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the house select cub committee on the weaponization the federal government held first hearing yesterday. let's listener to a piece of this and talk about tnches in my time in congress i have never seen anything like this. dozens and dozens of whistleblowers, fbi agents coming to us, talking about what's going on in the political nature at the justice department. >> ashley: so you heard congressman jordan there, what has been the most -- the biggest take away that you think from this hearing so far? >> well, have all known that the doj and the fbi have been politicized over the past few years going back to the russian collusion hoax and surveilling on the trump campaign. now you have actual fbi agents swearing an oath to be honest, sitting before a congressional committee, testifying that that's exactly what has been going on in the doj and the fbi. so much so that they left the bureau because of the politicization that's going on. so bringing these facts and evidence before the american people so they can see just how politicized that joe biden and the democrats have politicized

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have called on the inspector general at the doj, michael horowitz, to look into whether durham or bill barr violated any laws, doj rules, or practices or cannons of legal ethics when it came to the durham review. can you talk a little bit more about what you see and what is a red flag for you? >> yeah, you're absolutely right. if you want to talk with weaponization of the federal government, let's look at the four year john durham investigation, which yielded two indictments, both of which were acquittals. and even bill barr admitted that the purpose of those indictments was not actually to convict the defendants, but was to effectively launder and conspiracy theory about the russia investigation and its origins through a criminal prosecution. there are sirens blaring all around this investigation from an excessive abuse of power, to prosecuting misconduct, to the little isolation and public speaking against department practice about an ongoing investigation. even to the point where to prosecutors on the german vest

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line quite the way that we did, while on the other hand, it might well just fall in line. i think that that is probably the more likely of the two possibilities. >> it's just wow, rhonda scent is offering 6% off of the gas stove. that amounts to a platform in the gop these days. josh marshall, -- >> that will certainly be the central platform i think, in the 2024 gop platform. >> hot tip for 2024. founder and editor in chief with talking points, it's great to have you on the show. thank you very time tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> when we come back, we will talk about what the fbi is doing at president biden's vacation home today, and what they did find, and what they did not find. plus, house democrats are picking up their efforts for the republicans knew subcommittee on the so-called weaponization of the federal government. two of their picks were heavy hitters for each of the trump impeachment proceedings. we will talk to one of them, coming up next. love?

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what. they want to figure out the totality of places where records may have been sent from the time of his vice presidency, then ended in 2017, in january. and they want to know the totality of records that might be outside government possession and make sure they are secured. you know, i think you've made this point really well before, which is that the biden team, as soon as they first found records in november of this past year, they alerted the government officials responsible for securing such documents at the national archives. and in the department of justice began the standard kind of process for making sure they secured such records. they told the biden team to hold up, let them know all the places where records could have been sent, and to stop reviewing and searching for any classified records. the result has been politically painful for president biden, because it's been a drip, drip, drip of discoveries.

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special counsel who is retained to investigate the origins of the trump russia investigation. and the relationship between those two men sounded inappropriate. there were late nights drinking scotch, a sort of coziness that sounded inappropriate for somebody who's supposed to be an independent investigator. there was also a lot of questions around a potential criminal investigation into suspicious financial dealings relating to and then president donald trump. can, i know that you have sand, you and congressman ted lieu have called on the inspector general at the doj, michael horowitz, to look into whether durham or bill barr violated any laws, doj rules, or practices or cannons of legal ethics when it came to the durham review. can you talk a little bit more about what you see and what is a red flag for you? >> yeah, you're absolutely right. if you want to talk with weaponization of the federal government, let's look at the

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based society that we live in. i had ten years of experience as a federal prosecutor in the department of justice. and i worked for the fbi every day. i worked as a staffer on the house intelligence committee. and i understand the intelligence community. and i'm going to bring that experience as a sober and truthful reminder to jim jordan and the other republicans as to how things actually work. and how important these executive agencies are to our communities safety and our national security. >> congressman, you're gonna have a lot of work to do. but with that mandate, you know, this committee, the subcommittee is supposed to be investigating the weaponization of the federal government, there is actually an investigation that is warranted. and that is the durham investigation over a doj. the new york times had some explosive reporting on the ways in which then attorney general bill barr, what sounds like colluded with john durham, the

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and aggressiveness that he dug into the origins of special counsel mueller's investigation. >> i mean, talk about quite literally the weaponization the federal government. you are on the subcommittee, good luck to you congressman dan coleman, and thanks for your time tonight. >> thank you, alex. >> we have more to come, including how day one on the job for the trump allied special counsel investigating president biden's handling of special documents, how on day one there is an fbi search of president biden's beach house. stay with us. stay with us type 2 diabetes? discover the ozempic® tri-zone.

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