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Merrick GarIand GriIIed For The First Time Since Being Held In Contempt of Congress

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wants these Republicans don’t care what’s in the interest of the American people they just care about getting their favorite felon back in the White House General Garland thank you for being here today I apologize in advance for the wild conspiracies and lies that will be told about you today you and I do not agree on everything but you are a man of Great Character and professional Integrity I take great comfort in knowing that nothing my Republican colleagues say about you here will change the thoughtfulness and decency that Mark your leadership of the department I urge you not to take this process too personally the desperation has nothing to do with your record as attorney general thank you for being here and I yield back without objection all other opening statements will be included in the record we will now introduce today’s Witnesses The Honorable Merck Garland is the Attorney General of the United States he was sworn in on March 11th 2021 we welcome our witness and thank him for appearing today we will Begin by swearing you in would you please rise and raise your right hand do you swear affirm under penalty of perjury that the testimony you’re about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge information and belief so help you God at the record show that the witness is answered in the affirmative you may be seated uh please know that your written testimony will be entered into the record its entirety accordingly we ask that you summarize your testimony you’ve done this several times before Mr attorney general um uh you can you can start with your opening statement and and I want to make Point uh point out here at the at the outset that anytime you need a break we’re going to be here we’re going to have to go to the floor and vote anytime you need a break just have your team get a hold of our team and we’ll be we’ll be happy to do that um you’re recognized for your opening statement thank you chairman Jordan ranking member nler and distinguished members of this committee since I last appeared before you the more than 115,000 employees of the Department of Justice have continued their work to fulfill our mission on behalf of the American people to keep our country safe to protect civil rights and to uphold the rule of law just 10 days ago we secured the extradition of one of the Le sarios or assassins of the caloa cartel one of the most dangerous drug trafficking organizations in the world just last month we secured a 27-year prison sentence for a man who attempted to kill NYPD officers in a terrorist attack in Times Square in 2022 in just the first three months of this year we charged seven members of a hacking group backed by the Chinese government we disrupted a botnet control by Russian intelligence services and we seized over $18 million and 500,000 barrels of fuel that would otherwise have enable the government of Iran to further support Hamas hisbah and other terrorist groups we have continued our work to drive down violent crime work that we know is paying off last year’s historic decline in homicides the largest one-year decline in 50 years is continuing in the first quarter of this year we have already seen an 18% drop in murders we know we have much more to do we have also remained steadfast in our commitment to the Justice Department’s founding purpose to protect civil rights we have aggressively investigated and prosecuted hate crimes that victimize individuals and terrorize entire communities and we have brought Justice to the perpetrators of those crimes like the defendant in Florida who attacked to black women because of the color of their skin the defendant in Michigan who defaced synagogues with sasus the defendant in Missouri who set fire to a community Islamic Center and the defendant in Tennesse who committed a series of arson targeting Catholic Methodist and Baptist Churches we have work to protect the reproductive freedoms that are protected by federal law in Idaho we Sue to ensure that women in the state would have access to the emergency care guaranteed to them under federal law we have continued to protect the right to vote and to have that vote counted we successfully challenged a redistricting plan in galvaston County Texas The District Court recognized that the plan violated section two of the Voting Rights Act by depriving the County’s black and Latino voters of an equal opportunity to participate in the political process and elect a candidate of their choice we have continued to prosecute fraud and we have challenged illegal monopolies that drive up prices for consumers this year we sued to break up Live Nation Ticket Master for its Monopoly of the live concert industry and we sued Apple for monopolizing smartphone markets we have also continued to fulfill our responsibility that underlies all of our work to uphold the rule of law that is why we have worked to combat a worrying Spike of threats of violence against those who serve the public those threats have included targeting of members of Congress police officers judges jurors election workers and the Justice Department’s own employees let me be clear if anyone threatens public servants with violence we will hold them accountable and we will continue to protect our Democratic institutions like this one and to bring to Justice all those criminally responsible for the January 16th attack on our democracy as attorney general I will continue to forcefully defend the independence of the justice department from improper influence or interference of any kind and I will continue to fiercely protect the Integrity of our criminal investigations nothing will deter me from f fulfilling my obligation to uphold the rule of law fulfilling that obligation includes ensuring that the justice department respects congress’s important role in our democracy that is why we have gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure that the committee gets responses to its legitimate request for information that is why I have provided the committee with special councel her’s report while the special councel testified for more than five hours and why we have gone beyond precedent to provide the committee with the transcripts of the special council’s interview with the president but we have made clear that we will not provide audio recordings from which the transcripts that you already have were created releasing the audio would chill cooperation with the Department in future investigations and it could influence Witnesses answers if they thought the audio of their law enforcement interviews would be broadcast to Congress and the public now in response certain members of this committee and the oversight committee are seeking contempt as a means of obtaining for no legitimate purpose sensitive law enforcement information that could harm the Integrity of future investigations this effort is only the most recent in a long line of attacks on the Justice Department’s work it comes alongside threats to defund particular Department investigations most recently the special council’s prosecution of the former president it comes alongside false claims that a jury verdict in a State Trial by a brought by a local district attorney was somehow controlled by the justice department that conspiracy theory is an attack on the judicial process itself it comes as individual career agents and prosecutors have been sing singled out just for doing their jobs it comes as baseless and extremely dangerous falsehoods are being spread about the FBI’s law enforcement operations and it comes at a time when we are seeing heinous threats of violence being directed at the Justice Department’s career civil servants these repeated attacks on the justice department are unprecedented and they are unfounded these attacks have not and they will not influence our decision making I view contempt as a serious matter but I will not jeopardize the ability of our prosecutors and agents to do their jobs effectively in future investigations I will not be intimidated and the justice department will not be intimidated we will continue to work do our job free from political influence and we will not back down from defending democracy I look forward to your questions thank you Mr attorney general we will now proceed under the fem minute rule with questions gentleman from Florida is recognized chairman gentleman from the ranking members unanimous unanimous consent requests that have to happen right now no they okay well go ahead Mr chair there’s an allegation made in a letter yesterday suggesting that the FB FBI was somehow involved on January 6th this is ludicrous and you know it’s ludicrous because witness is is there unanimous consent request is there not a proper unanimous consent I have some unanimous consent request ask unanimous consent to enter into the record an excerpt from the transcrip transcript of the committee’s interview with with Steve Deano the former leader of the FBI’s Washington field office not objection clearly refutes characterizations that the FBI was involved in inciting violence in January without objection the gentleman from I ask unanimous consent to enter into the record and excerpt from the special agent in charge of the FBI Boston field office in which he explains that conspiracies about the FBI causing the capital Insurrection are false and concerning not objection and finally I ask unanimous consent to enter an excerpt from FBI director Ray testimony before the committee before this committee last July where he States quote I will say this notion that somehow the violence at the capital on January 6th was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources and agents is ludicrous and a disservice to our brave hardworking dedicated that objection gentem FL is recognized for 5 minutes attorney general you’ve told us that it’s a dangerous conspiracy theory to allege that the Department of Justice is communicating with these state and local prosecutions against Trump you can clear it all up for us right now will the Department of Justice provide to the committee all documents all correspondence between the department and Alvin Bragg’s office and fonnie Willis’s office and Leticia james’ office the offices your refer to are independent offices of State I get that I get that the question is whether or not you will provide all of your documents and correspondence that’s the question it’s I I don’t need a a history lesson well I’m going to say again we do not control those offices they make their own the question is whether you communicate with them not whether you control them do you communicate with them and will you provide those Communications make a request we’ll refer it to our office of legislative see here’s the thing you come in here and you Lodge this attack that it’s a conspiracy theory that there is coordinated law fair against Trump and then when we say fine just give us the documents give us the correspondence and then if it’s a conspiracy theory that will be evident but when you say well we’ll take your request and then we’ll we’ll sort of work it through the doj’s accommodation process then you’re actually advancing the very dangerous conspiracy theory that you’re concerned about now you’re you were a judge once nominated the highest court in our country when you were a judge I’m just curious did you ever make political donations to partisan candidates no no and and you didn’t because that would create the potential app appearance of impropriety I didn’t because there’s a federal rule aring federal judges for making contributions right but but under that same theory of attacks on the judicial process like shouldn’t someone be owed like a jury of their peers and a judge that’s non-biased rather than getting a judge from your political opponent’s donor file I’m well aware that you’re not asking a hypothetical you’re asking me to comment on a verd jury verdict in a another jurisdiction which has to be respected I won’t comment on it that case is still ongoing the defendant Mr attorney general I hadn’t asked you about the verdict yet we were getting there I was I was talking about the judge and so so let me ask you this question about your time as as a judge was there ever a time when you were a judge when you had a family member who was personally profiting off of the notoriety of a case that that was before yourt I’m going to say again it’s very clear you’re asking me to comment on a case in another jur no wait hold on hold on Mr attorney general did you ever have a family member profit off of the notoriety of any case that you settled say again you’re asking you’re asking me to comment on a Case currently well it seems you’re connecting the dots Mr attorney general I’m just asking you as to a general principal but you are aware the judge maran’s daughter was profiting off of this prosecution you are aware that that creates the appearance of impropriety you know the very reason there’s a federal rule against judges giving donations is because it is the very attack on the judicial process that we’re concerned about I’m sorry I don’t agree with anything you just said but I’m not going to comment on a so you won’t comment on it Mr attorney general but you had no problem dispatching Matthew Colangelo who’s Matthew Colangelo that is false I did not dispatch Matthew Colangelo Matthew Colangelo Matthew coangelo became the Assistant Attorney General at the very beginning of the Biden Administration without having been Senate confirmed goes and gets the senior role at the doj and then after I believe it’s uh Gupta replaces Colangelo Colangelo makes this remarkable Downstream career Journey from the US Department of Justice in Washington DC and then pops up in Alvin Bragg’s office to go get Trump and you’re saying that’s just a that’s just a career choice that was made that is nothing to do with the law fair coordinated by saying it’s false I did not dispatch Mr Colangelo anywhere well do you know how he ended up there I assume he spoke uh he applied for a job there and got the job but see you know what can tell you I had nothing to do with it well you might not have had anything to do with it but we’ve got this contemporaneous evidence in Mr Palmer an’s book so pomerance writes this book which I’m sure you’re aware of where he says we put together the Legal Eagles to get Trump we got all these folks together and we assembled them for that purpose and so when when we on the Judiciary Committee think about attacks on the judicial process our concern is that you the the facts and the law aren’t being followed a Target is acquired here Trump and then you assemble the legal Talent from doj Mr palar and you bring everybody in to get him I really and meanwhile the judge is making money on it the judge is making money on the judge’s family is making money on it for stuff that you yourself wouldn’t do you know no one’s going to buy this no one’s going to believe it it’s going to create great disruption and I am sad and by because like you I have given my life to the law I care deeply about the law and I think that the law fair we’ve seen against President Trump will do great damage well beyond our time in public service I see my ‘s expired I yield back ranking members recognize for five minutes thank you Mr chairman M Mr attorney general do you want to respond uh to anything in Mr Gates’s tiate I think everything he was talking about was an a case in another jurisdiction an independent prosecutor Mr pomerance uh worked for that independent prosecutor I don’t know Mr pomarance I don’t know what’s in his book but uh these are decisions made in another Office Independent of the justice department thank you Mr attorney general last week as we all know a jury of his peers convicted former president Trump on 34 felony counsil falsifying business inss of the first degree the case was brought by the Manhattan da so it is a state case not a federal case I shouldn’t have to ask you this Mr attorney general but since the majority part seems to be confused can you please explain the difference between a state case and a federal case yes the man has Manhattan district attorney um um has jurisdiction over cases involving New York state law completely independent of the justice department which has jurisdiction over cases involving federal law we do not control the Matan Manhattan district attorney Manhattan district attorney does not report to us uh the manhatt district attorney makes its own decisions about cases that he wants to bring under his uh state law thank you my Republican colleagues seem to believe that the Department of Justice is secretly coordinating the now successful prosecution of former president Trump in New York is there any truth to this allegation and what is your response to this allegation the case in New York is brought by the Manhattan district attorney independently on his own valtion and on his own determination of what was what he believed was a violation of state law Mr attorney general two weeks ago this committee took the extraordinary step of holding you in contempt I want to make some things clear for the record since 2022 when the chairman took over the committee the Department of Justice has produced over 92,000 pages of documents and made 25 employees available for interviews we’ve run the numbers this is more than double the number of documents and exponentially more witnesses than the Trump administrations Department of Justice produced to this Committee in four years and with respect to the actual audio recording sought by the majority the Department of Justice has produced full and complete transcripts of the conversations memorialized by these recordings is that correct it is there’s been an allegation that the transcripts might have been altered in some way is there any truth to that allegation there’s no allegate truth to that the senior um uh career official in the department um in a declaration he filed under oath stated that he had compared the audio uh to um the transcript and that it is an accurate transcript is accurate with the exceptions of us and a and repetitions of words like I and and and he consulted with Mr uh her the special counsel uh and with the FBI agents in the room who agreed that the who created the transcript and who agreed um that it was an accurate transcript thank you um one more question Mr attorney general throughout the 118th Congress Republicans have made bogus allegations claiming that the justice department has been weaponized most recently there was an allegation that the FBI was authorized to quote kill the former president what impact does this type of rhetoric have on the career prosecutors and law enforcement agents at the Department of Justice this is dangerous it raises the threats of violence against prosecutors and career agents the allegation is false as the FBI has explained the document that’s being discussed is our standard use of force um protocol which is a limitation on the use of force and which is routinely part of the package for search warrants and was part of the package for the search of President Biden’s home as well so when President former president Trump alleges that um uh this was an assassination attempt against him he is not telling the truth either knowingly or as is often the case with him unknowingly I’m just saying that the allegation uh is not true um this is a our standard use of force policy which limits the use of force that agents can uh use it is used as routine matter in searches that was a courta authorized search um and it accompanied that package as it routinely does thank you so in other words when pre former president Trump makes that allegation he is either deliberately or as is often the case uh not knowing what he’s either deliberately lying or as is often the case not knowing what he’s talking about thank you I yield back thank you Mr Attorney General there’s no blinking the fact that for the first time in American history we do have a presidential Administration that’s working to put its opponent in jail I that’s a fact uh and and that an opponent who’s a former president of the United States now as I understand the facts Jack Smith was the principal player in the IRS targeting of the Tea Party he was a wellestablished record of prosecutorial abuse uh and yet you appointed him to prosecute the former president of the United States who happens to be running against your boss now this is entirely your work including approving an unprecedented search of a former president’s home and though you’ve just maintained that the local prosecutors are independent it’s a fact that in the Manhattan case the third ranking official in your department um left it to join the local Prosecutors office to spearhead the New York prosecution the Atlanta prosecutor strategized for hours with the White House Council in advance of filing that case and you’ve just refused Mr Gates’s request to reveal what Communications your department and its employees have had with those local offices so what are we to make of all of this well I have to disagree with um the characterizations that You’ made we’re happy to take into account the requests if you make them to us that’s a normal process and we will respond to all characterization to you question well I I I I I disagree with your characterization that um this person was sent by my office didn’t say he was sent but it is rather odd that the third ranking uh official in your office leaves it to go to a local prosecutor’s office to prosecute this case justice department had nothing to do with uh that person going he was the principal Deputy to the third ranking like Cesar’s wife it’s important that that your department be above reproach and and and and and clearly it’s not special counsel her concluded that that alth there there was evidence President Biden had willfully retained and disclosed classified materials when he was a private citizen his words criminal charges were not warranted because among other things President Biden is quote sympathetic well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory do you do you agree with that decision I have said before and I’ll say again I’m not going to comment I didn’t comment on Mr Durham’s special counsel report I’m not going to comment on Mr her’s Mr her testified for 5 hours before this committee this is a Department of Justice matter you’re the attorney general and there’s no prosecution involved with this at this point of course it matters Mr her explained the rationale for his decision in that case and he explained the differences between that case and the case involving the former president well I do want to thank you for your your your testimony expressing concern for terrorist attacks we’ve had 5 million illegal immigrant imigrants deliberately released into our country with very limited vetting um and while the border patrol has been overwhelmed another 2 million known God alwayss have entered as well now last year your FBI director told this committee that he believes this constitutes a massive security threat again his words do you agree with that assessment I’m I’m I’m I’m never going to be disagreeing with the FBI director but um my recollection he said that there is a national security threat of people um from known terrorist or organizations crossing the border and the FBI will do everything it can to follow those people if they manage to make it across the border and to Ure that the country we could go into that in great detail but my greatest fear uh is that we could face a coordinated terrorist attack from from elements among the millions who’ve entered this country illegally over the last three years is this fear Justified I am worried about the possibility of a terrorist attack in the country after October 7th the Threat Level for us has gone up enormously every morning we worry about this question we try to track anyone who might be trying to hurt the country of course this is a priority a major priority for the of this administration’s policies you now have millions and millions uh who have been allowed into this country or who have evaded the border patrol while they’ve been overwhelmed admitting these millions uh in and and I worry about the stages set for something very bad happening in the very very near future because of your administration’s uh policies you it’s reported the president intends to use section 212f of the immigration nationality act to to turn back illegal entries once they reach 2500 a day that’s nearly a million a year so that’s not closing the barn door that’s keeping it propped open indefinitely but it is a lower number than your administration’s tolerated so far yet for the last three years three and a half years the president’s maintained that that he has no such Authority so what’s changed other than we 5 months before the election behind the going to have to refer you to the Department of Homeland Security which is responsible for the uh uh border issues I would say that the best way to protect the Border was to uh pass the bipartisan legislation that was proposed responsible well the bipartisan legislation would have forbidden future presidents from using that very Authority and illegal entries uh reach 4,000 a day gent time has gent’s time has expired um they’ve called votes on the floor I think we’ll try to do a couple more questions then we’ll break for about approximately 15 minutes Mr attorney general and then we’ll be back chair I recognizes the gentleman from Tennessee thank you Mr Jordan thank you for your attend us here today General Garland uh I’m a little perplexed here I’d like to ask you a few questions they’ve raised the fact that this is the first time that there’s a been a prosecution of a president’s gone after allegedly gone after his opponent Has there ever been another time in American history when a president was involved in an Insurrection trying to overthrow the government of the United States of America other than January 6 uh the answer is no but I do not intend to comment on um um the the charges and the prosecution of the former president any more than I would uh uh comment on um um Mr her report I I just am not going to comment on matters that are before courts thank you um it was said some I quoted that one of the reasons Mr uh it was there was no indictment of President Biden on records classified records was because he was considered a sympathetic character um in the Trump case did anybody consider him a sympathetic character again I’m going to fall back on my respect for the court process on the fact that cases are in judges and I’m just not going to I just can’t comment Mr Jordan in his opening comments commented on the the the execution of the search warrant and said it was different in all these different ways how many classified documents were found pursuant to that search warrant and how many times had there been an attempt to get those classified documents and they’ve been refused to return yeah so I I don’t know that uh I don’t have in my head the number uh that’s all on the public record uh including the number of times that efforts were made to obtain uh through legal process the document this whole hearing is about weaponization of the justice department and the suggestion that there was somehow your department was involved in the prosecution of of Donald Trump in the state court in New York um as far as weaponization of the department goes um did the justice department indict Senator Mendez it’s a matter of public record yes and he’s a Democrat isn’t he um I’m assuming the answer is yes Henry quar justice department adicted him he’s a Democrat too isn’t he it’s a m matter of public record so you’ve prosecuted Democrats and as we speak Hunter Biden who was a son of the president is under trial uh in in Delaware and that so you haven’t weaponized the justice department in terms of hiding and protecting Democrats Menendez quar and Hunter Biden the the justice department follows the facts and the law law we prosecute like cases alike and we make decisions about different cases in different ways we do not allow the political party or the ethnicity or the religion or the race or the uh uh wealth or the influence of uh someone we’re investigating to make a difference in our charging decisions I noticed Mr Gates who took you on first uh is not here now and that’s unfortunate because he is Living testament to the fact and direct evidence that you have not weaponized the justice department he was investiga for sex trafficking and while many expected a prosecution you chose not to prosecute this very active Republican is is that true you did not prosecute him I’m sorry I’m not I’m not sure how what is in the public record and what’s not so I’m just not going to comment on that violent crime in urban areas is decreasing and I thank you for that unfortunately Memphis is not one of the cities where we’ve seen violent crime being reduced but we’re working on it uh it’s it was the Second City to join the violent crime initiative which increases Federal resources in specific communities and I thank you for getting your your department involved in trying to reduce murders and violent crime in our city uh my city um resources have been helpful based on my conversations with our us attorney and our district attorney and I want to thank you for that can you share some of the Department’s successes in tackling violent crime well yes as I said uh in my opening um and I want to be clear these are not uh the Justice Department’s successes these are the country’s successes the success in fighting violent crime relies on our partnership with state and local law enforcement which really face violent crime the most directly we operate um um um in support of them um and in our ability to bring technological uh tools and um and statutes um uh to the fight uh that they may not have available I’m about my time’s almost up I just want to mention one thing I read yesterday that the chairman of the committee wanted to reduce funding to to the justice department and particularly certain certain areas that would be defunding the justice department and defunding the opportunity to go after reducing violent crime and I’m shocked you’ll back the balance of my time gentlemen excuse me gentleman yields back uh Mr attorney general we’re going to take a break now um the both have been going on for a while on the floor we will be back and give or take a 15 minutes more or less uh with that the committee will stand in The Recess all right guys how you doing give me one second I’m there they said they’re going to go to vote so that’s going to take some time so I’m going to go over some news in the meantime and uh the volume will stay up for this so we will not miss a beat and uh give me a second give me a second okay guys you get that going hang on guys all right let’s see volume up wow I set this up just in time uh anyways hello if you’re new here please give me a subscribe and a like uh I do a new show every other day new Eastern usually unless there’s something like this going on then we watch this in my show moves either before it or after it usually after it um but yeah um yeah so no firecrackers yet you know we should hear something uh big when uh MTG gets in I’m not sure where bobbert is I think she’s still recovering from her um thing uh she had a clot in her leg um in the month of April she should have been back by now end of April was when she was playing we’ve seen her in Congress since but uh she wasn’t in she wasn’t there yesterday maybe she doesn’t have anything any questions to ask or whatever but we’ll see how that goes anyways all right let’s let’s let’s do some news this is still going so don’t worry once they start talking we’ll we’ll go right to it and uh here we go oops don’t want that here we go all right first St of the day DT’s appeal hearing to disqualify Fanny from the octob from basically his uh thing you know the the conflict of interest thingy let me redo that Jesus well that was awful huh what an awful start what the thingy the thingy it’s really early guys it’s 9: I haven’t had breakfast yet so I wasn’t expecting them to take a break this this quickly what’s going on why are you guys already going a break you just start not only did you start late not only did you not real you didn’t realize your feed wasn’t going that’s why we started late by the way we missed Jim Jordan’s opening statement because they didn’t their feed wasn’t going it was just buffering and they they were not paying attention to it so anyways here we go first door of the day DT’s appeal hearing to disqualified Fanny Willis is set for October yeah this is going to push her case against him if she is allowed to remain on it this is going to be after the eltion okay so um this is um yeah so this is kind of out of the way sort of not really you know just the fact that people know there’s another case against them uh you know the the simple people the normies they’re probably going to be like I can’t vote for him why do he lock him up so uh absolute hot garbage and anyways DT’s appeal hearing to disqualify her is going to be in October last month the Georgia court of appeals agreed to review DT’s appeal to disqualify Fanny Willis from the Sham RICO case against him and other 19 people upon this is what what they wrote upon consideration of the application for interlat appeal jeez you fancy words it is ordered that it be hereby granted yeah the appellant May file a notice of appeal within 10 days at the date of this order the clerk of superior court is directed to include a copy of this order in the record transmitted to the court of appeals a little piece of good news here in March Georgia judge Scott maffy coward uh ruled that crooked and dishonest F Willis will be allowed to remain in the DT case and that only only the other guy had to leave maffy however did Force Fanny’s lover Nathan Wade to be removed from the case Wade and will committed the same crime of perjury during their testimony the conflicted judge maffy did not have the guts to follow the law and do the right thing and disqualify both of the love birds on March judge MCA quash six counts uh in Fanny Willis’s indictment including three counts against DT two other lawfare cases against DT were also postponed and likely won’t take place until after the 2024 selection which I don’t think is going to happen to be honest with you uh Jack Smith’s classified documents case against DT was indefinitely postponed by Eileen Cannon so all that leaves is what happened in New York and unfortunately I think he’s is going to be put away for it and we’re going to start seeing rallies with him remoting in from his uh cell that’s what I think uh is going to happen uh he has already talked to the Secret Service he say he’s ready to get to go to jail um and U which is absolute BS because how many others have allowed to remain out of jail while appeals happen right for example juicy smolier right literally fake fake trying to fake a hoax a hate hoax to start a Cil War right anyways Jack Smith case in DC is currently on hold as they awaited decision from the Supreme Court related to DT’s presidential immunity claims next Story the Maui fire department battalion chief is detained on CSA crimes guys oh look at that CS guys yeah you know we’ve been hearing a lot of theories about you know what’s going on there and the kids that have gone missing and the fact that Oprah showed up we know about Oprah’s boarding school and Africa where lots of girls go missing right and then we also got Dwayne Johnson The Rock also trying to help Oprah doing whatever the heck she’s doing yeah now we got the uh battalion chief into kids yeah Maui fire department battalion chief Shawn Rogers has been arrested and charge with s assaulting a kid under the age of 14 an indictment alleges that Rogers ared a kid for years starting when the kid was around 11 the indictment alleged that the CSA occurred between 2019 and 2021 in a statement Maui fire chief Brad Ventura stated in quotes today the county of Maui was made aware of Shawn Rogers a 25-year-old veteran of the Department of fire and Public Safety was detained in charged for CSA being basically doing dirty things to a kid in the first degree and continuous CSA of a kid under 14 we are deeply saddened we’re deeply concerned about the allegations regarding one of our firefighters Mr Rogers is not scheduled to work this week and will continue to evaluate this situation as more information is available rogers’s attorney claims the allegations are 100% false I doubt that much the arrest of Rogers comes 9 months after Maui was devastated by wildfires that claimed the lives of over 100 people fun fact that Incident Commander in in this fire is the same in Commander from Las Vegas yeah the p p p p po that one Island news broke down a story in more detail and an exclusive report I’m not going to play that but um yeah yeah we we’ve been as we’ve been questioning those thousands of missing kids we have a pretty good idea now why the why it happened why the only Road out of the area that was on fire was blocked the only people who survived were the ones who actually either jumped in the water or disobeyed those signs they drove around them next story Dallas Cowboys Legend and Super Bowl champion Larry Allen is gone suddenly and unexpectedly at 52 oh oh you think he followed mandates you think he took the thingy so he could fly around and travel right hall of fame offensive lineman Larry Allen who spent 12 of his 14 NFL seasons with the Dallas Cowboys was reportedly gone on Sunday while vacationing in Mexico with his family the news is confirmed by the Cowboys on Monday Allan was only 52 the cause of passing remains undisclosed at time in quotes Larry known for his great athleticism and Incredible strength was one of the most respected accomplished offensive lineman to ever play in the NFL his versatility and dependability were also signature parts of his career through that he continued to serve as inspiration for many other players defining what it meant to be a great teammate competitor and winner oh he shouldn’t have followed in the you should have watched the NPC show I would have been like don’t take it it’s not good for you you don’t need it it doesn’t work all facts by the way the NFL post the NFL family is deeply saddened by the passing of Hall of Famer Super Bowl champion and Dallas Cowboys Legend Larry Allen our thoughts are with his family and loved ones W it’s pretty early man you got you apparently didn’t tell them the truth about this stuff kind of like you didn’t tell them about Tuskegee yeah or how about that syphilis that you gave all the prisoners remember that remember that you know what’s funny is yesterday they had a hearing with Dr elf right and uh one of the liberal black radical activists or whatever brought up the whole syphilis thing right but all he did all he did by doing that was bring awareness of the fact that the government does shady stuff in the medical field and then MTG does her thing and she’s like oh what about the black gu she’s like oh I agree with you yeah we should definitely look into that cuz that sounds sounds a lot like what this little doctor did and then he just shut up was hilarious oh that was great that was great anyways next Story the Kremlin warns the US of fatal consequences as the Biden green regime green lights missile strikes on Russia’s Mainland yeah not just Biden but also Germany yeah Olaf Schultz was like yeah go ahead and hit them hit the city uh my prayers go out to the Russian people I hope that you don’t get hit I’m really sorry uh we did not vote for this this government was stolen by uh Israel and uh the party of Davos is Switzerland okay we know who they are it’s tiny hat Club they hate everything they want to destroy the world except for the little piece of land on Palestine that they stolen uh we do not the American people do not condone any of this clearly you saw in 2020 uh our votes did not count we did not endorse any of this we still don’t endorse any of it but we can’t do anything about it once we rally once we start talking about hey we don’t agree with this they rid us we can’t even be we can’t even quietly pray outside of an abortion clinic without getting arrested yeah yeah we had dozens of people doing uh 2 three years for quietly praying outside of an abortion clinic the kemin has warned the US is facing potentially fatal consequences after the Biden regime greenlighted Ukrainian missile strikes on targets within the Russian Mainland this is already going on guys we’re already firing missiles at them a a British MP went on a podcast and actually already told talked about it and said yeah they’re already doing it the news just barely got to us but they’ve been doing it for months so um he says I would like to warn American leaders against miscalculations that could have fatal consequences says Russia says uh sergy sergy RAB riab riabov whatevers sergy um he also says for unknown reasons they estimate the seriousness of the rebuff they may receive um they yeah they they they don’t care Unfortunately they don’t care unfortunately we do the American people don’t want this to happen but our government is controlled by Switzerland hey here’s a fun fact here’s some uh a hot tip you know all those migrants that you’re pushing into France push them into Switzerland yeah with 3D printing with orcas they’re called orcas okay the 3D printed ARS all you got to do is buy 3D printer buy the resident buy the tube the barrel and the slider and the you know the slide maybe not the what it’s called the slide the bolt whatever it’s called Uh yeah 3D prinos for the migrants and then hand it to them as they cross the border out of France into Switzerland they’ll tell care they’ll take care of everything okay they’re really really mad at the white East and the whes and Switzerland are the problem for everything the whole world that’ be good plan if you want to stop this war Moscow huh uh he also say I urge these figures in the US to spend some time spend some of their time which they apparently spend on some kind of video games judging by the lightness in their approach on studying what was said in detail by Vlad a very significant warning and it must be taken with the utmost seriousness constant escalation can lead to Serious consequences if these serious consequences occur in Europe how will the US behave bearing in mind our parody in the field of strategic weapons last week US Secretary of State Anthony blinkin confirmed that the White House had granted approval for Ukraine to ease us supplied weapons against targets within Russian territory specifically near the border close to kiv however blinkin insisted his author this authorization was given solely for the purpose of Defending carip no it’s not you’re if you’re defending you’re not sending missiles into another country that’s like saying oh Russia in order to defend the donbass region who voted to join Russia they’re going to fire missiles in uh DC into New York oh that’s defense yeah see the because because our side is redefining the word defense now the East gets to live by that right oh we’re defending Iran we’re going to fire missiles at Jerusalem we’re going to fire nukes at Jerusalem in defense of Iran because of the western uh definition of the word defense right Ukraine second largest city which is situated around 18 mi from Russia and has been enduring Relentless and escalating attacks including frequent air strikes the Hallmark of the engagement our support for Ukraine over theah blah blah they going to read all that the risk of escalation and potentially catastrophic consequences comes despite the reports that Vlad is open to agreeing to a ceasefire agreement with ukr along with along current battle lines basically whatever land that they took they want to keep which makes sense right that’s that’s what that’s what I was about to begin with I see keep going I see go get Kev go get viiv and then Annex Russia Annex Poland and Hungary yeah they seem to like you guys Annex the Baltic states you know anyways so um yeah that’s what’s what’s going on if you guys are here for the hearing yes it’s going to resume their on break right now I’m I’m just covering some news in the meantime oh this is a good one let’s cover this one yeah that’s a good one right here on March 16th of 2020 Dr elf I got to say his name differently received email cheering htq for RONA in Panda land yeah so in other words Panda land used this to treat that and he’s like oh okay okay 4 days later he rebuked DT for announcing remember he’s telling people to uh uh take for now take this take take U Ivan Drago to treat this right here yeah it turns out there’s an email here it says here this is from uh Christina cassetti who is from the NIH and ni Aid the subject is for this is a forwarded email and is uh the subject line is treatments that may be useful against Rona March 16th Monday says here Dr elf I am a blank blank blank Assistant Attorney General of the state of New York and Oregon I have received some information that may be useful in dealing with Theona but I am not able to evaluate this information personally it is an article authored by a former assistant Secretary of the US Treasury I would like to make this information available for you for evaluation and to that end I am copying it immediately below sincerely Robert Ross from Eugene Oregon wow so um yeah pretty clear why pretty clear why that uh this was shunned oh don’t take this buy our patented stuff so we can make lots of money off it right kind like in the 80s remember the ‘ 80s when um the people if you guys well by the way yesterday we we couldn’t do the watch party over on um we couldn’t do a watch party on Kick because it wasn’t working restream was not working okay we are going to do it today though okay because um yesterday there was a hearing grilling Dr elf okay and uh there’s a movie called The Dallas Buyers Club okay it’s about the whole HIV thing which Dr elf was also responsible in in some way of spreading okay uh the fear and the actual uh infection right thank you Marshall pluger thank you very much thank you for gifting a sub you’re awesome congratulations lean Smith for receiving the free sub I hope you rem resume it after you uh after it expires it’s only $4 a month and it does help keep the channel alive thank you very much anyways yeah so that movie is called Dallas the Dallas Buyers Club I did purchase it starring Matthew mccahan it is a two-story the movie is from 2006 and it takes place in the 80s right uh basically there was no real treatment for HIV uh there was however a so sort of an interesting remedy involving aloe vera and a bunch of other things uh in in Mexico that was um working okay uh and so this guy started doing runs he he started a group where they funded runs to go to uh Mexico to buy that stuff to bring it to uh Dallas and then uh distribute it okay and the FDA dragged this guy through the mud they audited him they had the IRS AED him that he got raided all just to shut down this treatment all because the patents for that were expired for whatever treatment this was and that the uh the big farma could not make money off of it okay that’s based on a true story the Dallas Buyers Club we will watch that after this hearing on Kick and kick only okay cuz we didn’t get to watch it yesterday and uh we’re seeing here more and more um look at that a 70 Cent treatment 70 70 Cent treatment and he’s like no we don’t have patents on it we can’t make money on too many generics out there right uh anyways this was not the only time Dr elf was sent information toing hcq treating Rona it was specifically mentioned almost three dozen times in his emails wow well we’re never going to be able to lock this guy up if DT doesn’t get elected you guys realize a lot of people are frustrated a lot of people are like oh the go is not doing anything they don’t have the power to prosecute people the AG does that okay the AG does that and DT picked two bad AGS during his administration you know and Biden picked an even worse one so we had to flip the White House and we have to hope that DT doesn’t pick bad AGS again to get stuff done like this I hope he’s woking up I hope he’s awake I hope DT is aware that he is not part of the club cuz if he doesn’t if he doesn’t dismantle the swamp they’re going to come after his family like they went after the kennedies and it’ll never stop it’ll never ever stop anyways yeah we’re still waiting for these guys to restart it is yeah it’s already going so we’re just going to I’m just going to hang out with you guys um oh you got to be kidding me I didn’t start the recording oh I did not record that at all that sucks I’m have to rip it from Rumble now that blows that blows I didn’t record that that that entire thing anyways well might as well start it now uh who’s watching a rum do we have people there we have 110 okay I’ll leave it on [ __ ] that sucks man I blows um Lisa will tune in for the movie awesome some no one on rumy today now I don’t have a lot of people on rumy nope NOP Noe Noe NOP anyways uh hello mer Mr worthless eater good to see you um damn well we actually I I normally don’t even have viewers on Rumble that’s interesting but anyways but we’re still waiting for them to resume so um I’ll just hang out with you guys for the time being that sucks I can’t believe I I didn’t record that that entire News segment whatever so I just have to rip it from YouTube after we’re done with this uh the only way in my opinion this ends is with cuffs and walks nobody will accept anything less at this point Y yep yep yep uh anyways how we doing um hello Lisa hello Joan good to see you hope your boobies are recovering um Alfreda good to see you the only way in my opinion this ends is with i that one um thank you ra ra Marcel it is about Dr elf yeah Dr elf bring out the chippers the wood chippers says Marcel thank you for joining as a member by the way get thank you for giting a sub anyhoo yeah it’s real early guys I did not have breakfast yet we’re still waiting for them to resume if you guys are wondering what’s going on they always say 15 minutes it always takes a little bit longer than that I don’t know how long that show was but you know what’s for breakfast um I don’t know probably something involving my maple chicken maple Maple Ginger pepper chicken no Ginger though just Maple pepper chicken what your brck of Bur say Terra yeah I did not eat this morning I was not expecting to do that that show this morning um let’s do this I believe I can rip shs off of kick and there’s no one there right now so let’s shut off kick kick if you’re there yeah I got one person there but uh if you’re there can you switch to rumble I’ll give you a link I keep a link um so I’m sure you’re there because if you’re refusing to be on YouTube there there you go there’s your link to rumble I’m going to shut kick down that cuz I believe I can rip kick re reruns as well that way at least I have my show it’ll process and then I can you know rip it rip it good um goodbye kick see you have a good one right hope that works uh anyways coffee and weed is my breakfast is Terra pain sucks oh what do you have pain from were you in the service as well you have injuries uh let’s see anyways yep yep yep let’s see what else is going on let’s go check gway pundit real quick let’s see oh oh no service broken body from Life ooh that sounds rough uh American Army vet fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine exited to us so apparently uh an a US Vet was was in Ukraine he’s been he’s been exed back to the US because of a a a a killing spree he went he he went through he did interesting interesting no it was a publicity stunt alfredo yeah AJ a he does a lot of those he he did a show on Saturday saying that oh he slept there overnight and he’s trying to keep them from shutting them down you know uh oh wo is me they’re they’re getting my studio they’re getting everything um which is odd because he tells people to donate to him but he’s also alleging that they’re going to seize everything so it’s like you’re really only donating to the government right uh and then you know then he’s just on the next day like nothing happened you know oh I fought them off they couldn’t take my studio like oh sure he did yeah you and your ARS did did you fire at them yeah did you throw grenades at them is that what you did you know so it was a charade to I don’t know what you know to gain publicity or donations or whatever it was but I’m sure he made lots of money from it so so uh yeah I don’t know uh he Cry of wolf a little bit too much man I’m telling you he’s going to get in one one day he’s something’s actually going to happen and no one’s going to be like oh he’s just doing another one of his publicity stunts W Lisa says crying wolf doesn’t shake up well in the end exactly exactly I mean he’s done this so many times despite the fact despite the fact that he did that that that stunt this is like a Saturday evening right uh despite the fact that he did that stun and here’s the worst part of that stunt it took DT’s uh conviction out of the out of the news cycle you guys remember when Bud was in trouble because of the whole Dylan thingy they were in a news cycle for five weeks because there’s no news there’s nothing going on just that one thing and that’s why I anahe Bush took such a big hit but DT he gets convicted and boom uh AJ does that the PR stunt and everyone just forgot about the conviction now so DT’s donation stopped at 50 million and that that’s it he probably could have gone to uh a lot more than that right yeah he he he he does it a lot and that’s why um like he even as it was happening uh everyone talked about Nick sort talked about it the gway punet RO an article about it uh and even then on on their feed on Rumble they had like 15,000 people for a Channel with millions of followers they only have 15,000 people Everyone kind of had an idea what it was even Nick tortour uh feed only had like 3,000 viewers 2,000 viewers 2200 I believe so um it’s people are getting burnt out of it you know so it’s like I don’t know but hey at least at least donations to DT stopped right that’s at least that that was probably the angle I don’t know he’s probably put up to it I don’t know I don’t know whatever he thought was it it was a good idea uh he did it everyone forgot about DT’s conviction now you know but I’m sure his Sals went up for his vitamins right um coffee is great I use a sort of French Press espresso style yeah French Press is awesome how many drinking more these days says cat oh cats drinking boozing it up yeah I I don’t drink um I just I’m allergic to it I can drink a little bit but not so much JB’s the master of crying wolf but he doesn’t pretend to be a Republican to collect donations and sell vitamins yeah uh oh Marcel you’re from uh the Netherlands awesome the best farmers in Europe AB says I thought he made 200 million all for DT I heard it’s in about a quarter billion uh but o over the whole weekend I think that 50 million number came from just the 20 first 24 hours but he put I heard heard was about a quarter billion um between between then and now between then and like um between then and when the sun happened uh whatever day what day what day was um see Roman balov did a video about it what day did that video come out Roman Roman Roman Roman let’s go let’s go check out Roman’s videos there it is videos okay his video came out yesterday day came out yesterday Monday so yeah it it yeah so Monday so me he he probably put that together on Sunday film it filmed it Sunday um so yeah um okay so kick is stopped good let’s see if I can rip this copy link address boy this is lagging what is going on I thought I fixed all the problems yesterday no no no no oops that’s not the right website give me a second we got a lot of lag I compet wants the crap out 420 canab this yes I grew some weed from h in a couple years ago cool um let’s see I’m going to float in the horse Trophy and get drunk pet horses used to smoke sober 20 plus years now I grow and use can yeah yeah weed doesn’t do much for it puts me to sleep doesn’t matter what it is Inda ortiva they both they all put me to sleep so I I don’t you know I used to smok it to sleep that’s about it though uh I grow and use weed usually I like Inda based hybrids why you can grow that are you in there growing got it I was like how the heck are you growing that in Montana uh Lisa says haven’t drunk much at all for 23 years just bought ingredients for p coladas yesterday awesome so it does do something yeah puts me to sleep when I say do something for me I’m talking about High a buzz something fun you know but no I used to like smoking Nordic light yeah I remember they used to they used to give uh uh weed a lot like I remember there was one that was kind of like purplish green and they named it Northern Lights and it’s like oh it’s that exotic sounding name oh you know no it looks like the Aurora okay this is not working boy I’m exhausted no Brey are they ever going to restart this crap holy crap this blows okay so that trying to rip that replay did not work is it not processed yet is that what it is I think I think that’s what it is yeah it’s running it’s working processing that sucks I I mean I only had a a short show but I could I could be editing it right now if I if I didn’t act if I didn’t miss the recording button that sucks pause that uh let’s see there it goes committee will come to order uh I would ask unanimous consent to enter into the record uh in in uh in light of the the questioning from the gentleman from Florida a letter that we sent the committee sent to the Attorney General on April 30th asking for all Communications with Mr Colangelo um with the justice department and um the folks in in the um Manhattan uh District Attorney’s office so without objection that will be enter into the record the chair now recognizes the gentleman from um oh by the way that was April 30th 2024 so attorney general’s had plenty of time time to respond to what Mr Gates raised in his question about getting that information if it’s really no coordination as he alleges then then show us the information or tell us that you don’t have any gentleman from Wisconsin recognized for five minutes thank you Mr chair Attorney General on May 15 2024 you sent a letter to President Biden recommending he invoke executive privilege on audio recordings of his interview with special councel Robert her in this letter you claim the precise concern is that executive privilege protects materials related to a closed criminal invest tigation or disclosure might hamper prosecutorial efforts in future cases is that correct I think you stated that earlier yes in this letter you also wrote that you are concerned about the prospect of Committees of Congress obtaining confidential records from Justice Department of Criminal investigative files for the purpose of addressing highly politicized issues in public committee hearings is that correct as well are you are you citing my letter yeah in in in the correct yeah right so let me go back in the United States versus Mitchell during the Watergate district court case judge Sia held that by releasing portions of a subpoenaed recording in transcript form for publication the president’s claim of confidentiality and that privilege associated with it was no longer valid since the conversations were no longer confidential you produced the transcripts to this committee correct yes um and and prior to producing the transcripts to the committee they were leaked to the Press So based on Mitchell which is still good law the recordings are in fact no longer confidential aren’t they ipan I’m sorry that’s not what Mitchell was about at all Mitchell was first of all about transcripts created by President um Nixon for which there was plenty of reason to believe that they were not accurate and secondly it had to do with the confidentiality of communications between Nixon and his staff and once he provided the transcripts the court said those Communications were no longer confidential that is not the allegation that is not what we’re asserting here here we’re asserting confidentiality over the audio not confidentiality but protection of the audio in a criminal investigation and interview not a staff meeting okay thank you let me move on um your May 15th letter also relies on the argument that producing the audio tapes would affect the Department’s ability to obtain vital cooperation and high high-profile criminal investigations in particular and investigations where the voluntary cooperation of White House officials is exceeding exceedingly important is it your testimony that a White House official would voluntarily cooperate in a criminal investigation only if the justice department promises not to release the audio recordings it doesn’t make any sense uh the longtime experience of the justice department has also reflected in the Declaration that was filed under oath is that Witnesses uh want to protect the confidentiality of their Communications with the prosecutors during these um uh sensitive interviews um in the Cheney case the justice department made the same claim even with respect to uh FBI notes about interviews of uh Mr Cheney and that special councel it’s our view that uh we need um um witnesses to be willing to uh be tape recorded uh uh audio recorded and that they are going to be Le willing to do that um if they know it’s going to be made public in the Declaration was filed um in court on Friday um the uh senior official stated that he knew of cases right now where people are unwilling to provide audio um because they are worried about it becoming public so the answer is yes that is our view attorney general Have you listened to the audio recording I have not because there’s no reason for me to listen to it to in order to make the determinations that I have had to make we had the special counsel describe in detail his explanations for his determinations so let me I mean I don’t understand how you can kind of sit before the Congressional committee and kind of arbitrate um what’s indistinguishable from the transcripts if you’re not even sure what’s on the tapes themselves I’m I’m not doing it on my own I have so you’re seeing other people have listened to it within the department within the department and the special counsel has listened to it and the special Counsel had every interest in ensuring that the transcript that he produced in order to do his investigation would be accurate yes that’s right okay so let’s go back so in May 15th letter you also attempt to distinguish the committee’s Reliance on the United States versus Nixon specifically you claim that since President Nixon had released only edited transcripts of a portion of the meetings covered by the audio recordings the Nixon case does not apply but that was not what the Court held regarding the enforceability of the special Pro prosecutor subpoena was it I mean that’s not that doesn’t match up right now then I’m not exactly sure what you’re asking that Nixon it was well known that Nixon had edited the tapes there uh edited the transcripts and he said he had edited the transcripts uh that is not what happened here the special Council the FBI agents in a room and the senior uh career official said that the transcripts match the audio so the core reason that the audio recordings would be relevant to show among other things a criminal conspiracy and for other valid potential evidentiary uses for the same material in the Nixon case yes because there were parts of the transcript in which the conspiracy was disclosed of those Communications which he parts of the audio and which were not in the transcript that’s not the situation here here we don’t know that though attorney general we we’re unaware CU we haven’t heard the tapes we don’t know if they match up everyone had a genuine uh reason to believe that those transcripts were not accurate here you have the special counsel you have thebi agents in the room and you have um uh the senior career official in the department all comparing it and finding them to be accurate time of the gentleman has expired gentleman from Georgia’s recognized for five minutes thank you Mr chairman most Americans have grown sick and tired of this do nothing Maga Republican House of Representatives which has failed to pass a single piece of legislation that lowers costs for families or addresses the southern border issue or other important issues instead of attacking real issues that matter house Maga Republicans Fritter away time with Rabbit Hole investigations of Dr fouchy and Hunter Bon while simultaneously spinning webs of lies that seek to create public wrath against anyone who would dare to be involved in any effort to hold the convicted felon Donald Trump accountable for his misconduct the American people can see right through these distraction efforts attorney general Garland thank you for your many years of service to our nation among other positions in the federal justice system you have had an illustrious career as a federal judge a judge of the United States court of appeals for the District of Colombia circuit from 1997 through 2021 including as chief judge from 2013 to 2020 and you also served as chair of the executive committee of the judicial Conference of the United States from 2017 to 2020 so I’m sure that you’ve had uh a lot of time to think deeply about the importance of judicial impartiality in a functioning democracy I and 44 other members of Congress have called for justices Thomas and Alito to recuse themselves in cases where they cannot be seen as impartial in the case seeking immunity for Donald Trump and others Justice Thomas’s wife played a major role in to stop the steel movement that culminated in the January 6 Insurrection and we recently learned that Justice Alito flew Flags related to the sto the steel movement at both his residential home and his vacation home in 2021 and again in 2023 which directly ties him to the January 6th insurrection to Donald Trump and to efforts to overturn the 2020 election we urg them to recuse themselves from related cases and Justice Alito last week uh refused then last week my colleague Jamie Rasin wrote an oped arguing that doj could petition the other seven justices to require Justice Alito and Thomas to recuse themselves that leads me to this question is the filing of such a petition with the Supreme Court something that the Department of Justice is considering I’m afraid I’m going to have to give the same answer I’ve given to other members justice department can’t comment on matters that are before a court matters you’re talking about before The Supreme Court this is I’m talking in terms of an independent um petition uh not related to any matter pending before the court at this time but related uh to those matters justice department speaks through its filings on matters uh before the court and that’s all I can say about it well I’d like for the DJ to at least consider that possibility uh my next question public reporting uh has revealed that Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have accepted Gifts of luxury travel and lodging from billionaire benefactors and failed to report those gifts as required under federal financial disclosure laws the ethics and Government Act provides the Attorney General authority to investigate and take action against violations of the federal of the financial disclosure laws by members of the federal Judiciary even without a referral from the judicial conference is what can you tell us about uh Department of Justice uh efforts to investigate uh those high-profile violations by those two uh jus afraid I’m going to have to say the same as I said before the justice department does not comment on whether it investigates or who it investigates or whether should investigate fair enough all of our statements are reflected in court papers and fair enough threats on the Judiciary uh are uh increasing um and um this is frightening to the rule of law can you talk about the work that doj is doing to address this important issue yes um the threats uh to the to Judiciary threats to prosecutors threats to law enforcement agents have all spiked significantly um and um um in some cases have accelerated from threats to actual violence um we have a threats task force um engaged in investigating uh these matters um we intend to aggressively investigate and prosecute threats against our public officials including members of Congress of which the numbers have actually exploded um uh in the past few couple of years um our democracy cannot continue if the people who make the Democracy run are afraid um if they make their decisions uh based on fear being threatened or of being assaulted um no democracy can survive under those circumstances and we will do everything we can in our power uh to investigate deter and prosecute anyone who makes threats against public service time of the gentleman thank I you gentleman’s back Mr Garland why why Jack Smith why’d you pick him I’ve said um at the time I appointed Mr Smith I explained uh he was independent he was a longtime career prosecutor um with uh but there are probably other people who you would describe as independent longtime career prosecutor why did you pick this is probably the most high-profile special counsel investigation maybe in American history you’re going to be investigating a former president a candidate for president and leading in all the polls and you pick Jack Smith most important selection may be ever made from attorney general when you comes to a special councel I just want to know why you could have picked I’m tell former AGS Deputy AGS us attorneys you got all kinds of lawyers in this town but you picked Jack all the people you just mentioned were political would be political appointees I appointed somebody who is not a political appointee somebody who was an independent nonpartisan with an with a record of career experience as a prosecutor that seemed to me the perfect resume for making that kind of he was a guy you guy guy worked had to bring him back from Europe he worked at the ICC worked at the world Court he was the best pick for the most high-profile investigation ever he was independent he was nonpartisan he had never held a political office he was never appointed in a political office was he your first choice long career as a career was he your first choice I’m not going to go into um the questions did you know him before you picked him I did not you never worked with him I did not did you meet with him prior to announcing his selection and telling what was going on course I did what what what what happened in that meeting I met with him I asked him if he would be willing to do this we talked about my understandings of the role of this office which are on the public record that’s all did he ask for the job this is not a job I don’t think anybody asks for I’m sorry no but that’s not the question I asked you I said did Jack Smith ask did not ask me for the job no did did he convey through someone else that he wanted the job I I would be surprised if that were the case but I you don’t know no I don’t know so he may have I can only tell you what I know I chose him because he had a record of impartial um career experience as a prosecutor that’s why he was chosen was it impartial when he went after Governor McDonald he was a member of he was after Governor McDonald that case gets appealed to the Supreme Court Supreme Court unanimously said it was wrong and overturns the conviction he was a in the public public Integrity section of the justice department a career position they made the decisions they thought were warranted and we respect the decision of the Supreme Court did the fact that he was interested in going after the very people who were targeted by the IRS about a decade ago did that have any influence on your selection let’s put up this slide here this is a this is from Jack Smith to uh some other folks in the justice department and it says could we ever charge a conspiracy to violate laws of the US for misuse of such nonprofits to get around existing campaign Finance laws Jack Smith was looking to Pro prosecute the very people who were targeted by the Obama IRS I don’t know you have excerpts from an email I’ve never seen you should know that commissioner s I’m just asking it this way into your decision did you know about this this I don’t know if it’s I also don’t know if it’s true now IRS commissioner Sarah Ingram over see this from Jack Smith himself let’s discuss tomorrow but maybe we should try to set up a meeting this week and here’s the response here’s the response you didn’t get your meeting with Miss Ingram from the IRS but she’s sending the head of the exempt organization’s loest learner who known to us so Jack Smith meeting with Lois Lerner looking for ways to prosecute the very people who were victims of the Obama IRS and I’m just asking did that factor in your decision to name Jack Smith as special counsel I didn’t have any idea about the things know about that no and I don’t know whether they’re true now by looking at this but they’re definitely true did uh uh but you didn’t know about this guy was so important you have to bring him from Europe back here to to go after president Trump name him as a special counsel uh do you regret the pick I’m sorry I could do you regret picking him no I do not regret picking him well his prosecutors aren’t supposed to tamper with evidence and it looks like that’s what he did he changed the sequence of the documents that he sees from our Lago I’m sorry that’s a false characterization but that is on here’s what he said to the court Mr attorney general there are some boxes where the order of items within the box is not the same as in the associated scans I mean he said it I didn’t say it he told the report that now you’re asking me to comment on a discovery dispute that’s going ongoing in in a court I don’t know the facts of it and I’m not going to com this from Jack Smith filing with the court he admitted to the court that they tamper with the evidence he mishandled the very documents he’s charging president Trump with mishandling and I’m just asking do you regret picking this guy as the special counsel in the most important special counsel investigation probably in American history I’m I’m sorry I didn’t not hear the words tamper in the statement that Mr Smith filed he did not use those words well let me ask it this way are suppos to change the order of the documents that you seiz and the physical documents don’t match up with the scan do you supposed to do that as a prosecutor this is a matter in dispute in Discovery in that court and I’m going to leave it for the district court to make a determination after say one coures in dispute this is what he said in the court filing Jack Smith’s team said that to the judge in the court by the way this case is now basically on hold because they’ve screwed up so many things again I don’t know whether your description of the facts are true true or not true and I’m not going to intrude in a decision in a district court chair recognize a gentleman from California Mr attorney general we appreciate you being here uh we appreciate how you have led this department with Integrity uh and discipline and uh and your enormous Public Service I appreciate your willingness to sit through this endless Cascade of false allegations and conspiracy theories and inuendo uh the chairman began this hearing with the dramatic statement that Justice is no longer Blind by that he means that Justice is no longer objective or impartial that it is suddenly now a respector of persons in the in the wrong way that is it will distinguish between People based on their position but of course the Chairman’s real problem is that Justice remains no respector of persons that you can be the former president of the United States but if you commit crime times you’ll be held responsible that’s his problem that’s the problem of all my Republican colleagues right now and that is they’re about to nominate a convicted felon and they don’t know how to cope with that they don’t know how to cope with the justice system that in fact treats Donald Trump the same as it would any other Citizen and so they have to push these conspiracy theories that they know are patently false and they try to run over you with questions they won’t let you to answer won’t let let you answer because their whole arguments are utterly insupportable and destructive of our justice system they care more about this convicted felon than they do the country I have to say I’m I’m pleased and a bit surprised to see that the flag in this committee is still flying right side up because they want to turn it upside down even as they want to turn our justice system upside down let me address the conspiracy theory of the day which is somehow President Biden through your department has convicted Donald Trump in Manhattan in an effort to weaponize Justice against the former president so let me just ask some basic questions about this phony conspiracy theory did you appoint uh Alvin Bragg to be Manhattan da no of course not he’s elected did you select the jury in that case the judge selected the jury they well did you select the judge in that case no no of course not the judge was random selected did you select the jury in that case no the jury was actually selected by Donald Trump and his attorneys did you reach a verdict in that case no did you instruct the jury in that case no did you tell the prosecutor What charges to bring in that case no this was 12 ordinary New Yorkers who weighed the evidence and found Donald Trump guilty of 34 felonies and instead of celebrating the fact that in this country an ordinary group of jurors an ordinary group of 12 people can still can still adjudicate a case involving one of the most powerful people in the country no they would denigrate the whole system they would tear it down in the service of this convicted felon they would tear everything down they would tear the house of this democracy down around them they say it’s unprecedented to bring charges against a former president you’re damn right it’s unprecedented we’ve never had a president United States who was making hush money payments to a porn star and then falsifying business records to cover it up yeah that’s unprecedented we’ve never had a president withhold classified information and then obstruct the investigation that is unprecedented we never had a president in sight a violent attack on the capital that is unprecedented and you know what else is unprecedented the fact that so many leaders of that party are perfectly fine with all of that in their headlong pursuit of power they’re perfectly fine with that they’re going to nominate a convicted felon as their presidential candidate and they have another conspiracy theory which is when when a search was executed to the president’s residents in maral Lago they they went in as the president said locked and loaded and ready to take him out yet another dangerous falsehood and your dedicated public servants at the justice department are having their lives threatened because of the irresponsible actions of people on this committee and in the Senate and elsewhere who would endanger the lives of those committed to to enforcing Law and Order even as they claim to be a party of Law and Order Mr turn General I am grateful for your service for your standing all of this we will get through this because of people like you and the uh and The Honorable public servants at the justice department Mr chairman I yield back chman yields back the chair recogniz gent for Arizona thanks Mr chairman um Mr attorney general the the reality is Mr her special counsel her found that pres the then former vice president pres President Biden had retained and disclosed um classified information isn’t that true Mr Herr has presented a long report isn’t that true I mean come on I’m I’m practically quoting right from it you you wouldn’t disagree with that dis agree with with I’m not going to comment on his report he sets forth I appointed him to investigate the allegations about classified documents so the reason that we end up talking over you is because a simple question like that goes unanswered you’re nonresponsive you’re non-responsive to the question because that is what what Mr her found and then he also found and and you’re not going to like this because I’m going to I’m going to I’m going to quote from it uh from this he said he basically says here that he he found Mr Biden to be sympathetic and uh here he is a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory and so he made a prosecutorial decision that he wasn’t going to prosecute are you going to dispute that you’re not disputing that are you Mr her report okay you’re going say it stands on its own okay so it stands on no because you don’t you you’re not intent on answering you want to be non-responsive you want to filibuster would like to answer your question do you dispute that so let’s just face it Mr Biden has not been prosecuted correct that’s correct and the rationale given by Mr to her is because he was a sympathetic well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory and he thought the jury would have sympathy towards Mr Biden that was one of a long list of reasons that Mr her gave for his decision that give me one more reason he found that look I I don’t want to go get into a discussion about this but I will say one of them was that the president was Co completely Cooperative uh in this matter that that’s the reason huh okay all right you the re the issue is the issue that we have here you don’t want to give us the audio tape you don’t want us to have the recording but ultimately the issue is whether the transcript actually supports the special council’s determination now your office has PL has basically pled two things in court claiming number one executive privilege and number two this kind of interesting novel approach saying fake uh deep fakes AI right did you did they consult did your did your staffer who filed that did they consult with you about the Deep fake AI uh rationale for not providing the audio to us you’re mischaracterizing the filing that was one of a again a substantial number of arguments made in a Freedom of Information did they consult with you specifically about that idea that notion where they were going to say something like quote this is from the pleading the passage of time and advancements in audio artificial intelligence and deep fake Technologies only amplify concerns about Mal malicious manipulation of audio files close quote did they consult with you about that provision not going to talk about internal Department deliberations that was one of a large number of explanations in the document you’re talking about and I’m talking specifically about that particularized rationale and you don’t want to discuss it which is why you’re nonresponsive and that’s why we need the audio now let me explain why because your your um attorney also said that you did alter the transcript and they said it was filler words repeat words and and I I but you know what we don’t know whether there the blank he said there were blank times where there was silence we don’t know whether those were one minute long two minutes long we don’t know if he’s sputtered for and and and and and because those were edited out out we do not know whether this supports and substantiates Mr H’s findings by the way you you you want to rely on Mr her you you need to go back and listen to his testimony Mr her was pretty conclusive there that we have that this that he had a a poor memory he was not able to answer all the questions substantively the transcript may be accurate but you know what the audio would tell us so much more which is why which is why the Supreme Court in the case that you poo pooed when Mr Fitz Fitzgerald was asking about they they said look you know if there’s editing that’s gone on here that’s the rationale and there was editing your own office admitted it but you won’t admit it today you’ve been non-responsive and that’s why we need the audio and that’s why you’re here you’ll back resp back chairman have un consent request ranking members recognize Mr chairman I ask unanimous consent to enter into the record transcripts of special counsil hers interviews with President Biden as you can see in the last pages the transcriber certifies that the transcripts are true and correct objection gentleman from Arizona is recognized for thank you Mr chairman I also submit uh the pleadings in the case of Judicial Watch versus US Department of Justice objection um a document entitled doj claims unprecedented deep fake objection transcript tampering doj says written record of Biden interview with prosecutors omitted words that objection doj refuses to release audio of Biden and the her interview that objection the gentleman from California is recognized before anyone else on the other side Saddles up and gets on their High legal horses I just want to remind the committee that the chairman is 754 days into his own subpoena Defiance Mr attorney general last week it was was reported that house ethics panel subpoena doj for Gates records it was a May 14 2024 political piece I’d like to submit it to the record with unanimous consent without objection I just want to get this straight Mr Gates wants the Attorney General to reopen and publicize evidence from an investigation that a Donald Trump appointed prosecutor closed against President Biden while at the same time Mr Gates himself is being protected by the same do policy that is refusing to voluntarily turn over evidence from Mr Gates’s sex trafficking investigation Mr attorney general can you just briefly without going into the facts of that case address why that is the doj policy as it relates to the current president and any other requests about closed investigations yeah without without um referencing any case we Tred to protect um the uh law enforcement files of the justice department uh so that in future investigations people are willing uh to cooperate with us we understand uh congress’s concerns and um when we’re uh we have an obligation um to assess um whether the information that we’ve provided uh is sufficient to accommodate the legitimate needs of the Congress all of the reasons that Congress has given us for why they uh need the audio are satisfied uh with respect to the tapes that is all of the legitimate reasons given the reasons that relate to uh legislative um uh work of the uh committee um as to that we’ve accommodated by providing the audio we provided Mr her’s testimony in full um and we’ve provided Mr her testimony uh uh uh report um we’ve gone as far as we can go to accommodate we’re trying to protect our ability to do investigations in this case and in any other case Mr attorney general let’s set the facts straight here and my job is to kind of lead an intervention for my colleagues I I think they need it the Attorney General did not prosecute Donald Trump in New York it was the result of Donald Trump’s choices Donald Trump chose to live in New York he chose to commit his crimes in New York he was afforded a right to be Tried by his neighbors jurors in New York he chose that jury in New York working with his Council and they chose to make him a 34 time over convicted felon but some of the choices the department has made in the recent years is that the president that was first appointed that Donald Trump appointed the US attorney who is investigating the current president’s son Donald Trump appointed John Durham who investigated the wild claims made by this committee during the Russia investigation and Donald Trump appointed Robert her who was kept on by the Biden Administration also you have the right in our country to Aid yourself in your own defense and talk to investigators you also have a right not to Mr attorney general did Donald Trump sit down for an interview in the mher investigation I I I actually don’t know but I’m not going to comment on other inves he didn’t did he sit down for an interview with investigators prior to the January 6 indictment I I’m not going to comment on he also didn’t sit down for an interview for invest with investigators in the classified materials indictment but President Biden did sit down down for a voluntary interview with Robert her a jury can’t hold it against Donald Trump that he did not testify in his own defense in New York but he promised everyone else in the country that he would you can hold it against Donald Trump that he did not testify when you consider whether you should so blindly follow every wild claim that he makes my colleagues none of this today that you are bringing makes sense your inconsistencies your hypocrisy your a fancy unless you are in a cult and guys I’m starting to think you’re in a cult that is your right but it’s not your responsibility I promise you that’s not what your constituents would want so if you believe in State’s rights except when a jury in that state convicts your nominee for president you might be in a cult if you can’t if you claim you back the blue but want to defund the police when the police go to your nominee’s house to retrieve National Security secrets you might be an a cult if you’re supporting a guy whose felony convictions prevent him from getting a security clearance you might be an a cult and if the guy you’re supporting for president has felony convictions that prevent him from going to artina AAL Cambodia Canada Chile China Cuba Dominican Republic Egypt Ethiopia India irel Israel maau Malaysia Mexico Morocco Nepal New Zealand Philippines Singapore South Africa South Korea Taiwan Tanzania Tunisia turkey Ukraine United Arab Emirates gentleman has expired the gentleman from Kentucky is recognized for five minutes I’m asking the gentleman I have unanimous consent request has unanimous consent request I ask unanimous consent to submit for the record an amikas brief by the former Attorney General Edwin me um without objection the the question presented is whether private citizen Jack Smith lacks author to represent the United States um I also asked unanimous consent to submit for the record an article titled was it legal to appoint Jack Smith in the first place this Heritage publication without objection I want to start by reading you the appointment Clause of the Constitution Article 2 Section 2 Clause 6 States the president shall nominate and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate shall appoint ambassadors other public ministers and count cils judges of the Supreme Court and all other officers of the United States whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for and which shall be established by law are us attorneys nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate according to this appointments Clause they are appointed um uh by the president confirmed by the Senate wouldn’t you agree that us attorneys are held to the appointments Clause because they are delegated some part of the Sovereign power of the United States such as the ability to make indictments and charge individuals with cl crimes I would say that those are not the reasons why and a court has already ruled on the question of whether special councils are subject to the appointments Clause um in the Mueller case and ruled that they were not was this matter Jack Smith was Jack Smith nominated by President Biden or confirmed by the US Senate look you’re asking me about a case again motions filed as just this is a simple question no I’m not Jack Smith nominated by President Biden no he was not was he confirmed by the Senate no he was not when was the special Council statute passed there is no special Council statute there was an independent Council statute that was uh expired so it expired so what gives you the authority to appoint a special counsel to create you’ve created an office in the in the US government that does not exist and without authorization from Congress there are regulations under which the Attorney General ener appoints special counsel they’ve been in effect uh for 30 years maybe longer under parties of under both parties uh the matter that you’re talking about about whether somebody can have an employee of the justice department serve a special counsel has been adjudicated you you appealed let me let me interrupt for a second because you appealed to a regulation a rule whereas the Constitution says shall be established by law yeah and there the statutes right the statute but you referred to a regulation not to us code regul may I answer the regulation cites the two uh us code uh Provisions that permit uh the Attorney General’s appointment attorney general bar cited to the same ones um uh are you famili attorney general me did that all right are you familiar with former Attorney General me’s amikas brief uh no you’re not I know that that he filed one cuz I read it in the newspapers but otherwise I’m not familiar with it but well he raises some good questions that I agree with in there it seems like you’ve created an office um that would require an act of Congress yet there’s not an act of Congress that authorizes that and even if it didn’t require an act of Congress and you’ve already admitted it there was no act of Congress that established this office it would still require according to the Constitution a nomination by the president and Confirmation by the Senate I want to move on uh to January 6th is it accurate to say that the doj is on Pace to arrest roughly one protester a day in 2024 nearly three years after the incident I don’t know what the pce is is job is to arrest uh um and bring to Justice people who are criminally responsible and as they are found they will be arrested is your office preparing to drop charges against more than 340 January 6ers charged with 1512 C2 and release dozens from prison on that count if the Supreme Court court this month reverses how your department has used that statute against them we respect the Supreme Court whatever the court rules we will act appropriately so you’ll have to drop the charges if the Supreme Court says that you did that wrong answer hypotheticals we’ll wait and see what the Supreme Court says what do you say in response to DC appell at court overturning two excessive sentencing requests sought by your office I say that’s that is a the United States system of justice working if people think that they have inappropriate sentences they can appeal their sentences that’s the way our system works and we respect the results so you’ve you’ve refused to answer questions before us including my questions about January 6th on on multiple occasions here in this committee but the Inspector General is preparing a report are you in receipt of that report yet he’s he’s promised to um examine the role and activity of doj and its components in preparing for and responding to the events at the US capital you have are you in resp re of that I’m not in receipt of an report you’ll have to ask the Inspector General isn’t it true that it will go to you before it’s released for review I I don’t know about the it will not go to me for review the Inspector General is independent I hope to see it before but um that’s up to the Inspector General let me just remind you I was not the Attorney General on January do we have your commitment to release that as soon as you see it the determination of of of the release of Inspector General reports is up to the Inspector General we give them Independence Congress Dem them my time has expired but we so we have your commitment not to slow down that the release of that from the Inspector General our Inspector General is a very independent person there’s no way I could stop him from doing what the law requires I back and I would certainly never do that gentleman Yi’s back gentleman from Cal California is recognized thank you Mr chairman the house Judiciary Committee is responsible for helping to ensure the rule of law unfortunately the chairman of this committee himself ignored a bipartisan Congressional subpoena the actions of this chairman have made it harder for congressional committees to get information from Witnesses and have hurt the rule of law thank you attorney general Garland for your public service I’m going to ask you a series of simple questions about past concluded cases to get the facts out to American people the Department of Justice charge Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul manfor in a federal court with multiple felonies Mr manfor was convicted in a federal court correct it’s my recollection of what the public record um discloses public record shows he was convicted in a federal court the Department of Justice charged Donald Trump’s former deputy campaign chairman Rick gates with multiple felonies Mr Gates was convicted in a federal court correct again that’s the best to my best of my recollection that’s what the public record discloses thank you the Department of Justice charged Donald Trump’s former campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos Mr papadopulos was convicted in federal court correct again that’s my best recollection of the public record you were not the Attorney General at the time correct I was not no in fact the attorney general for those three criminal cases was Jeff sessions who was nominated by Donald Trump the Department of Justice charged Donald Trump former lawyer Michael Cohen with multiple felonies he was convicted in a federal court correct again that’s my best recollection of the public record you were not the Attorney General at the time correct was not in fact Michael kin had two sets of convictions the attorney general for Michael Cohen’s second conviction was Matthew Whitaker who was also appointed by Donald Trump the department Justice charged Roger Stone who was an advisor to Donald Trump with multiple felonies Roger Stone was convicted in a federal court correct again my best recollection of the public record yeah the Depart of Justice charged Elliot Brady who was a fundraiser for Donald Trump Mr Bry was convicted in a federal court correct same answer you were not the Attorney General at the time right I was not in fact the attorney general for those two criminal cases was Bill bar who was nominated by Donald Trump what these facts show is that the Department of Justice has not been weaponized we have one Department of Justice that goes after criminals regardless of party affiliation these Trump Associates were convicted under the administration of three Republican Attorneys General each of whom was nominated by Donald Trump Trump’s campaign manager felon Trump’s Deputy campaign manager felon Trump’s foreign policy adviser felon Trump’s lawyer felon Trump’s political adviser Fel felon Trump’s fundraiser felon it is not the fault of the Department of Justice that Donald Trump surrounded himself with criminals Trump brought that upon himself one of the things that makes America great is we are ruled by the law not by a cult or personality I want to thank you attorney general Garland and the Department of Justice for applying the law without fear or favoritism and I note that as we sit here today the Department of Justice is Prosecuting Hunter Biden in a federal court right now you can’t love your country only when the candidate you like wins and you can’t love Law and Order except when the criminal felon is someone you like in America no one is above the law not the rich not the powerful not any former presence and certainly none of his criminal felon enablers now I want to move on to another subject our gentleman from Arizona on the other side of the aisle gave away the game today when he said why he wanted the audio transcript he said we wouldn’t know if Joe Biden had said and and and and so I just want to ask you this question special coun Robert her said that this transcript was accurate the written transcript was an accurate rendition of the audio transcript correct except for some stutters yes so what the Gent from Arizona wants is that trans audio with the end and and end because Joe Biden stutters he’s had a stuttering problem his entire life he overcame stuttering he was made fun of in school and he overcame this disability to become president of the United States a leader of their free world and it is Despicable that my Republican colleagues want to go after him for his stuttering problem they should apologize and I yield back gentleman yields back uh the gentleman from North Carolina is recognized Mr attorney general U you said earlier today you spoke to the committee’s recommendation to the house to hold you in contempt you said but we have made clear that we will not provide audio recordings from which the transcripts that you already have were created uh you went on to uh to say that certain members of this committee and the oversight committee are seeking contempt you’re aware that a majority of of this committee has marked up a contempt resolution aren’t you sir certainly members includes the majority yes it’s a big difference isn’t it sir isn’t that significant the fact that a majority of the committee charged by the Congress to inquire into the grounds for impeaching the president of the United States has issued a has marked up a contempt resolution that’s more important than certain members isn’t it sir majority institutionally more important a majority has sought contempt yes you said that you will not be intimidated are you the Arbiter I’m sorry are you the Arbiter the decider of whether or not those tapes will be provided to this Congress at the instance at The subpoena of its committee to investigate the president Constitution requires me to protect the separation of powers and our ability to do investigations in the future it requires me and the court Law Court proceedings make that clear to weigh whatever interests you have against the interests of law enforcement uh the president has asserted executive privilege and I have not heard legitimate legislative reason why the audio is insufficient for any purpose that legitimate purpose have you you know what demeanor evidence is don’t you sir I’m sorry demeanor evidence you know what that is you sat on the bench for decades you know what I know what demeanor evidence I know what demeanor evidence is and I’ve not been shown any reason why audio evidence of demeanor would make a difference in any legislative purpose that well that’s exactly what demeanor evidence is Sir witnessing an observing serving a witness as they testify and what can be done by this committee is to observe the audio recording of the president testifying to see whether it comports with the transcript or whether it reveals things about his capacity or his veracity or anything else that comes from the his demeanor as he as he is interviewed well none of the things that you just mentioned our legislative purpose I don’t have I yet to suggest any law that you intend to pass or thinking about in which the audio would make a difference over the transcript if a future doj concludes well let me ask you this question what happened to Peter nooro and Steve Bannon when they decided to defy a subpoena of the Congress we we received three uh four referrals criminal referrals two were prosecuted two were not the two that were prosecuted as the published Court opinions may clear What will What will what will happen to you if your decision is Basel may I continue to answer no I I know what happened you know what happened too they’re in Mr Navaro is in prison uh what will happen to you if your sole determination uh that you’re not going to cooperate with this committee subpoena is um with respect to the two people you asked the court made clear they did not comply in any way did not even appear and second there was no executive privilege neither of those is true in my case if a future Department of Justice follows the facts and the law as you’re fond of reciting even to the point of Prosecuting a former president then if your decision is baseless you should be prosecuted right if a future and I hope it will be the case a future justice department follows the law and uh and the uh decisions of the office of legal counsel since the Reagan Administration when there is an assertion of executive privilege the contempt statute is inapplicable that’s been a rule through every Administration including um um the uh Reagan administration it even reached back to the Eisenhower Administration Mr attorney general hope they will follow the law Mr attorney general you have um uh resurrected the foreign influence task force and there’s a FBI spokesman recently told media according to reports that uh FBI has returned to facilitating the sharing of information about foreign malign influence with social media companies in a way that reinforces that private companies are free fre to decide on their own whether and how to take action on that information a district court has decided that you didn’t do that before how are you doing that how are you reinforcing that private companies have their own capacity to decide the case that you’re talking about is now under advisement in the Supreme Court of the United States and I’m not going to comment on any Court matter which the court May didn’t ask you to do that I asked you to do ask you how you’re reinforcing it that’s what your spokesman said you’re reinforcing the private company’s latitude how are you doing M on what the district court said we have the authority as the Supreme Court just held last week uh to persuade we can’t coers so we can provide information that Russia or China or Iran or North Korea is operating on a social media platform why don’t you do it in public leave it to the social media to take it down why don’t you do it in public I’m sorry why don’t you do that in public so the public can see what you’re doing well I’m not saying that we shouldn’t also do it in public I would hope everybody in this room would want to know if one of our adversaries is um um um acting as if they were American citizens on a on a social you back time of the gentleman’s expired uh the gentle lady from Pennsylvania has a UC then we’ll come to I have a brief UC unanimous consent request and it follows directly in line with what was just being asked about chairman Jordan has argued that the committee needs this audio file of the President Biden’s interview with doj yet has refused to release the transcript from the vast majority of more than 130 transcribed interviews that the committee has conducted to date even refused to provide copies of the audio and video files of the transcribed interviews and deposition there unanimous request in here there is I ask unanimous consent to enter into the record all of the transcripts transcribed interviews that the committee has conducted this Congress so that we can bring that real transparency to the American people I object gentleman from North Carolina objects um and I thank you for releasing the one transcript uh we will release all the transcripts when we compl our investigation you did they completed their investigation they won’t give us all the evidence we will give all that evidence when we’re done with our investigation the gentleman from Pennsylvania is Rec thank you attorney general Garland over here thank you thank you for your longstanding and honorable service to our country and for being here today the American people appreciate the serious work that you and the dedicated members of the Department of Justice do on their behalf every day to protect the rule of law and to protect our communities and our civil rights Congress of course has a legitimate duty to oversee the Department’s functions but it’s pretty clear from the remarks we’ve heard from our Republican colleagues in this hearing that they have not brought us here today in pursuit of that Duty instead this hearing appears driven by the desire to Curry favor with the disgraced impeached indicted and now convicted former president and their ongoing efforts to legitimize his attacks on American elections our judicial process law enforcement the press and basically anybody who contradicts or seeks to hold him accountable so this isn’t legitimate oversight it’s political theater and it’s pretty bad theater at that it’s not the serious work that the American people should expect us to do here and it distracts from our understanding and oversight of the Department of Justice’s important efforts to protect our national security to combat violent crime gun violence drug trafficking and fraud to protect voting rights and reproductive freedoms to combat hate crimes and to advance environmental justice so I would highly recommend that anyone who is actually interested in the department of Justice’s work to read the statement that you submitted to the committee today because it contains some important details about the work that the department is doing I was particularly struck and profoundly troubled by your comments about the extraordinary rise in threats and violence against public servants in our country ranging from Criminal threats against election workers and members of Congress to the January 6 assault on this capital and our constitutional order so I’d particularly like to focus on one aspect of those attacks on public servant and one that has implications for the strength and future of our Democratic Republic I’m interested in the department of Justice’s work to protect those who Implement and defend our elections because in the wake of the 2020 election and in response to the lies and conspiracy theories embraced by the former president and his lackes we’ve seen election officials and poll workers across the country these are apolitical employees their community volunteers retirees neighbors Civic Champions um they become targets for threats and violence when they stand up against the lies and seek to hold the former president accountable because they did their jobs running our elections and to the extent that these lies and conspiracy theories have been embraced or elevated by members of this Congress or committee shame on them this isn’t legitimate political discourse it should not be part of our americanl public life because words do have consequences When leaders Embrace misinformation that’s dangerous and when they fail to defend our elections from lies and misinformation that’s dangerous and cowardly now this committee has heard testimony from multiple Witnesses experts in election security who’ve expressed concern that threats to election workers which exploded in 2020 will result in fewer people being willing to serve and whether as nonpartisan employees or volunteers attorney general Garland can you comment briefly on the incidents of threats and violence against election workers why these incidents are dangerous and if you have any insight on what’s caused this dramatic rise so your portrayal I think is quite accurate I’ve been worried about this since 2021 um and we’ve been I’ve been um talking about this with our you United States attorneys uh we created an election threats task force particularly because we were so worried uh and as you say this is not only about elected election officials not only about appointed election officials but um about ordinary Americans who show up as pole Watchers on a single day uh during a year uh to to run our elections our our democracy can’t work if those people uh fear um um threats that are urged against them or if there’s actual violence against them we have brought I don’t have the exact numbers but I think it’s creeping up on 20 cases uh where there have been uh extraordinarily uh graphic threats of violence against election workers and we have received some pretty strong sentences uh in those cases of course we always balance uh First Amendment right to criticize um uh to disagree but when somebody makes a threat um to kill a a an election worker to kill members of their family we respond and we are going to respond aggressively every us attorney um uh has uh endorsed this position every uh FBI field office has an election uh security uh agent whose job it is to secure to be sure that threats against um election workers um are investigated deterred and prosecuted thank you um and if there are additional tools that Congress can provide that would help the department in in this work I’d appreciate hearing about it I see my time has expired thank you for your testimony generals back the gentleman from Morgan recognize thank you Mr chair and thank you Mr attorney general for being here today I just have a a couple of areas of of interest to me at least um the first one has to do with with your remarks earlier in the hearing where you were drawing the distinction between state court and federal court and you were saying that state court is quote another jurisdiction State quote prosecutors are independent third remark prosecutors are completely independent fourth remark action decisions of the state prosecutors are independent and they taken of their own volition um what what disturbs me about those assertions is what actually happened uh I’ll go with the fanny Willis Case first and just mentioned that uh her her friends spent some eight hours in the White House discussing discussing the case um her friend Fanny Willis’s friend um and my question to you is if they’re so independent what were the what why were people who were involved in the state action up talking to the the federal folks what’s what how do you explain that well I don’t know if it’s true I don’t know anything about that I don’t know if if she was was there what she was talking about I don’t know anything to support this allegation at all I think what I have here uh on my on my notes s were you aware that the Fulton County DA fenny Wilson’s office coordinated with special counsel Smith the Biden White House and the Democrat Run January 6 committee during her investigation of President Trump you’re saying you don’t know anything about that yes I don’t know anything about that no would it disturb you if that actually happened well I I imagine that if this committee asks a prosecutor for information um or if a prosec asks this committee for information there may be conversations about uh that information I think that is relatively routine um I don’t have any idea uh whether there were any conversations with the special counsel but it would not be uh uh uh anything wrong with um uh people in different jurisdictions who have evidence um obtaining the evidence the were you aware that da Willis hired her friend Nathan way to prosecute president Trump uh as he met that Mr Wade met with the Biden White House on two occasions for eight hours I I don’t know anything about it again would that disturb you and the reason I’m asking this is because it appears that there is this double standard some people refer to as a two-tier system that is one tier for certain people like President Trump and the other tier for everybody else and that disturbs me would it disturb you if there was a different type of Justice being applied to our former president than that which is applied to other defendants of course it would disturb me there is only one tier of Justice we treat like cases alike we don’t give any benefit to a powerful person over a non-powerful person any benefit to a Democrat over a republican I’m not so I’m not concerned about the defendants getting the benefits so much as I am the prosecutors and State Court coming to the federal folks and and basically saying hey we know you’ve been doing all this work here give us all this material now maybe that much is fine but that’s isn’t what generally happens uh now if you were a former president you’re going to get a lot of attention and and that’s that’s exactly what’s been happening here and and it’s I don’t think that’s fair I don’t think the people in the United States think it’s fair that that that a former president would be ganged up on if you will by by by both the federal government and the state government that does not seem right I mean you may be doing it and I guess you’re saying that it would be fine if that did happen but to me it seems like a double standard I want to shift over to the audio tapes and uh you’re you’re a former judge so you’re very familiar with the best evidence rule it’s Rule one2 and it I I went to law school I I remember uh the discussions about quote best evidence but you would know it far better than I you must have dealt with it literally hundreds of times but the best evidence rule in to to we uh rural practitioners of country law I meant that if you had one piece of evidence oh I know an audio tape you’d be far more likely to want to use it and perhaps it would be acquired as opposed to a transcript is that correct I I respect your experience but I’m afraid the best evidence rule is not applicable best evidence rul is reflected rule 103 of the federal Rules of Evidence and it provides that a duplicate is admissible for all purposes as an original unless there is a genuine dispute about its authenticity for the reasons I’ve stated extensively in answers to the other members there is no genuine dispute about the authenticity of the transcripts so the best evidence rule simply has no application in this case so actually I would agree with you in the sense that we’re not in federal court and but but I also also want to tell you that when when the the essence of of his decision Mr H’s decision was that there was a a uh a a challenge that our president was fa is facing when it comes to his memory and his demeanor then I have to agree with gentleman from North Carolina that the audio tapes are are the best evidence of exactly how how qualified U Mr her was in making his decision that he should not prosecute but that I see my time is exhausted so I yield back gentleman yields back the gentle lady from uh Pennsylvania is recognized thank you Mr chairman uh hello attorney general Garland I thank you for being here today I thank 115,000 members of the Department of Justice for your faithful Service uh and I am sorry for the regrettable conversations that are going on I’ve served on this committee for the better part of six years I begged to be on this committee when I ran there was so much I wanted to work on like focusing on gun violence like focusing on the opioid poisoning epidemic uh and so many other things having to do with the protection of civil rights and the rule of law and yet what we’ve observed in this Committee in hearing after hearing after hearing sadly is misinformation disinformation very pointedly with the purpose of tearing down America’s faith in our institutions this is one such hearing there are members on this committee who would rather tear down the faith in the independence of the Department of Justice then say that one man is responsible for his behaviors and is being held to account both civil and now criminally Mr Trump’s behaviors are the reasons they are railing and they are upset he’s been convicted of he’s been um found guilty of fraud he’s been convicted on 34 felony counts and it would be okay if it weren’t so dangerous that’s what worries me it is so dangerous what is going on so let’s be clear one of the reasons that you’re here today is to say somehow the Department of Justice had something to do with the Manhattan district attorney bringing uh the suit uh and a jury of 12 citizens strangers listening to the evidence hearing from talented prosecutors and defense attorneys and the judge and they came back with a Clarity of 34 convictions for a former president and a Presidential nominee what role did your department have in that prosecution that prosecution was determined by the Manhattan district attorney which does not report to us is not controlled by us um and operates completely independent of the Department of Justice thank you I also want to respond to a few other dangerous statements chairman Jordan said a kangaroo court that’s quoting convicted president Trump he’s the chairman of the Judiciary Committee speaker Johnson’s claimed that Democrats cheered this purely political exercise and we heard him in an interview on fox saying the Supreme Court should uh break up the conviction overturn the conviction and he knows many of the justices personally Mr Trump pies himself as a so-called political prisoner these statements are false and they are aimed to mislead they are aimed to inflame they are dangerous the nominee is a convicted Fel or the would be nominee is a convicted felon what happened is he was guilty of an unlawful conspiracy to win the 2016 election by falsifying records to cover a trist with a porn star in the days before the 2016 election I’m grateful our institution stood up I’m grateful to that set of jurors who walked in as strangers and citizens and listen to the evidence and put the law attached to it but I’m really deeply concerned that our institutions are under attack Mr Garland you talked about in your written testimony the role of the Department of Justice in upholding the rule of law can you speak to that a little more so I have um devoted my entire career to ensuring that the rule of law is the rule that the justice department applies and that the courts apply that we follow the Precedence that we treat like cases alike that we do not have enemies or friends that we do not not pay attention to the political parties or the wealth or the power or the influence of the people that we are investigating that we follow the facts and the law um this is what distinguishes this country from our adversaries and an attack on the rule of FLW tears down people’s confidence in the basic fundamental ele M of our democracy that all people will be treated equal and I intend uh to continue uh to protect the rule of law to protect the 115,000 career employees of my department to make sure that they can continue to go about their job uh which is to do the right thing every day uh and not to be distracted uh by outside influences political or otherwise I thank you Mr attorney general and I call upon on those g l time I I want to just mention one other thing quickly I’m fearful I’m fearful for the appalling Silence of good people on this committee okay okay heard ladies D L’s time has expired uh Mr attorney general we understand you want to break can we do one more five minutes and then we’ll take a little break would that work all right the gentl from Texas recognize uh thank you Mr attorney general for appearing before the Judiciary Committee uh I read a report recently that the uh DC United States attorney’s office at only devoted 5% of resources to January 6th prosecutions but I’ve also understand from many conversations that the most or all of the United States Attorney uh us attorney districts contributed an aosa or an investigator to the effort can you confirm whether the department across the board has been providing additional support from other us attorney’s offices in terms of AAS or investigators uh contributing for the January 6 investigations uh yes uh that’s true and that began before I became attorney general that continued after became attorney general so multiple resources across the department have been devoted to that effort including other districts yes because of the significance of an attack on the democrac in this body the reason I’m asking about that is in terms of the focus of the resources of the department um if if my uh staff would put up on the screen um there’s a number of people here that I want to see if you can identify who they are um what we have here in the bottom right hand corner is a woman named Elizabeth Medina uh she was found dead uh in a bathtub uh in Texas uh her mom found her uh hoping to see her in a parade that night uh she was killed by rapael Goa Romero who was here illegally uh on the bottom LEF hand corner you have Lake and Riley um she was killed uh by 26-year-old Jose abara arrested by uh US Customs and Border Protection after he unlawfully entered the United States near El Paso Texas uh up above you have officers Richard yuso 26 and officer Christopher Abu 26 both were shot this last weekend by Bernando Raul castrada and 19-year-old Venezuela National apprehended by US border patrol unlawfully entered the United States near Eagle Pass uh in July of 2023 what we have is a continued effort by the uh federal government uh to fail to secure the border of the United States and Americans are dying or getting shot in this case law enforcement getting shot to young women who are debt uh my question for you with respect to the department is uh do you believe that Texas has a right to defend itself and to ensure that people who are in this country uh are not here illegally and that we can protect the citizens of Texas from people unlawfully here who are committing crimes to Elizabeth Medina who’s no longer with us because the federal government refused to do its job yet the Department of Justice is suing the state of Texas to stop implementation of s sp4 so do you say as the Attorney General of the United States Texas does not have a right to defend itself and protect our citizens from Murder By people who have come here illegally into the United States I say as the attorney general and as a human being that my heart goes out to the families that these are terrible terrible events I say secondly as the Attorney General the way to stop people like this from coming into into the United States is to give more resources to the border patrol so that they can prevent Mr attorney general no no you don’t want we we the people of Texas money’s not going to solve the problem when the Department of Homeland Security and the president of the United States refused to enforce the law ignore the policies and Elizabeth Medina would be here alive today if we were following the law Lake and Riley would be here today if we had not released a killer under the streets of the United States of America through parole policies that this Administration is advancing and the Department of Justice is suing the state of Texas in court taking valuable resources to go against the people of Texas when Texas simply wants to say that we should have a say in stopping people who are illegally arrest them and be able to deal with that on our own terms when the federal government refuses to do its jobm our as reflected in our filings in that case we are in court because the United States Supreme Court in Arizona versity United States held that states cannot adopt their own immigra you’re you’re in court because you’re choosing to try to stop Texas from enforcing the laws that the federal government is refusing to enforce and by the way that’s not the same thing as Arizona but a final question my last minute the Department of Justice did not assert privilege with regard to the transcript correct that’s right the you articulated a minute ago to my colleague that the best evidence rule says that the transcribed copy is admissible right but but how can you claim privilege in the face of not just a legislative inquiry but a constitutional impeachment inquiry how can you claim privilege for something that you just testified was effectively the same thing how can you claim privilege for the audio of the transcript you just testified was the same I just testified the words are the same sensing an audio is different you have not given any explanation and there’s nothing in the impeachment resolution that uh would make a difference with respect to I respectfully disagree I would ask you one last question is the decision not to prosecute President Biden for effectively the same crime for which doj is Prosecuting president Trump is it because doj has determined the president is not mentally fit to defend himself and stand trial for his crime but former president Trump is I say again that’s an accurate description of Mr her’s uh report um and I would rest on Mr her’s report the only assertion he made I back gentleman Yi’s back uh the committee will take a short uh short break and then we’ll be back in 10 minutes 5 10 minutes harit Hagman there was there did you see that she’s getting ready Harry Hagman you lay down lay down the law and hopefully um we got some good Burns I’m just glad everyone’s burning him on something different any who let’s see there’s the show da da da over here get some music going I’ll keep you guys company from meow I was in the middle of breakfast so I had to put that away for a little bit and finish chewing um anyways how’s everyone it’ll be back in like 15 minutes I think it’s just a short break earlier it was a break for voting so that takes longer so I had time to do a show in the meantime um see who’s the last guy that just spoke um I don’t know want to see it uh it was Chip Roy okay chip cool anyways down smidgen hello Shamrock good to see you thanks for being here Leanne good to see you good morning Ursula good morning how did the Vault go I’m not sure what you mean by The Vault there’s no Vault today oh that’s right you know what today there’s a lot of uh primaries tonight we’re having a primary party tonight I guess then let’s see so this is that 4:15 let’s let’s push that out by day all right all right cool I guess we’re doing a primary party I guess we’re not going to be doing the watch party for um well you know we can I think we got a couple hours between so we probably squeezing the dollas hey by the way if you guys wondering what I’m talking about yesterday we we watched uh fouchy get grilled and there’s a documentary called the Dallas Buyers called based on the true story staring Matthew MCC and uh I wanted to air it after the um the fouy grilling but uh restream wasn’t working so I couldn’t I couldn’t stream to kick so but we’re going to do it today so after this hearing we’re going to watch the Dallas Buyers Club over on Kick if you’re looking for that place just type in kik.com the NPC show t h e NPCs h k i ./t H NPC h w or you can look on my website go to my go to my website dnpc show.com t h e NPCs link to that’s at the top of the description by the way it looks like this there you can find links to everywhere I stream this place is the only place right there kick right there first one the only place that allows you to do watch parties you can watch movies together because it’s an anic platform whatever you do disappears in 20 days so they’re okay with watching movies there as long as they not new releases um so we’re going to watch the Dallas Buyers Club there after this um yeah it’s about uh the whole all the Fiasco that fouchy did in in the 80s in the 90s uh suppressing um uh treatments for HIV that actually worked uh so that they can sell so that him and his FDA friends can sell a patented one that you know they can charge tons and tons of money money for cuz there’s no generics so yeah [Music] yeah thanks thanks for being here guys thank you JB and by the way if you guys want to support the channel keep it alive you could become a member like Ursula like Leah like Lean Like Lisa Lisa like Mary right at Terra yeah is um it’s only $4 a month and I do get 7 % of like J Michelle look at that yeah it’s only um Daisy Daisy’s a member look at that yeah it’s only $4 a month and I get 70% of that helps keep the channel alive cuz ad Revenue ain’t doing it anymore ad revenue is not doing it anymore yeah that’s why I got to do that side hustle with that AI company which is working out pretty well actually so uh yeah chip Roy was what’s his face was his testimony any good what’s his face um B Mr B was it boring it was boring wasn’t it let’s go listen to this real quick of of interest to me some 8 hours in the White House discussing discussing the case um her friend Fanny Willis’s friend um and my question to you is was there aware that the F investigation yeah that seems boring okay I’m not going to cut that one yeah I used to cut all of them every time a republican grilled you know one of these swamp creatures I used to cut it and upload it on uh Twitter but but uh lately it hasn’t been worth editing a lot of the boring ones it’s like oh no one clicks on it no one cares about it so I’m like all right well let’s just we’ll wait for the Tom massis the Jim Jordans the chip Roy the Dan Bishops we wait for them to do their thing and we’ll see how it goes okay so I got the show here let’s cut that I just posted the any bigs one did I not Andy got posted okay so all these are done let’s see yep yep yep anyways yeah today is the the 4th of this month and it’s supposed to be it’s a very historic day cuz um it was the day that so if you guys don’t know about 1989 [ __ ] damn it I just said the year uh that’s going to get this channel yellow flag now because you Google likes to run cover for China and I just said the country’s name but uh in 1989 was the launch of the basically the week the weeks prior to this day in 1989 uh a bunch of college students in China uh they all went to Beijing to protest they wanted more um you know transparency from the government very basic thing transparency and things like that um and on this day uh was it 20 how long’s it been now hold on 2024 minus 1989 35 years 35 years ago today the the the CCP sent in the military to go Slaughter all of them and that’s how they deal with protesters in in pandaland it was so bad that um even the American the Western journalists that were there who were like basically they had um Scouts on the rooftops of a bunch of buildings right and if they saw people taking pictures of what was going on they got raided and uh the only the only the only uh the most the most famous photograph from that day oh actually it was the day after or the day after that uh was the tankman photo um and um basically a guy stood in front of the let’s go look this up Tank Man images oh look at that Google’s not uh Google’s not censoring anymore huh Boy A lot changes when uh China stabs Israel in the back huh China stabs Israel in the back and now the Israeli controlled Google is now promoting this photo look at that they used to he used to not be able to find this photo open image a new tab here we go it did by the way contrary to belief this guy was not run over uh other people were though other people were but this guy a bunch of other civilians rushed in grabbed him and then brought him took him out of the way so he doesn’t get hurt but and by the way uh Beyond these four there was prob there’s a whole row of Tanks we’re talking um like 30 40 50 of them all coming to town to go Slaughter college students for disagreeing with the government and that’s what’s happening here yeah happening real still look at that the Palestinians can’t even call for a ceasefire right uh I said we don’t have tanks yet you know we don’t need tanks yet there aren’t that many people yeah it was bad it’s a pretty yeah they they basically people people they basically um acknowledge that oh there was um there was about um there was about what’s going on here Lotter retracted comments okay well there was a people say that there was um like I don’t know 10,000 15,000 that were taking out it’s probably closer to like a 100,000 it was bad yeah um they people people can and there were documentaries that I would play every year on this day which I should you know I’ll probably do that tonight I don’t know it’s going to it’s going to be late right we got the primary party I still got to figure out what time that’s going to be uh we got the primary party perhaps after at the primary party I’ll play the um I’ll play the the the the Tank Man by front line that was a great one um and that’ll be our thing for the day but um yeah so this is this is a aan history 35 years ago this happened and um you know we’re not too far from it in this country right we already got pro-life activists being put away for years just for peacefully praying outside of an abortion clinic we’ve got um uh people we got Trump supporters who were invited into the capital for a tour all charged and arrested for walking around peacefully meanwhile the people who actually broke windows are not arrested Ray ‘s got a slap in the wrist you know so um yeah that’s what happened out there um but yeah the guy by the by the way the guy who took this photo he actually looked around at other buildings and saw the the scouts the the CCP Scouts spot him so he took the film out of the camera took the film out of the camera put it in those little you remember how they used to have film right and the film was put in these um these little black plastic canisters with the with a gray lid he put it in there and then he dropped it in the into the tank of the the toilet the back tank of the toilet and um then the people they they kicked down the door they arrested him they searched him for the film things like that they didn’t find anything they found other film um and then what he did was he went back to the hotel broke into that room and retrieved that film and this is the shot right here that he got the most infamous uh the most infamous photo from China yeah which by the way if you ask if you ask Chinese citizens about this photo they don’t know what it is completely erased from history in in Chinese textbooks yeah so yeah and yeah we’re still waiting on these guys to come back they’re on a break right now so just hanging out looking at tanks yeah any who how do you do how’s everyone doing um no not there yeah so normally every year on this day I play that those documentaries uh but oh is a packed day it it is a really packed day man so after this hearing by the way once this is over we’re going to switch over to kick we’re going to watch Dallas Buyers Club starring Matthew mccon it’s about uh how fouchy hid the the a valuable treatment for HIV so that his buddies in the FDA could sell the uh patented one and make more money I mean they dragged the guy through the mud they raided him they they had the IRS audit him um but yeah the doctor do the doctor said like before well basically when he found out the doctor said he had about a month to live and then he because of this treatment in Mexico that he was smuggling in to help others uh he lived for another like seven or eight years so um yeah yeah yep yep yep and then um so we’re going to watch that we’re going to watch that and then um after that I’m going to shut down I’m going to set up for the prime party tonight we have plenty of primaries going on today I know DT’s already won but we’re also paying attention to State wides yeah statewise guys uh let’s see what’s on today June 4th see we’ve got the Iowa State wides uh Montana Statewide and presidential Tara did you go vote that um New Jersey state wides and president presal New Mexico Statewide and presidential South Dakota Statewide and presidential ooh I wonder if Christine no I think she just won chrisy no just got reelected I think in 2022 I’m not sure we’ll look that up tonight we’ll go look it up tonight we’ll have a we generally have we have a pretty good time that we hang out we talk about things we talk about um you know who um who’s up for who’s up running who’s the Rino uh will that se win in November we talk about potential VP picks cuz that hasn’t happened yet um any while s Dakota’s got another thing on the eth too South Dakota Republican convention is DT doing a speech I don’t know so we got that tonight so we got primary party tonight and then we’ve got um uh I think a DG speech on the 6th and then something else on the eth I thought they kick aift out nope he’s still there actually she’s going to be a senator soon yeah it’s going to be a senator unfortunately he’s he’s he ran for uh Feinstein’s spot so um they tried to wipe it from Google Al together yeah they I mean they did for a long time google as well as I mean Twitter you know I’ll be you know what’s interesting let’s see if we can find anything on Twitter about it because we know elon’s very loyal to the Chinese common this party TI non men Square uh yeah we could find a few things on it oh graphic graphic never mind graphic yeah yeah it’s crazy yep for for days for days the students um begged for days the students and the the the the citizens beged the Army to please not not not kill the kids stuff I got and they held them off for a few days and then I I at some point I guess they all got threatened and then they sent in they sent in people and he slaughtered everyone yep yep yep yep yep I guess I could post something about it let’s see uh info vids documentaries history oh no it’s going to be in a in a pandaland folder surviving blah blah blah okay not that oh there it is all what should I write what should I write we’re still waiting for them to come back so hang tight what should I write see I’m uploading Tank Man by front line to tweet her um uh this day and hold on let’s do a alert Beacon uh Panda let’s do that let’s do the let’s do the um p in the middle this day in history in 1989 the sent in their military to slaughter tens of thousands of of their own college students for peacefully protesting for greater [Music] transparency uh from national leaders and unity between the people and their government there you go for peacefully let’s make peacefully in all caps peacefully dis history 199 1989 Panda let’s see if we can get some tank emojis in here tank wow no really no tanks truck Fu I guess that’s it too too uh risque for you over there on Twitter yeah I was expecting Twitter to uh you know what they probably do that they probably Throttle Down the visibility you know what I mean I’m sure they do I mean elon’s absolutely compliant to their battery manufacturers right um anyways why is this not updating um is that uploaded almost 87% um if Joe how we looking here 87% what is it stuck jeez anyways yeah they usually say it’s um the audio is up so we’re not going to miss it yep yep yep oh still waiting for this thing to come back uh let’s see oh yeah hello mountain man good to see you okay what’s going on here what is this all right that’s okay I’ll wait for that now anyways how’s everyone doing [Music] okay there we go yes these guys they always see a five minute break 15 minute break and it turns into 30 minutes how’s everyone doing hope doing good yes oh man I completely forgot about the primary PARTA we made a thumbnail for it yet I should make that actually I will make that what are we doing right now today so today okay so bam tankman posted on Twitter there we go um what do we got today Iowa Montana New Jersey New Mexico South Dakota well I could put um Rosendale and Christy NL but she’s not running hold on let me go see uh Christ know bedia real quick uh let’s see her term ends in 2027 but she just got reelected last year wow what luck people have got three years to forget about that story know okay so not her we’re going to do uh Rosendale and and DT I guess let’s go look that up Rosendale and Trump um oh they do have okay so they do have pictures together Trump campaign for him good good good save image as cool yeah Rosendale man Rosendale was a freshman in Congress this is his first term and he had the balls to stand against McCarthy on day one a that crazy yeah he was he was part of the 18 the 18 people who held up Congress in order to negotiate the motion to vacate with one vote policy so all right let’s go make that event primary thumbnail God what lag man there something really wrong with this computer right now I can’t wait to uh