but garland this we spoke or before the recording here. i mean, one of the there when you use the word had gemini, as indivisible, i mean, either your hedge a monic or you're not. i mean, and that's the quandary. washington in the western world, this put itself in garland when one more thing. and that's it. and here's the important part, what the trump people have on their side is that the majority of the people in the united states agree with them. the majority of the people in europe went to return to a time when they had some level of economic prosperity. so while he will have a battle with the people in power who are trying to med fascist ideology, what these strength you will have is that the people will be saying, yeah, this is what we want, get it done. and the people in europe now, well retired. okay. do economic growth. that's another casualty of the ukraine pot . uh, project gym. democracy just because the people want it, the people in the, in europe don't want this war. the people in america don't want this war, but i thought th

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 a dedicated american exceptional list. he's going around. so i'm talking about putting you over the kind of mock canal again. you know, kellog chief 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 bathing them. i'm going to tell the russians, you have to have a ceasefire in line to contact them or we're just, we're gonna up. all right. do you print? so i still th

. -- attorney general garland. i want everyone to watch the hearing without obstruction. if people stand up and block the view of those behind him or speak out of turn, it is not fair or considerate to others. officers will immediately remove those individuals. now before i turn to my opening statement let me explain how we are going to proceed today. i will give my opening remarks and then i will invite ranking member durbin to give his opening remarks. then i will call on senator scott or schmidt to introduce this nominee. following those instructions -- introductions and ms. bondi's statement, we begin the questioning. each senator will have an additional seven minutes round for questions after the first round. we will do a second four-minute round of questioning. members should do their very best to adhere to these time limits so we can pursue -- proceed efficiently with the hearing. we are here today to consider pam bondi's nomination to service attorney general of the united states. ms. bondi, for a second ti

garland is a cautious, by the book lawyer. since here, the book, the federal statue which authorizes special counsel calls for a report, i don't see him varying from that clear standard of law. >> don't forget he was an appellate judge, an eye towards those issues they are trying to raise and contemplated at least that. >> that is right >> tim, thank you and stand by. we will talk about pardon news and your new book later in the show. as well as i want to bring in jeremy, a manhattan prosecutor and criminal defense attorney as well. jeremy, look, trump does not want it out. he wants the report never released. he wants garland to remove him from his job. i want to read for people just one line from what the letter that todd blanche sent to garland. telling as to what he wants. he says that no report should be prepared or released and smith should be removed including for even suggesting that course of action given his obvious political motivations and desire to lawlessly undermined the transition. they are clear they don't want

he's got both how i said he's very by far the 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 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 and kim, kim. yeah. and, and look up. 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 got, 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 the crucial to us that push on the rush is not proof with us with the united states since world war 2.

well, garland to mean going back to the men sca comment that the general kelly made. i mean, since he brought it up shit and he'd be aware that it was actually a fraud on the part of the west as drago is just told us me the, the importance of bringing that up is that the russians, they had the men's process. they had a very short process after the complex started in minutes. that around is stem bull . so i mean, we got minutes, one minutes to we got a bill rose and, and then we have this symbol. i mean, there's that, that's 4 times 4 times, you know, that's for going to the rodeo 4 times. and they were all frauds. i mean, we watch of the russians believe the 5th one is going to be true. darwin. yeah, i think what the, the, the, the trump administration understands what's going on. and the dynamics here in the, in the, in the hurdles they're going to run up against. and the reason i say that is because, and i would recommend any of our listeners to go read the opposite that was written by r f k junior. and donald trump, donald trump, son donald trump junior, and it was

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 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 hedge a monic, i'm or you're not. i mean, and that's the quandary. washington in the western world, this put itself i

bondi, merrick garland didn't campaign for president biden. never served as his personal attorney and never lobbied. after years of relentless criticism of garland from republican colleagues i hope they are prepared to hold you to the same standard. thank you, mr. chairman. >> it's now time for senators to introduce the nominee. the first one will be senator scott at the table as you see and senator schmitt is a member of his committee at his place on the dais. please proceed. >> mr. chairman, ranking member and committee members, it is an whore to sit before you to introduce my good friend, pam bondi, for her hearing. like to recognize important people appearing in support of her today, her husband, john as well as her mother, father-in-law, sister, brother, sister-in-law, brothers, friends and family members of john. many more would surely be here if space allowed. i can tell you wholeheartedly president trump couldn't have a better leader than pam bondi for attorney general. she is undoubtedly qualified. brilliant and committed to defending

garland's department of justice denied constitutional protections. there were double standards in how sentences were applied to the protesters versus other groups. what the president consistently on the campaign -- >> case by case basis. >> he would like at a case by case basis. that's what we did. we looked at 1,600 cases. the thing that came out of it is that there was a massive denial of due process of liberty and a lot of people were denied their constitutional rights. the president believes that. i believe that. i think he made the right decision. >> daniel rodriguez used an electric shock device. ronald mcabee held a cop down and others assailed him for over 20 seconds causing a concussion. if you stand with law enforcement, how can you call these people unjustly imprisoned? >> you are separating -- there's an important issue here. there's what the people actually did on january 6. we're not saying everybody did everything perfectly. what did merrick garland's department of justice do in unjustly prosecuting well over 1,000 americans in a way t

and what do you think history will say about merrick garland? first of all, that merrick garland went to my high school, so. but i don't know him, and he was many years after me. i don't think it will view him. i think that we have to go back before his appointment as attorney general. we have to go back to his failure to be part of the supreme court, where he would have done well, and the fact that as a result of his not being there, we ended up with two people appointed by donald trump who have made a horror out of the department, out of the supreme court, and have led to these decisions, including the immunity one that have done all of these bad things. and i'm concerned that the five four decision to allow him to be sentenced could indicate that when the case comes up on appeal, on the merits, that there might be a54 in the other direction to reverse it because of the admission of evidence. so that's a concern to me. >> let me ask you, charles, we have about 50s left. does the jack smith report if and when it comes out matter, and if so, why

calling on garland, why would we not prosecute trump more quickly and garland sat in that chair and promised not to be political and he broke that promise almost the instant he walked into the department of justice. if you look on the supreme court of the united states just above the entrance, there is a simple yet profound forward phrase equal justice under law. we have seen over the last four years the department of justice systematically targeting the political opponents of joe biden and kamala harris and the systematically protecting his friends and allies. it is tragic to see the loss of confidence in the american people in the department of justice and the fbi. i don't think there is an institution in america who has lost more respect from the american people than the fbi has in the last four years. that is a grotesque violation of the obligation of the department of justice and the fbi. i want to start with a very simple question. if you are confirmed as attorney general, will you pledge to fairly and faithfully uphold the law, regardless of party. >> so help me god. >> i want to be c

i want, want you to know that attorney general garland calls me once a a year. he called yesterday to tell me the success of the false claims act since 1986 when i got it passed and president reagan signed it. it's brought in $78 billion as of yesterday, his report most of that is because of patriotic whistleblowers who found the fraud and brought the cases forward at their own risk. the supreme court has long upheld the law as constitutionality of what you do know your view is a false claims at constitutional? before you answer that, one time in the 1990s one of the attorney generals said it wasn't constitutional and when the same person by the name of bar was back five years ago as attorney general he said it was constitutional. so if confirmed when you commit, and to that first question. do you think it's constitutional? would you defend the constitutionality of -- >> i would defend the constitutionality of course if the court stop that, senator. >> last question. if confirmed would you commit to continue doj's defense of the constitutionality of it, and when

trump's lawyers sent garland a letter asking him not to. the justice department did not respond to request for comment. this unfolded hours after lawmakers gathered here at the capitol to certify president-elect trump's latest election victory, as president of the senate, vice president kamala harris oversaw the certification of her own defeat. >> donald j. trump of the state of florida has received 312 votes. kamala d. harris -- [ applause ] kamala d. harris of the state of california has received 226 votes. [cheers and applause] today was a, obviously, a very important day. and it was about what should be the norm, and what the american people should be able to take for granted, which is that one of the most important of american democracy is that there will be a peaceful transfer of power. and today america's democracy stood. >> reporter: happening today in washington, former president jimmy carter will lie in state at the capitol rotunda. the public can come pay their respects later tonight and all day tomorrow before the national funer

wallace very aggressive on garland who's holding him. garland pulls back. seven on the 24.p, it's good! >> it is good. darius garland with the dagger in last night's clash between the top teams from each nba conference. the cleveland cavaliers and the thunder's 15-game winning streak beating okc 129-122. out in denver, the clippers missed kawhi leonard in their road loss against the denver nuggets. after the star forward left the team and flew to left to be with family that was evacuated because of the wild fires that have devastated southern california. clippers' coach tyronn lou voiced his support before the game telling reporters leonard got back and his family is doing thankfully okay. leonard, who bought a house in the pacific palisades in 2021 was set to play in his third game of the season. >>> meanwhile, wild fire danger kept the nhl's kings off the ice at their home arena last night. the league postponing the contest against the calgary flames set to be played at the crypto.com arena in downtown los angeles which is shared by the nba's lakers. the lakers, for now a

calling on garland, why would we not prosecute trump more quickly and garland sat in that chair and promised not to be political and he broke that promise almost the instant he walked into the department of justice. if you look on the supreme court of the united states just above the entrance, there is a simple yet profound forward phrase equal justice under law. we have seen over the last four years the department of justice systematically targeting the political opponents of joe biden and kamala harris and the systematically protecting his friends and allies. it is tragic to see the loss of confidence in the american people in the department of justice and the fbi. i don't think there is an institution in america who has lost more respect from the american people than the fbi has in the last four years. that is a grotesque violation of the obligation of the department of justice and the fbi. i want to start with a very simple question. if you are confirmed as attorney general, will you pledge to fairly and faithfully uphold the law, regardless of party. >> so help me god. >> i want to be c

that's a separate issue from what merrick garland's justice department did. we rectified a wrong, and i stand by it. >> i'm being told we're out of time, but i want to ask you, the richest men in the world were at the capitol on inauguration day. in august you told us google and facebook are too big. we ought to take the teddy roosevelt approach, break them up, don't let them control what people are allowed to say. they have now donated to the trump inauguration. are you still going to break up big tech? >> you know who else was at the inauguration was my mom and a lot of people that supported the president. >> they donated $1 million each to the inauguration. >> there are a lot of people that didn't give $1 million that were on that stage. but, look, we believe fundamentally that big tech does have too much power, and there are two ways they can go about this. they can either respect americaamerican constitutional rights, they can stop engaging in censorship. and if they don't, donald trump's leadership won't look kindly on them. >> so they're still on notic

did merrick garland just simply take too long with all of this yeah. >> not only did merrick garland take too long, and i've been critical of merrick garland for a very long time. it's too bad he didn't become a supreme court judge, because that's where he belongs. where they can spend four, five, six months coming up with a decision. these cases needed to move expeditiously. not only did this case not move expeditiously, neither did the alvin bragg case. they waited. as mark pomerantz put it, over a year too long. so all of these issues now that are going on with sentencing and with the criminal conviction, i hate to say it, and people will get angry at me. i was very clear when i spoke to vanity fair. i believe that they should toss the case. there is no repercussion. the hush money is going to take place to donald trump on that case. as far as what paula reid said, i agree with her completely. merrick garland waited too long to bring in jack smith. plain and simple. he is going to. meaning donald trump is going to shut that down. this case will never see accountability for whether

in front of this committee merrick garland, attorney general garland, made a testimony that we found evidence to possibly contradict on what he said. on march 23, i -- he came in front of the appropriations committee where i was a member, and i presented him with evidence that the d.o.j. had actively discouraged the enforcement of 18 united states code section 1507 at the homes of supreme court justices in the wake of the leak of the dobbs decision. evidence that appeared that he had clearly either misled or misinformed this committee. evidence that showed that the department was putting politics above duty. section 1507 as you well know makes it illegal to pickett or parade near a judge's residence with with the intent of influencing them in the discharge of their duty. it was openly and flagrantly violated on numerous occasions in the summer of 2022. yet never enforced by u.s. marshals stationed at the home of the justices. in large part because of the evidence that we showed that they had been actively discouraged from making arrests. when we asked attorney general garland why no

they're not, merrick garland said. we're not going to see that.n't think we are. >> but again, that would see that because he's saying that there's going to that the legal proceedings against the other two defendants are still ongoing post his presidency. and he i don't know if he is thinking that donald trump is just somehow in his department of justice is just going to let these defendants go to trial and possibly implicate him and possibly and possibly implicating him it this has been the problem this whole time, right? >> as democrats have been like, this is the right thing to do, you know? well, this is not proper. and so, you know, here we are with no accountability for donald trump. and he's just and i mean, i think you could place the blame here squarely on merrick garland. yeah. >> we'll see. >> i wonder if jack smith is going to write a book or come forward or give an interview at some point. i mean, i feel i think the public interest in what his what he has to say is a radio show that he'd be great. >> yes. the dean obeidallah show. >>

i give merrick garland an f.e's a dirty cop and he did a terrible job and was corrupt and knew exactly what he was doing and they slow-walked all these investigations with the ways and means committee so these executive orders, look, it's really important because biden just destroyed the country in the first day he signed all these executive orders in, taking away our ability to have normal permitting. he cutoff our ability to do natural gas, exploration, cutoff the keystone pipeline. all the things that were driving our economy. opened up the border, ended, you know, ended the title 42 eventually, allowed catch and release to happen, ended remain in mexico. all these things keeping us safe and all of the things giving us energy production which you know, larry we've talked about this. the most important thing president trump needs to do right now is get rapid growth. we have four years probably two years for sure, at least for the first two years while the house is and anything he can do as an executive order we

could merrick garland releases right now?s been brought into contention with judge cannon, does that mean the justice department cannot release it because there is a pending court decision about it? >> the technical answer to your question is, no, there is no order right now but that is not something that they would do. >> we are up against it gentlemanly way to do things and one side is trapped in that and the other side has never heard of it. we are going to squeeze in a quick commercial break and we will be back with more on the breaking news that the donald trump legal team is trying to block the release of jack smith's report and a judge today denied donald trump's repeal trying to lock his sentencing date on the trial in manhattan. we will be right back with both of those stories. of those stories. don't leave! it's fine! ugh! i was worried about this side of town! mucinex in, mucus out! don't mask symptoms, treat the cause. i was stuck. unresolved depression symptoms were in my way. i needed more from my antidepressant

and don't forget, it's merrick garland's doj policy that he enforced.ntinuing with the case until trump's fired him, which i would prefer that let trump pick his ag and then fire jack smith. and that becomes a big news story. he took that away, merrick garland, by saying, no, the internal memos, you have to drop the case. and that's what jack smith said in his filings. >> so let me get your thoughts. since you made this appeal to jack smith or anyone working in his office to release to you the dean of radio.com, that's my email, just said, why is it important to see the report? what is it from either from a legal i mean, we all know from a public perspective why it's important and certainly for the sake of transparency in our democracy to know what it was that jack smith was basing his arguments, legal arguments, legal charges on. but from your point of view, from your vantage point of view, explain to our viewers why this just seeing this report would be important. >> still, i think think of all the great cable news segments we can have discussing it r

smith's parting words, released overnight by attorney general merrick garland, part of a sweeping 130 page report from smith's criminal investigation, as well as a letter that smith wrote to garland dated january 7th. the report doesn't have extensive new details from the more than 250 witnesses they interviewed, but it represents a sweeping defense of the department's case against president trump and the landmark decision to charge him with crimes and prosecute him, even as he ran for president again. in the letter, smith writes this quote, i want to be clear that the ultimate decision to bring charges against mr. trump was mine. it is a decision i stand behind fully. to have done otherwise on the facts developed during our work would have been to shirk my duties as a prosecutor and as a public servant. and in the letter, smith takes on trump directly over trump's repeated claims of, quote, complete exoneration, end quote, because the government ultimately dropped the case, smith writes that trump's claims that, quote, dismissal of his criminal cases signifies mr. trump's complete ex

can marek garland release it right now?t it's been brought into contention in court with judge cannon, does that mean that the justice department cannot release it because of this pending court decision about it? >> the technical answer to your question is no, there is no order right now but that would be unseemly. that is not something that they would do when there's this -- >> right again, we are up against the gentlemanly way to do things in legal practice and one side is trapped in that, and the other side has never heard of it. we are going to squeeze in a quick commercial break. we are going to be right back with more on the breaking news that donald trump's legal team is trying to block the release of jack smith's reports and also a judge today denied donald trump's appeal, trying to block his sentencing date friday in manhattan. we'll be right back with both of those stories. of those stories. for weeks. grandmother: we got the best seats in the house! ha! shingles doesn't care. 99% of adults 50 years or older alrea

also tonight, attorney general merrick garland is ready to release jack smith's report on his investigation of from's election interference. but for now, trump's favorite judge is standing in the way. and then a last ditch effort to avoid becoming the first convicted felon in the white house. trump is running to his safe space -- the united states supreme court. but we begin tonight with heartbreaking, apocalypse vaccines from los angeles where firefighters are battling five different infernos, burning out of control throughout the city. fueled by whipping santa ana winds with gusts up to 100 miles per hour. in the last hour the los angeles county sheriff confirmed that five people are dead point here you see the pacific palisades, a neighborhood tucked between the santa monica mountains and the pacific ocean. the palisades fire has tripled in size since this morning at already destroyed at least 1000 structures, making it the most distraught of fire to ever occur in los angeles county, according to statistics from the wildfire alliance, which is run in part by the city's fire department. t

biden's close allies who said he was frustrated with garland, regretted choosing him, and wished garland was more aggressive in prosecuting trump and less in prosecuting hunter biden, and some democrats, and said if garland hadn't been here, maybe it would have affected the election. >> harris: i am wondering, brian, what kayeigh is talking about making it personal and vindictive. does it ever get to the american people? >> we don't know how much joe biden -- >> we won't know now. >> we'll know soon. >> harris: you think we will. >> we will get the story of bad days you can't talk to him and good days where you can. >> harris: nothing to be adjudicated. >> and i'm not going to put an 80-year-old man on trial and remember, hunter biden, and he blew up the deal, and the probation to the gun charge, and opened up everything else when the facts came out. the facts are a problem for joe biden. he is mad at garland for finding the facts on his son and now we have pictures in the new york post last week -- we go back last week that show he was all over the deals in china. that's the story that

with respect to the mar-a-lago piece, i think that the real issue here is that merrick garland has said that he does not intend to publicly release that because there are, in his view, two defendants remaining, the two co-defendants remaining in that case. remember, the case has been dismissed by the government without prejudice as to donald trump. but they haven't dismissed the hcase as to the other defendan. i think merrick garland made the wrong call there because there is no way in god's green earth, and that's a polite way of putting it, that those two co-defendants are ever going to be tried under a trump administration. they are either going to get pardoned or incase will simply dismissed by the department of justice. so it doesn't make a lot of sense to me that merrick garland does not want to release the volume having to do with mar-a-lago. he does say that he wants to give that report, however, to certain people, the ranking members in congress so that they have an opportunity to see it. so it won't be completely buried. congress will have that opportunity. but i think, joy, t

this report would initially go to garland, and garland has said that he would release the results of reports that he has gotten to the public. or, b, they want for all of this to wait until after the inauguration so that trump's attorney general can handle the situation and do with it what they will. we haven't heard any response back yet from the department of justice. so we'll see where this goes. >> jarred hill in washington. thanks. >>> president biden repriced his role of consoler in chief perhaps for the last time. the president and first lady, jill biden, visited new orleans last night and attended a vigil for the 14 victims killed in the new year's attack on bourbon street. biden pledged to give the city additional resources to help secure next month's super bowl and mardi gras season which began yesterday. cbs's omar villafranca reports. >> reporter: president biden and first lady jill biden traveled to new orleans nearly a week after the deadly new year's attack in the crescent city. >> new orleans defines strength and resilience. you define it, whether it is in the form of

the fact that merrick garland and jack smith want to bring this to light, or specifically merrick garlanddonald trump will be sworn in as the 47th president. it needs to be on the public record. yes. but will he have any accountability? will it sway any republican members of congress? no. will he change his behavior? absolutely not. will he feel emboldened? because now we know, and he can still do whatever it is that he wants to do? absolutely. do his supporters still support him, knowing the crimes and misdemeanors that he has committed and will most likely continue to commit? yes. so this is where we are in our american democratic process. and many would argue that there were four years to bring this to light and possible prosecution. and democrats missed their opportunities, specifically merrick garland. >> aisha, let's talk about the position garland finds himself in here. he's already given his farewell speech. are we likely to see him? and should he find a way to make this report public, if not to the to the american public, certainly to lawmakers who should know what donald trump w

and serious speech by outgoing attorney general merrick garland.ng the honor of the career officials who worked at the doj before he got there, and will work there after saying that they that he understands that their work is something that needs to be taken seriously, needs to remain independent, but that it is work that is worthy of the trust of the american people. take a listen to more of what he said. >> the same powers that enable the federal prosecutor to pursue justice also create the potential for grave injustice. to ensure fairness in the administration of justice, we must temper this grant of discretion with a set of principles and ensure we exercise our authority in a just fashion. >> we must understand that there is a difference between what we can do and what we should do, and he talked at length about the need for the doj to remain independent. >> but he also said that he understood that there were a lot of unfounded attacks and criticism, and said that he knows in his heart that he believes that these officials at the doj, that they

reporting raises questions whether trump would be president if it weren't for missteps by merrick garland>>> a doctor determined to stop rfk jr. warning people could die if he becomes the nation's top health official. governor green will be out front this hour. and america's closest allies warning trump about elon musk. how come? let's go out front. >>> and good evening. i'm erin burnett. outfront on this monday we have breaking news. the proud boy pardon. the leader of the proud boys enrique tarrio asking president-elect donald trump for a pardon today. four years to the day after the violent insurrection on capitol hill. the members of the proud boys and other trump supporters stormed the united states capitol in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election. tarrio right now is serving a 22- year sentence for seditious conspiracy and leading a plot to prevent the transfer of power. his attorney is speaking to one person now and one person only to plea. trump. writing, "enrique tarrio was portrayed throughout the government case as a right- wing extremist that promote aid neofascist militant

it is that merrick garland has said that he, merrick garland, does not want to release that publicly.s to give that to congress and certain people in congress. why? because he says that there's two codefendants of donald trump, still may have a criminal case pending in florida. i think he's wrong on that. technically, there is no case pending. >> where is the case? what's the case? >> where is the case is what he's talking about? >> you know, and i want to be clear, the people from the department of justice, they do watch this show. so we're going to have some text before this is over. but where is the case? because i don't see the case right now like merrick garland. but come on. >> yes. so i think he got something technically wrong when he said there is a pending case. judge cannon pointedly, when she dismissed the case before her. as to all three defendants, not just donald trump, she ordered the case closed. now, it is true that the department of justice is appealing that decision. as to the two co-defendants. but come on, a there's no pending case in the district court per judge

what else is being suppressed by joe biden and merrick garland?l information about the nominee to lead the fbi. i believe it's new york times reporting that first revealed that that one of the witnesses in the nevada investigation is an immunized kash patel. i mean, is that not relevant to the committees that have to consider him to lead the fbi? >> well, it's interesting. i think that's obviously up to the committee in terms of those things tend to be generated by the committee. i'm not sure what the minority has asked for. what i can tell you is that there seems to be republican unanimity around kash patel on the committee, even though a lot of the members privately have expressed reservations about his nomination. i don't think that's that's particularly a secret. but again, this has to be generated by the committee, and it's not clear what they have asked for. i also don't know how much would necessarily be part of those immunity agreements. patel took the fifth. it is our understanding in the grand jury which endeared him greatly to donald tr

garland. she is yet to be confirmed by the senate. >> here he

that means, garland can't release the report without being in non-compliance with the court order. >>re, that would have been seen as a conservative court that might not do the bidding of someone who is basically running up again frt st the incoming republican president. but has been going up against cannon. >> i don't think the 11th circuit will back up judge cannon. judge cannon leapt ahead of the 11th circuit here. trump and his co-defendants filed the requests at the 11th circuit and with judge cannon at the same time. if the 11th circuit had wanted to block the release of this report or any part of it, it could have done so. it didn't. it chose not to. that's a good omen. it suggests the 11th circuit will not try to block this report. judge cannon wouldn't wait. she couldn't wait for the superior court, which has total jurisdiction over this case, as lisa said. judge cannon doesn't have jurisdiction. it's not her case. she couldn't wait for them to act. she said, i'm going to step in and shield trump and his co-defendants from the release of any part of this report, including pro

as to attorney general garland and the qualification to speak for themselves. responding made history and attorney general and held that rule four eight years. who is a second and eight years of service. and the call to state and let agencies to impact people's life. this was her responsibilities well. achieved numerous successes, he engaged in the initiatives for trafficking and encounter the opioid epidemic. she got away from the chronicles and engaged in the campaign. this is in the bill and eliminated this case and accumulated the state's laboratory experience is limited to our service. she served as a prosecutor that prosecuted. and sexual predators. those serving in the junior league of temple. for experience prosecutor and community in the character and left the general former senior d.o.j. official. and of course we all know is desperately needed. it is a very turbulent time. the justice department is infected while leaders refuse. crossfire hurricane is an example of weaponization and it was built on a fake steel dossier. the clinton campaign and the i

general garland and his department did. but at the time of his nomination, we gave him the benefit of the doubt as the recent, terrorist attacks in new orleans and around the world have shown, our national security must be a high priority. the american people deserve a secure homeland, and borders, safe streets, orderly markets, civil rights, and a protected environment. so delivering on these promises required the swift confirmation of an attorney general. this committee should give miss bondi the same benefit of the doubt that this committee gave to attorney general garland. president trump has selected a nominee who's qualifications speak for themselves. miss bondi made history in 2010 as the first woman to be elected florida attorney general. she held that role for eight years and was comfortably reelected by the people of florida to a second term. eight years of service as attorney general of the third largest state in the nation. is excellent preparation for the role of u.s. attorney general. as florida attorney gener

president biden private low regrets naming garland. specifically because of how slowly the doj moved. i mean it is interesting that something like that is leaking to "the washington post," at this moment, congress plan. but significant of biden saying that? >> reporter: yeah, it is remarkable. and i think there is a lot of frustration. i want to be clear. i think the frustration, at least on my end and probably on the president's end has nothing to do with we really wanted retribution and that did not happen fast enough. it is about the department of justice had jack smith on this case. he would of had information that the committee was unable to get. they had more tools and able to pick up where we left off. deeper stuff. it is about the american people deserving to know who they are electing as president and deserving to know what happened january 6th. we pretend in politics like sunlight is awesome. we want all information out in the public. you know, this case, that would have been good for people, maybe they still would of elected

i, i take everything that katie said i go back to garland. merrick garland, who the american people pay a substantial 6 figure salary to, to do justice on our behalf. he sat on the trump crimes, alleged crimes when it came to a bigger case meaning the insurrection in which the january 6th committee for which you are an investigator gave him point by point to the prosecution. the impeachment proceedings, the road map, prosecution, impeached, again, for the insurrection. and yet garland could not see his way to doing justice for the american people. he decided to put a go between in the middle. jack smith. who actually did garland's job for him only to get thrown out in the case of the documents case because that judge used the sort of trickery. accomplishing all of that. he has even tried to hold trump accountable. so, we are down to judge merchan to being the one and only hero here. i will let you talk now. >> reporter: no, no, i am sorry i chuckled katie, i wonder if you would represent me if i have former congressman immunity. that is what

calling on merrick garland why will he not prosecute trump for quickly? and merrick garland sadly sat in that chair and promised to be apolitical and broke that promise almost the instant he walked into the department of justice. if you look on the west pedestrianment of the supreme court of the entrance a four-word phrase equal justice under law. we have seen over the last four years a department of justice that systematically targeted the political opponents of joe biden and kamala harris and that systematically protected his friends and allies. it is tragic to see the loss of confidence in the american people in the department of justice and in the f.b.i. i would note i don't think there is an institution in america who has lost more respect from the american people than the f.b.i. has in the last four years. that is a grotesque violation of the obligation of the department of justice and the f.b.i. so i want to start with a very simple question. if you are confirmed as attorney general, will you pledge to fairly and faithfully uphold the law regardles

how about merrick garland? >> i am not going to answer hypotheticals. no one has been prejudged or nor will anyone be prejudged if i am confirmed, are the kind of people these are in fact, the people that you would prosecute. >> your time is up. would you like to? my time is like to respond, chairman. >> she is clearly not going to answer that question. so let me get on to would you would you like to. i do have questions for the second round. >> you you'll have a second round. would you like to speak before i go on, senator cruz? >> no, sir. >> thank you. >> senator cruz. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> general bondi, welcome. >> thank you for your long career in public service. and thank you for your willingness to take on this, this incredibly important office. >> you know, i have to say. i don't know that there is a more important position in this new administration than the position to which you have been nominated. >> attorney general of the united states. >> i thought the exchange just a moment ago with senator hirono was illustrative. >> she asked

that merrick garland was right to appoint him and to back him up under serious political attack.nd that there is a very credible case that trump committed serious crimes, particularly with regard to january 6th and attempting to overturn the election. jack smith still has his hands on a great deal of evidence that we probably have not seen. that we won't see until, if this report is released. if it is released. the public deserves to see that. i very much hope that frankly even if judge cannon still tries to suppress this report and keep it from the public that maybe joe biden and merrick garland decide that that immunity decision that the supreme court handed down it works for democratic presidents too. maybe joe biden needs to step in and ensure that the public sees this record of crime because otherwise trump is going to step in and wipe it off the books forever. >> lisa rubin, mark joseph stern. thank you for your time and wisdom. appreciate you. >>> coming up, we'll check again on the raging wildfires in los angeles. the latest from california is coming up next. coming up ne

well, the attorney general merrick garland was to make the final call. but today, we are hearing that judge cannon in florida based on her throwing that classified documents cases out claiming the special prosecutor is not legally constituted, did not have the right to investigate. that has put a hold on the entire prosecution on both january 6th and the classified documents case. pending a decision on whether the prosecutor was legally mandated by the 11th circuit court of appeal. well, the 11th circuit would be hearing a case that had already been decided in many other districts. the special prosecutors are legal. but, this is a case that judge cannon and we know that she has done some very unusual decision to say the least that all favor, you know, donald trump in many controversial ways. has issued that order. temporarily blocking the portion of the report on classified documents. that is raising questions about the jurisdiction. it likely means the classified documents portion cannot be med public the defense lawyers that had been issuing the legal

also, garland's goodbye any minute now, attorney general merrick garland will give his parting address at d.o.j. final days on the job as well. what he wants the department to remember as they head into trump's second term. plus, from florida attorney general to a new gig in the senate, ron desantis tapping ashley moody to fill marco rubio's seat in washington. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin in arlington, virginia, where right now the armed forces are holding their farewell to their commander in chief, president biden. nbc's aaron gilchrist is following this for us from washington, dc. what are we expecting at today's ceremony? >> well, chris, this is, as you said, an opportunity for the united states military to gather its leaders. the president of the united states, the commander in chief, along with the first lady, the vice president and second gentleman will be in attendance as well. and this is a ceremony where they thank their commander in chief. but also, you'll see and hear president biden thank the military for the work that they

garland. you can watch that tonight starting at 9:00 eastern on c-span, c-span now, our free mobile app, or online at c-span.org. >> sharon mcmahon, host of the here is where it gets interesting podcast and author of the small and the mighty, is our guest sunday night on c-span's q&a. she profiles lesser-known americans who changed the course of american history, including retail pioneers richard sears and alvin roebuck, former slave in france opposed clara brown -- flava and philanthropist clara brown, and others. >> almost never, will they say jeff bezos right? almost never will they say some tv star. they will almost always say somebody that has impacted them in some important way and very often those people are not famous, they are not rich, they don't have daddy's money, don't have their name on the side of a

he didn't even want garland to have so much as a senate hearing. so for the talk about what the american people decide, well, the people's representatives never really got to decide about merrick garland. and he made sure that happened. he was 100% response able for that happening. what did he tell you about his decision? he considers his work on the supreme court the most significant thing that he has done and the rest of the federal judiciary, the most significant thing he's done is senate leaders. so he did not look at that with regret. he did not look at it as an abuse of power, even though many of his critics did think it was an abuse of power. instead, he looked at it as something that one in the majority could do and he took advantage of it. let's continue this with his legacy on this. it's now early 2017 and president trump sends up the nomination of neil gorsuch to replace antonin scalia on the supreme court. it needs 60 votes to avoid a filibuster. and majority leader mcconnell warned democrats it's about their upcoming vote. it should be