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Does the justice department going under merrick garland? i will tell you, it's the job i think i would least like to have in the whole federal government right now. if you give me my pick of jobs in the biden administration, my first choice would be that i don't want the job. my last choice would be i want to be the attorney general coming in to clean up the justice department after what just happened there in the previous president. i mean, being attorney general after trump as a job for which you need a hazmat suit several days of the week every time you come to work in terms of the proverbi...

And he nominated merrick garland to be attorney general of the united states which was a great honor and a huge responsibility and what do you know? merrick garland was confirmed to be attorney general quite easily. they didn't have any substantive objections to him at all and so there is the same sort of justice to that as seeing judge julian neil being confirmed today right? not forgetting. not letting that shameful treatment of that nominee by the republicans in the senate in the past, not letting that be the last word on either of their careers. that has a certain symbolism, a certain sati...

The justice department itself, apparently they're not investigating this. apparently, they're just letting that slide, not looking into it. just, i guess, planning to do better and not make those same mistakes again, hope that the trump era behavior that happened inside the justice department, what? just hope that it gets forgotten and doesn't get cited as precedent before some future corrupt president in terms of how he expects his justice department to act on his behalf? if the trump doj did it and it's known that they did it and nobody got in trouble for doing that, it becomes de facto pres...

Just like william barr did during the trump years. even more recently than that, just in the past week we've learned disturbing details about justice department officials during the trump administration entertaining demand from the trump white house that they should start investigations into trump's weird pet causes including some of the cookie is, most bananas conspiracy theories about the 2020 election somehow being stolen from trump. the new york times reporting that the white house chief of staff, mark meadows, told the attorney general while trump was still in office that after the electi...

Again, that sort of action, taking it in secret, not notifying the news organizations of what they were after, that would seem to be a very clear violation of justice department policy, as former attorney general eric holder explained to us here last night in our interview with him. very clear justice department policies that are on a serious issue. that is justice department officials breaking justice department policy, misbehaving 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...