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i will argue we'll see the same hypocrisy and two-tiered justice system from merrick garland and joeiden because joe biden will do everything to cover up and protect his family from their crime and corruption and merrick garland is nothing but a biden lackey abusing the power of the department of "justice." larry: the way they went after steve bannon and peter navarro. in fact they put navarro in cuffs if i'm not mistaken? >> that's right. they prosecuted steve bannon and peter navarro, we'll see, will the department of justice prosecute hunter biden, the son of the president. larry: i wouldn't hold breath on that. you make a good point. marjorie, congresswoman, what is up with the mayorkas hearings? i noticed that the leadership is really coming around now to the mayorkas hearings. i was reading an op-ed piece by tom emmer talking about law-breaking, malfeasance, unrestrained flow of migrations, not securing the border. certainly not protecting american sovereignty or security. i mean i think, i don't know how this is going to work university but the case against mayorkas seems to b

department in this case. 2018 when donald trump was present in all the way to today with merrick garland and joest certainly my fbi sources the gun would've been tested immediately. which means the government has known for five years that the gun had cocaine on it. hunter biden is trying to take the charges saying there's no reason to charge me. you can't prove that i was a cocaine addict. the fbi came back and says unfortunately your pouch says otherwise. every time hunter biden punches, he gets punched back harder because the facts are not in his favor. >> sean: john solomon. justthenews.com. thank you, great breaking news. today the house rules committee, they canceled a planned vote on two committees resolutions to hold hunter biden in contempt of congress. this as negotiations are largely ongoing about a date for hunter to appear for deposition. here with the latest is the house oversight committee chairman james comer. i have a lot of questions for you. initially there was no way you were going to issue a second subpoena. apparently that is now on the table. my understanding is kevin morri

whether we fight merrick garland or joe biden or we fight on the airwaves to try to influence the jury, the fight really has just begun. amy: that was cia whistleblower john kiriakou, speaking at the belmarsh tribunal. when we come back, we hear more testimony from journalists and human rights defenders. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in this special broadcast, we're airing excerpts from the belmarsh tribunal, which convened at the national press club in d.c. in early december. i co-chaired the tribunal with ryan grim of the intercept. next up is lena. she is the cofounder and chief editor of one of egypt's leading news outlets. in 2020, she was awarded the knight international journalism award from the international center for journalists. after we covered the u.n. climate summit in sharm el-sheikh, egypt last year, we went to cairo to lena's offices to interview her. incredibly brave journalist who had been jailed, who'd been detained. let last month, she was summoned to appear for questioning before the cairo

prosecute following that stunt and the stunt last year, how can we think other than merrick garland is in the pocket of joehat i know is what you said, there is a two-tier system of justice. if hunter biden is not held accountable. think about peter navarro, and steve bannon, they were convicted of contempt of congress. they had better arguments, argument of executive privilege and was never adjudicated in their case. this case, hunter biden has nothing to say other than he did not show up and defied the subpoena. he should be prosecuted. >> todd: problematic exchange with hunter with hillary vaughn. >> why did you put your dad on speaker phone with your business partners if he had noinvolvement in your business? >> do you have a dad, does he call you? do you answer the phone? >> yes, why did you need to talk to him during business meetings if he had nothing to do with your business? >> todd: how many admission to the contrary is what you saw on the screen? >> i mean issue obviously hunter biden did include his dad in business dealings to impress his clients and make himself look connected. that is his bus

yes, a very sad interview, actually, attorney general merrick garland, head of cricket joe biden's departmentpeed up the so-called election integrity against presidentrump, and i say, if you wanted to do that, lighting they filed a lawsuit three years earlier? because they wanted to have it right smack in the middle of the election. you know it comes to? i think it will be delayed substantially because of all the things you see happening, including in georgia with a horrible case of fani willis. it is actually pronounced fawni willis. that is a terrible thing. so, merrick garland, i do not think he would be like this. to me, he was a very respected justice, judge, very respected for a long time. i never thought this would happen with him. guy, and i never thought this would happen, but he would like to speed it up. i say, he would want to speeded up, but they could have started it three years ago and it would have been over, but now they want to speeded up because i am leading in the election. this is election interference at a level nobody has ever seen before. it is because they know that i

joe biden is involved, by the way. howard: o.k. >> i understand that talking point is out there. i don't think there's any way that merrick garlanding what he's doing without -- >> is he also, is joe biden also orchestrating the prosecution of his son, clay? is that part of his broad corruption? >> well, he's orchestrating the protection of his son. i think the sweetheart deal that they gave that judge mary ellen nor quake ca refused to rememberer stamp, to her credit, would have given the hunter biden get out of jail free card. and if i don't think there's any chance at all that joe biden's going to avoid finish he's going to pardon hunter biden as soon as this election is over regardless of whether he wins or loses, in my opinion, and keep hunter from ever doing a day in prison. howard: yeah. i always avoid predictions because they can burn you. [laughter] i want to play an extremely unusual online ad from a group that supports donald trump and then briefly get reactions from both of you on the other side. >> god said i need somebody willing to get up before dawn, fix this country, work all day, fight the marxists, eat supper,

joe biden. almost certainly my fbi sources tell m garland e gun would have been tested right away when it was recovered, which means that the government is known forhat th five years that this guy had cocaine. gun had con it comes out today, hunter biden is trying to kick the charges, say there's no reason to charg en is tre me. you can't prove i was a cocaine addict when i was owning thie ts gun. and well, the fbi came back and said, unfortunately, your pouch says otherwisek and sa. listen, hunter biden, every time hunter biden punches, he gets puncy time hh back hardh because the facts are not in his favorarfacts ar. johnson just to news.com, thank you for that report, as alwayst great breaking news tonight. also today, the house rules theyd vote they canceledrule planned vote on two committees, resolutions to hold hunter biden in contempt of congress. >> now, this is negotiations .are allegedly ongoing about aoh date for hunter to appear founra depositionpp. here at the very latest is the house oversight committee chairman, james comer. ot o have a lot of questions for you tonight. initially, you kn

i bet we'll see the same hypocrisy, because joe biden will do anything do cover-up and protect his family from their crimes and corruptions and merrick garland is nothing but a biden lackey that is abusing power of the department of justice. larry: the way that went after steve bannon and peter navarro, they put navarro in cuffs if i am not mistake glen tmistaken. >> you are right, we'll see, will department of justice prosecute hunter biden the sop of the president. larry: i would not hold my breath on that. >> marjorie, congress woman what is up with mayorkas hearings, i noticed that leadership is coming around now to mayorkas hearings, i was reading an op-ed piece by tom emmer talking about lawbreaking, malfeasance, not secures border. certainly not protects american sovereignty. i think that -- i don't know how this will work out. but the case against mayorkas seems to be growing, you are early to this game, what do you think now? >> well, as you remember larry, i forced a vote on house floor before christmas on impeaching mayorkas that exposed 8 republicans who voted with democrat to protect secretary mayorkas and protect his job, those

meanwhile, attorney general merrick garland says bipartisan gun legislation signed by president joe bidenal and federal law enforcement track and prevent gun violence. >> part meant in our state and local partners will not rest until every community in our country is safe. from the scourge of violent crime. this is not a time to relax our efforts. we have so much more to do. >> nearly 70 major cities saw a drop in murders last year. but there are some exceptions like in dc in memphis where homicides are hitting record numbers. back here in the bay area. san francisco, animal care and control is again reporting. their shelter is full of dogs. shelter officials say the overcrowding stems from dog owners with legal or health problems and those owners are turning their dogs into the shelter. the city shelter is legally obligated to take a dog in if an owner has been hospitalized, he's passed away or is in jail. san francisco forty-niners enjoy a night out in the city. the house of prime rib hosting the team for their annual lineman's dinner. the event happening just days after the niners clin

put on and the light that they have shown about merrick garland and a two tier justice system and the weaponization of the doj under an under joe biden and how it's been politicized, just p like the fbi. because if they didn't do this toizing.o, if they did thisd to navarro and bannon and they don't do iban ont to hunter, it's like a slap. you're reinforcing everything that has been every charge has been made against you. do you agree with that? i do agree, sean. ab d about time. it's about timoue republicans fight fire with fire the wayh democrats have. hunter biden'sfire entire life. >> his whole all 18 holes are a mulligan at this point. every single part of what he's been able to get away aep with is is a reflection of af corrupt system that protects its benefactors. and then republicans wanted hand-wringing overay, well, we need to provide a proactive, positive policy agendapre . the voters will connect and fine do all that. but in the meantime use your committees to go afteran the corruption in plains that people get away with in the shadowy corners of washingto g con, which i would never get away with, you would never ge

joe biden going after the president. you have to understand, that the president nominates the attorney general who is confirmed by the senate. and merrick garland put in jack smith as special counsel, and there is no evidence of>> bill not believe the indictment in washington, he believes it's a sound legal argument. he does not believe it's politically motivated. that's trump's attorney general. >> the last is this pandora's box floodgates concern. that's a legitimate point. where would this end? the response from doj which was quite effective is there are safeguards in place. this isn't as simple as president doesn't like someone, boom, they're indicted. there are prosecutors who have a duty to only indict when they have evidence. you have grand juries, you have then a trial, trial juries of course review for proof beyond a reasonable doubt, and finally, a court of appeals. so it's a fair argument. i get where they're going with it. you have to be concerns, will this open up a new chapter we don't like. >> i will say, there were moments when john laura was speaking about needing to have political process, not persecution. trump largely echoed

january 6 and joe biden indicated they would use every legal means necessary to try to prevent donald trump from running for president again. you can see that's what they doing, merrick garlandunprecedented statement just recently. indicating that he wants jack smith to get a quick trial, when have you ever heard the attorney general of the united states go on national television and demand a quick trial. mark: let's take each one of these one by one let's look at these cases, serious constitutional issues we have a state official bringing claims against a presidential candidate under our federal constitution. a former president under our federal constitution, i don't think we've ever seen anything like this, criminal charges brought against the candidate like this who's running for president. you could only imagine what could happen in all of the districts we have das of one party and then it looks like very significantly she may be corrupt that she had her alleged lover on the payroll who is leading the case, the special prosecutor who is basically handle contract in divorce cases, then we see that he made charges to the taxpayers of georgia and atlanta for visits that he

6th and joe biden indicated they had used every legal means necessary to try to prevent donald trump from running for president again. you can see that is what they are doing. and merrick garland statement just recentlyin indicating that he wants jack smith to get a quick trial. i mean come up when have you ever heard the attorney general of the united states go on national television and demand a quick trial? >> mark: let's take each one of these one by one. let's take a look at the georgio case, serious constitutional issues really. a state official bringing claimg against a presidential candidate under a federal constitution. a former federal -- the president under federal constitution. i don't think we've seendon' anything like this criminalch charges broughart against a candidate like this running forn president. you can only imagine what happea in all districts where the d.a.s 1:30 and then the other. insignificantly may be corrupt that she had her alleged lover on the payroll who is leadingg ththe case, the special prosecur who is basically handle contract in divorce cases.case we see he made charges to the taxpayers of georgia and atlanta for visits he made to the whit

joe biden. of course, nothing could be further from the truth. states operate on their own independently from the federal system, and even in the federal system, merrick garland appointed a special counsel to be independent from the usual chain of coming in the department of justice. so they are exercising independent assisting. i think the place where the rubber will meet the road is when we have juries making decisions in these cases, just as we saw in the e. jean carroll case, you can blame the judge all day if you want to, when you've got members of the public an actual citizens of america making these decisions, i think is going to be much harder to say that this is all political theater, and a hoax, and a witch hunt. >> reporter: melissa, a lot of people who are watching me believe that lawyers are just lawyers and, attorneys are just attorneys. but you, barbara, and i, all know that there are some lawyers who have never seen the inside of the courtroom, and couldn't find a seat there if they wanted to. so, as a trial attorney, talk to me, just make it plain for the viewers. how bad the lawyering that we've seen this past week, and a few weeks before th

and if merrick garland doesn't prosecute hunter biden for contempt of congress, they're going to impeach him, they're going to impeach mayorkas over the border, they're going to impeach joethey have a long list of impeachments. democrats have described it as the oprah winfrey story. you get an impeach; you get an impeachment. this is what they're going to take to their voters and say this is why you should re-elect us. i personally don't get it, but is there some base out there that says this is what they want, not roads, bridges, something? >> joy, this is a challenge. we keep trying to say that the republicans are actually for something, that the purpose of government is to actually fix it. but for many of them, they want to drown government. they want to turn the american people off. they want to make it feel like it's icky and that government cannot do anything. they're actually following a strategy. and while it will turn some of those folks on of their base, it will turn a vast majority of americans off. so we have to be very clear that it is a strategy because you're absolutely right. there's so many issues facing us as a country that we should be tackling, and th

biden-garland administration and clearly they believe this case is heinous enough and aggravated enough that it merits the ultimate punishment but federal executions are not happening right now and joeident who says he's against the death penalty and came to office vowing to eliminate the death penalty. remains to be seen whether this penalty gets carried out in this case assuming they achieve this result. duh it's kind of a symbolic move they wanted to impose the ultimate penalty. >> interesting, and danny, let's bring you in, this is a significant move, and the shooter's attorney said he would plead guilty to federal charges if prosecutors did not seek the death penalty. they now have done that. so, what do you think is happening next? >> this negotiation, they may still plead guilty because now the ante has been upped. maybe they can still enter into negotiations with the government, but the government has just filed a notice, they arrive at that completely unilaterally, it's up to them, they have to go through statutory factors, aggravating factors that warrant the death penalty, and then they make that decision, whether or not they want to seek it. among those factors, the non-

joe biden's problem. we do not want the president of the united states who may be on the ballot dealing with this. that over politicizes this. it needs to be handled by america garland attorney general, and the folks at the department of justice. this is not political. these are criminal acts, as you indicated, they are threats. they are violence against folks for a political and. that is the very definition of domestic terrorism. we need to treat it as such. that is a federal issue. >> let it be known that a lot of us appreciate the work that our secretary of state do in the space, along with other election officials. it is important work. we thank you secretary adrienne fontes were being part of that working for being on with us today. up next, the united nations highest court weighs in. the hague calls for israel to do all i can to stop atrocities in gaza. is israel ready and willing to listen? next hour, house democratic leader hakeem jeffries will be here at the table to talk about trump's influence in the republican party. how it is impacting negotiations over the border. you are watching the weekend. (jen) so we partner with verizon. their solution for us? a

this is the only member of president joe biden's administration that the republicans have disagreed with. congressman perry, filed other actions to general garland are filing articles to impeach the attorney general in august of 2022. this is part of the directive. this is in may of 2022. we have filed multiple articles of impeachment. sometimes more than that in the same day. was norman, filed articles of impeachment against secretary antony blinken in 2021. congressman mills, filed impeachment against secretary austin. this is in august of 2022. meanwhile, looked at multiple institutions of donald trump. and that my republican colleagues failed to understand the gravity of this impeachment. the founders engaged robust debates, defining the criteria for impeachment. in your view, is this a foundation for impeachment to be a consistently used process to coerce the consecutive grants in these policy divisions for a really use the tool? are they meeting the definition of high crime? >> certainly the second congresswoman. the key point, is that impeaching secretary alejandro mayorkas will have absolutely no change on border policy or legislation. e

this is the only member of president joe biden's administration that the republicans have disagreed with. congressman perry, filed other actions to general garland in october of 2021. they are filing articles to impeach the attorney general in august of 2022. this is part of the directive. this is in may of 2022. we have filed multiple articles of impeachment. sometimes more than that in the same day. was norman, filed articles of impeachment against secretary antony blinken in 2021. congressman mills, filed impeachment against secretary austin. this is in august of 2022. meanwhile, looked at multiple institutions of donald trump. and that my republican colleagues failed to understand the gravity of this impeachment. the founders engaged robust debates, defining the criteria for impeachment. in your view, is this a foundation for impeachment to be a consistently used process to coerce the consecutive grants in these policy divisions for a really use the tool? are they meeting the definition of high crime? >> certainly the second congresswoman. the key point, is that impeaching secretary alejandro mayorkas will have absolutely no change on border