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Anderson Cooper 360

president donald trump did try to do this exact thing in 2018 using the same authority, but was eventually blocked by the courts. now, of course, the timing here is notable, were only a few weeks away from the first presidential the bait and voters rank immigration as one of their top issues. and this is a president who has been slammed repeatedly by republicans and democrats over his handling of the us. mexico border. so taken together today really amounts to a significant policy shift for this white house, which began its administration, saying it wanted to restore asylum is now working to shut that valve off for some migrants. so all of this anderson just clearly an indication of the president trying to blunt republican attacks and preempt his republican rival on the campaign trail. >> and it seems likely there'll be core challenges that's exactly right. the aclu already saying they plan to take this to court to challenge it in court. they did that during the trump administration and they had some success, as i mentioned, the courts eventually blocked former president donald trump from

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Anderson Cooper 360

felon. >> that conspiracy theory is an attack on the judicial process itself. republicans firing back, we'll the department of justice provides to the committee all documents, all correspondence between the department and alvin bragg's office and fani willis, those office and letitia james office. >> the offices you're referring to are independent offices of state. >> i get that. i get that. de the question is one that you will provide all of your document minton correspondence that's the question. it's i don't need a history lesson well i'm going to say again, we do not control those offices. >> they make their questions indicate with them not whether you control them, do you? indicate with them and we provide those qut make a request. >> we will refer it to our office of legislative, but there's the thing they come in here and you lodge this attack that it's a conspiracy theory, that there is coordinated lawfare against trump and then when we say fine, just give us the documents, give us the correspondence.

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Anderson Cooper 360

grilled, director raised boss, attorney general merrick garland in their battle against what they say is a weaponized justice system targeting the former president mr. trini. general, there's no blinking. the fact that for the first time in american history, we do have a presidential administration is working to put its opponent in jail well, as many others have reported, there's no evidence the justice department fbi investigators, several federal grand juries and judges are doing anything but their jobs and no evidence that any federal officials influenced new york authorities. >> the judge or the 12 jurors who convicted the former president but that is not stopping the allegations is seen as manu raju fanned out today. >> you swear or affirm under penalty of per attorney general merrick garland facing off with his loudest critics on capitol hill. >> i will not be intimidated. and the justice department will not be intimidated and calling out gop attacks that his department is behind the new york hush money case that may donald trump, the first ever x president to become a convicted

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Anderson Cooper 360

>> and then if it's a conspiracy theory that will be evident, demo all right. >> said republicans were playing for an audience of one. >> there were about to nominate a convicted felon and they don't know how to cope with that. >> the gop taking aim at garland for appointing special counsel jack smith, who is leading the prosecution against trump in two federal indictments your first choice? i'm not gonna go into the question. >> did you know him before you picked him? i did not. did he ask for the job this is not a job. >> i don't think anybody asks for. that's not that sorry. but that's not the question i asked you. i said did jack smith asieh not asked me for the job? no. >> garland today refusing to comply with the house subpoena for audio of special counsel, robert hur's interview was president joe biden over his handling of classified documents in that 388 page report, hurd declined to prosecute biden, citing in part how a jury would view him as a sympathetic, well-meaning meaning elderly man with a poor memory, releasing the audio

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Anderson Cooper 360

but it is i mean, it's still just strikes me as bizarre. that's so many house republicans keep pushing a debunk claim that the fbi played a role in facilitating the events in january 6, it is crazy and they know better and they continue to push all of these conspiracy theories. we heard today. as jim jordan, matt gaetz and others tried to suggest that the justice department or the president was behind the mat manhattan da's prosecution they understand how the court system first lady know that the federal system is completely separate and distinct from a local prosecutor's office like that. i'm manhattan matt gaetz for his own part as all too much experience in the criminal justice system, being the subject of sex trafficking case. so they understand how the system works, but they wish to mislead the public they want to somehow obscured the fact that they're about to be nominee is now a convicted felon and they're willing to tear down the justice system

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The Source With Kaitlan Collins

a gag order when it comes to the law enforcement officials who carried out that search at mar-a-lago when he refused? mr. turnover classified documents and the concern primarily is for their safety. the judge cannon here denied the first one. there are now trying again, do you believe that she should approve that gag order? >> i think she should i haven't read the terms of the proposed order, but if it's narrowly tailored to try and mitigate the threat that's created by donald trump lying about an effort by the fbi to allegedly assassinate him. that's crazy. and dangerous stuff that will resonate and disturbed minds. and there are a lot of disturbed minds out there. so i get at why the justice department, through its special counsel and the fbi, would want to try and protect the people who are doing the case, but is a registered republican for most of your life, what is it like donald trump obviously says a lot of things that aren't true. there's a dedicated fact checker because of that. but is a registered republican for most of your life, what is it

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The Source With Kaitlan Collins

and how he was pushing back. you've been critical in the past of his ability to communicate quickly with the american people about, about what exactly it is that the department of justice is doing in light of these republican attacks. i wonder how you think he did today? >> i think it was great. it was great to see the attorney general stand up for the integrity of the institution that he leads i let it was great that the fbi put out a very quick statement after trump issued that outrageous lie about the use of deadly force, so-called in the search warrant in mar-a-lago, which was remarkable because we don't often see the fbi put statements out like that. >> yeah. it has to be out there because the lie soaks into the national bloodstream. people believe when a former president says things as crazy as they may be, it's really important for those who know better to speak up quickly before that becomes sort of baked into our national conversation. >> what do you think's behind that change in how the fbi

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BBC News

to apprehend between 110—120,000 migrants in may — down from nearly a quarter of a million in december of 2023. and, while we heard there from senator cruz, the republican opposition to the action, there's also been opposition to president biden�*s action from his own party — including from democrat pramila jayapal, whom i spoke to a short while ago. i'm profoundly disappointed, i don't think this is the right action to take for several reasons. first, seeking asylum is something that we have to allow in order to be in line with our domestic laws, but also in order to be in line with our international treaty obligations. and what the president's executive order does today is it caps asylum, it limits it only to people who come through the cpp one app,

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The Source With Kaitlan Collins

forward, i mean, even though they're done their service, there are still vulnerable. you have to protect them witnesses i think witnesses still need to be protected for the same reason the judge has allowed trump to respond to michael cohen in the past. >> maybe the judge will clarify. you can respond because the judge has held that even though it's not quite in the gag order, and then family members and court staff, i mean, leave them alone, like i don't see any reason why this gag order needs to be dropped. >> so here's what i'm wondering, because they do sayyed the cnn debate at the end of this month, right? in this reasoning for their appeal to the judge to lift parts of the gag order, lift the whole gag order. one person he can attack is matthew colangelo who republicans on capitol hill were attacking today, a prosecutor on bragg's team also, obviously michael cohen and they're citing the debate it seems to say this is going to be something he wants to be able to talk about at that debate. well, i have to imagine that his campaign team and susie wiles would not want this to be part of the debate prep. >> the last thing that they would want him to be focusing on is rage, retribution, and re-litigating the fact that he's a convicted felon that

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Alex Wagner Tonight

political puppetmaster. can they have their cake and eat it too? his son, and do we remember that the same justice department the client to prosecute matt gaetz on trafficking? the justice department if they are doing political stuff, they are doing it badly. here is what is going on. there is evidence and it's not a democrat or a republican or a socialist or a communist.

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