the justice department will continue to work tirelessly to deploy our anti-violent crime strategy across our law enforcement agencies, prosecutors offices, and grantmaking components. we will work in close partnership with police and sheriffs departments in communities across the country to go after the recidivist and gangs that are responsible for the greatest violence. we will continue to deploy our technological and prosecutorial resources to identify and prosecute the principal tribals of -- drivers of gun violence. and we will continue to invest in the essential programs that will allow law enforcement agencies to hire more officers, to build a public trust essential for public safety, and to support the evidence-based community violence intervention initiatives. that save lives. we will not rest until all americans feel safe in their communities. now i would like to ask marshal service director davis to say a few words. >> good afternoon and thank you for coming and thank you mr. attorney general. as the attorney general mention, operation northstar's initiative that was launched w

i first came to the justice department more than 40 years ago. at a time when both the leadership and the career employees of this department were working to restore public confidence in the fair and impartial application of our laws in the wake of watergate. to do so, department leaders like attorneys general ed levy, griffin bell and benjamin siviletti, develop and normalized a set of norms to ensure adherence with the rule of law. relying on value it is foundation to our democracy, in particular the promise of equal justice under law, they put forward a set of policies to guide the justice department's work. those included policies designed to protect the independence of the justice department from partisan influence. guidelines for f.b.i. investigations. regulations to protect the freedom of the press. policies to ensure respect for the department's career lawyers, agents, and staff. and they included a project to set out for the first time in a single authoritative source a set of principles to guide the exercise of prosecute -- prosecutorial

but the enforcement actions i've discussed also make clear that the justice department will aggressivelyounter such efforts. and the same is true of the entire united states government. today our colleagues at the state and treasury departments are announcing parallel actions in both of these matters. unfortunately we know that russia is not the only foreign power seeking to interfere in our elections. as the u.s. intelligence community noted two weeks ago, we have observed increasingly aggressive iranian activity during this election cycle. that includes recently reported activities by iran to compromise former president trump's campaign and to avoid an election outcome that it regards as against its interests. those recently reported iranian activities also include efforts to obtain access to individuals who themselves have access to the presidential campaigns of both political parties. the justice department's message is clear. we have no tolerance for attempts by authoritarian regimes to exploit our democratic system of government. we will be relentlessly aggressive in countering and

protecting our democracy and protecting elections was a founding purpose when the justice department tablished in 1870. the department answered that charge then and we will answer that charge today as we confront those who would use wireless violence or threats of violence to attack those who administer our elections. i would like to ask the deputy attorney general to make some remarks. >> thank you very much, mr. attorney general, and good afternoon everyone. i also would like to start by expressing my sympathies to the families who have been impacted by yet another horrific act of gun violence, this time in winter, georgia. i also want to extend the department's support for and solidarity with the members of law enforcement and community members who are responding to this tragedy. now, we are fewer than 65 days out from the election, and this convening reflects the diverse and aggressive threat landscape that we face and the breadth of the departments work that we are doing to combat the threats. we are seeing continued threats towards election workers. those who ensure that we all

i watched as those norms became woven into the fabric of the justice department and were sustained by its dedicated career employees. when i came back to doj in 2021 after a particularly difficult period for the department i said that my mission as attorney general would be to reaffirm and strengthened those norms as the principles upon which that department of justice operates so we took steps to better protect the department's criminal and civil law enforcement decisions and it's legal judgments from partisan or other inappropriate influences to name only a few of those steps we re-instituted policies regulating contacts between department personnel and both the white house and congress we strengthened and clarified the guidelines for sensitive fbi investigations we implemented remedial measures to ensure robust compliance with section seven o2 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act we updated protections for the press and law enforcement investigations in order to safeguard the essential role that a free press place in our democracy, we publish new policies to guide prosecuto

i first came to the justice department more than 40 years ago, at a time when both the leadership andhis department were working to restore public confidence in the fair and impartial application of our laws in the wake of watergate. to do so, department leaders like attorneys general ed levy, griffin bell, and benjamin sivaleti guided the justice department's adherence to the rule of law. relying on values foundational to our democracy, in particular the promise of equal justice under law. they put forward a set of policies to guide the justice department's work. those included policies designed to protect the independence of the justice department from partisan influence. guidelines for fbi investigations. regulations to protect the freedom of the press and policies to ensure respect for the departments, career lawyers, agents, and staff. and they included a project to set out for the first time in a single authoritative source, a set of principles to guide the exercise of prosecutorial discretion. in my first job at the justice department working for attorney general sivaleti, i as

protecting our democracy and protecting our elections was a founding purpose when the justice department was established in 1870. the department answered the charge then and we will answer that charge today as we confront those who would use violence or threats of violence to attack those who administer our elections. i would like to ask the deputy attorney general to make some remarks. speak out thank you very much mr. attorney general and good afternoon everyone. i also want to start by expressing my sympathies to the families who have been impacted by yet another horrific act of gun violence. this time in winder georgia. i want to extend the department's support for and solidarity with the members of law enforcement and community members who are responding to this tragedy. we are fewer than 65 days out from the election and this convening reflects the diverse and aggressive threat landscape that we face and the breath of the departments work that we are doing to combat those threats. in our increasing polarized environment, we are seeing continued threats toward election workers, thos

i first came to the justice department more than 40 years ago at a time when both the leadership and the career employees of this department were working to restore public confidence in the fair and impartial application of our laws in the wake of watergate. to do so, department leaders like attorneys general leavey, bell and others developed and formalized a set of norms to guide the justice department's adherence to the rule of law. relying on values foundational to our democracy, in particular the promise of equal justice under law, they put forward a set of policies to guide the justice department's work. those included policies designed to protect the independence of the justice department from partisan influence, guidelines for f.b.i. investigations, regulations to protect the freedom of the press, and policies to insure respect for the department's career lawyers, agents and staff. and they included a project to set out for the first time in a single authoritative source a set of principles to guide the exercise of prosecutorall discretion. in my first job at the justice depart

let me talk about rehabilitating the department of justice, this is the department of justice that went after a republican candidate with charges all over the map. i mean, it is politics. it is politics. so why did hunter biden walk this up to the day of court? because his dad's president. his dad's president. judge jeanine and kerri said, he's going to get a pardon. what form of that pardon depends on whether he accepts all the charges or the alford deal. the alford deal is dead. the bottom line is it's the same result as 13 months ago. he gets away with walking. for tax evasion, possibly other actions, and the gun charge, he gets a clean slate with a joe biden pardon. >> sandra: thank you very much for that, leo. kerri, stay with us. judge, stay with us. we are going to add jonathan turley to this discussion as we await more breaking news out of the courtroom there in los angeles. we'll be right back. now i have skyrizi. ♪ i've got places to go and i'm feeling free ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me ♪ ♪ control is everything to me ♪ and now i'm back in the picture. feel

yet one of the things is donald trump very clearly wants to use the justice department purely as a partisanis in this court 6-3 immunity in july. those in trump's inner circle echo this. like loomer who is flying around with trump on his plane saying that some democrats should get the death penalty. day visit rowe says trump is vowing to prosecute political foes is becoming more complicit to convict those who he sees as foes. and joining me, the author of where tyranny begins. the justice department, the fbi and the war on democracy. david it's great to have you on. and i'm so glad you wrote this book because, i think in the trump era, the independence of the justice department is like the loaded gun sitting on the table for this story of whether american democracy survives in its current form, what do you think. >> i agree and, we'll talk more. but in the end, bill barr of all people did the right thing. he stood up and said no. joe biden won the 2020 election. and more importantly the judiciary court held and 50 other judges all rejected trump's claim of massive voter fraud and joe biden

protecting our democracy and protecting our elections was a founding purpose when the justice department was established in 1870. the department answered that charge then and we will answer that charge today, as we confront those who would use violence or threats of violence to attack those who administer our elections. now the deputy attorney general to make some remarks. >> thank you very much, attorney, and good afternoon, everyone. i also want to start by expressing my sympathies to the families who have been impacted by yet another horrific act of gun violence, this time in winter, georgia. i also want to extend the department's support for and solidarity with the members of airport and community members who are responding to this tragedy. now, we are fewer than 65 days out from the election. and this convening reflects the diverse and aggressive threat landscape that we face and the breadth of the department's work that we are doing to combat those threats. in our increasingly polarized environment, we're seeing continued threats toward election workers, those who ensure that we al

of course, another part of the justice department. an antitrust group out of the san francisco office. but it's a criminal probe. what they are trying to find out is if the banks conspired to collude and specifically looking at the talks as they had the final week of archegos with the portfolio was pretty much set on fire. vonnie: it was literally hours the testimony at the trial. why didn't they just pull up the logs? there's no doubt the banks did have these conversations. some banks, credit suisse, ubs, nomura, signed a managed liquidation agreement when they sold off some overlapping positions in a coordinated fashion. now perhaps the justice department is trying to make a case, especially if it is the antitrust office, that that could amount to collusion. in trying to avoid your extensive losses or are you artificially try to keep the cost of the talks higher? maybe the natural price of the talks absent bill hwang's massive bets was much lower than it was supposed to be. this is not something we have seen often in the industry. t

the department of justice. he has promised and trump's words to stop the federal government including the department of justice and fbi with those loyal to him and only him and not to the constitution which he has separately said could be revoked because of it doesn't do what he wants it to do he will carry out his every order without question. but how to do these threats have been flushed out by individuals loyal to trump and how do we know that? the vast majority of individuals who worked on his cabinet have stated they look forward to working with him again and instituting project 2025. the former director of this in the policy director for the republican national convention wrote the details for the consolidation of executive power and project 2025. stephen miller, a former advisor to him who crafted the most sweeping immigration agenda has been an advisor through his dark money group american first legal and the architect of donald trump's most inhumane border policies, stephen miller, and a champion of the

designed to go after trump and trump allies who have been really bitter in condemning the department of justice. sometimes calling it the department of injustice. or he never mentioned trump by name. he never mentioned other trump allies by name. but clearly that was the attack that he was launching. >> thank you. attorney absolutely. >> i wolf. this is the attorney general trying to at least speak out. perhaps for the last time that we're going to be able to hear from him because the election is in less than two months and we know the justice department has a policy whereby he's not gonna be able to do speeches after the beginning of october we'll speak so what the attorney general was trying to convey here was not only a rebuttal to what the attacks that you've heard from the former president and some of his allies. but also from what you saw from the supreme court ruling back in july, which certainly made it okay. for the former president to be engaging with his justice department apartment to try to find ways to undermine the 2020 election. that's the other thing that is on the attorney gen

what seemed like paranoia is clear, trump wiped away the norms to protect the justice department andg him to account was devastatingly high. my colleague, held hostage after being captured by the taliban in 2008. you have so much to share here. >> thank you very much. >> you're not -- you're a national security expert, former hostage. you are a down the middle reporter first and foremost. >> thank you for saying that. >> but the facts, when they are so clear about what you have uncovered, about trump and the justice department during his term, are laid out in this book. it's remarkable. >> well, there's a positive side. there were a lot of career, government servants here in washington sort of trying to do the right thing, and it's a confusing position, the attorney general. the president is elected and they have to carry out certain policies. post-watergate the rule the president never meddled in specific individual cases. to have the, you know, former president talking specifically about jail his enemies, is, you know, a frightening thing. and i found that merrick garland on the ot

the justice department's message is clear. we have no tolerance for attempts by authoritarian regimes to exploit or demographic. our democratic system of government, we will be relentlessly aggressive in countering and disrupting attempts by russia and a rod, as well as china or any other ford malign actor, interfere in our elections and undermine our democracy. now i will turn back to the topic of today's meeting, just as we are dedicated to combating for infrared square elections, we are equally dedicated to confront domestic threats against the public servants who administer our elections since the 2020 election. we have seen an unprecedented spike in threats against the public servants who do administer our elections, election officials, workers, and volunteers, and communities across the country have been targeted with heinous acts and threats of violence. the following are a few examples of successful enforcement actions that the justice department has taken over the past year. in new mexico county, commissioners and oth

at least that's according to the us justice department. it claims that russian state media, including this channel, are trying to influence the outcome of the trump harris race. the russian foreign ministry spokesman mazda yet another wave of risk of sylvia calling it sheer madness. how many cars would be the american deep states and intelligence agencies have always been involved in smearing the russian media? the worked with them on the territory of the united states? everyone knows very well that mr. smith turned up on the doorstep of anyone who works with the russian media, writes blogs, skiffs comment tree. for example, the recent search warrants targeting those, if you would just present us on the russian channels in the united states of america. but in this case, we're talking about such an elaborate information campaign in which the american intelligence services have that hand. and that's why this whole manipulative story really, in my opinion, or the stands out even from the total number of upset, is steps by its shape madness. a

now, this one was a little bit because they invited the whole justice department personnel to tune in and it was partly on account of the attacks against the justice department that have really been chum in the water in the united states for the last 567 years, however much, what was interesting about that clip from the debate, which sort of also turbocharged some of this is that even though fact check checking in debates, a sort of a controversial issue, he was allowed to go on making claims about the justice department having its ends in these state and local cases. that is simply not true. and i think the attorney general felt some need to weigh in here because of the fact that the justice department is getting lumped into cases that they truly have nothing to do with this whole idea. of state attorneys general, and local prosecutors and being puppets of the attorney general is just not how the justice department works. and he felt the need. i think to reassure the many republicans who work with the justice department, but people of all parties that their work is protected is impor

then we had the justice department, special terms. so saying that the s c, i claims that link from to russia. this whole thing was and they were unable to pull the admission to get some evidence to prove those links. we had the motor report, which was huge, the way back in 2019 again, trump sinks to russia, trump has been supported by russia. russia's be meddling, all tease be meddling again. turns out to be part of cases on full r u. d is then we have to clinton leads again, from please link to a russian back again with fools. we have seen him so many times before. the thing just close to the point of it from you and you have to question how we, the system is that you can assume that when the american movie merits has population for turning in. woodson being critical of their own systems. that has to be enough to somehow give me comments and the p american population on small enough to think for themselves to, to slice that when they go to the polls in november, the thing and choose the candidates that they think is the best candidat

the justice department will investigate and prosecute acts of violence fueled by anti-semitism and hatredt months, the department has brought charges, obtained plea agreements and sentences for more than 35 defendants for criminal acts motivated by anti-semitic hate. this is in addition to the charges brought by our state and local partners. that work will continue. no person and no community in this country should have to live in fear of hate fueled violence. no faith community should have to fear they will be attacked in their place of worship. the justice department has no higher priority than protecting the safety and civil rights of everyone in our country. working to uphold that promise is our responsibility and it is one we will never abandon. protecting the safety of our people includes combating violent crime, which is the topic of the third announcement to which i will now turn. from may to september this year, u.s. marshals service with state and local law enforcement partners in ten metropolitan areas arrest more than 3,400 fugitives and violent offenders, including more than

this doesn't mean the department of justice always gets it right or prosecutors always get it right. ight not be guilty, right? we will see in trials. but, at the level of the institutional functioning of the department of justice, this is how the doj is supposed to work. even though there is essentially zero political benefit in it for the democrats, and here is the thing, if donald trump wins, i think this is all going to change. these institutions could be put in the hands of trumps creepiest authoritarian sycophants, like this republican lawyer who is rumored to be in the running for the top doj post and he said this last year. >> we are going to fire a lot of people in the executive branch, the deep state, secondly we are going to indict joe biden and hunter biden and james biden and every other's gumball, sleaze ball biden. we will deport a lot of people. 10 million people and growing. anchor babies, their parents or grandparents, kids in cages, it's going to be glorious. we will detain a lot of people, do log and get mad. >> davis as he is now trolling the lives with his shtick

here, the justice department says americans are under our influence. now. do you feel influence that we succeeded in our goal? wait a 2nd. i didn't know, i know it was being influenced to you. you're telling me that over the past 7 years, i worked at this company that you've been all influencing me. this is unbelievable . now i've kept of course, i'm just kidding. in all seriousness, i mean these allegations against russia, from the justice department have to be some of the most absurd ones that we've seen throughout all of the allegations that they've given. i mean that moscow is really funding a $10000000.00 propaganda farm in tennessee to undermine trust in the us as institutions. i mean, as a result of all this, the buying a ministration like we heard earlier has put sanctions on our editor in chief margarita. see money on its launch charges against some of our co workers simply for not registering this for an agency. busy they were allegedly posting videos and content on the internet. it's all really strange. i mean, on top of that, the attorney genera

he thought if he obeyed the rules that will restore public trust in the justice department and that has not necessarily happened. and one last note, jamie raskin, the firebrand house member on the january 6th committee said it is important to investigate the facts but also said it is important in the end to win this politically and that is what justice department say will resolve political differences through elections. here we are. >> in your book you detail what it was like during the trump administration for the department of justice, to be weaponize as essentially a branch of the oval office. what is the likelihood and what do you fear if donald trump is elected again, of transforming the doj into again, a public defender's office for the president or prosecution's office for the president. >> a key thing is project 2025, which we talk about. the president appoints 3000 appointees. it would be expanded beyond that, he could have large numbers of people doing exactly what he wanted. the fbi has one political appointee, the director. that person is supposed to serve a 10 year term. th

the us justice department sees 32 of these fake domains. they were publishing fake new stories like reports about ukrainian immigrants committing crimes. for example, the articles with then distributed through fake social media accounts and troll funds. speaking of 12 times the thousands of russian social media accounts pretending to be us or european citizens, they post complaints about local politics or claim that government is wasting money on ukraine means also use disguise. dis you meant to try and change the narrative, like ones about the most kind of shooting. we mentioned earlier, troll firms which imply click where it goes, amplify these posts by lighting and sharing the fake news, the trolls, trixie algorithms to push the content right into our feats. a confidential report by digital forensics, film troll run 6 shows lots networks flooded social media with this information ahead of the use column and election. most of these posts are pro ration in conclusion, rationalize crossing well disguised, faked content and pushing it throug

it hosts videos from popular right wing pro trump, influence of the us justice department says russia funding nearly 9000000 euros into this company. so tenant media is allegedly being paid to produce and post propaganda video. and one instance tenant was reportedly asked to produce video flaming ukraine and to us for a mos shooting in most co, even though the stomach state had already claimed responsibility. the influence of said they had no idea. russia was finding that paychecks posing as trusted media. russia social design agency based and most co spreads fake news through fake websites. the sides are created another direction of the russian presidential administration. they imitates trusted news outlets, like the washington post or deputies to speak of the us justice department sees 32 of these fake domains. they were publishing fake news stories like reports about ukrainian immigrants committing crimes. for example, the articles will then distribute it to fake social media accounts and troll firms . speaking of 12 times, there are thousands of russian social media accounts prete

justice department _ from both parties? justice department lawyers - from both parties? justice. tice - department lawyers argued that it is, you know, not a first amendment violation to block tiktok in the country, if it is owned by a foreign adversary like china. tiktok kept trying to bring up that other american media companies have foreign ownership. they brought up politico being owned by axel springer, that brought up that the bbc can operate in the united states, or the doj lawyers differ saying that those are allies, those are countries that we don't actively have adversarial relationships with. what happens if the chinese communist party decides to exert undue influence on tiktok and its algorithm in the us? the tiktok lawyers say there is no reason to paint that this would ever happen, it hasn't happened yet. bytedance doesn't tell us what to do either, you are violating our first are violating ourfirst amendment rights as a company and all the user's rights by trying to squelch this app in the us. 50 trying to squelch this app in the us. ~ , the us. so tiktok is saying

then we go to the fact that we had the us justice department and the f. b. i being accused of failing to oppose their own missions when it came to the russia gate scandal. with this was the view of the justice department's own special council, a judge later, throughout the murder investigation, when it says that there was this profile, and that was linked to russia and the judge said, well, you haven't provided any evidence. you can make an ass cetacean, you can say anything you liked, but there was no concrete evidence in your report. and this is another report back in 2019 to show the actually, there is a link between these 2 things. and you've got evidence that russia was really behind this. and then of course we have the full re surrounding the clintons. the ad leaking claims that the trump organization, back in 2016 was in touch with the russian bank. these links of the 2 things, again, rushes in the head with a, with trump. this turned out to be hillary's own campaign listing this ins mation. the fact that a what was being alleged was entirely false. s

that's what recent investigations by the us, justice department and to him and media outlets showed russia as goals to create an spread content that pushes the agenda. for example, they boost the rates of pro russian politicians and spread and to ukraine. narrative. here are 3 main tactics. rush us government is using. pay influence is take tenant media, a u. s. space company it hosts videos from popular right wing pro trump, influence of the us justice department says russia funding nearly 9000000 euros into this company. so tenant media is allegedly being paid to produce and post propaganda video. and one instance tenant was reportedly asked to produce video flaming ukraine and to us for a mos shooting in most co, even though the stomach state had already claimed responsibility. the influence of said they had no idea. russia was finding that paychecks posing as trusted media, russia social design agency based, and most co spreads fake news to say, websites. the sides are created another direction of the russian presidential administration. they imitates trusted news outlets, like the was

he is of the department of justice. and so he has made it his mission during his tenure to restore confidence in the department to really communicate to the agents and the prosecutors and the career there are civil servants who work behind the scenes that he is there to support them. and he knows that this next several weeks leading up to the election is going to be particularly fraught. it's going to be a heightened environment and so i think that that's why he wanted to communicate this now, oh, this comes even as you know, amid heightened concerns right now for election workers and others as we get ready for another january 6, potentially hope it doesn't happen, but there's clearly a lot of concern that come january 6 something else could happen, right? >> exactly. and look, i mean, given the fact that you look at the polls, you see how close everything is. and if we have an election like we did last time, where we have a couple of weeks where a couple of states are still waiting to be called, you have the potential f

here the justice department says americans are under our influence. now. do you feel influence that we succeeded in our goal? wait a 2nd. i didn't know. i know i was being influenced to you. you're telling me that over the past 7 years, i worked at this company that you've been all influencing me. this is unbelievable . now i've kept of course, i'm just kidding. in all seriousness, i mean these allegations against russia, from the justice department have to be some of the most absurd ones that we've seen throughout all of the allegations that they've given. i mean that moscow is really coming elections, and these are accusations that we've seen time and time again. uh, often around previous selections, like charlotte mentioned earlier in the program around 2016. like in 2018, and now we're seeing the same thing. and every time we see these charges, it's against russians who are not located in the united states. and it will likely never, uh, go to court over this stuff. right. and it's convenient enough for the united states that they'll never have to actua

and i remember several different times where the justice department would announce the case and behind the scenes officials, the white house, which is the mon, the timing of it. and i know official say that not a lot of people believe it, but i can tell you from my perspective as a former long time whitehouse corresponded. there really is no coordination between the us justice department and the white house. us president does not tell the attorney general who to prosecute who to investigate the justice department doesn't tend to tell the white house who they are investigating when an indictment is placed when it's on the field, most of the time that or even give them a heads up, so i know it's really seems unlikely, but from my perspective, and for my experience, these 2 are really very separate. the white house is negotiating with each of it. cut out this, negotiate with some of the justice department is going after them off leadership and an unknown person like the in america. right. different branches of us government working separately. and 11 has to wonder what us mediators a thin