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Enforcement, he really did use the justice department to lawlessly go after his enemies and reward his friends. under donald trump, the u.s. justice department was corrupted in multiple cases. trump didn't just want to do that, he didn't just express a desire to do it. under bill barr, he did it because there were justice department officials who did it, who went along, who took the calls, who took the instructions, who quashed the stuff that the white house wanted lawlessly quashed. who forced the things they wanted lawlessly forced. that can't stant -- stand as precedent. the u.s. justice de...

That's just the start of it. two federal judges already have ruled that the justice department under donald trump, william barr lied to the public and to the court about president trump's own potential criminal culpability in office. just last month, a federal judge ruled that justice department lawyers under trump and justice department officials under trump have lied to the court about the consideration of federal criminal charges against trump when he was in office. that judge ordered the justice department released a memo that he tried to keep secret in the trump years about potential crim...

Policy as former attorney general explained in our interview. very clear violations of the justice department and a really serious issue. that's justice department officials breaking justice department policy, miss behaving in serious and substantive ways. what do you do about that? what is merrick garland now in charge of the justice department doing to clean up the behavior of his agency under its previous leadership? to find out what happened, to make sure people get in trouble for having done that so it doesn't happen again, so it doesn't become a de facto precedent that future corrupt pre...

Carroll case coming up later on in the show. we're also watching closely now in terms of how the justice department is going to go after reporters sources. after this kerfuffle with the washington post reporters in the new york times reporters just today new threats from the biden administration that they have opened a massive leak investigation into the source behind this big bombshell story from propublica about the richest americans radically under paying their taxes compared with regular americans. of course, unauthorized disclosure of private or stolen information from the irs is a big de...

Personally represent me and the state of new york on my not allowing my tax returns. what's that all about? what is that about? >> yeah what was that all about? that was candidate joe biden last fall criticizing president trump for you turning the department into his own personal law firm, including the justice department telling the court, telling the federal court that trump was engaged in his official duties as president of the united states when he said about a woman who accused him of rape he she was a liar. he said he could not have raped her because she was not his type. the u.s. depart...