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Are being spread about the f.b.i.s law enforcement operations. and it comes at a time when we are seeing heinous threats of violence being directed at the justice departments career civil servants. these repeated attacks on the justice department are unprecedented and they are unfounded. these attacks have not and they will not influence our decision making. i view contempt as a serious matter. but i will not jeopardize the ability of our prosecutors and agents to do their jobs effectively in fu...

Hold attorney general garland in contempt. so is this all a fait accompli meaning what republicans do that regardless of what he says today, they may. >> allison, lets take a minute to remember exactly what the clash is over that is bubbling into this contempt discussion that house republicans are having with garland. so garland is speaking more broadly about defending the justice farm, but house republicans are mad at him because they want the audio tape of joe biden sitting down with special c...

Involving federal law. we do not control the matan manhattan district attorney. manhattan district attorney does not report to us. the manhattan district attorney makes its own decisions about cases that he wants to bring under his state law thank you. >> my republican colleagues seem to believe the department of justice is secretly coordinated. and now successful prosecution of former president trump in new york. is there any truth to this allegation? and what is your response to this allegatio...

May not have the number of votes they need to hold him in contempt. and this contempt they have for him personally for the attorney general, as we expect the floor committee chairman jim jordan to start this committee hearing. >> we will look for the opening statements when that begins. carol, how likely do you hold merrick garland to be held in contempt? >> well, politics and businessmen do not make good bedfellows. there has to be compromise with political and executive branches with this. the...

It comes as falsehoods have been carried out for being spread for falsehoods by the fbi, and it is coming as we are seeing the heinous threats of the career civil servants. these repeated attacks against the justice department are unprecedented and unfounded. these attacks will not continue, and i view contempt as a serious matter, but i will not allow the agents to have their jobs jeopardized in future imdated. we will continue to do our jobs free from intimidation, and we

Hearing. what can we expect? >> well, buckle up, this is going to be intense and fiery, and we know that the judiciary committee is one of two who have recently voted to hold the attorney general in contempt. he is now going to stand before them in defiant fashion according to the early excerpts that garland is going to tell the committee here in reference to that he expected this contempt referral, but he is not going to be intimidated. he said, that i view this contempt as a serious matter, bu...

Investigations. so that is what the contempt fight is over. and right now, merrick garland says, no, remember though, even if the audio tape does get produced publicly at some point, perhaps under a judges order, maybe potentially there is this history of public ins picking these types of battles with cabinet officials including in the biden administration, but also dating back to eric holder as the attorney general, who was held in contempt for the first time in a long time starting that proces...

I am talking about inflation, talking about prik frek and that is one from an and sglaun. some of the members that i have spoken to believe that the foundation of holding the attorney general in contempt in the first place is flimsy. you will hear from the committee chairman jim jordan as to why they are holding him in contempt, and the partys intention to do so, but this is one of the long strands toward the compatibility. >> and i want to read a little bit more from the excerpt of.

Problem here. that didnt fly. now they are using the generic we cant release the audio and you cant hold me in contempt with that. a lot of issues now. >> bill: opening statements have begun in the hunter biden trial. they got off to a late start. the prosecutors are laying out a case now. defense will argue is hunter biden wasnt an addict when he filled out the form because he just came out of rehab. prosecutors will show in court, apparently, they claim, that hunter biden was in contact with b...

Keeping up with, and it speaks to the number of different threads that republicans have been trying to pull on and come up with something, anything. theres a lot of information flowing that a lot of republican voters are seeing that are frankly not familiar with in the mainstream, because they are pulling any thread they can find to prove a direct line to something, and whether or not theres any direct evidence is almost helpful to them because it allows there to be a cloud of ambiguity over eve...