but, but garland does right. jim is that it's going to be uh, sabotage within washington, within brussels, within the u. k. to not allow any kind of process to move forward. jim, your thoughts as well? yes, i think it's kind of wishful thinking to take the think that donald trump is kind of some kind of deep seated anti war piece. nick, he's not, you know, he's a dedicated american exceptional list. he's going around. so i'm talking about putting you over that kind of market. alexander, you know, kellogg, keith kellogg. i think he said his name was kelly, but keith kellogg is general, that he's going to send us a representative to rush you about this. you know, he put forward a plan on this, and the plan was we're going to intimidate everybody. we're going to go in and tell them printing. they have to have peace, have peace talks, or we're going to stop reading them. i'm going to tell the russians you have to have a ceasefire in line to contact them or we're going to, so we're going to up. all right. do you print

i'm glad the garland brought that up because yeah, i'm, i'm on the face of it. i think going to go, we can. so russians have made it clear the terms and conditions of negotiates has been that's well known, i think. and we go back to june of this year where i present improved and made it very clear point by point here. but the garland does right, jim, is that it's going to be uh, sabotage within washington, within brussels, within the u. k. to not allow any kind of process to move forward. jim, your thoughts as well? yes, i think it's kind of wishful thinking to take the think that donald trump is kind of some kind of deep seated anti war piece. nick, he's not, you know, he's in dedicated american exceptional list. he's going around so talking about taking over the kind of mock canal again. you know, kellog keith kellogg. i think he said his name was kelly, but keith kellogg is general, that he's going to send us a representative to rush you about this. you know, he put forward a plan on this, and the plan was we're going to intimidate everybody. we're going to g

garland? yeah, well, part of that is, but i'm glad you said that because we were part of a understanding how this conflict in is understanding that the ukraine project is not necessarily about. and crane ukraine is a political slash and military tool that used to what do we can rush to so they can go after china and go after everybody. this is a tool for world domination. and if you the question, i think that the blogs going to have internally as well, can we not win on this one and still get world domination. so understanding that they're looking for world domination. the problem in the individual video think receives of this. um the find a way out of this have to be viewed in the context of requests to rule the world. yeah. but garland this we spoke or before the recording here. i mean, what does it mean there? when you use the word had gemini, as indivisible, i mean either your head jermanti come or you're not me. and that's the quandary. washington in the western world, this put itself in

l. garland. what i hope for in all of this is a strategic defeat for nato, because nato is the problem here. they knew we used to have the indivisibility of security. i don't know what happened to the west that was part of the helsinki process in the 1970s. everybody knew it. everybody agreed to it. they have to go back to it. and if they have to experience a strategic defeat, then so be garland. what one of the things we have issues we have here is that nato and the people who run in are at war with the people of their own countries. they are at odds with the people of their own countries. they are fighting them off and trying to stop them from getting what they want. i would suspect at some point, and this is a strong possibility. it donald trump says that the russians, all right, you made this offer. i'll take it, that sounds good. let's try to go with that. the ukranian say, oh no, we can't take that the. my 6 is of the world. say, no, we can take that. and donald trump at that point says oka

you know, you know, garland grill and is already been mentioned here. i mean, nato goes on and on about its sovereignty. but basically, states wants to take greenland away from denmark. i mean, isn't the not insights of a threat to the european members of nato. now, i mean, you know, to, in one way or another, trump's going to get greenland, is anybody in europe going to protest as well? and again, what did donald trump's learn policy when he talks about taking green, then in the panama canal. so those 2 things, number one, it shows that it's on hinge, and a lot of that stuff i just dismissed donald. trump will say that kind of silliness and see everybody wants you a girl, and they don't want, you know, to something they tell world calls. russia unhinged. okay. rush, it had a security threat on its border. it complained about it for 30 years, for god's sake. okay. now trump is gonna say, i'm gonna take a slice of europe as i say this over the next year. internally, these politicians in, in europe are going to be trying to survive. i mean, look what's ha

he's got both how i said he's very by heart is a garland party. it's very bi partisan that's it's with so the problem matic about it. because again, as i've already mentioned, when you go to gym, i mean, no american, it's american presidents are always haunted. you know, losing china losing vietnam, losing this and that, and even losing afghanistan didn't help biden. so, and this is a manager here. and plus, tim, it's, it's a nice money making machine for a lot of people involved in it. okay. i mean, if you go to the meat grinder while you're on the losing side, but there are people are being made billionaires in care of now. jim. yeah. and, and look a, are they, they've lost in afghanistan, as you say, they've lost in the vietnam with this, losing nato. know, this is another kind of loss. and they know what has defined it that way they've done, as you said, didn't have to, they didn't have to do that. that's what brussel brock obama said, hey, ukraine is not crucial to us. that push on the rush is most not proof with us. with the united states si

merrick garland's number three attorney went to work for alvin bragg.e did so on the same day that jack smith was appointed special counsel and he, mr. colangelo also worked for letitia james there was a coordination with all of these local, stated, and federal prosecutions that originated with the doj. reed huffman the big biden donor. he bank rolled the dedickless e. jean carroll civil suit against donald trump and that ridiculous $400 million initial fine. it was all coordination and symptom of historically weaponized the doj and very idea that merrick garland was not weaponized enough is -- it's incomprehensible. i think he has really lost it completely. and i think history is going to record that. all these people are coming out of the woodwork now that could have told us this from the first few months of this history that he was addled. but there was the real conspiracy to hide that dem dementia. >> kayleigh: two dozen sources talking to the "the washington post." that's a lot of sourcing. you know, today or yesterday, rather, biden remarked on ji

>> yes, he, can merrick garland runs the department, fbi to be just like the cia.that works on behalf of the american people, i would have hoped, that if chris wray, which didn't happen, would have stood up and said, you know, in a private copconservation, we're not going in to raid president trump's home, and by the way, they also you know spread out materials on the floor they published it, it was unusual, i will tell you, in my time at ag none of these things happened unless department of justice in dc sig signs off so it was coordinated. larry: basically, i know biden had trump derangement syndrome and merrick garland did it looks like wray shared it. when he had a chance to go after joe biden's documents, which were illegal because as you know senators and vice presidents do not take documents away from the archives they are prohibited from doing so, that stuff has never been tried in a court, wray was soft on that, he warned biden camp ahead of time, he did not warn the trump people ahead, he is a bad guy. >> that right, they knew well, that president trump b

i moan but ultimately, merrick garland runs the department.upposed to be just like the cia stood up and say could have done in a private conversation and not appropriate and we're not going to go in and raid president trump's home and spread out materials on the floor and publish it had and really unusual. i'll tell you in my time as ag, none of these things happen unless the main justice in washington dc sign off on these and going to coordinate them and going for the conversation and private disagreement and never stood up and said we're not going to do this. larry: merrick garland had trump derangement syndrome and wray shared the derangement syndrome and when he had a chance to go after joe biden's documents, which were illegal because as you know, senators and vice presidents do not take documents away from the archives and they're prohibited and that stuff has never been tried in accordance. wray was soft on that and warned biden camp ahead of time. he didn't warn the trump people ahead of time. he was a bad actor and bad guy basically.

. >> if that was true, jessica was going way against type with this on again off again boyfriend garland hart. >> i seen the pictures of him and she showed me the picture and i'm like, how far down do these tattoos go? i think that there was times in their relatiship where they enjoyed each other and have a little bit of fun, but the bad outweigh the good in their relationship. >> there were times where i'd have to go pick her up, you know, because they had gotten into an argument or an altercation. i really urge jess to get away from him. >> but linda says anytime jessica did get away, she'd end up going right back. and on that one fateful night in june, she and garland ended up at his best friend's house in rural mississippi. the house with the infamous mailbox. >> it's accused me of that, that when they see that it had nothing to do with me as i've been cleared already after the grisly discovery, garland hart voluntarily went in for questioning, and he has fully cooperated with the investigation ever since. >> police have never named him or anyone else a suspect in jessica's death. >>

some legal experts blame garland for delaying trump state in court.imberly atkins stohr says the fault rights -- lies elsewhere. she writes the real coup de grace for smith's prosecution was an immunity ruling written by chief justice john roberts and backed by all three of trump's appointees that served as trumps stay out of jail card. back with me, columnist with the boston globe, kimberly atkins stohr and senior writer with politico magazine, ankush khardori. kimberly, since i invoked your name, you think the blame lies not with the ag but with the supreme court. >> in the beginning, after january 6 and everything that happened, i wanted accountability for donald trump as much is anybody else. and, in the beginning, i was not sure if merrick garland was the right person to lead the justice department at a time where prosecuting a former president was on the table and needed to be pursued. he is in institutionalist. that is true. he did move methodically and carefully given the political ramifications of what he was doing and i was pretty critical a

merrick garland, i talked to many close to him. he thinks the best thing they can do is just sort of do their job and speak in court and not be too public. he's often he's also given a ton of of of speeches where he talks about these traditions, but he just doesn't break through in this age. you know, there's not viral memes of merrick garland saying we will follow the facts wherever they go, which great. because he's been doing a lot. he has a busy attorney general and. then to his credit and just back to mayor adams, you know it's we can get into the trump trials. i mean, again, i, i found that the system was working. and one evidence of that is that the garland justice department has prosecuted hunter biden, you know, a guilty plea in a conviction. henry cuellar, a democrat from texas, who was getting money from as her bijan and a mexican bank bagman and bob menendez, thank you. who was getting know gold bars. senator bob menendez for sentencing all you know and then now eric adams which is the last thing the harris campaign wan

merrick garland didn't go after them enough. and you know, when you look at how merrick garland has conducted himself, thank goodness he is not a lifetime appointment on the u.s. supreme court. and we thank mitch mcconnell that he didn't put him there. >> yes. in the eye. yes, absolutely. and the irony here is that from all the reports, it was incoming chief of staff ron klain who recommended merrick garland as attorney general to his boss, president biden, saying that it was merrick garland who's going to clean up all the politics and the division that donald trump left behind. instead, we got more of it. merrick garland, who famously referred to parents, public school parents as domestic terrorists. and i have one thing to say that i haven't said very often publicly. i think the january 6th congressional committee got in the way of the department of justice. it was a vanity project. i think all but 1 or 2 of the members who were on there are gone from congress now. they either were forced to resign or lost in their primaries o

this was his first pick to replace merrick garland.gument is that he would have been fine. like, he would have been terrible for all of the reasons that we already discussed, he's obviously ethically compromised. he would have been terrible for america, but compared to the other people that trump was looking at, gaetz would have been fine. people have to remember that one of the good things -- and i'm using "good" in a very strained, overly generous way, but one of the good things about trump's cabinet picks so far is that they are so wholly universally incompetent and buffoonish. and when you're dealing with trump, when you're dealing with a wannabe authoritarian and dealing with a person with the ambitions of trump, having him surrounded by loyal buffoons is actually better than having him surrounded by competent people, right? and so i think that there are some very dangerous cabinet picks, but the buffoons are not the ones that i'm worried about. and now his new attorney pick, pam bondi, former estate attorney general in florida, s

maryk garland didn't go after them enough, and you know, when you look at how maryk garland has conductedlf, thank goodness he's not a lifetime appointment on the us supreme court, and we thank mitch mcconnell that he didn't put him there. >> absolutely, and the irony here is that from all the reports, it was incoming chief of staff ron maclean who recommended gar land as attorney general to his boss, joe biden, saying he was going to clean up the politics and division that donald trump left behind but we got more of it. maryk garland famously referred to public school parents as domestic terrorists and one thing i haven't said often publicly, i think the january 6 congressional committee got in way of the department ofjuste, y project, all but one or two or gone, forced to resign or lost in their primary in the general election, what do you think we learned from the january 6 committee and this investigation as we look at the 4th january fifth since 2021, and so many of these corporations are removing references to january 6 off their website. >> kelly anne, what we're seeing is it peopl

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privately complaining that garland should have been quicker and tougher in prosecuting trump.t kind of thinking is exactly why democrats lost in the first place. the go after trump plan was their answer to everything. listen to what one democrat strategist had to say. >> it doesn't matter what the republicans do, the democrats, if we don't change how we're perceived, and who we are and what we're for, we're never going to win, the democratic party for nine years now has stood for nothing, other than beating trump. and that's been the only organizing principle of the party, when you ask a democrat, who you are, and what you're for, the answer is you're against trump, so we have a lot of work to do as a party. >> and the party went after any democrats who dared to dissent. remember mayor eric adams, he got the trump treatment when he complained about illegal immigration. >> would you consider pardoning eric adams. >> i would, i think he was treated unfairly. >> it's interesting, when he essentially went against what was happening with the migrants coming in and made some strong

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because merrick garland was not politicized enough against donald trump.le article was so delusional, and the idea that if he had stayed in the race he would have a be in donald trump is laughable. i think it is interesting, with all of these anonymous sources, you have the trump camp, the kamala harris camp, divided camp, behind the scenes, they were pointing fingers at the other because the harris campaigns as if you got out soon it would have been able to beat him. like a know, is spent over $1,000,000,000.1 days and lost, if she had had 200 days she would have lost waste i think. the whole thing is it your, dilution is marvelous. >> then you're sharing my delusion because i do agree she still would have lost. >> the fact that they both would have lost, donald trump approved it was not about voting against trump, it was voting for trump which is why he won in such a way. >> no i think it is about the messaging. >> no it is not, every time they say messaging people did not get your opinion on the economy from msnbc, they get it from their bank account, t

and merrick garland, i know that there are partizans on the left and right who don't like him but he is, it seems to me, from my vantage point, has tried to negotiate some very difficult terrain, appointing special counsel this and that. and you know, this is just another slap in merrick garland's face for doing what he thought was the right thing. >> yeah, and deference to the judicial system, not touching that, not messing with that. i mean that is and was the joe biden brand. so the fact that he is doing this after he insisted so many times over the course of so many months that he wouldn't i mean, there's no credibility here that goes for the president. that also goes for his spokespeople, including the white house press secretary. i'm not suggesting that karine jean-pierre had any role in the actual decision making process that clearly was a family decision. but this is somebody who as recently as last month, had repeated what is now not true, that he wasn't going to do this and the fact that she is also saying, you know, this isn't something he would have done if kamala harris

he said merrick garland did not press the issue soon enough issue , fast enough, if you had merrick garlandght have run. you go have explained, you are using justice system in pursuit of a political end. >> katie: if he would have put him in prison before immunity ruling in june, biden argued he would have been able to win the election. >> guy: complaining to enough people behind the scene this is l leaking out to "washington post." his one biggest regret is having attorney general who did not prosecute his opponent fast enough and did prosecute his son. he is saying it openly. dis dishing out his pardons and his approval ratings are in the toilet. >> katie: what does joe biden do when he leaves office on january 20? >> guy: he can take a break and go to the beach. >> katie: take a vacation, what a legacy. >> will: overseas, u.s. sending team of investigators from national transportation safety board to look into the plane crash in south korea that left 179 dead. >> katie: flight carrying 181 people south of seoul. video is graphic and some viewers may find this disturbing. >> will: awful t

's all of this can be stopped so merrick garland doesn't go on the supreme court when you think aboutrney general who would allow joe biden to do these kind of commutations. >> just one election the american people made a huge statement and not just joe biden he is a reflection of the party itself. thank you so much i hope you had a good christmas thank you for being with me. >>> and the left obsession with being soft on crime ends with the same tragic results look at new york city. even the atlantic one of the most liberal magazines in the country's opening dish openly declaring new york has lost control of crime. the shocking admission with gruesome subway attacks with a sharp increase in subway crime of ten people murdered on subway trains alone the governor thinks everything is okay and posted a message about how much she has done to fight subway crime just hours after a woman was burned alive on a subway train. so now it's up to the people of new york to fight back and save their city let's hope they do just like california voters did in november when they passed estate propositi

one of the biggest failures biden presidency president biden reportedly regrets selecting merrick garland general. "the washington post" reporting this, that quote in private biden saying should have picked someone other than merrick garland as attorney general complaining about justice department slowness under garland prosecuting trump, aggressiveness prosecuting hushts. >> i worked under three different administrations it is the opposite of president biden i left because politically weaponized treated president trump as if on fbi list wanted top 10 probably top number one they went after him so hard local state federal so mind boggling, we at fbi, i represent thousands of people that feel same way that i do we believe compact opposite they turned blind eye to individuals including his sonard after trump and supporters if you went to a fbi today capital violence on front page of web site four years later claim number one largest case in doj history i was witness to 9/11 attacks i find that insulting, wrong, that is not how they treated it at the fiscal impact and doj went oft trump hard

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over his tenure, garland has made his intentions clear.d press interviews, garland repeatedly vowed to make all special counsel reports as public as he can. >> under justice department regulations, a special counsel must write a final report. which i will make public to the extent permissible under the law. that is required to explain the prosecutor decisions and decisions to prosecute or not prosecute, and their strategic decisions along the way. usually the special councils have testified at the end of the reports, and i expect that that will be the case here. >> meanwhile, trump and his republican allies are busy creating their own revisionist histories. on december 17th, the gop controlled house committee on oversight released a so-called interim report of their 21 month investigation. the report spend 128 pages. they claimed to interview hundreds of witnesses, scoured millions of pages of documents, and watched thousands of hours of cctv. after all that work, the person who house republicans cast as a villain of january 6th was former

what is the internal process or perhaps the thinking that goes on for attorney general merrick garlandomes to decide how much of those reports to be able to show to the american public? -- >> yes, what he often says is, i will make as much of those reports public as is legally permissible. so what i imagine jack smith will do is put together a detailed report, but i think it is probably something like jack smith and merrick garland would agree that grand jury material may not be shared publicly. grand jury material is by definition secret. it is illegal to publish it. so although that information is useful for prosecutors to build the case, the case that actually gets heard in trial is the trial testimony and not the grand jury transcripts. those are used to impeach witnesses. they may be used under extraordinary circumstances when there's an exception to a hearsay rule. but ordinarily, that material is secret. so, when we think about what might come out, it may be there is less than we expect. although i do think there are still some other things that are not necessarily grand jury ma

over his tenure, garland has made his intentions clear. interviews, garland repeatedly vowed to make all special counsel reports, as public as he can. >> under justice department regulations, a special counsel, must write a final report. >> which i will make public to the extent permissible under the law. that is required to explain the prosecutive decisions, the decisions to prosecute or not prosecute, and their strategic decisions along the way. usually, the special counsel had testified at the end of their reports. i expect that will be the case here. >> meanwhile, busy allies creating their own december streets. enrolled subcommittee on oversight, and released a so- called interim report of the 24 month investigation. that report spend 128 pages. they claim to to interview hundreds of witnesses, scoured witnesses of pages of documents, and watched thousands of hours of cctv. after all that work, the person whose house bill passed january 6, former republican congresswoman, liz cheney. they found evidence obtained by the subcommittee. f

as for garland in particular, to me it's always seemed kind of a bum rap.uld have been completed by now, and therefore trump would have been able to scuttle them no matter what. what they're saying is perhaps there would have been a trial that might have mattered to the american people. of course, was there a trial in new york. he was convicted there, and it didn't seem to change things fundamentally. more importantly, was there indication that garland has done more than people give him credit for. so i don't discount that it's one of the things that biden is now thinking about as he is planning to leave office, but it seems to me not a solid criticism, and i wouldn't be surprised if it's a little bit overplayed in the post report. >> okay. let's turn together to a new report from nbc. the attorney general of connecticut, william tong says he will be the first to sue trump's plan to end birthright citizenship as the first of his family born on u.s. soil. he went from working side by side in his parents' restaurant to being attorney general. is it more than

get the sergeant in arms to go out and arrest merrick garland. they want everything and every way to rigged this system, just like the censorship regime. we are going back to wuhan, going back to covid origins, and going back to another form of a mega virus that can take out china's enemies. they are in on it with the mainstream media, the biden- harris-walls campaign, and of course, the fbi. >> like so many guys in trump world, patel just can't stop talking which, you know, game recognize game. these folks are mostly made of podcasts at this point and from the little i have heard from what he has been saying is really out there. joining me now is someone who has spent a lot of time listening to those podcasts, zach is a senior correspondent at box where he covers democracy and the far right, his latest piece is titled "i listened to hours of trump's fbi pick on steve bannon's podcast. oh, boy." zach, thank you for doing this genuinely important work. i guess, what is first, your sort of top line about what you came away thinking about, the quali

dare and uss gabrielle giffords, two navy vessels that i have the honor of sponsoring with paper garlands hanging throughout the room. and adorning the sparkling christmas trees are self portraits by students from across the country. [cheers and applause] i know that some of their teachers are here and helped deck crate -- decorate the tree. lots of teachers are here. teachers always get stuff done. [cheers and applause] so the trees are amazing. the room features this year's incredible gingerbread house. i love that. did you see it light up? it was beautiful. and the ice skating rink in front of it. sues yes and carlo, you did such an amazing job. so thank you for creating that. [cheers and applause] this year's display captures our theme to the bright star on top of the gingerbread house. and in the cross hall behind me, spectacular flocks of hand cut peace doves fly across the sky. how beautiful is that. and finally, don't miss that teddy bear driving the vintage red truck. to you, the people who brought this vision to life, our volunteers. [cheers and applause] this would not be possi

the new rules that are put in place by attorney general garland would require the attorney general be involved. those rules, i think, are very important. it's great that the attorney general has done that, but it is not enough. this requires, i think, absolute court review and and we're going to make certain that there are statutes that go in place because this affects the constitutional workings of congress. >> how significant is it that trump's pick to lead the fbi was ensnared in this kash patel? >> well, it really shows that he understands the weaponization that has happened of the fbi, the department of justice against americans, and really against our own government. i mean, here you have the executive branch, in effect, spying on congress. that weaponization goes right to the heart of really what we expect of the oversight processes. i mean, here congress is doing its oversight, and they access the email records, the phone records of members of congress and their staff merely because they had access to classified information. they were doing their jobs here at congress. that th

on the other end garland scores, draws the foul.d cleveland with 25, and golden state falls back to 500 at 16 and 16. college basketball, usf hosting rivals santa clara. game went to overtime. broncos up 2. thomas kicks out to a wide open marcus williams to give them the lead. usf won and improve to 12 and 3. and back here at levi stadium, we watched the the 49ers fall to the lions. brock purdy left injured and jake moody missed three kicks. the ninners are 6 and 10 with one more game remaining in the 24 season. >> i think the last thing niners fans need is brock purdy injured, especially at this point in the season. all right, matt, thank you so much. appreciate it. >>> it was a special way to end the year for a whale watching company in san francisco involving another kind of animal. you know you want a burger. so make it my smashed jack, rated the best burger in fast food. it's even got more beef than a big mac. chin up, ronald. maybe you'll get a participation trophy. my smashed jack, now on sourdough. welcome to jack in the box

biden appoints a democratic attorney general, merrick garland. merrick garland appoints david weiss david weiss is a republican in delaware, a prosecutor there. and by the wa, once trump lost and biden came back, biden kept weiss on. so there's all kinds of indications that there's no unhappiness. how can trump be involved in this whatsoever? this is a problem that biden may not have liked. he might have been uncomfortable with it. i understand all that, but to say that this was political, i don't see it a lot of republicans blasting his move, a few democrats as well. i heard one republican say, you know, if i had a son that was in trouble, i would pardon him, too. but the fact that he lied is what upsets him. others are just calling it a complete abuse of power. your thoughts on that? you know, power. i'm not so sure. certainly it's a violation of norms. if we think about norms. okay, so, for example, president trump violated norms routinely in terms of having his son in law and daughter as part of his team. that's a good violation of firing jam