractors. >> who completed. >> their often. >> life saving work weeks ago. the trump. >> administration has lost most of the legal challenges so far against key parts of their agenda, including on birthright citizenship, frozen funding and transgender ri

and there are now dozens of court challenges to doj's actions, with one judge even questioning the constitutionality of doge itself. what explains the difference? i think that doge is, in part, a well-intentioned effort to get more efficiency from government, which i applaud, but a good part of it is performance art playing into the fantasies of the maga movement to crush the establishment and its elites in the most humiliating way possible. in october, propublica revealed that the man who now heads the office of management and budget russell vought said of federal workers in a private speech, when they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. we want to put them in trauma. all this thrills a base that believes that the establishment is a bunch of arrogant urban cosmopolitans who have, over the last few decades, hollowed out america and left them dispossessed. the reality, however, is that over the last three decades, the united states has massively outperformed its rich peers, surging well ahead of europe and japan. as mich

the doj on offence going after states and localities that are not complying with some of these executiverders weather century cities, whether it something like the president's statement executive order on women's sports. ilia, there is outgoing and not just incoming and the legal fight. >> they are lawyered up and aggressive and they transition well and if you take federal funds there are strings attached including civil rights protections including enforcing federal law so if you don't like it then don't take the money. >> shannon: we saw this player with the president and the governor of maine and she said we will see you in court. >> absolutely. the trump administration is much more comfortable playing offence and trying to enforce their policy agenda through litigations and having to defend all their actions and the federal court and what we saw with the governor is the first and what will be a long series of blue state governors pushing back against the trump administration's agenda saying we will see you in court and the trump team is ready for a legal battle. >> shannon: they have

awaiting a final word from a judge on whether to dismiss sweeping federal corruption charges after the dojnded it be thrown out so he could focus on his re-election bid and the president's immigration overhaul. adams has denied all allegations. the end of cuomo's tenure as governor was marred by scandal. at least 11 women, some state employees accusing him of sexual harassment. cuomo denying all claims, even upon his resignation. before that, the face of new york's response to covid, came under fire for his handling of the virus when it was spreading through nursing homes. cuomo largely stood by his decision-making at the time. >> did i make mistakes? some painfully? definitely, and i believe i learned from them. >> reporter: and cuomo avoiding criticism of president trump in his announcement as well. instead saying he hopes to work with trump again. the former governor wasting no time hitting the campaign trail. we know that he made stops in manhattan and the bronx yesterday. >> janai: morgan norwood, our thanks to you. >>> this morning, a passing to note. ♪ grammy-nominated r&b singer an

neither the white house nor the doj replied to our request for comment. >> in washington day, some lot >> if you're a healthy current flu season is shaping up to be the worst in over a decade. the cdc says so far there have been at least 29 million cases of the flu and 370,000 americans have been hospitalized for problems related to the illness. and that's turning out to be the most since the 2015 flu season. the health agency reporting up to 16,000. people have died from the flu this season. >> one of the you groups that are brisk, israeli kids. we've seen kid deaths in san diego teens. we've seen some of the highs hit deaths in general, which is iran. 85 across the country. and that's probably expected to part of it is really from lower vaccination rates in that group. >> for the first time this year, flu deaths have surpassed covid deaths. the alarming report comes as federal officials cancel the vaccine advisory meeting that was expected to be held in march. the meeting is meant to help select the makeup of next. winter's flu vaccine. this is the second federal vaccine advisory pan

so you now have doj's deciding that. oh, well, i guess the 19 year olds can't read 300,000 emails. right? so we're going to use ai to assess the responses of the federal workers, as i noted in the lead, in that they now have to provide on a regular basis, noting the information will go into an llm large language model, an advanced ai system that looks at huge amounts of text data to understand, generate and process human language, the sources said. the ai system will determine whether someone's work is mission critical or not. so now, because they're incompetent boob heads to begin with and they don't know what they're doing, they're going to push every all of this off to ai. further confusing and making this process difficult on the human beings who are at the other end of those ai decisions. >> and compromising our data security. >> well. >> that's the end game right there. talk about that. i mean, tell us what that looks like. >> well, you know, we just saw a couple days ago a bunch of folks left the digital service, which is the entity that was created, by the way, by the obama

. >> purging the civil service deputizing billionaire oligarchs using the doj to settle scores. appears to be eyeing the american presidency at a very rapid pace. joining me now, senator richard blumenthal, democratic connecticut, part of a bipartisan group of senators who met with the ukrainian president earlier today before donald trump kicked him out. i want to ask you about that meeting. but first, just on that story i was talking about, which has not kind of blown up into a scandal in the way the eric adams scandal was, but has very similar contours insofar as the kind of huge red flag of the line attorneys, the professionals being like, i can't do this, but to me is even worse insofar as it represents the justice department being used as not a shield, not protecting someone, but as a sword. >> both are terrifying and especially to one like myself. a former prosecutor, u.s. attorney and attorney general for the state of connecticut for 20 years and investigation a prosecution charges and indictment can ruin lives and the weaponization of justice smacks of stalinist russia.

doj, dhs, any of the intelligence communities. so, you know, you're going in every day. you're you're, uh, you're being monitored. uh, your computers are owned by the government. there's all sorts of you're getting training. there's all sorts of discipline aspects because you're around colleagues who are on the same mission. on your own, you're going to be just less disciplined. so you're exactly right that there's both the the there might be a desire for people who are fired to sort of, you know, stick it to the united states. right. but there also can be things that are done to them. they they talk too much. they they are approached by someone they think is a friend or a potential girlfriend or, or boyfriend, and they disclose too much information. so it's that, um, i think it's a little bit of the chaos of what's going on. uh, will get will sort of undermine that discipline. i should also say mistakes have already been made. when you ask me, what are the intelligence threats internally? uh, we certainly know that the doge employees or the doge, uh, workers are not eve

. >> and there's no longer a wall between him and the doj because he has loyalists. there. unbelievable. paul butler, it's always so good to see you, especially here on set. thank you for being here i appreciate it. my pleasure. coming up next, and to paul's point, defending democracy, the latest from inside a federal courtroom where lawyers are making the case that elon musk is in direct violation of the united states constitution. my conversation with executive chair of the state democracy defenders fund, norm eisen, and how he's convincing judges to restore power to the people. restore power to the people. don't go anywhere. if you're living with dry amd, you may be at risk for developing geographic atrophy, or ga. ga can be unpredictable—and progress rapidly—leading to irreversible vision loss. now there's something you can do to... ♪ ( slow. it. down.) ♪ ♪ ( get it goin' slower.)♪ ask your doctor about izervay. ♪ (i. zer. vay.) ♪ ♪ ( gets ga goin' slower.) ♪ izervay is an eye injection. don't take it if you have an infection or active swelling in or around your

there's a conflict of interest because elon musk is directly involved in what is happening at cfpb, doj'sbecause of what you just noted. and it's just one of many conflicts of interest, frankly, that exist for musk with this administration. do you see it that way? do you think this is a direct conflict of interest? and what is your biggest concern? >> yeah, well, we would. prohibit our employees and others. from even. owning any stocks of any company. >> related to our work. you know, it's. >> not just x and twitter. there's also tesla. a lot of people borrow a lot of money to purchase teslas. and when things go. wrong with their loan, they go to the cfpb every day. we were getting back about $4 million on. >> average into. >> people's pockets. and right now it's zero. so i think it's not just the conflicts. it's that they're shutting down. core functions that police the markets. and i just think this is baiting another financial meltdown like we saw in 2008. >> the one benefit to no longer being a government employee is. >> that i can now ask. >> you political questions. >> you know. >>

on top of that, of course, the doj has been getting involved heavily in new york, both with suing the city and suing the state over immigration policies. and then, oh, yeah, uh, basically getting involved in the mayor's, uh, corruption case and trying to strip away the charges away from him, while arguably trying to basically force the mayor to do their will when it comes to immigration. this is a hyper involvement, and it's created the impression amongst, i should say, some democrats that that trump is basically singling in on new york because of his frustration there. republicans, i should say, push back and say biden set up a lot of issues in new york, and he is fulfilling his campaign promises by stepping in in this capacity. >> five and a half weeks in, uh, and we already have 4 or 5 bullet points on that new york list. kevin frey with spectrum news, thanks so much for being with us. jake tapper is back with his cnn original series, united states of scandal, with deep dives into infamous tales of political corruption and corporate misdeeds and celebrity con artists. the new seaso

indeed, it's hard to see how doj's moves do anything to make the government more efficient and even less according to analysis by the associated press, 40% of the canceled government contracts touted by musk are not expected to save the government any money. elon musk's sledgehammer approach to government has proceeded has precedent in silicon valley. mark zuckerberg's internal motto at facebook for several years was to quote, move fast and break things. but musk is now arguing that there is precedent in politics as well. president bill clinton's reinventing government initiative. last week, musk posted on x, quote, what doge is doing is similar to clinton gore dem policies of the 1990s. the current dem party has just gone so crazy far left that it isn't recognizable anymore. end quote. now, musk would be on to something if it were accurate. would you be surprised if i told you it wasn't? the clinton administration worked closely with congress and with each federal agency and department to establish a bipartisan commission to oversee oversee the reinventing government initiative between

the safety of law enforcement agents are subject to investigation and potential prosecution by the dojympian's $1 billion cocaine ring is back in the united states to face charges. the justice department says andrew clark, also known as the dictator, helped orchestrate the operation with knowboarder ryan whetting. prosecutors say the drug organization is also responsible for multiple murders. whetting is on the fbi's most wanted list and believed to be hiding somewhere in mexico. >>> a new york city jury spent this week hearing a case seemingly pluckedded out of a mafia movie. a detective allegedly working for a powerful crime family is accused of using his police powers to try to take out their competition. senior correspondent eric shawn has this strange story. >> reporter: he was sworn to uphold the law, but now a former detective is accused of being a cop for the mafia. prosecutors say former detective hector rosario who in 2022 was fired from long island's nassau county police department in new york, worked for the bonanno crime family while he carried a shield. he is on trial for

trail, president trump promised to take on the bloated bureaucracy in bc, rebuild trust and at the doj and fbi, cracked down on waste, fraud, and abuse and restore common sense. day one he started delivering on those promises with a wave of executive orders and the official launch of doge that he tasked elon musk to lead. already these efforts brought to the public attention countless examples of wasteful spending including 59 million dollars paid to luxury hotels in new york to house illegal immigrants. $1.5 million to advance d.e.i. in suburbia's workplaces. -- serbia's workplaces. the left launched a coordinated campaign to try to demonize mr. muska hoping to shift focus from the disasters waste, fraud, and abuse that happened on biden's watch but it is not working because no matter which political party people come from the vast majority of americans agree $10 million worth of food funneled to al qaeda was probably not the best use of taxpayer money. there is another source. a key source of wasteful spending doge and the subcommittee should set their sights on next, medicaid waste

as well as and i would add one thing to that on the basis of immigration, but then also the fbi and doj and the previous had actually put traditional catholics as they termed it, under investigation, and they were called out and they had to apologize for it. there seems to be a debate about, you know, what the direction the catholic church is and how do we contextualize that in the context of this? and i asked this as a non-christian, i'm a hindu. and i find this fascinating. yeah. i mean, i as the catholic, i guess i'll i'll i don't i mean, catholicism is in a slightly different position than evangelicalism. i do it is you could just see in the chart that john had that that catholics white catholics lean right and nonwhite catholics i think are sort of right down the middle. but in either cases, they're they're the kind of intense connection to a broader particular political party. i would i would stress, again just in partial with my friend here that that weirdly catholicism, was sort of the ultimate outsider form of christianity in american life for a long time right. i think catholi

. >> i will say, john, if you and we've talked about this a good bit, if you talk generally about doj'sbeen a popular concept when, you know, there was a golden fleece award when al gore was talking about it. it's been popular, you know, remaking reforming government. it is when the rubber hits the road and you have the individual cuts that there are problems. certainly in states like virginia. i will say, though, you know, what did we. hear after the election? it was the price of eggs. it was the price of groceries. it was the price of gas. well, none of those have actually gone down. and i suspect as much as we talk about this and talk about other issues, if the price of beef remains at record levels, if the price of eggs remained at record levels, if the price of groceries don't come down substantially in the coming year, that's probably what voters are going to be more focused on than those or ukraine or any of these other issues that do matter a great deal. yeah. >> 100%, 100%. joe and i you know, i talk to a lot of people who are out there doing. >> focus groups around. >> the cou

we know that the mayor is been under investigation, has received some sort of deal from the trump dojremove him from power? you opted not to. what would change your mind? could you revisit that decision? >> certainly. and it's an extraordinary power to think that one individual can use her judgment and say that you've lost the public trust. and so it's not one that you take lightly. but i also know there's a lot of people in the city who are very concerned about the influence of the trump administration in our city. they're trying very hard to have control over everything, not just immigration, but even how i control the traffic in new york. so this is a concern, not people are outraged. people are very concerned about this, worried. but i said, if i can get some controls in place to give me line of sight into budget investigations, legal, and this all has to be approved by the city council, i can't even unilaterally do those controls. i was just trying to create some safeguards so people can dial down the temperature a little bit. and just like i had to do last fall, calm it down and

the hypocrisy is just how blinding speech the doj has already begun to target trump's already begun towas. >> he was. >> he was. >> who is jd vance to lecture us? >> all right. well, i have questions. i have i have a questions. i have i have a question then for you because you can say thatjd vance is a hypocrite if you want and i'll disagree with you. but it seems that from what you�*re saying that from what you're saying that from what you're saying that you agree that free speech is a good thing. so what then, do you say to keir starmer saying that we have plenty of it, if that's his assessment? when you look at all of these facts, surely you can admit he's telling porkies. >> no, he's saying that we�*ve had free speech for a long time. past tense. we've had, we have had had. yeah. that's the that's had had. yeah. that�*s the that's the that's actually. >> the don't worry. we're going >> the don�*t worry. we're going to crack down on that. >> no, no. but but we we've had free speech for such a long time. he�*s completely right. he's not lying. but there are clearly ways in which the