technically merrick garland is the head of all that.wanted to address what the justice department and the fbi is doing to assist in the recovery of american hostages. then, of course, he spoke to the incredible climate we're seeing in the united states where there's a massive increase in threats and hate crimes and potential hate crimes. he spoke in particular to this awful situation in burlington, vermont, where three palestinian college students were shot. a 48-year-old man has been arrested and is facing charges of aggravated assault. as garland said, the fbi is continuing to investigate whether that is a hate crime and whether federal hate crime charges are warranted. they haven't come to coop collusion and garland said that investigation is on going. local officials have made it clear that they believe there's strong indications that this was, in fact, a heat crime. we'll wait and see what happens there. >> ken dilanian, thank you. we should note the suspect in that shooting is due in court this hour. we'll take our viewers there a

there are others who want a constitutional crisis of merrick garland bringing criminal and others who want the crisis of having justice thomas impeached. i am more of a practical person. he is not going to get -- we are not going to get 67 senators to remove him. there is clear federal statutes that says civil penalties for willful omissions from your disclosures. i am in touch with the committee that is in charge of forwarding that referral to the attorney general. i asked them what they're doing every week and have yet to get an answer form them -- from them. hoadley, we get something soon. i agree with you that the attorney general's should ensure the justices are doing their required paperwork correctly. host: we have got questions from mike in keyport, new jersey asking about justice thomas and his wife and her hardline political activity. i wonder how these ethics policies impact family members of the justices. guest: yes, the ethics code does mention family. it says that family members should not be soliciting gifts, just like justices should not be soliciting gifts. but, there

merrick garland misled us. david weiss certainly misled us with his initial response to me on june 7th this summer. that changed in a one month time period. what he said today didn't back up what he told us in those letters this summer. >> when will we get the transcribed interview in full? >> in a couple days. it will be ready in a couple days and we will make it available. there is a lot of questions he wouldn't answer. he stuck to the authority but there were a lot of questions he didn't answer. there is a lot of that in the transcript. but where he did i totally confirmed other witnesses we talk to and what mr. shapley and mr. zigler have testified to. their story has never wavered. the testimony has never changed. the white house has changed multiple times about this investigation. the department of justice has changed multiple times as well. >> my understanding is that you and chairman comer and others, are we getting near the point were biden family members will now be subpoenaed? if so, what biden famil

attorney general merrick garland announced that the justice department is investigating if this is a hate crime. with me is former intelligence analyst john miller. what are you hearing of first and foremost what led them to this man. >> aside from the technology that they usually rely on after doing quite an extensive video canvas of the ring doorbell or the video on the building was not productive, and they went back to plan a of knocking on the doors and talk to witnesses, and who heard what and saw what, and they encountered this individual mr. eaton, and i can't tell you what happened between them, but something in the encounter made them want to focus on him more directly. at that point, they got a search warrant for his house. at that point, they recover a shotgun, we are told by law enforcement sources, and a .380 ruger pistol which matches the caliber. and right now, the ballistics lab is looking at the shell casings on the ground, and the bullet, and whether that gun scientifically matches it. that is where we are on the suspect. >> i want to play what we heard from the att

. >> take a live look at the department of justice where you see the attorney general merrick garlandnow standing next to treasury secretary janet yellen. the picture you're seeing here is unprecedented we have not seen this attorney general and this secretary of the treasury do a joint press conference before today. and the reason is because of the scale of the alleged criminality they're announcing here in this deal with binance, binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world the doj says pleaded guilty today and agreed to pay over $4 billion to resolve allegations related to violations of the bank's secrecy act, failure to register as a money transmitting business, and violations of the international emergency economic powers act those in relation to u.s. sanctions. they're also saying as an individual, binance's founder and chief executive, a canadian national, also pleaded guilty to failing to maintain an effective antimoney laundering program, violation of the bank's secrecy act and he has now resigned as the ceo of binance couple of other details here, merrick garlan

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weiss and did merrick garland testify to jus t opposite? >> yeah. merrick garland said he had ultimately thought he, in fact,h david weiss this summer toldis u us three different things in an 33 day time period. june 7th, he writes me and saysh ,i have ultimate authority. determine when, where and whether to bring charges. authorithejune 30th, he writes n and says, well, no, actually i don't. june is limited to my u.s. attorney's district, the district of delaware. grd then julteto my 10th, he wr, lindsey graham, the ranking member on the senate judiciary committee, and says well, i have not sought special counsel authority, but i've had discussions with the department of justice. >> now, today, under oath, he saidepartmed something diffen because he was directly asked, atd you ever seek special attorney status? and his response was, yes,tornei pointed out earlier today, yes, in the spring of 2022.g of 202 so he sought it, but was never actually given that. >> and yet he maintains somehow that, oh, i still had the authorit y even though i asked for

they kept the seat open for nearly a year, refusing to give merrick garland even a hearing, even thertesy of being rejected, but he did it. he had the power to do it, and so he did. >> narrator: it wouldn't be long before mitch mcconnell faced a test of just how far he would go to get what he wanted. >> we are going to drain the swamp of corruptn in washington, d.c. >> narrator: whether to support a republican presidential candidate he didn't like... >> we are led by very, very stupid people. >> he faces a horrible dilemma. to say that trump was not mcconnell's cup of tea would be an understatement of the first order. >> build a wall! >> everything that trump voiced and stood for, mcconnell, i think, had very little respect for. >> 2016 rolls around, donald trump steamrolls the entire field with a campaign that was often outright racist. >> when mexico sends its people, they're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists. total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states. (crowd cheering) >> narrator: mcconnell, once an advocate of civil rights, made a shr

us attorney general merrick garland called it one of the biggest penalties ever obtained. block chain analysis firm nansen and that billion dollar total does not include bitcoin. the exchange's native crypto currency, binance coin, also took a hit in value. mr zhao and his company's guilty pleas and the year—long investigation into binance, but the company continues operating under the leadership of senior binance executive richard teng. binance will also have a government appointed monitor and the company is required to ensure it's in compliance with us laws and the exchange is still the world's largest, holding more than $65 billion of assets. erin delmore reporting there. broad com has closed its acquisition of vm wear after the maker received regulatory approval in the last major upmarket china, ending a month long saga. the deal was one of the biggest when announced last year but it faced tough regulatory scrutiny around the world. china's regulatory approval comes afterjoe biden and xijinping met last week. the pandemic changed how and where many of us work. and as m

us attorney general merrick garland called it one of the biggest penalties ever obtained.om a block chain allen since firm and that does not include bitcoin. the exchange's nato crypto currency, binance coin, also took a hit in value. the tea please and date year—long investigation into binance, but the company continues operating under the leadership of a senior binance executive. binance will also have a government appointed monitor and the company is required to ensure it's in combines with us laws and the exchange is still the world's largest, holding more than $65 billion of assets. erin delmore reporting there. the pandemic changed how and where many of us work. and as more of us now work from home, demand for commercial property has fallen. all of this has helped to drive down the amount of money that investors are putting into commercial property in the asia pacific region, according to a new report by global real estate companyjll. earlier, i spoke tojll�*s asia pacific head of investor intelligence, pamela ambler, who told me more about this trend. the biggest th

attorney general merrick garland said the fbi is investigating whether the shooting was a hate crime.two of the students remain hospitalized. hisham awartani, who was shot in the spine, has reportedly lost feeling in the lower part of his body. he is a brown university student. we'll have more on this story after headlines. here in new york, a former senior state department official has pleaded not guilty to hate crime and stalking charges after a viral video showed him harassing and threatening a food cart vendor with violent, racist, and islamophobic language. stuart seldowitz served as deputy director of the u.s. state department's office of israel and palestinian affairs from 1999 to 2003. he was a national security adviser under former president obama. in washington, d.c., a group of state lawmakers, palestinian rights advocates, and supporters have launched a hunger strike demanding a permanent ceasefire in gaza. on monday, they gathered outside the white house for the five-day peaceful action. this is rana abdelhamid, a former candidate for congress and an egyptian-american com

merrick garland called it one of the biggest penalties ever obtained.s and it doesn't include bitcoin. first coin also took a hit in value. a year—long investigation into binance but the company continues operating. binance will also have a government appointed monitor and the company is required to ensure it is in compliance with us laws and the exchange is still the world's largest, holding more than $65 billion of assets. the gas and oil industry needs to cut emissions by 60 percent by 2030 to keep global warming to an increase ofjust 1.5 centigrades. that's the conclusion of a report from the global energy watchdog, the international energy agency. the report was released before the united nations climate summit, or cop28, which begins in dubai next week. joining me now is tim gould — chief energy economist from the iea. tim, good to have you with us. i'm looking at the report, you call it a moment of truth for oil and gas producers. what do you mean by that? it is clearly going to be a big topic as the world meets in dubai. 28. the moment of truth

got a group of republican senators sending a letter to merrick garland calling it executive overreach. the decision by unelected government bureaucrats to investigate the elected congressional representatives and staff trying to hold them accountable is a true attack on our democracy. what's going on with this? alexandria hoff runs it down now. what do we know? >> all this alleged activity happened back in 2017 during the trump administration. senators want to know what the current department of justice has done about the issue. fox news has obtained a copy of the letter signed by ted cruz, mike lee and chuck grassley accusing the d.o.j. of a vendetta campaign and covert surveillance. an october 23rd freedom of information request a group representing whistleblowers. they wrote the department subpoenaed a senate staffer's private phone and email logs of an investigation of the f.b.i. known as crossfire hurricane. lawmakers want to know who else was targeted? what phone and internet companies were issued subpoenas and if the department still has the private records. the republican sena

david weiss was talking to bill barr, not merrick garland.ings that are very disturbing to a lot of people who look at this story and david weiss says that he had nothing to do with it. that wasn't what he said. he never said he wasn't in charge. it's his word against the i.r.s. agents really. >> dana: want to ask you about another topic. last week you were here filling in for bill and talked about how you had seen the video the i.d.f. had put together that hamas had filmed on their gopros. gal, gadot is an actress. i stand with israel, you should, too. the world cannot sit on the fence when horrific acts of terror are happening. she is planning to show this video for people in hollywood. she is getting a lot of threats and cancellation threats. she is in a position of power to be able to say no, i want to show this. >> it makes me go back to the contention that when you see people ripping down the hostage pictures, images of children and families and cousins and people who care deeply about each other who are missing. ripping them down peopl

only joe biden's department of justice can do that and merrick garland will never do it. david: meanwhile special council david weiss spent five years doing much of nothing with a pretty slam shut case against hunter biden, with the gun charge and other things, now claims he's going after hunter biden in california. do you have any expectations or hopes he'll do anything other than what he did for the previous charges? >> zero. this is a guy that tore up an agreement to file six serious charges against hunter biden. he con conducted the sweet heart deal to give him immunity and no jail time. it imploded and he was forced by a federal judge to bring the gun charge, i think congress uncovered so much incriminating evidence and forced him to convene his grand jury, but i suspect it's a charade because it's secret, and if a prosecutor like weiss wants to present a lackluster apathetic case with feeble evidence, and either not make a recommendation to the grand jury on indictment or to argue against an indictment, he can do that and this strikes me as a farce window dressing.

attorneys are going to be meeting with merrick garland and we're going to find out what that is about is an emergency where the fbi director is saying a couple weeks ago is very much on merrick garland's behind about a possible terror attack. biden is going to address supply chain remarks. is he setting up a supply chain council going to talk about how is he going to approve it in the future. take your time. portland students returned to school. missed 11 days of school, three week strike, back in action today. the teacher's unions had a mini strike but they have to go to school again and i think once again do some catch up. ainsley, take it away. >> all right, thank you, brian. texas governor greg abbott's year long push for school vouchers was rejected by state lawmakers. leaving the push for school choice in limbo ahead of today's high stakes debate. joining us now to discuss this is texas state representative brad buckley. hey, brad. >> good morning, ainsley, how are you? >> good morning. i'm doing well. i know this was rejected by the house. but now the house is saying they will

dear merrick garland, will you indict hamas leaders. whatever anyone's position is, u.s.n killed and kidnapped by designated terrorist organization. a robust response is required to demonstrate u.s. credibility and resolve regarding this group. your point. >> so, let me couch it as analogy. imagine post-9/11 and bin laden and another are living in canada. would they try to extradite them, you need indictment first. of course we would. right now hamas by its own definition here has attacked american citizens, killed 32, kidnapped at least ten. those are right within the four corners of federal statutes that are used to prosecute this kind of stuff. furthermore, hamas's leadership is in what is nominally an american ally, qatar. our biggest mideast base there, at least about six major colleges that have big campuses there. we are probably half their economy and i see no pressure on qatar to give them up. if nothing else, put the indictment in place, put the red notice on through interpol, now they cannot travel. any place in between a signatory nation on board with that, gr

attorney general merrick garland said the fbi and atf are still investigating whether the shooting wasate crime. he also warned of rising threats of violence across the country in the wake of the israel-hamas war. >> all of us have also seen a sharp increase in volume and frequency of threats against jewish, muslim and arab communities across our country since october 7th. there is understandable fear in communities across the country. >>> nbc's george solis is on the ground in burlington, vermont. also with me, former member fbi hostage rescue team and founder of sierra one consulting rob d'amico. george, what more did we learn today about this shooting? >> reporter: we got a better insight into how the investigation is unfolding. we know atf agents were canvassing the neighborhood where the shooting took place. they knocked on the door. they encountered a man who basically said, i need to see a lawyer, i've ben waiting for you. he decided to stop speaking, stop saying anything. they identified him as suspect jason eaton. they mentioned how they recovered ballistics at the scene of th

when president biden took over, the new attorney general, merrick garland, kept weiss in place. they said to avoid the appearance of interference in the case. but through all that, weiss was not able to come up with the kind of charges the president's opponents were looking for, eventually coming to a plea deal with the younger biden over accusations he didn't pay taxes and lied on a firearms form. the plea deal fell through after a judge rejected it. weiss is testifying behind closed doors to the house judiciary committee. it's not clear what he'd be able to say, even in private, as the investigation into hunter biden is ongoing. and doj policy would forbid him from speaking about specifics. now, if i could guess, i would imagine the committee, led by jim jordan, is asking weiss whether he felt the biden administration was pressuring him to go easy on hunter biden. he said repeatedly he's not been pressured. >> thank you, scott. >>> if you have farmers insurance and have gotten a letter from them saying that your policy is changing, it's not for the obvious reasons of high cost

based on our reporting, merrick garland has kept the farthest from jack smith. so the notion that these prosecutors are -- by anything other than the evidence is hard for me to imagine based on the lack of connection between any of these three main entities. the white house, the attorney general, and the special counsel appointed to run this case precisely because it had to be kept separate from the direct line of the chain of command of the department. >> carol, mike schmidt made a similar point yesterday that for all of the extraordinary reporting, it's your paper at the times about what trump would do if you were there again, you already did all of this. and so i want to ask you to name names. as you are talking,, he sought lisa page, he sought to prosecute hillary clinton and half an vesta gate a comey -- were investigated. the arrested extraordinary audits of comey and mccabe. to your point, he already did this. it seems like the very important sort of fact check for ourselves. and we do it instinctively when we talk about political violence, that we live i

>> so i think he's part of the protection racket run by merrick garland. theand to some extent, the fbim the bidens. >> you know, the news broke yesterday that there is weiss weiserday that there is weiss in los angeles, southern california t district, lookingn into potential tax evasion and tax fraud, apparently ignoring money laundering, fear of violation s and bribery statutes. but neverthelesslaunderi, this s me as a potential charadean by david weiss. >> i mean, this is the guy i who tore up an agreement to bring six serious felony charges against hunter biden, gave him immunity in a sweetheart plea deal.it was he was only a federal judge that forced him to bring s the gun charges. and it appears that congress, by uncovering evidence, has forced his hand to convene a grand jury in california. but, you know, i'm not fooledn a by this. >> you know, a grand jury is secret. if a guyt fooled by like weissk the prosecutor presents apathetiwis isc case and feeble evidence and doesn't for an indictment and in fact, stands idly by and doesn't say one way or an

. >> john: merrick garland received a full briefing, director wray, because the fbi has taken the lead, knows all about this. so many questions here. first of all, was this somebody who came in from outside the country, don't know. could it have been a home grown terrorist. >> or come from canada as well. >> john: could it have come from canada. the direction of travel of the vehicle is something that is uncertain at this point. that appears to be the side of the bridge where you come across the bridge to the american side and that's where you are checked in to come not united states. the other side of that bridge, there's basically ez pass lines you go on the way to canada and the other side of the bridge are checked in by the canadian authorities. so, see, this is on the left side of the bridge, you can see the -- i guess those are solar panels there the lower right-hand side, that's the american side, niagara falls, new york. niagara falls, canada on the other side. if the car was at that particular point, and i wish he had a telestrator, i could show it to you, it would appear thro

. >> next, attorney general merrick -- merrick garland and treasury secretary janet yellen announcing number of treasuries totaling 4.3 billion dollars against the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world. according to secretary yellen, the lt stems from the company's

reacting to the verdict, attorney general merrick garland said it sends a clear message to anyone who tries to hide their crimes behind a shiny new thing they claim no one else is smart enough to understand. and the justice department will hold you accountable. it's a stunning fall from grace for the young man once celebrated as the golden boy of cryptocurrency who now faces up to 110 years in prison on bankman-fried is scheduled to be sentenced in march. as for those who lost money in ftx, their claims could be tied up for years. andrea. lionel >> alison, thank you. now to the middle east. israeli forces say they've surrounded gaza city, unleashing the fiercest assault yet on hamas targets. it comes as the biden administration pushes for a pause in the fighting. secretary of state antony blinken arriving in israel this morning. tensions are also escalating on israel's northern border. the leader of the iranian backed hezbollah militant group in lebanon is expected to make a rare speech today. the wall street journal reports russia may soon supply hezbollah with an air defense system.

amid concerns of increasing hate crime since the start of the israel-hamas war, attorney general merrick garland says the atf and the fbi are helping with this case. >> atf and the fbi are investigating the tragic shooting. 3 men but palestinian descent in vermont. the justice department is poised to provide assistance. any assistance that our state and local law enforcement partners need as we work together to protect our communities. >> when authorities approached the suspect eat and allegedly told them, quote, i've been waiting for you and told them that there was a shotgun in his apartment. it a tourney says it's too early to speculate if this was a hate crime. the oakland city council is holding a special session right now to vote on a resolution supporting a permanent cease-fire in gaza. councilmember carroll fife road up the legislation that session began at 04:00pm at city hall. we will have the results on the vote tonight at 10. >> for the first time in more than 3 years, the entire state of california is now drought free. 8 on wallace tells us what this means for californians. >> well,

today, attorney general merrick garland spoke about the shooting and the rise in threats from the israel-hamas all of us have also seen a sharp increase in the volume and frequency of threats against jewish, muslim, and arab communities across our country since october 7th. >> reporter: and tonight, david, authorities have gone through the suspect's social media and electronic devices, looking for anything that would allow them to charge the suspect as a hate crime. david? >> david: all right, aaron katersky tonight. aaron, thank you. >>> to the other news this monday night, and to the alarming moments onboard a southwest flight, preparing to take off from the new orleans airport, when authorities say a man opened the emergency exit over a wing and jumped. ground crews racing after him and taking him down, as passengers then fled the plane. here's victor oquendo. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: tonight, panicked passengers rushing off this southwest airlines flight just before it was supposed to take off. >> wait, what? >> go. >> someone jumped. >> reporter: after authorities say a man opened the

number one, the department of justice, merrick garland should have been fired on day one. christopher wray from the intake rest of her right with them. i would do the same thing with the partner education at work my way through all of the administration and then ask myself and my new cabinet folks, is it even necessary to do that wajob? and for t washington to that job cosmic that some think we need a tenth amendment commission made up of governors according to article one section eight where the responsibilities of the federal government? what are the responsibilities of the state government and let's get the federal government out of the way it's the raising of a 33 trillion-dollar debt in part because the federal government is doing everything and doing almost nothing for the military would get that part right really well. yes, ma'am. and on. >> but the government shutdown they keep the essentials and send the nonessentials home. i often wonder why they bring the nonessentials back? but so bloated anyway. what a good way to start streamlining? what's at the same concept

the department of justice and see the teacher's union say school board mobs are a problem and merrick garland said we will put school board moms on our watch list, it feels like the weaponnization of justice and what do you want to do when you are being weaponnized against? you want to turn that threat around. to know you have activated this weapon. it shoots in all directions. and trump is not a great messenger to that. >> if there is a crime, it ought to be charged. thank you both. may and norm. well, i tell you something. this is just what democrats did not want to hear. joe manchin says he is not running for reelection. maybe you are not surprised but a lot of people are and the question now is what will that mean for his party's chances to hold control of the senanate in nenext year's s election? ? >>> there has been a shakeup on capitol hill that could shift the balance of power in the senate. west virginia democrat joe manchin announcing he will not run for reelection. it could be a blow to the president of the united states joe biden with manchin now teasing but not confirming a possi

. >> next, attorney general merrick -- merrick garland and treasury secretary janet yellen announcing a number of treasuries totaling 4.3 billion dollars against the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world. according to secretary yellen, the lt stems from the company's involvement in supporting activity related to sales of narcotics and terrorism funding. also here from deputy attorney general lisa monaco and the chair of the commodity futures commission. from the justice department, this is about 40 minutes. ag garland: ok. good afternoon. i am joined today by treasury secretary janet yellen, deputy attorney general lisa monaco, and rostin benham. we are here today to announce the justice department has secured felony guilty please from binance and its founder and ceo changpeng zhao, also known as cc. separate from the criminal enforcement actions, the justice department is announcing today, we are also announcing civil regulatory enforcement actions. the treasury department and the cftc are taking against binance. while criminal and civil enforcement actions are subject to diff

us attorney—general merrick garland called it one of the biggest penalties ever obtained.n. the exchange's native crypto currency, binance coin, also took a hit in value. mr zhao and his company's guilty pleas and the year—long investigation into binance, but the company continues operating under the leadership of senior binance executive richard teng. binance will also have a government appointed monitor and the company is required to ensure its in compliance with us laws and the exchange is still the world's largest, holding more than $65 billion of assets. erin delmore reporting there. finally, it's the thanksgiving holiday in the united states today. more than 40 million turkeys will be cooked and carved as americans sit down for their traditional dinner at a cost of almost $1 billion. but it's notjust big business in the us. expatriate americans all around the world will be celebrating. richard gladwin and his brothers run five restaurants in london and will be serving 1,000 thanksgiving meals today. good morning, richard. you're up good morning, richard. you're up ea

attorney general merrick garland, treasury secretary janet yellen, and a number of other officials wille part of a press conference on an enforcement action seizing nearly $9 million worth of a cryptocurrency, allegedly associat with an organization that exploited over 70 victims through a romance scam and cryptocurrency confidence scams. we'll have live coverage of that news conference at 3:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. we are e washington journal. joining us now is the editor of national journal's hotline political newsletter. good morning kirk. >> good to be here today. host: let's start, remind us what the hotline is and the role you play in the information and news ecosystem. guest: we launched in 1987, we've gone through a lot of different iterations. we started just tracking the presidential election but now we track races all over the ballot. we look at presidential polls, senate races, house races, governors and states races. we do that every morning. we do two newsletters, one at 9:00 a.m. and another at 11:40. while a lot of news outlets are just starting to get rolling on

merrick garland kept him on as a knock off version of a special counselor.ump u.s. attorney on to finish this investigation into hunter biden. it looks like he was a way to try to put some distance from the winds that would be blowing from having a justice department being run by biden appointees. in the end, the sub, or weisman to garland and said, i need to become special counsel to finish this investigation. that is where we find ourselves now. hunter biden indicted on a gun charge. the republicans making these allegations that this is a corrupt investigation. deeply disappointed that they didn't take down the government. >> that is an incredibly important bit of contact. as usual, michael schmidt, thank you so much for coming on the show. we appreciate. it an hour from now senate republicans will hold a special conference meeting. they're gonna try to find a way to stop senator tommy tuberville's ten month long hold on military promotion. tuberville actually requested that meeting signaling he might be open to a solution for the first time as he tries to

number one, the department of justice, merrick garland should have been fired on day one. christopher wray from the f.b.i. i would do the same thing at the department of education and work my way through all of the administration and then ask myself and my new cabinet folks, is even necessary to do that job and is it necessary for washington to do that job because that is something we need as a 10th amendment toll separate according to article 1, section 8, what are the responsibilities of the federal government and what are the responsibilities of the state government and get the federal government out of the way and reason why we have a $33 trillion debt in part because the federal government is doing everything and doing almost nothing save the military. yes, ma'am. [indiscernible question] the government shutdown to keep the essentials and send the nonessentials home. why do they bring the nonessentials back? the government is so bloated. what a good way to start streamlining. >> fully agree with that. if you needed fsh did the position you are reducing the budget by d

. >> because they're not saying you can't attack merrick garland or the justice department, they're saying you can't be attack the people just showing up to work or doing their civic duty. >> when you have the demonstrated propensity of trump's followers to listen to his words and sometimes it's resulted in violence, january 6th is the most pertinent example, the court will take that into account. and trump has continued hammering on jack smith, not only jack smith but his wife and daughter. i think the government has the better of the argument. >> i want to dig in on that. this is like a ven diagram. that's the part i have questions go. jack smith is a public official. i think he knew what he was getting himself into when he accepted this gig. do you think they're going to uphold that part of the gag order? >> it's standard when gag orders are imposed because of the risk it poses to how justice is administered, and that includes prosecutors. obviously there's others involved, jurors, it's standard to have these kinds of limitations as long as it's fairly tailored. trump can say what he wa

vi faith in merrick garland, and don't get me wrong, and more faith in kristen clark who is over his civil rights department, but it is not about this simply period of time, but it is about what happens in the future, and what happens if there is a president trump and what that means for his department of justice and voting rights around the country. this is a really, really tough day for the black folk in the country. >> we will see where this goes, and we have to follow this legal fight obviously not over, but it is a big day on. this i want to ask you one thing about president biden while i have got you. yesterday was the birthday and he is making a practice now now of cracking his own age jokes, it seems. this is what he said at the turkey pardonning. >> by the way, it is my birthday today, and they can actually sing happy birthday, and i wanted you to know it is difficult to turn 60. this is the 76th anniversary of this event, and i wanted you to know that i was not there at the first one. i was too young to make it up. >> and then on instagram, it says turns out on your 146th b

. >> reporter: and, erin, attorney general merrick garland said the investigation into whether or not as to whether this is a hate crime is ongoing. all three of the victims are in icu. and it should be noted that the family says, erin, that, for a while, these three young men were actually educated in the west bank, but the family thought they would actually be safer being educated here in the united states. erin? >> all right, jason carroll, thank you very much. i want to go now to the burlington police chief. and i appreciate your time. so, i understand, as your teams have gone into that apartment, you've been able to seize hard drives from a backpack, five iphones, an ipad, other personal records from the suspect's apartment. can you tell us more about what you found, and is there any doubt in your view that these college students were targeted because they're palestinian? >> so, thank you for having me here tonight and for asking these hard questions that are actually hard questions for us as well. we did find a lot of electronic equipment in that apartment. and we are going to b

attorney general merrick garland said in a statement, quote, this case should send a clear message to anyone who tries to hide their crimes behind a shiny new thing they claim no one else is smart enough to understand. the justice department will hold you accountable. bankman-fried will be sentenced in march. up next we'll change our focus back to the middle east because the leader of hezbollah says all scenarios are possible on the border with israel. he blames the united states for the conflict in gaza. we're going to talk about that with defense secretary leon panetta when we come back. >>> i benjamin netanyahu says there will be no temporary cease-fire unless all hostages held by hamas are freed. that is despite secretary of state antony blinken calling for a pause today as he met with israeli leaders in tel aviv. meantime, in his first public remarks since the conflict began, hezbollah's leader praised hamas' attacks on israel while adding that hezbollah's primary goal is a cease-fire. he said the possibility of a larger regional conflict with israel is a, quote, realistic option

the interesting thing, once the shoe is on the other foot, if donald trump can bring merrick garlandn the same theory, it will be interesting. most likely judges will clamp down on that and make the witness list more exclusive to facts of the case. >> carley: so much going on when it comes to hunter biden, gun charge, tax issues, the investigation into biden and the biden family business. which are you focusing on most and if you are hunter biden which should be most worry some to him? >> he has to focus on what is in front of him, the gun charges. you have to look that the most serious charge is tax chargeings from 2016 and 2017 have expired and not able to be brought because of statute of limitations. for me, his argument this was politically orchestrated, falls flat because he's taken the benefit of his political connections and not had to face serious consequences for his behavior. right now, the gun charges are most serious, not sure there will be more charges as we move forward because for some reason this current doj does not seem interested or curious about going further in t

the attorney general merrick garland today referenced dai's arrest. he was hosting a forum on hate crimes. of course there has been a surge in hate crimes, noting a significant uptick in threats against jewish, muslim, and arab americans americans. "ac 360" with anderson cooper "ac 360" with anderson cooper begins right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good evening. for the first time since the october 7th attack on israel and the war in hamas that's followed, hundreds of foreign nationals were finally allowed to leave gaza today. many more still remain. two allowed to leave are u.s. citizens. both were aide workers. in a moment, we'll speak to the niece of one of those aide workers, a 71-year-old seattle resident, who's been helping to make prosthetics for children in gaza when she was there on october 7th. the state department estimates there are about 1,000 americans and 5,000 other foreign nationals in gaza who want to leave. president biden today said he expects more americans to depart, quote, over the coming days. in another first

so stunning, congressman, hunter biden's lawyer served attorney general merrick garland with a subpoena as part of his lawsuit begins irs claimed going to sue irs, for 13 getting all this information happens after a top doj tax official reportedly told your committee00 prosecutor with david weiss not allowed to bring anything without speaking to tax disks first, demanding to know why intentionals commune obstructed senators chuck grassley ron johnson guys claiming advancing russian disinformation all connected last week grassley revealed fbi received information from more than 40 confidential sources on criminal matters related to bidens they blew all off said disinformation tell us more about your vacation when you think things are headed. looking into all that plus jason forfeiture foster worked for grasly was spied on by justice department, they got his phone records he learned this because google a carrier at justice department subpoenaed them for phone records of a key staffer for senator grsly while trying to investigate this giving him briefing that he said was ridiculous, while

innovative like with such great enthusiasm against people bike steve bannon i just don't see merrick garlandss investigate his boss. a john you lived it, they tried to stonewall you, and slow-walk you when you were on judiciary committee. following the russia collusion lie you were a truth-teller again is this for not james comer with subpoenas doj continue off in them. >> i don't think all for naught, jamie comer house republicans have done when they need to continue to do prosecute case doj fbi won't. i think that is important. i think they've done an incredibly good job revealing the disruption of the by the family business here through, you know, showing activity reports whistleblower whistleblower testimony that sports emails text messages but the other part is in prosecuting that case, they underscore how the department of justice, and fbi are selectively prosecuting on one hand pursuing, you know president trump, his supporters, you know, katz pta moms pro-life people yet ignoring in evidence plain sight i think the house republicans putting that out in a public way whether or not sub

by the way, anderson, i would say, if this was such a slam dunk, i think merrick garland and mr. smith, the prosecutor here, january 6th, they're examining this, would have taken it, would have taken it up. instead the president wasn't in charging the federal level. >> it is interesting, jessica. it was a number of conservative scholars who backed this idea. i talked to a couple of them on the program. and they have an argument for the fact that, yes, the language does not specifically say "the president," but it does talk about -- i forget what the actual language is. they believe it covers the president, even though it doesn't say it does. >> right. so, there's a dispute among scholars about what actually the language encompasses. and it's a historical question in large part. what did the framers or those who adopted the 14th amendment, what did they intend this clause to cover? and she n her opinion, sites the evidence that was presented to her, including other provisions of the constitution that are relevant for her determination of what this provision means. and she makes a

working under merrick garland. running as a democrat.ment of justice that basically targeted parents as potential domestic terrorists, no they want to be on the school board, i have to say that they have you know what's to actually do that. >> then yesterday, in the county, they said no to policy 8040, and even the students were saying hey, you cannot do this in our schools. and if the students understand this, it shouldn't be up to these people, a lot of times who don't have children and they say okay come out we should experiment on these children and it is wrong. >> it is time to fight back. and also, north royalton, ohio, this is a school board race, candidate is basically disguising herself as a sensible moderate and then they get in and they are complete radicals they say that we do not support these individuals on gender identity, systemic racism, antiracism and inclusion and so this is the moderate. the moderate in ohio. what has happened, chris? >> reading some of the national public radio stories are just awful. a group of pare