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One repeatedly face obstruction from the prior administration. congress, however, is not an enforcement body and looks to the department to handle criminal matters when appropriate. i ask you mr. attorney general regardless of politics, will the department follow the facts and the law and expeditiously consider the referrals put forth by the select committee if theyre approved by the full house? >> the department recognizes the important oversight role that this committee and the house of repres...

Document called the federal principles of prosecution and making this decision. so here is the stuff that garland will have to start off with, first well have to make sure that he has deficient evidence to obtain sustaining conviction against steve bannon for obstruction of congress. if he doesnt think he has the evidence that its done right there. but look we have all seen the sort of obstruction crime committed in public, it seems very likely that the evidence is sufficient. then he will have ...

Once it goes, it goes. i you this joe and others may be open to change the rule and to change it in such a way that it forces debate. it allows debate. of thats the whole idea. it is supposed to be unlimited debate, not a tool of simple obstruction. so i think were going to be searching jeff murphy of oregon has done a huge amount of work in studying the details how to do it. norm, i think you know norm, he has a suggestion that says instead of the proponents having to get 60, the opponents have...

>> chuck schumer later voted no in order to suppress another vote down the line. schumer vote from the senate floor. >> every single republican senator just locked this chamber from having a debate, simply a debate on protecting americans rights to vote in free and fair elections. a little more than a year ago, our country held the safest election in modern history. republican obstruction is not a cause for throwing in the towel. as soon as next week, i am prepared to bring the john lewis rights...

0 jurisdiction? >> any understanding is the judge i -- >> he held the warden in contempt but we havent seen improvement. >> he asked for a review and the justice department is conducting a review. the marshals did an inspection the other day that was reported in the news and the civil rights division is examining the circumstances. this is the district of columbia jail not the prison system. >> as i explained to members i view the wearing of facemasks as a safety issue and important matter of or...

>> hi, again, everyone. its 5:00 in new york. its your move now, democrats. republicans have made clear all along with their complete obstruction, even starting debate on voting rights legislation to the 400 plus restrictive voting bills racing through state legislatures as weve covered here every day. 33 of them have been signed into law. republicans have shown their cards. they are no longer on the side of american democracy or democratic norms. less than two hours ago, all 50 republican senat...

Voting rights protections to reality. you saw us double the size of the civil rights decision of the department of justice so they can attack these provisions in court. we are talking to legislators regularly. i think yesterday the president talked to senator warnock, senator padilla. they talked to senators king, klobuchar and ossoff. we want to make sure we have a united democratic party voting for it, and were calling out the republican obstruction. voting rights, voter subversion, and voter ...

United states has been committed receives, relieves comforts for assists, the offender in order to hinder and prevent the apparition trial or punishment, your accessory after the fact in a murder case is 15 years or is there. you could do harboring or obstruction if they do some droid evidence, aiding and abetting, accessory to unlawful play, i would lean so hard on these parents, obviously they know something and have been hiding it, and the family of gabby deserves justice, and if thats what i...

In the senate before its passed unanimously when president biden was a senator and chair of the judiciary committee. everybody voted for it. so if they want to do something, they have an opportunity to do it now. they can vote for the john lewis bill. we want them to vote for it. but the obstruction were seeing is scary in this -- in where we are right now with a former president pushing the big lie, telling people not to vote, and the subversion and suppression legislation we see around the cou...

Name it. the defenses are down once we make this change. on the other hand, ive concluded that democracy itself is more important than any senate rule. and i think that we ought to be able to find some way to satisfy those who are committed to the idea of the filibuster, bipartisanship, requiring minority engagement that we can find a path that will satisfy them but at the same time allow us to move forward. the filibuster used to be used once every five years, and now its everything. i mean, we...