garland: no. you have to be a united states citizen, you have to meet the qualifications for that to be a voter. it's important that only those people vote. mr. clyde: how do you prove that? if you don't require i.d.? you require i.d. to get on an airplane. they are not going to let you on an airplane. [talking simultaneously] mr. garland: i have voted every year my entire life and i've never been asked to show an identification. mr. clyde: i've always been asked to show identification. wow. ag garland: somehow democracy goes on without that. mr. clyde: do you believe that illegal aliens residing in the united states should be allowed to vote in federal elections? yes or no? mr. garland: no. mr. clyde: all right, great, we agree on something. other than u.s. citizens, are there any other legitimate voters? mr. garland: you have to be a u.s. citizen to vote. mr. clyde: you must be a u.s. citizen. ok, great. i ask unanimous consent to add this to the record, mr. chairman. thank you, sir. this is a p

garland: yes. just at a high level of generality because i don't want to talk about matters i can't talk about in an open session. but we do have investigations, financial investigations with respect to hamas which we have had for a number of years. october 7 as the f.b.i. director noted in his testimony, has raised our threat level considerably with respect to concerns of foreign terrorist organizations like hamas. that might foment problems in the united states. that includes not only hamas, but hezbollah, the iranian quds force, isis, isis-k. various sects, branches of al qaeda. we are concerned and are making sure all of our joint terrorism task forces are on the lookout for these matters since october 7. there was a heightened concern before october 7, but obviously october 7 has only redoubled our concern here. mr. aderholt: i yield back. chair rogers: mr. ruppersberger. mr. ruppersberger: thank you, mr. chairman. ranking member. attorney general garland, first thing i want to say i think you

garland: u.s. attorney's offices do pursue -- attorneys' offices do pursue fentanyl traffickers, including even the sale of small amounts where we can establish the trafficker is the one who caused the death. mr. garcia: do you charge them with homicide when that's the case? mr. garland: there's a narcotics statute that includes sentencing enhancement for death. we don't prosecute homicides, those are state laws. mr. garcia: when we're putting the cape on and saying there's a 20% reduction in homicides, we are not counting the 75,000 americans that have been killed by this drug each year -- the second metric of keeping our country safe, we talk about the death to america chants in some of our cities. we heard raised testimony last year that we're in one of the most precarious positions our nation has been in the last several decades. we have 10,000 people entering our border a day illegally. 7,000% increase in chinese immigrants coming across our border illegally. 10,000 people a day coming across

and i say, sir, uh, also garland. i really hope that all of the atrocities committed against the people of the down bass 8 years before this part of the complex are i hope they're not held accountable to you. you know it didn't. dimitri, it's very interesting. we are the 3 of us and our viewers have been watching this conflict very closely since 2014. let me repeat that, 2014. but the west is so afraid of peace. why? well, let's distinguish between the peoples of the west and so those who uh, i think that there is broad based support and always has been accepted perhaps moment. so patriotic insanity, liking the aftermath of $9.00 to $11.00 for peace. people generally do not want wars and all of the horrors that that brings upon them. but unfortunately, through our re, electro system, not just the united states. now it's in virtually every country in the west. we suffer from rigged elections. and you end up with people in power, we're much more concerned about maintaining their own privilege in wells and had gemini, ra

attorney general garland, once again welcome. thank you for being here. i look forward to your testament to working with you on ensuring that would provide what the department of justice needs for fiscal year 2025. yield back, mr. chairman. >> mr. attorney general, you are now recognized for an opening statement. without objection your written statement will be entered into the record. i i would ask that you try to kp your statement to fiveat minutes ord. thereabouts so we can havem additional time for questions. >> thank you, chairman rogers, ranking member cartwright, distinguished members of the subcommittee. the opportunity to discuss the justice department's funding request fiscal year 2025.mb since i last appeared before you for more than 115,000 public servants make up the justice department, have continued to work tirelessly to fulfill our mission. keep our country safe, to protect civil rights, and to uphold the rule of law. over the past year are use attorneys offices, law enforcement agents and grantmaking experts of work together with police a

i mean, what magical thinking world is key in garland. well, i, i think that again, what he represents is the absurd thinking and the an inability to, to really address reality by the western leaders. when he's basically saying is something that would work for domestic politics. it would work for the elite ruling class that he's in, but on the actual battlefield it would make no difference other think it is that then to get his troops annihilated. so what we're looking at is another example of western leaders who live in a narrative and politically based on a world what he's doing from the perspective of a narrative, from the perspective of a discussion it works. but in, as far as kinetic kinetic, we're warfare, it's absurd. but we see that he can't tell the difference while he's talking to other relates, that's what's going on here. let's move to the, the terrorist attack in moscow at the end of last month, dimitri. and it seems to me because we follow this very closely. obviously this was a terrorist attack, but it's off the 1st one tha

well, i often garland going back to the terrorist attack here in moscow. i mean, so you, you get a 48 hour warning, a general warning, but that's as far as it went. i mean, if you were so quick to say who did do it, then you must have had the other information before. and probably after having that kind of intel, now it's going to be in now gets on through. he said, she said, okay, we gave the russians the information, the rest and said, we got a general warning of there wasn't anything to go on. that will be argued until the end of time. okay. but if you come out so quickly and say, you know who didn't do it, well, that's kind of suspect, isn't it? oh, absolutely. you have leading to bit too much information um to not to be involved to know who did. there's only one way to know who didn't do it. and that is, you have to know who did do it, or you have to have some kind of a, uh, a, uh, some kind of, uh, an alibi, but ukraine as a broad array of terrorist options it. and we see that in that they use this. um, neo nazi, so called quads a russian group to at

in new york, we have garland nixon. he is a political analyst, and in athens we cross the dmitri las cono's. he is a lawyer and freelance journalist i gentleman cross type roles and effects. that means you can jump anytime you want. and i always appreciate garley. let me, let me go to you. there's a lot going on right now. i'd like to uh, you know, talk about tim walburga congressman saying in desperation, i would imagine who uh, what other state of mind are you, when you calling for a new king countries. uh, they got your proxies are not doing well. i mean, this is, this is magical thinking. this is desperate thinking. and because people are thinking desperately, we can accept expect some desperate actions. i want to talk about the, the attack on the concert hall a little bit later. but, you know, i came over and he's not a really smart guy, but um, it's dangerous and you know, the reality is we don't know. he may be an extremely intelligent person, but we're not talking about intellect here. we're talking about a stat

the author of the drive-in thrillers and 28 days later, director alex garland shot a new film again fors a24 studio, where everything was created everywhere at once, lady bird, solstice and reincarnation. they were the ones they went to. first of all , a picture of the fall of the empire, revealing probably the main political fears of modern america. so, the united states is no longer united, the country has broken out in civil war, and a group of journalists travels through a war zone to interview the president. the director and screenwriter of the film, alex garland , is known to audiences as an author who combines provocation and impeccable visuals. in part, the fall of the empire appears to be a warning to america. as a reminder about how unstable the world is during times of geopolitical unrest and how everything can collapse overnight. the citizens of america, the members of the florida alliance, and the powers of the west, texas and california. we will be glad to welcome you into the new united states once you have overthrown your illegal secessionist government. lee smith, famou

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cartwright: thank you, attorney general garland. and thank >> thank you, attorney general garland, thank you for being here today. i yield back, mr. kevin. >> mr. glide. >> thank you, mr. chairman. attorney general garland, my colleague chip roy has twice requested a copy of the freedom of access to clinic entrances c act, prosecution data. he first asked for in october 2022 and again two months ago on february 16. he has yet to receive this data and my question to is when will this data be provided by the department of justice? >> i don't know specifically about the request like the other requests you asked about a very happy to look into this. >> and provide the data. >> of course if we have the data. >> i appreciate that. in the fbi's request, fy '25 request, excuse me, in the department of justice budget you are requestingnc $437.6 million for protecting civil rights. that's an increase from rights. that's an increase from what i see here. under the civil rights heading in the fbi's request it's as color of law violation or acti

well, i, i'll, garland going back to the terrorist attack here in moscow. i mean, so you, you got a 48 hour warning, a general warning, but that's as far as it went. i mean, if you were so quick to say, who did do it, then you must have had the other information before. and probably after having that kind of intel now it's going to be in now gets on through. he said, she said, okay, we gave the russians the information, the rest and said, we got a general warning of there wasn't anything to go on. that will be argued until the end of time. okay. but if you come out so quickly and say, you know who didn't do it, well, that's kind of suspect, isn't it? oh, absolutely. you have a little bit too much information um to not to be involved to know who did it. there's only one way to know who didn't do it, and that is, you have to know who did do it, or you have to have some kind of a, uh, a, uh, some kind of, uh, an alibi. but ukraine has a broad array of terrorist options. it and we see that in that they use this um, neo nazi, so called quads, a rushing route to

attorney general garland says no.respondent david spunt has the latest tonight from the justice department. >> attorney general merrick garland refusing to turn over to congress audio interviews between president biden and then special counsel robert hur. the doj writing the committee's interests may not be in receiving information in service of legitimate oversight or investigatory functions but to serve political purposes that should have no role in the treatment of law enforcement files. house republicans threatened garland with contempt of congress. if he didn't produce the audio. hur interviewed biden for parts of a two-day period in october. >> i'm here today to announce the appointment of robert hur as a special counsel. >> garland appointed hur as special counsel in early 2023 to investigate the classified documents found at several locations connected to the president, qulowgd his wilmington, delaware garage. hur criticized the president's handling of the documents. though no criminal charges were filed. last

>> i don't think garland will comply, unfortunately.rged in this case. according to special prosecutor hur's report, he repeatedly and openly admitted that he had classified documents in his basement, that he had boxes of them in his transcript to his ghost writer and in conversations with his ghost writer and that's what the committee is asking for. look, at the end of the day, i have got to remind everybody, president trump was covered under the presidential records act. biden took these documents as a senator and vice president. he was not covered and he should be charged. but he is sitting now as president, which means you have got to provide those documents as part of an impeachment inquiry. but at the end of the day, i think this department of justice has shown there is two tiers of justice. they will protect this white house, no matter what. even at the credibility of our justice system, which has completely tanked with the american people, sadly. >> todd: in response to the letter, a doj spokesperson saying the following, quote:

garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor.ling to take decisive action over the events of generally six. from that point on, that article was published all kinds of things took place and were triggered. trump and insurrectionist? question biden i think it is self-evident biden said whether the 14th amendment applies. we will let the court make that decision he says. he is certainly supported an insurrection biden said no question about it. none, zero. there you go. talking points out to federal law enforcement. federal investigators and of course the american media. what about this one manhattan d.a. hires former d.o.j. official who previously investigated trump foundation. a wow, abc news manhattan district attorney alvin bragg announced his office has hired former addresses official as senior counsel. he served in the department of justice he is the associate general of united states. appointed and that slot by biden. soaring in the department of justice is part of the team and investigated trump foundation former charity. h

jeffrey: issues garland himself had to confront.ecisions in your thinking about what to show, what not to show, how much to give, how much not to sensationalize? alex: i hope it hasn't really sensationalized anything. i would argue it has not. film has traditionally been incredibly concerned with spelling everything out for an audience and not leaving things up to the audience in terms of their own decision-making processes or their personal responses. i just choose to make films where i assume a certain level of interest in the audience in asking questions, thinking about the answers, posing them in a way they want to pose them, and coming to their own conclusions. and i don't object to that, i encourage it. i like it. jeffrey: garland is nothing if not ambitious in the subjects he takes on, including artificial intelligence, and what it means to be alive in 2014's "ex machina". and toxic masculinity in "men" in 2022. reactions to "civil war" have included questioning the ethics of even making a film like this that might itself fur

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garland did right and you did right.he department of justice is to investigate and prosecute the facts supported. joe biden's actions of handling ossified. >> did you receive any pressure to make specific factual finding or legal conclusion? >> no. >> did you receive resources necessary to carry out your duties? >> yes. >> do you have any reason to believe that you were treated differently in regards to resources that other doj special prosecutor's? >> based on your experience as special counsel, do you have any reason to believe the attorney general is with jack smith or his? >> i do not have the basis to answer that question. >> your declaration, which we treat as thoughtful and political, we should treat decisions by jack smith the same way. >> i really do not have the sufficient information with respect to jack smith's investigation to provide any comment on it. >> let me ask you this. president biden in his testimony to you knew the exact date january 20 or whatever it was, became vice president. he left january the

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it is mayorkas and merrick garland today who we are watching. anti-israel protestors are out in masses. they took over the streets and the bridges in cities across the united states yesterday. it was coordinated. they blocked critical transportation hubs like airports, highways, ports and more. and their dangerous messaging as anti-american as it gets. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." here is a taste of that messaging. [shouting] >> harris: death to america. something we have been hearing more and more often as israel fights the hamas savages and now the response to iran's attack on israel. yesterday's protesting. it was organized. the group is a15 action apparently for april 15th. and they planned it and they carried it out. it is a newly formed group that worked to coordinate what it called a multi-city economic blockade. their blockade stopped traffic on the golden gate bridge for hours. we began covering it on "the faulkner focus." disrupted airports in seattle, chicago, and the port in miami. demonstrators took over

and yet, no new strategies for addressing crime announced today by attorney general garland.tice department is doubling down on addressing violent crime with a more holistic approach, investing more than a quarter of a billion dollars into community-based programs that work to prevent crime through interventions like counselling, job training and having folks like former gang members who know the streets working as peacemakers before fights turn deadly. there's a lot of debate over how effective those kinds of programs actually are. but today the attorney general pointed to the nation-wide drop in homicides from the last couple of years as proof that the biden administration's strategies are working. >> the justice department is committed to continuing to make historic investments in community violence intervention and i am personally committed to making sure that those of you in this room and our partners across the country who are protecting our communities get the support you need and deserv deserve. >> that drop in homicides from some of the highest levels we have seen in

attorney general merrick garland defended biden's mental fitness.ou ever seen ed of impairment in your meetings with the president? >> well, i have seen the president effectively guide the members of the department, of his cabinet and his military. >> you won't say you ever seen any if impairment on his part in. >> the president has no impairment. the president -- >> you're never seen any -- you've never seen any. >> i don't know how many ways i can say this. of i have pleat confidence in the president -- complete confidence in the president, and i reject your characterization. stuart: he was pretty emphatic. bill hemmer with me now. we report on the president's physical and mental decline and what we see as his mental decline. and robert hur in his report, he said biden's got a poor if memory. why will garland not release the tapes from robert hur's interview? >> i imagine -- yeah, great to be with you, by the way. i love being on your program. stuart yeah, right. [laughter] >> this whole match thing, let's get in on it. listen, he said the preside

they have threatened to hold merrick garland in contempt if he does not comply. they handed over a transcript with biden's ghostwriter. >> steve: madeleine rivera, they are releasing transcripts, just not the actual audio, republicans would love to hear. >> madeleine: doj says they complied with requests like the fingerprint and transcript and they are questioning the motives for asking. >> brian: it is not up to them to question. he stole the transcripts, it is maddening to read them because they will ask a simple question, let me tell you what was happening then, you would say this and that. robert hur would say that is interesting, sir, can i get back to my original question. >> lawrence: they don't want to comply with rightful subpoena, that is the core question. this federal judge reacted in washington, d.c., judge reyes, appointed by the biden administration and she lit them up. there is a person in jail right now because you all brought criminal lawsuit because he did not appear for subpoena, it is rich you are criminal investigation and put people in jail

. >> next, merrick garland testified on the president's 2025 budget request for the justice department before

take merrick garland to a newsroom with bars on it.lievable that they put peter navarro in prison walking to turn himself in he said they came for me, and they will come for you. that was his final line. . >> steve also in prison four months defying congressional subpoena part of the larger pattern of defiance by biden doj to refuse to cooperate, i encourage everyone read latest transcript of interview between doj lawyers and u.s. district court judge aghast at doj's insistence that it was able to plot its standards on this issue she could not believe doj lawyers arguing that if lawyers did not have to comply with congressional subpoenas because remember dodge is blocking the two lawyers allegedly involved in doj's decision to not bring certain felony charges against hunter biden, they've been blocking for past several months arguing we go charge other people for defying congressional subpoenas like navarro or bannon but our lawyers can do whatever they want she was amazed at hypocrisy on supply, this is a pattern of defiance, by the b

garland made the fragility of human life the cornerstone, coupled with the depressing degree of times 15 million rubles. the fog directed by natalia gugueva, a participant in the national competition russian premieres of the forty-fifth moscow international film festival, is being released nationwide. the plot of this film is based on the story of the mysterious disappearance of a couple who were on duty at a distant northern weather station. the psychological thriller fog is the first feature film in his career. natalya gugueva, a famous documentary director. her track record includes such works as fast and the furious, a film about carrier-based pilots, witnesses to love, and those who suffered for the orthodox faith, not a separation, but a personal drama of two ballet dancers. all of them have won multiple awards and are loved by critics and audiences. in the fog, the main characters are meteorologists, and the central theme is passionate, suffocating love. the picture is foggy, eventful - it’s fictitious absolutely history, but they lie in it. many of my experiences, some stories

writer and director alex garland says the film is fantastic. the film is an obvious anti-trump election order from the democrats. we remember how we made a movie in support, on the eve of obama's first term, a millionaire from the shantytown, about a handsome indian guy from the poorest areas of mumbai, who, by pure chance, was so similar to... long-standing and alien ancestors. if the degree of intransigence continues to grow at the same rate and further, the film about the fall of alex garland’s empire will look like a documentary. meanwhile, in the united states, the intrigue with the allocation of money for ukraine was resolved. ahead of the senate vote, president biden released his signature. an article in the wall street journal, where he reassured everyone with only one thesis: the money for ukraine and israel will remain in the united states. if congress approves military aid for ukraine and israel, we will not write blank checks. we will send them military equipment from our reserves and then replenish them with money appropriated by c

garland, and let's begin with the plot of your new film and the script. 19 states seceded. united states army is ramping up the intensity. the white house warns both western powers and the florida alliance. the president, elected for the third term, promises. quickly quell the uprising, want to try something on? are you aware that there is a real civil war going on all over america? we are out of politics. judging by the news, this will be the best. civil war in the united states. many say that this is another utopia, however, the plot itself is superimposed on the fierce political struggle that we have all witnessed in recent years. whether you were trying to create a utopia or simply fearing the future that the world will soon see in the united states. the action of the film takes place in the usa, because america is the most powerful country in the world. but the problems highlighted in the film can apply not only to america, but also to many other countries of the world. for example, among these problems are extremism, division and populist politics, which also exist in

they're not doing anything about it, even garland had no answers.u questioned ag merrick garland yesterday on biden's mental capacity and mishandling of documents and he was asked about the chinese nationals. he had no answer as. >> your verbal testimony said you have no doubt there is no cognitive impairment of the president. i have seen the classified documents. i'm aware of the nature of at least some of these documents. they are of the highest level of national security intelligence and they are extremely relevant even today. these documents that were found in the garage of president biden. and so if it's not a cognitive impairment problem, if it's -- if he's competent and you're confident on that, why is he not being charged? >> mr. hurr described in detail in his report his explanation for why he decided not to bring them. he was subject to some five hours of testimony on that subject. >> you disagree with the foundational premise of his assertions, the rational he was cog cognitively incapable, he ws too hold to face charges. maria: how did h

garland has not done them.running around these different courtrooms in manhattan with phony cases. what do you say to people who say the biden administration is not involved in this? don't you have any proof question until we have dna fingerprints, photographs and everything else? >> i know it's very hard to do but try to continue to believe in the system it's really not working here. what i would add to the narrative you gave which is completely accurate is this judge was handpicked there is not random selection of the default and that court is random selection the chief administrative judge said he picked judge merchan so that he was not the reason if you've been in front of judge merchan he was handpicked for the band in case the trump organization case, and we know this is a judge in my view at least his recusal was a mandatory under 22 nycrr the code of regulations in new york 100.3 eat one d3 which says any judge shall disqualify themselves not optional but mandatory if the judge has a relative within the

as jim jordan invites mitt jim merrick garland and christopher wray to testify on pfizer abuse. jordan will join me live at the 8:00 a.m. hour to talk about that and a lot more. joining the conversation ceo mark tepper, former bush 43 white house official ashley davison heritage foundation director cara friedrich. "mornings with maria" is live right now. ♪ >> time for the hot topic of the hour. it doesn't republican senators are planning to obstruct just later proceedings if the democrats table the impeachment articles against alejandro mayorkas. house republicans are delaying the delivery of those articles until next week. mayorkas testified on president biden's fiscal 2025 budget request. he was questioning on his handling of the border. >> i understand the challenges that the board and i don't dance around them. >> would you call it a crisis. >> yes i would. >> it was reported in january of this year that at a meeting with border patrol agents that you said the current rate of release apprehended at the southwest border is above 85%. >> i'm not familiar with that number and i

garland, and let's begin with the plot of your new film and the script. 19 states seceded.states army is ramping up the intensity. the white house warns both western powers and the florida alliance. elected for a third term, the president promises to quickly put down the rebellion. want to try something on? and you are aware that there is a real civil war going on all over america. we are out politics judging again.

declining to do so is reason to hold attorney general merrick garland in contempt. the department responded to the demand last week in a letter stating the committees have already received the extraordinary accommodation of the transcripts which gives you the information you say you need. james comer weighed in the next day. >> they doesn't get to dictate congressional oversight. they are supposed to be checks and balances in our system. what we have is a two-tier system of justice. an attorney general who is entitled. >> comer and others believe the justice department is trying to block their investigation into biden family corruption. while prosecuting the president's 2024 challenger. the timing of the trump trials. hunter biden facing two trials. friday he lost a bid to dismiss federal gun charges. this hearing this morning just kicking off. we'll see where this line of questioning goes. >> bill: alexandria hoff in washington, thank you. >> martha: joining us for more on this byron york, chief political correspondent for "the washington examiner" and fox news con