a wooden plaque that says speaker pro-tem patrick mchenry, and i got a gavel. the ceremony, the gavel that i wrapped on that on that first day. so once in a shadow box, the others in a box. and those are my two keepsake for for that little, little bit of quirk that might be a jeopardy question. one day accordingly, pursuant to clause 12, a of rule one, the chair declares a house in recess subject to the call of the chair. you wrap tard with that gavel. i did say i wasn't unemotional about it. i kevin's a kevin mccarthy is a dear friend of mine and what happened to him was completely undeserved. he'd been he'd seen success after success in 2023. he kept all of his pledges from opening week and performed well and so the outcome didn't match the performer. so i thought, this is just unjust, unjust, not right. and in that moment, that's that that emotion just bubbled up in me. anger, anger, anger. yes, anger. this is not right. we've seen it. we've seen so much undermining of our institutions, the institutional functions that our government placed these checks and

former speaker mchenry. so right now we have a situation not completely dissimilar from what kevin mccarthy went went through, although we don't know the result of this, but five house republicans have not voted. and it's not a coincidence. it's holdouts, people who were making it clear that they had questions about johnson being speaker. thomas massie followed through on his on his pledge to not vote for johnson. so it's still possible that speaker johnson could end up speaker. and yet you have these others that are staging something of a of a silent protest of some sort, and we and according to murphy, according to manu, um, johnson, speaker johnson is not engaging with them. let's listen in for a second. then i'm going to come back to you for your thoughts. >> jeffries. neil jeffries, jeffries. neguse jeffries nails. johnson new house. johnson. norcross. jeffries. norman. jordan. jordan. none of iowa. mike. johnson. johnson. omer neutra johnson. ocasio-cortez. jeffries. ogles johnson. olszewski jeffries o

mchenry. i don't like saying that he was my favorite member of congress, laid out. what do you need? what can we get for you so we can bring you into the yes column with thomas massie? we know that there's nothing with the other two. then the other six, right? so we now total the nine who voted not to elect the speaker. you're trying to get them to. yes. and the problem i think the challenge that we have right now for speaker johnson, and i do expect that he'll he'll ultimately win on this next ballot, is that we've seen these same tactics played time and time again. we're talking earlier about john boehner's election in 2013, and i was reminded of the the very famous quote by ron burgundy. we've been coming to the same party for 12 years, and in no way is that depressing. except this is depressing. it's demoralizing as a republican, and even for democrats who are eating their popcorn and enjoying the moment, they know this isn't good for the country because this isn't the senate majority lead

and so he first got into a fight with james mchenry and mchenry, offered to resign. adams agreed. he then gave pickering the opportunity to resign because that was the gentlemen's way out. there was nothing dishonorable about resignation. and pickering basically said no. he said, i would like to stay in office through the of the term and adams then dismissed him summarily without some sort of salutation. ah, thank you for your service and for good measure. change the locks on the secretary of state offices, which i really love that pettiness and then he nominated john marshall as, the replacement and the senate debated for a day or two whether or not they were going to accept it because the constitution does not say anything about removal and the bills that created the cabinet secretary positions do not say anything about removal because congress couldn't come to an agreement. some thought that the senate should have a role. some some that the president should have, that unilateral power. some thought that congress should decide when the time came. and so this was all theoretical

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mchenry made these decisions because he didn't think they could be trusted. democrats on capitol hill are furious writing to acting attorney general mchenry seeking more information about attorney firings talking about rather than embracing these principles you seem intent on returning us to the days of the infamous spoil system the of the 19th century. civil servants were hired based on political loyalty rather than merit. this led to a federal workforce largely unqualified and prioritized scraping and bowing electoral campaigning and raising money for the president over their official duties. we reached out to the department of justice for comment on this specific letter but have yet to hear back. >> harris: we'll press in more. good to see you, david. republican congresswoman kat cammack of florida was in the last congress served on the government weaponization subcommittee. you are the perfect person to talk about this today. first of all just your initial reaction that you are seeing already. >> well, it's incredible honestly. this is long overdue. these

mchenry claimed that mr.ity over personnel matters under article two of the constitution to fire career staff members. the email said given your significant role in prosecuting the president, i do not believe that the leadership of the department can trust you to assist in implementing the president's agenda faithfully, the firing memo said. joining our discussion now is former federal prosecutor brendan belew, who worked on the prosecutions of 6th january, six defendants. he resigned from the justice department last week. also with us, andrew weissman, former fbi general counsel and msnbc legal analyst. andrew, i want to begin with you on these these firings and saying in an email, a justice department email to a career justice department official, we don't trust you with the president's agenda in a department that is not supposed to carry the president's agenda. >> so you're absolutely right. so if it came to the president's policy positions, for instance, the president saying, i want you to focus on drugs

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know of any lawsuit at this point but these are career prosecutors fired via an email from james mchenrying, quote, this is consistent with the mission of ending the weaponization of government. the fact they were reprimanded by the current doj is not surprising, donald trump and his allies telegraphers several years he had problems with the jack smith team. what is surprising is prosecutors were fired, not reassigned but told to get out of the building. since they are career prosecutors they are afforded civil service protections, usually they would be reassigned to another part of doj. that happened in other sections but these people were let go. what is not clear is if they will sue to get their jobs back. acting attorney general james mchenry made this decision because he did not believe these officials could be trusted to implement the president's agenda because of their role in prosecuting the president. democrats on capitol hill writing to the acting attorney general seeking more information about the firings across the board according to the principles of doj rather than embracin

are all career prosecutors fired via a letter, email letter via the acting attorney general james mchenry. d.o.j. source says it is consistent with the mission of ending the weaponization of government. the fact they were reprimanded by the current d.o.j. not surprising. president trump and allies tell graphed that he had problems with jack smith's team. what is surprising these prosecutors were just fired. not reassigned but told to get out of the building. since they're career prosecutors they are afforded civil service protections and usually simply be reassigned to another part of the d.o.j. that's happened already in other department sections. these people were told to just leave. what's not clear if they will sue to get their jobs back. in a statement d.o.j. official says acting attorney general mchenry made this decision because he did not believe these officials could be trusted to implement the president's agenda because of their significant role in prosecuting the president. smith resigned earlier this month and appointed special counsel by merrick garland in 2022. he tried to t

a spokesperson for doj says acting attorney general james mchenry made this decision because he did not believe the officials could be trusted to faithfully implement the president's agenda because of their significant role in prosecuting the president. democrats on capitol hill are writing to the acting attorney general, rather than embracing these principles, doj -- "you seem intent on returning us to the infamous boyle system of the 19th century, when civil servants were hired based on political loyalty rather than professional merits. this political patronage system led to a federal work force that was unqualified and prioritized obsequious bowing, electoral campaigning and raising money for the president over their official duties." we have reached out to the doj but have not heard back. this is all before pam bondi, attorney general nominee, even walks in the door. she is expected to be voted out of a committee tomorrow, and could be in the building of confirmed. she is expected to be confirmed later this week or early next week. >> thank you. fired, no other place to put you. you

acting attorney general james mchenry.minate the employment of number of doj officials played a significant role in prosecuting persons from the blood of their actions the acting attorney general does not trust these officials to assist with fully implementing the president's agenda. i guess that is a lesson in the old adage that if you're going to try to kill the king, you better kill the king. >> that is right. and you have to remember when people work for a special counsel, they do so by raising their hand, it is a self-selecting process. and typically when somebody works for special counsel it is because they are pretty passionate about getting the person at the other end of that and so it makes sense to me why this was moved to a prime interest is made of the last couple of days. weekly speaking, i think we're going to see this play off of the next couple of years. here's an appeals court process that the up is can follow. it may be that it is the process that this administration wants. the process alone can be very t

chairman patrick mchenry, thank you for the greta: you have been in congress for many decades and you have passed nearly 70 bills into law. what has that been like? how have you achieved that? rep. eshoo: by working very hard. well, it is deeply gratifying. i have always thought we come here to do a job, not to hold onto a job. and i've always set goals for myself and my staff. and at the beginning of every week, these are the things that we need to get done. by the end of the week, how far have we moved the ball down the field on the various efforts? so you have to be highly intentional. i mean, plans fall apart week to week. and it's not everything that i would like to see done. but i think setting goals, and then be very intentional every single day. time is the most precious thing that is really given to us. and i have always thought that i need to make optimum use of the time that my constituents have given to me. so, i don't think there is a secret sauce. it's hard work. but it's such important work. so i am very proud of the body of bipartisan work that i have been able to achi

and washington has been abuzz about different legislative proposals, outgoing former chairman now mchenry had a bill, on stable coin, the federal reserve, cftc, all involved in regulatory turf debates, who is in charge, who is currently in charge, who should be in charge, who they can convince congress to put in charge. and you said in your prepared remarks, you think the cftc should fill this gap and you're prepared both -- you said during your tenure and you said in there after, you're going to be an advocate for the cftc. why? why should the cftc generally viewed, you can tell me i'm wrong in fact, but can't tell me i'm wrong in stating there's an opinion that it's a smaller to the reserve and the ftc. why should the cftc crease the gap. >> i want to address that, we're certainly smaller, but there's a reason we have a thousand people. appropriators, congressional appropriators as any american taxpayer would expect gives us the money we need. largely within 10% range of what i think my budget requested, but you shouldn't expect congress to give us any more money than we need. we have a

announcer: next, republican representative patrick mchenry sits down for a c-span interview to discussis time on capitol hill. he emphasizes the importance of having friends on both sides of the aisle, and comments on the history he has witnessed as a member of congress, including his recent experience as acting speaker following the ouster of speaker kevin mccarthy in october of last year.

this acting attorney general, james mchenry remaking the department of justice layers deep. this affects about a dozen or more people who had remained at the justice department as career prosecutors, people in the d.c. u.s. attorney's office, the maryland u.s. attorney's office, other places, and what the administration wrote to these people is that they believe the biden administration had weaponized the justice department, and thus that was the most obvious thing to trump because of the prosecutions against him. that's the reasoning. and they write, you played a significant role in prosecuting president trump. i do not believe that the leadership of the department can trust you to assist in implementing the president's agenda faithfully. that is the acting attorney general's memo that went out to these people saying they were removed from federal service. they can appeal it to a board called the merit systems protection board that is outlined in this memo. but they are terminated effective immediately. and john, one more note, this did not happen after other special counse

james mchenry served in the first trump administration, he oversaw effectively the nation's immigration legal system, the court system, so he will be the acting attorney general until at which point pam bondi is confirmed. there was a vote scheduled possibly republicans hoped for one this week. there was a question if democrats would try and delay that vote. we will see how that goes in the senate judiciary committee. the confirmation hearing was last week and everyone, democrats and republicans, all agreed she's qualified for the job and believes she will indeed be confirmed for the job. the acting attorney is james mchenry, a former personal lawyer for the president is going to be the deputy acting attorney general. so those are some of the moves that president trump is making this afternoon. as he makes his way here to the capital one arena where we are, he will be driving effectively by the justice department, by the fbi, and we just saw kash patel talking about the law enforcement officials saying people should thank them. that is an open question because some of the executive orde

kevin mccarthy and patrick mchenry are going against the coalition government that they agree to. this is in direct conflict to the power-sharing agreement that put him in office. as result of that you saw great unity in april and what they were able to pass. this is throwing that completely in the trash. if they continue to go forward and their plan is to rely on democrats in the house of representatives when they don't need any of them, that's not what the american people were getting when you put house republicans in office. >> host: callers waiting for you this morning. russ vought with us and to the bottom of the hour. the center for renewing america, from white house budget director and this is the way and out of arlington, texas, up first line for democrats. go ahead. >> caller: good morning. how y'all doing? i just want to say that my question is, why do we even have a debt ceiling when most countries around the world don't? second of all, i noticed your organization has in god we trust in it, and i kind of feel that's a little scary being the fact we have separation of ch

cnn obtained this letter from james mchenry, the acting attorney general who told these prosecutors, quote, you are being removed from your position at the department of justice, effective immediately. it goes on to say, given their significant role in prosecuting the now president, they can't be trusted to assist in implementing the president's agenda. quote, faithfully. now, this move may be shocking in its scope and frankly, unprecedented in its nature, but no one can exactly argue that it's surprising. trump has made clear his anger directed at those who investigated him. he even referenced it during his inaugural address. but this mass firing could land. trump's doj in court, potentially facing off against some of its now former employees. a major question that remains this evening is whether these career lawyers will fight back by filing lawsuits about their firings. but what we do know, and one thing is clear trump's january 6th retribution tour is also getting started underway at the doj, as we've learned today, that the trump administration is taking the first step, the firs

and one of the things that is really remarkable is the wording of the letter from james mchenry, who is the acting attorney general. and he says that, in essence, that the reason why is because you played a significant role in prosecuting president trump, which again, these people were doing. >> there. it is on the screen. >> right? right. and he says that, you know, i do not believe you have the leadership. leadership can trust you to carry out his agenda. look, the justice department is part of the executive branch. they are they have a political role. but the reason why traditionally people believe you need to have an independent justice department is because it gives the imprimatur of, of of nonpartisanship. whenever you do bring a case. right. and that stuff matters. it matters to juries. it matters to judges, it matters to the public at large. and so these people who they targeted, i mean, one of the people that they've targeted is brad weinsheimer. he is a, you know, the the top ranking career official, and he is the type of person who might stand up when you want to bring a c

the moment they took us out of prison, i saw the mountains of carmel and the sky mchenry, due to a one bedroom. i do not make and they didn't treat us well. there was no good to no medical treatment. i had symptoms of a stroke liquid around the hearts and also blood pressure problems. i wasn't afraid of the illnesses. i was worried that my family would know that i got saying, well here my colleague nick spoke to out 0 cost about a need to abraham moves and they'll divide westbank coming the palestinian prisoner police during the november 2023 seas 5. she says the deal has brought hope to many palestinian families. it is been seeing images of these families greeting one another way. the most prominent palestinian prisoner in dispatch is the p. f and p leader and the occupied the west bank a highly da da da. she used to be a member of the policy in parliament, and he was really shocking to see how she looks now with old gray hair. and she used to look always with like her big kelsey black hair. and now you see how the prison has taken its toll on her. she has been in solitary confinement

some of the prior folks who were in this position. >> is your suggestion there that i mean, james mchenry was already at the doj, so he has been made acting attorney general because he he he's already there. there's no confirmation process necessary. but emil bove, being acting deputy attorney general, would you are you gleaning from that that that's the person that is the main interlocutor between the justice department and the trump administration, given the history there? >> yeah, but he has no authority in that. you know, the law says that, you know, to sign off on fisa warrants and to make some of the bigger decisions that the attorney general makes, you need to be senate confirmed. and so this individual, mr. beauvais, all due respect to him, he doesn't have that authority. he is not confirmed yet by the senate. and so that is going to be an issue if the acting attorney general is replaced, because as i understand, understand it, many of the people who were senate confirmed and eligible to be the acting attorney general have left because they weren't asked by the trump administratio

and i just i'm proud to serve with my ranking member, patrick mchenry, who has so kind and generous to me. i've actually enjoyed serving maxine waters some of the committee subcommittee chairs and ranking members like al green and and lacy clay and emanuel cleaver have become good friends of mine and i honor their and i'm grateful for it. but sometimes oftentimes we better than were given credit for. i want to take a second, because i think this is such important part of debate that we're having today and talk about american capitalism. i mean american capitalism is as the american model. it's been our american way that has brought us more opportunity, more prosperity, upward mobility, more innovation, more creativity, more generosity than any other country that has existed on the face of the earth. and part of that american capitalist is an idea that now that we don't have no government, but that we have limited and not that we have no taxes, we have a limited taxes. and what you saw over two years of a republican majority in the house and the senate with republican president is we di

when you hear the story of the patriots during the battle of fort mchenry throwing themselves and their bodies at that flagpole just to keep old glory flying just so there is one symbol of hope for the americans out there that the flag was still flying. guest: don't you get emotional telling that story? >> a little bit. when i hear the story and i think both patriots signing that blank check and giving everything up just to keep that flag flying, that is duty, honor and country right there. that is the reason why the constitution has survived over 200 years, why the american dream and are excellent and exceptionalism has survived for 200 years. in all of us are at west point are committed to that because we know that america needs leaders of character and that is what i and everyone else here has been called to do. so if america needs one reason to hope for this new year coming up, it is that everyone here is committed to that same excellence, that same leader, committed to be that same leader of character through our values of duty, honor and country. host: and i want to get your follo

you had great conversations with patrick mchenry other institutionalists that made the choice to leave. that will not be joining us it's so hard to find someone to find an issue how vulnerable that could be if you are in a swing district. even the state gop district collaborating on something like speeding up passport renewal time. something like that that so not a partisan issue. if you have anyone in your district into travel internationally, that would be a benefit to them. just the idea that you've sat down and taken those meetings with someone across the aisle could be enough to be targetedd. hiding your bipartisan accomplishments.by that is something i have seen emerge.be there was such a promise to bring out into the open to improve the transparency is generally going to be angry videos shouting there are some cases explaining why you voted yes on a bill for this is what i got done in congress today. or literally bring congress togr people it's not the type that's mode it was site with the very end is a great example with the large omnibus or the continuing resolution that had a

packet like patrick mchenry is e sitting on the couch and i look away and say talk to him. then i asked patrick, could you tell what he was saying? and he said, "i couldn't makeu out one word." when he talks koji would tell s you stories years ago. heene an would always tell me ay about being at the senate and ronald reagan. i hear that every single time. >> laura: old people start doing that and if i start doing that, just automatically fast-forward to. mr. speaker, great to see you.r karen bass bailed on the people of l.a. so are the people ready to bail on her? that is. next. hon', take airborne! it has 7 key nutrients to help fill those holes your immune system may have. what holes? [screams] new airborne. 7 immune supporting nutrients. our most complete support yet. for all those making it big out there... ...shouldn't your mobile service be able to keep up with you? get wifi speeds up to a gig at home and on the go. introducing powerboost, only from xfinity mobile. now that's big. ♪ ♪ with so much great entertainment out there... wouldn't it be easier if you could fin

when you hear the story of the patriots during the battle of fort mchenry throwing themselves and their bodies at that flagpole just to keep old glory flying just so there is one symbol of hope for the americans out there that the flag was still flying. guest: don't you get emotional telling that story? >> a little bit. when i hear the story and i think both patriots signing that blank check and giving everything up just to keep that flag flying, that is duty, honor and country right there. that is the reason why the constitution has survived over 200 years, why the american dream and are excellent and exceptionalism has survived for 200 years. in all of us are at west point are committed to that because we know that america needs leaders of character and that is what i and everyone else here has been called to do. so if america needs one reason to hope for this new year coming up, it is that everyone here is committed to that same excellence, that same leader, committed to be that same leader of character through our values of duty, honor and country. host: and i want to get your follo

i had some great conversations with patrick mchenry, other institutionalists who made the choice to leavet be joining us for the 119th congress. about those incentives. how it's all possible to find someone across the aisle who cares about an issue and seek the same type of solutions that you do. but how vulnerable that could be if you are in a swing district or in even a safe gop district collaborating on something speeding up passport remodeled time. something that is so not a person to person issue if anyone in your district needs to travel internationally that would be a benefit for them. just the idea that you sat down and took the meetings with someone across the aisle could be enough to be targeted. like gabe said, hiding your bipartisan accomplishments is something i've seen emerge. >> i do think it's so unfortunate if you wind back to the advent of social media i do think ÃÃthere was such promise of how it could bring legislating out into the open and improve transparency. i think catherine is right the videos and generally it's gonna be videos shouting ÃÃthe videos explaining wh

acting attorney general james mchenry said the officials could not be trusted to faithfully implementgenda. it's unclear how many people were let go. smith was appointed special counsel sell by merrick garland in november of 2022. owe charged trump in his classified documents case and election interference case. the president pleaded not guilty. both of those cases were dismissed. well, you've already grabbed your morning coffee at star starbucks, you may have noticed changes. the coffee giant bringing back self serve condiment bars, customers can add cream, milk and sweeteners to their drinks. you can get refills. it's part of an effort to reconnect with customers who were very vocal about when they wanted to see change. the stock is down half a percent this morning. first lady melania trump's official white house portrait has been released, showing the first lady striking a power pose, leaning slightly forward with her hands resting on a table and the washington monument in the background. it was taken just one day after president trump's inauguration in the yellow oval room of the

i had some great conversations with patrick mchenry, other institutionalists who made the choice to leave and will not be joining us for the 119th 's . even a state gop district collaborating on something like speeding up passport renewal times. something like that that is so not a partisan issue and if you have anyone in your district who needs to travel internationally, that would be a benefit to them. i just the idea that you have sat down and taken those meetings was someone across the aisle can be enough to be targeted. like gabe said, hiding or by person accomplishments is something i have seen emerge. gabe: i do think if you wind back to social media, i do think you would have thought -- there was such promise of how it could bring legislating out into the open and improve the transparency. i think katherine is right, videos shouting no. there are some members, videos explaining why you voted yes or this is what i got done in congress today or literally bring congress to people. instead, because a lot of how the social media algorithms work, not the type of content promoted. i thin

patrick mchenry sitting on the couch, talk to him.atched patrick could you tell what he sass saying he said i couldn't make out one word. when he talks he would tell you stories years ago. he hold told me a story when he was in the senate and ronald reagan was president. i heard that story every single time. pete. >> laura: old people repeat the same stories. if i do that please hit me or something. >> i will fast-forward. >> laura: automatically fast-forward. mr. speaker, thank you very much. great to see you as always. >> thank you. >> laura: karen bass bailed on the people of l.a. the people of l.a. are the people ready to bail on her? that'sas 7 next. ♪ new airborne. 7 immune supporting nutrients. our most complete support yet. with ehealth, you can compare medicare plans side by side for free. so we invited people to give ehealth a try and discover how easy it can be to find your medicare match. this is pretty amazing. i can go on a vacation with this money. i have quite a few prescriptions. that's why people call us. we're going

acting attorney general james mchenry sent a letter to each official notifying them of their terminationying they could not be trusted in, quote, faithfully implementing the president's agenda. jack smith resigned before trump took office this month, but others returned to their old positions, including some assigned to the u.s. attorney's office in washington. the trump administration has ordered the centers for disease control and prevention to stop working with the world health organization immediately. senior officials have been notified that all collaborations are to cease, effective immediately. the sudden stoppage comes as health officials around the world are monitoring the avian flu. last week, the president issued an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the country from the w.h.o. that will require approval of congress, and the u.s. must meet its financial obligations for the current fiscal year. new concerns about the spread of bird flu after the cdc today said a new strain was found at a farm in the central valley. fox's jonathan hunt has more. >> reporter bird

and washington has been abuzz with different legislative proposals, outgoing former chairman now mchenry had a bill on stablecoin. cftc, the sec, the federal reserve have all been involved in regulatory turf debates but who's in charge who should be in charge, who is currently in charge should be in charge, who they can convince congress to put in charge. and you said in your prepared remarks you think the cftc should fill this gap and your prepared both, you said during your tenure, and you said and there, and after, that you're going to be an advocate for the cftc. why? why should the cftc, which is generally viewed, you can tell me i'm wrong in fact, but she kept on a wrong instead of the opinion that cftc is viewed as a smaller, more junior agency certainly to the federal reserve and the sec. why should the cftc fill this gap? >> i want to adjust better we are certainly smaller, like quantitative come its map, there's a a reason we have a thousand people. appropriators come congressional appropriate and authorizers. ask any american taxpayer would expect give us the money we need and

former speaker mchenry, do you think that this is a good sign of smooth sailing to come or fasten your seat belts? >> mostly a positive sign. this is a more reconciled republican party than where we were two years ago. on opening day with those historic number of votes that we had first, first time in 100 years, we had multiple votes for the speakership. we had one vote today. it was messy. it was choppy. it was newsworthy. we have republicans that are different than the list that voted either skipped a vote or voted against speaker johnson initially saying that they have additional terms and conditions they want on the reconciliation plan, on the tax extension plan. it's going to be choppy waters ahead. it's going to be a really interesting congress to watch and a very difficult congress to successfully legislate in, but one where i think at the end of the day, republicans still can get things done and pass president trump's agenda. >> scott. >> yeah, a modicum of drama today, but ultimately a good, solid and quick outcome for trump and johnson and the republican party. and now, thank

acting attorney general james mchenry, writing this letter to more than a dozen fired prosecutors, which reads in part, quote, the proper functioning of government critically depends on the trust. superior officials place in their subordinates. given your significant role in prosecuting the president, i do not believe that the leadership of the department can trust you to assist in implementing the president's agenda faithfully, end quote. the trump administration is also going a step further, opening an investigation into the prosecutions of the now pardoned january 6th capitol rioters. sources tell cnn an internal memo from the interim u.s. attorney in d.c. is now probing all quote, files, documents, notes, emails and other information related to the dismissed or pardoned cases for president trump, the actions against the doj were a constant topic of his rallies on the campaign trail. >> witch hunt. witch hunt. scam. >> hoax. >> it's called election. >> interference, and they're doing the best they can with it. the baseless indictment of me by the biden administration's weaponized depa

so donald trump and his acting attorney general, james mchenry, they got rid of everybody who was working for jack smith, the special counsel on those two criminal cases against donald trump. now, this is highly unusual because these were career prosecutors, people who had worked in the department long before smith came into existence as the special counsel worked on many, many cases. the yeoman's work of line attorney. investigations, prosecutions, criminal trials at the doj in the u.s. attorney's offices. those people are fired. now, there are more than a dozen of them affected. from what our sources are telling us and what the memo that was sent to them yesterday from the acting attorney general said, it underlined how this was both personal and political. the quote, you played a significant role in prosecuting president trump. i do not believe that the leadership of the department can trust you to assist in implementing the president's agenda faithfully. so the type of career employees that the department of justice who would have left a special counsel investigation and gone back to

the memo from acting attorney general james mchenry, it said you played a significant role in prosecuting president trump. i do not believe that the leadership of the department can trust you to assist in implementing the president's agenda faithfully. this announcement to those people came just after the announcement by the dc, u.s. attorney. so that is the interim person in charge of the office that prosecuted the 1500 or so capitol rioter cases since that took place on january 6th of 2021, that interim u.s. attorney ed martin he announced that there was going to be a special project, an investigation into the work of dozens of line prosecutors in charging the people in the capitol riot who initially were charged with a felony obstruction count that the supreme court later tossed out. that investigation, which appears to be an investigation of the investigators, the people that were doing those cases on a daily basis. it's asking for documents by this friday. so it is unclear how far of a reach that will go as ed martin tries to push forward some sort of investigation into what happened

. >> mchenry, said. >> in a letter. >> to these people is that because they prosecuted. >> presidentd participated in. what he called the weaponization. >> of the justice department, they can no longer. >> be trusted to execute the. >> orders of. >> the executive branch. >> now. >> a. >> couple. of things need to be said about this. >> one, most legal experts believe these firings are illegal. these people are civil. civil servants. you can't just fire them. >> you have to. >> demonstrate that they. >> were incompetent or. disobeyed orders. and so. >> they have legal recourse. at the end of the day. >> though, that probably isn't going to matter. >> the second. >> thing is. there is no evidence. >> that this investigation by jack smith was somehow tainted by bias or political influence. jack smith has denied that. >> and no evidence. >> has surfaced. the working theory of this by the people who say that seems to be they went after the guy that. >> i liked. >> and so therefore it. >> must. >> be political. >> but again, no evidence. >> and so what you have here is really something tha

. >> attorney general james mchenry, who summarily fired these people. >> and said that essentially. >> they cannot be. trusted to carry out the. >> president's agenda because. >> they prosecuted. >> the president. >> and the letter. >> accused them. >> of weaponizing, being participating. >> in. >> the weaponization. >> of the justice department. >> it's important. >> to say. >> there's been no. >> evidence that has surfaced. >> that has suggested that there was anything. inappropriate or biased about. >> the work of jack smith's office, which. >> was carried out mostly by. >> career prosecutors. like these people. >> we're talking about. >> and there really isn't. >> we're going to. >> use this word. >> unprecedented a lot. we have. >> never seen this before. >> it's one thing for the. administration to reassign some. >> senior career officials. >> which they have. >> done, and. >> told them that they need. >> to go work on sanctuary. >> cities. >> and. >> some of those. >> people have resigned. instead of. >> going to do that. >> that's within. >> their prerogative. that's legal.

james mchenry leaves no doubt about why he fired the more than dozen career department lawyers. they're, quote, significant role in prosecuting the president. the assumption here, of course, is that the lawyers who were doing their jobs will not pass a maga loyalty test. he also writes, i do not believe that the leadership of the department can trust you to assist in implementing the president's agenda, faithfully joining us in our fifth seat at the table is ashley akers, a former federal prosecutor involved in some of these january 6th cases. she resigned in protest just last week. ashley, these prosecutors that are now being fired, what is this, in your view, something that is just within trump's authority, a normal turnover, or is this retaliation? >> it's seemingly. >> unprecedented. >> these are. career prosecutors. >> who have been at the department of justice during the biden administration, during the last trump administration, and even prior. the only thing that's different this time is that they were asked to join a case against the president. there's there's no sugges