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so if there's a federal prosecutors or at the us department of justice, mister patel is known for public, the denouncing the so called deep states on vowing to take legal action to expose corruption in the establishments. according to some american journalist stove binding himself could face a criminal pro, along with his vice president harris pens going chief austin, security advisors, sullivan, and even fullness. secretary of state, hillary clinton lives closer. laurie jones and former c. i. a analyst on ceo of the associates. many thanks for joining is that mr. johnson. so someone would surely dismiss these reports as conspiracy theories. but did i really come as a surprise off the joe biden recently broke his pledge and decided to pardon his son hunter. well, his son hunter had been indicted and convicted, at least on the gun charge that was facing trial uh the potential criminal conviction on the, on the tax charge. so he was already in the judicial process while i'm not a lawyer. and so i don't pretend to offer any legal advice, but i don't see how you can quote issue a pardon for

to use the department of justice, the fbi, to use the courts, to use prosecutors in a way that no otherot even woodrow wilson and he was bad enough, this wasn't even done during the civil war period when the country was breaking apart for a president to do this, and i don't want to hear that he didn't know, of course, he knew, he read the newspapers, he saw tv, he wasn't sending signals, but he didn't, he wanted it to be done, he's the most corrupt, vile person to ever serve as president of the united states and that pardon of hunter, i wasn't here this last weekend, was his pardon, to cover his you know what and all of his crimes and you know what. this the most corrupt president in american history, the most corrupt regime in american history and you're right, the department of justice has a duty to investigate, to get to the bottom of it, to hold people to account and make sure they didn't destroy documents under the presidential records act, use it against them under the espionage act, use it against them, send your swat team into their the homes to see what they did, that's not ret

pardon for the people that fall within the bullseye it appears to be of donald trump's stated plans to use the department of justicea vindictive and retaliatory way and given that the united states supreme court last summer held that crimes committed using the department of justice are now above the law, i think the biden administration is smart to think and realize that we're in a different frame of mind, a new historical precedent could be set by the new trump administration that this kind of protective pardon would stave off or sort of head off at the pass because desperate measures sometimes require radical responses. >> now, jen, in a piece that you wrote for the "washington post" this week, you make the argument that president biden shouldn't just pardon specific individuals but rather groups of people that trump could potentially go after. writing, quote, the michael cohens, the e. jean carrolls and liz cheneys who went above and beyond the call of duty in the effort to hold trump accountable for his actions, not to mention journalists who revealed his misdeeds or grand jurors who indicted him or former aide

of vetting the cases. you were involved in that, weren't you? >> i was. i used to work at the pardon office. so by tradition. the office of the justice department. getting petitions fors pardons and commutations of sentence, on behalf of the president, investigates them, writes a recommendation, and then advises whether he should write it or not. the problem is, it's very slow and cumbersome. they take a long time. the problem is, this is also the justice department. they have a conflict of interest. so i actually don't think that president trump and his first term was entirely wrong. on to be kept cal. what president trump didn't do is replace it with some other rational way to the cases. it became sort of a free-for- all to whoaferred gets into the white house. that's not a rational way to vet these. so what he could do, and what i advocate that he should do is simply move the department office out of doj and move into the office of the president. doesn't mean doj wouldn't have a role, of course they would. and it's appropriate for them to weigh in on cases. they just shouldn't control the entire process. >> let's talk to larry in galesberg il

because he thinks that what trump is talking about with his vengeful attacks, he's going to use the department of justice to go after people repeatedly. didn't biden have a plea deal? i don't care about that, they want to keep him in the papers, the press, they want to keep continually attacking them. i understand why he would go so broad. trump is vindictive and vicious and wants to hurt people that he feels has wronged him. can you comment on that? thank you. guest: you're right, that was their concern. that's clearly why they did it. they were concerned that there were other at least potential charges out there and that trump would pursue them, so this is a way of closing the door to that. host: joe, new jersey, republican line. caller: a previous caller said that hunter biden didn't commit any egregious crimes. he has all of these images out there they found on the computer of him naked, you know, drugs and guns, all of that. i don't understand how he could be pardon for that when other people can't get pardon for that. it doesn't make sense to me. guest: that's what i said before. what's the big que

they really believe they are justified in this, that they are willing to use all of the part of the department of justice, of law enforcement and the national security state, , weaponizing tm for political purposes to take away our freedom. over 32 states tried to remove donald trump from the ballot. unilaterally, whether it be a small group of judges or an individual elections officer, unilaterally saying no, we don't think he is qualified to be on the ballot. i was so heartened to see the supreme court unanimously rejected that position and settled that, as they should. but also how revealing it was to see how the democrat elite responded to the supreme court's actions. as much as they criticize donald trump and the quote-unquote maga republicans for not having a respect for the rule of law in that ruling they said how dare the supreme court not oppose its constitutional responsibility to protect democracy? i can't even explain the lack of logic in that statement because there is none. there is none. and then they say well, because the supreme court failed to fulfill their responsibility, now we have t

mar.liz: for man who uses a department of justice to pursue and persecute his political enemies this was a given going to basically weigh in with the parted for his son you know who else is going to pardon is interesting is for sunoco his brother jim who obviously received money in connection with all of peddling or i should say alleged, has not been convicted of anything maria so i do not know even charge and thinks i don't think he is going to see. maria: bring in time the president is a lot now with reaction thanks much for joining the conversation give us your reaction to this pardon. >> would just complete the corruption in the biden family doesn't this been years in the making. president biden this pardon and essentially a potential activity goes back to the and he's been implicated a lot of what hunter has been investigated for any talks about selective prosecution pardon statement its attached to the official pardon me only selective prosecution wasn't intense decision to select him for prosecution so this is a scam scheme yes is it up issues of family and addiction. but his

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we believe them to be meritorious or not, what he would suggest is, and unprecedented use of the department of justice against him, and so that firewall is already been breached. in his mind. >> well, first of all, if he thinks that -- and i'm not 100% convinced he genuinely thinks that -- but even if he does, that doesn't make it true. are you telling me that when someone fomented in insurrection as he did, that d.o.j. to just look away and not investigated? >> jon: by the way, my believe was always, why didn't we look into that -- i wanted more alacrity on that before he was a candidate again. why were those wheels so difficult to start to turn? >> yeah, look, people have different approaches and i think that, my understanding is, they were looking at it as a bottom up approach of the people who were out there, actually storming the capitol -- i think in retrospect, you could look at that and say, those folks probably don't have evidence in terms of direct conversations with donald trump. so maybe that wasn't the way to go. that is hindsight and that is me from outside saying that. but look, i don't

of people who wrote project 2025, the right wing manifesto that gives us a preview into day one domestic priorities, like introducing an abortion ban, eliminating the department of education, bringing the department of justicef the white house, carrying out mass deportations and firing civil servants en masse, a point which trump reiterated to "time magazine" which selected him as person of the year. in that interview, trump also reiterated his threat to issue crushing tariffs, a/k/a import taxes, and to use the military to carry out mass deportations, potentially expelling whole families that include american citizens and he will decide which vaccines will be available to us and our children. and that, for the rst time, the first nine minutes of his term he will look at pardoning those serving time for their january 6th attack on the capitol. it is a laundry list of horrors we have no choice to but to brace for and to plan how to overcome it in the new year. we have a panel to talk about how to do that. tara setmayer, co-founder and ceo of the seneca project. david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones, msnbc political analyst. elizabeth johnson, former biden/harris senior advisor and founder of 1

use the power of government. how they use the pardon power. how they use the fbi. how they use the department of justice.normalizes the politicization of the government -- of the tools of government in power from the very beginning. and number three, which is not something we hear widely talked about but i want to put a marker down now, i also think that this is going to be the foundation of a new private militia organization. these january 6ers and their supporters are quite well organized. i don't think it's well understood in the mainstream and on the left that these folks are going to come out i think quite radicalized. a lot of them were violent, not all of them. but you know, they will come out quite radicalized and very loyal to donald trump. and you oftentimes see in quasi authoritarian leaders or regimes not just the misuse of government power but the misuse of private militia power. >> that raises a very interesting point in light of an op-ed by politico, michael shaffer writing about the january 6th verdict, noting the historical record established by the vast nationwide legal effort can't be

that the president has authority to use the justice department to commit crimes because it's official power and the supreme court specifically singled out the use of the justice department as above the law. if a president wants to commit crimes and wants to get people that will help him commit crimes, the pardon gives that ability to immunize everyone around him. so the immunity decision is just for the president. the president, they're going to use their official power use the military, use fbi, use surveillance technology, use prosecutors. those folks don't automatically get immunity under that decision. but the president could pardon them all or promise to pardon them all and then pardon them all and then essentially you have a federal government where the norm becomes criminals. you abusing power because the system has immunize them from any accountability under the supreme court's immunity decision. and the pardon and the scope of the pardon. now, you know, some of us don't. i'm not so sure that biden's pardon would have an impact on that either way. it seems that given what donald trump has said and how he's, for example, considering replaci

the idea is in response to a troubling projection for the use of the department of justice in a retaliatory pardon power is extremely broad. there are no expressed limits in the constitution. an internet immunity case, -- and in that immunity case, the court made clear, or underscored, that the pardon power is core. i think it would be very difficult to challenge legally a preempted or perspective pardon for these folks. there are of course, locating -- complicating factors in that regard. they might not want a pardon. the supreme court has made clear without an acceptance of a pardon, a pardon is not effective. is it a more generic one like jimmy carter did, they were not actually identified by name. or would it be folks identified by name in the bigger question is, does that make them safer or less safe from retaliatory actions from the trump administration if that is going to happen. but it would protect people that don't have the financial resources to fight a vindictive prosecution in court. that can be very expensive, even if you are innocent. and the law governing selective or vindic

. >> the same guy who said he will use the department of justice to wage a campaign of retribution claimsations into his political opponents and critics. he will leave that up to people like kash patel. he will leave those decisions to the people he appoints. here is the rub. it's a big one. that's precisely why he picked the people like kash patel and pam bondi. they wouldn't need any more direction. they know what they are being asked to do. trump made it clear what he wants them to do. >> i will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the united states of america, joe biden. should she be impeach and prosecuted. wouldn't it be terrible to throw the president's wife and the former secretary of state -- think of it. the former secretary of state, but the president's wife into jail. it's very possible that it's going to have to happen to them. she should be prosecuted. nancy pelosi should be prosecuted. the judge and the ag should be arrest and punished accordingly. they should be prosecuted for what they did. if the reporter doesn't want

system after he leaves office with donald trump, who has said that he's going to use the criminal justice system, the department of justice ought to basically take retribution against all of his enemies. he said, one of those is joe by another is hunter by and i, and i think the concern is that 100 buying is going to be singled out and be put in a worse position if he has to continue in the criminal justice system through donald trump. do you see this decision by president biden as having consequences beyond his to as well consequences to the extent that you hit on before clearly um this is not great in the sense that is going to give donald trump presumably some cover when he tries to pardon when he does pardon the january 6th defendants and other people that he's pardoned on, even though there is not really it's a false equivalency between the 2. and the 1st of all, if you take the criminal charge on the the gun charge. uh no one has ever charged a loan for, for that gun charged for 11 days. and it's very rare that anybody is charged with tax violations when they've been on drugs. and on top of that, all they pa

so often we talk about donald trump using the department of justice or directing the department of justiceluding onset with you, sometimes he does not tell you what to do you know what he wants toy do. eight years into this whoever the attorney general coming in, should be pam bondi knows what trump wants to do. faced with the same question, did you belave in the same behavior? do you do it more aggressively? now we see perhaps kash patel? they know what they got away with four years ago and coming back with a fresh team to be more aggressive. no surprise here. it sits in the laps on republicans on capitol hill and republican voters who decided to return this type of administration to washington in january. >> it does, as a final point, put bill barr in a unique place in history. he is on the enemy's list to be prosecuted. it was such a clear danger to democratic norms, freedom of the press, his own department policies while he ran it. he is just in a category, in a category of his own. andrew weissman and mike schmidt by phone, thank you for talking with us, david sticks around for the ho

to feel like, as the person, as the candidate who promised retribution, who promised to use the department of justice, not as a sword to protect but as a sword to cut down his own enemies and opponents, that kash patel understood the assignment, audition for the job between his children's book and that kind of language and wording that flies in the face of the job itself, and, therefore, has gotten the job, at least in terms of the nomination from donald trump and the question is, will the senate do its job because he is simply not qualified for the one he's been nominated for. >> maya wiley, thank you for your perspective on that. i want to tell folks what's coming up by the end of the hour, we have new highlights, for the first time for mercer down with julia louis dreyfus, and a trump impeachment witness will be speaking out but we also want to break down president biden's big newsworthy announcement this weekend, the pardoning of his son. a lot of contact there, interesting stuff, i will have my report on that for you when we are back in 90 seconds. r asts or you have a parasitic infection. heada

department. >> and what about kash patel? he's written a book with more than 60 people whom he says should be prosecuted. >> the weaponizing of the justice department would be outrageous. so -- and usethe fbi or justice department is wrong. so these are issues that have me gravely concerned. >> i want to ask you about elon musk because he is at mar-a-lago. he's in on meetings with foreign leaders. he was in the phone call with zelenskyy and other foreign leaders. >> well, i think he has an incredible conflict. his association with the president-elect has already profited him as far as his personal assets are concerned. >> do you see a foreign policy issue with elon musk participating with foreign leaders when he has business with our government, with these governments, big business in china, business with -- and a relationship -- he has a past relationship with putin. >> i want a person representing america on foreign policy that understands that our foreign policy is based in our values. that's what makes america the strong nation it is. i don't want a transactional person who's going into a country to see if he can make a deal. >> it sounds like you're describing the person the am

he's going to enforce the constitution, and he's going to use the department of justice to enforce whate have not heard for four years. the rule of law. >> next, with president trump back at the helm. iran is on its back, maybe face down. in fact, our buddy alan dershowitz joins me to discuss it. we'll be right back. >> you believe you were sent by god? yes. >> repent. come and be baptized in the river jordan. >> i speak in the name of the one true god. >> this holiday season, get 50% off fox nation's annual plan. >> hi, grandma. i played baseball today. oh that's great. >> what position did you play? >> first base. >> that's what grandpa used to play when our hearing wouldn't allow us to use a regular phone. it made us feel isolated. >> it became difficult to communicate with our friends and family. >> clear captions was an easy solution for us. >> clear captions provides captions on a phone, like captioning on your tv so you can see what the caller is saying live as they say it, making it easy to understand and respond immediately. >> there is no insurance or medicare required. clear

>> not at all at the same guy who has long said he will use the department of justice to wage a campaignnow says he won't be ordering investigations into his political opponents. he is going to leave that up to people like kash patel. we are letting trump leave those decisions to the people he appoints. that is precisely why he has picked the people like kash patel and pam bondi, is at this point, they wouldn't need any more direction, they know what they are being asked to do, trump has already made it crystal clear what he wants them to do. >> i will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president of the history of the united states of america, joe biden. she should be impeached and prosecuted for her actions. wouldn't it be terrible to throw the president's wife and the former secretary of state -- think of it. the former secretary of state, but the president's wife into jail, it's very possible that it's going to have to happen to them. she should be prosecuted. nancy pelosi should be prosecuted. >> the judge and the ag should be arrested and punished accordi

administration and, you know, all the retribution tour stuff with respect to the department of justice and how he plans to usenemies i think there is a legitimate concern about what that could lead to. >> and i think that's part of why the president put in a ten year stretch for the for the pardon term because that should protect him against anything, really up against up to the statute of limitations. basically for most offenses. on the other hand, though, i got to say that um, even though i don't think hunter biden would have been prosecuted under most circumstances, a pardon at this point will be used against, i think, democrats. and we're pushing to defend the department of justice against politicizing it, which is certainly what president trump plans to do. a president elect trump. and, you know the patel nomination i think the many of the other nominations, it looks like he's going to try and use it in a way to go against and inflict retribution on people and i think this sort of gives him ground to argue that, you know both sides are doing the same thing so i know that there was, um, a real strong sent

again, the use of the military inside the united states or the enforcement of his own policies, the use of the justice department if fbi director kash patel is starting to prosecute political opponents of trump or journalists? how will we react in those circumstances? unfortunately, thus far the record of the last eight years is not "new york uniformatively in that regard. ben rhodes, appreciate it. >>> coming up what democrats need to do to turn their political fortunes around. wisconsin state party chair and a candidate to run ben wickler joins me to discuss coming up next. ben wickler joins me to discuss coming up next throughout this holiday season, and all the seasons. ♪ year round installation! ♪ leaffilter is the smartest call you'll make all season. so give us a call to save up to 30% on leaffilter. call 833 leaffilter or visit leaffilter.com. ♪ and you'll look like a genius this year. ♪ your business needs a network it can count on... call 833 leaffilter or visit even during the unexpected. power's out! -power's out! power's out! comcast business has got you covered, with wifi backup to help keep you up

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that the president has authority to use the justice department to commit crimes, because it is official power and the supreme court specifically singled out the use ofhe justice department as above the law, if a president wants to commit crimes and wants to get people that will help them commit crimes, the pardon gives that ability to immunize everyone around him. so the immunity decision is just for the president. the president is just going to use his official power, use the military, the fbi, surveillance technology, prosecutors. those folks don't automatically get immunity under that decision, but the president could pardon them all or promise to pardon them all and then essentially you have a federal government where the norm becomes criminals abusing power because the system has immunized them from any accountability under the supreme court immunity decision and the scope of the pardon. i'm not so sure that biden's pardon would have an impact on that either way. it seems that given what donald trump has said and how he has, for example, considered replacing his fbi director, he's got three years left, with someone like kash patel who has an en

administration, particularly kash patel in the fbi and all indications of how the new president trump in a second term intends to use the justice department, then maybe it wasn't so much of a surprise. maybe -- and maybe when you think about joe biden and his -- and what he thinks and feels about family, and the fact that hunter biden was charged and prosecuted in a way that people who chit those offenses are not charged and prosecuted, but was indeed singled outed because he's joe biden's son, that must have weighed on the president, plus the possibility that there could be further [ inaudible ] of hunter biden in the next administration. [ inaudible ] to pardon him and give him this sort of sweeping 11 year, 10 year pardon that would be a further [ inaudible ] charges of the administration try to charge him. >> and you point out the human aspects of this as well as the political fallout now. joyce vance, special counsel to david weiss, when the president had held over as the u.s. attorney in delaware he was a trump appointee, just to show that he was then the u.s. attorney not the special counsel, but merrick garland made him the specia

use of force. cost diminished public safety and millions of legal judgments against the city due to constitutional violations. when the justice department works with police departments to achieve reforms, these costs decrease. our work in seattle in albuquerque and baltimore has led to declines in use of excessive force but reductions in violent crime. we stand ready to continue working with the city. the people of memphis deserve fair, transparent, nondiscriminatory constitutional policing, nothing less. we are prepared to work together to write a new chapter for this city. but make no mistake, the product or practice in memphis must end and federal law authorizes us to sue for an injunction if necessary to accomplish that objective. ensuring transparent and effective policing is a top priority for the justice department. let me just talk about the sum total of our work. since january of 2021, the department has launched 12 pattern or practice investigations into law enforcement agencies. we also are enforcing 16 preexisting agreements with law enforcement agencies across the country. these collective efforts are resource and time-inte

again, the use of the military inside the united states for the enforcement of his own policies, the use of the justice departmenttor kash patel is starting to prosecute political opponents of trump or journalists how will we react in those circumstances? unfortunately thus far, the record of the last eight years is not uniformly positive in that regard go >> big questions as we deal with the spread of authoritarian contagion. ben rhodes, my friend, thank you for your time tonight. appreciate it. >>> coming up, what democrats need to do to turn their political fortunes around. wisconsin state party chair and a candidate to run the democratic national committee, ben winkler joins me to discuss, coming up next. oming . one up the power of liquid, one up the toughest stains. any further questions? uh uh! one up the power of liquid with tide pods ultra oxi. all [music “this little light of mine”] in the world's poorest places, children with cleft conditions live in darkness and shame. they're shunned, outcast, living in pain. you can reach out and change the life of a suffering child right now. a surgery that take as

he tells us today he feels vindicated that the department of justice has found in his favor. me to talk about this more, david sink man, a civil rights attorney and former opioid coordinator around civil rights coordinator for the u.s. attorney's office for the eastern district of louisiana. the holiday especially. both the tennessee board of law examiners and the tennessee lawyers assistance program declined nbc's request for comment today. what do you make of these findings on this particular case, derek's case? >> thank you for taking the time to foc on this important story. this is a powerful finding by the department of justice. it sends a message to tennessee and to other states and licensing boards across the country that these types of discriminatory barriers to life-saving medications violate federal civil rights laws and the department of justice will look into them and pursue legal action. >> he is not alone, right? we followed when we did the story in august other cases where in other fields people had similar barriers put in front of them saying, you can't be on

that the president has authority to use the justice department to commit crimes, because it is official power and the supreme court specifically singled out the use ofhe justice department as above the law, if a president wants to commit crimes and wants to get people that will help them commit crimes, the pardon gives that ability to immunize everyone around him. so the immunity decision is just for the president. the president is just going to use his official power, use the military, the fbi, surveillance technology, prosecutors. those folks don't automatically get immunity under that decision, but the president could pardon them all or promise to pardon them all and then essentially you have a federal government where the norm becomes criminals abusing power because the system has immunized them from any accountability under the supreme court immunity decision and the scope of the pardon. i'm not so sure that biden's pardon would have an impact on that either way. it seems that given what donald trump has said and how he has, for example, considered replacing his fbi director, he's got three years left, with someone like kash patel who has an en

is called during a trial or contested hearing and that point in time, federal government, department of justice, usase, has a right to slap thousands of pages of evidence regarding that witness just moments before they testify. what the court is saying, i don't want that lack of efficiency, move it speedily, quickly, smoothly, prosecutor, governments, give everything to the defense, that is what the judge was eluding to. >> todd: last-minute document dumps are never fun as an attorney. you have obligation to do your best to represent your client. it stinks when it comes overnight and you have to stay there all night and write a brief to get rid of evidence. it is why people get paid a lot of money much keep us posted on this and all cases. now keeping us posted on the weather case, senior meteorologist janice dean here with fox weather forecast. will the jury like what you have to say? >> janice: depends whether you like snow or warm weather during christmas. cold air spilling in from canada across northern plains, the upper midwest and the northeast and that is going to provide, set the table for

he used his first term to go after his enemies and promised to use the justice department in his second term to enact retribution but president biden has made a point of being the defender of the justice system, the one who says it is neutral and not part of politics is now saying that's not the case at least when it comes to his own son. that's a striking situation that will be used by republicans as ammunition in the days moving forward. the president himself says the justice department can't be trusted not to take into account politics when it makes decisions and democrats are upset about that. democrats believe the president while understandably a father would want to spare his son prison time put his family's interests ahead of the country's. >> peter, to be clear, the prosecutor was a prosecutor in the state of delaware held over as one of the few u.s. attorneys held over precisely by president biden coming in to office to make sure there was the appearance of noninterference from the white house in the ongoing investigation into his son. >> reporter: absolutely. this prosecutor had special counsel status designed to insulate him from politics a

that's samuel morison, from the office of the department of justice attorney, thanks for joining us. ks for having me. host: coming up, more of your phone calls after the break in open forum. you can start calling and now. a little christmas update for you, last month the capitol christmas tree rolled in. this is a spruce from the tongass national forest in alaska. yesterday the tree was lit up on the west front lawn of the capital during a ceremony with the speaker of the house, mike johnson, and members of the alaskan delegation. take a look. [video clip] >> i know that it isn't a short trip from alaska. thank you to all of our friends who are here and thank you to our senators and your members of congress who make great sacrifices to serve an extraordinary state. what a great thing, to share the culture of alaska here tonight on capitol hill. i also want to reiterate our thanks to the drivers who made the tree possible, to get it here 4000 miles, we for that so many times. it's awesome, they keep repeating it. i'm told that this hasn't been mentioned yet tonight, i think that john

the use of the justice department. ll it feel if the fbi director is starting to prosecute political opponents of trump? thus far, the record of the last eight years is not uniformly positive. >> big questions as we deal with the spread of authoritarian contagion. ben rhodes, appreciate your time tonight. >>> coming up, what democrats need to do to turn their political fortunes around. ben wikler joins me to discuss coming up next. to discuss coming up next. our battle was legendary. maybe now my friends will believe me. we did this for one delivery, see what we can do for your business. fedex. the promise of america is freedom, equality, but right now, those pillars of our democracy are fragile and our rights are under attack. reproductive rights, voting rights, the right to make your own choices and to have your voice heard. we must act now to restore and protect these freedoms for us and for the future, and we can't do it without you. we are the american civil liberties union. will you join us? call or go online to m

of the 2020 us election. and we're ultimately found by the, by the justice department to be guilty of interference in the 2020 us election. so the big argument in for why 105 and was pardoned by joe biden is that he was the victim as the president, son of essentially political persecution. so now using that very same argument, donald trump is saying, well, is it 100 bite and is only being charged or was, was only being convicted because of political persecution. does that mean then, that these people that have been locked up as a result of the attack of the, with capital the j 6, there's this, they're called their victims of political persecution. so does that mean they should be pardoned to? so it's an interesting legal argument, and it's one that the president elect is looking to give some legs. so the bottom line, and all of this is again, what this shows is. there are 2 systems of justice in the united states. and if you have a friend in the white house, you tend to have a better chance of getting out of jail. then if you're an ordinary american, that doesn't have a friend of high places or you don't have

with the exception of the department of justice and the fbi which did not give us some very importantnformation that we believe the american people still need to know and their intent was to slow walk beyond the mandate of this committee they are mistaken. you have members of the task force that sit on committees that will be coming in next congressthat will still get the information. america deserves to know what happened with mr. crooks, what his motivations were, well he was talking to. that is an important part of the story. our report is comprehensive, it gives many of the answers that america deserves to know. they still do need to know those remaining pieces and i commit to work with every member of the task force even after the task force sunsets in a couple weeks to make sure that that happens. i want to think the staff. i said this earlier in the hearing, that the product we will be voting on is the work largely of the staff. they put their life on hold, missed important life events and family events and left different law practices in positions within government to come in

that they did not do because we are the government and can threaten you, the department of justice and you should be afraid of us. everything that happened with this january 6 nonsense, anyone who did anything illegal ought to be held accountable. i am not a legal expert, but i do know that when you break the law, that means you go to jail and serve time. what they have perpetrated on the american people by way of this january 6 hoax is absolutely terrible, and it is a stain on our country's history. these people ought to be ashamed of themselves. i know they aren't, so we will shame them. we will make sure they never forget that history recalls every single day from now until forever what these people did and the way they personally and single-handedly tried to destroy this country. thank goodness god is good, and he shines a light in the dark places. this is just the beginning. if you think this is good, wait until donald trump gets in there, wait until kash patel gets in there, wait until tulsi gabbard gets in there, and they start shining laces that democrats and the establishment never wanted us to go. host