mr. garland? >> weiss has already said that. >> okay. mr. garland, is it standard operating procedure in your department of justice for prosecutors to allow the statute of limitations to expire on very serious crimes when the potential defendant has already agreed to an extension? >> so there, as i said before, there's no standard operating procedure here. >> maybe there should be. this is an oversight hearing. maybe there should be. maybe you should adopt standard operating procedures to avoid this kind of a circumstance. would you agree? >> no. speed because it's left to the discretion of alexa >> you've answered my question, thank you. according to one of the irs whistleblowers, quote, the purposeful exclusion of the 2014 and 2015 tax years sanitized the most substantive criminal conduct and concealed material facts, and quote. how can americans trust an investigation run by a special counsel who, by allowing the statute of limitations to expire, irreversibly, quote, sanitized the most substantive criminal conduct and concealed material fa

mr. garland, i want to welcome you today to this hearing. i want to turn our attention to something very interesting, more important -- the most important thing on main street today in my district is drug addiction, narcotics trafficking, fentanyl. i'm going to quote you june 23rd of this year. you said, the u.s. government continues to do everything in our power to disrupt fentanyl trafficking and to prevent more of our communities from being devastated by the fentanyl epidemic. you went on to say, we are targeting every step of the movement, manufacturing and the sale of fentanyl from start to finish. mr. garland, i believe that the only thing that the cartel leaders fear is the united states prison. i want to thank you for the good job, you extradited el chapo's son. thank you very much. my question is, do you have plans to extradite additional cartel leaders from other parts of the world to the united states to face u.s. justice and a u.s. prison sentence? >> i don't want to get into discussions -- diplomatic discussions. obviously, we h

mr. garland. again, appreciate your public service to the american people. mr. chairman, i yield back. >> the gentleman from alabama is recognized. >> thank you for being here today. every time i'm in my district, constituents are concerned about the weaponization of government, them being selected because they happen to be conservatives and i think on your watch now, the doj actually is a mid-30s percent approval rating. every time the doj goes after trump his polling goes up. the first question i have, now that we know thanks to an fbi whistle-blower that the fbi received information on americans from bank of america, specifically bank of america sent the fbi a list of customers who made transactions in and around january 6th, 2021. my question is, did the department of justice acquire any geolocation data from january 1st, 2020, through december 31st, 2021? >> did you say locational data? >> geolocational data. >> i believe everything that was done was disclosed in the public filings in the january 6th cases. i don't have that at my fingertips. this is a matt

mr. garland said. ms. jackson-lee is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman.e of the republicans' goals today include solving americans' problems of which they are concerned of. there are many reasons, mr. attorney general, that prosecutors decline to bring charges. one of those reasons is that they don't have any evidence for a conviction. that is the justice way. that is just in america. let me raise these questions and concerns with you today. as we all know, republicans have repeatedly alleged that the doj and the fibi are conspiring to give hunter biden special treatment in the investigations. they've demonized law enforcement officials working in this case at every turn which has led to increased threats against fbi officials, law enforcement of which they pretend to support. i want to place into the record two excerpts from recent transcribed interviews and i would ask that a copy be made available to you. the first is from a june interview with jennifer moore, fbi's former executive assistant director for fema. the fbi had received so many threats that

mr. garland, appreciate your public service to the american people. mr. chairman, i yelled back. thank you, mr. garland, for being here today. every time i am in my district, constituents are concerned about the weaponization of government because they happen to be conservatives command i think on your watch now, the doj actually is a mid-30s percent approval rate print and every time the doj goes after trump, he goes up in the polls. i think the american people are starting to wake up to what is going on, i think it i have is we understand now, bank of america sent the fbi a list of customers who made transactions in or around january 6th, 2020 10 the department of justice require any data around that time? yes or no? geo locational data. >> i believe everything that was done with respect to geo locational data was disclosed in the public filings in the january 6th cases, i don't have that at my fingertips. have done with that data? any specific analyses, was there anything particular you were looking for, mr. attorney general? >> the right to maybe buy a firearm. thanks >> i un

mr. garland? >> weiss has already said that. >> okay. mr. garland, is it standard operating procedure in your department of justice for prosecutors to allow the statute of limitations to expire on very serious crimes when the potential defendant has already agreed to an extension? >> so there, as i said before, there's no standard operating procedure here. >> maybe there should be. this is an oversight hearing. maybe there should be. maybe you should adopt standard operating procedures to avoid this kind of a circumstance. would you agree? >> no. speed because it's left to the discretion of alexa >> you've answered my question, thank you. according to one of the irs whistleblowers, quote, the purposeful exclusion of the 2014 and 2015 tax years sanitized the most substantive criminal conduct and concealed material facts, and quote. how can americans trust an investigation run by a special counsel who, by allowing the statute of limitations to expire, irreversibly, quote, sanitized the most substantive criminal conduct and concealed material fa

mr. garland, welcome you to this hearing. want to turn our attention to something interesting, more important, most important thing on main street today is drug addiction, narcotics and fentanyl. june 23rd of this year, you said and i open quote, the u.s. government continue to do everything in our power to disrupt fentanyl trafficking and to prevent more communities being hit by the fentanyl epidemic. we are targeting every step of the movement, manufacturing and sale of fentanyl from start to finish. go garland, i believe the only thing cartel leaders fear is united states prison. i want to thank you for the good job you extradited lopez, el chapo's son, thank you for that good job. do you have know plas to extradite additional cartel leaders from other parts of the world to the united states to face u.s. justice in u.s. prison sentence? >> i don't want to get into that discussion, diplomatic discussion over the matter, obviously we've indicted the other chapitos, sons of el chopo. >> how many are there? >> four more, maybe

mr. garland. again, appreciate your public service to the american people. mr. chairman, i yield back. >> gentleman from alabama is recognized. >> thank you mr. garland for being here today. every time i'm in my district, constituents are concerned about the weaponization of government, i think on your watch the doj actually is mid 30% approval rating. every time the doj goes after trump, he goes up in the polls. i think the american people are starting to wake up what's going on and i think it's fairly obvious and first question i have, i understand now that we know that thanks to an fbi whistleblower, the fbi received information on americans from bank of america, specifically bank of america sent the fbi a list of customers who made transactions in the days on or around january 6, 2021. my question is did the department of justice have any geo data -- locational data -- >> i believe everything done with respect to geo locational data was disclosed in the public filings in the january 6th cases. i don't have it at my fingertips, this is public record. >> do yo

mr. garland said. miss jackson lee from texas recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. none of the republicans' goals today include solving americans' problems of which they are concerned of. there are many reasons, mr. attorney general, that prosecutors declined to bring charges. one of those reasons is that they don't have any evidence for conviction. that is the justice way. that is just in america. let me raise these questions and concerns with you today. as we all know, republicans have repeatedly alleged that the doj and fbi are conspireing to shield the biden family from public criticism and giving hunter biden special treatment in its investigations. they have demonized law enforcement officials, working with this case at every turn, which has directly led to increased threats against fbi officials, law enforcement of which they pretend to support. i want to place into the record two excerpts from recent transcribed interviews and ask that copy be made available to you. first is from a june interview with jennifer moore, fbi's former executive assistant director

mr. garland, i want to welcome you today to this hearing. i want to turn our attention to something very interesting. more important dose the most important thing on main street today in my district's drug addiction, narcotics, trafficking, fentanyl. i'm going to quote you june 23rd of this year. you said, and i ", the u.s. government continues to do everything in our power to disrupt fentanyl trafficking and to prevent more of our communities from being devastated by the fentanyl epidemic. we are targeting every step of the moof fentanyl from start to finish. mr. garland, i believe that the only thing the cartel leaders fear is the united states prison. i want to thank you for the good job you recently extradited oviedo gomez lopez chapel center thank you for the good job. my question is, do you have plans to extradite additional cartel leaders from other parts of the world to the united states to face u.s. justice in the u.s.get into that discussion, diplomatic discussions over the matter, but obviously we have indicted the othe pitot bein

mr. garland?ok, i have great respect for our attorney general who the republicans -- not all republicans. you know, we have to be very careful. we all take paintbrushes, but people decided let's play political games and talk about impeachment and try these impeachment games when there's very clearly been no cause and republicans have also said that. so, yeah, this is political theatrics right now and that's what we're seeing in too many places. quite frankly i want to govern. i think this country has got a lot of issues, we're coming out of a covid pandemic, our economy has been doing better, i don't want to see it going backwards, and this is what the republicans are doing. giving the attorney general and several other cabinet secretaries a hard time, threatening to impeach them, telling them they're not following the rule of the law. it's not true. it's political gamesmanship and i don't like it. >> all right. you have said what has been published in the article that donald trump is not welcome

mr. garland was reprehensible. it was terrible. he would not let the man answer before he would cut him off. what they want to do is turn everybody in the country -- to the justice department so donald trump will not have to account for the laws he has broken and is still breaking. if you go on vacation, do not spend your hard earned money in places like montana, or wherever it is where andy biggs is at. he is weighing the country down. these maga republicans. the brainwashing, they have been brainwashed so bad they do not know what to do. they have probably got a good lawsuit against the republican party and fox news for brainwashing them. my comments this morning. you all have a good day. host: we have a little more than five minute on your top news story of the day. one of those is the looming potential government shutdown next week if they do not come to an agreement by september 30. just to show you different views on that, republican, democratic and independent. ail om virginia saying, the bi concern of my staff members ithe

mr. garland. again, appreciate your public service to the american people. mr. chairman, i yield back. >> gentleman from alabama is recognized. >> thank you for being here. convents are worried about the weaponization of government, them being selected because they happen to be conservatives and i think on your watch, the doj actually is a mid-30s percent approval rating. every time the doj goes after trump, he goes up in the polls. i think the american people are starting to wake up to what's going on, and i think it's fairly obvious, and the first question i have is i understand now that we know thanks to an fbi whistleblower, the fbi received information on americans from bank of america, specifically bank of america sent the fbi a list of customers that made transactions on or around january 6th, 2021. my question for you is did the department of justice acquire geo locational data. >> i believe everything was done with respect to geo locational data was disclosed in the public filings in the january 6th cases. i don't have that at my finger tips, but this i

mr. garland, and david weiss' letter to senator graham on jule says this. "i was assured that i would be granted special counsel authority if it proved nece necessary, and this assurance came months before the october 7, 2022 meeting reference throughout the whistle-blower's allegations. how was that assurance given and who gave it? >> i'm sorry, i think he was talking about 515 authority, subacute -- he is not talking about special counsel authority. >> 515 authority, okay, same difference. not same difference, but same fundamental question. >> i understand your point. >> making the point that he was assured that he could get this status and that status can, that assurance, sorry, came, before october 2022. how was that assurance given and who gave it? >> i made that clear in my direction and that was transmitted to him. >> so you told him that is october 7th? >> i'm not going to get into exactly the deliberation of the department. >> three simple questions. how was it given, who gave it, when was it done? >> i understand. i give it direction from the begi

mr. garland, does that concern you? it should. i got limited time. remember your sources are credible, trustworthy, honest and valuable. are you familiar with victory shokin? >> the document -- >> who is mr. victor shokin. i have three minutes left. who is he? >> i don't know. >> here's the first prosecutor that was -- he overseeing all the corruption in ukraine. we know there's corruption over there. for the american people watching, after a few months, a few months after hunter biden joined the burisma board, he was named prosecutor general for ukraine to target corruption and one of his investigations was into burisma. in this document, the human source clarified that burisma's ceo said he has many text messages and recordings that show he was coerced to make such payment to ensure victor shokin was fired. it's clear, joe biden wanted shokin fired so he would stop looking into burisma where hunter was on the board. would you agree? let's let the american people decide. play the clip. play the clip. >> remember going over, convincing our team, othe

mr. garland the question. >> i don't know the specifics of the investigation. much of what you are describing occurred during the trump administration, during a justice department appointed by president trump. >> no it didn't. four 1/2 years, we talk about last few years. in your statement was march 1st to senator grassley. >> i'm sorry, i was trying to respond to your descriptions of what the i.r.s. agents said about certain things. statute of licktations is six years. >> i will say again the explanation for why the statute of limitations was lapsed, if it was, has to come from mr. weiss. >> one last question real quick here. who decided that david weiss would stay on as u.s. attorney? >> this occurred before i came, mr. weiss had been kept on. i promised the -- >> you can walk all through that. who decided? the white house decided. the serve at the pleasure of the president, right? joe biden decided to keep u.s. weiss as u.s. attorney. he was told he could stay on until february. pretty fundamental question. who decided david weiss would stay at u.s. attorney

mr. garland, i want to go back to this question. did you consider anyone else when david weiss requested special counsel designation on august 8th? >> mr. weiss asked to be made special counsel. i did not consider an alternative. >> i want to be clear. he was the only one under consideration. if there was a special counsel it would be the guy who presided over the investigation the last five years? they made a decision to say we're gonna let the statute of limitations lapse and i want to know who decided that and why they did it. >> mr. weiss was a supervisor in the investigation at that time and at all times. he made the appropriate decisions. you will be able to ask him that question. >> you know why they did it. everyone knows why they did it. they may not say it, but everyone knows why they did it. those tax years, that dealt with the -- that involved the president. it's one thing to have a gun charge in delaware. that doesn't involve the president of the united states. barisma, oh my. that goes right to the white house. we can'

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mr. garland, didn. you consider i just want to go back to this question. d you consider anyone else when when david weiss requested special counsel designation on augus eighth, mr. weiss asked to be made specialco counseunsel.l, and i made an i d not consider an alternative. >> i'm going to be clear. he was the only one under consideration. it was either no special if thes specialore wa counsel, it was going to be the guy who presided ovethe invr the investigation for the previous five years. they made an intentional decision to say, we'ree a de t n to let the statute of limitations lapse. and i want to knownto who decidd that and why they did it. >> mr. weiss wasin a supervisor of the investigation at that time and at all times he madeo s the necessary appropriate decisions. and you'll be ablek hi to him ks that question and he will know why they did it. >> everyone know wy dis they dit it mayhe not say it. everyone knows why they did itve . they didn't risk those tax years. that's that thate dealt with the in de threat that involved the president. it's o

mr. garland, you say you are not president garland's lawyer, but under the constitution, you work for presidentpresident biden who is in charge of enforcing the law. you are saying not just garland but nobody in the justice department ever talked to anybody in the white house about these cases? maybe garland didn't, but there is a deputy attorney general, all of these aides to both of them. if they didn't talk about that with them, who is in charge of making these decisions to keep david weiss. one thing that came out of the hearings that was interesting, when garland showed up for the job, it had already been dec decided, nobody seems to be responsible for that decision. that raises a question, who is really calling the shots within the executive branch, for garland to say it does not mean it makes you wonder, well, who is doing your job, that is garland's job putting to bite end. >> but what if he is also saying, as the attorney general of the united states, and the lawyer for the people, i don't want to present to my boss that possible conflict, going to have one of my underlings do it, what

mr. garland -- >> about hunter biden's taxes? >> i didn't know about that at that time. we were just finding all this out after the fact. i mean, that's the important here. but, i mean, look at the direct treatment between president trump and president biden, the classified documents scandal, right? they're aggressively prosecuting president trump over that, but they have yet to file any charge against president biden even though he had more documents in more locations. >> president trump fought a subpoena from the justice department and allegedly hid documents from his own attorney that were classified documents that were required by the subpoena to be turned over. >> right. but president biden had them in a box by his corvette. the point is that the perception of the american people, they see these things very clearly. and what they see is a double standard. it's the appearance of impropriety. that's a problem. we have to have a justice department that is above the fray. they have to project fairness. it's really important in our system. >> i think if you look at the t

mr. garland, you said he had complete authority but he had been turned down.u.s. attorney said no you can't and you tell the united states senate under oath he has complete authority. >> john: yeah, i was expecting that we were going to hear something from garland in answer to that, but so now we have more officials saying he was stone walled here and there were roadblocks in the way of the investigation. >> my take-aways from the testimony out of the closed door sessions last week, you had multiple fbi agents and irs agents, colleagues of gary shapley, contradicting what he and his colleague said under oath about the nature of the investigation, that david weiss never asked special counsel status in that conversation that was talked about in that committee hearing. clearly there were more questions than answers, i want everyone to come forward and i want as i said before, you know, hunter biden to be treated like anyone else that we see in america. >> gillian: to that point, david, this fourth official said to congress, this is a quote from the transcript as

mr. garland, have you or are you investigating who leaked the information that appeared in the "washington post" on october 6th, 2022, about this investigation? >> you're saying there was an october 2022 -- >> october 6, 2022, a story about the hunter biden investigation. i wonder if you investigated who leaked that information to the "washington post"? >> i don't know the answer to that dwe question. >> has it been referred to the inspector general? do you know that? >> i don't want my answer to suggest there is or isn't such an investigation. i know that the inspector general sent a letter to congress e planiexplaining that had ab ongoing assessment. i-don't know if that's what you're referring to. >> the chair now recognizes the gentleman from colorado. >> i thank the chairman and the ranking member for holding this hearing. thank you, attorney general, for your testimony, for appearing before us and your service to our country. i have great respect for my colleague from virginia on the other side of the aisle. i have a bit confused as to why they have zeroed in or focused in on this pa

mr. garland's defense of the doj in that instance?well, one thing that's notable, i think both from the congress woman and from the witness today merrick garland, is a sense of propriety and what it means to take an oath of office and to be a public servant and what you owe the people who you are sworn to represent and who you are there for. when i worked for the department of justice, it was keenly understood you're there because of the public and they pay your bills and your salary. and you know, you saw merrick garland there very -- in a very dignified way trying to give a completely honest but apolitical answer and to stay out of the news and not to be calling anyone a liar or not. the import was clear, but he was trying to stay in his lane as he should. and there were people, like the congresswoman today, who acquitted themselves i thought very, very well. now as a private citizen, understanding even in this sort of political season that we're in that there still is, as you said, joy, so many real issues confronting the country a

mr. garland's decision does not align with chapter 10 of the criminal tax manual. david weiss should have followed department policy and charged hunter biden with tax felonies. the department of justice should have ensured hunter paid his back taxes like any other person in this position. hard working tennesseans shouldn't have to subsidize the family's crime spree. i'd like to know if any of them paid their taxes. i yield my time to jim jordan. >> i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. turley, i want to get back to the abuse of power model that we've seen in other administrations. you think may exist here with this administration. i want to look at the gentleman before me talking about the way the justice department ran the investigation into hunter biden. some of the things we learned from the whistle-blowers were they were prevented from taking certain investigative steps. they couldn't interview the adult grandchildren of the president. they couldn't execute a search warrant on a storage unit without first tipping off the defense counsel. in interviews they go

mr. garland's decision does not align with chapter ten of the criminal taxman you that prohibits prosperedm allowing a definitively to a misdemeanor when elements of felony can be proven. david wise should follow department policy and chart hunter biden with tax founders. the department of justice should mitchard hunter pages back taxes like any other person in this position to hard-working tennesseans shouldn't't have to subsidize the biden families crime spree. i would like to know if they paid any other taxes. i yield the reader of my time to my friend from ohio jim jordan. >> i think thefi chairman for unity. mr. turley, what to get back to what you said about the abuse of power model that we've seen in other administrations you think make sister with this administration. i want to look at the gentleman was just talk about the way the justice department randy investigation into hunter biden. some of things we learn from whistleblowers is they were prevented from taking certain investigative steps. they could interview the adult grandchildren of the present. they could execute a search

mr. garlands decision does not allow with chapter 10 of the tax manual brevets prosecutors from allowing a defendant to plead to a misdemeanor when elements of a felony can be proven. they should've followed department policy. the department of justice should've insured hunter paid his back taxes, like any other person in his position. hard-working tennesseans shouldn't have to subsidize the biden families crime spree. like to know if they pay their taxes. i yield the remainder of my time to my friend from ohio. >> i think, i thank the gentleman really. to get back to what you said about the abuse of power model. that we have seen in other administrations that you think may exist. here. i want to look at the gentleman before me was talking about the way the justice department ran the investigation for hundred biden. some of the things we've learned from the whistleblowers were they were prevented from taking certain investigative steps. they couldn't interview the adult grandchildren the president. they couldn't execute a search warrant on a storage unit without first tipping off the def

mr. biden and merrick garland are denying.ocrats are accusing republicans of pushing conspiracy theories for political gain. >> they want to divide the country and make our a government appear broken. that is when a broken political party thrives. >> americans believed today in our country there is unequal application of the law. >> i am not the president's lawyer. i will add, i am not congress's prosecutor. >> attorney general garland says claims of a politicized or weaponized doj have led to security threats against the fbi and doj personnel. iran's parliament passed a controversial bill that would increase prison terms and fines for women and girls breaking strict dress code. those dressed as it describes inappropriately would face up to 10 years in jail. the bill still needs to be approved by the guardian council to become law. the move comes a few days after the anniversary of mahsa amini, a woman that died in custody after being held by the marana deep police for an allegedly improper he job. --hijab. hundreds were kille

mr. garland was reprehensible. it was terrible. would not let the man answer before he would cut him off. what they want to do is turn everybody in the country -- to the justice department so donald trump will not have to account for the laws he has broken and is still breaking. if you go on vacation, do not spend your hard earned money in places like montana, or wherever it is where andy biggs is at. he is weighing the country down. these maga republicans. the brainwashing, they have been brainwashed so bad they do not know what to do. they have probably got a good lawsuit against the republican party and fox news for brainwashing them. my comments this morning. you all have a good day. host: we have a little more than five minute on your top news story of the day. one of those is the looming potential government shutdown next week if they do not come to an agreement by september 30. just to show you different views on that, republican, democratic and independent. abigail fromnia saying, the biggest concern of my staff members is

mr. weiss was actually appointed as u.s. attorney by donald trump, and he had full latitude from attorney general garland to conduct whatever investigation he wanted to conduct. and that is consistent with mr. weiss's testimony as well. and so i think that republicans came away with absolutely nothing, but it was sad to me, wolf. i have been on the judiciary committee for seven years, and i have just seen it increasingly being transformed into this soap box for absurd, baseless conspiracy theories, and i think it is unfortunate because it is undermining government institutions. it's feeding lies to the american public, and i do think that is detrimental to our democracy. the attorney general had a lot of good work that he could have talked about, about issues that americans really care about, like gun violence, and, you know, fentanyl, and abortion rights, which was what i focused my questioning on. but unfortunately republicans, it was just another wasted soap box for absurd conspiracy theories. >> congresswoman jayapal, i want to get your reaction to what the judiciary committee chairman, jim jordan said about the now spec

mr. chairman and thank you for being here attorney general garland. make clear what it means to promote equal justice for every person in this country. attorney general garland, you often speak about your commitment to supporting civil rights and the rule of law. but i have concerns about whether the department under your leadership is doing the absolute most it possibly can to advance these goals. in the limited time i have, i want to share my concerns about specific issues with you directly, and to make clear the steps that i believe that the department needs to take. l first off, as this hearing has shown, a small number of the department's cases get an outside level of attention and politics. but the reality is, you preside over most of the federal system of mass incarceration. and every day in courtrooms around the country, including st. louis, prosecutors who ultimately report to you are continuing to disproportionately prosecute disproportionately black and brown people for disproportionately low level immigration and narcotics and firearm offe

extraordinary admission given the reason a special counsel become politically useful for garland was because mr. weiss had brought the justice department's credibility into question. that, of course, a reference to hunter biden's sweetheart deal that fell apart. i want to bring in jason chaffetz again and get your top line thoughts on this. >> i thought the attorney general was pathetic. he was blissfully ignorant. he was con conveniently unaware of january 6th or hunter biden. he is just a professional at testifying at this point. i think the committee did a very good job of peppering him with questions. they should have driven home that the statute says that the special counsel shall not be a member of the u.s. government. they are not supposed to be in the department of justice. if they had put up that graphic and just driven that home and said how is it that you appointed david weiss, you didn't consider anybody else, that point could have been even stronger. >> harris: jason, thank you for being with me today. appreciate it. bret baier's exclusive sit-down with saudi arabia's crown prince

mr. chairman. attorney general garland, great to see you, thank you for your service to the nation and the nation watches as republicans have no answer for why they want to focus and obsess on hunter biden receiving $2 million for -- from burisma after serving on a board that he said he was not qualified to serve on. but yet the saudi arabians gave $2 billion to jared kushner who conducted middle east strategy for his dear old dad, donald trump. he got $2 billion for something that he is not equipped to do, which is investment banking. so republicans looking at hunter biden instead of jared kushner, americans don't understand how that could be. and they also increasingly are alarmed about the fact that the republicans in control of the house only seemed to have three objectives. one is to impeach joe biden. number two is to shut down -- is to impeach or get rid of kevin mccarthy, actually. and the third is to shut down government and a subset of that is to defund the doj and the fbi, for trying to hold donald trump accountable. so the american people are watching that and they also appreciate the fact th

garland is defending the doj's handling of both the investigations into hunter biden and former president donald trump and denies that he ordered mr. trump's two indictments. republicans say the doj showed preferential treatment toward hunter biden in the investigation, led by special counsel david weiss or david weiss. rather, garland argues that since mr. trump actually appointed weiss, there is no double standard. the house judiciary committee expects david weiss to testify next month. three people indicted in georgia's election interference case were in court today. lawyers for david shafer, cathy latham and sean still say they want to move their cases to federal court. they've all pleaded not guilty and their defense attorneys also argued that the three were not fake electors despite signing a certificate that falsely claiming that former president trump won the state in 2020. instead their lawyers argue they were acting as contingent electors and were doing their duty in case the election results were overturned. and still ahead tonight, words of warning from a northern california sheriff's office after a teenager is found d

mr. chairman, attorney general garland, groea to see you, thank you for your service to the nation. the republicans have no answer for why they want to focus and obsess on hunter biden receiving $2 million from burisma after serving on a board that he said he was not qualified to serve on, but yet the saudi arabians gave $2 billion to jared kushner who conducted middle east strategy for his dear old dad, donald trump. he got $2 billion for something that he is not equipped to do which is investment banking. so republicans looking at hunter biden instead of -- instead of jared kushner, americans don't understand how that could be, and they also are increasingly alarmed about the fact that the republicans in control of the house only seem to have three objectives. one is to impeach joe biden. number two is to shut down, and is to impeach or get rid of kevin mccarthy, actually and the third is to shut down government and the subset of that is to defund the doj and the fbi for trying to hold donald trump accountable. so the american people are watching that and they also appreciate the

mr. attorney general, it was your fbi that -- >> garland is jewish and a descendant of holocaust survivorscca ballant of vermont. thank you, congresswoman, for being here this morning. we really appreciate it. you were there for a lot of this just give us your impressions of these attacks against the attorney general who time and time again said he's not serving the president, he's not serving congress, he's simply trying to serve the people >> what i saw in the hearing room was a public servant doing his level best to answer questions that were designed to -- to inflame they were not based in fact or details, a lot of misinformation and disinformation, and the challenge that we always have in those hearings is, you know, how do you correct the record in realtime while also giving the witness an opportunity to answer the question and so one of the most powerful moments for me yesterday for me in that hearing was, of course, the clip that you showed of garland talking about his experience i also i have -- my grandfather was killed in the holocaust. when, you know, i heard garland speaking i

garland. >> that is quite rich. because the guy who is leaving the hearing room mr. jordan is about 500 days into evading his subpoena. >> garland beating back criticism of the civil servants some of whom have been named by republicans as they barrel into the probe into alleged political bias at doj. >> singling out career public servants who are just doing their jobs is dangerous. particularly at a time of increased threats to the safety of public servants and they're families. we will not be intimidated. >> reporter: now just today special counsel david weiss said hunter biden should have to appear in person for his first court appearance on those gun charges to promote the public confidence that he's not getting any special treatment. jake, a judge just agreed with prosecutors and said hunter biden does have to appear in person in court in delaware next week. >> sara murray, thank you so much. >>> let's bring in evan perez. the attorney general tried to shut down the claim that donald trump made, without a scintilla of evidence, that was priesiden biden that ordere

mr. weiss that question. >> brooke: garland's testimony leaves more questions than answers. >> the questiondoes he need the authority? that makes no sense, that is exactly what he tried to say. he had it all along, i had to make him special counsel. i don't get it. the plea deal was declined by a judge who did her job, that is why they got a special counsel. they were going to get away with this but for the two whistleblowers and the judge in delaware who did her job. >> brooke: attorney general faced questions about weaponization against practicing catholics. watch this. >> do you agree catholics are violent extremists, yes or no, answer the question. >> i have no idea what traditional means here. >> catholics that go to church. >> may i answer? the idea that someone with my family background would discriminate against any religion is outrageous and absurd. >> mr. attorney general, your fbi did this. your fbi was sending and we have the memos and e-mails, sending undercover agents into catholic churches. >> brooke: the hear impeachment inquiry is set for next thursday. >> carley: thank you

mr. smith. >> of course, there garland is talking about the special counsel jack smith he appointed to overseeing on terms of hunter biden. now, listen, all of this is interesting as well because we had a republican in the room, ken buck pushing back on the impeachment inquiry who givesing some cover to garland, he said republicans no matter what he did would have been disappointed that david is now leading the investigation as special counsel into hunter biden. no matter what they would have done they would have found ways to poke holes. >> julie, thank you. >>> let's talk about that f-35 mystery, still no word on why the tracking device for the military jet failed to work after its pilot ejected from the cockpit. here's nbc correspondent sam brock. this morning we're learning new details about how a fighter jet came hurdling back to land before crash landing in a remote area. but still no explanation as to how the military managed to lose track of the $100 million aircraft or why it's pilot ejected. >> that will be something they investigate, believe me. the pentagon does what the pentagon d

garland or not, i don't know, but thus far i don't believe a lot of what merrick garland's telling the american people. >> so, mrairman, you will be releasing new evidence this week, and chairman jason smith of ways and means will also be releasing new evidence, is that what you're saying? >> yes, sir. larry: and we can look, we will look forward to that? are you going to -- when will you put this out? is it going to be thursday? when will jason put it out? >> jason will put it out wednesday, and we'll talk about it thursday. we have some interesting transactions that'll be becoming public soon, hopefully, very spoon. but at -- very soon. but at the end of the day, we already have a mountain of evidence. and the thing that the media's going to regret is all the reporting and all the the fake narratives that they've tried to create that there's no evidence. there's overwhelming evidence. there's overwhelming evidence, and is we're going to continue to get more evidence despite the fact that we're being obstructed by the department of justice, by hunter biden and joe biden's very expensive legal team. it's what i'