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92,000 pages of documents in may, 25 employees available for interviews. weve run the numbers. this is more than double the number of documents. and exponentially more witnesses. and then the trump administrations department of justice produced to this committee in four years and with respect to the actual audio recording sought by the majority the department of justice has produced full and complete transcripts of the conversations memorialized by these recordings. is that correct? >> it is the...

Transcript. >> thank you. now, the republicans have made bogus allegations that the department of justice is weaponized. is the department of justice authorized to kill the former president? what type of accusation does this have on the agents at the department of justice? >> it is dangerous. it is raising the threats of violence against the prosecutors and career agents. the allegation is false. the fbi has explined that the document being discussed is the standard use of form protocol which is...

And compromise future investigation, do you agree with that? >> i do. president biden sat for the interview, and provided candid answer, and what that requires is that the targets of those investigations feel like they can be speaking candidly, but if the audio is released, it will not make people want to cooperate or voluntaily sit for that to be turned back on them. >> but that is different from seeing the transcript than hearing the audio? >> we know it is different, then this transcript woul...

Somehow involved in these other prosecutions. we arent going to give you information that might lead you to that particular conclusion. there is another issue here. merrick garland is facing a lot of issues here. the use of lethal force they say is common in all cases. the second thing is the d.o.j. that he is attesting to now involvement in the trump case. and the third thing has to do with refusing to hand over the testimony, the actual audio, of joe biden with robert hur investigation. what i...

Special counsel, and with the fbi agents in the room, who agreed that the who created the transcript and who agreed that it was an accurate transcript? >> thank you one more question. >> mr. attorney general, throughout the hundred 18th congress, republicans have made bogus allegations, claiming that the justice department has been weaponized. >> most recently, there was an allegation that the fbi was authorized to quote, kill the former president. what impact does this type of rhetoric cabin th...

The interviews have been made available why do you i think they should or shouldnt be handed over to congress. we know what merrick garland just explained there is a longstanding practice when congress aspirin information generally needs to be tied to a legitimate legislative use. >> what is the reason why congress wants this in this particular case or in prior cases? that arent familiar with when you provide the transcript of some kind of interview that has been sufficient to satisfy the needs ...

Not be intimidated. we will continue to do our jobs, free from political influence and we will not back down from defending democracy. >> the republicans line to be intense. the head of this committee has been clear about his desire to get the justice department to turn over audio of president bidens interview with special counsel robert hurr. they have the transcript. theyre exhibiting executive privilege over that. it could have a chilling effect they say of future cooperation with prosecutors...

Justice system. garland responded to accusations that the justice department was behind former president trumps trial here in new york city where former neogene -- doj official matthew calendula -- and came up to new york and during the prosecution team. watch. >> you have no problem with dispatching matthew cale calendula. >> i did not dispatch mr calandra anywhere. >> you know how he ended up there? >> i assume he spoke -- applied for a job there and got the job. >> -- >> had nothing to do wit...

Foreign policy between the leading candidates for president ever certainly in 100 years, theres a huge amount of consequence in which way these men take the country china is an adversary, the likes of which this country has never seen. they have two very, very different approaches to how to, how to handle that. so watching them tackle those questions, they handle them in very different ways. i think its a good opportunity for readers and viewers to go and sort of compare both in the transcript a...

How did he seem to you? >> i, mean he appears very much as he appears on tv. he is older than when he started in office. its visible. if you just look side-by-side on the tape the transcript is a good place for people to go to assess that. he was we describe it in the piece as well as some sort of color description of how he appeared in there when it came up, did you get the sense that he takes the concerns about his age from according to polls, a majority of the american people, including democ...