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Neil. >> focus on those that want people to believe that you want retribution, that you will only use a system of justice to go after your political enemies. >> so number 1 they are wrong and has to stop look when this election is over. based on what theyve done i would have every right to go after them and its easy because its joe biden. >> neil: it seems tit for tat how far youll do we want to go after the other side. its sort of like a tennis only act bob what do you think we the speaker of t...

Would do with a second term specifically with the doj weaponized the doj to borrow a term from him we talked a lot about that on the show yesterday, last night trump was on with hannity and handed who is clearly trying to throw him a lifeline and it didnt look like donald trump was ready to grab it. lets listen focus on those that want people to believe that you want retribution that you will use the system of justice to go after your political number one, theyre wrong. it has so stop because ot...

Trumps former top adviser was convicted of contempt of congress in 2022. and his sentence is four months in prison, which now two years later, he will we begin actually serving my panel is back here with me this is very much directly related to what we were talking about before the break, which is the claims of the weaponization of the justice department, which there is absolutely absolutely no evidence to backup but maybe more importantly, the promise slash threat that by people like steve bann...

Compares himself to the russian opposition leader who died this year in a prison colony, he is giving himself permission to act like vladimir putin. what you mean by that? >> authoritarian rhetoric, this total denial, this blatant lie, it is meant to make you feel like you are losing your mind. it is extremely destabilizing. the narrative is two parts. part of it is this unprecedented weaponization of the justice system and the second part is donald trump will be justified in doing the same thin...

No one is above the law. it doesnt matter who you are or what your name is, because in this country the law applies to everyone equally. that makes no distinction between donald trump, hunter biden and everyone else. that is fair and right but i would argue that when you look at these cases and what we are hearing from people saying that the weaponization of the justice system, hunter biden is being prosecuted for a crime that you would rarely see. how are they getting there in part? they are ta...

Was about? republicans trying to intimidate him republicans, have been trying to intimidate merrick garland and the department of justice for this entire congress, they created an entire subcommittee called the weaponization of the federal government. >> so they could weaponize congress in order to undermine the rule of law, undermine democracy, and undermine most importantly, every single investigation and now prosecution against donald trump. thats all. this is about. this is the republicans d...

Led me on in combat in iraq, inf pulled bodies out of burning vehicles in afghanistaghn, viewd you know, and youre viewed as the enemy. ahow can we must treat our military like this? how is in t possible, which is the focus of your new book, when political ideologues obamac first and now biden pushala so a justice agenda that has nothing to do with winning and fighting warjustice -s, noo to do with meritocracy, nothing to do with lethality. cod then generals are complicit in allowing it to happe...

And if joe biden didnt known , you know, that he became vice president in 2009, was i still vice president in 2009? we neenined to hear that the america and people need to hear that garland is running cover for joe biden. and thats what the weaponization justice has nown become, politicizing the justice departmentof justic thats what your committee has been and continues to investigater . answe were you happy with the answers you got today? they were revealin g. >> yeah. yeah, but -- but also, r...

Was defiant. he said, i will not be intimidated. do you think thats what this hearing was about? republicans trying to intimidate him republicans have been trying to intimidate merrick garland and the department of justice for this entire congress, they created an entire subcommittee called the weaponization of the federal government. >> so they could weaponize congress in order to undermine the rule of law, undermine democracy, and undermine most importantly, every single investigation now pros...

And d.a.s, and the doj should get control of it should actively get involved, what does that look like in practice? >> well, katy, i mean, take a step back. why was donald trump convicted in the manhattan courtroom. the answer is because the government had the facts to meet their burden of proof and a jury greed unanimously. saying that you want to prosecute someone, saying that you want revenge, saying that its our turn now is very different than having a valid investigation with sufficient pro...