you answered that it was the october 22nd memorandum from the national school board association. the national school board association has been mentioned and has since withdrawn that memo and you said that was a factual predicate. given that was the factual predicate and rescinded the memo saying there was no justification for some of the language used in the letter will you rescind your memo? >> senator, best of my recollection i said the impetus for my memorandum was that letter and also reports of this kind of activity. >> what reports? >> i said again at the time that they were news reports that had been published and i think that some of the other senators here have described some of those news reports and we have certainly seen subsequently more news reports and more statements by board members of threats to kill them. >> congressman chip roy of texas said -- raised in that same hearing the issue of a 14-year-old girl in a school bathroom being sexually assaulted in loudon county. and you indicated in response to that that you weren't aware of that and in the six days before

the republican national lawyers association is the national entity around which republican lawyers gather to promote the rule of law and republican principles and you can learn more at www.rnla.org. well, most people don't practice immigration law. it's a very complex federal statute which governors this practice. it was passed by congress and through the years has been revised from time to time. the republican national lawyers association to make appropriate revisions and follow the law. what we see about things discussed here earlier today lead us to ask a couple of questions. number one, is that statute being followed? or maybe even referenced by the current administration with respect to immigration law and the handling of the crisis on our southern border and other areas. these are reasonable questions based on what we see. we have the absolute perfect person to talk to us today about those questions and many other things. matthew whitaker is the former acting united states attorney general for the united states of america. in 2018 and 2019 during the trump administration. before tha

the republican national lawyers association is the national entity around which republican lawyers gather to promote the rule of law and republican principles. and you can learn more about us at www.rnla.org. well, most people don't practice immigration law. the reason why most people don't practice immigration law is it's a very complex federal statute which governs this practice. it was passed by congress, and through the years, the statute has been revised from time to time. but always the efforts of both parties and the republican national lawyers association has been to make appropriate revisions and actually follow the law. but what we see going on on our southern border and many of the things that have been discussed here earlier today lead us to ask a couple of questions. number one, is that statute being followed? or maybe even referenced by the current administration in its activities with respect to immigration law and the handling of the crisis on our southern border and other areas? these are reasonable questions based on what we see. what we have is the absolute perfect pers

we have a national association, before the doj sent a letter to the white house, what am i to take away from that? did they collude, collaborate, did they send it back to the national school board association with preferred language and then it's forwarded on to the doj? if that is what happened, what does that mean for you and congress? what does that imply about our government? >> what we know is on september 29th according to a foia request, we found out that the guy who is the interim executive director of the national association for school boards, he said explicitly in the email they had been coordinating and communicating in the white house with the terms they wanted to put in the memo. the memo is put forward and sent to the white house, to president biden. five days later the attorney general of the united states said i'm going to empower the fbi and we are going to go after it and target parents. that is not a coincidence. we know exactly what is happening here and parents defending education which is the organization that did that should be commended for doing this foia reque

anyone at the department of justice communicate with the american federation of teachers, national education association or national school board association prior to your memo? >> i did not. i don't know. >> you don't know if anyone else in the justice department did? >> i don't know. >> did you or anyone at the justice department communicate with those organizations prior to the letter? did you help the national school board association put together the letter? >> again, i have had no such conversations. i would be stur surprised if that happened >> will f.b.i. agents being attending local school board meetings? >> no. there is nothing in the memo to suggesting that. this memo is about violence and threats of violence. >> the same day you did the memo the justice department sent out a press release monday october 4, 2021. the press release says justice department addresses violent threats against school boards and teachers. a question to one of my colleagues you said parents are domestic terrorists. according to the attorney general's memorandum the justice department will launch efforts designed to a

and we know that the national school board association wants the white house and the association were happy with the letter. the national school board association sent the letter to the white house and the white house promptly called you and said sick the fbi on parents at school board hearings. and that's what i mean. the white house is the profit here and you're just the vessel, correct? >> sir, i did not speak with anyone from the white house while i worked on this memorandum. the memorandum reflects my views that we need to protect public officials from violence and threats of violence, while at the same time protecting parents' ability to object -- >> i get that. i heard your testimony. were you worried you'd be fired if you didn't issue the memorandum? >> i'm not -- i signed on this memorandum on my own. i said from the very beginning. i've taken this job to protect the department of justice and make independent determinations with respect to prosecution, and i will do that. >> i'm sorry to interrupt but i don't have much time. now, when you got the letter from the white house t

at the department of justice communicate with the american federation of teachers the national education associationhe national school boards association, prior to your memo? >> i did not. i don't know. >> you don't know if anyone else at the justice department did? >> i don't know. >> did you or anyone at the justice department communicate with those organizations, aft, nea, national school boards association, prior to the letter? did you help the national school board association put together the letter? >> i have had no such conversations. i would be surprised if that happened. but i don't know. >> will fbi agents berd meetings? >> no and there is nothing in this memo to suggest that. i want to again, try to be clear. this memo is about violence and threats of violence. it's not -- >> the same day you did the the press release, monday october 4, 2021. the press release says justice department addresses violent threats agaials and teachers. now are you said earlier to a question to one of my colleagues on the republican side that parents aren't domestic terrorists we're not going to treat them tha

that would likely be i assume the letter from the national school boards association, this outrageoustrageous letter, as pretext for federal action to chill, deter, and discourage parents from exercising their constitutional rights and privileges. so according to this, the department of justice, at the most senior levels of the biden administration, and these organizations, including the national school board association colluded, conspired, to set up the parents and parent organizations and tax payers of this country to silence them. upon information and belief, in or about mid september, work began on development of what became the attorney general's memorandum. concerns expressed by department staff included, one, the absence of federal law enforcement nexus and authority, exactly there is none. number two the constitutionally protected nature of parent's protest. absolutely. it is protected. however, jane doe number two made it clear this was a white house priority and a deliverable would be created. next, on or about september 29th, citing legal authorities, including the patriot

. >> d that would likely be a assume letter from national schoolol board association. outrageous letter as pretext for federal action -- >> according to this, the department of justice, the most senior levels of the biden administration, and the organizations, including national school board association, colluded to set up parents and parent organizations and tax payerses to silence them. on information and belief in or about mid september. work began on development of what became attorney general memorandum -- >> >> you know on my radio show i said i i smelled a rat, this letter, and the memorandum from attorney general, the overlap was could not be coincidence, letterr was written on september 29, a memo put out 5 days later that is 5 way too fast. it continues -- >> the day after memo went out, on october 5. -- >> a a violation of law. intention -- a letter gone to the inspect or general of department of the justice, white house senior officials in domestic policy bidenls staff coordinated with senior officials at department of justice that include civil right divis

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the department of justice can indicate with the american federation of teachers or the national education association or the national school board association prior to your memo? >> i did not. i don't know. >> sandra: did that surprise you jonathan? >> it does, and that with a host of legal experts as destroying the integrity of the justice department. and the beginning of the investigation of the customs officer has declared them guilty and said they had been stopping these individuals trying to come into the country. that's really out of line and it's a direct sort of flap of the justice department independence. in total and nothing but crickets in response to that. the president has made repeated statements about pending investigations most recently in saying that anyone who doesn't comply with the subpoenas in congress should be prosecuted by the justice department. the record here is not quite as redeeming and i don't necessarily say that those are an and proper and those are not public statements who should and -- the justice department. >> john: you mentioned a moment ago that the attorney gen

obviously his immediate audience was the national association of evangelicals. more broadly it was religious people in the united states, evangelical in general who he wanted to mobilize on behalf. but when the president speaks, the world listens. people all over the world knew that he had referred to the soviet union as an evil empire. but word reach places like warsaw, there were people who took inspiration from these words. for some people it was inspirational. for other people it was confrontational and alarmist. so, the speech was a matter of delivering multiple messages to multiple audiences. we see this a lot in presidential speeches. i want to talk about another reagan's speech. this is something i hope you had a chance to read about in peggy newman's chapter. that is the d day speech. this was a speech he gave on the sixth of june covid 1984, 40 years after the landings in normandy. why 40 not 50? as a practical matter the veterans of d-day were getting older and simply dying. the white house and figured this would be the last chance to get a substantia

paul: the national scoreboard association, are you saying they generated this?oing this and who were they working with? >> they were working with people at the white house, there's reporting on that now which is interesting in the context of this story but the national school boards association was not consulting with its own board sending the letter, not consulting with its own members some of whom were very upset about this. paul: . her mother have been significant blowback, do you think the attorney general was caught off guard? given his reputation on this reasonable moderate person, what is going on here with the ag? >> one of the questions, and we need to know more, we know national scoreboard association was in touch with the white house, was the white house in touch with the department of justice? was this in order, command, was he pressured to go down this road x we don't know and he's not going to say but it's remarkable, they knew this was coming in the context of all of these parent protests around the country, it's remarkable he'd go there given com

what we asked the national association of school boards for all the communications between the whitece department so we can see if the attack may have originated in the white house and what exactly the coordination was. the other letter we sent to the national security, or to chairman nadler was to have a hearing. one of the things the attorney general said in that extraordinary memo was in the task force he is going to create, the national security division of the fbi is going to be involved. that was created under the patriot act and it is designed to protect america from terrorism. what role would they have with america's parents? edward: exactly. you're on the homeland security committee. you know, what is your reaction when you heard frustrated parents being compared to domestic terrorists? >> you know the first place that came out was in the letter from the school boards association and again, that is what they said in their subsequent memo they heard a lot from their members. they issued an apology. they said that was utterly unjustified, yet the attorney general of the united

this is from the 1910s, vote for women means to the south and unfortunately the national association of colored women did not have the funds of resources or people power to create the same kind of propaganda white women's organizations did despite the fact they advocated a portion of the organization and budget to be spent on visual campaigning but the naacp created for the crisis and this is one of the few pro-women voting rights propaganda pieces that emphasize black women need political power. this woman is beating down segregation, jim crow laws and grandfather clauses to protect the women in her skirts. this is emphasizing not only white women need the vote that black women do too and a similar reason, to protect their families. so i want to hop into photographs, different from the images we've been looking at previously and it corresponds with very different tactical shift within the movement itself as well. this is the moment in the early nineteenth century starting in 1907, by the 1910s we have a lot of suffrage activists like this one, this is the 1913 parade we looked at th

i'm not here as a spokesperson for the national school board association. thority to be a spokesperson or representative of the national school board association. i'm here just to tell you that there have been across the country a number of very serious threats that have been communicated by u.s. mail, by voicemail, by the internet, and those are federal crimes, and i personally as a local school board member have been concerned that the justice department was not stepping up and investigating those federal crimes. i have no reason whatsoever to believe that any of the threats in the worthington school district were initiated by parents or by people who live in our district. i have reason to believe that these were outside groups funded by outside groups that are stirring up this kind of violence and threats in our community. >> uh-huh. charlie wilson, we appreciate you talking with us today live, of course talking to our colleague in his piece. appreciate you. >> you're very welcome. >> thank you so much. >>> all right. still ahead, another water crisis in

now to america's national basketball association, which turns 75 this season.ow the sport's appeal has grown. basketball is wildly popularn china and africa, so players have become more influential, speaking out on racial justice in the u.s. for more on how the nba is dealing with everything from the pandemic to politics, monica miller sat down with the head of the union representing players in new york city. >> the nba may be gearing up for a new season, but these players spent the past few months honing their skills at rutger park in harlem, also known as the mecca of street basketball. some sports legends made cameos on this court, including allen iverson, kobe bryant, and kevin durant. the woman who runs the union that represents these star players is ao playing offense against a mutating virus. >> she is a clever one. she is not to be predicted. monica: michelle roberts is the first female to head the national association, representing more than 450 players from 41 countries. last season, covid forced players into a bubble to finish out their games. during

she was also elected to be the first president of the national association of colored women which was founded in 1896. and this organization was different from other suffrage organizations. they wanted to vote for women, there also thinking more broadly about gender and race issues for their thinking about protecting the vote for black men who were losing it on a broad scale in the south by the 1890s sprayed their thinking of anti- segregation and tight lynching for their thinking how to educate their children better. there is a much more broad movement. and you can see from this image, and many others of her like it, she really emphasizes that she and her fellow black women are race activists are extraordinarily respectable, refined, elegant. she was very interested in fashion. you can see she often has extravagant hats on herself and these images. she's very wealthy women fairly elite women in washington d.c. at the time. you can see the similarities between her and this image from one of her speeches. and this representation of an idealized so-called new negro woman from 1904. it's

the national school boards association., to the president of united states, an inside job, there is no question. they want the federal government to use patriot act to investigate what they call -- domestic terrorism. the violent interference with federally protected right statute. there no federal nexus for this. i guess we can conclude that the biden administration benefit of justice 100% in, in the racist marxist ideology, poisoning our children. >> that is right. we have seen as context that national education association, na, over -- the summer they endorsed critical race theory, there is pressure built up on the school systems, they have shut down are in over a year, adopted the insane mask policies, now exposed for forcing malign racial ideologies down the throats of people, parents and american people are revolting, rather than win in spirit of public debate, they have gone to their ally in biden administration, including attorney general said time to unleash the fbi on parents, this is not only designs to launch a

the national sheriffs association who says he is also eager to finish the job. >> the head of the nationals association tells me he was growing optimistic about the prospects of a deal on police reform after democrats made some concessions. it removes some of the more divisive provisions like abolishing qualified immunity. now he's just hoping there's still a bipartisan way forward. we need to stay at the table. we need to talk the head of the national sheriffs association says he's disappointed lawmakers failed to strike a deal on police reform after months of negotiations of the language. with that we saw. i would say we're 90% on board. jonathan thompson says with the crime on the rise. he supported the compromise plan to ban told cold and no knock warrants while also adding more money for police training and mental health resources. the mental health problem in this country. it's an embarrassment. >> we're putting in jail. people who belong in hospitals ultimately talks fell apart over how to enforce change. >> democrats wanted to withhold federal police grants if local agencies failed

arkansas governor asa hutchinson, the chair of the national governors association talk about the importance for all states to have an emphasis on computer science in schools. [applause] >> thank you. we are pleased to join you all here today for the launch of the asa hutchinson initiative as the national governors association chairman k-12 computer science education. as some of you know, each year the

>> this shows the power when they mobilize and the national school board association had 20 state affiliatester and threatened to hold their dues to the national association and the national association apologized for the letter and the letter, though, was coordinated. this is a big victory for parents trying to control their local schools. >> interesting, so i'm sure that you probably saw attorney general garland testifying this week, your view is that ultimately the white house used the doj, the fbi to go after parents that dare criticize the authenticity of crt. >> the truth is crt and other discriminatory practices in schools are very unpopular, parents don't like them, they are organizing very effectively against them and the only way they can hold off this pressure from parents to take back control over their schools is by threatening them with investigation by the federal authorities and also with the use of chief diversity officers within districts that kind of organize locally against protesting parents and so that's the majority will prevail if it's a level-playing field. griff: yo

morgan, nasdaq, the national association of realtors, and others. and for joining me today to talk about the need to raise the debt limit and we haven't failed to do that pretty we need to act, these leaders know we need to act in the united states pays his bills and it's who we are in bed and we will continue to be god willing and that is what is called the full state and credit of the united states. the me be clear, raising the debt limit is paying our old debts. nothing to do with new spending our becoming this year or other years, nothing to do with my plans on infrastructure building back better. both of which are paid for but they're not even in the queue right now it is about paying for what we owe in preventing the catastrophic events occurring in our economy. i'm glad these leaders are here to talk about the real world impact this would have on people and on our position in the world. today's discussion will not be partisan, it should not be, raising the debt limit is usually part of a bipartisan. the me speak for myself here pretty want to

>> not sure what you mean by that. >> national school board association sent the letter to the white house and the white house promptly called you and said, sick the f.b.i. on parents at school board hearings. that's what i mean. the white house is the puppet here, you're just the vessel. >> john: we did learn the national school board association was in touch and the letter was sent to the president on september 29th and the doj notified you better look into this and the memorandum was sent from attorney general to the f.b.i. does seem to be a lot of -- >> i think senator kennedy was underscoring attorney general garland's testimony is not credible, not credible for him to say he was sitting at his desk minding his own business and decided to issue this memo. the letter from the school board the white house worked on was dated september 29th. a week later you get the memorandum from attorney general garland. garland has a lengthy career as in federal law enforcement as top official, first in clinton justice department and as distinguished judge of one of the most eminent appellate c

american association of retired persons are, bank of america deloitte intel jpmorgan nasdaq the national association of realtors and raised on and we are joining today to talk about the need to raise the debt limit. we haven't failed to do that since their inception as a country. we need to act. the united states pays its bills and the two er and who we will continue to be god willing. it's called the full faith faith and credit of the united states and let me be clear raising the debt limit is paying her old debts and it has nothing to do with new spending this year or any year. has nothing to do with my plans on infrastructure or building back better both of which are paid for but they aren't even in the queue right now. it's about paying for what leo and preventing a catastrophic event occurring in our economy. i'm glad you were here to talk about the real-world impact it's going to have on people and our position in the world. today's discussion won't be partisan and it shouldn't be. raising the debt limit is usually bipartisan. let me speak for myself here. i want to be clear so the american pe

i have met with the national association of election administrators. and the national association of secretaries of state for every state. and that's what prompted us to establish this task force. now, on the second question, i don't want to discuss any particular circumstances, certainly not that one, but there are provisions of the voting rights act that require state election officials to keep control, custody of voting records and voting equipment and materials relating to the last election, i think for 18 months. and similarly, there are provisions of the same statute which prohibit intimidation or acts leading to intimidation of voters. both of which are sort of the core of the federal government's concern with respect to post-election audits. >> the gentlelady's time has expired. >> i yield back. >> the chair now recognizes mr. stuby from florida for five minutes. >> attorney general garland, in your senate confirmation hearing, you referred to the january 6th protest as, i quote, the most danger threat to democracy in your law enforcement and j

morgan, nasdaq, the national association of realtors, and a raytheon. joining me today to talk about the need to raise the debt limit. wewe have not failed to do that since our inception as a country. we need to active. these leaders know they need to act. the united states pays its bills. it's who we are it's who we will be god willing. that is called the full faith andth credit of the united states. let me be clear, raising the debt limit is paying our old debts. it has nothing to do with new spending or what may be coming this year or other years. it has nothing to do with my plans on infrastructure building back better, both of which are paid for but not in the queue right now. it is about paying for what waco and preventing a catastrophic event occurring in our economy. i am glad these leaders are here to talk about the real world impact this is going to have on people and our position in the world. today's discussion will be partisan it shouldn't be. raising the debt limit is usually bipartisan. let me speak for myself here. i want to be clear so

at the department of justice communicate with the american federation of teachers, the national education association, the national school boards association, prior to your memo? >> i did not. i don't know. >> you don't know if anyone else at the justice department did? >> i don't know. >> did you or anyone at the justice department communicate with those organizations, aft, nea, national school boards association, prior to the letter? did you help the national school board association put together the letter? >> i have had no such conversations. i would be surprised if that happened. but i don't know. >> will fbi agents be attending local school board meetings? >> no, and there is nothing in this memo to suggest that. i want to, again, try to be clear. this memo is about violence and threats of violence. it's not -- >> the same day you did the memo, the justice department sent out a press release, monday, october 4, 2021. the press release says justice department addresses violent threats against school officials and teachers. now are you said earlier to a question to one of my colleagues on the rep

association of retired persons, the aarp bank of america, citibank, intel, jp morgan, nasdaq, the national association of realtors and raytheon. for joining me today for the need to talk about raising the debt limit. we have not failed to do that since our inception as a country. we need to act. these leaders know it is who we are, who we have been and who are -- we are going to continue to be. that is the credit of the united states. raising the debt limit is paying our old debts. it is nothing to do with new spending. it is nothing to do with my plans on infrastructure or building back better. both of which are paid for but they are not even in the queue right now. it's about paying for what we owe and preventing the catastrophic event that could occur in our economy. glad these leaders are here to talk about the real impact it's going to have on people and our position in the world. today's discussion will be partisan. it should be. raising the debt limit is usually bipartisan. let me speak for myself. i want to be clear so the american people understand what is going on. there is a senate vote tod

and being in that letter the national association of school board, referred to the actions aimed at school boards has equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism. personally, i would've taken a red pen to that. because it's pretty inflammatory language and i don't think accurate. but the justice department responded to the southern with a fairly pro-formal letter themselves, saying, it takes these incidents seriously is committed to using its authority and resources to discourage these threats, identify them when they occur and prosecute them when appropriate. that is a long and short answer. republicans are trying to turn this into a big issue. and again, to be fair there's some real conflict and at least ambiguity here. hear me. out part of having a free country, and i have to agree with ted cruz on this, is allowing citizens to get that people in power. it's almost a definition of freedom. that could mean yelling at the president, yelling at elective representative, are yelling at a school board meeting. or a covered school board meeting as a reporter, and people yell. it can get very ug

national school board association now walks back and rejects its own letter as wrong.he one it sent to the president, demanding the white house aim federal patriot act firepowers meant for al qaeda at parents. upset with toxic school agendas. the school boarded a mitting this was misinformation. former president obama tries to claim this is phony culture war stuff. parents say tell that to upset democrat parents on the front lines. also this story, the prescription drug shortage we brought you friday, it is getting worse from clogged supply chains. we have the new numbers. an a major protest and a new lawsuit against vaccine mandates today in new york city. comes and firemen and city workers taking to the streets. we got it. also will special counsel john durham in his criminal probe of trump russia find that democrats knowingly including hillary clinton and her campaign knowingly plant ad false story about trump at fbi? john durham about to declassify documents. we'll investigate it. the border crisis is about to ram up. a new caravan of thousands broke through police

some national associations could consider quitting fifa. >> worst case, i think this could divide theootball family and there will be a break with fifa. >> the fifa president has been drumming up support around the world. a vote on the issue in december know appears to have morphed into more consultations. after the international olympic committee also criticized the plans as rushed. >> we have received some legitimate criticism. we have received a lot of enthusiastic comments as well. when you're in the middle of all of that, it is a bit like when there is a riot going on. you have to come down -- to calm down. helping you to bring reason to the people. >> if we do see celebrations like these every two years in the future, there is a big risk several nations will have boycotted the tournaments. brent: in germany, the frankfurt book fair is underway. it runs until sunday. the world's biggest publishing event is casting a spotlight on canada. not just its french and english-speaking authors but also indigenous literature as well. authors from canada's first nations are using the book f