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A huge political row has broken out over senior Congress leader Sam Pitroda's remarks on inheritance tax with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claiming that this was a sign that the party, if voted to power, will redistribute the wealth of Indians.
pardoning, you hearron ron desas talking about looking at pardons, what do you think? >> it's disgusting. it's an take on the rule of law. if anything in this country people should be able to agree on, we should send a message never again. you can't interview by force. you can protest, you can march, you can do what you want, but don't you dare. that's the message that has to be sent with those prosecutions. and the idea of undercutting that message makes no sense at all. >> many in the house in congress say that the fbi has been weaponized, that it's going after conservatives, that it's politicized. do you believe any of that is true? >> i don't believe any of it is true. i never would have expected it. all of us should become more familiar with the way a cult operates in the recent years. so it makes sense in the light of that phenomenon. but i never would have anticipated it years ago. >> so what happens if the republican party, which has a long, proud history, if many of its members are talking about, you know, prosecuting the
of justice. neil: you know, or congressman, i am curious as well about joe biden and his comments on this to the degree that he didn't know about it. now, that might be the case, might not be the case. but if it is the case, isn't that even more problematic? isn't that even more worrisome, that classified documents were in his possession, and he didn't know it? >> exactly, neil. you know, that is the argument for defense that a lot of democrats in congress say, look, he didn't even know about it. well, that makes it even worse. because here's what we know, and i can tell you this from the investigation into the biden family influence peddling. this family has a history of receiving lots of anonymous donations from china whether it be to the biden center for diplomacy, whether it be to hunter's shady business dealings, for hunter's artwork. there is a pattern here. and this is very concerning. and you may ask why would china invest so much money in the
trump's tax returns. but it's not anything the public is going to see any time soon and this committee has weeks before they wrap up to decide how to handle anything as well. >> we're going to talk about these one at a time starting first with the january 6th committee and possible criminal referrals. eli hoenig was a deputy attorney general. if the january 6th committee does go down the path of issuing criminal referrals, how much weight does that have with justice department? what does the justice department care here? >> the answer is zero. it's simply about political symbolism. it's a request from congress say, hey, d.o.j., we'd like to you investigate this. you know how we know that? they're already investigating
Arvind Kejriwal today said Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has emerged as the main challenger of the BJP in Gujarat where elections will be held next month. At a NDTV townhall, Mr Kejriwal also said the "BJP "offered" him a deal to "pull out of Gujarat".
Facing stubbornly high gas prices that average about $5 a gallon nationwide, President Joe Biden has urged Congress to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes for three months. Here is how the "tax holiday" would work.
you. brett kavanaugh can have 30 people show up outside his house and the senate spends a million dollars to keep him protected. but a regular working class black woman in georgia has to be on the run for two and a half months and the fbi says, work it out on your own. this is an obligation for every single american to vote out these terrorists this fall and hold any democrat who is not serious about removing these people from government accountable, not just as being feckless weaklings but at this point, you're an enabler if you're not trying to remove these people from power. >> jason, is there anything about the testimony that has been a revelation to you in terms of deepening your understanding of just how premeditated and widespread the plot was? >> actually, nicole, no. i always assumed that it was this deep. we talked about this over a year ago. the moment i heard a member of congress say, i'm pretty sure i saw somebody giving people tours throughout the building, i knew this ran deep. i knew the tentacles were
could tell her about what we wanted to do and what we hoped we could do. it was hard to talk about what we could do and what we would do. we're starting to see difference in that now, and i think red flag laws may be the first place we can go with that. >> one of the concerns i have in just thinking about this story, we're talking about the very tough questions tonight, dana, the questions about good police response. i do wonder and have concerns about whether the questions themselves will translate into a scapegoating that will make congress say, well, this is not for our work to do. we would have operated differently. this is really about a policing issue. when you look at this notion, dana, do you think there are any sort of exit ramps that they will use as ways to say, we can't do anything about it? is that a concern right now? >> there are always exit ramps if that is what politicians are looking for. we know that since nothing was done after sandy hook. nothing was done after parkland
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congress making millions and millions of dollars, trading stocks, using information they have because of their jobs. are we now seeing congress say, whatever. i don't have to cooperate. there's no point in opening myself to scrutiny or legal action, i'm going to keep on doing what i'm doing, making a money of money and staying in office. that's where we are? >> i think there are some members -- i think there are some members who have made the calculation that that is -- it's in their interests not to cooperate. that they don't face any public backlash, their seat is not at risk if they do not -- if they do not comply and so they're going to keep doing what they're going to keep doing and until ethics laws get tougher, until there's real penalties for not cooperating with an investigation or not following some of the ethics rules, i don't know how things are going to change. >> those same lawmakers who go on and on about going after wall street and going after big business and they do these things themselves. luke, awesome reporting.