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Ache salingss of bias as a right wing conspiracy theory. >> an attack on the rule of law tears down peoples confidence in the basic fundamental element of our democracy. >> chad: garland said he never personally linked to the audiotape from the interview special counsel robert hur conducted with the president. saying the department only altered the transcript to eliminate repetitive or filler words. but republicans say thats precisely why they want to hear the tapes. >> the transcript may be acc...

Audio recordings of president bidens now infamous interview with special counsel robert hur. garland faces a possible contempt of congress charge and was the focus of an intense hearing today up on capitol hill. thats where senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is tonight. >> attorney general merrick garland mum in the hallway. >> are you going to kind of punch back against what theyre trying to do in contempt? but garland defiant in the hearing room. >> i will not be intimidated. >> c...

Agents to do their jobs effectively. in future investigations. i will not be intimidated. and the justice department will not be intimidated. we will continue to do our jobs free from political influence and we will not back down from defending democracy. >> that was the attorney general, merrick garland, on capitol hill today, testifying before the house judiciary committee, defending himself and his department from republicans on the committee who threatened to hold him in contempt for refusin...

Constitution and our capitol police and all of these things are the very ones who are sowing it. i was there on january 6th, got hauled out in a gas mask. held in a safe room for hours and hours. with journalists, with republicans, with democrats. and we went back onto that floor and many of these republicans including speaker johnson, voted not to certify the election. >> lets talk about speaker johnson and also jim jordan. jim jordan is the chairman, right, of the committee. >> yes, he is. >> ...

Punished. violations could be punished by contempt separate and apart from the underlying criminal case revoking conditions of release and the underlying criminal case. the motion has been brought as a motion to change his conditions, donald trumps conditions, of release pretrial to require him not to make statements at present an imminent danger to law enforcement. and that is done under the authority of a judge to set conditions of release that are necessary to ensure the safety of any person ...

A jury with no basis whatsoever. they are seeking to undermine and delegitimize the entire justice system because that is what fascists do. they undermined the rule of law and any source of power in any source of independent information that could block their leader from taking power. so when he does this, when marco rubio or all the troops that go on fox news say its rigged and corrupt and the kangaroo court, they are assaulting average americans. the 12 people who sat on that jury who are now ...

We have mechanisms to get control of that. we will be doing that within the confines of our jurisdiction and i think it can show the american people we are not to tolerate this. >> then there are the senate republicans. apparently they are so incensed by his conviction that they cannot govern. eight senators have vowed to oppose any democratic appointees or major legislation claiming president biden has made a mockery of the rule of law. that is rich coming from the same cast of characters who s...

Impose jail, but i would strongly consider it the max is four years. it doesnt have to be jail time. so you could these got a lot of range eight could do like 60 days jail and three years probation to send a message about how serious it was weekends in jail immunity, service, pick up, pick up trash on the subway. >> karen, i mean, do you think its a possibility? >> i think its a possibility. look, i think i just adding to everything that the judge just said is also the fact that he was held in c...

Could have turned out electron and thats about a serious as it gets. and if i were the judge, im not saying i would i would impose jail, but i would strongly consider it the max is four years. it doesnt have to be jail time. so you could these got a lot of range. they could do like 60 days jail and three years probation to send a message about how serious it would be. weekends in jail, immunity service, pick up pick up trash on the subway. >> karen, i mean, do you think its a possibility? >> i t...

Enough that the actions he stands convicted of could have turned out electron and thats about a serious as it gets. and if i were the judge, im not saying i would i would impose jail, but i would strongly consider it the max is four years. it doesnt have to be jail time. so you could these got a lot of rain, j. it could do like 60 days jail and three years probation to send a message about how serious it would be weekends in jail, entity service, pick-up, pick up trash on the subway. >> karen, i...