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Somebody else and answer questions about their enforcement initiatives. but the line is in the sand we cannot talk about pending ongoing investigations whether you want to know about donald trump or joe biden or hunter biden or rudy giuliani or anybody else that is off-limits and important that merrick garland is drawing that line and an enormous problem if he were to testify about those cases but signaling here i'm not going to go down that road. >> what is important is one thing you wrote about in your piece, apparently you had a premonition, you talk about the importance, though, of merrick...

We managed go 220 plus years as a nation without an a.g. being held in contempt until eric holder was held in contempt 2012 over the fast and furious this firearms investigation scandal. that was a republican congress but joined by 17 democrats who voted to hold him in contempt then in 2019 bill barr was held in contempt over the attempt to include a citizenship question on the census. now, nothing happened to either of them but contempt is meaningful. it's a symbolic slappen 0 the wrist. i think merrick garland has to take the slap on the wrist if it means protecting doj's core institutional ...

Think we are ready once again happening in high school. too many asians, let's put a stop to it which is so inherently wrong. >> steve: well, for the governor in that soundbite to talk a little bit about how there are these three school districts that were involved, it clearly looks like you know, at the highest levels, there could be coordination. >> ainsley: they are saying it's human error but not at 17 schools. >> brian: there is coordination. >> ainsley: maybe at one school. but when you have 17, come on. >> steve: exactly. so the a.g. is actually probing to see if the schools violated th...

Here is a chance to restore that integrity. do you think that garland is looking at it in such a high stakes manner? doesn't feel like he wanted to have to take on trump at the outset of his career as a.g., now he finds himself in almost an impossible position? >> people who know him well will tell you that he understands that it is against the political stakes. i have a hard time scoring that with the actual record. because, as you say, something hugely significant happened on january 6th. joe biden took office a couple weeks later, a couple months later was when merrick garland takes office....

Skepticism for -- here is a chance to restore that integrity. do you think that garland is looking at it in such a high stakes manner? doesn't feel like he wanted to have to take on trump at the outset of his career as a.g., now he finds himself in almost an impossible position? >> people who know him well will tell you that he understands that it is against the political stakes. i have a hard time scoring that with the actual record. because, as you say, something hugely significant happened on january 6th. joe biden took office a couple weeks later, a couple months later was when merrick gar...