. >> brian: we are learning attorney general merrick garland sworn testimony on the hunter biden probe the center of the probe that the administration is mishandling the case. this is a big deal. the white house insists no political interference in the situation. >> ainsley: alexandria joins us. >> alexandria: this irs whistleblower is seeking protection. they have information showing preferential treatment has been given to hunter biden during the investigation into his tax affairs. >> respected within the irs and teaches other agents how to properly do investigations. he knows how to spot when investigative steps are not done in the traditional way to get at the truth and he's spotted and observed things done differently in this matter and he believes they were influenced by politics. >> alexandria: mark lydle says -- attorney general merrick garland, who said this under oath back on march 1. >> i promised to leave the matter of hunter biden in the hands of the district attorney for delaware, pledged not to interfere with that investigation and i have carried through on my pledge. >>

no one can ignore some of what a judge has merrick's ruling had in terms of inflammatory and partisan language. he said patience use this to quote kill the on born baby, judges usually use the ter fetus, he referred the process as a chemical abortion kill, baby, chemical burin are words we usually hear from judges when discussing abortion whether not they have antipath towards abortion judge has merrick knows that this is is an important ruling that is going to be scrutinized. does this give forces that don't agree with him and h likes? >> you know, judge has merrick was opposed when he wa nominated to the bench because people understood that he wa going to be a zealot he is a person whose lif experience includes voluntee -ism in the crisis pregnancy movement that is a series of center across the country that offe themselves to women as if they are reproductive healt clinics. really what they are offerin is an off ramp for anythin about abortion and the situationally avoid lettin women know that they have th option to have an abortion they basically shone peopl into adoption and or ot

i didn't think merrick garland wanted to be here.low rolling this investigation from the beginning and he was pushed into putting jack smith, a pit bull, in charge of the investigation only because donald trump committed an unforced error. he announced for president so early to try to intimidate merrick garland, to try to dissuade him. >> well, it worked merrick garland hasn't touched any of the trump cases. >> he put jack smith in charge instead of a person being a bit timid in merrick garland, you've got this bulldog in jack smith who is ready to go if merrick garland declines to prosecute, he has to explain it. there's got to be a report and the public will know is that the legacy he wants. >> next to the shelf on the mueller report people have been investigating trump and finding criminality for seven years now. what do you think the stakes are of jack smith's work and merrick garland's treatment of it? >> i would just add that what we saw last week is that trump had one of his best fund-raising weeks since he left the oval so i

as for merrick garland, there are only two possibility.either knowingly died or he was utterly oblivious when two of his u.s. attorneys that report to him who were appointed by joe biden, according to the whistleblower, blocked the plan criminal charges against hunter biden. look at the moorthy's investigators and the house oversight committee examine these 162 -- 170 suspicious activity reports, banking records, the more shocked and appalled that they are if hunter biden is only charged with two misdemeanors and two felonies, that will be the sweetheart deal of the century. i would take those four crimes and multiply them by a factor of 10 or 20. every single transaction, every wire transfer that goes into a biden family account, if it is influence peddling and money laundering as it appears to be those are set for crimes. you are talking about potentially hundreds of crimes here. we will have to wait and see how this works out. but i guarantee you the more thatthat the house investigatorg into this, the more they are going to find influe

doesn't merrick garland have to take all that into consideration? so i spent two years at the justice department and what i saw prosecutors there do there was to examine the facts independently based on the facts and the law, so i don't and i think if we want to justice department that is guided by the rule of law, they should be guided by those two things and those two things alone, the facts and the law and in these other extraneous factors as important as they appear to be, i think we wanted justice department that follows two things. the facts and law, and that's what we've got here based on my experience. what do you think your old colleagues at doj thought about the whole proceeding on tuesday. the arraignment. the coverage all of the attention of the nation on the arrest of donald trump the arrangement of donald trump in connection with the stormy daniels case. i think they've got their hands full. michael you just mentioned you just did an incredible segment on what's happening over across the country in texas with regard to this abortion me

we believe that person is the ag, merrick garland. according to the whistle-blower hunter is receiving preferential treatment, in other words, hunter's criminal case is being mishandled, swept under the rug apparently, keep in mind the whistle-blower is not a political person. he or she gains nothing from coming forward except probably abuse on fake news cnn and msdnc. but is choosing to do the right thing. here's the whistle-blower's attorney earlier today on with bottom line bret baier. >> my client is not coming here with a political agenda. >> he has been at the irs a long time. >> been at the irs more than ten years, now he is a supervisor, special agent. he is trusted at the irs. he has been trusted as an assistant special agent in charge in other cities, entrusted with international investigations and working with other countries' tax enforcement burst. >> sean: he is doing the right thing through appropriate channels. hunter biden's attorney is threatening the whistle-blower, accusing him of committing a crime simply for comin

but why is it that when attorney general merrick garland took the rains as the doj that the sdny didn'ttinue its investigation? it speaks to how the political doj has become when i say political, i do not mean that in a partisan sense but rather in a sense they do seem to be acting with the political risks in mind. because there really was no reason for the southern district of new york to not pursue this case trump was out of office. he was not a candidate, just a u.s. citizen like you or me. the only reason not to pursue it, as i can see it, was some reticence on their part to pursue trump in particular and it is hard to argue that that would have been the case with any other former politician and that brings us to where we are today. where it has been left to local prosecutors to pick up the pieces of the case doing what the doj and the sndy should have done from the start. joining me now is andrew weissman, former fbi general counsel and former senior member of the mueller probe andrew, it's so great to see you in person. >> yes. >> so, last night when we were on our big set and all

attorney general merrick garland accused of interfering in the hunter biden investigation. that would be obstruction of justice at the highest level. the biden re-election campaign will have to deal with this. separately, the former cia chief helped organize a letter from intelligence professionals calling the hunter biden laptop the story, quote, russian disinformation. it was nothing of the sort. but biden used the bogus letter to slime trump. to the markets, a little price movement for stocks at least in the early going, dow up maybe 50, nasdaq down about 15. same with interest rates, not that much change. i've got the yield of 10-year treasury still just above 3.5%. as for the 2-year treasury, i think it's just above 4%, 4.11 as we speak. bitcoin hanging around $28,000, it's at 28,1, to be precise. etherium just under two grand. watch teslad to. some shareholders are asking the tesla board to the rein in elon musk. they're not happy that tesla's value has dropped $600 billion. musk responded saying, quote: tesla is executing better than ever. end quote. the stock is up

if it is true, what could be the fallout for merrick garland?ant and it's very concerning that the attorney general of the united states would be putting his thumb on the scale of an investigation. these investigations are typically handled by the professionals at the department of justice and merrick garland as you saw there told us that he was not interfering and was not going to interfere but it's very clear as this whistle blower's testimony is coming to light and bestill have a lot -- we still have a lot more to learn in this regard, but it is obvious to me that this case is not being treated in regular order. that was one of the things i made sure while i was attorney general to emphasize was how we were going to follow regular order. we weren't going to cut corners, weren't going to take exceptions in cases and we were just going to follow the facts and the law. i think this whistle blower will tell us that the biden administration through merrick garland is running interference for hunter biden trying to keep him out of trouble. will: ma

for merrick garland, there are only two possibilities. he either knowinglossibilityy le was utterly oblivious. >> when two of his us attorneys that report to him, who wereingo appointed by joe biden, according to the whistleblower, blocked the planned criminalinsn charges against hunter biden. look, the more these investigators in the house oversight committee examine these one hundred and seventy suspicious activity reporte 162 --s of banking reco, the more shocked and appalled that they are if if hunter biden is only charged with two misdemeanors and two felonies,he sweet that will be the sweetheart deal of the century. >> ttury. i would take thoser cm four crimes and multiply them by a factor of 10 or 20 . wirevery single transam in every wire transfer that goes into a biden family account.if if it is influence peddling and money laundering, as it appears to bppears te, those are separate crimes that you're talking about, potentiaf. hundreds of crimes here. we'll have to wait and seeorks t how this works out.i but i guarantee you , the

attorneys appointed by joe biden answerable to merrick garland came forward and stop to the criminal prosecution of hunter biden over his influence peddling schemes that implicate the president of the united states. that is if it's done for a corrupt purpose, political favoritism. political interference. that is obstruction of justice. >> do you see this going anywhere, larry? >> i do. this is not the only whistleblower. they are going to be several going forward. whether or not the non-fox media will give a rip. the answer is they won't. cnn and msnbc, i watch it often. this is probably the most corrupt information i've seen in my lifetime. the trump family had one fraction of this kind of filth on them, it would be nonstop on the non-fox networks. the question is whether or not the rest of the country knows about it. all too sadly is they don't. >> favorable treatment from merrick garland will be the last word here. tony blinken gets 51 former intel guys to lie to the american people about the laptop of hunter biden. they are all going to get away with it. they will all get away wi

did merrick garland cover the biden family? will there be an investigation into tony blinken who organized the 51 intel agents, former intel officials to go out and say something they couldn't possibly know to be true about the laptop of hunter biden. there is a cover up there. why did the fbi go to big tech in the months leading up to the 2020 election and warned them that they might be subject to the misinformation campaigns and it may be about joe and hunter biden. of course the story broke and "the new york post" and it got censored. the american people were not told the truth and it was a high-level effort by biden's top effort to do this. >> yes to all of the above, the fix is in, obstruction of justice by the department of justice. how else do you explain an absurd five year long criminal investigation in the face of a plethora of incriminating evidence on the laptop alone, not to mention many of hunter biden's partners who can implicate as well -- >> sean: last week it was nine and now we are up to over a dozen family m

when merrick garland came in with the biden administration, he took david weiss on and said i will have him run this investigation to give it a modicum of impartiality. it is not affect the biden administration is directing -- so it does not look like the biden administration is directing it. and mixes of instances, like in tax cases, -- in specific instances, like tax cases, they have to get specific signoff. but they do not need the attorney general to sign off. host: tanning signs they are closer to an indictment or otherwise -- any signs they are closer to an indictment or otherwise? guest: we have to assume they are close. some agents involved believe they have enough to charge him. there has been a bit of a delay. fescue desert between various other factors -- prosecutors are weighing various other factors. going back to 2018,, we have an election that it will be underway soon. we have to assume this will be resolved and we will see a decision made soon. host: our guest is a senior reporter for the wall street journal. her regular beat is national security, the fbi, the justice de

garland. >> here's merrick garland. >> lisa monaco, and fbi director paul bate. department arrested jack douglas tecira. an employee of the united states air force national guard fbi agents took him into custody earlier this afternoon without incident he will have an initial appearance at the u.s. district court for the district of massachusetts. i want to thank the fbi justice department prosecutors and our colleagues at the department of defense for their diligent work on this case this investigation is ongoing, we will share more information at the appropriate time. >> that's it, no questions for the attorney general basically con confirming what we already knew we knew the name of him. we knew how old he was certainly nbc news, "new york times," lots of other agencies have a lot more reporting on this what do you make of that brief statement? >> the attorney general was reading from a prompter. it was a carefully crafted statement. short and to the point, and he did not take any questions again, i think the strategy here, just, you know, from the outside look

merrick garland, all of the biden administration is not working.e asked them to pay attention to come down and not just look at who is crossing over, but asked him to pay attention to the families that live there and endure this every single day. we're there, we feel it, we see it. it is just everywhere in all of south texas and in our hometown it is everywhere. we need his help and leadership and need him to step up to the plate and own up to his role. >> ashley: you both lost your mother maria and elisa, you lost your daughter emilia. there is a picture of your beautiful daughter, she was in second great. you heard gin talking about. you are begging for help. when you ask him for help and say these things and want security at the border, what does he say to you? >> i went in there and i was blunt and honest and shared graphic images of my daughter that i hadn't shared with anyone. it wasn't just to show him, but to make him realize we are feeling this. i should not have had to bury my little girl and seen her covered in blood. i should not have h

we believe that person is the ag merrick garland. now, accordingrdin the whistleblower, hunter is receiving preferential treatment in other words, on his criminal case is being mishandled, swept under the rug, apparently. and keep in mindnd,e-blow the whistleblower is not pol person.blower is not he or she gains nothing frompt coming forward, except probablyn abuse on fake news, cnn and msnbc. but is still choosing to dot the right thing. now, here'ing.s the whistleblows attorney earlier today on with bret. >> take a lookr toda. >> but my client wants to come forward. he's not a political person. ttom linhe's not a social mediam he's not coming here with at coi political agenda. he's been at the irs for a longe time. he's been at the irsn i forrs r more than 10 years. s and now he's a supervisoryrviso special agent. he's entrusted at the irs.uste he's been trusted as an assistant special agent in charge and other cities and trusted with international investigation. trusted and working with other countries, tax enforcement bureaus. >>

so although the final sign off is going to be in merrick garland's hands, the decision is ultimatelysmith. and i'm quite confident given how he's proceeded that since the facts and the law are going to make it clear that -- that if you don't have an indictment here, that means that no insurrection will ever be held accountable, no attempt to coup. and the country can't survive that. and i think jack smith knows it, and i think in the end merrick garland knows it. >> laurence tribe, appreciate your time. thank you. >>> still ahead new questions about president biden's age and his ability to serve as he announces a second bid for the white house. this as republicans are saying he had what they're calling a cheat sheet due to in part his age. and what dr. sanjay gupta says about the president and all of our cognitive abililities as we age. ♪ ♪ get $1500 purchase allowance on a 2023 cadillac xt5 and xt6. ♪ visit your local cadillac dealer today. ♪ great estimations ♪ interesting piece. let me bring in my expert. mmm... so many scratches... oh those are from my car keys. such a rich histo

we are now hearing doj merrick garland will be speaking shortly.what do you want to hear from a.g. garland? >> number one, how about some human emotion, outrage it could take place. immediate overhaul and the committee named to take a look at the series of events that brought us to this moment and accomplish chelsea manning, a different first name and different gender, he got pardoned by president obama after giving up secrets and embarrassed the nation ten years, and just as we get some credibility back, edward snowden thought he would do the behavior and give up all of it, and escape to a communist country, russia. time and time again, america is caught with their pants down. we can get the intelligence, can't hold it. unacceptable through three administration's. >> sandra: thank you for joining us as we look at the video where the arrest was just made and david spunt from the justice department. what can you tell us? >> we are waiting to get more updates from fbi officials and to hear more about what happened, that is going to be happening momen

doing his job properlyg hi, if merrick garland properlyg hi, if merrick garland oath to the congress, i mean,th the attorney general, f the united states can't commit crimes. i mean, by definition, that's go t to be the end of him. as our attorney general. i would think. ov >> well, it would be if you could ever prove it. but all ofop thesele people, clever, they have plausible deniability. they have laye havr upon layer which they can pretend thatd thy they don't d. what's happened? that's what joe biden's entirebi businessne model is all about. hi as relatives go and get the bribes and he pretends he doesn't know about it. that's such a smart point. a ed.ary fine, thank you so much for that summary tonight. we'll be talking againking, i h. . thank you. thank. somet >> by the way, we should say that based on something miranda just pointed out for allbout the grouching we've done about the republican congress, it has been chuck grassley of iowaa, hoen chuck grassley of iowaa, two republican senators who have been on the story from the beginning. the the ondng. the doj to answer the q

garland needs to sign off on it. >> the final decision is merrick garland's, but he has made it verynless there is some extraordinary misconduct on the part of the special counsel, something that undermines the plausibility of a recommendation to indict is not going to upset that recommendation and conversely, if a special counsel doesn't decide to indict merrick garland, we know for sure, is not going to override him. although the final signoff is going to be in merrick garland's hands, the decision is ultimately going to be made for jack smith, and i'm quite confident, given how he has proceeded that the law are going to make it clear that if you don't have an indictment here, that means that no insurrection will ever be held accountable. no attempt at coup, and the country cannot survive that, jack smith knows it, and in the end, merrick garland knows it. >> appreciate your time, thank you. still ahead, new questions about president biden's age, as he announces his second bid for the white house, republicans claimant, what they are calling a cheat sheet at a press event this week

in other words, merrick garland and the doj exposed here? >> well, you got to wonder in the timing is interesting, buttw i think it's that probablyon the coupled with all the facts that chairman culmer and the house oversight committee i've uncovered, i mean, you gotmethi one hundred and seventy some now suspicious activit actiy reports ,thousands othf pages in thesenh reports, multiple l.l.c.es that were receiving money fromg monem foreign entities and foreign governments and that money wasfn now going to 12 different bidene family members. and the fundamental question y'h you always have to ask is what service did they provide to receive the funds? . what value did they add? what job did they do?t find you can't find anything. and so tha t in and of itself then plus this whistleblower coming forward, i think is whatg you're probably finally now starting to see some action on the part of the u.sto see s . attorney . >> let m>> seae ask you , did tt knowingly send agenthes to bigst tech companies even though they had hundreds of laptops sinc

pressing as the way things have proceeded this year in that early juncture i do want to take up for what merrick garland did as attorney general just a little bit. i'm sure this will get me criticized, but there is some value in a prosecution in letting some time go by, in letting some of the evidence marinate, because you do find witnesses like cassidy hutchinson who have come forward. she midnight not have come forward march 2021 sometimes something comes across your email at midnight, a great tip, only because someone's been watching an investigation move forward, and they decide to help so it's tough to evaluate. >> joyce vance, mike schmidt, rick stengle, thank you all so much for sticking around and having a conversation none of us planned on having when we got to this table today our breaking news coverage continues now on "the beat" with ari melber ari, has there been a day this week when you came on at 6:00 and covered the story you thought you would at 9 or 12:00? >> no, and i am indebted to you, nicolle. stick around for a second. i'm prepared to cover this breaking story, broke late

and really, if merrick garland doesn't know that he is not doing his job properly. the attorney general of the united states can't commit crimes by definition. that's got to be the end of him as our attorney general, i would think. >> it would be if you could prove it. all these people are clever. they have plausible deniability, layer upon layer in which they can pretend they don't know what's happened. that's what biden's entire business model is all about. his relatives go and get the bribes and he pretends he doesn't know about it. >> such a smart point. thank you so much for that summary tonight. we'll be talking again i hope. thank you. >> thank you. >> by the way, should say based on something miranda pointed out for all of the grouching we've done about the republican congress, it has been chuck grassley of iowa, ron johnson of wisconsin, two republican senators who have been honest from the beginning. they're the ones that pushed the doj to answer the question. has nick mcwade recused himself from the hunter biden investigation. never got an answer as far a

which begs the question, i they don't the judge has merrick to revok the fda's approval of the judge, which is been used by millions of people across the country safely i might add, they asked him to order the judge peopl from shelves, nationally whether temporarily or permanently. they wanted access to a drug that's used more than half o all abortions across the country. the drugs that safer than pill like tylenol, viagra, an terminated revoked the antiabortion with it's bee attacking the fda's approval o mifepristone for more than 2 years. they've been dreaming abou this mentoring for decades they got it. at least the first taste of it in part, the cause micro eas the ruling a few hours ago the judge ruled tonight that the fda of mifepristone in 200 was wrong, he's temporaril invalidated the approval fro 20 plus years ago. passive, tonight this judg says mifepristone is no longer fda approved for nationwid distribution hub the judges also decided that the order won't go into effect for another seven days fro now. given the conservative fifth circuit court of appeals and the united s

on one hand, get judge kisse merrick leaned into what the petitioner said and wrote an opinion almost verbatim of wha the antiabortion petitioners wanted on the other hand, we have a ruling coming from a different federal district court tha says well, these claim actually makes sense he didn't offer all of what it was that the attorney generals wanted, but certainly it was nowhere near what we see comin out of texas and, in fact, wha is important - being on the marketplace and more accessible. >> michelle, before i leav you. you really need to underscor two things that you said one, this is been on the marke for over 23 years. it went from rigorous fd approval, but mourn fort lee it was also available on the market only in europe. almost a decade before this is not saying no. thank you so much, michell goodwin, for joining me. i'm sure we will have you back >> thank you >> joining me now, the democratic congresswoman barbara lee of california. she served as a co-chair of th pro-choice caucus in the house we should note, th congresswoman is a candidate for u.s. senate in 2024. congress

against leicester and, in a few minutes, ralph yarl's mother joins me wit civil rights attorney le merrick. but, we start with politics. joining me now, senator pete welch, democrat of vermont senator, thank you for joining us the supreme court. let me go right to it, tha supreme court ruled yesterda that a key abortion medication will remain probably accessibl for now. ahead of a federal appeals court hearing next month the high court's decision come after in him urgency request b the justice department to bloc lower court rulings that would severely restrict access to th drug, even in states lik vermont where abortion i legal. it is there a federa legislative avenue here that can more formally protec access, or is it a state b state solution in your view? >> well, the reality is that with the supreme court decisio in dobbs, they have just unleash all of the antiabortio activists around the country including some judges like the one in that texas. there is a theoretical legislative fix and that of th wellness health protection act which i voted for when i was a member of the house. but, i

attorneys appointed by joe biden, answerable to merrick garland, came forwarmerrickd and stopped thecriminal prosecution of hunter biden over his influence peddling schemes that implicate the president of the united states . >> that is , if it's done for a corrupt purpose, political favoritism,that i political interference. >> yeah, that's obstruction ofs justice, a felony. >> do you see this goinge this anywhere ? larry, i do. and this is not the onlynot the whistleblower. they've been whistleblowers within the doj, withinr. the ir. >> they're going to be several of them going forward. the issue is whether o r not the on fox media will give a report and the answer is they won't. you cut on cnn, msnbc, as i watch often and it's like this doesn't even happen. this is probably the mosprtobaby corrupt administration i've ever seen in my lifetime. if the trump family had one fraction of this kind of filth on them, it would them, be nonstop on the on the nonr ot fox network. the question is whether or noter the rest of the country knowss about and all too sadly answery is they don't. >> s

when something called january six occurred, the inauguration occurred, and merrick garland probablywould applaud. not to look back and prosecute donald trump who just left office probably he made the judgment, we have better things to do, but that is the second guess that we can all make about merrick garland. >> lanny davis thank you ver much for joining us. >> i love being on your show thank you. >> our legal panel will be bac after this break ng a multi-vitamin alone, you may be missing a critical piece... preservision. preservision areds 2 contains the only clinically proven nutrient formula recommended by the national eye institute to help reduce the risk of moderate to advanced amd progression. preservision is backed by 20 years of clinical studies. so ask your doctor about adding preservision and fill in a missing piece of your plan. like i did with preservision. now with ocusorb better absorbing nutrients. (wheezing) asthma isn't pretty. it's the moment when you realize that a good day... is about to become a bad one. but then, i remembered that the world is so much bigger t

g., merrick garland. the whistleblower is prepared to reveal flarls to handle clear conflicts of interest in the case and detail preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols. >> brian: he also believes the senior appointee lied in front of congress, gave false testimony to congress about this case. the "wall street journal" expands on that, and they have said in the past the "wall street journal" that investigators believe they have more than enough evidence to indict president biden's son. but the case has not moved forward. john solomon breaking this story picked up by the "wall street journal" and us said this last night. >> the interesting thing about this whistleblower is he doesn't want to just hang out with republicans. he wants to face the music. he wants to look democrats and republicans and independents in the eye so he sent this letter to the democratic side. he sent it to the republican side. he is not afraid to confront the adam schiffs and the eric swalwel

naming that employee as attorney general merrick garland who said this back on march 1st. i promise to leave the matter of hunter biden in the hands of the district attorney of delaware. i have pledged not to interfere with that investigation and i have carried through on my pledge. >> that's what the whistleblower says they can disprove the white house dismissing the allegations stating this, quote: president biden has made clear that this matter would be handled independently by the justice department under the leadership of a u.s. attorney appointed by president trump free any political interference by the white house. as for the hunter biden laptop story of course we have to go there, too. of course a cia official has testified that secretary of state antony blinken who was then a biden campaign senior adviser played a role in the inspection. that was the letter that claims that the story was russian disinformation, steve, ainsley, brian? >> brian: wow, alex. i understand maybe you can get clarity one of the quirks of the federal laws because he works for the irs, he n

we are also expecting the us attorney general, merrick garland to make a statement on the situation in who answered questions from press sink there is an ongoing department of justice investigation that they want to make sure that investigation has continued before he could give more information, but we are hearing and have been hearing that in the last few minutes, the fbi has said that it has made an arrest and is continuing to conduct authorised law enforcement activity at a residence in massachusetts. we are expecting a press conference from the us attorney general merrick garland who will make a statement on the situation in the next few minutes. the new york times and cbs have both reported that the suspect�*s name is jack teixeira and he is a 21—year—old. as soon as we have more information on that developing story, we will be bringing that to you. let's go to the rest of the days news now. to france now. there have been minor clashes with the police in a few places but much less violence so far than during some previous rallies. this was the scene at the constitutional court in

gus merrick is a controversial trump appointed judge who ha long been known for hi antiabortion viewsinion in a particula case may have cracked the door open for antiabortion forces t weaponize this outdated 15 year old law to further choke off access to abortion care nationwide and that's where the fight could be headed next when you, return we're gonna continue this discussion wit two of the brightest legal minds i know on this ticop michelle goodwin and larry ziegler. ...everyday products... ...designed smarter. like a smart coffee grinder - that orders fresh beans for you. oh, genius! for more breakthroughs like that... ...i need a breakthrough card... like ours! with 2.5% cash back on purchases of $5,000 or more... plus unlimited 2% cash back on all other purchases! and with greater spending potential, sam can keep making smart ideas... ...a brilliant reality! the ink business premier card from chase for business. make more of what's yours. aany questions?dy c-yeah, i got one.. how about the best network imaginable? let's invent that. that's what we do here. quick survey. who wan

that is not what happens with a judge like as merrick who has an ideological perspective.preme court decides to many cases starting of course with the road decision. and so americans, what we should know that our judges are being fair and objective, that cases are not being decided based on their ideological perspective. that is why i introduced this bill and frankly i'm glad that chuck schumer wrote a letter to the chief judge of the northern district of texas because they could randomly select which judge is going to get the case so that brilliance can't hand pick the judge to give them the desired results. >> in senators letter, he wrote if that flexibility to hand pick their judges and further outcomes, commerce will consider more prescriptive requirements. can you give me a sense of your bill and what these prescriptive requirements could have been? how will they change the system? >> well certainly it would prevent the litigants in texas, they would have to go to the district court in washington d.c. which has decades and decades of experience dealing with cases that

have more on the breaking news of the suspected leaker of the classified documents attorney general merrick garland identified him as 21-year-old air national guardsman, jack tech t teixeira "the new york times" spoke with members of the private group teixeira oversaw the chat where 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games. it is in that group that airman teixeira is said to have uploaded hundreds of pages of intelligence briefings, according to the times joining me now is justice correspondent, ken dilanian. the details are unbelievable in this case. walk us through what we know one more time, what is out there and how we think it got out there. >> what is out there, alex, are some highly classified documents showing the fruits of american eavesdropping, signals intelligence on russia and many other countries. very embarrassing revelations that the u.s. has supplied on allies not surprising to the allies, but embarrassing when it becomes public, ukraine's air defenses and weaknesses, relevant to the war. t

the judge is a man by the name of matthew cau merrick.e was appointed by pridt donald trump and before rising to the federal bench, matthew cause merrick worked for a religion. just write law firm on anti abortion. advocacy now the hearing for this particular case was a preliminary injunction hearing that happened last month. it lasted for about four hours. and on friday, judge matthew kaz merrick issued this ruling suspending the fda approval of medford, kristen, but this judge also paused the ruling for seven days, saying that this will give time for the united states department of justice to appeal the order. rosa flores, cnn, houston. the food and drug administration said in a statement. that method preston was approved more than 20 years ago and his quote safe and effective for its indicated use . when o. b. g y n doctor told cnn. the fallout from the decision is going to be a lot wider than people believe. the majority of abortions in clinics in the us are medication abortion, which means that this affects so many people. um and eve

less than a week to intervene after trum appointed antiabortion federal judge in texas matthew has merrick suspended a proven o mifepristone, one of the mos widely used abortion medications in this country. the justice department immediately filed an appea today. health and human services -- said - for the millions who need it >> well, they certainly have access today and we intend to do everything to make sure it is because o viewable to them not just in a week but moving forward. we have already filed an appea of this court's ruling one judge and one quarter an one state turned upside down the fda's approval process for safe and effective medications we have to go to court and see an appeal. this is not america. what we saw by that one judg in that one court in that on state. that is not america. >> adding to the uncertainty and to the confusion, federa judge in washington stat issued a conflicting rulin friday ordering the fda to keep the drug available in 17 states an washington, d.c. the dueling decisions -- directly to the supreme court. setting up the most contentiou fight over repr

>> again, that was attorney general merrick garland describing some of the sinaloa cartel's violencepeople charged have been arrested and remain in custody. and colombia, greece, guatemala and the u.s. the father of the gunman who shot and killed 5 people in louisville this week says that his son's brain >> will be examined for cte. the degenerative brain disease is typically found in people who have had repeated instances of head trauma like professional athletes, a family spokesperson says that the gunman suffered 3 concussions when he played football and basketball in middle and high school symptoms of cte include aggression, depression, and sometimes suicidal behavior. currently, cte is only diagnosable with an autopsy and a neuro exam after death. >> that in florida baby was rescued from a home under the night sky. it happened in fort lauderdale, florida, first responder sharing video. they say they've not responded to more than 900 calls for help after the area experienced historic flooding. drivers are being urged to exercise caution and avoid roads that still have standing wa

so this is how former president obama described merrick garland in 2016. >> as an elected nominee that is widely recognized as one of america's largest legal minds but someone who brings to his work decency, modesty and integrity, even-handedness and excellence. >> martha: the attorney general along with secretary state antony blinken are reportedly wrapped up in hunter biden's ongoing legal drama. miranda devine joins us with her reporting on how they are connected to this story as we learn about the charges that have just sort of been hanging around over hunter biden for five years. ♪ choosing miracle-ear was a great decision. like when i decided to host family movie nights. miracle-ear made it easy. i just booked an appointment and a certified hearing care professional evaluated my hearing loss and helped me find the right device calibrated to my unique hearing needs. now i enjoy every moment. the quiet ones and the loud ones. make a sound decision. call 1-800 miracle now, and book your free hearing evaluation. i suffer with psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis. i was on a journey for

merrick garland may have decided this was too trivial or may have been too busy. maybe may were too busy. how does that feel, and just take me through from cy vance revealing for the first time he was told to stand down i have some refrain that suggests that the disposition of that case, and then some federal prosecutors think it's too trivial for doj to touch >> well, and i was -- i worked for cyrus vance, and i was watching that yesterday. he said he was asked to stand down it's not trivial i said there are going to be people who say, it's just about the porn star case no, it is about someone who is going to become president and then becoming president, conspiring to promote his candidacy, to violate election law, to violate the federal election law and, yes, he's innocent until proven guilty, clearly but i agree with john, this is a statement i now in private practice to clients, when they ask me can i do something, i say well, the president of the united states was indicted for that, so no, you can't it is about, you know, being -- treating everyone without fe

we have a look that merrick hash, 30 degrees celsius, well above the average from may and that doesn't help drought conditions. and of course it brings with a critical wildfire risk to these areas. ah, what's y'alls? is there a nice the hill robin indo hall? reminder of all top stories incidentally, power military, rapid support forces have agreed to extend a 70 to our sci fi, which is due to run out in 6 hours. the army is yet to respond to it. fighting between the army and the paramilitary force is now in its 3rd week. at least 528 people have been killed. him, morgan has moved from call to for many people, many residents in the world. the fire has lost its meaning. we spoke with them residents earlier and asked them, do they believe that it would intensify that the fight would intensify before the file was extended and they said it's always going on. it's always happening and they just wait for a brief love with in between fighting to be able to go and get basic necessities or to try to find transport to get out of the capital. and that's a situation that many people, many people re

. >> are you confident in the conduct of attorney general merrick garland when it comes to this case? >> i am. look president biden from the days he was campaigning to his first days as president made it clear that he thought restoring the independence of the department of justice removing any political influence for potential investigations was a core value that he brought to this service as president, and i'm confident that's in no small part why he chose a seasoned circuit court judge, someone with deep experience at doj. i am confident merrick garland has conducted himself appropriately here. >> cbs reported back in october that fbi gathered evidence sufficient enough to charge hunter biden with tax and gun related crimes, and sent it to the u.s. attorney in delaware. we know that in the coming days, mr. biden's attorneys are set to meet with the u.s. attorney in delaware. do you have any sense if this is concludes soon? it's been ongoing since 2018? >> no, i don't nor should i. it is an ongoing investigation that, as you say, has been conducted for years. the u.s. attorney here i

attorney general merrick garland has already announced doj would fight going. meanwhile, seemingly minutes after release of the texas ruling, and obama appointed search judge handed down a decision in a separate case. and washington state that prohibits of the fda from removing that the press down from the market in 17 states and the district of columbia joining me now is the secretar of health and human services harvey or becerra. thank you very much for coming to the sunday show other than appealing the ruling is there anything else the administration can do. secretary of hss, do you hav any authority here >> we continue to make mifepristone available we will continue to protect th woman's right to reproductiv services we're gonna do everything we can to make sure that no one i america fails to have th health care they need. >> judge casts merrick said he focused on legitimate safety concerns about mifepristone. despite its having a 99% safet record, better than viagra better than tylenol. senator ron wyden on frida said, i'm quoting here, believe the fda has

ag merrick garland holding that press conference yesterday announcing the arrest of the chipito's, els son is running the operation now and they've busted incredible amount of fentanyl, the deadly drug coming across and killing hundreds of thousands of americans, in the last few years. is it your belief that the administration has got a handle on the threat that this fentanyl crisis is posing? >> absolutely not. again, they're attacking a modern day problem with a historic model that doesn't work in this situation. they're looking at the cartels as if they were the chicago mafia and you knew where they live and could reach out and touch them all the time. i applaud arrests and never want to walk away from that. however, in this situation, that model has failed miserably for our country and look at the ag's comments, they were all reactive, he spoke about the victims and feeling sorry and never forgetting the victims. how about we prevent more victims and we save lives by simply securing the border, kind of like a broken windows theory in new york. if you secure the border and take awa

did attorney general merrick garland interfere in this case and obstruct justice?ooks like it. >> the only way to find out about this is from a whistleblower. that has always been the case. calling for people inside to show us what you have because otherwise it is so protected and they have gotten away with so much. look at everything the doj has starting with the tea party and lois lerner and the revealing with the irs by the irs of tax filings to the enemies of the pro-life groups as an example, spying on americans and nothing has happened to anyone. no wonder they think they could get away with it. a whistleblower with receipts which this particular one claims he has, not like he said he said that he says he has receipts, his lawyer says this which could be valuable and important. i don't know if they expect nothing will happen but this is on hunter biden. this reveals how we have a system that is operating like a cartel. we have to stop it. we've got to interfere with this rollout that they have that emboldened them to do this. all of us are at risk when you've

they're good public servants brian fallon, let's start with merrick garland.mp, who basically livestreams his crimes, what are the chances he opens an investigation into clarence thomas? >> yeah, you know, i would answer that question two ways, nicolle. one is there are appropriate grounds here for a federal investigation. the answer to that is clearly yes. then there's a second question of whether this particular attorney general merrick garland is willing to do that. and that's what i think you're getting at with the premise of your question. in one sense he's a former federal judge himself merrick garland on the d.c. circuit court of aappeals. he probably has a personal relationship with clarence thomas, probably has run in the same circles with him as two judges in the upper echelons of the federal judiciary. so would he probably be loath to do that? probably but look at how quickly he's acted to appoint a special prosecutor in what i think is a far less merited case of joe biden's classified documents so whereas here i think that the circumstances are scr

this doj under auspices of merrick garland who is under the auspices of joe biden.ow can we be guaranteed this will not continue in the meeting between hunter's lawyers and the doj? >> that is a very important point to make. i think all eyes are on this case and this investigation. no one is above the law and that is right, no one is above the law and no one should be above the law and we hear that over and over in the news lately through different investigations and this is a true test. is no one above the law? we'll see what happens. >> ashley: we will see, it is usually directed toward the right when they say that, it goes for the left, as well. there are implications of joe biden in this story. james comer says several biden family members could have benefited from hunter's business dealings, listen to this. >> when we hear biden family lawyers meeting with the doj to talk about potential indictment of hunter biden, it would be impossible for the department of justice to cherrypick hunter biden for indictment and not do anything to the other family members, they

th investigation does, even thoug he is a special counse ultimately, that decision stil lies with merrick garland wh reports directly to joe biden, the president of the unite states in this context. it i very important that there ar two state investigations o prosecutions taken place, an not just federal investigations >> they've been, the manhattan district attorney's office reportedly asked for trump t surrender on friday. but trump's team said they neede more time to prepare. do you think that even if a delay has some legitimacy that trump wil also use these next few days too insight more chaos and confusion, perhaps continue hi vicious attacks on the manhattan da, the judge, and anyone else that is in pursuit of accountability? >> yeah. i think he will. think there is a legal battl that will play out in manhattan courtroom. then ther is a public battle. trump is going to relentlessly try to discredit this trial. discredi alvin bragg, as he has already been doing. discredit the judg in the case. and eventually, i he is convicted, discredit the jurors. that is what he ha done that got h

the details that are in this are shocking, disgusting, gruesome, what can you tell us about what merrick garland had to say today. >> it's incredibly disturbing, chris, and what my sources are telling me is this level of detail and the announcement today is no coincidence. the timing comes just as a mexican delegation of government officials came to the u.s. yesterday meeting with the biden administration to work on a deal where we've previewed this on nbc news where the mexican government is going to do more to share information on what sinaloa cartel and other cartels are doing as they manufacture fentanyl, trying to track down on the trafficking of deadly fentanyl across the southern border into the u.s. while the u.s. is trying to do more to trace guns that are going and winding up in mexico this is all part of enhanced cooperation, and the announcement, the sinaloa cartel, a dozen of top members taken down, including four sons of el cha po guzman, now merrick garland making that announcement today, and here's what he had to say about the gruesome details you previewed, chris. >> tho