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now, what is scary about this is that not the liberalism of vanita gupta, but the willingness to turncies of government into weaponized agencies against political opponents. that is not liberalism, that is actually i-liberalism. she targets people against her and his able to look away when it's people on her side. she is part of that coordinated action on the left to shut down and criminalize opponents. that is what makes her truly scary person. >> laura: i want to skip something to when she was describing what she wanted to do when she got into the justice department. watch. >> now is the time to ensure that our economic system works for everyone. we will harness all of the justice department's levers for civil rights, justice, and police reform, climate justice, so much more. >> laura: climate justice, abolishing the police. all of the levers of government -- back to what ganesh said, a liberal moves one and all. >> looks like they are using the levers of government to dismantle the government. i think most americans would agree that one of the core functions of the government is to

i mean they disport what vanita gupta stood for, saying she is for defunding the police but she is for anything but that. distorting ads about xavier becerr the a's record. these nominees are facing a smear campaign, because in part people think they can be easily demonized. it's an unfortunate reality. they have a lot of support in congress. and i really appreciate that ron klain and the biden administration have been fighting for them to stand up to the demonization. >> congressman rowe khanna thanks to have you with us. >> thank you i appreciate it. >>> the u.s. poised to have a third vaccinen for covid-19. how soon americans could receive the johnson & johnson vaccine next. you're live in the cnn newsroom. this looks different. it is. epic hi-res photos. and 8k video, cinema quality. this is different. told you. riders, the lone wolves of the great highway. all they need is a bike and a full tank of gas. their only friend? the open road. i have friends. [ chuckles ] well, he may have friends, but he rides alone. that's jeremy, right there! we're literally riding together. he gets t

wasn't really like enough to startle people whereas you have the nominees of color deb holland and vanita guptaneira and it whoen have said partisan things and that's enough to say, holdon, we've got to look much more closely at these nominees. >> i think even more than just partisan with regard to neera tanden. she's definitely on shaking ground because of her past tweets that have been described as mean and nasty and the like about members of congress but wouldn't that be hyper critical considering many republicans supported trump, who, yeah, mean and nasty, good way to describe his tweets and democrats have been accused of engaged in identity politics. let's take a look at this. >> her identity would be relevant if because of her life experiences it informed her policy preferences so she had actually spent her life and plans to spend her future protecting the very programs that enabled her family to survive. she has had a significant record of being on the record as being willing to cut the very social programs she cites. >> do you think if there's any chance that bernie sanders would vote a

you spoke yesterday, you're going to speak again tomorrow, but first, vanita gupta, what does it telliden wants from his justice department? >> that he has not completely given up on the idea of defunding the police. if you think about the obama administration for eight year, it was a lot of consent decrees, pattern and practice investigations where entire police organizations and departments were not only reviewed, but then were subject to some pretty onerous restrictions. and, you know, i think it really, it portends an era where we're going to go back to sort of police are are bad. and, you know, she's for defunding the police and redistributing that to social programs. and i think that's a very dangerous, you know, especially -- we still have some major problems in our cities with violent crime, and, you know, instead of defunding the police, you know, we need to support them, and we need to give them the resources that they need to do their jobs. pete: you'd think after all we've gone through, we would come to that realization at some point. here's a portion of an op-ed in "the w