he tried to find rationales for his decision to block merrick garland. they talked up the biden rule. they talked up things that senator schumer had said. none of these are in the senate rulebook, none of them are real precedent. the only thing they could even come close to was back in the 1800s, and that wasn't a great precedent either. but he had something that mattered more. he had a majority, and he used that majority to change the rules and to eventually change the supreme court. what was the reaction to his decision there? hugely critical. people were very, you know, mindful of the idea that this was truly the nuclear option as they like to call it, their. i think people thought it was unfair that merrick garland was clearly a qualified nominee and the interesting thing was he didn't even want to put it to a vote. he didn't even want garland to have so much as a senate hearing. so for the talk about what the american people decide, well, the people's representatives never really got to decide about merrick garland. and he made sure that happened. h

first, she will rescind a memo that was issued under attorney general merrick garland that seemed to suggest the fbi was targeting, quote, radical traditional catholics. this memo, the then attorney general, merrick garland, he called it appalling, but never officially rescinded it. she will also rescind a 2021 memo from the attorney general, merrick garland, that was supposed to address concerns about threats against school board memos. but it became sort of a right wing talking point that these parents who were concerned about educational policy were, quote, domestic terrorists. now, she is also expected this may not happen today, but she's also expected to announce a formal review of how the cases related to january 6th were handled. but another challenge that she will have as soon as tomorrow is trying to successfully defend the president's executive orders. we were told that this time around, they were going to be more carefully crafted to to withstand judicial challenges. but so far they are zero for three. and tomorrow, the president's executive order on birthright citizenship

>> the most contentious thing he did was to block merrick garland not simply from getting a vote in theg a hearing in the senate. >> reporter: mcconnell single-handedly blocked president obama's nomination of merrick garland to the supreme court. >> one of my proudest moments was when i looked at barack obama in the eye and i said, "mr. president, you will not fill this supreme court vacancy." [ applause ] >> reporter: this was the first step in mcconnell's engineering of a conservative super majority on the supreme court. >> what about the way you went about imposing these justices into the system? how do you feel as you look back on your legacy? >> i feel fine about it. i knew that if the shoe was on the other foot -- >> but is that a good reason? >> -- they would have done the same thing. >> your biographer, and i'm quoting him, said, "it was a brutish exercise of power." brutish. >> i just don't agree. >> i know. but what do you think about that sort of image of you? >> i decided political popularity was not my motivation. i was going to try to help right of center america have a vo

. >> merrick garland? merrick garland directed the department of justice to prosecute the january 6th cases, and christopher wray directed the bureau to investigate them where are they? it's wednesday. these attacks have been going on. the purge has been going on since last thursday. i have to sneak in a break. you're both here for the whole hour. ahead for all of us. one of donald trump's day one executive orders blocked by another judge. we mentioned this already. a judge has rejected donald trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship, something the judge called a, quote, most precious, right? plus, more on trump's desire for retribution as pam bondi takes over as the new attorney general heads the department of justice. we'll have all those stories and moree continues after a quick break. don't go anywhere. >> safelite repair safelite replace. >> nobody likes a cracked windshield. >> but at least you can go to safelite. >> com and schedule a fix in minutes. >> go to safelite. com and i'm barbara and i

is it honorable for merrick garland and chris wray to say and do nothing today?ah. >> i certainly hope that the people in the center of power. >> in the. >> last administration, or at any point speak out here. >> you know. >> one thing that i think is pretty obvious to people in government, but may not be to folks outside of government, is that the less. popular a policy is, the. >> harder. >> it is for that policy. >> to happen. >> and i think, i mean, i think that's the more popular the fbi is, the harder it is to hurt them for political purposes. i mean, i wonder, i want to i want to show you, i need to sneak in. i want to show you guys what mr. driscoll made. he made a video that's a little campy, if that's a word that you can use about the fbi, but it's just about bad guy stuff. >> outside the norms. >> yeah, i i'm going to sneak in a break and come back and show this to you on the other side. can you stick around one more minute? tom and brandon are going to stay. you're going to stay because we're going to talk about your piece as well. on the other side a

we have a lounge area and the middle of the room, sponsored by merrick. we will be livestreaming everything happening in this room over in that exhibit hall in that lounge area. if you happen to be over there getting a cup of coffee, you will not miss anything. our livestreaming is sponsored by can tell us. after the sessions this afternoon, we hope you will stay for the reception hosted by our brand sponsor. we appreciate their long-standing partnership and support of the nuclear deterrence summit. we have a great team on-site to serve you. they are at the registration desk which is also our helpdesk. we are assisting operations and managing the exhibit hall and overseeing operations and helping out in all kinds of ways. we have wayne and barbara from our editorial team. finally, we have nancy berlin, our program director. she will take the stage in just a second but for those of you who know nancy, we have a big announcement and it comes with some -- nancy is going to be retiring later this year. while we are excited for her and for the new adventures,

and this justice department under christopher wray and under joe biden and merrick garland has done just that. that is what the trust has plummeted. so you have got a big job, a big, big job, but i have all the faith in you that you will restore the trust, because you believe in the rule of law. you have an incredible personal story. you will get confirmed. i wish you all the best job you have my vote. mr. patel: thank you, senator. chair grassley: senator welch. sen. welch: thank you very much. just responding, you guys won. if there was a jewelry box, the american people elected you. you are the majority party in the house and senate, you have president trump duly elected. but let me tell you the source of my ongoing concern, which i regret sometimes doesn't seem to be a common concern, we have a catastrophe for our democracy on january 6. you are asserting that you one won did. it troubles me that so many people have difficulty saying but won the election. i listened to your response, mr. patel, many of the people congratulated you. for your parents, extraordinarily sorry, i share tha

make people feel that the justice system was nonpartisan and he did this by appointing people like merrick garland that he thought would have the confidence of both parties. but i think it is apparent that the only real way to approach these issues in terms of something presidents actually accomplished is not simply to appoint people or say things, but actually bite the bullet and propose legislation so that we would have a new understanding of our justice system should work. if you think the prosecutorial functions of the department of justice should really be above party and executed in a nonpartisan fashion, then you kind of have to make it formally independent in such a way that both parties would have confidence going forward. that would be changing the structure. in president biden didn't think about that pretty appointed a commission about the supreme court and it did produce some suggestions, but president biden was never interested too much in rocking the boat. but that caused -- that sort of came back to haunt him when the department of justice made a decisions that were seen as

we have a lounge area and the middle of the room, sponsored by merrick. we will be livestreaming everything happening in this room over in that exhibit hall in that lounge area. if you happen to be over there getting a cup of coffee, you will not miss anything. our livestreaming is sponsored by can tell us. after the sessions this afternoon, we hope you will stay for the reception hosted by our brand sponsor. we appreciate their long-standing partnership and support of the nuclear deterrence summit. we have a great team on-site to serve you. they are at the registration desk which is also our helpdesk. we are assisting operations and managing the exhibit hall and overseeing operations and helping out in all kinds of ways. we have wayne and barbara from our editorial team. finally, we have nancy berlin, our program director. she will take the stage in just a second but for those of you who know nancy, we have a big announcement and it comes with some -- nancy is going to be retiring later this year. while we are excited for her and for the new adventures,

. >> todd: what do you expect pam bondi to do differently from merrick garland?ly think she's actually going to enforce the laws of this country and be supportive of closing our border and making sure we are deporting people. you are see more commitment and rei reinvestment across this country to make sure we have enough police officers on the street. you will see more agresive posture about war on cops in this country that has seen 1100 police officers shot over the last three years. when you have support of attorney general and president of the united states, it can turn law enforcement where we support hard working men and women who put that uniform on everyday. >> todd: it has been a tragic two days as a police officer was shot and killed yesterday, a maine state canine named preacher also killed on monday. your thoughts for this tough week for law enforcement? >> it's been absolutely horrific, we saw 31 police officers shot in january. we had over 342 shot last year, what everyone needs to realize, there is a war on cops that is raging in this country. attac

it was the fbi under merrick garland that listed parents who cared about their children not being indoctrinated as domestic terrible resistances and this is the thing that pam -- terrorists and pam bondi going after this and building confidence for the american people. it's better and full transparency. she's going to issue quarterly reports continuing this look to the weaponization to the white house released to american people and it'll expose what happened and whether it was unethical tactical practices on j6 and whether actually letitia james, fani willis or weaponization of the justice system against a person running for the presidency being used by incumbent administration. it'll go after all the different things but one big thing it'll do is it's a full audit. that audit will guarantee we can also make necessary changes in the fbi hopefully under kash patel and under pam bondi to ensure that we have a government who works for the people not against the people. liz: congressman cory mills, you always bring it and love military veterans. thank you so much for putting your life on the line

what merrick garland did to this agency in the department of justice is a tragedy. kash patel hopefully will move out of the judiciary committee here soon and be the next leader of the fbi and restore integrity to the that agency as well. but of course the department of justice that pam bondi hopefully in a few short hours will be confirmed and sworn in to lead will restore integrity. in addition to going after catholics, and in addition to going after families who showed up to school board meetings, the very coordinated effort of lawfare by the past administration to take out their chief political rival under the moniker of show me the man and i'll show you the crime. can't be dismissed. they're not going to want to talk about that. but the effort to financially ruin president trump, to literally throw him in jail for the rest of his life deserves the scorn of the history books. joe biden gave a speech in the fall of 2022 calling half of america a threat to democracy, that president trump would never make it back to the oval office, and guess what happened? a serie

merrick garland in the california prosecutors, are gone and donald trump and in the serrated celestehington dc, to do so in due course, i'm sure that she can and will see the president in the meantime, i am thinking him for her and for everyone else who cares about fairness and someone with power use it for good, to help those who could not help themselves. and that is justice. and thank you for spinning part of your sunday with us and i hope you have a great week ahead until next week, you'd find us on line on the trey gowdy podcast and good night from south carolina i am a shannon bream tragedy of the potomac we get into details about the deadliest air disaster in

merrick garland in the california prosecutors, are gone and donald trump and in the serrated celeste wanted to thank donald trump in person and she flew to washington dc, to do so in due course, i'm sure that she can and will see the president in the meantime, i am thinking him for her and for everyone else who cares about fairness and someone with power use it for good, to help those who could not help themselves. and that is justice. and thank you for spinning part of your sunday with us and i hope you have a great week ahead until next week, you'd find us on line on the trey gowdy podcast and good night from south carolina. ll see you then. ♪ hello everyone i'm nicole saphier welcome to the big weekend show. big story tonight. president trump is launching an all-out trade war against china, mexico and canada slapping her top departments with tariffs in an effort to curb the flow of illegals conventional into our country but thanks to the biden administration failed policies, migrants have them pouring over both our northern and southern borders. leaving the nation vulnerable. dhs

remember, this was driven by merrick garland.g down these commands from doj to christopher wray who acquiesced and said we're on board, we're going to do this and they were very proud that this was the largest ever investigation in doj in fbi history. maria: unbelievable. >> i was the witness to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. i don't understand how that can be when we lost 3,000 people on 9/11, but yet january 6th was much larger than that. maria: it's a great point to make. later we find out that there were, what, 26 fbi informants in the crowd in plain clothes. i mean, and that number seems low to me. so how do you actually explain that? why were there fbi agents or informants whatever you call it in the crowd making believe they were trump supporters? >> that's a completely different topic that i could give an explanation. there are confidential human sources at the fbi. it's important to note that they may be sources but they may not be tasked to perform duties on that date but the fbi, the issue is that a lot of people do not t

you think the biden a administration operation chokepoint 2.0 was behind merrick getting the banked. companies based on the credit profile we are a publicly traded company and regulated by the fcc, we are fully audited we had worked perfectly fine with banks up until the signature event happened it at that point all the sudden crypto companies became anathema to banks. very interestingly this is not lending or all about providing capital to companies this is basic checking account cash management accounts. effectively you take away the ability for companies to pay salaries and to do tax withholding and pay bills and vendors and essentially shutting them out of the financial system. this is a pervasive program. >> that's unbelievable this is different than what president trump was calling out bank of america ceo brian moynihan for the banking conservatives that is really about politics and the political backdrop do you say this is something else? >> this was clearly discriminatory against an industry. it's called operation 2.0 because there was 1.0 and that was a program under the oba

merrick garland in the california prosecutors, are gone and donald trump and in the serrated celeste wanted to thank donald trump in person and she flew to washington dc, to do so in due course, i'm sure that she can and will see the president in the meantime, i am thinking him for her and for everyone else who cares about fairness and someone with power use it for good, to help those who could not help themselves. and that is justice. and thank you for spinning part of your sunday with us and i hope you have a great week ahead until next week, you'd find us on line on the trey gowdy podcast and good night from south carolina i am a shannon bream tragedy of the potomac we get into details about the deadliest air disaster in this country in more than two decades. cooks it is undescribable in terms of the loss that we have. shannon: what caused the collision is still unknown as evidence been pulled from the potomac and families warned. the follow from the crash is a big test for the new trump administration. we'll talk to transportation secretary sean duffy about the latest on the inve

i think it's important for us to understand the context of merrick garland's comments.democratic biden administration. and so there was an affirmation of the independence of doj in the face of donald trump's lies. remember, he either projects or he confesses, now he's the president of the united states, and he's revealed that he wants to. how can we say it? execute executive power without constraint and limit. >> ruth, to some degree? you know, we've been watching this doge thing with elon musk and his minions who are getting involved in in things that we're learning on a daily basis. they're not supposed to be getting involved in things we would have assumed to be true. i'm wondering if this is part of the mission. in other words, donald trump, in theory, could get access to all these things through normal governmental channels. he can he can he can defund government government departments by using his congressional allies who have a majority in both houses of congress to do it. but he's choosing not to. he's choosing to use these extra governmental ways of doing thing

what can he and merrick garland do now? they can speak up the they are people who believe in the rule of law. you want it is a republican. one is a democrat. they could jointly make a statement that the current law, regardless of what donald trump wants it to be in the future, the current law is that all of these employees are entitled to due process. andrew mccabe, who is the acting director of the fbi and a longtime deputy director, got it exactly right. these people are entitled to due process. we all are. these are career people and they could stand up for them and say, what is happening here is wrong. and it's so important for people to understand that, well, this is just disastrous for the fbi, as is clearly the intent of the white house. this is such a fundamental attack on the rule of law. you know, this is the preeminent law enforcement institution in this country. for all of its faults. everyone will agree that that's that's not the issue. they're like any institution. it could be better. and but it's it is our be

you know, i mean, merrick garland. >> gave his last. speech to. >> d.o.j. out the door about. >> the. importance and the success of norms. >> i would. >> ask everyone. >> watching this to ask. >> yourself, how well. >> has that. >> served us now? >> and so. >> obviously, we. >> all need to act within the law. we all need. >> to act. within the rules, but. >> we need to fight. hard and. >> we need to. >> fight to win. and that. >> means. >> we need. >> to fight in. court by bringing aggressive. >> litigation to. >> protect against authoritarianism. >> it means. >> we need to stand. >> out in. >> the. >> town square like we are doing right. >> now. >> and be willing to say, without any fear. >> or at. least with setting aside any fear. >> that we are. >> not going to be backed down. we are going to be. stronger than. >> the billionaires are. >> we are going to be. stronger than the. corporate america's. >> leaders who have failed us are we. >> are going to be willing to. >> stand up and call out right and is right and wrong is wrong, and. >> we need. >> to ho

we've talked about merrick garland so much.aybe those people still have their jobs if donald trump was held accountable. but here's where we are. so going forward, no prosecution of anybody involved in maga. that's what you can expect. >> all right. please stick around. we've got worst of the week coming up next. artificial week coming up next. artificial intelligence edition. we'll tell still have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis... ...or crohn's disease symptoms after taking... ...a medication like humira or remicade? put them in check with rinvoq, a once-daily pill. when symptoms tried to take control, i got rapid relief with rinvoq. check. when flares tried to slow me down,... ...i got lasting remission with rinvoq. check. and many were in remission... ...even at nearly 2 years. and rinvoq... ...helped visibly reduce damage of the intestinal lining. check. rapid symptom relief. lasting remission. and visibly reduced damage. check. rinvoq can lower ability to fight infections. before treatment, test for tb and do bloodw

he was a top spokesman at the department of justice under attorney general merrick garland. i did give you a jd. so congrats this morning. i'll take it. but you're someone who knows the work that lawyers do. and so when you see that pam bondi is coming in and issuing this slate of directives, including ones that focus on weaponization of the government, what does it tell you about the incoming bondi tenure? >> well, i will tell you, certain. >> of her memos are entirely. >> within her. >> purview, right. >> the ability for an attorney. >> general to direct. >> federal prosecutors to seek the. >> death penalty. >> in certain cases, that's entirely within her purview. but there are. >> other examples. >> that really. >> worry me, ali. things like her using political terminology, like the weaponization of the doj. >> this tells. >> me that she is going to be exactly the attorney general that president trump wants her to be. and this is very different than her, than his first two attorney generals, right. who had lines that they would not cross for donald trump, like bill barr,

. >> just so you know, i myself have been plenty critical of merrick garland and jack smith and thiswhole process over several years. i'm not thinking about them. i'm thinking about a woman, a man in the dc field office who played no policy role, was given an assignment to go out and conduct an investigation whose name now shows up on a list. it sounds awfully mccarthy like, and they might lose their job. but i want to ask you about something else. the president now is going to impose tariffs on mexico and on canada and on china. the wall street journal, not exactly a left wing oracle put up on the screen. here's their lead editorial. they say if this takes place, this will be the dumbest trade war ever. aren't we going to bear the cost for whatever tariffs he's imposing on them? and won't it be for tat where they respond in kind on orange juice or bourbon, which is what the canadians did the last time? >> well, i will tell you that the cost of the american people for rampant illegal immigration and for the illicit drug trade that has started with precursor materials in china to fent

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joining us now are tim merrick from the new hanover county board and education of education in wilmingtonh carolina, and andrew hayes of the lakeside union school district just outside san diego. and just for our viewers, you gentlemen have different views on this idea of abolishing the department of education. andrew, i want to go to you first. you're in favor of this move. why is that? >> well. >> thank you for having me. >> you know, the first thing for. >> me is local control. and i see. >> this conversation. >> really opening up an ability for my school. >> district here in. >> my community to be able to. >> engage in a conversation where. >> we can. >> increase our. >> test scores without focusing on divisive social issues that have been really the crux of education in california and debates here in california. and i really just want to see our kids do better. and i think that president trump's, you know, thrust on this is, listen, let's find where there can be reform. let's find where there can be ways that we can change the system so that our kids do better in school and focus on

remember when, you know, obama had an opening and he put forward merrick garland, and then mitch mcconnell course, the republicans were able to fill that seat. just historically, you can come up with example after example of democrats kind of wanting to like to play by the rules. they like to be incremental. they like to go by the procedure, implement a bill, and donald trump saying, forget that i'm going to do whatever i want, and he dares the courts to stop him. and again, i'm not defending or supporting what donald trump is doing. but i'm saying traditionally, democrats have been much shyer in exercising power. >> no. and it speaks to a question of people feel sometimes is one sided. blake zeff april barrett, my thanks to both of you. digging a little deeper. so i appreciate i deeper. so i appreciate i appreciate mopping is hard work, but i thought it was the only way i can get my floors truly clean. and then i tried the swiffer powermop and realized i can get cleaner floors without the extra work. it has a built-in solution that breaks down dirt on contact. and the pads hundreds of str

i believe under merrick garland and joe biden, the doj has been weaponized. with that, there are many, many employees at the justice department that were a part of that weaponization. did they have an obligation not to participate in it, speak out against it? and if they didn't do so, would that be disqualifying in your mind? >> sean? certainly. you know, you have to follow the ethical standards of being a prosecutor, and you have to follow the law. and that's why we have signed multiple executive orders, taking us back to our core function of prosecuting real crime and violent crime. and that's how this justice department will function. and that's how president trump wants this administration to function even handedly and fair and restore integrity. >> i've known you for decades. honestly, that's probably the word that i would use the most to define you. you will bring integrity to the doj, return it to its former greatness, and we wish you all the best. we really appreciate you being on with us. and congratulations, attorney general. >> pam bondi. >> all ri

think about what mitch mcconnell did to merrick garland. right. to do that? >> well, you know, they don't need to necessarily do that, but find a find a rule, find a loophole, find something that they can do within the legal system. although honestly, like, i think we're way past the legal system, what's happening now is already functioning outside of that. and my concern is that there's just not going to be enough time for the legal system to catch reality. >> okay, to that great point. republicans are thinking, listen, donald trump's going to do a crazy thing, but the legal system will stop him. why is it that republicans yes, they're afraid of being primaried, but why are they letting donald trump usurp their power and run the table? right? if i'm the senate, why do they want this to happen? >> well, you said yes. they're scared of being primaried, but that's the answer. they want to hold on to their jobs, and he controls their constituency. >> okay. do you know what's going to hurt their jobs when elon musk guts medicare and medicaid? >> well,

harvard college at the age of 17 and then from the university of guttenberg in to become the first to merrick had ever to earn a ph.d. degree degree. then in the course of his distinguished career, he had edited the north review, taught greek language and at harvard and served for a decade in the u.s. house of representatives before being chosen six peacefully, successfully as governor of massachusetts, u.s. ambassador to, great britain, president of harvard and u.s. secretary of state. but then in 1854, just years into his six year term as a united states senator from massachusetts, his career had come to an end. the crumbling whig party to which he belonged was very divided over slavery. and as an anti slave unionist, he had been under attack not only members of his own party, but also from proto southern democrats on one side and republican. abolish and as on the other who felt he did not go far enough in his anti-slavery stand. stung by his slurs on his character and lacking the temperament for the vitriolic pre-civil war washington. he had stepped down from his senate seat in may of 1854

merrick garland used the fbi to go after parents. and then, of course, the lawfare that we saw against president trump. kash patel is going to come in. he has a big job. the trust for the fbi is at an all-time low. it has plummeted. you can hardly argue with the reasons why. somebody that's going to come in and clean up. and then the last person i want to mention, because there's a lot of great nominees and to the credit of leader thune, we've gotten to i think it's maybe 13 by the end of this week, which is the pace we used to be on before the last eight years or so, back to the obama years where a president can actually get his team in place, is russ vought to be omb director. for those in the gallery and those folks watching at home, the office of management and budget deals with a lot of sort of the tentacles inside of government where the wheels kind of turn. you also get a glimpse of the opportunities to save money that have been neglected for far, far too long. we are $36 trillion in equity did. -- in debt. and we're going to

friend to our south and address this as the problem it is, and happening in plain sight among the merrickthe cartels who have organized the plazas at the northern border and they are running it. there is no way mexico sends 10,000 troops to their northern border if they don't think they've got a problem president trump has illuminated. thank you all for being here. please understand some of the things you have asked for our steps in the right direction. but this is far more complicated than anything we can do. i look forward to continuing and engaging with you. >> senator graham. >> thank you very much. sheriff barnes, you have been involved for quite a while. how would you describe the role of china in the fentanyl problem america faces? >> china's the first domino that tips and contribute into the fentanyl crisis. they are the contributor of the vast majority of the precursor chemicals. if we deal with that, that would be a great first step. >> when they say they are not, they are lying? >> they are not being truthful. >> there is a 10% tariff on china. one of the things president trump

make people feel that the justice system was nonpartisan and he did this by appointing people like merrickland that he thought would have the confidence of both parties. but i think it is apparent that the only real way to approach these issues in terms of something presidents actually accomplished is not simply to appoint people or say things, but actually bite the bullet and propose legislation so that we would have a new understanding of our justice system should work. if you think the prosecutorial functions of the department of justice should really be above party and executed in a nonpartisan fashion, then you kind of have to make it formally independent in such a way that both parties would have confidence going forward. that would be changing the structure. in president biden didn't think about that pretty appointed a commission about the supreme court and it did produce some suggestions, but president biden was never interested too much in rocking the boat. but that caused -- that sort of came back to haunt him when the department of justice made a decisions that were seen as poli

make people feel that the justice system was nonpartisan and he did this by appointing people like merrickland that he thought would have the confidence of both parties. but i think it is apparent that the only real way to approach these issues in terms of something presidents actually accomplished is not simply to appoint people or say things, but actually bite the bullet and propose legislation so that we would have a new understanding of our justice system should work. if you think the prosecutorial functions of the department of justice should really be above party and executed in a nonpartisan fashion, then you kind of have to make it formally independent in such a way that both parties would have confidence going forward. that would be changing the structure. in president biden didn't think about that pretty appointed a commission about the supreme court and it did produce some suggestions, but president biden was never interested too much in rocking the boat. but that caused -- that sort of came back to haunt him when the department of justice made a decisions that were seen as poli