i think that for the justice department, the justice department's point of view is this.y somebody to put in a witness box before 12 jurors and can she with just the public assertions secure a guilty conviction against a former president? is that how you start a criminal investigation? you used the analogy of a mob boss earlier. those investigations do not start with a criminal investigation. against the mob boss but built from the ground up first going after lower level lutds to find out in their communications and records and financial records that lead them not just to the mob boss but to an actual crime committed that they can prove before a jury of 12 people so i do agree that liz cheney and other committee members made allegations, said things that are extremely alarming but i don't think the justice department uses them as a convinces witness. for the department i don't know that they're exasperated by cheney. the committee wants to pull together the information top down starting with donald trump and the lieutenants and people like the rally organizers to paint a

with us, katie benner, justice department were rewarded the new york times, and chuck rosenberg. er attorney, and senior fbi official. chuck, this sounds very serious. what is the issue of the holdup in the department of justice? we haven't seen any action in mark meadows. do we see the same thing with scavino, and navarro? >> you may very well see nothing. you might see no action at all. i don't think that there is a problem at the department of justice. i think they're making independent judgment about whether the law, or the facts, and in the constitution. even if you don't like the claims of privilege they are putting forward, scavino, meadows, and the like, does not mean it does not have some sticking power. it may mean that the department of justice, simply, does not believe that they can lay a conviction in trial, with the assertion of privilege. so, i am not surprised that we have not seen an indictment of meadow's yet. i am not surprised that we did see an indictment of bannon. very different cases. the new referrals, that we may see soon, scavino, and navarro, are more l

department of justice. thank you for the opportunity to testify today on the justice department hate crimes enforcement and prevention work. and on our efforts to implement the covid-19 hate crimes act which includes the no hate act. use every tool to reduce violent crimes in our communities for the civil rights division plays a critical role in the department's efforts including by aggressively prosecuting violent hate crimes across the country. hate crimes are unique. acts of hate not only harm the direct victims but they also reverberate and instill fear across entire communities. an unfortunate hate crimes are on the rise. this is one of the reasons why attorney general american garlic jet garlands very first directive calls for an internal review to determine how the justice department can deploy all the tools at its disposal to counter the rise in hate. during that review congress passed an important piece of anti- hate legislation the covid-19 hate crimes act which included the no hate act. and i wan

with us, katie benner, justice department were rewarded the new york times, and chuck rosenberg. er attorney, and senior fbi official. chuck, this sounds very serious. what is the issue of the holdup in the department of justice? we haven't seen any action in mark meadows. do we see the same thing with scavino, and navarro? >> you may very well see nothing. you might see no action at all. i don't think that there is a problem at the department of justice. i think they're making independent judgment about whether the law, or the facts, and in the constitution. even if you don't like the claims of privilege they are putting forward, scavino, meadows, and the like, does not mean it does not have some sticking power. it may mean that the department of justice, simply, does not believe that they can lay a conviction in trial, with the assertion of privilege. so, i am not surprised that we have not seen an indictment of meadow's yet. i am not surprised that we did see an indictment of bannon. very different cases. the new referrals, that we may see soon, scavino, and navarro, are more l

despite federal wall requiring the department of justice respond to requests within 20 business days circumstances that to my knowledge have not been evoked it appears that georgia is yet to receive any of the requested information. is the department of justice releasing any of the requested information to the georgia secretary of state? >> thank you, senator. we don't handle the freedom of information act requests that get directed to the department. i am happy to take the question back and direct it to the appropriate -- >> i would appreciate that and if you could take that up that would be wonderful. in the interest of transparency are you committing to me that you will make sure this request is branded and the appropriate documents are submitted? >> we don't handle those requests in the civil rights division so i can't speak for the official process. >> but it is your division and i hope and expect you will want those handled appropriately. and unfortunately the georgia secretary of state's request is not the only one that's gone on answered or is aware of requests submitted by t

and that it is time for the justice department to start doing something, as well. irness we won't know whether or not they are pursuing a criminal investigation. he said that to littizes the department and some of the frustration could be because we don't know what's going on but the committee wants the department to be responsive. the public comment is about the contempt referrals and same time i think a sense that the committee is flexing pressure for the department to act. >> i want to understand whether or not someone like federal judge carter has more weight with someone like merrick garland. >> he's a very, very -- he was a federal prosecutor himself. he also was a high level official in the deputy attorney general's office running investigations including the oklahoma city bombing. this is how he looks at it. he wants career prosecutors to look at the evidence and determine whether or not they have the kind of evidence to use to make a strong case that would hold up in a court of law. if they can do that they will then follow the proper channels which would p

and all of that would be sent to the justice department. as a former prosecutor yourself, how long would it take someone in the justice department to figure out that peter navarro is guilty of criminal contempt of congress? how many minutes after watching ari melber's interview could you conclude that? >> it doesn't take very long. because peter navarro, as well as dan scavino, the other person that we held in contempt, it is simple for the justice department. they refused to show up. you cannot just say, i am not going to bother to come if you believe you have a claim of privilege, you come. you identify what's question you will assert a privilege to. they don't have any good privileges to assert and that may be the reason they didn't show up. it makes it very simple or it should for the justice department. they will want to do their due diligence nonetheless. i think it'll make a decision in a matter of minutes. it should not be a difficult call for the justice department. >> the narrow claim is exactly the same as him saying that the for

it seems as though, the department of justice is listening. the washington post now reporting that the just department investigation has expanded its scope as it relates to the attack on the capitol. quote, in the past few months, a federal grand jury in washington has issued subpoena requests to some officials in donald trump's orbit who had assisted in planning, funding and executing the general six rally, that is according to people familiar with the matter. we do not know who exactly is being suspended. that is not reported out and astoria. thanks to great investigative work by the general six committee, there is of course a long list of potential targets. -- potentially disrupt the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in this country's history. this new phase of the investigation serves to highlight exactly why it is so obviously important that we find out what exactly happened during the missing seven-hour call logs during january six. we first got the glimpse of these documents when they were published by the washington post and

what was the justice department trying to do to your nephew?g to what his attorney told us was a week before matt's sentencing hearing on march 3rd, his attorney, his attorney said that they are going to delay the sentencing hearing again because they are looking to add additional infractions. and we weren't exactly sure what that meant. we thought was that a charge, that's not a charge, they are just going to try to influence the judge of the very last minute. we found later that enhancements were actually going to add eight points to his scale, like he was at a 14. they were going to add eight points and that would bump him up to 51-72 months jail of walking into the capitol, not touching anything, not breaking anything, not stealing anything, and no altercations with police >> tucker: walking into the people's house, he's going to do more than four years of prison. >> we are not sure if matt knew how many months was going to be added to his potential 6-12 months, what his attorney kept saying. that friday evening, matt hung himself in his ga

the justice department has the obligation to determine if a crime is committed and whether anyone, includingormer president, should be prosecuted. that's the department's job. they're not waiting for us to make a referral. that's not what the justice department does. now, we may make a referral at the end of our investigation. but the justice department should be proceeding on its own. if there's credible evidence that the president or anyone else has committed a crime, they should be investigating it. and they shouldn't be waiting for us to do a report. they shouldn't be waiting for us to do that work. but they should be doing it on their own. nevertheless, there are circumstances like this court filing where the issue of crime or fraud is relevant. and so we have addressed it. and, at the end of the investigation, we may choose to make a criminal referral. judy: and for all you know, congressman schiff, the justice department may well be investigating this, is that right? rep. schiff: you know, it's possible, judy, but, generally, when you convene a grand jury in a ca like this, in which t

what we heard from the committee members. >> the committee is doing their job, department of justice departmentust do theirs. >> they must act swiftly. i will echo what my colleagues already said but more bluntly, attorney general garland, do your job so that we can do ours. >> is it time for department of justice department to do something about this? >> the committee should do it themselves. they can hold hearings. they can release documents. like let's go. all these bits and pieces are ko coming out. let's see the committee tell a story. that's the thing for anybody that's not a real junkie like we are following each development, you need someone or some hearing or some paper or something to lay it all out together in a way that ordinary people can unde understand. complaining about department of justice is a separate issue. the committee has a job to do and they should do it. >> paula, what about that? what's the next step. >> reporter: the committee would like it to be to move on the referral against former white house chief of staff mark meadows. last night voted to refer two more top tru

a justice department investigation of hunter biden has intensified over the last several months, thiser biden's business dealings in foreign countries including ukraine while his father was vice president. what's new? >> well, john, we know that the investigation has intensified. we know that there have been witnesses brought to the grand jury in bloomington, delaware, where this case is being investigated. we know witnesses that are being called to testify to provide information to investigators in the coming weeks. this is an investigation that, as you said, goes back to 2018. it's looking at a variety of things. the focus of the investigation is whether hunter biden and some of his business associates violated laws including tax, money laundering and former lobbying laws. a lot has to do with his business activities in china and ukraine. a lot of it lately have been questions about his work with this company called gbaja-burisma, working at the time joe biden was vice president in charge of the ukraine matters under the obama administration. of course that raised a lot of concerns

this new task force klepto-capture is binging together all the expertise that we have in the department of justicently working across the federal government with other experts from the department of homeland security, from the irs, as well as with our own fbi and marshal service and agents and prosecutedders and analysts in the department of justice who are experts in enforcing sanctions and going after the type of money laundering activity that you just mentioned. these are experts who are well versed in tracing through very biz an teen ways and using sophisticated methods to trace the activities of criminals including oligarchs who seek to hide their il-gotten gains in the purchase of american luxury goods. so what you are seeing with this tasesk force is a commitment by the department of justice working across the government to go after these oligarchs, go after these cronies and to say if you are using your proceeds, if you are going and engaging in money laundering, evading sanctions to buy that jet, to purchase that yacht, to have that luxury apartment, we're going to go after you and we're

meanwhile the justice department goes out of its way to keep tabs on parents who dare to question teachers unions veto power over establish medical science exhibit skepticism towards a woke of propaganda and public schools. so mr. president that's a heck of a rap sheet. i'm afraid the most damaging legacy of president biden's first year is bigger than just his unwise policies. democrats have not destroyed pushing bad ideas their institutions. even under the presidency of the self-styled institutionalist the far left is tried to wreck our institutions altogether. tonight will hear from a president who signed a commission to pack the supreme court because the party did not like its current makeup. we will hear from a president who urged his former colleagues to tear up senate rules in order to rewrite the rules of american elections. viking to anyone who oppose these to be racist and continues to stoke with wild nonsense about a revival of segregation. will hear from an administration failed its own test and candidly asked the public approval figures to match. on foreign affairs in particula

christine clark testified on ways the justice department is helping reduce hate crime incidents. eating a law enforcement and local communities to reduce those incidents. >> 's minnow come to order like to defer initially to my colleague and friend that her grass labor. >> just for 15 seconds i would like to take a moment before the hearing begins to acknowledge a terrible tragedy that occurred in des moines, iowa yesterday. three teenagers were shot from a passing vehicle near east high school in des moines. one of those teenagers has died. i am sure his family is heartbroken by this loss and hundreds of community leaders and members are grieving. i know we will be talking about threats and attacks on schools and houses of worship today. ensuring all americans are safe has never been more pressing than it is now. thank you. >> thank you, senator grassley. ten years ago a white supremacist walked into the temple and oak creek wisconsin, opened fire killing six worshipers in cold blood. at the time is one of the deadliest hate crimes in modern american history. in hindsight it was

following that event congress united the pass legislation to empower the department of justice to strengthen its efforts to work with local law enforcement and prevent such hate crimes. what progress has the department made in implementing that law and in responding to the ongoing elevated level of threat targeting asian americans across the country? ms. clarke: thank you, senator. attorney general merrick garland has issued a memorandum in may of 2021 that calls for a number of things. increased resources to combat hate. the expedited review of hate crimes, which is something that we have instituted and prioritized in the civil rights division. the designation of coordinators at u.s. attorneys' offices in the fight against hate. the creation of district alliances against hate. we have also worked to restore our community relations service and have prioritized the need to provide language access to ensure no victim is barred from reporting a hate crime because of a language barrier. there are a number of things that have happened across the department and what i can tell you is that in the c

chris, it has been this question among democrats for a while, why isn't the justice department looking inner trump circle in regards to the insurrection. and now you have this article in the times and the post this morning that maybe in some ways they are. i wonder how big of a deal you think this might be. >> well, obviously if they move against them, and bring charges, it is a very big deal, john. the question is, i'm a little skeptical too as to whether they're going to jump. remember that the january 6th committee investigating in the house referred -- and the whole house, referred contempt of congress charges to the justice department back in december for mark meadows, the former chief of staff to president trump, and the justice department, what, three months since then and they have done nothing with it. i know a lot of the members of the january 6th committee are frustrated with that. so how aggressively are, you know, it is one thing when it is the organizers and the people that were actually on the ground in the insurrection, but when you're talking about people inside the wh

the people who broke into the building that day need be under this kind of scrutiny by the justice departmentyour sense that justice isn't doing what it should be doing right now? >> i don't give -- don't see uniped chasing the former president's phone call or the secretary of state of georgia in which he insisted to find the exact number of votes to overtake joe biden i think if anyone else was on that call and recorded in the way it was, they should be under investigation. it should be no different because someone was a foreman president if the rule of law applies to everyone equally, it needso apply to everyone equally. >> and do you hold the attorney general merritt garland responsible? >> there's december desire to distance the justice department from any controversy and not embroil it in any political debate. but we can't have a policy that effectively means in if you're president of the united states you're above the law. i am concerned that in a desire to maintain position above the fray that credible allegations of illegality, serus allegations may not be under investigation when the

into the building that day need to be under this kind of scrutiny and investigation by the justice department>> woodruff: and is it your sense that justice is not doing what it should be doing right now? >> i don't see any indication. to give you an example-- that the former president's phone call with the secretary of state of georgia, in which he insisted the secretary find just the exact number of votes he needed to overtake joe biden. i think if anyone else were on that call and it was recorded in the way it was, they would be under investigation. and it should be no different because someone was a former president. if the rule of law applies to everyone equally, it needs to apply to everyone equally. >> woodruff: and do you hold the attorney general, merrick garland, responsible? >> ultimately, the buck stops with the attorney general. i think there's a desire to distance that the justice department from any controversy and not embroil it in any political debate. and while that is laudable, we can't have, at the same time, a policy that effectively means if you're president of the united

we heard some committee members vent apparent frustrations with the justice department's handling of pes of referrals, two of which they've sent so far. >> the department of justice has a duty to act on this referral and others. without enforcement, there is no oversight. >> the united states of america, no one is above the law. this committee is doing its job. the department of justice needs to do theirs. >> i will echo what my colleagues have already said, but more bluntly, attorney general garland, do your job so that we can do ours. >> joining me now is maryland democratic congressman jamie raskin, a member of the january 6th select committee and served as the lead impeachment manager for the second impeachment during former president trump's 2021 trial. congressman, it's good to see you. let me start with this issue of the justice department and providing some teeth for your subpoenas here. look, the time line, you know, anything could happen in november, but the way, if you look at the time between the one they are pursuing with bannon, between your referral, and the actual tria

start fact gathering and more to the public vetting phase. >> you have information that the justice department they have been clamoring for the department of justice to pursue a more aggressive posture. this news comes on the heels of that pressure, that the criminal investigation into the january 6th attack has expanded to examine the preparations for the rally that preceded the riot as the justice department tries to determine the full extent of any conspiracy to stop congress from certifying the election. in the past two months a federal grand jury has been convened and they've issued subpoenas to some former officials in trump's orbit, who assisted in the logistics of the rally planning on january 6th. that is with regards to funding, executing and plans the rally, according to people familiar with the matter. i think that this development shows the degree that the justice department has already expanded their investigation from defendants who were actually storming the capitol that day, the insurrectionist far right extremists to people now who were actually involved with getting people t

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usual people like mitt romney, they have all been silent by the fact, in the fact that the justice departmente biden's justice department has sought pretrial detention for at least 100 americans for their participation in the events of january 6th. nearly 80 of those americans still are behind bars might deny the opportunity to post bail, and the same justice department delays their trial into the middle or towards the end of this year. that means there will be some men who have been behind bars for almost two years, not convicted of any crime, never presented any evidence to decide, simply held and denied bail because they are trump supporters who protested the election of joe biden on januar. >> tucker: as murderers and rapists run free. this is obviously a human rights violation. no other way to describe this. is there any body to which they can complain? i'd hate to appeal to the u.n. but if republicans won't even stand up to their behalf, who else is there to go to at this point? >> there is nowhere for these defendants to go peer they are being targeted and persecuted by this justice de

large-scale demonstrations for racial justices in your community a rise in hate crimes and gun violence, public safety as you all know is a top priority for the department of justice. we have dedicated substantial resources to supporting our state and local partners as they investigate and prosecute violent crimes. but experience and research has taught us that enforcement alone is not enough to prevent crime. mayor lightfoot has alluded to that already. in may, the attorney general who you're going to be hearing from i think on friday, in may the attorney general announced a comprehensive strategy to reduce violent crimes and the department had vigorous law enforcement assistance, financial support to fight violent crimes, strengthen communities and build police-community trust. last year the department awarded over $4 billion in grants including $6 billion last month to support a wide range of programs across the country. president biden requested $7 billion for the departments in f.y.2022. i want to talk about the department's highest priorities, gun violence and hate crimes. hate crimes is top of mind from the events this weekend. hate crime are ins

every day the justice department delays is a day president trump and his cronies escape justice.his is dolores out of pennsylvania. line for republicans. caller: hi. i think what happened on january 6 was the result of what happened earlier with black lives matter, the protests that they carried on. if they are not going to prosecute black lives matter for their protest, i don't think they have any business bringing charges against january 6 protesters. that is just the way i feel. fair is fair, i'm sorry. host: seattle, washington, independent. good morning. caller: merrick garland should drop the ball on this. this is the worst criminal investigation to be going on in united states history. republican members of congress, this is an inside job from president trump. what we need to do also, we need to find out what those documents were, those classified documents were that trump had in mar-a-lago. i feel like this was something that was involved in what is going on. jared kushner, none of these people would come in and talk, but they were working for the government taking my tax

the department of justice is entrusted with the defense of our constitution. department leadership should not apply any doctrine of immunity that might block congress from fully uncovering and addressing the causes of the january 6 attack. congress is a separate and co-equal branch of government. it must have the authority and the ability to protect its independence and safeguard the constitutional separation of powers. in the coming months, our committee will convene a series of hearings. the american people will hear from our fellow citizens who demonstrated fidelity to our constitution and the rule of law and who refused to bow to president trump's pressure. the committee has heard from many of these individuals, including republicans appointed by president trump to post to the department of justice, republicans who stood firm who threatened to resign and refused to participate in efforts to corrupt the department with the stolen election lie that led to january 6. we have heard from leading republicans serving in state legislatures and in state and local go

to search warrant authority that the congressional committee does not have so the justice department can obtain things with sealed search warrants from providers and get email content in that way instead of relying on the user to provide it in response to a subpoena. so i think that it's quite possible and even quite likely that the justice department is investigaing here and i take merrick garland at his word when he says they will investigate anyone at any level at the capitol or not on january 6th responsible for this assault on the democracy. >> right, because it's a coup. excuse me. let me go back to just some of the people donald trump has acknowledged he did speak with. it's a long list. it steve bannon, the people you expect. rudy giuliani, sean hannity, sorry, kayleigh mcenany. would this be a case where the justice department would go down this list of people that they know donald trump did speak with and try to back fill and figure and get their phone records? how would you go back and piece together who he spoke with. this is people we know he spoke with. we don't know if

the department of justice needs to do theirs. >> the department of justice has a duty to act on this>> cnn senior crime and justice reporter caitlyn polanz joins us this morning. clearly some lawmakers frustrated much like their constituents with the speed at which the doj is working. >> reporter: the justice department does not work on the same time line as capitol hill wishes that they would. in this situation there's a lot going on already. it's not as clear-cut as just do your job. the house committee has subpoenaed dozens of people and some of the people closest to donald trump including advisers like dan scavino, they do not want to comply with the subpoenas. what does the house do? they need help. so they're asking the justice department now for help. they're asking for criminal prosecutions of the people who have not complied given them documents or sat for depo depositions. they've done this twice once with steve bannon and once with mark meadows who was the chief of staff. steve bannon was a pretty quick turn around. he was charged with contempt of congress in court. he's f

one, the january 6th committee through the justice department, that is their judgment, not mine.hings get into legal issues that come in fact, i told you i would not tell the justice department or a position i would not take. i'm not going to -- with congress either. >> laura: wendy, i'm crying laughing. why wouldn't you he didn't go to the senate judiciary chair for eight years, and he still think they can force a recusal? what is he talking about? >> wendy: he has no clue. [laughter] he doesn't even know the federal standards. by the way, what century are we in? these people think that in this century in 2022, wads are owned by their husbands. [laughter] justice thomas and his wife, i'm sure they would not agree with that concept. >> laura: they are so obsessed with clarence thomas. >> mollie: he bugs them more than anyone else out there. he's a strong black man who doesn't, you know, sing the song that they want him to sing. that's always been the case. he's one of the greatest men who ever lived. >> wendy: he is one of those great americans -- >> mollie: amazing man. >> wendy

many of these individuals, including republicans appointed by president trump to post in the department of justice, republicans who stood firm, who threatened to resign and refused to participate in efforts to corrupt the department with the stolen election lies that led to january 6. we have heard from leading republicans who also stood firm, who resisted pressure from the former president, and did their constitutional duty. we have heard from republicans who were serving in the trunk white house, including those who warned in advance that the president's plans were unlawful. and those who tried to intervene with the president to get him to halt the violence when it erupted on january 6. in a time when many republican members of congress have abandoned their obligation to our constitution and are putting politics above duty, each of the individuals i mentioned have by contrast demonstrated a firm and unwavering commitment to this nation. and to our constitutional republic. each has done what is right despite tremendous personal, political, and professional cost. each is a model for the american p

do they make recommendations to the justice department?hey going to be filing new legislation? what happens next? guest: what we understand is what happens next is public hearings in april. congressman raskin of maryland said there will be public hearings that will blow the roof off things. i am paraphrasing him. what that means to me is we will hear, as americans, more information, more facts, more of the record developed then we are in the second impeachment. if you recall, there was a trial in the senate for donald trump's second impeachment, where, under the leadership of jamie raskin, we saw a lot of information about what happened january 6th. donald trump was not convicted in that trial. what this suggests is we will hear new stuff. this is not just a rehash. it is supposed to be primetime in april. we will see if that happens. but it is really important that americans watch that. in my mind, there is legal jeopardy in the courts, and then there is the election. what we will see in april is information i think people need to bring t

let's start there on the justice department. cnn has confirmed this story. post" and "the new york times." and it gets very interesting then to figure out this. this is just a little slice from "the new york times" story. one of the subpoenas sought information about people classified as vip attendees at mr. trump's january 6th rally. it also sought information about members of the executive and legislative branchs who have been involved in the planning or execution of any rally or any attempt to obstruct, influence, impede or delay the certification of the 2020 election. that gets you to a bigger, broader investigation that also gets you inside the white house, the trump campaign and the allies of the lying lawyers who tried to help him p. absolutely. and this is the kind of investigation that a lot of democrats, americans, regardless of their party, who saw what happened on january 6th have been hoping that the justice department embarks on. not just looking at and prosecuting individuals who clearly were part of the insurrection, part of the attack on the

. >> reporter: this is a huge win for the justice department.reffitt guilty of five charges. the most significant include obstruction of congress and obstruction of justice. those carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. he's expected to be sentenced on june 8th. again, this is a huge win for the justice department because this was the first test where they had to prove that the actions of someone in the crowd tied directly to the riot and the attack on the capital. there were moments of seering capitol. it was clear the capitol police officers who testified in this case were really traumatize tra emotionally damaged from cases like this from their experience at the capitol. the trial brought those very powerful emotional moments. further and one of the most compelling moments of testimony, his own son, jackson reffitt, he's just 19 years old. testified against his father for three hours that day. the testimony was critical to justice department but it was critical to this case coming about to begin with because it was jackson who brought

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>> yes the justice department is going on right now. there's a little bit of news on that today i'm not reporting on that firsthand. you might be able to fill in the viewers more on that. but we'll see where that all goes from here. cooks misuse on your end another investigation the generous sixth investigation one of the interest over the last couple of days with theth possibility life of supreme court clarence thomas appearing before of the committee because of thecoxt tet she sent could you update viewers somewhere that stands for the interest that there is? >> there is a very high level of interest on the part ofe committee members about those text exchanges between jenny thomas the wife of clarence thomas and people like thef former white house chief of staff markk meadows. the issue here, the thinking is this is a person who absolutely is any other american has a right to engage in political activity. but the question is whether or not she is doing it with either the express or implied support of her husband of supreme court justi

all of this is happening and the justice department for systemic police misconduct in several in thed right to vote. it's always made it hard for blacks to vote but it's to figure out how to keep the black vote when it occurs. over the past year to promote access to voting with top civil rights advocates to help the department of justice which has doubled the number two past the john lewis voting rights act. the american people agree with us. [applause] black and white. i don't want to take much more of your time but let me conclude with a list. progress can be slow and frustrating but it's possible if we work together and keep the faith the changes and charges passed down many sitting in this room right now we had a wonderful exhibit downstairs celebrating black history month. i want to thank the smithsonian forgiving access to the collection. i thought about the display that holds the signature of the judicial oath of office signed by thurgood marshall himself. with justice marshall who reminded us in the speech shortly before he died, and i quote america can do better because amer

>> erica, right now, what the justice department and treasury department here at the u.s.ing with the authorities in france, in germany and other countries in europe to try to get, try to identify some of these assets, things like the yachts, the private planes, the big thing, obviously, is real estate. we know that certainly in london, in some parts of london, in new york, in toronto, there are assets that are owned by shale companies controlled by oligarchs and the idea is to bring pain on those tied to the kremlin. what they're doing now is going to have experts in money laundering, working alongside prosecutors here, the justice department to try to find the assets and then find a way to seize them to essentially take control of them and we have a couple of pictures right there of some of the assets already being seized in germany, for instance, they seized a $600 million yacht that is owned by a kremlin connected oligarch in france and they seized $120 million yacht already and you can see some of the, by the way, on some of these web sites, the track, the movements o

. >> rashad, what is the latest regarding the justice department's task force looking into russia? so the justice department's task force will be going after these russian oligarchs and president biden sort of previewed that last night in his speech talking about how they're going to start seizing their yachts, jets and luxury apartments. the justice department is also going to look into whether they're trying to use crypto currency to evade u.s. sanctions. they're also looking at offshore assets that they may have as well. and they're using a legal process called civil or criminal asset forfeiture, which allows them to seize this property during the sanctions. hopefully the the pressure campaign works because the bloodshed, the unasur bloodshed in ukraine is just horrific. rashad hudson. >> reporting live for us tonight in washington. appreciate that are shot. president biden spoke at great length about the crisis in ukraine during his state of the union address last night. >> one bay area resident from ukraine watched very closely. he says his country is in great need and help mu

>> well, we don't know.ic we'll see what the justice department may do. but what we have to dowi in congress is that senator grassley, senator johnsonthrs do and we've got to make sure we get all the facts out there. but the truth is the country has already f figured this out. this is this rush limbaugh hadt. a booklet several years ago. see, i told you so. we all told him this wase. the case. lapt the laptop was real. the eyewitness was real. the documents the emails were real. 10% from the big guy was real. it was accurate.yone everyone knew this just big tech and big media and the democrat party all colludedpa along with fifty one former intel people all colluded to keep this information from the american people just days beforeamer the most important election we have. so yeah, unabiding took millions from folks in russia, the wife of the mayor of millions from ukrainian energy company and took millions of dollars from companies with connections to the chinese communist party . it was allto true . it was all accurate. it a was all real. we just got to

side. >> right, the president said last night that the justice department would be taking action against russia over the sanctions and today the justice department laid that out announcing the formation of this task force that will look at anybody who violates the sanctions, anybody who violateso violates redescriptions on russia banks and anybody who tries to use crypto currency to evade the sanctions. and the justice department says even though they may target people that can't be arrested, nonetheless the justice department can use civil or criminal asset forfeiture to seize their assets in addition to bringing these charges. and the government says that it will use not only the assets that are in the justice department, that is the fbi and marshal service, but also other law enforcement agencies from throughout the government. the irs, postal inspection service, homeland security investigations. so this is a government-wide effort all under this name of what they now call klepto capture, that is the name of the task force. >> pete, thank you. i think that we have cal p

, his own justice department. >> yeah.g a lot of money doing something he definitely should not have been doing while his dad was vice president. . >> right. . >> we are seeing that portfolio. elie, how do you see this? >> brianna, this is a very real, substantial investigation of potentially serious federal crimes. we are seeing federal prosecutors in delaware do what you would see federal prosecutors do. they are talking to witnesses, issuing subpoenas. i expect they are gaining steam. they need to make a decision in the immediate future. it has been going on four years. there is a realistic chance this could result in federal charges. >> you mentioned politics. politics, elie, have factored into so much of this from the interest in this case by president trump and his associates as well. that's something that i think may have backfired in a way initially in this. >> yeah, brianna. two things can be true. donald trump could have committed all sorts of abuses of power trying to push people to investigate hunter biden, but