mr. garland: it is a death penalty eligible crime. there has to be and digit, then the regulatory procedures will be followed and families and survivors will be consulted. reporter: hi there. the defendant in this case was an 18-year-old who used an assault rifle. the current framework being considered by congress does not include a provision that would raise the minimum age to 21 to purchase such a gun. should it include such a provision? and what else would the justice department like to see in any legislation that congress is considering to help fight gun crime? mr. garland: the justice department agrees with the president that 18-year-olds should not be able to purchase a gun like this. right now there are meaningful negotiations going on in congress with respect to a framework and we look forward to assistanting congress in any way we can. in bringing those to fruition. reporter: you talked to the family. did they tell you if you can say they want the death penalty or not? mr. garland: i came here specifically to talk to the fami

mr. garland? in fact, mr. a single person was violated a federal statute, not one! how about them in hand cuffs and leg irons, mr. garland? these are federal violations, and i have not heard a damn thing from liz cheney tonight, have you, sean? has she put out a statement condemning nancy pelosi, condemning shooter, the democrat party, every 71 of them and their democrats in the media, they said the same thing schumer said, trashing the justice system and the supreme court. they have been at war with this court for years. its independence. the numbers of justices. threats like schumer. this has become a serious, serious problem! no commission on any of that. gee, i wonder why, liz, i wonder why, adam. people need to put this stuff in context. these people are absolute, 100% tax, and by the time the republicans take over the housei hope they will investigate this committee. i hope they will subpoena nancy and hoyer and all the rest of them come and get their texts, get their emails. what did you do on january 6

mr. garland, you are a disgrace.time on "life, liberty and levin." . >> good evening welcome to "the next revolution" this week mortgage rates rose five.7 percent the highest level and double than what they were last are the biggest weekly increases 97. on top of the lowest labor over1 years you have the biggest mortgage hike what a historic administration

mr. garland, you are a disgrace. if it were up to me, you would be impeached. i'll see you next time on "life, liberty and levin." . >> good evening welcome to "the next revolution" this week mortgage rates rose five.7 percent the highest level and double than what they were last are the biggest weekly increases 97. on top of the lowest labor over1 years you have the biggest mortgage hike what a historic administration the specific reason not just mortgages but everything else from carlos to credit card debt are all set to get much more expensive now that the fed decided to raise interest rates by three quarters of a point. here's a good question to ask on a topic supposed to be run by the people why is there such massive consequences for the daily life of every american? but the board of governors of the federal reserve led by the chairman jerome powell? there is a theory behind it. and constitutional theory of governance that actually determines much of what happens in this country even though we never talk about it or debated. despite what it says in the con

mr. garland and the last likely role of his career is bringing these kind of cases, it is only -- only because they have double checked everything and, and they believe they can win sedition cases against these people name which he could by donald trump himself to help out in the event that democracy actually triumphs. this is one of the nights we want go to an expert and an expert alone, so we can get the benefit of all of his views. kneel katyal, the former solicitor general in the obama administration. he's been with many cases in the court as a msnbc analyst. it's a big night of legal news. thanks for being here tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> what stands out at important to you this week? >> this week, at this time big thing is of course the hearings beginning on thursday and the select committee of congress has a difficult task, because they have to compress thousand of hour of testimony and video footage into six hearings. i mean, it's like the biggest squeeze since they tried to get the presidents' daily intelligence briefing for trump down to a size trump could read in one sit

mr. garland has indicted a single person who'sin violated a federal statute, not one . about them in handcuffs and my guidance. mr.n garland, what do you say? these are federal violations and i haven't heard a ra thing from liz cheney tonight . i'm listened and she put out a statement condemningea nancy pelosi, condemning schumer, the democrat party , every one of them and are democrats in the media. d they allem said the same thingd schumer did trashingg the justicesc, trashing the supreme court. they've been at a war with this court for years. its independence, the numbers of justices threats like schumer. this has become a serious, serious, problem. no commission on any of that .f gee, i wonderth why, liz and i wonder why adam people need a to put this stuff in context. these people are absolute 100% hacks. and by the time the republicans take over the house, i hope they will investigate this committee. i hope they subpoena nancyen and hoyer and all the rest of. them get their techs, get their emails. what did you do on jan six , pelosi? anything?in and by the way, c

mr. garland, some of the elves, this question, go back to summer 2020. there was a lot of crime in our cities. what i've been hearing mostly about would be the arrests we have made associated with january 6. so, can you give me some kind of accounting in terms of all the various incidents which occurred across our big cities, but crime in the streets where we ended up with more people killed, lots of downtown businesses burned and damaged, have we been as diligent there as we have on the january 6 issue? and just give me a general accounting, i know that we have arrested over 700 individuals associated with it, what have we accomplished from what was something maybe even broader in scope, in terms of damage and lives lost? mr. wray: i don't have exact numbers for you here. what i will tell you is the violence amidst all the civil unrest over the summer of 2020, we used all 56 of our field offices, we used our joint terrorism task forces, and often, there were hundreds of investigations, hundreds of arrests. now, i should pause on that last part because o

mr. merrick garland, the biggest threat facing the country today. >> the fbi's view, the top domestic violentremist threat comes from racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race. >> tucker: that's a total lie actually. we have numbers to prove it. but you know it's a lie, there is no justification, rationally, for what merrick garland just said. it's ridiculous, obvious or anybody living in a major city knows that. why did they keep telling you that? because nothing the biden administration is doing, nothing that's happening in congress right now will actually address gun violence. that's not the point, john cornyn. the point is to allow the democratic party to become more powerful. it feels like it to send its armed agents to raid the homes of ben shapiro, another disobedient people of the democratic party doesn't like. red flag laws aren't what they seem. eric schmidt is one of them, the paternal general of the state of missouri. thank you for coming on. i think you can see. you're steeped in this for people that

he runs the doj.oj watch him describe mr merrick garland, atthe biggest threat facing this country today in the fbi's view, the top domestic violence extremist threat comes from racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists, specifically those who advocated for the superiority of the white race. >> that's just a totalke liehat' actually . and we have numbers to prove it. but you know, it's why there's no justification rationally forj what merrick garland just said. it's ridiculous. it's an obvious untruth. majoryone living in a city knows that . so why do they keep telling that ? well, because nothing the bush administration is doing and nothingni is happening in congress right now will actually address gun violence. that's not the point. john cornyn. the point is to allow the democratic party to become even more powerful and if it feels like it to send its armed agents to raid the homes of ben shapiro and other disobedient people, the democratic w party doesn't like red flag laws are not what they seem. very few republicans wouldn't say that out loud. ericic schmidt is one of them

mr. berman, nice to see you again. >> the attorney general merrick garland based on what has been heard by the january 6th committee should be investigating donald trump? >> well, as you know that is up to the attorney general, i put him there. i mean, he's got to deflect in a way that makes it clear that he defers to merrick garland that this is important for history, that he wants to see some accountability, but, look, he has been very clear that he wants the doj to operate independently because he knows what has happened in the trump administration. at the same time he doesn't want to look sort of tone deaf. america has been hooked on these hearings and all of the revelations, i think the reporting was that he was going to watch the hearings and that he was -- you know, he was enthused about what was going to come out, whether in fact he's been following all the developments while he has been abroad, he's been busy, i think i think he's going to deflect to merrick garland and not weigh in on whether the president will be indicted or investigated. >> what do you think, errol? >> on the question of rochd and the response

now, on the other hand, he also argues if garland concludes trump has committed a convictable crime, quote, a failure to indict mr. trump in these circumstances would imply that a president who cannot be indicted while in office is in defiance of the -- literal above the law in defiance of the very motion of constitutional government. what's the right thing to do? >> incredibly challenging spot. let's assume the justice department has done all the work they referred to earlier and they believe there's a prosecutable case to be brought forward. we're now in a situation, the nondissimilar to the one that president ford found himself in after nixon resigned the white house. do you put the country through a prosecution that would so deeply tear us in half where we're a divided nation and it's hard to see how that would make things any better. but then again, if you don't, as jack gold smith points out, you're setting a damage precedent that former presidents can't be indicted. there's a school of thought among many folks who watch these things, the thinking that at that moment of pursuing an indictment, and after an

mr. wilcox, a year ago, 21 democrat senators sent attorney general garland a letter about the, quote, barrage of threats and abuse of conduct from those seeking to interfere with the certification of the 2020 election or to overturn the results. now, of course, no election officials should be subjected to threats. but many threats to election officials and public officials more generally aren't limited to one side of the aisle. we see democrats across the country making false claims of voter suppression. for example, president biden has called georgia's common sense election law, quote, jim crow in the 21st century. this rhetoric, deliberately racially divisive, incendiary rhetoric, can have real consequences. can you speak, mr. wilcox, to how this type of rhetoric and misinformation from the left affects our elections? >> i think misinformation, regardless of the left or right, is bad for our election institution. you know, my concern and my colleagues concern as elections professionals is the accuracy, the security, and the ability to vote. once again, i go back to our statement earlier. we

mr. donahue, that is a direct quote from president trump, correct. >> that is the exact quote from the president, yes. >> just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me. merrick garland must decide if donald trump was asking them to commit a crime. when rosen and donahue resisted his attempts to commit election fraud, donald trump somehow found a man named jeffrey clark working in the civil division of the justice department, on environmental issues. he decided to try and install him as acting attorney general on january 3rd, 2021. before being tucked out of that, in an oval office meeting. >> all anybody is going to think about when they see this, nobody is going to read this letter. all anyone's going to think is that you went through to attorney generals in two weeks, until you found the environmental guy to sign the thing. the story is not going to be that the department of justice has found massive corruption that would've changed results of the election, it's going to be the disaster of jeff clark, and i think at that point, pat cipollone said this is a murder suicide pact. >> jeffrey clark's testimony to the january 6th committee, he took the fifth amendment o

mr. navarro. >> joining me now is barry berke for trump's impeachment trial. although with us, acting u.s. solicitor general. msnbc legal analyst. neil, you've had experience working in the justice department. that moment with garland today was for me his most fascinating moment. what is his prosecutors doing, what did you make of what he had to say about the attorney general watching every move he makes. what he called the january six prosecutors are all watching, all of the hearings. >> yeah lawrence, he is by the book, he always has been. his remarks today reflect that. i hope that garland has settled on a strategy, the strategy is rooted in the fact that this is by no means a well-known investigation. a normal investigation, the justice department picks up the ball and runs with it right away. here, you have a coordinate branch of government that was attacked, their own people died, their sacred soil was invaded. congress is always of course going to investigate what happened on january 6th. garland could've decided right then to develop the facts after the hearing, the hearings will also serve a public importance. garland could decide that it is better to have that bipartisan congressional set of hearings firs

mr. trump reaching out at a pretty low level. so this will be revelatory. >> there is a new op-ed out by the former assistant ag to george butchsh, he says when yo look at merrick garland and whether he looks forward to moving ahead with charges against president trump, he says it is his decision to make whether to indict trump, whether he has adequate evidence to indict trump, basically to us is t sustain a conviction against him and whether the national interest would be served by prosecuting mr. trump. what do you think about that those questions, those decisions? is that an accurate appraisal of his situation? >> that's a good summary of his piece. what is interesting to me is that he, first of all, is -- was the office of legal counsel. he's sort of the brains, the legal brains in the department. that's where you go when you want to opine or understand the law. he did a book after he left with bob bower, who was the white house counsel for obama. he served in george bush's presidency. they had a meeting of the minds and did a book addressing many of these questions. i was surprised why bob bower didn't join him in this op-ed, which raises provocative questions. al

mr. katyal, we learned that the feds have gone in. what does that indicate? >> the hugest news available to us today. much bigger than the hearing to me. >> wow. >> basically it says to me, merrick garland has an investigation into january 6th, and it includes donald trump. here's my thinking. sock you don't dawn raid someone's home unless they're a target or very close to a target of a criminal investigation, so they really do think jeffrey clark committed various federal crimes. this was signed off on by a judge. this wasn't the justice department on their own running into his house, and in order to do that they have to have some theefr what the crime is. >> just so slow you down, your theory is this would on be sign off at the level of the current attorney general. >> yes. technically the deputy attorney general or head of the criminal division could do it, but not merrick garland, "a," and not frankly any -- a real attorney general would never let a subordinate do something of this gravity. okay, so the dawn raid's been authorized, signed off by a federal judge. they think crimes have been committed. what's the most likely crime jeffrey clark committed? conspiracy. conspiracy takes

mr. eastman is not under criminal investigation? >> it would be surprising if he wasn't under investigation. it's entirely possible that's happening and we haven't seen signs of it. back in january, attorney general merrick garlandled, no matter who was involved, whether they were there on january 6th or not, and here we have the architect or at least one of the architects of the fraudulent scheme. hard to imagine how he doesn't get tied up in some sort of criminal investigation at a minimum. >> do you think he is? i mean, from what you see, is there any evidence you've seen that he's under criminal investigation? >> i will confess to you that i have had this misgiving throughout, that we haven't seen the signs of a grand jury investigation being conducted that you would have expected in the first year that merrick garland was on board, but since january, really since december, we've seen more signs of a grand jury investigation under way. one of the points here, though, is that the evidence is very much evident in front of us. >> right. >> eastman has spoken extensively. there are now these investigative materials from congress. if you're doj, you need to follow up on that and do your own investigation. there's

delegation in sending a letter to attorney general garland, calling on him to investigate the arson at the family action office in madison, over to my colleague, mr. tiffany, spoke about earlier. we need to make sure that we prevent similar attacks in the future. rather than focusing on defusing threats against americans for their political beliefs, the department has in the last 17 months been silent on or encouraged further partisan targeting. i myself will always push back on their anti-life stances with a clear and strong message of opposition. and i have, as a state legislator, for 27 years. i believe that every human life is precious and should be protected at every stage. if the leak supreme court opinion ends up being the final product and overturn roe v. wade, it would be a fantastic victory for life and for the babies. the pro-life movement has spent decades working on this movement. this is not a complete nationwide ban on abortion. like i said, i've passed hundreds of bills, pro-life bills, at the state level. elected officials rather than unelected judges will state abortion policy based on where good decides incident found. we've us

garland? >> my staff might have received information, i have not that i would be happy to have my team reach out to you if you have questions about the rollout. >> thank you. mrairman, i yield back. chair scott: gentlelady from pennsylvania. >> thank you mr. chairman. thank you, secretary cardona for being here today. i apologize for >> i apologize for the tone and attitude you been expanding from our questioners. the covid pandemic has changed the life of every american and especially dramatic effect on our nation's young people and i have to tell you i am proud to have helped enact the american rescue plan last spring, $130 billion federal funding for schools and students. schools in pennsylvania represent, receive more than $5 million for schools just in my home receiving hundreds of millions of dollars. very proud the funding to safely keep schools physically open ang get students back on track. i have to say, i want to tell you a couple answers, the school district in my district has hired new staff to provide supplemental instruction helping students catch up in the academics. the school district purchased new technology for students library books and m

general garland and deputy attorney general monico will choose the right leader to clear out the bureaucratic rot and improve with significant reforms, but we need to act quickly. lives are at stake. mr. president, i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: thank you, mr. president. over the last couple of weeks, many of us have spent a lot of time thinking about the horrific shootings and uvalde, philadelphia, buffalo, and elsewhere. unfortunately these are familiar scenes that we've seen before. and we'd like to try to find a way to reduce the likelihood of their reoccurrence in the future if there's anything we can do here in the senate to make that possibility. so i've been working particularly with senator murphy who is my partner on the fix nics bill we passed in 2018. senator murphy comes from a blue state, connecticut. i come from a red state, texas. in that example we were able to take the horrible events of sutherland springs where innocent parishioners were gunned down at a small baptist church outside of san antonio and take out of that tragedy something good, which is a bill we called fix nics, the national ins