the pressure on merrick garland is self-imposed by merrick garland because he has failed to act with dispatch on what is a legally obvious choice. he has created pressure where there should be none. the ten new subpoenas that sent today by the committee included subpoena for people that are already comfortable violating the law as rachel just mentioned. steven miller was one of 13 cited today in a 60-page report about willful disregard for the law and the hatch act that were according to the special counsel especi kaley mcelderry nay the committee's letter says that she quote made multiple public statements from the white house and elsewhere about purported fraud in the november 2020 election which individuals that attacked the u.s. capitol echoed on january 6th. another recipient subpoenaed today is johnny mcentee who joined the trump 2016 campaign first as a volunteer and then become donald trump's body man as they call it in a campaign meaning he literally carried the candidate's bags and he was hired at the white house at 29 years old becoming the house, the white house personnel

for ronald reagan to prosecute and -- the pressure on merrick garland's self imposed by merrick garland because he has failed to act with dispatch on what is a legally obvious choice. he has created pressure where there should be none. the ten new subpoenas sent today by the committee included subpoenas for people who are already very comfortable violating the law. as rachel just mentioned. stephen miller, was one of 13 sided today in the special counsel 60 page report about, quote, willful disregard for the law, that included repeated violation of the hatch act, which were, according to the special counsel, especially per niches. former press secretary, we kayleigh mcenany also received a subpoena today. and appeared as a violator as the law's. the committee's letter accompanying the subpoena to kayleigh mcenany, she quote, made multiple public statements from the white house and elsewhere about purported fraud in november 2020 election, which individuals who attacked the u.s. capitol echoed on january six. another recipient of the subpoena today is johnny mcentee, who joined the trump

merrick garland, there's his signature.ting warrants and subpoenas on news organizations and journalists relating to leaked cases, and the standards he sets forth here, protection of first amendment rights, apply to this case, which he is ignoring and finally ignored the federal regulations that require him and the doj to recuse themselves because of a conflict of interest. the president presides over the doj. the feds are not allowed to investigate a case involving an immediate family member. this is the weaponization and the politicization of the doj and it's shameful. >> sean: apparently the source to james o'keefe said that this diary was found abandoned. the narrative of i guess the president's daughter is that this was stolen. that has yet to be determined. but that's what james o'keefe was told. does the fact that he didn't run the story because he couldn't corroborate it, and he on his own a year ago went to law enforcement -- the question i have is why now? why at this point, what did he do wrong here, what possibl

confidence merrick garland is up to the task of defending an attack on democracy?arely brought and are hard to win. and i think a lot -- i understand why there are a lot of people want to be very cautious about advancing with this one. i think it's less important to measure whether merrick garland filled the role than for people to begin to understand what's ahead because there's a kind of incompatibility of world views. bannon is a trickster. he's a jokester. he's going to be abbey hoffman playing in the courtroom of chicago 7. this is his opportunity, and he doesn't use law the way the justice department and merrick garland do. it's asymmetrical combat and may go in very unexpected directions that bannon and the trump people behind him are going to be ready to weaponize and exploit. >> jonathan, one thing we've heard repeatedly from judges in the cases of january 6th rioters is that punishments must serve as deterrents. do you think this bannon indictment deters others in this investigation? >> yeah, i mean i think that will clearly incentivize at least some of t

the tear resources are being used, something merrick garland has denied.bill mcgurn, kim strassel "wall street journal" editorial page writer, julia. tell us about the whistleblower and why it matters. >> it something that is concerning to parents, a lot of issues with school district, covid policies with critical fury being taught and no concern if they show up to school board meetings speaking out about it and they might be tagged and investigated as a domestic terrorists, something the national school board association has written a letter about striving for concern his parents will be savaged where they may be investigated. paul: bill, what jeopardy does it put merrick garland and in terms of credibility and honesty? >> i think it is a big problem for him. he can't admit the source of the problem were just he broke the memo without any evidence there are real threats against school board officials that rise to the level of a federal offense much less domestic terrorism. the school boards association writing a letter cooperating with the white house and

why did they get the treatment or the biotin and merrick garland treatment?h reaction, fox news contributor jason chaffetz. congressman waltzed on my look at this and i see a clear double standard. what happened in the summer of 2020 could never happen again. >> you are absolutely right. i was on the house floor general was horrible. and those responsible should be held accountable in accordance with the law, not held unjustly and on charged for months and years. but to your point, absolutely nothing, crickets when it comes to the businesses destroys, the families destroyed, the cities that were gutted, the minority communities that were disproportionately harmed, the police officers that were killed. we have silence. but what really strikes me and kills me about this january 6 commission is it's the investigation after they already determined with impeachment that trump was guilty. but now they want to have an investigation to kind of back up their own bias and what they had already predetermined with no investigation at all. it's ridiculous, it's backwards,

a whistle-blower's email how the fbi tracked some of those parents and that attorney general merrick garland has some explaining to do. the ranking members of the house judiciary committee jim jordan joins us to discuss. plus is an abide in taking a a d electric hummer for a test ride at gm's new test plan detroit amid a growing national auto crisis and skyrocketing gasoline prices paid would begin tonight in kenosha, wisconsin, where tensions are mounting as a kyle wren house jersey considers the charges against him with a third day of deliberation on the horizon. course pardon no mike bill mckinney is on the ground again. good evening. >> moving into day three of deliberation. tensions are growing both in and outside the courtroom. today, kyle wren houses attorneys once again requested a mistrial for the second time in a week. this request stems from prosecutors giving the defense a lower quality version of drone video which was a key piece of evidence in the state's closing argument that aims to weaken rittenhouse's claim of self-defense by portraying him as the instigator of the fatal in

what's interesting is that merrick garland who is our attorney general hasn't even acknowledged it.tead, he's been targeting parents who complain about school boards because they are terrorists. today, doj whistle-blower came forward with evidence that merrick garland has been using counterterrorism tools to investigate parents who don't like being told that they are racist. because you have to sit there and take it. you're racist. ok. so counterterrorism officials created a so-called threat tagged to allow multiple federal agencies to track parents as if they were domestic terrorists. like they're isis. so if this is true, it would mean it's time to impeach and prosecute merrick garland because he just lied under oath during his recent sworn testimony on capitol hill. a lawyer and parents rights advocate, also a former new york city council candidate joins us now. thank you so much for coming on tonight. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: here you have a guy threatening the new mayor of new york with violence if he dares to enforce the law, the justice department ignores it and spend

quote, merrick garland issuing today. the committee chairman, bennie thompson, and vice chair liz cheney, saying -- and i quote here again -- steve bannon's indictment should send a clear message to anyone who thinks that they can ignore the select committee or try to stonewall our investigation. no one is above the law. we will not hesitate to use the tools at our disposal to get the information we need. committee member ro khanna also weighing in tonight. >> it sends a message that no american is above the rule of law. that the same rules apply to everyone, and i don't know why steve bannon thinks that he shouldn't have to answer questions from the united states congress or produce documents to the united states congress when every other citizen would comply. >> like i said, this is huge. the doj hasn't charged anyone with criminal contempt of congress in 38 years. and let's remember why the committee subpoenaed steve bannon, in the first place. they want to know more about moments like this one, we are going to show yo

what did merrick garland say at the hearing.an't imagine any circumstance in which the patriots act would be used in the circumstances of parents complaining about their children, nor can i imagine a circumstance where they would be labeled as domestic terrorists. >> john: that's an incomplete statement given that the fbi is using counter-terrorism tactics to identify threats against school boards. >> everybody should be outraged by this. the attorney general to say no such list or tracking happened only to have a whistleblower provide documentation that says the opposite. the attorney general should explain himself. he is either oblivious to what is going on or involved and encouraging this behind-the-scenes. this is what scares people about the department of justice and the fbi. instead of working on chinese counter intelligence like they should be, they are working on school board people talking about how the kids are getting educated. >> john: in response whistleblower saying that the fbi is using this tagging facility to ke

he misled the committee when - >> demanding merrick garland testify after was

there was a lot of angst about what merrick garland would do. i want to play something congressman adam kinzinger said on cnn yesterday. it is abundantly clear from garland's career and everything that's public facing that this is a deliberate and meticulous person. but that deliberation existed adjacent to a pressure cooker of political pressure from this committee. let me play the congressman. >> we certainly hope and expect the department of justice will do their job and refer this to a grand jury and get it done. if a court makes a subpoena of a witness and the witness doesn't show up, they are held in contempt. same thing with congress. what we don't do is send out the congressional police force to arrest somebody though with some rule changes we actually probably could do that. we rely on the d.o.j. to complete that enforcement because we believe in those separations of powers when necessary. we suspect and hope that the d.o.j. will. if we start setting the precedent that something can simply on something so egraejous as what happened on ja

>> attorney general merrick garland wasn't thinking.ing orders from the biden white house who was taking their orders from the national school board association, which is an init grall part of the democrat's political machine. understand the teachers unions of this country, the democratic party are one and president biden is willing to do what they wish and want to quell the sense of school board meetings and schools across the country with concerned parents. one of the greatest things of the pandemic, parents recognize what is being taught in the school. they don't like it. i will say something else, liz, because of this action thank god merrick garland is not sitting on the supreme court because he has no judgment. nothing more than a democratic shill. elizabeth: senator tom cotton said the same. square this, help us out here, ag garland testified he missed newspaper stories about protesters, far left activists storming the department of interior to occupy it. he testified he did not see the stories about the high school girl raped in

this is the misdemeanor from hell for merrick garland and nancy pelosi and joe biden. joe biden ordered merrick garland to prosecute me from the white house lawn when he got off marine one. and we're going to do go on the offense. we're tired of playing defense, we're going on the offense on this and stand by. by the way, by the way, you should understand nancy pelosi is taken on donald trump and steve bannon, she ought to ask hillary clinton how that turned out for them. we're going on the offense. stand by. you should be outraged if he ever faced that possibility. as an american. there is nothing criminal about any conduct that occurred in this case and when we respond to merrick garland, we say aplew the law equally. who else did they prosecute for invoking executive privilege in a criminal prosecution? read the department of justice office of legal council letters, it is unconstitutionally according to them and including by the ray, read the office of legal counsel opinion by eric holder from the fast and furious case. this is unheard of to force a person to violat

and when we respond to merrick garland, we say, apply the law equally. who else did they prosecute for invoking executive privilege in a criminal prosecution? read the department of justice office of legal counsel letters. it's unconstitutional, according to their -- according to their own opinions, from some real luminaries including, by the way, read the office of legal counsel opinion by eric holder for the obama administration, the fast and the furious case. this is unheard of to force a person to violate the invocation of executive privilege. by the way, i mean, the court of course hasn't ruled yet in president trump's case in trump versus thompson on whether executive privilege applies but even beyond that, the office of legal counsel opinions make clear it applies to discussions with former government officials and that makes sense. it makes sense because we often see former officials kept in the loop, that the president needs to consult with. and whatever you happen to think president trump talked about at the time, that's what executive privileg

so merrick garland goes on capitol hill and claims it's not happening.t they have not withdrawn the task force proves this is all about squashing defense. because the left have had a lock on education for decades. the parents now are a threat to that power. and they are using the fbi, this administration, to take care of what they perceive as a problem. if you don't think the teachers unions and these leftist organizations like the national school board association has control and power go back to when the cdc was writing school guidance for masking and covid regulations, right? so they don't exactly have them influence with the justice department with the parent showing up at a school board meeting. >> greg: dana is merrick garland lying or cluelessness that allows for plausible deniability because you see this a lot with this administration. you know, joe biden where he would say he didn't know anything and you find out he does. are they deliberately not knowing things? because i do that sometimes to get out of trouble appearance before it is a good wa

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i think that this should be a number one focus and i asked merrick garland about it, during a hearing, the recent hearing at the judiciary, i'm going to keep pushing. this and it would be very helpful to get a clear federal crime identified for going after election officials. >> i mean, this is the use of terrorism to try and get the election outcome that you want. and getting that outcome by driving out of office the people who will handle elections honestly. >> exactly. when you hear their stories and you see them choke up when all they wanted to do was serve our countries, you know that this is deadly wrong, what is going on and it is of course part of the big lie that has been perpetrated, but it is also part of the corrosive-ness that we're seeing right now in our politics. which includes of course the 13 republicans in the house of representatives. it is simply, i guess, have the gall to vote for broadband and to do a vote for better roads and bridges and rails in their district and in the state, and then they are the subject of death threats. this just has to stop. and i believ

merrick garland let us know that that is not taking place. doesn't know what we are talking about.hing we find out, the memo was coached by the white house to school board hey, why don't you write up a memo complaining. then we found out that i thought that was terrible. then we wake up to this story today. ainsley: school boards went to the white house. they wrote a letter to biden and said we need the patriot act. brian: at the urging of the white house. ainsley: at the urging of the white house. biden contacts the doj. merrick garland gets involved then they say we are going to send the fbi to go and investigate these parents who are too rowdy they school board meeting. steve: if there are any threats on either side, you know, either the school board, you know, the school board situation or the parents get out of hand, the fbi, merrick garland said, would, when appropriate, investigate any threats of violence. well, now, house republicans have issued a -- what they're calling a whistleblower leak. it's an fbi email that talks a little bit about how think -- this somehow the fbi

and if merrick garland does not charge steve bannon, all of these people and even more. mcenany. . >> why would anyone who doesn't want to talk ever bother showing up? >> that's exactly why the stakes are so high. if garland doesn't put his foot down on bannon, it will be completely voluntary. people loyal to donald trump will never testify and we will never get the full truth. >> thank you, elie honig. >> thanks, john. >>> calling for action against republican congressman paul gosar. he tweeted out an anime themed video. we're not going to show you a lot of this. a lot of it is very violent. just so you get an idea, here is a snippet of it. ♪ >> all right. so after lawmakers voiced their outrage, gosar tweeted this. it's a cartoon. relax. joining me now is former florida republican congressman francis rooney to talk about this. sir, we're even hearing from gosar's estranged siblings saying there should be accountability here. what kind of disciplinary action do you think house leadership should take? >> well, i'm not sure all the tools they have. but they definitely need

but it has been three weeks and we haven't heard from merrick garland. what is taking so long? >> well, the attorney general has testified that he is going to faithfully abide by the department of justice policy which explicitly says that a prosecutor can't bring a case, can't bring criminal charges unless he or she has a good faith belief that the admissible evidence is sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction. based on what we know in the public record, the evidence and support of a conviction here is pulverizing. there could not be a more brazen contempt of congress than what mr. bannon has done. he has completely defied the subpoena. and writing the indictment itself is not that hard to do. this indictment could write itself. it is what happens after the indictment that the department also has to anticipate and methodically plan for. what would the government's discovery responsibilities be. they have to think through, like a chess game, all the stages of a criminal prosecution that could play out. having said that, they saw this train coming for weeks in advance, so t

in the education department. 5 days later, a memo appears, sign by merrick garland. we talked about here first on "life, liberty and levin": >> when garland was asked about it, he could not point to the problems. -- these meetings discussion of strategies for addressing threats again school administrators, board members, teachers and staff. for threat reports, assessment and response, as if it is domestic terrorism. they have no examples of violence, no pattern of violence as we discussed. now we know scott smith, used by national school board association, media biden white house, merrick garland and others as an example of violence, he was not violent. violence was done to him and his family, his daughter was raped in the girl's room in stone bridge high school in loudoun county, virginia. that boy was then sent to another high school, high raped again. he has been found guilty since, meanwhile merrick garland has not withdrawn the memo and school board has not asked him to withdraw the memo. and now loudoun county sheriff office was acalled by what the school -- ap

merrick garland should resign in disgrace for that.of course we will use our spending power to make sure we reflect priorities of normal americans across places like iowa and arkansas, not the far left priorities as we see right now. >> wainscott a question. [inaudible] [inaudible] the question is under the biden administration, does the senator see taiwan, ukraine and israel losing their independence while biden is president? >> before i get to those three specific countries, let me take a step back about the very concerning departments all around the world.ep they are concerning because our adversaries like china and russia andin iran recognized joe biden a week commander-in-chief he was humiliated by savages taliban in afghanistan. he's standing by while iran is launching missiles and drones at partners in the middle east. i grew up on a small cattle farm and every summer as some of you probably should experience, you had a bush hog to make sure he didn't have weeds that turned into shrubs and bushes and entries. my dad was bush hog

joe biden ordered merrick garland to prosecute me from the moment he got on air force one.e tired of playing defense. we are going to go on the offense on this. >> the investigating committee believes steve bannon could have information on the january attack. he was summoned to testify, but refused, and for that he was charged with contempt of congress. he faces a year in prison and a $100,000 fine. the committee tweeted, steve bannon's indictment should send a clear message to anyone who thinks they can ignore the select committee. no one is above the law. he set on his podcast on the six that all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. his lawyers argue his communications are protected by legal doctrine of executive privilege. the committee has called this an unsupported premise. more on all of this from our senior north american reporter. reporter: steve bannon as you mentioned was just in his first court appearance where the judge determined he would not be detained prior to trial. he had to surrender his passport and a board travel outside the d.c. area. he has another

. >> merrick garland seems to be taking his time. you'd need months and months. i'm wondering what's taking merrick garland has long. what he does with bannon will set the tone. if merrick garland does not prosecute steve bannon, all the new witnesses, the six new ones, they'll have no deterrent and will see it as a free-for-all. there's a lot riding on what merrick glarnd decides to do. >> does this put pressure on garland? he said he'll make an independent decision. the fact the select committee is moving forward with subpoenas does put pressure on him? >> it has to. it's going to give him more and more decisions to make but also shows us the decision he's going to make on steve bannon is about much more than just will steve bannon be prosecuted. so i know merrick garland, it's his standard talking point. facts and law, he's got to be aware what's happening out there in the real world and what the stakes are. >> elie honig, thank you. >>> pfizer will seek emergency use authorization for covid beefrt shot for people 18 and older as

we begin with that breaking news, the merrick garland justice department -- out of the merrick garland the deadly capitol

i -- i think they'd like merrick garland to indict steve bannon. there's -- there's no doubt about what they would want. you know, there is a new u.s. attorney in washington who, just a few days ago, took over. so i think they are probably working to get this person up to speed. um, and i think merrick garland has a process that he wants to follow. and i think the democrats want it done yesterday and that didn't happen. but when you look at these -- at these, um, subpoenas today, it really provides a roadmap, i think, for everything. and it shows you the amount of information they've already gleaned because, you know, you know, you talk about people who have been subpoenaed and they say, well, you know, we know that he urged the president to do x or y. or he was in a room with the president when he called mike pence asking him to decertify the election. or this person was with the president during the time of the insurrection. so, they have done a lot of work here. and all of these people had direct-eyewitness accounts to something the president di

merrick garland is an honorable man.tles whatever that some of the administration thinks he may be too much of a judge and not enough of a prosecutor. there are frustrations among democrats on capitol hill. >> there needs top some kind of a john dean stepping forward. no one is come forget ward, this is a criminal conspiracy to overthrow an election and commit fraud in the united states by collecting all these claims of voter fraud and presenting them into the public and into trump. there has not been a breakthrough at that kind of significant level. many democrats who i have spoken to said still, that's not enough of an excuse. because if garland does not do anything in their eyes then biden can't govern. i need my own presidency. he feels until the shadow of nixon going away, he could not govern and for biden, the shadow of trump remains. >> by the way, richard haas from an undisclosed location, he's trying to get credit. he's quite right and i remember this now. there is a hold over in russia. biden asked u.s. ambassa

we are still waiting to see if the attorney general merrick garland will prosecute. cnn's cara sk, explain that mor. >> this morning meadows was set to appear at 10:00 a.m. that's what the committee told him to do or risk possibly getting a criminal referral to the department of justice for contempt. meadows didn't show, and hi lawyer issued a statement saying that there was a sharp legal dispute between him and the committee. it was unclear whether the committee could compel meadows to testify. he was trump's former chief of staff around january 6th and if he did come in and answer questions, the big issue here is whether he could answer any questions about executive privilege. he's saying that is an issue that is for the courts, and that is where it is now, after yesterday a federal appeals court agreeing to a momentary delay to the national archives, releasing documents that trump wanted to block to the house committee. the appellate court now saying they will take this up on an expedited basis, they will receive briefings over the next two weeks, and hold oral ar

nobody knew if attorney general merrick garland is pursuing the matter. today all that changed. the indictment points out that is bannon asserted executive privilege quote "was a private citizen for approximately seven months in 2016." bannon was employed in the executive branch of the u.s. government as the chief strategist and counselor to the president. bannon did not work in any executive branch or federal government positions. from his podcast from january 5th, the day before the insurrection making a pathetic prediction about what would happen at the capitol on the 6th. >> all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. just understand this. all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. it's going to be moving and quick. >> law enforcement source tells nbc news bannon is expected to surrender himself on monday and appear in court that afternoon. he could face up two years in prison and $100,000 fine. it's hard to overstate the importance of the indictment. a form era began epa official refused to testify. the case did end in an acquittal. the stakes here are much higher. bannon's

joe biden ordered merrick garland to prosecute me from the white house and we are going to go on the. we are tired of playing defense. we are going offense on this and stand by. >> sean: the rest of the deep state for their role in the biggest abuse of power, corruption scandal in history, you might remember 2012, he was held in contempt, where was his indictment? what about former prior arrests? you have henry kissinger, janet reno, hillary's i.t. guy, former bush chief of staff and all others held in contempt of congress. none of them got the treatment that steve bannon got. so the question is do we have equal justice and equal application of our laws in this country? sadly, i hate to say, the answer is no. here with reaction, steve bannon's attorney. when was the last year, 1983 since this ever happened? of course it would happen to steve bannon because if you are associated with trump, everything happens only to those people. >> that's right. usually i don't comment on a pending case but in this case, have an obligation to because merrick garland the attorney general had the auda

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one thing to know about attorney general merrick garland from my time knowing him and my time at the ice department is that they believe applying the facts to the law, and i can tell you that a.g. garland wasn't thinking about steve bannon himself, isn't thinking about mark meadows. he's thinking about what are the facts and the fact here is they did not comply with a subpoena, and it is very simple. you don't comply, you will be held accountable. so he is sending a clear message, but i also want everyone to understand that a.g. garland is really focused on getting this right. he wants to restore -- from the beginning he has said he's wanted to restore trust in the justice department. he has shown over the last nine to ten months that he has done that, and it is -- it will be critical moving forward if they're going to hold anyone else accountable, it will be critical moving forward to not only lay this groundwork, but to continue with applying the facts and law in every situation. >> really quickly before i let you guys take a short break, xochitl, when it comes to merrick guard garl

>> that decision, wolf, coming from merrick garland we expect soon, is coming soon. it's going to be much more about steve wbannon. is it just a free for all to defy subpoenas without consequences? if doj does not prosecute steve bannon, steven miller, kayleigh mcenany, jeffrey clark who refused to answer questions last week. there's a crucial message that doj is going to send one way or another with their decision on steve bannon. >> if the general attorney general, merrick garland, doesn't prosecute steve bannon, how does the committee try to get the information they need? >> well, it's going to be very tough. it's going to be very tough because that would be a very clear message to every witness, all the ones we've seen subpoenaed so far and all the subpoenas potentially to come, that they essentially can play this waiting game. they can outlast the committee, they don't have to provide information. that's going to bring what could be a torrent of information of facts and detail about what happened about the attack on the capitol and scale it back to a trickle at

what the biden administration is distancing from, the notorious memo from merrick garland with the fbi in school board disputes. documents obtained by fox news shows that the group met with the white house as early as september 14th, discussing concern over the climate for school board members and the association was activity engaged with the department of justice, in that document they also took credit for the act 4th doj memo after sending a letter to the president five days prior, likening some to domestic terrorists. he maintains he was not part of a coordinated political effort. >> prior to the letter, did you help the national school board association put together the letter? >> not -- i have had no such conversations. i would be surprised if that happened, but i don't know. >> at least 11 states have severed ties with the national school board association which last month apologized for the wording used in their letter to the president. the doj has not rescinded their memo and standard by garland's testimony. >> alexandria hoff live with the latest, thank you so much. griff: joi

you look at merrick garland siccing the fbi on moms and dad. terrible judgment and apcom -- a compulsive liar. all. jon: has is the weapon of dividing americans so they don't know what an unmitigated disaster he is. jesse: let's move to an issue of creating turmoil in the media. there is a guy who says he has been sexually assaulted by don lemon. this is cnn's guy. they promote the hell out of this guy. apparently lemon according to this guy went up to him at a bar and tuck his hands down his pants. let's listen to what he said. >> do you like me and that's why you [bleep] me. i said no, i just wanted to say what's up. he had his hand in his pants rubbing himself up aggressively. he shoved his two fingers under my mustache and said [bleep]. i said what the hell, man, and i just ran out the back door. >> that not anywhere. you cannot find this story anywhere. obviously we know why. they are doing everything they can to do damage control with lemon who needs all the help he can get. >> that's such a grotesque story. if that was you or any other c

as you point out, victor, the decision by merrick garland and the department of justice as it relates to steve bannon will probably go a long way to determine whether or not they're able to enforce these subpoenas. >> we're going to talk more about what went on inside that war room, ryan nobles, thank you for the reporting. >>> let's take a closer look at those six trump loyalists who were subpoenaed and what they know. joining us now, cnn politics reporter chris. so walk us through how these six are connected to the insurrection. >> yeah, absolutely. no problem. all right, first of all, let's just start basic. i'm just going to go through everyone who was subpoenaed yesterday. michael flynn was part of campaign events. john eastman, memo author. jason miller, angela mccallum, trump's executive assistant on the campaign and bill stepien. how could i forget bernie kerik, former new york city head of the police was involved in the campaign events. so you say, well, we know this. what do we think each of them did? why is the january 6th committee interested? let's start with flynn. we kn

. >> merrick garland, paula, was under a lot of scrutiny for how long this took. what is he saying tonight? >> he was under so much political pressure here, don. even president biden weighed in in favor of prosecution. our colleague, evan perez, reports that, look, the justice department just didn't see this as a very simple case. it's complicated, and it's rare. we're told that the decision to charge was made by career prosecutors, and it was supported by the attorney general, and he released a statement today. look, not all indictments come with a statement from the attorney general. but in this statement, he said, since my first day in office, i have promised justice department employees that together we would show the american people by word and deed that the department adheres to the rule of law, follows the facts and the law, and pursues equal justice under the law. so clearly trying to do some reputation rehab for the justice department that took a lot of flak, a lot of rightful criticism during the previous administration. now, there is another big questio

we remember that testimony from merrick garland.ad any interaction with the white house. people thought it was strange that this letter came from the national school board association on a friday and then boom, monday the department of justice says we're going to put the fbi in -- have a look at investigating parents. do you believe the attorney general, that there was no coordination between the white house and doj that produced this letter from merrick garland? >> not at all. it's obvious there was. he president of the national school board association says in the e-mails that she had been in contact with the justice department as well as the white house. so they were -- she was talking directly to people on his staff. i'm sure she didn't speak to garland himself. most people don't get to call the attorney general and have him pick up the phone but she was talking to the people that set the policy for sure. we already know that the nsba, which is disavowed the letter and apologized and garland hasn't apologized, they were coordina

and refer, it just puts it on merrick garland's desk. >> i think that's right. the committee has already shown they're serious about following through on enforcement. andrea, what i find interesting is we see the same issue on two different trajectories and that's whether or not a former president can exert executive privilege when the current holder of the presidency decides it's not merited. we see this by the effort of the january 6th committee to get trump's presidential papers and also here in these efforts to get witnesses to testify. the district court in the district of columbia has already said trump can't exert executive attorney/client privilege specifically when joe biden said the unique circumstances merit turning over his presidential paper. that is in front of the dncht c. court of appeals and will likely go to the supreme court. i find it intriguing it could be resolved once and for all with a ruling on the presidential papers issue, which would then put all of these witnesses who have been reluctant and have drugged out their negotiations with c

yet, here is attorney general merrick garland on capitol hill the day after that email was written. >> i can't imagine any circumstance in which the patriot act would be used in the circumstances of parents complaining about their children, nor can i imagine a circumstance where they would be labeled as domestic terrorism. >> jordan sent this letter to garland writing: this disclosure, the leaked memo provides specific evidence that federal law enforcement operationalized counter-terrorism tools at the behest of a left wing special interest group against concerned parents. that's a reference to the national school boards association which suggested parent protests could be a form of domestic terrorism. the fbi doubled down on the terminology comparing school protests to serious offenses. quote: a tag is merely a statistical tool to track information for review and reporting. the creation of a threat tag in no way changes the longstanding requirements for opening an investigation. nor does it represent a shift in how the fbi prioritizes threats. the fbi has used tags to track everythin

how revealing merrick garland who passed himself as this long suffering tragic liberal figure was all along what he is now. >> and aren't there moments you want to stand up and cheer? he can string it together like nobody can string it together. that's impressive. [applause] >> can i squeeze in two more, one more? >> one more. >> a good one. >> this is a nice one. >> we'll leave it on an up note. >> what gives you the most hope for the future. >> what's that? >> what gives you the most hope for the future? >> well, [inaudible] . [laughter] >> new criteria gives me a lot of hope, but i'm prejudice. you know, that old saying, what can't go on won't go on and that is when you look at the situation that we're having right now, you cannot have a nation with open borders, it won't work. we're seeing it-- when barack obama says this is not sustainable, that's pretty indicative. he feels sometimes people are going to get near martha's vineyard. [laughter]. when you look at the homeless situation, when my daughter who was not a trump supporter calls me and says, dad, i can't take my three chil

attorney general merrick garland has not yet weighed in. how long do you think it's going to take before he makes a decision one way or the other? >> gloria and i were talking off air. there's a new u.s. attorney and that's the person that would make this decision. and so it could be a matter of days. could be a matter of weeks but this has to happen really soon or we are going to see a break down of congress itself. and its ability to do these kinds of investigations which frankly the problem traces back to the first impeachment and acquittal on obstruction of congress. congress said it's okay if you ignore all requests, white house, and here we're paying the price. the american people are paying the price. >> that's the point. until they make a decision, right, until these other individuals, stephen miller, mcenany and others, until they see whether or not bannon is forced to comply, they'll just follow his lead, i would think. what do you make of some of these subpoenas against mcenany, mcentee and others? >> these were people in the whi