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(The Center Square) – U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland faced harsh criticism Wednesday after he defended a memo directing the FBI to monitor and investigate parents protesting COVID-19 mandates and

(The Center Square) – U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland faced harsh criticism Wednesday after he defended a memo directing the FBI to monitor and investigate parents protesting COVID-19 mandates and

To me, no. >> a lot of them have contacted us and said they did. >> im sorry? >> a lot of fbi contacted me and said that they opposed this decision. >> i doubt they spoke to me about it. i didnt speak to any one. >> all right. judge, youve repeatedly dissembled this morning about that directive. for instance, about the national security decision. chuck grassley asked you a simple question why youd would you sick the national security division of the justice department on parents. john cornyn ask...

So are this apparent failures of the initiative? is it lack of leadership or is it a compromise position with the administration, is it incompetence? >> every case is evaluated on its own with respect to the law and the facts. we continue to open cases involving the peoples republic of china daily as the director said. we will not in any way let up our concerns about chinese -- >> all right, i want to move on. glad you are not going to go soft on china because this administration is going soft o...

John kennedy that he was acting under the directive of the white house to issue this memo. he made clear that he wrote the memo himself, that hes completely independent from the white house, and john, garland has also faced repeated calls from republicans to rescind this memo that was out october 4. he has specifically said he will not rescind it, but these questions keep coming as republicans are seizing on this issue, john. >> among the other issues that came up is the january 6 insurrection a...

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> greg: attorney general merrick garland got his kicked testifying before the senate. garland repeatedly pressed over why he refused to -- the justice departments memo seeking the fbi on parents. even the national school board association apologized. >> you are just a vessel, arent you? >> g.a. garland: im not sure what you mean by that. >> you have weaponized the fbi and department of justice. its wrong. its unprecedented, to my knowledge, in the history of this country. i call...

Not on the supreme court because he has revealed himself to be a total idealogue. and i expected he would be that joe biden nominated him to provide cover for the department of justice to be deeply politicized and even weaponized against the american people. look at this directive in which he sicked feds on parents simply going to school boards to express their dissatisfaction with kids being indoctrinated or look at what happened in loudoun county, virginia. a father whose daughter had been rap...

Lee, the republican senator from utah, concludes and others conclude is impossible to pursue. the details in the memo are not part of the political and legal reality. >> there were no alternate electors because there was no fraud. bill barr said so. at one point, mitch mcconnell said so. and d.o.j. ultimately opines that there is no fraud. let me show you the lies that eastman told about fraud on january 6th. >> we know there was fraud, traditional fraud, that occurred. we know that dead people ...

Rights was condemned. do you apologize to scott smith and his 15-year-old daughter, judge? >> senator, anyone whos child was raped is the most horrific crime i can imagine and was entitled and protected by the first amendment to protest to their school board about this. >> he was cited by the school board association as a domestic terrorist. we know that letter and those reports were the basis -- >> no, senator that is wrong. >> this is shameful. this testimony, your directive, your performance ...

>> youve cited as a basis for that directive the national school board associations letter of september 29. was that directive being prepared before september 29, before the school board association letter was issued? >> i dont believe so. >> okay. that answers the question. >> i already answered that question. >> you keep citing the school board letter and news reports. one of the news reports that you mean is from loudoun county, virginia. >> thats not what i was talking about. >> you keep cit...