republican governor jim justice joins us. out of the gate, and now you hit this wall. why aren't you able to convince more of your con constituents to go get immunized. >> margaret, we're a long ways from being in a crisis in west virginia. we're still below the national average with our death rate. >> brennan: you're hospitals are getting overwhelmed. >> i'm sorry? >> brennan: you're hospitals are getting overwhelmed. you have a high infection rate? >> we're overwhelmed all across this country. west virginia is managing it absolutely great, and in every way, from the standpoint of getting out first and vaccinating our people first in west virginia. we wish the boosters would have come out sooner because we got out so early, we were in a six month situation way before. think about this for one second, marrying: on margaret: g tuesday, we will have given and administeredary administeredevery one of our pfr vaccines -- >> brennan: you just asked the biden administration for more monoclonal antibodies, which is the treatment for

but when it comes to vaccine mandates for school children, governor jim justice says not a chance. >> from the standpoint of mandates, i don't believe in imposing upon our pree domes overs and over and over. >> new york school mandate goes into effect as children are increasingly at risk. the cdc says hospitalization of patients four years and under is at the highest rate so far in the pandemic. >> and states and cities are bracing for potential fallout in the form of worker shortages. the state of connecticut even deploying the national guard as potential replacements for unvaccinated workers, jericka. >> tom hanson for us tonight, thank you. >> only about a third of the world's population is fully vaccinated against covid-19. developing countries lag far behind. cbs's elizabeth palmer explains why and reports from london tonight. >> in britain this morning more than 40,000 runners came out to the london marathon. the first in two years. there is growing confidence that lethal covid is in retreat, at least in the developed world. in israel too. vaccines, that is stlee of them includi

. >> west virginia republican governor jim justice making the case why he will not be mandating vaccines strong in encouraging people to get vaccinated. he's been very consistent in that message. he hasn't pussyfooted with it, he actually has done it. he even offered a financial incentive for people to get vaccinated. his state has the lowest vaccination rate according to the cdc. the state's own data shows the biggest lag is with 12 to 15-year-olds, you see that right there at the top. only 30% of them are fully vaccinated. but justice is still refusing to add it to school age kids' vaccination requirements despite the fact that we're starting to see mandates across all ages really work. new york city mandated vaccinations for public school employees. now 95% of all full-time school employees have received at least one dose. after california's vaccine mandate for hospital workers went into effect last week, major health systems reported the mandate had helped boost their vaccination rates to 90% or higher. in connecticut, which saw an uptake in cases in july, governor ned lamont ordered

we want to continue our conversation with west virginia governor jim justice.'s pick up with where we left off, with how your state is faring with vaccinations and covid. your health official, dr. clay marsh at a press conference this week talked about how much your medical system is under strain right now, saying that the number of covid cases and hospitalizations is higher than it has been during the entire pandemic. and you, yourself, said you're right in the eye of this storm. so what's the problem? why aren't people protecting themselves? >> well, margaret, they are. we are in the eye of the storm. we're at the peak of the surge right now. from our hospital standpoint, we're absolutely -- you know, we're still doing elective surgeries and we're still doing all of that. we're not overloaded from the standpoint of our hospitals having to turn people down and all of that. we're absolutely, you know, are managing this and managing it in a right way. but we are right at the peak of our surge here, and we're very hopeful that it is starting to decline. it is dec

infection rates in the country, but when it comes to vaccine mandates for schoolchildren, governor jim justiceays, not a chance. >> from the standpoint of mandates, i don't believe in imposing upon our freedoms over and over and over. >> reporter: new york school mandate goes into effect as children are increasingly at risk. the cdc says hospitalization of patients 4 years and under is at the highest rate so far in the pandemic. states and cities are bracing for potential fallout. the state of connecticut deploying the national guard as potential replacements for unvaccinated workers. jericka? >> tom hanson, thank you. >>> president biden face news pressure this week to unite his party. budget battles among democrats have reached new lows and tensions are high. cbs' christina ruffini is at the white house where the attention remains on two bills and really two democrats. >> reporter: the senate passed that bipartisan infrastructure bill almost two months ago, but it still hasn't become law. and that's due to objectors in the president's own party. >> we want to make sure that we're fighting fo

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the governor is jim justice, and he joins me now.onest truth. if you'll just step back and give me a chance to tell you that west virginia's the third old state, the state that has the most chronic illnesses of any state, a state that's not protected by an ocean around them yet, we're still below the national average as far as death, and absolutely west virginia has led the way in getting out and vaccinating our people. we've been trying like crazy to try and get our people the booster shots, we finally got it. and west virginia's standpoint, we're going to continue to lead the way. we've got the booster go ahead, and we've gone into our nursing homes and tuesday, tomorrow, the pfizer vaccine throughout all of our nursing home system will be done, you know? it's amazing work, but we do -- but to answer your question point-blank, here's all there is to it: we are so divided in this country right now, it is unbelievable. i truly believe our president has lost his way in every way you can imagine. we do not need to divide our people eve

earlier today on fox, west virginia governor jim justice talked about how some of the drugs are making it all the way into his state. take a listen. >> we have seen immediate uptick from the standpoint of death coming from drugs and we have -- it is a direct correlation with what is happening at the border. >> we all know what's going on. there's drugs coming across the border like crazy and everything they are killing our people. >> the thing about the remarkable numbers, 1.7 million apprehensions during the 2021 fiscal year is some of those months are under the trump administration, back when border security was considered to be much, much tighter. it's going to be pretty wild to take a look at what the numbers are going to potentially be later on this year at the end of the calendar year for all of 2021 which will primarily be most of joe biden's administration. we can potentially hit 2 million for his first year in office. we will send it back to you. mike: stunning numbers. bill, thanks a lot. ♪ ♪ >> mike: democrats are looking for a special process to try to pass spending plan it

now, the republican governor of west virginia who is basically jim justice, president of the donald trumpb in that state, he doesn't care what mitch mcconnell thinks. he cares what donald trump thinks. the republican voters in west virginia care about donald trump, they don't care about mitch mcconnell. joe manchin will stay a democrat because, quite simply, he has nowhere to go. why is he threatening to do this? it's very clear. it's negotiating room for him. he is being threatened by democratic donors who are unhappy with how he's torpedoing biden's -- not only his agenda, but climate change agenda. he's saying, look, i can pull up stakes and turn senate republican right now. that's why he's threatened. it's like james bond in "casino royale," except joe manchin isn't james bond. >> i didn't know the cia gave out gambling money. a lot of plot twists in that one. >> it was actually british intelligence, not the cia. although i do remember felix giving cia money. >> i think you're right. both intelligence services were funding it. what do we call a fact check a fiction? that's kind of a p

jim jordan. he was on justice last night talking about the attorney general. and focus on freedom in this country. you're seeing it play out. the school board association says we regret we sent this letter. they apologized the to. they are supposed to hearing from them and they thought, wait a minute we better back down from. this this is i think a good sign to see they're apologizing for this letter. let's see what the attorney general does. i hope he will say, look, we were wrong. we'll have to wait and see. rachel: pete on january 6th, the biden administration and the doj characterized the people who entered the capitol as domestic terrorists. most people said nothing. in this case they characterizedd parents as domestic terrorists, this time parents fought back. their legislators and their representatives in congress fought back. dan bongino was on with us yesterday, hey, america, take a victory lap on this. this is a sign that our system works. we complained about it. got our reps involved. now merrick garland is embarrassed at least the national school b

i said jim jordan, i meant jim justice.movie set in new mexico. finally a press conference scheduled for tomorrow morning almost a week out after we learn more details about what went wrong and a similar push to keep accidents from happening in the future. miguel almaguer is in santa fe with the latest. miguel? >> reporter: stephanie, over the last couple of days, investigators have been coming and going from this ranch behind me, leaving with bags of evidence, including firearms and spent shell casings. tomorrow, we expect to hear a press conference and more details as to what exactly what went wrong here. >> reporter: the set of "rust" now on indefinite pause, as santa fe sheriffs look to determine what caused the fatal accident. >> we have two people accidentally shot on a movie set by a prop gun. >> reporter: the deadly shot fired by alec baldwin from a prop gun he believed was safe. his wife, halaria posting on instagram, my heart is with halyna, her husband, her son, their family and loved ones and my alec. cinematogr

jim justice will have that seat. he's a billionaire. to you and give you the last word on this because many your reporting, did you, were you able to determine what which side he would want to fall on because it doesn't seem to me that it would make any sense for him to pull a move like this and then caucus with the democrats anyway. is your reporting that this was a move in order to punish democrats for not being regan conservative enough by essentially handing the senate over to mitch mcconnell? >> my understanding is that i think it's too fold. i think one party was just sort of strategy. he threatens to leave, it makes things more uncertain and more unbalanced if he caucuses with the democrats, makes them more worried and sending a serious signal to biden and other would be if he did to biden and congressional democrats and he was ready to walk and so they better yield. the other thing i think is psychological. you see this in some of the pun public statements. he seems like a lonely guy that believe there is is no room in the democ

. >> john: that is what the governor jim justice did. if joe manchin were to flip, that would change the balance of power in the senate. marc thiessen, great to see you. we have breaking news. sandra question marks me to fox news alert as we look live at these aerial images in north port, florida, the environmental park that has been the focus of brian laundrie's search. he is still the person of interest even in this moment, in the murder of gabby petitio. while we know so far and that fox news was confirmed is that a spokesperson for the sarasota county medical examiner's office has confirmed that the office was called to the environmental park today, but would not say anything more. we have video obviously of a white van arriving at the park, there has been a tent that is been set up, we are told at the corner has been called in. there is a command center that arrived at the same park earlier. this is the same park that they have been searching out for weeks for brian's b-17. the parent said that he went for a hike there, as far as th

birthright citizenships because they couldn't figure out how to make enslaved citizens because of jim scott, chief justice, said the families never had people -- had citizenships but scholars disagree but with roger thought that that was true and black people never were and are not and never will be citizens even if they're free. if you're wondering how many black people at any given part-time were free, you could say maybe 10% of the total black community. 10 to 12% was free. so in 1860, 488,000 and the surprise 260,000 lived in slave states. more free black people living in the slaved states than the north which is complete free but black people even free black men in the north could not vote except in 5 of 6. only other 5 -- in all other states but connecticut and the state of new york, 250-dollar property requirement which was pretty tough thing to do. so free black men in the north didn't get the right to vote until the 15th amendment which is 1870, however, this is the biggest surprise, joe, for me, maybe one of the two or three biggest surprises in the series was that black men in confederacy, 10 o

jim schmidt. they say they want justice for gabby. er joseph petito saying if he were in the laundrie family's shoes and it were gabby who had come home without brian in brian's car, he would have been on the phone with brian's parents. so he's still trying to make sense of this. they're still trying to make sense of this. gabby's family saying the laundrie's silence speaks volumes. but brian laundrie still nowhere to be found. >> athena jones, appreciate it. >>> also, it belongs in a museum. that's what new york city officials say about a 7-foot-tall statue of thomas jefferson that's presided over the chambers for more than a century. they voted to remove and relocate the statue at the behest of members of the council's black, latino and asian caucus. they say the representation 24e6 slave-owning founding father makes them uncomfortable and they believe it is inappropriate. jason carroll is in new york outside the city council chambers. this has been a 20-year fight to remove the statue. why now? >> i think a couple of things. first a

governor jim justice is going to come. steve: going to declare brian kilmeade day in west virginia.that would be great. ainsley: taking questions from audience. brian: live on stage. abraham lincoln and battle to save the soul. special november 7th. ainsley: what's the most fascinating thing you learned about their lives. brian: the unlikely success stories both individual men. steve: brand new book coming soon. check it out. brian kilmeade.com. all right. now let's go to jillian.com with the news. jillian: you had a date on there may of 2022. do you realize it's not halloween yet. brian: ashbury park was supposed to be september dana they couldn't pass the code inspection so they pushed it to may. steve: now we have something to do in 202 . jillian: i have something to do next year fantastic. brian: don't have the eagles. jillian: thanks, brian. go ahead and start off story we are following. convicted killer issues a final statement before his execution. earnest johnson saying in part quote i am sorry and have remorse for what i did. he spent more than 25 years on death row followi

in this case, via the justice department. >> yeah, jim, this report is titled subverting justice. i think those two words really nail exactly what was happening here. this report confirms there were two different coups happening, parallel to one another. they were not just talk, not just fluff, this was a very real concerted coordinated effort. one coup was donald trump trying to steal the election. the other coup was happening inside doj as jeffrey clark who say real villain in this story, tried to take over his ag so he could weaponize goj to help trump take over the election. so this is a real scandal and it is more than that. merrick garland needs to get involved here. congress has done its part. it is time for doj it take a look? from a legal perspective, does this open any of these folks up in terms of criminal charges if the doj doesn't step in? what is the next move here? >> i think it absolutely should. so, first of all, it is a federal crime to try to interfere with an election, to try to get somebody to count ballots that were not cast, to discard ballots that were cast

todd: congressman jim jordan says the justice permit has other important business focusing on instead of villain icing concerned parents. >> what is the justice department looking at you cannot hunter biden or questionable people or these art sales, what is the justice department looking at, parents, parents the object that school board meetings to critical race theory going to be defined as domestic terrorists with the latest memo that attorney general garland sends out, this is what ticks off americans so much. todd: white house press secretary jen psaki refusing to answer a question about hunter's ties to the chinese private equity firm. jillian: republican lawmakers demanding the biden and ministration handover records on the us exit from afghanistan. todd: lawmakers press top officials on how it went so wrong. >> reporter: the biden administration trying to put the afghanistan debacle behind them and move on but top gop lawmakers trying to find out what went so badly wrong and seeking answers. the house foreign affairs committee held a hearing and submitted a resolution of inquir

tonight, we will know this is going on to the department of justice, jim. >> fair enough.to exactly what they're looking for, it is fascinating. jessica, merrick garland, he's garnered some, you know, frustration from democrats for not pursuing other things aggressively, including voting rights prosecutions. is it clear here he's going to take up this referral. >> it is not clear at all. the department of justice has specifically said repeatedly that they will follow the facts and the law to make a decision and you can expect that is what the attorney general will stress repeatedly. he will not stray from that message during this testimony that is coming up in just a few minutes here. what was interesting is after the president said on friday to our kaitlan collins that, yes, he believes people who defy congressional subpoenas should be prosecuted, within minutes the spokesperson for the attorney general came out with a very terse statement saying the doj would follow the independent -- would make an independent decision based on the facts and the law. at the end of the st

crow, the dismantle of jim crow modern-day problems including criminal justice, voting rights and affirmative action. armand you want to pick up their. >> the supreme court people my age think of the supreme court of the segregation to protect the rights of free speech and so forth but it turns out as we look at it even to the supreme court ruling from a very short period from the early 1970s before that time the supreme court had a god-awful record and provoked jim crow even after the passage of the reconstruction to create equal rights et cetera. the court was moving backwards in the last decade rapidly rapidly backwards away the rest of the nation wants to go, it's the supreme court left us with what we look at. >> thank you this would probably go to berdin or armand, one of the things in the book that struck me talking about affirmative action and i think in the book that you mentioned that president kennedy was the first one to call it affirmative action but affirmative action has been going on forever it was just affirmative action towards white males only

. >> reporter: jim jones is the former chief justice of the idaho supreme court. >> this is the onlyutenant governor that i can recall that has acted like an idiot. >> reporter: governor little made the argument it is a mischaracterization of the constitution that anytime he leaves the state, that the lieutenant governor takes over. he got supporting opinion from the attorney general's office. it was a close legal call that needs to be resolved in the courts. dan simon, cnn, idaho. >>> now to the gabby petito case. we are live in florida with latest next. >>> the quick programming note. tomorrow night on the new season of this is life with leisa ling. catch the season premiere of this is life with lisa ling tomorrow night on cnn at 10:00.. (brad) how is apartments-dot-com so sure that we'll still have the most listings in the future? by going there. (man) no listings in 2178! (brad) with the possible exception of the year 2178. apartments-dot-com. the most popular place to find a place. paul loves food. but his diabetes made food a mystery. everything felt like a “no.” but then paul

. >> reporter: jim jones is the former chief justice of the idaho supreme court.nt governor that i can recall that has acted like an idiot. >> reporter: governor little has made the argument that it's a mischaracterization of the idaho constitution that anytime he leafs the state that the lieutenant governor would automatically take over. again a sporting opinion of the attorney general's office. it was a close call and ultimately it would be resolved in the courts. dan simon, cnn, boise, idaho. >>> a quick update from europe, volcan nic lava is devouring mo homes in the spanish town of la palma, the canary island's volcano has become more aggressive. and the volcano of a week ago, and there are more lightning strikes hitting the volcano. more than 1,000 homes destroyed before it first erupted. >>> so, don't go anywhere, we'll be back in just about an hour, "smerconish" is up next. >>> and stick with us, the premiere of the new series "diana" that premieres tomorrow night. you don't want to miss it. >> i was always different. and always something inside of me that

jim. >> whitney wild, thank you very much. >>> i'm joined now by deputy assistant attorney general elliott williams. the ball is in the justice department's court here, does it act? >> it certainly can and should. look, you know, this doesn't happen that often, jim, quite frankly, and, you know, it is -- we know the committee is going to approve the subpoenas on tuesday. we have every reason to believe that, look, it is a more friendly justice department to this congress than we have seen before. and when someone openly defies a subpoena, this isn't just about democrats and republicans. it is about a disrespect of congress, a house of government, and its authority to compel people to testify. and someone who thumbs their nose at that ought to pay a price for it. that's what we'll likely see. >> they should. but, elliott, we have seen this movie before the last several years. trump administration was expert at playing the delay game, right? and it works. don mcgahn, we waited two years and we did, but it was after trump left office, right, and long after people really remembered why it was being brought in. >> couple of things

bit about his policy prescriptions including the george floyd justice and policing act, which got hung up on capitol hill in september, jim. >> and joe, i think there was some surprise out there that biden said so clearly that yes, the department of justice should prosecute those who defy these subpoenas. what is the white house saying about the president's remark last night? >> given the fact that democrats were really steamed about donald trump's repeated, brazen efforts to try to pressure the justice department publicly to do his bidding when you hear this new president, this democratic president essentially doing the same kind of thing, although not on the same scale, it's at least enough to create some heartburn among democrats. so jen psaki put out a twit, tweet i should say, just last night and said in part, the president supports the work of the house committee and the independent role of the department of justice to make any decisions about prosecutions. independent role of doj. so a little bit of clean up there on aisle seven. >> absolutely, joe. and also because the president himself has said he would leave the

jim. so i'll give the -- the department of justice the benefit of the doubt and a critique.efit of the doubt to charge those people at the highest level would involve -- having to charge a conspiracy. and that will take a long time to investigate. and, you know, put together that case because obviously if you're going to go to trump or his inner circle, you want that to be an airtight case before you charge it. precisely because this is so sensitive and involves, you know, a political minefield, i am very confused why attorney general garland hasn't appointed special counsel. because this is precisely the kind of thing, because simply in appointing the special counsel and stating the scope of, you know, what is to be investigated, gives the public some reassurance that, okay, it is being investigated, because right now it is a black box, we don't know where they're going if there is an active criminal investigation they're even pursuing, let alone whether someone is going to be charged. that can be undermining both, you know, our -- the idea of the rule of law, people don't

. >> reporter: jim jones is the former-chief justice of the idaho supreme court.lunt. >> this is the only lieutenant governor that i can recall that has abouted acted like an idio >> governor little made the argument that it's a mischaracterization of the idaho constitution to say that any time he leaves the state, that the lieutenant governor would automatically take over. and he got a supporting opinion from the idaho attorney general's office. nonetheless, the ag said it was a close legal question. ultimately, it would need to be resolved in the courts. john. >> all right dan simon, quite a story. thank you so much. >>> up next, we have heard the testimony and seen the research. tonight, we will hear from two young women on opposite sides of the world about the devastating affect instagram had on their teenaged years, and how they almost didn't live to tell their stories. (phone beep) ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (music quieter) ♪ (phone clicks) ♪ ♪ people everywhere living with type 2 diabetes are waking up to what's possible with rybelsus®. ♪ you are my sunshine

before that, it fluctuated between five and 10 justices. jim, pittsburgh, independent.aller: i do not support changing a system that is not broken. we need to elect an ethical president and u.s. senate members. host: who is an ethical person narrative pennsylvania who should be in congress -- person out of pennsylvania who should be in congress right now? caller: i can't name anyone. host: who was the last president you thought did a good job of obeying his oath of office. caller: i don't think any of them do in my lifetime. host: who in history with you .2 / -- who in history would you poit to? caller: george washington. old hickory, president jackson. host: this is dena, princeville, hawaii. caller: it seems to me instead of calling it packing -- what he wants to do is bring balance. host: so it is all about how you frame this discussion? caller: this discussion should not be about packing the supreme court. it should be about expanding and balancing it out. host: what would you say to folks who push back and say " democrats could balance the supreme court if they won

justice alito was in indiana yesterday giving a speech. but the court has been very careful here, jimte a fiery speech, in fact, at the court. thanks so much. >>> today more vaccine mandates are going into effect around the country. this is some very encouraging data showing that these mandates are working. one of the largest hospitals in rhode island said it vaccinated more than 95% of its workforce in new york, 92% of nursing home and hospital staff have received at least one dose so far. >>> across the country, vaccination rates appear to be on the rise. more than 77% of adults have had at least one dose. nearly 67% now fully vaccinated. joining us to talk through more of this, the director of the vaccination education center at children's hospital of philadelphia and a member of the vaccine advisory committee. always good to have you with us. good morning. as we look at that number of adults who had at least one shot, i think it's interesting, too, of eligible americans, those 12 and up, 75% have had at least one shot. that's incredibly encouraging, especially as we see these rate

justice at new york university. what we are seeing across the states it is nothing short of jim crow in the 21st century. aided, abetted, and allowed by the shelby decision which is soct tied the hands of the justice department when discriminatory legislation was being enacted at the state level. the senate must fight back. we must restore the preclearance provisions of the voting rights act. and tailor it to meet the 21st --vo make the challenges of thet century. that is with the john lewis voting rights advancement will do as an important complement to the freedom to vote acts it will reestablish the preclearance coverage formula based on an updated robust catalog of modern-day voter suppression laws. while adapting new provisions to address the next generation of suppressive voting. this new bill also response to the court's troubling ruling from earlier this year. which further, even further weakens the protections against state practices that hindered majorities seeking to vote. we have to be brutally honest, this country has to look at itself and the mayor. racial barriers to ballot, to the ballot a

. >> martha: that was jim jordan hammering the attorney general for politicizing the justice departmentw his committee is demanding that other officials at doj testify about their role in targeting concerned parents who they wanted to track as potentially causing too much trouble, becoming harassing, things along those lines. so mark meredith has the breaking news on the new front in this story. hi, mark. >> good afternoon. house republicans say they have nor questions for the justice department. they're calling for more hearings. they want to know why the federal government would want to interview with these school board meetings. the justice department is facing a firestorm over a memo to stop violent school board members. but the justice department said they were trying to silence speech. republicans want to hear from deputy attorney general and acting attorney general mark lesko. in a letter to the chairman, jerry nadler, republicans say they need the hearing so the committee may examine the troubling role of the national security division in targeting concerned parents at school bo

. >> jim mentioned the subpoena for jeffrey clark, former justice department official, who was willing to play ball with the president, even went so far to draft this letter with evidence of voting irregularities in georgia. what does that open him up to potentially in terms of criminal charges? >> there's a few different areas of exposure for him. one, potential criminal charges, election-related crimes, fraud-related crimes, dishonest statements to other feld ral officials crimes, but also potential bar sanctions. even if you don't rise to level of charging him with a crime, the senate judiciary committee put out a report suggesting the district of columbia investigate his bar license because as a lawyer you can't make false representations for another body. they would not be frivolous charges. we'll have to wait and see. >> errol louis, forgive my skeptical eye here, we've been in investigation land here with trump for half a decade now, right? and many don't go anywhere. he's expert, as you say, stretching out the process and the people who work from him are following his lead on t

jim? >>> this important update, just in to cnn, supreme court justice brett kavanaugh has tested positive for covid-19. we should mention he is fully vaccinated. this is important because the supreme court's term is set to begin on monday. ariane de vogue covers the supreme court. will this delay the upcoming term? >> it won't delay it. he has tested positive for covid. the court was set to meet later on today for the ceremonial swearing in of justice amy coney barrett. they just released the statement, let me read to you the top of it here, says on thursday, per the court's regular testing protocols, justice kavanaugh had a routine test. on thursday evening, justice kavanaugh was formed he had tested positive for covid-19. he has no symptoms and has been fully vaccinated since january. and as you said, this comes as the court is set to take the bench on monday, they haven't actually been together in that courtroom for over a year because of covid. they had come up with extensive protocols, limited people in the audience, some of the media has to take covid testing ahead of time, to ward

dispute between states and another involving a criminal case, but of course, jim and erica, this is the first time that the justicesnts in person in just about 18 months the one justice missing will be justice brett kavanaugh, he tested positive for covid last week, participating remotely. it is set to start off a term that could be explosive, guys. >> that is for sure. we'll be watching, jessica, appreciate it. >>> still ahead, a critical meeting today on oil production around the globe. what we could learn about the impact of that on the price you pay for gas. those details are next. ♪ there are beautiful ideas that remain in the dark. but with our new multi-cloud experience, you have the flexibility you need to unveil them to the world. ♪ from the very first touch, pampers, the #1 pediatrician recommended brand, so every touch will protect like the first. pampers football, is a game of inches. but it's also a game, of information. because the nfl is connected. and at any moment, the fate of the season can come down to this. billions of secure connections, per second. when the game is on the line and the game is

. >> cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is joining us live from washington. as jim pointed out, expected to get contentious. i think we're all waiting for a little bit of that. we also have a sense of what merrick garland is going to say going into this. >> the interesting thing about this, this is a standard oversight hearing. this is a chance for committee members on the judiciary committee to question the attorney general about what's happening at the department of justice. you can bet that the attorney general will do everything he can to steer it to a conversation about what the department of justice has done in his seven months at the top and what it will continue to do. in his opening statement he talks specifically about always adhering to the rule of law. this is a message that we've heard from the attorney general repeatedly, whether it was when he was officially nominated by president biden, whether it was at his confirmation hearing, and ever since. this is something that the attorney general will hit right off the top in his opening remarks to lawmakers

justice department hesitating to then charge them criminally. why is that and when you look at the situation now, do you expect this to change? >> it is a really good question, jim. why hasn't anybody been charged with criminal contempt of congress by the justice department? in fact, in over 50 years we have seen doj under both parties decline to bring charges. why is that? i would attribute it to two things. one is politics. it is just messy, potentially ugly. some people held in contempt, bill barr and eric holder were the attorney general, especially awkward to -- for doj to charge the attorney general and i think the second part of the answer is just timidity, it takes a lot of guts and backbone to charge somebody. you're buying into a potential trial there and it could get messy. merrick garland has to stand up here and do his job, even if it may be difficult. >> what do you think the chances are that happens, elie? >> i'm split on this. on the one happened, merrick garland has not shown a lot of appetite for anything that may be politically fraught during his time here. i think he's undercharged some of the january 6th defendants. i think he's not gone hig

there between the nfca, the white house and the department of justice about these troublesome parents that needed to be watched? congressman jim jordan led some tough questioning of the attorney general and now he issued a letter for the attorney general to start pulling back on this. first, mike emanuel with the origins of how all of this laid out. the time line is fascinating, folks. here's how we go here. hi, mike. >> hi, martha. a statement from the school board said the action that parents were taking at school board meetings were equivalent to hate crimes and domestic terrorism. after that, virginia garcia was appointed. she was also the key player with that communicated with the white house to find examples of the school board incidents. october 4, the justice department sent a memo saying they would take action to school board members and prosecute parents when appropriate. last week the top republican on house judiciary pressed the attorney general on these matters. >> i read the letter and we've been seeing over time threats -- >> whoa, whoa, whoa. you read the letter? that's your source? >> let me be clear, this is

backed by bogus claims of executive privilege, and then the justice department that wouldn't enforce the law creating impunity for those four years, jimce that we helped establish in the mcgann case for testimony. and in the mazers case for documents, those are going to be enforced by congress and doj will weigh in as well. so, no, they cannot stall like they did under trump. >> and we should note to folks who are watching, norm, you served under democrats. richard, you served under republicans and you're part of a bipartisan group, former judges and lawyers who are zeroing in on this memo by the pro-trump attorney john eastman which laid out an action plan, for how then president trump might overturn the election, with the help of then vice president mike pence. in your letter to the california bar, you say the available evidence supports a strong case that the state bar should investigate whether in the course of representing mr. trump mr. eastman violated his ethical obligations as an attorney by filing frivolous claims, engaging in deceptive contact. he would get kicked out of the bar there. but is that -- is that the most we can

the mueller investigation, talking about how the president could not have obstructed justice and the firings of jimn the oval office meeting with donald trump to begin a relationship with him which ends -- not ends. it continues on for a year and a half where on january 4th, as trump is trying to pressure pence, the only aide to trump in the room is john eastman. so, it was from fox news to in the president's ear at one of the most crucial junctures of, i mean, his presidency, maybe even in american history. >> i want to ask about what you think that portends for mr. eastman as there's a select committee looking into all of the things that led to the insurrection. but i want to read some more from your story. as you were just saying, eastman was the only advisor to the president in the room on january 4th. it started with the president talking about how some of the legal scholarship that had been done saying under the 12th amendment the vice president has the ultimate authority to reject invalid electoral votes and he asked me what i some of the leg scholarship that had been done, saying under the

justice department will decide whether to charge bannon. at a hearing wednesday, republicans testified against holding bannon in contempt, including congressman jim jordan asked about his own communication with president trump on january 6th. >> of course i talked to the president. i talked to him on that day. i've been clear about that. i don't recall the number of times. but it's not about me. during one heated exchange at the allergy, congressman matt gates would not admit that president biden fairley won the election. >> do you accept that joe biden won the 2020 presidential election? >> i accept that joe biden is the president. >> do you accept that he won the election by more than 7 million votes and defeated donald trump in the electoral college, a margin that donald trump called a landslide when he beat hillary clinton by the same numbers? >> i think our election was uniquely polluted by these indiscriminate mail-in ballots. >> reporter: as for trump's social media network, it's expected to launch next month with a public rollout. >>> president biden is dropping his infrastructure bill from $3.5 million to $2 trillion. paid family leave w

. >> what's she's trying to say is that the criminal justice system, it's literally the same thing as jim your assumption. that's not my assumption. asian americans are routinely discriminated against when applying for colleges. they have to get 480 points higher than black people. also they're discriminated against when they're applying for jobs. your mind is so closed off to certain ideas. >> we will continue. we will continue. i love that you hang in there. >> they are not willing to consider certain ideas because been taught those i.d.s. >> yes, but is the certain idea that we are really suggesting that asians are better than black people? that's not what you're releasing, is it? >> i mean, i'm not saying they're inherently a better. i'm just saying their situation is better. >> but what would you attribute that to? >> higher income. hi representation in colleges and -- >> but why do you think they have that and why do you think black people don't? >> i don't know. i mean, asians are discriminated much more in those areas because -- >> then black people? >> yes. >> will agree to disag

jim jordan making this prediction. >> we got a border in chaos, climate increasing every urinary, record inflation, the with of justice going after moms and dads to speak out for their kids at school board meetings and at the state department, that left american side and have abu bakr that was the afghanistan exit is concerned about gender identity on passports. it makes no sense but i think this and a host of other things are why you are seeing this turnaround and a focus on freedom in the things that matter and the american people will speak loud and clear in virginia, new jersey and next following the elections. >> generally calling china's hypersonic missile test very concerning and almost like a sputnik moment. >> it comes as republican senators, the intelligence community's focus on he woke agenda. >> reporter: good morning. china's testify hypersonic missile system was described as concerning by chairman general martinelli. he added this could be a significant development in the technological events for the country. the comments follow report the chinese tested two hypersonic missiles over the summer that are c

there is always a chance that the department of justice could decline to move forward on this criminal contempt charge. what they're looking for here, jim and erica, is leverage. they know the chances that steve bannon actually is put in handcuffs, actually ends up serving any jail time is remote. they're trying to throw the book at him in an effort to get him to testify. there is back and forth over the last several weeks, bannon outright just refusing to comply with this subpoena, meanwhile the committee is saying that these arguments he's making specifically this argument that his communications and his records are protected by executive privilege are basically ridiculous. they assert that he was not an employee of the white house, the executive privilege does not stretch that far, specifically they said that basically they believe the case law suggests that executive privilege does not cover communications between president trump and private citizens, specifically regarding nongovernmental work. so that's what the committee is arguing. bannon is arguing because there is this outstanding question about what is possiblyder execu doesn

justice initiative. and my job quite literally is to help the state of louisiana. figure out how to heal the injury is after more than a 120 years of jim crow law impacting a jury system like a daddy. hello, jason. please introduce yourself to have you as watching around the welt. i'm jaycee williams. i'm a native new romanian. and i was recently elected this past january as a disc attorney of orleans parish to in a system that has been racist and sexist by design. i'm not good to handle hey, on the screen, please introduce yourself to athey willis. i'm a criminal justice recorder in new orleans for the lens are non profit investigative newsroom. and i recently produced a documentary along those lines on unit mystery convictions. are we gonna got into that in just a moment? but 1st, let me tell you if you, if you're watching like, man, if you're watching on youtube, use the comment section. that will be many things that you want to ask questions about. you can decide right here at be part of today's show. let us just start with jim crow joyce, and janet camp. that phrase, what does that mean even? and so after the civil war, more than