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merrick garland appointed jack smith as special counsel. k garland made clear, there is that historical wall of separation between the president and doj. garland even said the decision to charge donald trump was not even mine. that was jack smith's. another wall of separation here. no evidence whatsoever to indicate any involvement by joe biden in those indictments of donald trump. >> one key piece. second obviously very telegraph, focus on hunter biden, the investigation and indiamond of him as well. what did we learn? anything new stood out to you? >> merrick garland struggled with this. more questions than answers provided yesterday about the hunter biden prosecution. the one thing merrick garland stressed is that the person running this case is david weiss who was a u.s. attorney and has now become special counsel as merrick garland stressed several times he was nominated by donald trump, and merrick garland stressed that i, merrick garland, attorney general, have not had direct involvement in this case. the purview of david weiss. liste

the department of justice is more than merrick garland or jack smith. there's 115,000 employees across 40 separate components. there's the antitrust division. the national security division. the tax division. the d.e.a. under the umbrella. the fbi, the atf, the u.s. marshals. and interpol. i only scratched the surface just now. if you think the department of justice comes down to two indictments against a former president, you have another thing coming. you have to wonder why the person who asked to be the president again by the way, doesn't understand that. but maybe he is just being sarc sarcastic. we'll talk about this with andrew mccabe, senior law enforcement analyst, and former deputy director of the fbi. you were a former fbi director. how alarmed are you, to hear a former president and current gop front-runner float the idea of sham prosecutions that are retaliatory and on the campaign trial? >> where do you start with this one? maybe we should make mention of the hypocrisy of donald trump, who has been decrying the politicization of the departm

so we've seen this throughout this dirty cop merrick garland's appointment of jack smith.s that would come under and going after prosecutor jack smith that's done in one way or another and what jim jordan can do and put those documents together and what hammed. did this guy allege that the stanley woodward this happened, the attorney, and happened in other cases and this is no surprise to anyone. they're plotting and planning this from the white house and they've come from fulton county judge and other prosecutors, state prosecutors, alvin bragg's people may have been at the white house and this is all coordinated and no doubt in my mind and we have to put this together and show that. it's part of an impeachment inquiry. larry: the rumors were the white house people, senior staff people, bid arkansas bind, whoever, was in consultation with jack smith. but jack smith is supposed to be independent and he isn't. they were talking and white house give the marching order and fanny willis marching orders and alvin bragg and who knows, trying to bribe or extort as you say this de

"we're going to give jack the time he needs -- "actually, merrick, can i just jump in?nk i'm good to indict i mean, did you see that photo, all the top secret documents spread out on his floor? pretty sure he left his fingerprints in the ketchup blots. [ laughter ] anyway, it won't surprise you to learn that trump immediately started complaining about the appointment of a special counsel at a gala at mar-a-lago last week after the news broke, and in usual trump fashion, he just went on and on about it. also, please enjoy the fact that he's whining about all this stuff while also dressed like the piano player at a long island steakhouse >> i want to address the - [ laughter ] appalling announcement today by the egregiously corrupt biden administration and their weaponized department of justice. would you like me to talk about that this is a rigged deal just as the 2020 election was rigged, and we can't let them get away with it. i was tried on the fake impeachment hoax on january 6th, and isn't this sort of like double jeopardy? in the old days, they used to call it doub

jack smith. it's where we start tonight with ryan nobles >> reporter: tonight, attorney general merrick garland firing back at republicans accusing him of weaponizing the justice department >> i am not the president's lawyer i will add, i am not congress' prosecutor the justice department works for the american people >> reporter: but republican lawmakers grilling garland over what they call a two-tiered justice system. >> there's one investigation protecting president biden. there's another one attacking president trump. the justice department has got both sides of the equation covered. >> reporter: the gop zeroing in on the special counsel investigation of hunter biden alleging garland was misleading when he said there was no interference in the investigation into the president's son. garland was pressed if he had any conversations with special counsel, david weiss, regarding the case >> i do not intend to discuss the internal justice department deliberations, whether or not i had them. >> so your testimony today is, you're not going to tell us whether you've had discussions with mr. weiss? >> my te

next week marks the ten-month anniversary since attorney general merrick garland first appointed special counsel jack now jack smith is a man who speaks very few words publicly. so we are for the time being left to comb through his public filings to know what jack smith really thinks about the urgency of getting his election interference case into court. now we're getting a brand new glimpse inside jack smith's thinking and specifically and more chillingly, jack smith's very real fears of violence. they come from what we're learning about efforts to gain access to trump's twitter account. "politico" is reporting that newly unsealed court filings shha

no >> but one thing he wouldn't necessarily know is what merrick garland is like as a prosecutor versus what jacked everybody said, what does this mean is this gonna slow things down? and for those of us who knew jack smith who, we said slow things down? >> garland would be iota, and respectable and why us >> you don't know? iota is a figure in star wars. jack smith would be someone with a lightsaber. skywalker, i feel like a, vader if you don't. one thing jack smith's critics and allies agree izzy wields's lightsaber moves. quickly >> definitely moves quickly. >> this is quite similar the podcasts. >> again, if he was thinking this was somehow, mr. trump think this was somehow gonna make it go away, he thought very wrong. but what it did give him his disability -- it didn't stop him, it didn't give him the ability to say this was all politically motivated, but it certainly didn't stop him, and of course that's the whole spiel right now. that this is a political opponent, a declared candidate, his likely opponent in 2024 using the department of justice to go after him because he's the leading rep

have total independence and i think that's what's come out of this, that merrick garland has basically been hands off on both jack smith and on weiss, that he has let them be another archibald cox and basically have free raineign an special independence which we have not seen since archibald cox so that is a pretty important point. the other fact that i thought was really of significance here is why weiss was appointed as special counsel. and i think what it really comes down to is the fact that he will be able to issue a report. normally, prosecutors do not get to issue reports. they do not get to explain their decisions and i think here it's extremely important because all kinds of issues have been raised about why they didn't indict under the statute of limitations and why they didn't look at other matters and the big issue overhanging this is whether or not hunter biden's name was hunter jones and whether he would have been investigated or charged in the first instance. we don't know that because we don't know the facts of that investigation or what mr. weiss has looked at and what is good about having him ap

let's have the interview let's have jack smith had those to getting to indictment of president trump i am not willing to let merrickwith you liz, you know four indictments on president trump in a couple months we are talking about this instead of what he has done, at doj, against biden number one political opponent, kevin thoughts. i think prosecution in indictment is now in tool kit of both parties part of political weaponry remarkably ineffective in terms of changing voters' minds about anything polls show that, on either side, no matter how much press biden gets on this or press trump got on indictments it has become noise goodor a bad will be played out in courts if you are president anybody else you want full transpires at the end of the day i don't think biden should be surprised full-blown attempt to prosecute, indict impeach that is each side throwing mudd at each other doesn't change policy doesn't change me investing, the thing i care about i say i make more than on policy not politics, but this is just noise. >> "washington post" is reporting that hunter biden, is suing the irs, over dis disclosing his i

next week marks the ten-month anniversary since attorney general merrick garland first appointed special counsel jackth to his post. just ten months. let that sink in. right now jack smith is a man who speaks very few words publicly. so we are for the time being left to comb through his public filings to know what jack smith really thinks about the urgency of getting his election interference case into court. now we're getting a brand new glimpse inside jack smith's thinking and specifically and more chillingly, jack smith's very real fears of violence. they come from what we're learning about efforts to gain access to trump's twitter account. "politico" is reporting that newly unsealed court filings show that way back in april, quote, federal prosecutors secretly argued that if donald trump learned of their efforts to access his twitter account, his public -- attorneys working for special counsel jack smith worried trump would publicly announce like he announced on truth social when his mar-a-lago estate was searched. a surge in threats against federal law enforcement culminating in the fatal shooti

in november attorney general merrick garland appointed a former war crimes prosecutor named jack smithng jeffrey clark. we also know john eastman is someone who's been touched by this investigation. >> i'd like to see the warrant before you take my property -- >> both jeffrey clark and john eastman have had their phones seized by federal investigators. clark dismissed the investigation as politically motivated, and eastman fought the doj's search warrant in court. but there are state-level investigations as well. rudy giuliani has been informed he's a target in a georgia investigation -- >> we will not talk about this till it's over. >> -- and appeared before a grand jury in august. at the moment, perhaps the most perilous investigation for donald trump has nothing to do with the attack on the capitol. >> former president donald trump's mar-a-lago home in florida has been searched by the fbi. >> the investigation that at the moment seems most directly threatening to donald trump is the one into his handling of classified documents and taking documents to mar-a-lago with him when he lef

jack smith. that joe biden, the president, had nothing to do with that notwithstanding trump's constant with biden indictments. the hunter biden issue, many questions remain that merricke extent he can't. he can't salem explain exactly what's happening behind the scenes, why we charged him with gun crimes, here's what may come. >> plenty of questions about "the hunt for h hunter biden and we'll see it next week. >> and to a point, a series of questions related to the failure of the plea beal tore hunter biden, clarity is lacking. regardless whether anybody did anything wrong outside of what's charged to this point. talk to folks yesterday after the hearing, did anyone say a moment that will matter later on? >> people inside the white house have been including yesterday increasingly frustrated with merrick garland. not just republicans upset with him. people in the white house as well, because they essentially think merrick garland in an attempt to placate people like jim gordon, operating in bad faith, never placate him. effort to do that essentiallyious sourced every different political decision to special counsels. you have a case where the most politically-fraught

merrick garland christopher wray, alexander mayorkas, what we can do is expose all this corruption and unconstitutional activity. we have to make a decision as an informed electorate november. [applause] -- electorate november. >> hello. jack. i am of the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. was that the irish guy that said that? [applause] [laughter] mr. west: it's a throwdown! >> either the way, those were not very good push-ups. [laughter] trust me. i will show you later. mr. west: ok, time. how old are you? >> 24. mr. west: i am 62. three years ago, were you in the motorcycle accident at 75 miles an hour and completely destroyed both your shoulders so that now you have screws and pin in them? s>> no. mr. west: you see, this is a teachable moment. engage brain before firing off mouth next time. [cheers and applause] >> valid point. would you say that given that we have to have immense resilience and spiritual resilience, that one of the ways to do that is through physical resilience and the importance of that? mr. west: all that fitness goes together. mental, spiritual, physical and emotional fitness go together. i got up this morning and knocked out four miles, i did my best and did my push-ups -- mayb