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former acting attorney general matt whitaker.tt. >> hi, shannon >> shannon: so interesting that we would hear this from both sides of the aisle, angry democrats and republicans saying we need to know the truth. what would be the role of the doj and would a biden doj get involved in this? >> well, i hope this isn't another case of the department of justice in the biden administration playing politics. really, you know, there are some serious questionsen a a serious investigation needs to happen. and if negligently or recklessly people's lives were lost, i think that is a perfect example of where a criminal investigation should happen. but ultimately, you know, this is a demonstration of where politicians avoid the hard truths, and i think governor cuomo and his administration made some serious mistakes and my heart just breaks for these families that had their loved one's lives cut too short >> shannon: especially when in the majority of these cases people could not be with them as they were passing away and that's one of the crue

matt whitaker, former acting u.s. t he will review all those policies, matt, not the least of which, is this idea of allowing those who are waiting deportation hearings, to sort of sit and stew in mexico. many have come to the united states to await that process. there is also the interruption of the wall president trump was building, that has ceased right now. indications are it won't be resumed anytime soon. these signals are i guess what republican questioners want to get a handle on, whether they continue in this administration. do you think they will? >> yeah, neil. good to be with you today. what i know is, when attorney general takes over, the department of justice, they set priorities for prosecution. and typically, those are done at both the attorney general level, to tell the u.s. attorney's office in the operating components of the department of justice, sort of what the attorney general and administration want to pursue because there are some as you know, federal violations and federal laws that can be viol

now, matt whitaker, general whitaker, how crazy is it that this new socialist democratic party, theyy get all the power at the national level and then they want to nationalize it. >> hr-1 in the election arena, and it's to do the things that happened in pennsylvania, arizona, where judges overruled the state ledge -- ledge tures, sandultly as we were talking about backstage federalize a lot of these election techniques that expand voting without the integrity that's necessary to know that sort of one voter is casting one legal vote. so i mean, i know you have a lot of experience with this, too. >> yeah, what question in north carolina was wets we had over 500 attorneys that we recruited and trained t. took two years to do t. we had thousand of volunteer observe there's we brought in and trained, so in every single one of our 100 counties, we were on the ground on election day, we were there doing absentee votes and early votes. we had a recount. we had every hearing covered. and we were going to be there. we were going to let everybody know we're going to be there, every single day.

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know it is job well, used to do it, former acting attorney general under president trump matthew whitaker. matt. what the probes, first on hunter biden, will that move forward? matt: good morning, brian, glad to be with you today. i think it will. first the department of justice when joe biden became president kept the u.s. attorney on. they've asked all the u.s. attorneys to resign this sunday, february 28th at the latest. and so keeping the delaware u.s. attorney on board is important. i think merrick garland faces a real challenge today in his hearing and that is he needs to convince the american people that there's not atwo-tiered system of justice that only republicans seem to be prosecuted and allies while democrats we hear the allegations and we hear what ron johnson came up with, for example, in hunter biden's case and we need to make sure they are pursued and the facts and the defendants are -- the cases are pursued. brian: absolutely. the son of the president, hunter biden is hard to imagine he has to pick merrick garland and turn around and investigate his son and if tony bobulinski