. >> attorney merrick garland announced the justice department has filed a lawsuit against texas for violating the federal voting rights act over the state's newly drawn electoral maps. the attorney general said the states new restricting plans deny black and latino voters an equal opportunity to participate in the voting process. this is about 10 minutes.

[applause] i will say it again, merrick garland should resign in disgrace. thank god he is not on the supreme court. thank mitch mcconnell as well. the baseless lawsuits, perhaps the most fundamental we have, the rule of law points back to natural equality, yet the progressive left is willing to jettison the rule of law when it does not serve as policy goals or achieve its preferred social outcomes. loan forgiveness is given to farmers, so long as they are not white. radical george soros prosecutors simply refuse to enforce a lot all. indefinite detention for those charged merely with trespass in the january 6 riots while piland -- violent blm insurrectionists get off scott free. or kamala harris nelson out of jail. [applause] unfortunately, the corporate media and increasingly these days the board room is eating the corporate left. those who criticize or oppose ideas are often silenced or canceled. if you say for instance that the wuhan coronavirus just might, perhaps maybe came from a lab in wuhan where they researched coronaviruses, i know it is crazy. th

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merrick garland takes these things a little bit more seriously, and the trump justice department did. but even now we saw that the prosecution of stephen bannon, for criminal contempt, for not cooperating, will not in fact illicit testimony because a trial won't be held until july, it looks like. now criminal contempt is not supposed to punish the behavior but it means that this committee isn't going to hear from steve bannon anytime soon. mark meadows is watching that closely. we will see how he acts in response. but i think you're right. the strategy seems to be delay, go to courts and see if you can push it off for as long as possible until no longer it is relevant to the inquiry at hand. >> peter, don't make me kill your mic, but bless you for what you said. don't forget, this job of mine has meant that i got to work with the likes like the three of you. speaking of which, doctor vin gupta. good news today from pfizer. i assume that you applauded it upon hearing it. but also early indications that all of us in the vaccinated community may be headed for a fourth shot at some point

at that point, almost a year to go, he nominated merrick garland and merrick garland was a known appellate justice and attorney general. mitch mcconnell the majority leader said we'll wait for the next election. that was unprecedented never been done before. democrats are worried and shaking in their boots. a lot of them say we want to make sure that a lot of democrats have that very slim 51-50 vote majority with the help of kamala harris, the vice president, we want to get a good quote liberal unquote nominee in now. >> and larry, justice has been public with the video of him talking about his book. he's been tight lipped about rumors he's possibly resigning. larry, what do you think is likely will happen? >> you know, he's an old traditionalest. he believes everybody will get out and believe in the constitution and not on political values. they say get out now so get somebody else in. republicans say we hope you get out but want to make sure we get somebody else in that's like us. it's become a politicized instrument these courts. so we don't know what is going to happen. the justice has

that's going to be a royal headache for merrick garland, but the committee, i think, is really flexing its muscles and showing it's not afraid to go to the upper echelon of things that has to include trump and if the evidence is, and we already saw all the texts to meadows and the like that seemed to be ginning it up, trying to put pressure on pence, if that's where the evidence is, a referral would, i think, be very much in line with what they've done to date, and it's easy enough for them to do the referral, right, alisyn? then it gets dumped on to the lap of doj, and it becomes merrick garland's problem and not a small one. >> yeah. >> but i think that's the noises they're making. >> okay, that leads me to my next question. wasn't it interesting, harry, to hear these two trump-appointed attorneys on tuesday reject the arguments of the capitol rioters who were saying, we're the same as the people who rioted in portland in the summer of 2020, and the judges said, that is a complete false equivalency. in portland, the rioters who vandalized a federal building, it happened at night and

but i am confident that the people at the top and merrick garland will wait no longer. and that we are about to see a serious criminal investigation not only of the footsoldiers but of the generals and of the top general of them all. >> donald trump, remaining up salute the silent in the face of these revelations this week with a detailed description of the criminal plot to violate election laws and steal the presidential election, the republican participants are remaining absolutely silent about their participation in the plot. so let me offer a possible defense from the silent side. a member, whether it be a house member or donald trump, says that he doesn't think any of this is illegal. i thought it was within mike pence's power to do this. and i firmly believed that the election results were fraudulent. i don't have any proof of that. i just believed it because all my friends voted for donald trump. >> you meet the insanity defense? is that where you're describing? >> i didn't know that that was the insanity defense. i thought it was an ignorance defense. >> ignoran

it is now suing texas over its newly drawn legislative map. >> attorney general merrick garland just filed a lawsuit alleging the texas redistricting plan violates the voting rights act. cnn justice correspondent evan perez joins us now from the justice department, evan, what's the basis of this lawsuit. >> the basis is that the legislative maps, the maps for both house and the legislative elections violates section 2 of the voting rights act. the attorney general says that based on the population growth in the last ten years in texas, the new maps do not reflect what should be the increased voting power of latino residents in texas. take a listen to what he said at the press conference just a little while ago. >> complaint filed today alleges that texas has violated section 2 by creating redistricting plans that deny or abridge the rights of latino and black voters to vote on account of their race, color or membership in a language minority group. >> and according to the lawsuit, texas added about 4 million people in the last ten years according to the census. 95% of that population

wade that's a startling different result you would have with merrick garland who was president obama's choice for the seat. 6-3 case, may not make that big of a difference, but a culmination of a half century of work on the path of conservatives so overturn or at least, you know, take a out of a lot of the fundamental tenets of roe v. wade. >> sam stein, because so many of these nine justices are at times so nakedly political, i feel less gross asking a nakedly political question, and that is this. we heard the phrase over and over today, a lot on social media, elections have consequences. will the democrats be able to convert this? >> that's a great question. the conventional wisdom would say yes, the country, if you look at the opinion polls still by and large supports a right to choos about whether you want to have an abortion. but you can't just judge things in that type of vacuum. what we have seen time and again is that conservatives get incredibly more passionate about these types of things than their liberal counterparts. we have also seen a change in the voting dynamics in thi

we will be appealing again to the merrick garland justice department to find some kind of safe haven resolution that does not involve setting this kind of precedent that will smear their own reputations. if that doesn't happen, all of these groups will be in court as friends of the court, arguing this is an intolerable prosecution under the first amendment. amy: ben wizner, thank you for being with us director of the , aclu's speech, privacy, and technology project. we also want to thank gabriel shipton, julian assange's brother and film maker. to see all of our conversations with julian assange including when he was in political exile performing said to the belmarsh maximum-security prison, go to democracynow.org. except, two journalists have received the nobel peace prize in oslo. you will hear the speech of maria ressa. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. >> accept the nobel prize for peace at a moment when 22 million new grows of the united states are engaged in a creative battle to end the l

some people think what way do they get merrick garland, some people think the justice department needs to use its teeth to get some people to testify. >> i think you're right in describing that escalation process and garland is going to wait for that process to continue. it also applies to when the committee wraps up its recommendations and makes referrals to the d.o.j. merrick garland is going to stand back, as much as people want him to move faster and i want him to move faster, he's going to stand back and allow congress to finish their investigation before he jumps in. in terms of what the public is looking for in terms of accountability. that's what it comes down to. i think the preview with the text messages, with liz cheney asking the question if there was a violation from trump to interfere and obstruct national business. you better believe even those these folks are obstructing and filing lawsuits against the select committee, they're still hearing from hundreds of other witnesses who are implicating them. they're saying we know you did all of this stuff, that you were include

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juanita, what is a way to get to merrick garland? because in one way he needs to take this on himself. he doesn't want to see joe biden's attorney general, but there's some people who think that maybe the justice department needs to use its teeth to get these people to testify. >> i feel like yes you are right in saying that it's an escalation. and where garland has to wait for the illustration process. i think it also applies to when the select committee wraps up its investigation and makes recommendations for criminal actions and referrals to the doj. merit garland has showed that he is going to stand back as much as people want him to move faster. as much as i want him to move faster with this. he is going to stand back and allow congress to continue its investigation before jumping in to get this across the finish line. in terms of what the public is looking for of accountability. what matches him describe accountability. because that is what it comes down to. i think to preview that we saw last week in what the text messages and

>> merrick garland, number one. kamala harris, number two. i mean, name somebody and you tell me why they shouldn't be speaking about it. but those are the first two that immediately come to my mind. >> amanda carpenter, elie honig, thank you both. >>> president biden spoke a short time ago with ukraine's leader as he tries to ease tensions there in the region. what was discussed on that call? we'll talk about that next. >>> and gut-wrenching testimony at the trial of kim potter, the former minnesota cop who says she accidentally shot and killed daunte wright. what's strong with me? i'm ready for anything. find out what's strong with you with fitbit charge 5 and daily readiness. what does it feel like to sell your car to carvana? it feels amazing. when you get a great offer in seconds... (all cheering) it feels too good to be true. it's kicking back and relaxing as we pick up your car. and when you get paid on the spot, it feels like scoring big. you know the feeling. you just never imagined you could get it from selling your car. well, with

by now you probably know attorney general merrick garland is very hands off when it comes to matters of congress. he doesn't tell congress what to do. he doesn't like congress telling him what to do. but on this topic a.g. garland has been quite out spoken about what he wants congress to do. today he concluded this press conference about suing texas with a plea to congress to please pass new federal voting rights legislation in order to stop this kind of gerrymandering, this kind of election tilting of the playing field to stop it from happening in the future. the justice department in other words is making clear it will do whatever it can but it wants members of congress to do the same. (vo) for fourteen years, subaru and our retailers have been sharing the love with those who need it most. now subaru is the largest automotive donor to make-a-wish and meals on wheels. and the largest corporate donor to the aspca and national park foundation. get a new subaru during the share the love event and subaru will donate two hundred and fifty dollars to charity. before discovering nexium 24h

>> well, i imagine that that kind of thinking might have been in attorney general merrick garland's mind at an earlier stage before it became increasingly clear that he is almost certainly going to confront a referral for criminal investigation and prosecution of some very high officials. i think he is wise enough to recognize that dangerous as it is to make a common practice of going after the preceding administration, it is even more dangerous to allow any incumbent who has been voted out of office to plot and plan from the very date of the election and indeed by planting doubt about the election in advance the possibility of holding on to office indefinitely, regardless of what the people want. it's not indicative of a banana republic to preserve the peaceful succession of power to someone chosen by the people and the electoral college. that's the hallmark of a democracy that cares enough about its future to preserve itself. remember franklin's famous comment. what do we have? a republic, if you can keep it. to keep it, we really have to up our game at the justice department. and i'm

should merrick garland be doing more to hold the planners and organizers of the insurrection accountable? >> well, you know, we don't know what all he's doing. we don't know what's happening behind the scenes. what we know is a process that began before he even was in office was to arrest, investigate, prosecute hundreds of people who were involved in the insurrection at various levels. there is some concern that the department of justice may not be looking at the highest level individuals, mark meadows, donald trump and others, but we don't know that because there may be a lot of things going on behind the scenes, may be evidence being collected from some of the other people who have been arrested and may be cooperating, so we don't know. the other thing by the way is, you know, two things can happen at once. the department of justice is in the business of prosecuting people and holding them accountable and that's important. they're not in the business of issuing reports about what happened. so in that regard, the 1-6 select committee remains fundamentally important, and that's why we'r

merrick garland has worked hard to keep the department from appearing political. do you think he would bring charges against a former president? >> that's a great question. i certainly think if the charges are there can be -- in other words if there is sufficient evidence to prove guilt i think merrick garland should be krng the former president, just like any other american. i think there should be the same level of consideration. he is not above the law. but obviously it would have broader implications. that said, injury at this point it's probably premature in terms of january 6th charges based on what we've seen publicly. i haven't seen enough yet to bakt there would be charges. but if i think the former -- if i were advising the frrm president i would tell thiem to be concerned. >> renato thank you for joining us appreciate are your time. >> thank you. >>> we are watching the white house right now. president biden will deliver remarks on the rising cases of coronavirus across the country. we will bring his remarks live as soon as it happens. but first a look

but when a select committee of the congress of the united states makes a referral, merrick garland has got to take it seriously and give it a hard look. so the dynamics change a lot. and they could make that referral based on the evidence without subpoenaing him. look, joyce read the language, you read the language. do they have evidence that trump impeded the january 6th proceeding? it seems almost a gimme, when you put it that way. so i think they may -- whether or not they subpoena him is a different question from will they make a referral. i would have thought, no way, until this week. now i think there's a pretty decent shot. >> joyce, i want you to listen to what committee member adam kinzinger said earlier today about the text messages and what they could portend for election reform. >> it's, you know, folks not saying things like, hey, mark meadows, why don't you make sure all the votes are counted and then whoever has the most wins. it's going around the nuances of the law. or it's saying, here's how we can use this technicality to win. that's why we have to look at the electo

based on what you've seen in merrick garland, merrick garland seems to have his own set of considerations running the department of justice. what is your reasonable expectation, honestly, based on what you've seen of garland, for what he would do? >> i want him to be independent. he indicted steve bannon. that was an easy call. i hope he indicts or looks at the laws and the facts with mark meadows. that's his call. i'm not the prosecutor. it's his call. as it relates to donald trump, if there is evidence of obstruction of congress, i hope at least he gets a fair trial at the department of justice. what i fear though, john, i don't want just to sweep this under the rug because it is a former president and don't treat him any more harshly because he's donald trump, but don't do him any favors because he's a former president. >> you talk about history. these text messages, i was a little surprised by the detail that came in. so the last few days has been surprising to me. i was even more surprised yesterday to hear from the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell talk about what he's learned

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. >>> now the decision to charge meadows is in the hands of attorney general merrick garland. evan perez joins us from the justice department. how long do we expect it to take for the attorney general and the u.s. attorney for d.c. to make a decision about whether or not to prosecute mark meadows? >> well, the justice department is not saying right now, jake. but, you know, there are all the indications we're getting is that this is probably not going to take -- this is going to take longer than the 21 days it took for the prosecutors and the u.s. attorneys office in d.c. to study that matter to investigate that case against steve bannon, which they believe was a much more straightforward case. in this case, meadows has filed a lawsuit, for instance. so that case is now in front of a judge and it is possible that that could add some time for prosecutors to have to consider what to do about mark meadows' case. >> what sort of complications does this case present? it's worth pointing out, unlike steve bannon, who they are prosecuting, mark meadows was not just a government emplo

and then what does merrick garland do? he probably wishes it never came to him but you can't just ignore congress's saying, did these guys impede an official proceeding? you've got to give it a hard look. >> so -- so, let's talk mark meadows here for a moment because feels as if he is a senator of all this. we now know all the tengts text messages exchanged between fox news hosts and mark meadows as well. we know text messages from don jr. during the january 6th insurrection. let me raeld for you the text message from jim jordan to mark meadows on january 6th. on january 6th, 2021, vice president mike pence is as president of the senate should call out electoral votes he believes as unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all in accordance with guidance from founding father alexander hamilton and judicial precedence. will mark meadows, harry, be held accountable? because he seems like he is at the center of all this. >> i mean, you will be hearing a lot about alexander hamilton because what corrupt means here is unlawful

attorney general merrick garland . stand up so they can see you. [applause] he is practicing the jewish tradition restoring justice to the justice department. [applause] secretary of homeland security allie marcus who has may be one of the toughest jobs in government. the widest breadth. i want to thank you for all you do. [applause] one of the brightest scientists and doctors i know. head of ost p. director eric lender. [applause] and i want to welcome israel newest ambassador to the united states. stand up. [applause] i look forward to working with you to reaffirm the long-standing ties between the united states and the state of israel. i was saying to a couple younger members of my stuff before i came over about the many times i have been to israel and i said i realized, god, you're getting old, biden. i have known every prime minister well since golda my hair including golda meier. in the six-day war, she invited me to come over because i was going to be the liaison between she and the egyptians. i sat in front of her desk. she had a guy -- her

i think merrick garland understands domestic terrorism, he prosecuted and helped prosecute the largest domestic terrorism case in the united states, the oklahoma city bombing. he knows what he's doing. >> chuck, there was an article talking about the former president's culpability, being able to evade accountability up until now. i want to play a portion of the phone call with brad raffensperger to remind folks of it. >> so look, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. because we won the state and flipping the state is a great testament to our country. >> chuck, i think the major question here is, was that breaking the law by calling the georgia secretary of state and asking him to find votes, and if so, why has he not been charged? >> like frank, and i'm sure like barb, i'm also an evidence guy. that phone call is evidence of a crime. but it's not conclusive evidence of a crime, yasmin. it could be that the president is so deluded, was so deluded, that he actually thinks he won georgia. if he actually thinks he won georgia, then aski

merrick garland takes these things a little bit more seriously than the trump's justice department did. even now the prosecution of steve bannon for criminal contempt for not cooperating, will not elicit testimony because the trial won't be held until july. it's supposed to punish the behavior. it means this committee won't hear from steve bannon any time soon. mark meadows is watching that closely. we will see how he, you know, acts in response, but i think you're right. if the strategy seems to be delay, go to courts, see if you can push it off as long as possible until it's no longer relevant to the inquiry at hand. >> peter, don't make me kill your mic. but bless you for what you said. don't forget this job of mine has meant i get to work with the likes of the three of you and all of our guests. speaking of which, dr. vin gupta, good news today from pfizer. i assume you applauded it upon hearing it, but also early indications that all of news the vaccinated community may be headed for a fourth shot at some point here shortly. >> good evening, brian. you know, i am worried that we a

matt, there is a lot of pressure on merrick garland the a.g. to do more to hold the trumpists accountable for this pretty serious coup attempt. bannon is going on trial next year. if the full house votes to hold meadows in contempt and send his case to the doj how much pressure is garland under then from liberals, from democrats? >> he is going to be under a lot of pressure but i have to be honest from everything i can tell from the justice department i don't think he feels the political pressure in the way that some of the more political actors inside the administration do. he said he wanted to be an attorney general who would look only at the facts and the law and i think that is the way he approached the job so far. i do think this is a much closer case for the justice department than the bannon prosecution was. meadows' privilege claim is clearly weak. it's been rejected by the sitting president. it covers ground that is clearly involving government misconduct. i think if it were to go to the courts ultimately he would lose the claim. that

garland, a really contentious hearing with justice cavanaugh, and amy kony barrett being confirmed right before a presidential election -- they see the makeup as being a serious problem. they are starting to think about mandatory retirement for justices. a long way before changes could happen, but it is a new development that was interesting this week. jonathan: i think you since a combination of -- you sense a commendation of a few issues. guns, voting, and abortion. this sense of real frustration boiling over among democrats in congress, given the fact they are restricting the filibuster in the senate. the combination of the abortion arguments, the shooting in michigan, and now stacey abrams getting in the race for governor of georgia next year, has brought all those issues back to the forefront in the same week. for democrats in congress, there is an urgency to address those issues now. i will say this -- they will not save us on the record, but part of the reason is they know they probably will not be on the in the majority of your from noah in at least one chamber -- in a year from

attorney general merrick garland says his office is pleased with the decision n. a statement, purdue says its plan has overwhelming support and announces it intends to appeal the ruling there has been no comment from the sacklers. >>> a man was band for failing to comply with the federal masked mandate instead of wearing a mask, which is required by law, the man identified wore a red thong mask yeah full-on women's underwear right there. yapping away it happened at ft. lauderdale airport, he was kicked off before the flight could take off. in a statement to our affiliate, he called the mask mandate nonsense and stupid addingthe whole thing is theater he added some theatrics right there. a great costume. if you want to see it that way clever >> it's not that original. there are jokes like that before him super creepy >> on a flight yeah >>> how about good news here, a symbol of hope and cheer after devastation, christmas coming early for some people in kentucky affected by the recent tornadoes. a group of firefighters delivered holiday cheer and toys the park count

i think we should have -- democrats should have taken to the streets when merrick garland was denied his seat, when he was blocked because once they got away with that, that was what opened the floodgates for everything else they're doing. and i think that it's time the democrats have to take to the streets and we have to make noise. because that's what they're doing. they -- the party to get us here. and we have to make noise to pull us back. >> and they've gotten away with lot. they got away with gutting the voting rights act. nothing happened. no repercussions. they completely gutted it. and then they also got away with this anti-muslim activity during the trump presidency. let's play ilhan omar, who is now at the business end of the threats andcruelty and hatred that's been spewed against muslims in this country. here she is. >> what i am afraid for is that this kind of rhetoric is going to get people killed, as it has before. and if we do not stem it out, and if we do not strongly condemn it, and if we do not come together as a country and say what is happening and this example

the doj does, but merrick garland doesn't seem to want to engage in this. and if you don't charge the leaders of january 6th, then january 6th was just a dress rehearsal. >> well, yeah, but i'm curious, is it merrick garland's just choice randomly whether or not to look at the president and steve bannon and mark meadows and those around the president who were helping plan something, especially steve bannon, and you just heard peter navarro talking about the warriors. is it just up to merrick garland to decide whether he feels like it when there's all this precedent playing out for all the people who i think are the weaker in a sense their own version of cult victims to the person at the top who was running the show? >> yeah. well, it would be unprecedented to charge a former president. and you have an attorney general and the buck stops there. >> so? >> well, i think you go where the evidence leads. just because it's unprecedented doesn't mean you don't open up an investigation and go from there. you have an attorney who is a decent man with great integrity

you've got to convince merrick garland. >> yeah. amen to that. and it is jonestown complete with them gulping the covid kool aid. thank you kurt bardella, chris whipple. >>> next on "the reidout," new warnings about the rapid spread of omicron, with cases doubling every two to three days. but a member of one of america's most famous families sees opportunity in all of the death and despair. >>> plus, the year will come to an end with no movement on voting rights or build back better. with the two usual suspects standing in the way and repeating the same lame excuses. >>> and tonight's absolute worst say they hated the gift you got them and turned around and regifted it to someone else, hoping to get all the praise. "the reidout" continues after this. this - oh...oh. - what's going on? - oh, darn! - let me help. lift and push and push! there... it's up there. hey joshie... wrinkles send the wrong message. help prevent them with downy wrinkleguard. feel the difference with downy. ♪ ♪ ♪ hey google. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ limu emu... & dou

i wonder, if light of this supreme court's rulings whether you think merrick garland's lawsuit will be successful. >> you know, i was actually talking to a couple lawyers and legal scholars about this. and there is two points that can be made. one that make it look like the department of justice has an actually good case and another that says they might be on shaky grounds. for those looking for optimism here for the department of justice, these maps that the texas legislature passed are pretty similar to maps passed earlier this decade that they were forced to redraw after lawsuits challenged them for being both partisan jerry mannedering and racial gerrymandering. so they have been forced to direct their previous gerrymandered maps based on similar things they did in this past redistricting cycle. in particular, two different methods. one was taking lower propensity voting latino citizens and putting them in a district to try and address, you know, voting rights act requirements and that was found to be discriminatory and vita dill lugs. they also were cracking different segments of

i have formerly asked the attorney general of the united states merrick garland too, with all deliberate haste, detail, a t f. agents to chicago for 6 months, so that we can increase the number of gun investigations and seizures in chicago. according to chicago police, there were hundreds more shootings in the city this year than last when there were more than $3000.00 murders of also spiked significantly. $793.00 committed this year. san francisco's also got a crisis is battling drugs last year. the mother promised to redirect millions of dollars from the place. now she says that the city needs to enforce the law more aggressively from police officer. dominic is osis vilification as made it harder for the police just to do their job. the crime in chicago was out of control if you are considering coming to the chic city, chicago for vacation, you've never been here. do not come here. do not try to enjoy the streets of michigan avenue in state street. your chances of being mugged carjacked shot, stabbed, beaten, are extremely high. chicago is out of control. the police are not allowed to

it's ignoring the guidelines passed this summer by the current attorney general merrick garland who are designed to protect journalist from this. they are claiming that project veritas are not journalists. this diary was published not by my client but some other outfit over a year ago. they knew our client did not have the dairy. they were after project verita's phone records. now you see different stories spun in the media. they are claiming this is a form of extortion. you have journalists saying, yes, this should be extortion. i was a journalist before i became a lawyer. i committed those act of extortion on a daily basis. now i am a person who the press calls and i get extorted every day by the "new york times" and politico. this is nothing more than a political witch hunt that is targeted at conservative donors and journalists. people exposing corruption. the diary is simply the hook to get to us. >> tucker: has the white house correspondents association weighed in against this? >> the reporters committee for freedom of the press did file a motion seeking the disclosure of the unde

i have formerly asked the attorney general of the united states merrick garland too, with all deliberate haste, detail atf agent to chicago for 6 months. so that we can increase the number of gun investigations and seizures in chicago. or according to chicago police, there were hundreds more shootings in the city this year than last, when there were more than 3000 murders have also seen a significant spike in numbers. $793.00 committed so far this year. san francisco is also battling a crisis drugs last year. it's mad promised to retire at millions of dollars from police. now though she says the city needs to enforce a little more aggressively from a police officer dominic his o says vilification is made it harder for police to do that job. the crime in chicago is out of control. if you are considering coming to the chic city, chicago for vacation, you've never been here. do not come here. do not try to enjoy the streets of michigan avenue in state street. your chances of being mugged carjacked shot, stabbed, beaten, are extremely high. chicago is out of control, the police are not allow

i have formerly asked the attorney general of the united states merrick garland too, with all deliberate haste, detail atf agent to chicago for 6 months so that we can increase the number of gun investigations and seizures in chicago. according to chicago police, there were hundreds more shootings in the city this year than last when they were over 3000. and bode is also a source of different spike with 783 committed just this. yeah. or san francisco is also battling a crisis that have drugs last year. it's may, i promise to redirect millions from police, but now she says the city needs to enforce the law more aggressively. and we spoke with former police officer. dominic is, who says vilification has made it much harder for police to just do their job. the crime in chicago is out of control. if you are considering coming to the chic city, chicago for vacation, you've never been here. do not come here. do not try to enjoy the streets of michigan avenue in state street. your chances of being mugged carjacked shot, stabbed, beaten, are extremely high. chicago is out of control. the police

i have formerly asked the attorney general of the united states merrick garland too, with all deliberate haste, detail, a t f. agents to chicago for 6 months, so that we can increase the number of gun investigations and seizures in chicago. according to chicago police, there were hundreds of all shootings in the city this year than last, when there were more than $3000.00 and murders, also sort of significant spike. san francisco is also battling a crisis drugs. last year it's very promised to redirect millions from police, but now she says that the city needs to enforce the law more aggressively. when police officer, dominic is though, says verifications, made it harder for the police to do the job. the crime in chicago is out of control if you are considering coming to the chic city, chicago for vacation, you've never been here. do not come here. do not try to enjoy the streets of michigan avenue in state street. your chances of being mugged carjacked shot, stabbed, beaten, are extremely high. chicago is out of control. the police are not allowed to do their jobs. when the police do th

i have formerly asked the attorney general of the united states merrick garland, too, with all deliberate haste, detail atf agent to chicago for 6 months. so that we can increase the number of gun investigations and seizures in chicago. recording to chicago police, there were hundreds more shootings in the city this year than last when there were more than 3000 murders. also seen a significant spike in numbers with 793 committed this year. san francisco is also battling a crisis drugs last year. it's mad promised to retire at millions from the police. now she says the city needs to enforce the law more aggressively from a police officer. dominic, as i says, vilification is made it harder for the police just to do that job. the crime in chicago is out of control. if you are considering coming to the chic city, chicago for vacation, you've never been here. do not come here. do not try to enjoy the streets of michigan avenue in state street. your chances of being mugged carjacked shot, stabbed, beaten, are extremely high. chicago is out of control, the police are not allowed to do their jobs

governor, we have seen the department of justice and merrick garland trying to clear mineralized parents showing up to school boards, calling them put -- domestic terrorists. >> it is like bringing it on. it is motivated -- you know you are doing something right. let them do that. let that be empowerment for you all when we are criticized and condemned and mocked for -- i use that fuel. it motivates me to get out there and be more aggressive and no you are doing something right to tick those people off. >> what is so inspiring is how more parents show up to school board meetings. dads show up as well. moms are leading a movement in a variety of ways. a lot of people want to get involved but are afraid to be called bad names or lose friends. is it worth it? gov. palin: welcome to my world. yeah, it's worth it if you care at all. if you care about what it means to be an american and are concerned about, especially the younger generation, not understanding what it needs to be an american, yeah, it's worth it, all that criticism. he says if you don't live by man's praise, you will not by tha

this was an armed insurrection and as i asked merrick garland and others. is there anybody that's been charged with insurrection and the answer is actually no, no one has been charged with insurrection. in fact if they were to charge somebody with insurrection is beginning to sound like those would be agents for the federal government that were there stirring things up trying to get people to engage in violence and as we heard this weekend apparently a guy that was given out what was later used as dangerous weapons may have been working for the federal government and the fbi. as he was handing out deadly weapons. we have a lot more investigating to do, the condition of solitary confinement as checked and is inappropriate, the d.c. jail and how dare you demand to talk to your lawyer in person want to put you in solitary confinement will call it quarantine for two weeks. it's bad enough what their suffering from but to discourage the ability to talk to your attorney and what we saw they have a great facility there. the plexiglas and the phones on either side

i have a sense that's where merrick garland comes from. most of us are speculating because the man has not done very many public-facing because the man has not done many public facing interviews. >> you know, elise, i'm a huge believer in justice departments bending over backwards, not prosecuting former administrations. it sets up the most horrid of precedents. i just, i can't imagine anything more dangerous than us going down that pathway, and i said that after george w. bush left office. i said wait a second, if you prosecute him for that, what's the next administration, are you going to prosecute barack obama for drone strikes that killed civilians, it's never ending. in this specific case, bending over backwards too far actually does violence to the law. and to the fair and just interpretation of the law and the just execution of the law. >> this is about the commander in chief who was still in power trying to sway a free and fair election that he did not win in his favor. and the biden administration frankly, the tone has just been v

merrick garland just issued a settlement gets all the attention. : : : equal treatment under the law and when you don't have that people begin to misstate. a. >> is there any hope to deliver promises like that? you say there is a failure of leadership in the upper of the echelon. people that ran the investigation and fake news investigations so he is representative i don't think it's good enough to just move on. you have to go back and clean up somehow that there's any hope it ever does happen taking leadership. >> they were fired or had to leave the investigation and as i said the clinton e-mail issue and the second point is to hold people accountable with 30 some pages so the clichÉ is true and what they were doing and it was the clinton campaign that was, politically false and just a handful of us in congress and may be ten or 12 people in the press that turned out frankly these were right. the third point is there are some key investigations that need to be done. that needs to be investigated. we need to figure out this mess about the origins of the virus so all those things hav

garland, he is the attorney general for the entire country with the throes of a crime wave, there are certain federal statutes that he could be enforcing, what is he doing? >> is prosecuting parents while throwing more of your tax dollars at crime with anything required to timpani down. we paid 139 million of our tax dollars to more law enforcement and we've yet to see any of that and to see it work he also sent an additional million almost 18 million on 88 grants for community participation, neighborhood program would not see any of that is too little too late. >> i do not think defunding the police and coming up with a long list of crimes are knocking to prosecute auto think that's a winning political strategy but who knows. thank you i hope you have a very merry christmas. >> merry christmas to you. >> thank you for spending part of your sunday with us i hope you have a great week ahead until next week you can find us levin". steve: good evening welcome to "the next revolution". this is the home of positive populism, pro-worker, pro-famil y, pro-community, and especially pro-americ