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Schiff. >> chairman schiff, the floor is yours to respond. >>well, look, i had to get used to that over the last four years. but the problem is when the president continually badgers the justice department to go after his political enemies, and he has people unscrupulous enough to do it, it raises serious questions about whether the justice department has been weaponized in the presidents service. we know that bill barr, for example, intervened in specific cases to lower the sentencing recommend...

Rallies, exactly, who he thought his enemies were. so -- and now, it appears that the doj was weaponized to go after those enemies. i am talking about democratic lawmakers, and their aides, their -- their families, and media organizations. i mean, he was very public about his enemies list. and now, here we are. and yet, its just so unprecedented, even with all of those tells, is it not? >> laura, the remarkable thing about president trump and his administration was how openly he corrupted the pr...

Public the department of justice doesnt seek to undermine a coequal branchs ability to check an abuse of power, and i humbly suggest you ensure that no one is above the law, even within the department whose job it is to enforce the law, because the stakes are too high to play cutesy or have words like the department of justice come down to semantics. i want to bring in cnn white house correspondent john harwood. glad to see you on a night like this. john, you covered the trump white house. we kn...

Its so sensitive, then lay your case out in public. this seems like a gratuitous abuse of power to get vindication, to be vindictive against people the president at the time did not like p. a politicized, weaponized justice department. thats the fear, right? >> yes. and that is why you have seen again, if youre looking for contt biden as a candidate and as a young president in the young days of his presidency has said, i didnt know about that when weve learned things in the justice department. h...

Lets dive in with nick ackerman, an assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. this is unprecedented. this is not how our country was designed to work. of course, there have been other leak investigations in other administrations, so explain what makes this so out of bounds. >> well, what makes this so out of bounds is that the question is whether or not donald trump used the department of justice to go after two individuals, democrats who we perceived as his enemies. this is...

We need to remember that. having said that, i know based on experience and tradition, when youre talking about investigations or actions by the department of justice, they involve the media or that involve members of a different branch of government, theres a high level of scrutiny and expectation. youve got to show substantial need to be involved in looking or investigating or asking for documents with respect saying in this particular case, i remember, in congress. so, again, its disappointing...

Its never an excuse for going to badly themed parties. college is a time for serious pursuits like rioting and binge drinking. harrison later apologized but as we know by now saying sorry to the pc police means they were right all along. chris reportedly threatened to disclose dirty secrets if he wasnt given a 25 million-dollar exit deal. its true. his firing didnt hurt because he had 20 years endured. reportedly gave him eight figures. coincidently, tyrus, i had eight figures removed. the e.r. ...

Minimal in nature. i dont think its going to progress from another attack. >> there is a number of senators ive spoken to, democratic senator specifically who i think they are thinking about filibuster the senate rules. bernie sanders was not super select about the filibuster, as easily as four years ago. has your own thinking on that changed? >> look, chris, i dont come to washington to get nothing done. i came to try to work for the betterment of this country and for the state of montana. if t...

Do it im still sort of stunned we dont have individuals wanting to find out what happened. listen, if i had death threats, which i did, many of us did, from q and nonor conspiratorial individuals, why wouldnt we want to know the truth of this? why wouldnt we want to know a conspiracy theory used as a writ was turned into a weaponized -- and had we had an insurrection or riot, hoover you want to define it, people are attacking the capitol based on fantasy. has that happened in the history of the ...

To shut off travel from china. i guess the question is why the focus on dr. fauci and if you can, make the strongest case you can as to why dr. fauci should somehow be held accountable here. >> well, everybody should be accountable. this is a situation that we basically havent dealt with in over 100 years with the spanish flu in the previous century. mistakes are going to be made, this is the first time dealing with a global pandemic for everyone involved. what weve seen, you mentioned this earl...