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The Justice Department is establishing a specialized unit focused on domestic terrorism, its top national security official said ...

>> we have strengthened and increased the efforts of our joint terrorism task forces. i have met with them. >> literally what have you done. put it in writing. write down what youve done. >> ill be happy to have our staff assess. >> senator whitehouse. >> thank you, welcome attorney general garland. two topics. the first is executive privilege. weve been through a rather bleak period with regard to executive privilege. i think you would call it the anything goes period in which any assertion of ...

0 about a conversation that im not -- >> im stunned that you cant recall that. so lets talk about afghanistan. the secretary -- undersecretary for defense policy, mr. kael says, isis-k poses a short term external threat al qaeda could launch attacks outside afghanistan within a year or two. do you agree with that? >> i agree that al qaeda has always presented and continues to present a persistent threat to the united states homeland. >> the question is whats changed? you say always. has any rece...

Appropriate updated and strengthened policies to these norms. we strengthened our policy governing communications between the justice department and the white house. that policy is designed to protect the departments criminal and civil law enforcement decisions and its legal judgments from partisan or other inappropriate influences. we issued a policy to better protect the freedom and independence of the press by restricting the use of compulsion sorry process to obtain information from or recor...

Communication between agencies, local police departments, the fbi, the cia, i could go on and on and he want todayeded -- wanted to improve that and communicate with local police departments. if you know of questionable characters in certain areas, share it with the new york police chief and vice versa. and did that improve in the 2003, 04 period yes, i think it came out quickly, one of the issues was that the fbi and cia were not coordinating. everybody knew that because they new the mandate wa...

Peter, as you heard, al-qaeda is seizing on the january 6th attack on the u.s. capital, and we have just learned, this is important, the u.s. capital police will now brief lawmakers on a rally thats scheduled for september 18th, a rally sympathetic to the january 6th rio rioters. how are officials battling foreign and domestic threats? >> well, right now they regard that as highly problematic according to the fbi. i want to pick up on some of the good news. on 9/11, there were 32 joint terrorism...

We cannot prevent every attack. the only way to find sustainable solutions is not only to disrupt and deter but also to address the root causes of violence. we have not waited until completion of the national strategy to begin implementing it. at the justice department, for example, the fbi has increased the domestic threat information it provides to our state, local, tribal and territorial partners, enhancing training provided to these important partners and continues to work closely with them ...

What should that have looked like? >> nicole, the normal pathway is to go through the joint terrorism task forces and what is usually the task force officers. many of the local police forces and, in this case, the capitol police, would have task force officers that integrate all the time with the jdtf and they would bring that intelligence in. there is still deliberation, even in the report, about what the fbi and dhs should look at in social media and take as a warning that could go into an int...