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do something violent himself. he told the fbi his father was planning to, quote, do some serious damage. that was christmas eve 2020 when that young man submitted that tip to the fbi. he didnt hear back initially. it took a couple of weeks. it took until after the january 6th, 2021, attack on the u.s. capitol building. then the fbi decided maybe that tip deserved some follow-up. by the time the fbi got in touch with the son,th the sons fathe had not only traveled from texas to washingt...

Prior election ucycles, i am issuing this memorandum to remind you of the policies with respect to political activists. this is ath memo that is from attorney general merrick garland. it has his signature on the top of it in blue ink. and then it says this. under the heating statements, investigations and charging near an election. quote, the department of justice has a strong interest in the prosecution of election-related crimes such as those involving federal and state campaign finance laws, ...

The responsible thing to do is the drafter of the memo to prepare the memo for release. it includes sources and methods that shouldnt have been in there in the first place. >> the committee unanimously voted to release the memo today. wouldnt republicans have voted it down if you are right. and the white house saying it goes through a review process like the republican memo did. >> i am comfonfident that as th memo is going through the process, you will have to redacted. i want the american publ...

Trump seeming to want to do that to distract or undermine this russia investigation. i think thats exactly right. russians are certainly happy of whats going on here now, with really attacking these very important american institutions. and you heard fbi agents today basically come out on twitter and say this is damaging, that they put their lives on the line in terms of law and order. its also just odd to have a republican president, a law and order president, then attack the fbi and the depart...

>> you cant. >> if i had been his lawyer at the time i would have told him when came back to the justice department call them up appropriations tell them you forget. but he cant. it is not even a question of lying. whether it leech reaches the level of material. this is the highest law enforcement officer in the country. at best he was cagey. he was dodging. and that is just not what we expect from the highest law enforcement. there are thous of doj lawyers who every day go into court and you do...

>> you cant. >> if i had been his lawyer at the time i would have told him when came back to the justice department call them up appropriations tell them you forget. but he cant. it is not even a question of lying. whether it leech reaches the level of material. this is the highest law enforcement officer in the country. at best he was cagey. he was dodging. and that is just not what we expect from the highest law enforcement. there are thous of doj lawyers who every day go into court and you do...

Real significance is the republicans in congress have now crossed the rubicon. until now we criticized them for standing idly by and doing nothing while the president trashed the fbi and department of justice and the other agencies we depend on to protect us and protect our security and did everything he could to sabotage an investigation of the russian interference in our election. now you have to say that theyre actively complicit, theyre accomplices in this. >> what i dont understand about wh...