department of justice and across the country. that was testimony we heard from mark olson, who is a deputy attorney general with the national security division of the us department of justice announcing the formation of this new entity that will deal with the issue of domestic terrorism. now this comes as part of the senate judiciary committees hearings about january 6th. that was the capital riots. and after that happened january 6, 2021. in the aftermath of that, we saw a number of republican representatives saying that the responsibility came squarely from trump, that trump quote, there's responsibility for when wednesdays attack on congress. and in the aftermath of that we see an investigation. now in the testimony we heard today, we heard department of justice officials talking about how white supremacists, anti government activists, and others are the primary domestic terrorism threat. and in some of their language, they even compare them to his lama stream. and here's what we heard from my perspective of spending a lot of time focused on the radicalization of international terrorists and islamic extremists, extreme as of all stripes. this group

of this and use it to serve a partisan agenda. so we now understand that this new division of the us department of justice will be formed. that's the big announcement that came in testimony before the senate judiciary committee kind of thing. so okay, well for one the big announcement to may be so it might be coming up of 2 big meetings that are happening tomorrow when the ground work lay dead. so monday between russia and the u. s. security talks, geneva, all eyes that all brussels for tomorrow when they go see ations with nights it would do to start so far. the u. s. has promised a written response to moscow security demands. they include no further eastward expansion of nato or missiles position near russian territory with more must be said so far looking ahead shallow. do been ski. well, the talks may have been described as being business liken frying. when the russian us delegation metal children in geneva. however, it does seem that now information has been laid back to washington. a slightly different view seems to be taking place with the white house spokesperson suggesting that russia could be getting ready at an

this announcement of the department of justice has said that this formation of this new unit is taking place . so that's what we've heard from testimony in capitol hill, about the us department of justice and their ongoing efforts against domestic terrorism. with the groundwork laid out on monday between russia and the us at security talks in geneva, eyes now turned to brussels, where negotiations with nato are due to start on wednesday. so far the u. s. has promised a written response to moscow's security demands. they include no further eastward expansion of nato or missiles positions near russian territory. with more on what's been said so far. here's our to show davinsky. well, the talks may have been described as being business like an frying. when the russian us delegation mated children in geneva, however, it does seem that now information has been laid back to washington. a slightly different view seems to be taking place with the white house spokesperson suggesting that russia could be getting ready at any moment to spread this information about what was said in those meetings in war may have been agreed in terms of potential way forwards to angry reactio

the us department of justice has charged for government officials from salaries with aircraft piracy, but i very think ryan, a flight last may. the plane was flying from grees to lithuania when it was full to london, mid squire bell russian fighter jet brothers is accused of facing a bama la to false aircraft down so that a government critic on board could be arrested. now german inquiry has found the form of pope benedict knew about abusive priests, but fail to act when he was archbishop of munich from 977 to 80. 2 benedict was known as cardinal joseph rat, singer at the time and has repeatedly denied claims he covered up abuse. the barber reports former pope benedict. the 16th failed to take action against clerics in 4 cases of alleged sexual abuse in his native germany. that's the conclusion of a report by a munich law firm, the archdiocese of munich, confiding asked it to investigate allegations of sexual abuse between 19452019 poco meritus benedict. formerly joseph rushing, archbishop of munich, has previously denied wrong doing over the cases. a marketing reasonably confirmed .

each of us may understand we have an obligation to protect our citizens from violence and fear of violence. the justice department cannot do it alone. the responsibility to bring the end of violence and threats of violence against the public is one that all americans share. such conduct disrupts the piece of art public spaces and undermines our democracy. we are all americans. we must protect each other. the obligation to keep americans and american democracy is safe of this department. as i have noted several times before, a founding purpose of the justice department in the midst of the construction following thehe, civil war the firstas principal task was to secure the civil rights promised by the 13th 14th and 15th amendment this meant protecting black american singing to protect their right to vote for acts and threats of violence from white supremacy. the framers of the civil war amendment recognize access to the ballot is a fundamental aspect of citizenship and self-government. the building rights act set to make the promise of this mm it'sma real. to do so give the justice departmentro valuable to rule too

of power from one administration to the next. those involved must be held accountable. there is no higher priority for us at the department of justice. it is impossible to overstate the heroism of the capitol police officers, washington, d.c. metropolitan police department officers, and other officers who defended and secured the capitol that day. they demonstrated to all of us and our country what true courage looks like. the result, -- their resolve, sacrifice, and bravery protected thousands of that day. five officers who responded selflessly to the attack have since lost their lives. i ask everyone to please join me in a moment of silence in recognition of the service and sacrifice of officer brian sicknick, officer howard leave in good, officer jeffrey smith, officer gunther has she done, and author -- officer kyle freitag. [silence] i know i speak for all of us in saying that tomorrow and in our work in the days ahead, we will not only remember them, we will do everything we can to honor them. in the aftermath of the attack, the justice department its work on what has become one of the largest, most complex, most resource inte

department of justice. i various organs of the us government from cuba, department to fans, the central intelligence agency, as to what types of enhance interrogation techniques would be authorized for certain types of detainees to live. again concerning panama, they moved to having psychologists do interviews with patients, discover individual flaws, individual sources of trauma and security. and then they, they also discovered because they were germany with arabs and muslims. a muslim males are uniquely upset by nudity, and also by female physical contact. and fear of dogs. race has always played a role in american tortures. the american torture techniques are part of old military punishments, punishments that were used on slaves. and in, you might find that strange, but there was one area where slaves were never whipped, but you use clean techniques on them. so they didn't leave marks. and that was, if you're going to sell a slave, because a slave that had wit marks, means that they were not going to obey. and so a clean slave was paso got a higher price in the cotton industry in the southern delta state

we plan, as this point, to have a series of public hearings showing the use of federal assets, department of justicese, and other agencies to actually stop the duly elections of a president. we'll do it in due time. >> brennan: quickly, stewart rhodes was charged with seditious conspiracy about the department of justice this week. as part of that, it became public he was apparently stashing weapons, waiting for the white house to invoke the insurrection act. is any part of that connected to what you just laid out? >> well, stewart rhodes is one of the persons that we identified as someone we wanted to talk to. we'll see what happens. we're not part of the criminal indictment. that's a separate investigation. >> brennan: okay. i understand. chairman, thank you for your time this morning. >>> and next up, we'll have more on the situation in ukraine and what can be done to stop russia. done to stop russia. ♪♪ there can be some not-so-pretty stuff causing vision loss or even blindness. so remember this: now is the time to get your eyes checked. eye care is important to your long-term diabetes management

department of justice and attorney general merrick garland. >> the more than 115,000 employees of the department of justice for the first time. today, i have brought usfor two reasons. first and foremost, to thank you. thank you for the work you have done not just over the last ten months, but over the past several years. work that you have done in the face of unprecedented challenges. ranging from an unprecedented, deadly pandemic to an unprecedented attack on our democracy. thank you for your service, for your sacrifice, and for your dedication. i am honored to serve alongside you. and second, as we begin a new year and as we prepare to mark a solemn anniversary tomorrow, it is a fitting time to reaffirm that we at the department of justice will do everything in our power to defend the american people and american democracy. we will defend our democratic institutions from attack. we will protect those who serve the public from violence and threats of violence. we will protect the corner stone of our democracy. the right to every eligible citizen to cast a vote that counts. and we will do all of this in a manner that adheres to the rule of law and h

of his agenda. >> those involved must be held accountable. there is no higher priority for us at the department of justice . those who assaulted officers and damaged the capital face greater judgments. >> reporter: today, the fbi has arrested more than 700 people, they are still looking for 350 others. the attorney general also weighed in on claims that the 2020 election was somehow stolen. >> those claims, which have corroded people's faith in the legitimacy of our elections, have been repeatedly refuted by the law enforcement and intelligence agencies of both the last administration, and this one. >> a cbs news poll shows 66% of republicans believe there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election. >>> earlier today we spoke with congresswoman barbara lee who gave her account of what it was like to be in the capital on that day. >> i put two and two together, not knowing what would take place, but knowing something would go down, never thinking what went down would be this violent and tragic. i wore my tennis shoes that day , again, because i just knew that the possibility that i didn't even want to think a

thwart and undercut a free and fair election all of the effort and where they originated, in the white house, how they tried to use the department of justice, all of these efforts that we know and have been out in the public and these documents and what we continue to learn will serve as the connective tissue to a lot of that. >> maybe i can speak for a lot of viewers of this show when i say there is a lot of us waiting to see these public hearings. congressman, turning to the fraudulent electors. you called the submission of a fraudulent document, quote, a dangerous precedent. the committee is reportedly looking into that, coordinated effort by trump allies in these five states. has the committee reached out to any of these fraudulent actors yet? if not, are there plans to do so? >> we've had conversations with different states, elections officials and we have had conversations with some of these, with individuals in these contested states. but i'm not going to talk about who we have interviewed and had discussions with. but we aren't just focusing on washington, d.c. beltway. we have gone out into the state, have conversations that will

of the efforts, and where they originated. in the white house, how they tried to use the department of justice. all of these efforts that we know, and that have been out in the public, and these documents -- will serve as the connective tissue to all of that. >> i think i can speak for a lot of viewers of the show when i say that there's a lot of those of us waiting to hear these hearings. congressman, turning to the fraudulent electors, you have called the submission of a fraudulent elector document a quote, dangerous precedent. the committee is looking into that. a coordinated effort by trump allies in at least five states. has the committee reached out to any of these -- if not, other plans to do so? >> we've had conversations with different states. elections officials, and we've had conversations with some of these -- individuals within these contested states, but i'm not going to talk about who we've interviewed and had discussions with. we are just focusing on the washington d.c. -- we have gone out into the state, having conversations that will be helpful in fruitful to our efforts. >> i

that is an extraordinary politicized use of the justice department and the fbi to do anything like that to use it to shape the outcome of an election. many people have thought about barr's actions and the like post presidential election and being if various in different ways after people voted, but this is even more nefarious in a certain sensbecause he was trying to affect how people were going to vote. that is one of the high points. the other high point in a low point for our nation is it also demonstrates the power of disinformation. ways in which giuliani and members of the republican members of the house promulgating these conspiracies around georgia and how the election had been run, that actually pushed pressure inside the justice department that it wasn't just bill barr but other senior members of the justice department and the fbi say, "oh, we have to open these investigations to respond to what the public is conceiving of in these elections, not to predicate the investigations they are supposed to do, which is evidence that a crime is been committed but instead they open thes

and there is no higher priority for us at the department of justice. >> joining us now is laurence tribeersity professor reconstitution of law at harvard law school. he has won 35 cases in the united states supreme court. professor tribe, what did you hear in that speech today? >> i heard a person of great principle and integrity, very smart. i heard him describe one important set of investigations going from the ground up and from the boots to the suits in terms of the january six perpetrators. it is important that he do that. but i heard absolutely nothing, nothing about the larger plot to overturn the election. that was not january six. january 3rd was the day on which the president, then president, twisted the arm of raffensperger. late december he was doing things with people like jeffrey clark. that broader plot was plenty. plan b was the one they had to resort to with the violence of the capitol. you know, it doesn't necessarily -- you don't work your way up from the people who smashed windows to arm twisting which inflicted violence throughout a broader plot. it doesn't necessari

all of the efforts, and where they originated in the white house, how they tried to use the department of justicel of these efforts that we know, and that have been out in the public. and these documents, and what we have continued to learn, will serve as the connective tissue to a lot of that. >> ashley, want to show a graph now of what the committee requested. so taking a look here, just interested in seeing and also what could be the political fallout here, ahead of the midterms. >> i mean, just how many bombshells can there be at this point? and the whole issue here, too, is that there was so much political uprising over the fact that there was going to be an investigation into what happened on january 6th when, in fact, we still don't know exactly what happened because these bombshells continue to come out. which, to the points that we're all just dis cussing, we have no idea how far this president was willing to go to keep himself in power and to keep joe biden out. which, at this point, you know, joe biden has been president for over a year now, and this is still continuing, and we're stil

because there were a couple of different audiences here. >> the justice department officials have been urged by those of us who cover the department to say something, to do something about the investigation. we have -- this is the first time we've actually heard from the attorney general about this large investigations in the history of the justice department and we've been urging him and other officials to do this. so, to give us some sort of accounting of what they've been up to. so i think that the fact that he make this is speech, he's speaking to a broader audience and let's not forget part of what he wanted his message to be today, which is taking note of these public opinion polls that show something like a third of respondents in one poll say that violence against the government in some situations is acceptable. and he's saying, no, it's not. and he spent a good deal of time on that. about documenting attacks against airline pilots and people who conduct elections and elected officials saying, you know, we just can't tolerate this. we can't allow that to happen. so i think that is also a significan

used to see as a young cia analyst reading intel about foreign countries. ultimately what they're going to do is to write a report and potentially make refers to the department of justiceme of the statutes the department of justice could use as a predicate to undertake a criminal investigation. that's what investigations are for. >> you say the dodge and committee should be investigating this. i'm going to play something that newt gingrich said on tv. i want to preface this so our viewers don't think here is newt gingrich, react to that. what gingrich says is absurd, patently absurd. here is gingrich. >> these are the people who are literally running over the law, pursuing innocent people, causing them to spend thousands and thousands in legal fees for no justification, and it's basically a lynch mob. i think when you have a republican congress, this is all going to come crashing down and the wolves are going to find out that they're now sheep and they're the ones who, in fact, are going to face a real risk of jail for the kind of laws they're breaking. >> so gingrich says the january 6th committee itself is going to be thrown in jail if the republicans take over. ther

of power from one administration to the next. those involved must be held accountable. and there is no higher priority for us at the department of justicepolice officers, washington, dc metropolitan police department officers, and other law enforcement officers who defended and secured the capitol that day. they demonstrated to all of us and to our country what true courage looks like. their resolve, their sacrifice, and their bravery protected thousands of people working inside the capitol that day. five officers who responded selflessly to the attack on january 6th have since lost their lives. i ask everyone to please join me in a moment of silence in recognition of the service and sacrifice of officer brian sicknick, officer howard leibengood, officer jeffrey smith, officer gunther ashida, and officer carl defreytag. i know i speak for all of us in saying that tomorrow and in our work in the days ahead, we will not only remember them. we will do everything we can to honor them. in the aftermath of the attack, the justice department began its work on what has become one of the largest, most complex and most resource-intensive investig

of four. to find out more about today's verdict, i've been speaking to kevin o'brien, a former assistant us attorney for the department of justice in white—collar crime. the verdict actually has a little bit of something for everyone. it has got four guilty counts, four not guilty counts, and three no decisions. the way the government's evidence went in, i fully could have expected more guilty counts, but i'm sure the government will take the four that they got. it is a significant victory for the government, especially as people have said in a case like this. i suppose that says something about the complexity of this case. what is it, do you think, that the prosecution did well enough to get those four counts through? well, they had overlapping evidence from multiple sources. they used patients, although the patient—related counts didn't fare too well relatively speaking. they had investors and equity partners, they had board members, they even had — they had people from the lab, very important witnesses, directors of testing and so forth of these suppose devices. and they even had journalists, and a couple of the journalists w

so we haven't seen a lot of movement beyond the department of justice. voting rights is not pay all of us. we have also not seen any movement on police reform at the federal level in the enjo biden's bill back better plan, which is gonna help all americans regardless of political orientation, regardless of background, has yet to come up for vote in the senate. this type of polarization speaks to a highly problematic america, that many people fear. mr. i just quickly, before we go, our american scathe enough about the future of democracy in that country. i think so. i mean, look, we're seeing not only a wave of people attacking diversity, equity, inclusion, but in the south, in states like tennessee and georgia state where i grew up and where i'm born. now you don't even have to have a license to carry a gut. i think people are highly worried. people are scared in fear is really driving polarization and inequality in america. ration rice, senior fellow at brookings. thank you so much. return back as you choose or russia has sent paratroopers to cossacks done after days of violent clashes b

of the largest investigation in american history. >> those involved must be held accountable. and there is no higher priority for us at the department of justiceharging more than 725 defendants from nearly all 50 states and washington, d.c., almost one-quarter have already pleaded guilty. of those more than 70 have been sentenced. >> if they don't uphold the constitution then we will remove them from office. >> reporter: one of the most infamous faces of the insurrection, the so-called qanon shaman jacob chancely who stormed the senate floor received nearly three and a half years in prison. >> i'm going to take it, this chair. >> he pleaded guilty to obstructing an official for seating specifically congress's certification of the electoral college results. >> everybody stay down. >> reporter: that is a felony offense and at least 275 other rioters are facing the same charge. it carries a maximum prison term of 20 years. these obstruction cases have faced numerous court challenges but judges have allowed them to move forward. judge timothy kelly who rejected first amendment claims from a group of proud boys pointing out this was not protected s

the up department of justice -- the department of justice not stopped enhanced penalty -- sot enhanced penalty in the cases of january 6 based on terrorism? why has the department of justice not used the statute that is clearly domestic and international terrorism? >> again, it is my understanding, i am not going to talk about any particular investigation. in the context of the investigations, each case depends on the specific circumstances of that case. if the attorney general describes that, all cases are being built from the ground up, from those who are at the lower end of culpability, so as a general matter, that is where we are in the investigations. whether it might be an act of terrorism that files in future cases is an act to be seen. >> none of these cases has involved a request for enhanced penalties based on involving terrorism. we would like to know the answer to that question. i am out of time, but if you could answer it i would appreciate it. >> thank you. senator cruz. >> how many people have been charged with crimes of violence on january 6? >> i am not sure exactly how many have been charged. >> how many have been charged with nonviolent crimes? >> i do not have

meeting in the oval office where trump was discussing the possibility of installing a new attorney so that he can use the justice department to basically force the falsification of the election results. we knew, previously from other testimonies that cipollone had threatened to resign at that meeting. over that prospect of the justice department being used in that way. these new text from mr. hannity would seem to suggest that the white house counsel also threatened to resign even earlier than that. four days earlier than that. as early as last new years eve. what was that threat to resign about? also, from the text from mr. hannity that was released by the investigation tonight, it would appear that the white house counsel also was renewing those threats to resign on days later. on january 5th, the night before the attack on the capitol. acrding to the taxthat threat to resign would appear to be a response to the pressure that was being put on vice president, mike pence, by trump and his coconspirators. pressure to try to get mike pence effectively spoil the counting of the electoral votes on congress on january six. did

house has said over and over again they want to be independent of the justice department because of the predecessor that being donald trump usingrney so in some cases, merrick garland is watching local officials do something he himself is not doing but let's also remember at the height of this, we saw local officials, they were the ones standing up to donald trump and essentially were saving republicans saying we're not going to do what you said. it's not surprising looking at how this unfolded and how should say this push to try to steal an election unfolded, it was the republicans in georgia who essentially said stop, i'm recording your calls. i'm not going to be changing votes. we'll certify this election. let think about the fact brad wrathens burger had the presence of mind to record the call because he knew former president trump would say something that would be problematic, when you listen to the call, it is nothing short of a clear sign from the former president he wanted them to steal the election. he said at one point, it's okay for you to say you calculate again and found more votes. as someone from haitian descent,

information that puts way lot of the elected officials right in the center of this it is showing us the public, and the department of justice that the department of justice is not aware of the evidence. >> senator mccaskill, i think it also shows how much that the committee can accomplish without getting direct testimony from certain individuals. i am sure that this committee was never going to think about sending any type of subpoena to sean hannity. but because sean hannity's texts end up getting turned over in a pile of stuff from mark meadows, we now know what sean hannity was saying. we have sean hannity's testimony to some extent already without sean hannity cooperating in any way. >> yeah. i think people have been really frustrated. i have been one of them frankly at how slowly it has gone, particularly at doj. but they have been busy. they have been busy getting the goods from a whole lot of people that many of us have never heard of. people that were afraid to not cooperate or fancy this idea, they cooperated because they knew it was the right thing to do and now they have a lot of evidence. as daniel understands c

provision of the order is a special counsel to oversee this operation and see proceedings appropriate based on the evidence collected. or in other words, you use the power of the department of justice to investigate the 2020 election. now we still don't know who wrote, who crafted this executive order. we do have some clues how it may have come about. in the very first sentence the order notes two classified documents, national security presidential memoranda 13 and 21. we knew of memoranda 13 but not of memoranda 21, a source with knowledge of both of those quote, the fact that the draft executive order's author knew about the existence of memorandum 21 suggests they had access to information about sensitive government secrets. you also have the context of what we know was going on at the white house and around the president at the time of this memo. the conspiracy theorist and lawyer sydney powell visited the white house multiple times in mid to late december 2020, on one of those visits, just two days after the executive order is dated, powell is joined by former national security adviser flynn, ceo of overstock.com patrick byrne and little known trump official emily newman for

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it is openly mulling, since the beginning of the investigation, the justice department used to do briefings for the media in the aftermath of the attack, they had not confirmed seditious conspiracy -- but now more than a year after the attack, this is the first time they actually have used it in the indictment today. sue dishes conspiracy is basically a act to commits conspiracy against the government. it's a conspiracy to stop the government to come carry out its flaws by fourth. here's how the indictment describes this. it is the plot to -- of presidential power. beginning in 2020, defended stewart rhodes, began sending messages on an encrypted app to have its -- on november 5th 2020, two days after the presidential election, mr. rhodes urged its followers to refuse the election results. we are getting through this without a civil war. prepare your mind, body, spirit. and on november 7th, 2020, they were projected to lose the election and he told his fellow oath keepers, we must now do with the people of serbia did when mullah suffolk stole their election. refused to accept it and storm e

where trump was discussing the possibility of installing a new attorney general so he could use the justice department to basically force the falsification of the election results. we knew previously from other testimony that he had threat nds to resign. at that meeting over that prospect. about the justice department being used in that way. these new texts from hannity released tonight suggest the white house counsel also threatened to resign. even earlier than that. four days earlier. last new years eve. what was that threat to resign about? also, from the texts from mr. hannity released by the investigation tonight it would appear the white house counsel also was renewing the threats to resign. on days later on january 5. the night before the attack on the capitol. according to texts that threat to resign would appear to have been a response to the pressure that was being put on vice president pence. by trump and his pressure to try to get him to effectively spoil the counting of the electoral college votes. in congress. on january 6. did pat threaten to resign on new years eve on january 3, on jan

that's been in court filings, and now the department of justice is using that bit of evidence to makethese people were organized into teams, that they transported firearms, that they organized trainings to teach these paramilitary combat tactics, and then, on january 67th, they were carrying knives, batons, camouflaged uniforms, all of it to the capitol grounds to then breach the capitol. so, we've been seeing this emerge in court filings and now the justice department is taking it that step further to charge this much more serious charge of seditious conspiracy against the founder of the oath keepers, leader of the oath keepers, one other person and then nine other people who had been previously charged and are now -- have this superseding indictment that includes seditious conspiracy. so this is all a work in progress, and as jeffrey said, we don't know if this is the end, if this was the big fish, or if there's more to come here. >> and obviously, more details to be learned, but in about 30 seconds here, i have to hand the reins over to our colleagues, but jessica, can you just tel