here is what congressman jason smith told conservative media today while merrick garland was still testifying. >> attorney general garland is not acting like the attorney general of the united states. he's acting like joe biden's personal attorney. well, that's not how it is. >> okay, so as congressman smith was accusing merrick garland of acting like president biden's personal attorney, merrick garland's justice department was delivering opening arguments in the criminal trial of joe biden's adult sign -- son, hunter biden. if that is the kind of service you get from your personal attorney, maybe you should get a new personal attorney. for the record, in case your memory has become untethered to reality, donald trump spent two years complaining that his first attorney general jeff sessions was not acting enough like his personal attorney, then trump fired sessions and heil -- hired bill barr spent the rest of the term acting like trumps personal attorney but according to republicans, merrick garland is the one doing the president's bidding. the thing is republicans are now realizing it is ha

recently the department ofjuderl merrick garland displayed a blatant disregard for this body.y refusing to comply with two subpoenas attorney general garland has finally undermined the integrity of this institution. earlier this month we voted to hold attorneen and criminal contempt of of justice informed speaker mike johnson that they would not prosecute the a.g. for this contempt. this response while expected■k sets a dangerous precedent. if the executive branch can simply ignore congress without any consequences it threatens function and foundation of our democratic process. when an individual refuses to comply with congress's request we are left withr inherent contempt. rimil and civil contempt or land executive branch for enforcement which cle going to happen in this case. the founding fathers designed her government to protect their freedoms, to stand against tyranny and all-powerful executive branch. inherent contempt is their constitutional authority to hold in directly to this power allows congress to detain and try individuals wdef. it's a crucial tool that ensures w

they ran on that and that is wrong.>> he directed those comments to merrick garland, but again, merrick garland has no connections to the prosecutors in georgia and manhattan. and whatever your reservations are about elected prosecutors criminally investigating members of the opposing party, the congressman was making that argument while defending this guy. but she should be locked up. she should be locked up. you should lock them up. the bidens and hillary. >> donald trump, more than any other politician is famous for wanting to jail his political opponents. but over the weekend he tried to write that moment out of history. but hillary clinton, i didn't say lock her up. and i said openly, all right. just relax. >> i did not say lock her up. i know it was a long 27 seconds ago, but here it is. >> she should be locked up. she should be locked up. >> i should also note that his claim that he gave up trying to prosecute hillary clinton after he won the election was a lie. we know from robert mueller's report that trump was fixated on the idea of prosecuting her and pressured his first atto

the house is voting yesterday to hold attorney general merrick garland in consistent t of congress andes, for garland's refusal to turn over robert hur's interview with president biden, he said it would be difficult to convince a jury to convict the president with poor memory. democrats worry the gop will use the tapes for political war fare in an election year. in a statement garland writes this, it's deeply disappointing that the house of

what merrick garland is trorce .sorry, if you violate the even if your name is donald, you deserve to be investigated and potentially prosecuted. and that is what merrick garland is doing. the justice system is trying to do their jobs. host: the ranking member of the armed services committee, thank you for your time. guest: thank you. host: canada in pennsylvania, on the line for democrats. caller: front line is one of the greatest programs ever. as a recent college graduate, i protested the vietnam war three times in d.c. and i am proud of it. as to the current students, i support the right to protest. they need to be cautious and think hard about the coming election. if they choose to sit it out, vote for a third party, and make sure we swing this to president trump who we saw in some of his rallies literally say i love the uneducated. so be careful students. consider your entire future, not just what is happening today. host: patty in texas, republican line. caller: i have a couple things to say. first of all, mr.

merrick garland apparently had a redline. want to understand i want you to think if i am missing it. what is it that you think some of this audio from the president would reflect him speaking in a way that, you know, reminds us that he has-- >> a narrative. >> exactly. and secondarily i think you alluded to this that it says we keep talking about lawlessness, if donald trump were to gain a second term, but there's already lawlessness now, so cross that off your list of concerns right? they are trying to create a false equivalency and i don't know if that plays in the mind of voters. >> yeah, i mean it is a really interesting question, what is going on here? is this about criminality? is congress actually outraged, because they believed that joe biden violated the law? remember, this all relates back to the classified documents situation, where biden and trump and pentz all have classified documents in their homes in the big dividing line between the two who didn't get prosecuted on the one who did? >> was who gave them back.

merrick garland is facing a lot of issues here.y is common in all cases. the second thing is the d.o.j. that he is attesting to now involvement in the trump case. and the third thing has to do with refusing to hand over the testimony, the actual audio, of joe biden with robert hur investigation. what is the difference between a transcript and the audio? there are allegations the audio tape itself has a lot of -- doesn't answer the question, reminded to answer the question. when the attorney general of the united states comes out and says releasing the audio of the president would chill cooperation and would harm the integrity of future investigations when yesterday the claim was ai deepfake is the problem here. that didn't fly. now they are using the generic we can't release the audio and you can't hold me in contempt with that. a lot of issues now. >> bill: opening statements have begun in the hunter biden trial. they got off to a late start. the prosecutors are laying out a case now. defense will argue is hunter biden wasn't an a

separately even though they employ someone that at one time was part of the justice department merrick garland is not allowing this to have any daylight at all. >> this is a separate case, very different than the federal prosecutions he is protecting. and this is something that garland is quite unhappy about. he's unhappy that this misleading information is out there and other misleading information. here's a little bit more about what he is pushing back on against house republicans today. >> this effort is only the most recent in a long line of attacks on the justice department's work it comes alongside threats to the fund, particular department investigations most recent the special counsel's prosecution of the former president it comes alongside false claims that a jury verdict in a state trial by a brought by a local district attorney was somehow controlled by the justice department that conspiracy theory is an attack on the judicial process itself wolf, while this hearing is largely about, or supposed to be about the contempt proceeding, republicans want to bring against merrick garland r

breaking news house lawmakers just seconds away from a vote that could hold attorney general merrick garland in contempt of congress. the dramatic action led by house republicans as attorney general garland refuses to hand over audio of president biden's interview with these special counsel. it's the interview we're robert hur's described biden is seeming like a quote, well-meaning elderly man with a for memory do house republicans have a vote have the votes. also this hour, i hate crime task force launched to investigate this repeated acts of antisemitism and vandalism in new york city. see some of the acts under investigation and to somber moments today, marketing the ugly scars of gun violence in america, students who as first-graders survived the horrific sandy hook massacre those kids are graduating from high school today and this our a symbolic act to remember the 49 innocent victims of the orlando pulse nightclub shooting welcome to the lead. i'm jake tapper. we start today with breaking news. any minute we expect to see history fold on capitol hill as house republicans move to make a

or doeplrs merrick garland.think it was appropriate for the manhattan district attorney album brag to run on this campaign promise. >> i know a lot of peoplear are wondering, whoever has this joe wondthis jobb. are they going to convict the donald trump? >> but that is the number one issue the times calls brag s a talented prosecutor whose successful suit of the trump foundation couldnted pro b be invaluable experience for the investigation. >> he'll take over >>valu as the chief deputy attorney general in new york state. >> i oversaweputy atey some ofia the office's biggest cases from exposing illegal behavio or by the trump foundation. >> we know there's a trump investigation. i have investigated trump andint his children and held them accountable for their misconductchildren with te trump foundation. i also sued the trump administration more thanimes 100 times. we know that the d.a.ting is investigating trump.th when i was the ag's office, i sue trump over 100 times forsc his administration's misconducot and

noticed it's only trump people they get charged harassed and put in jail and so on far left, merrick garlandled trump's criticism of his weapon eyes department of justice dangerous for people's safety we will address this later in the show and the president to your great country the united states of america is fear mongering about the second amendment calling for new gun restrictions on the day his very own sun is convicted of 3 felony gun charges tonight don't get distracted pay close attention to what i'm about to say if you are listening to the media mob and pundits and democratic tax they have no clue about what really happened in the hunter biting case at all. it is deep and profound what has happened the major story they are not talking about or telling you about from the trial is not the conviction on gun crimes it's important because that's a low hanging fruit the evidence was overwhelming uncontroverted and unlike donald trump he had a fair venue and trial judge with real charges not ones that were made up and you didn't even know about the critical development from this trial is a

the house sergeant at arms to arrest attorney general merrick garland and bring him before the house by holding in in inherent contempt. this was in response to the attorney general's refusal to turn over audiohurt's interviewt biden, despit being served with subpoenas. >> good morning everyone. we are here today because of the double standards that exist within the justice system. you e good morning. we are hear because of the double standard in the justice system. as you know, we sent a subpoena to garland, for which we received no response, and the congress does have the power to investigate all legislative powers. legislative assets, held accountable.erferes on hearing contempt was first used 1795, first upheld in a supreme court decision in 1927 that said congress does indeed have this authority. note that when an individual is called before the country they appear. why should the attorney general who is supposed to be had of all lafooritbe any different? garland still hasime comply with the request that we are asking. tapes and let us look into them but in the event he does not

merrick garland. as you heard, chairman jordan and our leaders discussed. refusing to comply with the lawful and that's a problem under article one. we can't allows a department of justice and executive branch agency to hide information from congress. we have important oversight responsibilities and that's what's being pursued here. chairman jordan said, we have a right to know if robertcommendat prosecuting president biden was warranted. the best evidence was the audio recordings because they provide critical insight in what that transcript itself cannot provide. we have to know if the transcript is accurate. as a former litigator, i can tell you that when you have a printed transcript that someone transcribed, you don't know with 100% certainty whether it's actually lined up with the audio recording. that's why this is so important. the attorney general doesn't get to decide whether he hides the tape. that's what will be determined here. there's a couple of things that we wanted to talk about this morning but i will save it for questions. i can anticipate

doesn't care under merrick garland d.o.j.sts to do two things, attacked the democrats enemies and protect the democrats friends and agreed to which d.o.j. has been weaponize and tried to stop the voters from electing donald trump is ridiculous in the degree that d.o.j. is protecting joe biden from the evidence of his corruption and protecting his friends is shameful, the damage merrick garland has done to d.o.j. has no precedent in history and is really sad. maria: were talking about it all morning, good to see you. >> thank you, ted cruz joining us now this. >> african-americans are greater wage gains under donald trump then they've seen under joe biden, unemployment has gone up under joe biden and it went down under donald trump we see that wages and crime and devastation but what donald trump offers is a better way forward we were better off under trump but that's not a black agenda that's an american agenda. >> that south carolina senator tim scott on friday, "mornings with maria" on fox business the support president tru

hur, a republican who merrick garland gave the duty to study that case.mpathetic figure. mr. hu f could not be guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. what the other fellow did, refusing to comply with requests to give the classified documents up, refusing and refusing and having to have a search warrant and finding them, hundreds of documents, hundreds of documents. not for the purpose of writing a book, for somebody who can't even read a book,or purposes that we don't know and what they were used for. but they were taken illegally and improperly. merrick garland is a honor man who should be in the college of cardinals and not be tried for contempt. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. nadler: i yield the gentleman an additional 30 seconds.ou, sir. i've not seen a more diligent and honor gentleman, merrick garland is a superb gentleman and this is just to throw things on the other fellow, trump, and put them on biden. it's like comparing a bank robber to a guy that wrote an overdraft. i yield backhe time. mr. nadler: reserve. the ea ne

you just saw merrick garland. he's not going to be intimidated by you or anybody if else. k, herric garland's done more damage to the credibility of the the justice cabinet than dr. fauci did to the credibility of public health. i don't think anyone in america believes anything that merrick garland's saying when he says that the department of justice isn't political, they're not treat thering republicans differently than they're treating democrats and that a heavy done anything improper or inappropriate with respect to the biden investigation. we've had whistleblowers come forward with the irs is, we know from notes with the securities and exchange commission and different jurisdictions with the department of justice there were multiple investigations by multiple agencies of the bidens in the past decade, and in every instance the department of justice has told the investigators to stand down when the trail got to joe biden. maria: so, you know, i mean, what is the nil significance of these audiotapes? i know you already had the transcript. was the transcript manipulated or

sometimes it crosses over from camping dirty trick to actual election interference and something merrick garlandbut won't so the only accountability will come if and when donald trump is elected and the trump the department of justice seeks to hold accountable under the law. >> speaking of ag garland, one thing he's not going to do is prosecute himself so contempt of congress is not going to go anywhere but as you know, the justice system is going to be able to balance this fall so former u.s. attorney believe it or not folks on both sides of the aisle respected your congress together so how do we get politics out of the justice system? >> in the blink of an eye, biden d.o.j. said we are not going to prosecute merrick garland or take action for him ignoring congressional subpoenas so short-term he will get away with it. long-term, the problem for merrick garland is he is and call me. he's going to be remembered just as jim comey is always going to be remembered as the guy that took the fbi's reputation premier investigative law enforcement agency from the top to the bottom from here to here. mer

merrick garland is blowing it off. it's couching is in projection, accusing the other side of what they themselves are guilty of. usually with projection it's unconscious, people are not aware they're doing it. in this case, whether it's buy p den or merrick garland -- biden or merrick garland, this is part of a deliberate strategy of lying, twisting things deliberately to try to b confuse the american people. the good news is the deliberate strategy of lying and jo projecn is not working. the american people are aware of the dual system of justice here and the collapse of the rule of law and due process for people like president trump, peter know navarro and steve bannon. maria: merrick garland said we don't investigate people because of last name or politics or all of that, whatever he just said. i would argue, yes, they do, they've been investigating trump since day one. since he came down the elevator, the clinton camp makes up a story he colluded with russia. for years we're seeing an attack on donald trump becaus

merrick garland speaking now. let's drop in on that. okay. now we're going to the house republicans. so everybody is talking in d.c. here is steve scalise. >> for months and months merrick garland knows what the rules are. he issues subpoenas himself and doesn't let the person he is issuing the subpoena to decide whether they want to comply. he doesn't think this is something he has to comply with. with all due respect, mr. garland, this is not your decision. congress has a constitutional duty to perform oversight, which is what we're doing. we're in the middle of an impeachment inquiry voted on by the house already and now we need to get the facts. you look at the white house themselves. they have acknowledged that as they've turned over the transcripts, those transcripts have been edited. there is one way you can find out what the edits were, to actually get the audio tape. that's the only way we'll know what was really said. we know already by the white house's own admission that the transcript does not reflect what was said. it is only th

carol, how likely do you hold merrick garland to be held in contempt? >> well, politics and businessmen do not make good bedfellows. there has to be compromise with political and executive branches with this. the courts have said, work this among yourself, because you do not want to have a judicial decision here. but merrick garland reached the breaking point with the attack on the mar-a-lago search warrant and the misrepresentation that fbi agents were authorized to go in to kill people, and this is a bridge too far for him, and he came out to give a press conference to refute that, and very unusual for him to come out the refute that. >> and now, ali, president biden has claimed executive privilege with that interview by brian hur who had released of course, and so when the justice department says that releasing those will and compromise future investigation, do you agree with that? >> i do. president biden sat for the interview, and provided candid answer, and what that requires is that the targets of those investigations feel like they can be speaki

i think from top to bottom merrick garland has presided over the politicized and weaponize d.o.j. our country's history. >> we hear that merrick garland plans to go after donald trump because trump claimed the fbi planted assassinate him during the mar-a-lago raid adding to strange territory, what is going on. >> i guess he will push back on whatever he thinks is unfair but the reality and the american people see poll after poll consistently show that people believed the prosecution of president trump is not about a violation of the law but about politics and they're tired of it, if you look at jack smith it was completely unhinged and had a long and troubled history of prosecution of conservatives in the conservative movement and he puts him in charge of this of president trump and the rate at mar-a-lago which is been absolutely a disaster even the fbi agent on the ground had some criticisms of how it was handled, merrick garland might push back but i think it falls flat. >> wwe will we get the audiotape from the department of justice on special counsel robert hur's interview wit

we're seeking to hold merrick garland in contempt. ave -- everything that has been requested by the committee, the department of justice, merrick■7 garland, has turnedded over with the exception of the audiotape of of president biden done by robert hur, another holdover trump special counsel. and that interview was done on october 7th, i believe it was, which was the same day of the attack on israel. the brutal and heartless and enhue humane -- inhumane attack on the citizens of israel by hamas. but the president being occupied with matters, with those matters , and so the republicans want to get access the audiotape. why? so thaty and dice and make it into something that can be used against biden and harris in the upcoming election. and, you know, that's why they want it. but the reason why the administration refuses to is bee a chilling effect in the white house who are asked to giveor statements at some point in the future. and so we don't want that to happen. that is a justified reason for not turning over thepe, and so republicans

merrick garland won't give it to them. cnn is also suing for it, just farm will do it. and merrick garland now being pressured to be held in contempt, he says certain members of this committee and the oversight committee are seeking contempt as a means of obtaining four no legitimate purpose sensitive law enforcement information that could harm the integrity of future investigations. john, in short, that's merrick garland saying, we're not giving you that audio tape at this time. >> expecting some fiery wars this morning on capitol hill, katelyn polantz, thank you very much also this morning, opening arguments are about to get underway in the trial of hunter biden, and we've new word on one who will testify and how prosecutor there's plan to make their case against the president's son and a suspect in the gilgo beach serial killings is expected to be indicted on another murder charge. >> now the details about a new search, and we're investigators were looking she was declared dead by the workers at for nursing home. two hours later, an employee at a funeral home realize

she probed the special counsel's attorney about the actual level of involvement that merrick garland has and overseeing the case. that is legally irrelevant. the only thing that matters is whether merrick garland has legal authority to control the case and to dismiss special counsel smith if he wants to. but merrick garland, as other attorney generals have, has made a policy decision not to interfere in the day-to-day prosecution, just as he did with hunter biden. it is not relevant whether merrick garland has actually interfered with or had contact with, et cetera, the day-to-day operations of this special counsel's office but aileen cannon asked repeatedly about them . she may want to probe that further. that worries me for two reasons , it is legally irrelevant. second, it could eat up a lot of time and cost more delay. i am hopeful that judge cannon recognizes that, under the law, these programs into the internal workings of the department of justice are inappropriate and unwarranted and irrelevant. >> thank you so much for joining us tonight. >>> let's bring in a former federal

director, and attorney general merrick garland. ■@ >> please be seated. all right.d morning, everybody. one more time. good morning, everybody. >> good morning. >> all right. welcome back to a.t.f., for day two of our third annual chiefs and police executive forum on crime guns. i hope you all enjoyed yesterday, the first day. i know i learned a lot from you and as i said yesterday, we have chiefs here from all over, from vermont to vegas, from florida to fargo, and all over the country. yesterday was a jam packed agenda, covering one of a.t.f.'s greatest assets, crime gun intelligence or as we talk about cgi, which means nothing more as we all know and discussed yesterday, squeezing he ever last bit of evidence out of that crime gun and make that into actionable leads, leads shared with you and the people you lead to clear homicide cases, leads that show how killers get their firearms illegally brings justice to survivors and victims. i love this summit and i was mentioning to our special keynote speaker, really, it's a unique event. it's a lot of people, but it's

also, executive privilege, which merrick garland and the president apparently discussed. garland advised, yes, you could assert privilege and the president did over this tape. here's a little bit more about how america arlen explained to congress today something he has also echoing in court is it your testimony that a white house official would voluntarily cooperate and criminal investigation only if the justice department promises not to release the audio recordings. >> it doesn't make any sense the longtime experience so that justice department has also reflected in the declaration and that was filed under oath is that witnesses want to protect the confidentiality of their communications with the prosecutors during these sensitive interviews so aaron, that audio tape recording of biden sitting for the interview with special counsel robert hur. >> it is still classified according to the justice department. it's still in a secured facility, protected, and it's ultimately going to be up to very likely the court's on whether it will be released publicly in some way all right

we issued a lawful subpoena for those audiotapes, merrick garland refused to turn them over. it's as simple as that, and the democrats want to continue to defend the indefensible, and we're trying to get the truth to the american people. even the mainstream media outlets, associated press, washington post, abc, cnn, they've also sued to get those tapes. so the american people want to see those tapes, and the only person holding us back is merrick garland. elizabeth: yeah. so is the house -- excuse me, congress' oversight powers, have hay been damaged by this biden white house? by the way, you see today white house press secretary karine jean-pierre could not explain exactly why president biden did not attend the g7 dinner in italy. the white house is furiously pushing back on reports about biden's age after sitting down at the wrong time at d-day ceremonies, then suddenly turning around with the french president, and biden appeared to freeze at a juneteenth event at the biden white house. i mean, the issues are firing up so much, there's talking about kamela harris and whethe

publicly merrick garland is as un-political as they come, but given what republicans are doing, does that even matter? they are literally making things up to satisfy their base. >> the main issue that you see with garland, i think is that there has been a little bit, i don't want to lean into this too much, but a little bit of disappointment that he has not been more political. that he has not punched back harder and i think today we saw that. he was going to be on the supreme court. they ran out the clock and he wasn't actually there. solicitor general and a circuit court judge and now he is back as attorney general. i think that is really the main sort of issue that garland is punching bag. the other issue is that republicans don't have the votes for contempt. if they did that would change the conversation, but they don't appear to have the votes. that could change, but right now it doesn't look like it could happen. >> they don't need the votes, they're just looking to muddy the water and confuse the american people. susan, i want to touch on the point that hans just made. some hav

they want to get revenge on the people they think have wronged or as what merrick and garland is tryingo do is enforce the law. and i am sorry law, even if your name is donald trump, you deserve to be investigated. and potentially prosecuted. edthat is all america garlanded and the very ominous way. we are two democrats and the president son. there is no argument the justi e trying to do their job. republicans are trying to make it a partisan exercise. >> represented adam smith armed services ranking member democrat from washington state, thank you for your time. >> thank you. two legislators ars now from0e representative rich mccormick, republican serving the sixth district in the armed services and foreign affairs committee representative mccormick. thank you for giving us your time. just recently back from europe for d-day activities and as part of that you decided to jump out of a plane. why? guest: to honor the veterans. the youngest over there was 96 and there were 70 there. ey this is a special time. every five years we have big d da celebrations. ■úin afghanistan, i >> i'm afgha

e are held him merrick garland in contempt. so we have that issue. then what they're doinno weg to president trump through jack smith and through this communication with whah jat alvin bragg did up in new york. >> yeah, he wouldn't gatesabou his question about if he'll provide documents and communicationst pro with b, letitia james fani willis his office really, you've got to be kidding me. you know, he wouldn't answer your question on jack smith'snc. tampering with evidence. jack smith put that in the courjack sint filing in thea document case. >> he saidaid it, you make thatp out of nowhere. >> i read the idead that the term, the filing and the idea that from the highest rate. >> right. and the third highest ranking official in the doj goes to prosecuteofficial trump in n, we don't think there's coordination there of any kind. somethinwe don'thig that he nees to answer for. >> that's why we gotlation legislation which says no federal money can go to fani willis no federal moneyl mr can go to any of these rogue state prosecutors like bragg and willi

this demon merrick garland in this doj's determination to target whistleblowers who opposed -- impose their ideolog they want to attack regular citizens. they use the full force of our legal system to protect allies and we the motion to hold merrick natural s running roughshod over constitutional system. back to ms. hageman. thend point that i'm cosponsoring this contempt resolution because it is the job accountable for his actionsefusing to comply with a congressionalbpoena and the department of justice refuses to do super two weeks ago the full house represents voted to hold merrick garland and can trimtempt of congress but according to the research service the recipientissued invalid congressional subpoena has a legal obligation to comply absentee ballots and overri justification for for the subpoena is only as effective as the means by without a process by which congress can go worse compliance or to teror noncompliance the subpoena would be reduced to formalized request rather than a cons demand for information. while the doj may claim it has and overriding privilege due to presi

, but that merrick garland is a proxy for a larger argument. they're making two under to undercut the validity of the biden administration as a whole about our political system as a whole. and that's what i think this election is going to be about. that's the message of donald trump. and so it's interesting when we do viewed through the capitol hill lins, i see why are my garland feels the need to say that i feel like i see why democrats want to focus on kitchen table issues, but with sharp is going to try to do is bring that larger system distrust to your kitchen table. and so that's the question i think is going to be when they make that broader argument, two democrats have a response for that. >> yeah, that's such a good point. still, the republicans, it's the only part of government that they have control over is the house, the house speaker is at least rhetorically, at least he's saying that he has a plan to to go to combat the doj, and i want you to listen to what the house speaker said about that there's so desperate to stop him that the

merrick garland will testify before the house judiciary committee at the top of the next hour. faces accusations, of course, that his department of justice is weaponizing the justice system. we'll have that for you in about 30 minutes. >> this is all an election year deathbed conversion by joe biden. basically this executive order, which would be by my count the 95th executive order he issues does nothing about catch and release and says the first 2500 that come across the border get in free. >> bill: 23 days from debate number one and today president biden will sign an executive order that might affect the border. the idea if daily migrant encounters exceed 2500 a day, asylum requests will be shut down. according to available data this is the number that we have. estimated number of illegals who enter the country since joe biden took the white house surpassing 5 million. griff jenkins has lived on the border and on the white house north lawn today. good morning. >> we have yet to see the text of any of these executive actions on the border but we just learned moments ago from

merrick garland is a honor man who should be in the college of cardinals not be tried for contempt.the speaker pro tempore: the ge. mr. nadler: i yield the gentleman an additional 30 seconds. you, sir. i've not seen more diligent and honorentleman, merrick garland is a superb gentleman and this is just to throw things fellow, trump and put them on biden. bank robber to a guy that wrote an overdraft. i yield back the balance of my time. mr. nadler: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york reserves. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california. mr. mcclintock: i'm pleased to yield three minutes to the gentleman from north carolina, mr. bishop. the speaker pro tempore: before recognizing mr. bishop, chair would remind members to refrain from engaging in personalities tow presumptive nominees for the office of president. the chairth carolina. mr. bishop: thank you mr. chairman. i thankro is simple and in its simplicityf its appropriate resolution. the audio recording of president biden's interview with special counsel roberts demeanor evidence. demeanor is o's

this could have easily been resolved with an order, the question is basic, did merrick garland have the authority to appoint a special counsel, the answer is clearly, yes, the statutory authority that gives them the right to do so . the supreme court has said so. it's a deeply rooted tradition to have these outside counsel come in and conduct investigations, who said that, brett kavanagh, so even a judge who is new to this, knows they've got to follow the supreme court. i come back to like what is actually going on here. we've had about a year of judge cannon and seeing what she's up to and it seems like she has a playbook. the first is distract, take these very simple legal issues and make them seem really complicated, so we are not talking about donald trump willfully retaining classified documents, step two is use these complications, use the suppose it complications to delay and say i need roofing, argument, bring an outside party, everybody come in and say what you need to say and after that we will have more breathing and i don't have to set a trial date because i've got so much i

and merrick garland, attorney general says, yeah, you guys are not getting it.e're not giving that to you. he says certain members of this committee and the oversight committee are seeking contempt as a means of obtaining for no legitimate purpose sensitive law enforcement information that could harm the integrity of future investigations. so merrick garland wanting to keep private that to protect witnesses future investigations, other proceedings but merrick garland, john, is also saying to house republicans likely to say to them based on remarks we've obtained there's a bigger beef here. between republicans and the justice department. you guys wanted to fund offices. we have you want to attack the people in the justice department law enforcement. that's why merrick garland is saying that other quote, i will not be intimidated. we're going to be hearing from him in person at 10:00 a.m. and we'll see it exactly where the hearing goes from there. but this really is uncharacteristic in a lot of ways of merrick garland, someone who tends to not put himself in the m

he put forth merrick garland. it is merrick garland's department of justice and joe biden has nothing to do with it. as to merrick garland's oversight, special counsel says there is some oversight. special counsel regulations provide for that. it's a balance between independence and some accountability. anytime there's a significant event, there has to be notification from special counsel to merrick garland. what does it mean? likely a search warrant on a former president's resident. they didn't go into details but the regulations provide for some limited oversight for these notifications to happen. special counsel is going rogue and doing things they run afoul of doj rules, the attorney general can say i am overruling you. i am not you do it. >> kristy greenberg, mary mccord, katie phang, thank you. >>> the president of the united states and the convicted felon may walk on a debate stage. it is happening and happening thursday night. our friend tim miller and claire mccaskill are standing by and will join me. me.

menendez cuellar hunter biden, the justice department follows the facts and the law now, merrick garland also faced questions from three gop hardliner today about the treatment of january 6, prisoners 3d he's three congressman roy biggs, a massive right in a letter to garland in part what they say is, in addition, other investigations have pointed to the fbi's possible involvement in facilitating the events of january 6, they cite as evidenced in this letter, a new york post columnist peas from last year about this topic. >> now, it is important to point out, anderson that the fbi director christopher wray, has repeatedly testified, but the fbi had absolutely no involvement in the attack on january 6, the justice department itself, has prosecuted hundreds of people, many of whom pleaded guilty, admitted they are wrong, and some of them also, of course, anderson said they came to the capital because thought they were following trump's orders, not erasure. mano. thank you. california democratic congressman, i'm ashamed for you saw briefly amount as report serves on the judiciary committee

that is why disbar garr oughtco merrick garland ought to bnte hd in contempt. buying crack, trying to buy a gun. as a former prosecutor that iss slam-dunk case. theyt tried to hide sweetheart deal to give him immunity from all prosecution in all of the cases against the united states of america. thankfully the judge askedm un questions. that is one example how their friends arexe treated differenty than their enemies.d thisdi is incredibly dangerous road to go down for this republic, maria. i didn't see that unpresident trump. all the claimsth they make, threats to democracy they're actually doing. president trump didn'tcy d, o td i think american peoplene are rejecting this. why i think he is going to win big this november. maria: congresswoman, anna, your colleague, andy biggs hase released aan timeline which he says proves that joe biden'she direct collusion with prosecutors was the reason that president trump was indicted.rs this is something that john ratcliffe has said on thisct program manyed times, that peopn tlike alvin bragg, letitia jam, fani willis,

. >> up next attorney general merrick garland on efforts to combat violent crime and the chiefs of police executive forum on crime guns hosted by the bureau of alcohol, tobacco firearms in washington d.c. >> please be seated. all right. rning, everybody. one more time. good morning, everybody. >> good morning. >> all right. welcome back to a.t.f. for day two of our third annual chief and police executive forum on crime guns. i hope you all enjoyed yesterday, the first day. i know i learned a lot from you, and as i said yesterday. we have chiefs here from all over from vermont to vegas, from florida to all over the country. yesterday was a jam-packed agenda covering one of a.t.f.'s greatest assets crime gun intelligence or as we talk about cgi. which means nothing more as we all know and as we discussed yesterday, squeezing every last bit of evidence out of a crime gun and then making that data into actionable leads, leads that are shared with you and the people you lead to clear homicide cases, leads that show how killers get their firearms1 illegally, leads that bring justice to survivor