department of justice, department of agriculture, department of defense, this is a team. this war require as team concept, and we're trying to reach out to the islamic world and create partnerships with lawyers and attorney generals and judges in the islamic world so we can understand them better and they can understand us. i'm excited about it and appreciate your support. now, justice scalia came out yesterday or the day before talking about, he thought it would be wise if we looked at our federal criminal code. particularly in the drug area. and see if we could reform it. i think he's right. i think we've federalized way too many crimes creating work for our judiciary that could probably be handled better at the state level. what do you think of the idea of revamping the federal criminal code and looking at maybe undoing some of the overfederalization? >> i've asked -- when i came into office, i've set in place a number of working groups to look at that problem. that issue. are we bringing the right people into the federal system? are the sentences that we have for the

the department of justice reshuffled the ranks of its bribery team bringing in new blood as mainstays on the team depart. since january the unit responsible for enforcing the act has seen an influx of four new hires while two long time team members have left." what would this mean, if you're watching the justice department? >> i'm not sure you can take too much from that. it's interesting the foreign corrupt practices act is enforced solely out of the headquarters at washington, and there's a dedicated team of about 20 prosecutors there. it used to be about five prosecutors five years ago. it's expanded. what's happened is the fcpa turned into a big business for law firms, and there's become somewhat of a revolving door. lot of guys are making money representing people who are dealing with enforcement actions. >> here is a point of view from gary, dr. duncan on twitter "it's ridiculous to send people to jail for bribing foreign governments. u.s. companies must compete with china, who you can bet it doing it, too." >> that's another criticism you hear fairly frequently. if we don't do

there is at least or was at least a mechanism with the department of justice. >> you have more sort of structure there in the department of justice. but lots of these agencies, a small agency and the practicality of it. and you disable everybody that touches foia, well, who's left? >> well, there's a legal principle that applies there, and it comes up every now and again when a group of federal judges sue for salary increase. and the principle is if everyone is recused, then nobody is.

the justice department says one publishing company c.e.o. bemoaned the "wretched 9-9-9 price point" amazon charged for e-books. that competition, the department says, convinced publishers to team up with apple at secret meetings to develop what one publishing company c.e.o. called "project z." >> during regular, near quarterly meetings, we allege that publishing company executives discussed confidential business and competitive matters, including amazon's e-book retailing practices, as part of a conspiracy to raise, fix and stabilize retail prices. >> reporter: apple emerges in the lawsuit as a kind of cartel leader. the government's lawsuit says the company pushed to seize pricing power from bookstores, and it quotes former c.e.o. steve jobs telling publishers it was time for a new model. "you set the price," jobs told publishers, "and we get our 30%. and, yes, the customer pays a little more, but that's what you want anyway." apple declined our request for comment. simon and schuster, hachette and harpercollins settled with the justice dep

it's at the justice department. directed to her but goes to justice department. >> that is formally the court considers this in order and it's reminding them of the deadline. it's interesting, it doesn't mentioned the content of what was asked for. the judge was clear in court. but this sealed up the content. you get the audience and you know what they discussed in the courtroom. this is direct. it's an order to her. now the justice department has to comply or basically in my understanding he can hold them in contempt. >> what is fascinating, first of all, the judge doesn't need the information. she answered the question. it really should be over at that point. but what id indicates to me is the president's remarks yesterday got under the skin of this particular judge. directed today that the panel. like the entire court was mad. never seen this. demanding no less than three pages single spaced what is in this. you have to write marbury versus madison -- >> many times. >> greta: many times to meet this. this is unus

attorney general, can you describe how the department. of justice will utilize ncetar and tedac. >> -- run chiefly by the fbi deals with the examination of ieds we see coming out of afghanistan and other places. ncetar in contrast run by the atf deals with -- i wouldn't want to call them the more common. >> more prevalent maybe. >> more prevalent explosive devices. and i think that you're right, they have fundamentally different responsibilities, but and the location of them in that place, i think, makes a great deal of sense. >> could you describe the value of co-locating these facilities on a large federal arsenal with a large range of space? >> i think there's a great deal of cross pollin nation, the ability to talk to one another. although the purposes are distinction, there's going to be scientific things, break through, perhaps, that you can exchange information sbi having people who are relatively close by. i think having the two agent agencies responsible for explosives and determination close by, even though they have is distinct roles are

the obama justice department sued arizona over that 2010 law, arguing that governor jan brewer violated the constitution's supremacy law, and enforcing federal immigration statutes, are the justice's buying the administration's argument. joining us, wall street editor, paul henninger, and jason riley and joe rago. this is a case about federal versus state power and the supreme court this week, both liberal and conservative justices did not seem very sympathetic to the federal government's argument. >> no, they didn't because arizona very carefully crafted the state law to fit into the federal law. so, really, all they're doing is saying, look, if the police happen to pick up somebody, maybe they need to verify their legal status, that's part of federal immigration law. so-- >> the state is saying, we're just going to enforce the law and supplement what you do. what about the provision of the law, arizona law that says, look, if you're illegal, it is a crime. if you're illegally here, it's a crime to go look for work. that in the oral arguments of the supreme court seemed to be the part

i've read in the newspapers is disturbing and these are things that are under review at the justice department. >> thank you, general holder. thank you madam chairman. i assume the record will be kept open. >> the record will be kept open for questions. and we then ask can the department to respond within 30 days. senators may submit additional questions. we ask the department to respond within 30 days. before i recess the committee, i'm going to conclude the hearing the way i began. as i listen to the questions, the answers, we've looked at the budget in the short time that we have to review, i want to end the hearing the way i began, which is to thank the men and women who work at the justice department. i've been on this subcommittee a long time. it's been a great blessing and a great honor. and when i think about it the way the scope and complexity of what our citizens and our country face and what our justice department faces, it's an amazing job from community safety to national safety, just the -- in the last decade the expansion and the national security portfolio and the transformatio

trayvon's parents are demanding answers and calling on the justice department. plus, new tapes released from the fire rescue dispatch could shed more light on zimmerman's state that night. and some in the right wing media have politicized this case. i say it's time to come together for america's future. you're watching "politics nation" on msnbc. [ donovan ] i hit a wall. and i thought "i can't do this, it's just too hard." then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going. go for olympic gold and go to college too. [ male announcer ] every day we help students earn their bachelor's or master's degree for tomorrow's careers. this is your moment. let nothing stand in your way. devry university, proud to support the education of our u.s. olympic team. what makes us number one in motorcycle insurance? we love bikes. we love riders. and most of all, we love to ride. perfect hair every time. leading the pack in motorcycle insurance. now, that's progressive. call or click today. >>> why did the state attorney decide not to arrest george zimmerman? th

it's at the justice department. directed to her but goes to justice department. >> that is formally the court considers this in order and it's reminding them of the deadline. it's interesting, it doesn't mentioned the content of what was asked for. the judge was clear in court. but this sealed up the content. you get the audience and you know what they discussed in the courtroom. this is direct. it's an order to her. now the justice department has to comply or basically in my understanding he can hold them in contempt. >> what is fascinating, first of all, the judge doesn't need the information. she answered the question. it really should be over at that point. but what id indicates to me is the president's remarks yesterday got under the skin of this particular judge. directed today that the panel. like the entire court was mad. never seen this. demanding no less than three pages single spaced what is in this. you have to write marbury versus madison -- >> many times. >> greta: many times to meet this. this is unus

and the question i think most people are asking, and we want justice in this case and we're pursuing that. we have the departmentn and we all very much want to see that investigation carried out, not only to make sure that justice is carried forward as far as those responsible for his death, but also as to how the investigation itself was handled. but i think the question that needs to be answered is whether race played a role in trayvon martin being singled out by mr. zimmerman, and that, of course, would be racial profiling, an area that we all believe needs to be -- we need to get rid of that, as far as legitimacy of using racial profiling in law enforcement. in october of last year, i filed the end racial profiling act, and as you pointed out, carrying on from senator feingold's efforts on behalf of this legislation. i thank you for your leadership as co-sponsor. we have 12 members of the senate that have co-sponsored the legislation, including majority leader, harry reid, as co-sponsor. racial profiling is un-american. it's against the values of our nation. it's contrary to the 14th amendment of the constit

it's at the justice department. directed to her but goes to justice department. >> that is formally the court considers this in order and it's reminding them of the deadline. it's interesting, it doesn't mentioned the content of what was asked for. the judge was clear in court. but this sealed up the content. you get the audience and you know what they discussed in the courtroom. this is direct. it's an order to her. now the justice department has to comply or basically in my understanding he can hold them in contempt. >> what is fascinating, first of all, the judge doesn't need the information. she answered the question. it really should be over at that point. but what id indicates to me is the president's remarks yesterday got under the skin of this particular judge. directed today that the panel. like the entire court was mad. never seen this. demanding no less than three pages single spaced what is in this. you have to write marbury versus madison -- >> many times. >> greta: many times to meet this. this is unus

justice department. we look more closely at the law and potential violations with joseph hoffman, a professor of law at the indiana university maurer school of law. we thank you for being with us. >> thanks for the invitation. >> woodruff: first of all, professor hoffman, tell us more of what is in the foreign corrupt practices act. what does it say? >> so, the f.c.p.a.-- foreign corrupt practices act-- was enacted in 1977 in the wake of a number of corporate bribery scandals, including the lockheed scandal. and the act has two major provisionses, one of which prohibits a variety of corporations and individuals within u.s. jurisdiction from paying bribes to foreign government officials. and the other provision, major provision, requires issuers of u.s. stock, stock issued through the u.s. securities and exchange commission procedures, requires those corporations to maintain transparent accounting records so that bribes can be identified. >> woodruff: and based on the reporting by the "new york times," a

he's brought to the justice department the experience of a career prosecutor. he's been dedicated to fighting violent crime and terrorism. he knows he is pioneering work, now working with our administration on how to deal with the new and emerging threat of cyber security which is how do we protect our citizens? and his views and recommendations on protecting our civil liberties. well, mr. attorney general, before we get into the numbers about the money, i would just like to thank you and in thanking you, want to thank all the hard working men and women who do work at the department of justice. there are 119,000 employees who work there, 25,000 are federal agents and people work at fbi, dea, the u.s. marshals, the alcohol and firearms. we have 20,000 prison guards and correctional staff and 10,000 prosecutors and investigators. they've done some amazing accomplishments which i'll talk about in -- when i get to my question period. but we want to thank them because every day in every way they stand sentry, either to do prevention and intervention, to make sure th

it is one the justice department mix. bribery is antithetical. you are not competing on the bride's -- on your goods and services. webber pays the most, gets a contract. i think small and medium-sized companies are put at a disadvantage sometimes with complying with the fcpa, because it can be very expensive to do so. you have to have robust legal counsel, auditors, accountants, and sometimes those are costs that cannot afford. host: this comment from the and on twitter. host: let me conclude with where we started, the walmart case -- the outcome will determine the policy debate. how do you expect this to be watched in this town? guest: it will be interesting. it is on everyone's radar, but these things take a long time to investigate. two years or more. it will stay in the spotlight. the chamber's porsche will lie dormant for the time being. i do not think it had a realistic chance in an election year anyway. this certainly is distracted from that. sec on enforcement will continue unabated. this is just an example of how serious they are. walmar

. >> when it got to the white house, president obama's justice department turned that concern into a crusade, a crusade against voter i.d. >> next, voter i.d. laws the push for them and push back. later, they are all felons and they all voted illegally. would we have obamacare if they .... >> eric: the civil war ended slavery. powerful whites still made it hard for black people to vote. civil rights movement helped change that. we're hearing charges of voter suppression and it's leveled at people who favor voter i.d. >> let everybody here applaud for the bill that was signed. >> nikki haley put her signature on a bill in a ceremony laden with history and symbolism. she was first woman and first minority elected governor of south carolina, a state with sad history of keeping blacks from voting and whites in power. new law would require every person in south carolina to show a picture i.d. before entering the voting booth. the law has sparked charges to steal elections in her state. but haley thinks south carolina's real problem today is that votes of law abinding citizens are being ca

. >> when it got to the white house, president obama's justice department turned that concern into a crusade, a crusade against voter i.d. >> next, voter i.d. laws the push for them and push back. later, they are all felons and they all voted illegally. would we have obamacare if they what makes the sleep number store different? the sleep number bed. the magic of this bed is that you're sleeping on something that conforms to your individual shape. wow! that feels really good. you can adjust it to whatever your needs are. so whatever you feel like, the sleep number bed's going to provide it for you. now, sleep number redefines memory foam, combining coolfit gel foam with sleep number adjustability. during the final days of our white sale, receive $400 in free bedding. only at the sleep number store, where queen mattresses start at just $699. .... >> eric: the civil war ended slavery. powerful whites still made it hard for black people to vote. civil rights movement helped change that. we're hearing charges of voter suppression and it's leveled at people who favor voter i.d. >> let eve

that prosecutors from both the department of justice and the department defense you have to thoroughly studying the case here to me best venue for prosecution was in federal court. now obama and holder fully believed one hundred percent that the men should be tried in civilian court and even there michael bloomberg expressed his support for that move not only to bloomberg say the city's police force could handle the security but also said the following that it is fitting that nine eleven suspects face justice near the world trade center site where so many new yorkers were murdered but then the media stepped in. the obama administration says it's only fitting that the man who claims he had masterminded the september eleventh attacks just visited new york city fleet shaikh muhammad and his coconspirators in the nine eleven attack will enjoy the protections of the american criminal justice system the controversy and decision to bring five nine eleven suspects to american soil to face trial for. drug running and service we have a civilian trial this is the most reckless dangerous and irres

these are documents that the justice department negotiates with local police departments that they... when they find a pattern in practice of civil rights abuses typically and they've done them in los angeles and cincinnati and pittsburgh and some other places. something that's directly related to this case that will come out of it is they're going to definitely change their policies on use of force, investigations like police-involved shootings and typically the feeling here is that they haven't been investigated particularly well in the past and the danziger bridge case is an example of that. the n.o.p.d. found nothing untoward happened here. so that will be one thing that the justice department will insist on changes in the way those are investigated but it's going to ban a whole bunch of other things, including maybe how officers are deployed. it's going to probably... definitely it will involve the use of police details which have been criticized by the justice department here. a lot of officers spent a lot of their time working on private details and the criticism has been that

, even -- mayor euille is calling on the justice department, even the supreme court and asking if thisaw should be on the books. >>> 10 shootings in d.c. and prince george's county this weekend, as of this hour four people are dead and six wounded it. happened in hyattsville, suitland, landover and northwest d.c. there has only been one arrest in the shooting so far in d.c. that. victim showed up at an early voting polling place in takoma park with a grazed wound to the shoulder. just this morning police found two men shot inside a house in forestville. one of those men died. >> now we're investigating some sort of altercation that happened in the house. there were multiple people in the home. we're just trying to piece everything together to find out what was going on. >> the police in prince george's county say they're close to making arrests in some of the cases from this weekend. >>> anne arundel county police are also working a homicide case in humphries. police say the body of 46-year- old brian badly was discovered on boulevard avenue early this morning. he was pronounced dead a

i would think the department of justice. i don't think it's attorney general holder. gh level discussions going on in the department of how to couch this three pages to save face for the president. i mean, here is somebody who was a constitutional law professor, and his own law professor has come out and said, you know, love obama, president obama, but he got this one wrong. jenna: now, again, going back to the judge that requested this, you say you've never seen this done before. >> never. jenna: it surprised everybody when we saw the headline that this was happening. do you think in some ways that a line was crossed though? a line that shouldn't be crossed? >> you mean the judge sort of interjecting himself into it? jenna: yeah. we hear these comments about judicial activism and accusations of them thrown on all sides, and we had a conversation yesterday about someone saying, tim o'brien said, listen, whenever someone disagrees with a decision, it's always judicial activism, judges ruling on something else that doesn't have to do with the case. >> right. jenna: but i

attorney ben krump said it's unclear how or when the department of justice will look into it. nd his actions with the sanford department, chris cirino. did the prosecutor somehow interfere with that investigator. we know from attorney ben krump they will be looking at that today and should hear back. >> talk to me, george, about "the orlando sentinel's" project asked two voice analysts to look into the 911 call where ear witnesses we call them were able to actually register the sounds of the screaming on their 911 calls. talk to me a little bit about what their results were. >> reporter: right, according to that report, their conclusion was that it's very likely that it was trayvon martin that people heard in the background on that 911 audio and keep in mind, zoraida, we did the same thing here with cnn, we listened to the sane, had an audio expert come in, listen to it and again it was inconclusive on our end but listen for yourself to this 911 recording. >> ashleigh, i'm sorry. at this point the investigation is being looked into to determine whether the audio could be trayvo

. >> when it got to the white house, president obama's justice department turned that concern into ade, a crusade against voter i.d. >> next, voter i.d. laws the push for them and push back. later, they are all felons and they all voted illegally. would we have obamacare if they hadn't? our investigation continues after the break. is this what we're doing now? i don't want a pluer anywhere near my coffee. not in my house. with maxwell house french roast, you let gravity do the work. [ male announcer ] maxwell house french roast. always good to the last drop. [ male announcer ] maxwell house french roast. [ dog ] it's our favorite. yours and mine.itar: upbeat ] because we found it. together. on a walk, walk, walk. love to walk. a long walk. a walk with you. a walk i smelled squirrels on, but i stayed by your side because i could tell, could feel, that you had a bad day... and me being bad wouldn't make it any better. but being there was already helping a little anyway. and then we found that wonderful thing. waiting there. waiting for you and me. and you smiled. and threw it. and i de

they say the inspector general has asked the justice department to consider criminal charges againsthe manager who organized the lavish training conference in vegas and he may have committed theft and other criminal acts. >> a manhunt is underway for a man who shot and critically wounded a store manager in d.c. and it happened around 12:30 p.m. at this rite aid on road island avenue in northeast. he tried to rob the store and then shot the manager in the back. he was rushed to a local hospital for treatment. >> a prince william county man is sentenced to 12 years in prison for helping it pakistan terror group. he simply made this video. live in the satellite center, we have the latest on the story. >> he was born on the fourth of july in pakistan and came with his family when they migrated to the rest five years ago. he settled in woodbridge and found work as an electrician. he apologized for making the video, but the judge said he was obligated to hand down a serious sentenced to deter not only him but anyone who assisted terrorist organization in any way. it this was the main evide

so they asked the justice department lawyer about whether or not the federal courts have authority to review stat statutes. and she promptly responded, yes, marbury versus madison. and then they fired off the letter to the justice. you have the president bullying the federal courts, supreme courts, and you have the federal courts bullying back. >> i don't see it bullying back, but it is defiant. this is not the first time the president has made the united states supreme court a political whipping boy. remember it was not too far south of here in the united states capitol during the state of the union address with the supreme court stuck in front of him, mute, that he attacked them over the citizens united decision to say things patently not true. we will now have a flood of foreign money. well, the tillman act prohibits foreign contributions. it has nothing to do with it. and he excoriated the court sitting in front of him in a undignifying way. >> well, he was at a budget speech. and he insulted the audience. >> a different line. >> but i got that. he's rude. i got that. and he picke

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