what do you think about the job that merrick garland is doing? caller: i think he should be on the supreme court myself. being attorney general, he's too nice of a guy to be attorney general. but let me speak on this matter. you know, you have these republicans who think they should be able to go to colleges and get on college campuses and everywhere else and practice and preach hate speech. then, you got republicans who seem to think that c.r.t. is something bad, should not be taught in high school. they want all the right -- have the right to speak but at the same time they don't want to have their children taught black history in our schools. i think they're a little bit hideous myself. how can you talk about you want all this freedom of speech but don't want anyone else to do the speaking? and yet, at the same time -- is it somebody's right to be able to teach black history in american schools? host: freddie in indiana. reed, ocean shores, washington, republican. reed, we'll go to you next. good morning. caller: yeah, good morning. you know,

terry mcauliffe strongly supports joe biden and merrick garland's. go vote for glenn youngkin in the next six days if you are not, maybe go his website. pitch him some money, call friends or email them in virginia. tell them this is vital that we send a strong message to terry mcauliffe and merrick garland and joe biden that parents should be involved in their kid's education. they have every right to do so. they shouldn't have the attorney general of the united states singing the feds on them. >> you know, it's not just that. it is the local races as well. part of the reason why the democrats have so much control is because they have control of all the seats on the local level. republicans have to be there. and so i look forward to them showing up for the fight. thanks so much, senator, thanks for your leadership. coming up, democrats think this is going to win them the governor's race in virginia. seriously? next i hope he brought his dancing. that's next. ♪ when you're driving a lincoln, stress seems to evaporate into thin air. which leaves us t

well, merrick garland doesn't have a constituency. is he out there saying i'm going to move forward. i think that you know, there is a lot of threat to school boards and because there is no threats of terrorism around the world, i should spend my time going after parents, which is absolute insanity. that he is so out of touch. sit back and watch this election in virginia. terry mcauliffe is please, please walk this policy back. give me a shot at winning in virginia. you are killing me merrick garland. stop. todd: yeah. i don't get why garland didn't say we messed up as well. let's move on. senator cotton not holding back. take a listen. >> that letter and those reports were the basis for your. >> no, no senator, that's wrong. >> that's shameful. this testimony, your directive, your performance is shameful. >> that's not correct. >> thank god you are not on the supreme court. you should resign in disgrace, judge. >> sean, look, merrick garland was portrayed as a moderate during the time of the supreme court nomination. did we dodge a b

do something, merrick garland. i would like to be wrong. i would like to be wrong this time, but i'm worried. daniel goldman, thank you very much. >>> up next on "the reidout," the gospel of donald trump is built around one grievance that he cannot accept that he lost and his feelings are hurt. >>> plus, a reidout, joining me in his first national television interview since launching his campaign for governor. >>> plus, the high price that a black maryland school superintendent paid for simply stating that racism exists and black lives matter. that superintendent dr. andrea cane joins me. and tonight's absolute worst, taking a stand for something isn't courageous, it's indulgent, and probably deadly for some of the people who look up to you. "the reidout" after this. ♪darling, i, i can't get enough of your love babe♪ ♪girl, i don't know, i don't know,♪ ♪i don't know why i can't get enough of your love babe♪ ♪oh no, babe girl, if i could only make you see♪ ♪and make you understand♪ get a dozen double crunch shrimp for $1

the problem for merrick garland is that the events make it look otherwise. even at the national school board association sending out this memo, then the back story, and "they have been going back and forth with the white house. we are upset with what's been going on in meetings, and people are under assault or in danger." over the weekend, from friday, the letter goes out. monday, there is an announcement that the fbi will be watching all of this. now, under scrutiny and questioning, merrick garland goes "i based it on the letter from the national school board association," which they have walked back on, the language in it. reports that i read in the media, an investigation that does not make that you do not have to be a lawyer to understand that. even when i read this from the first moment, it said that there has been a dangerous spike. "let's see. what's the dangerous spike? let's see the example." there is a response from the department of justice, not just local law enforcement. it's been a tough couple of hearings for merrick garland. >> greg: katie, w

attorney general merrick garland in the hot seat answering multiple questions from republicans about his october 4th memo that directs the federal bureau of investigation working with each united states attorney to convene meetings in each federal judicial district within 30 days of the issuance of this memorandum. >> i think your memo was the last straw. i think it was the catalyst for a great awakening that is just getting started. >> the memo issued five days after the national school board association wrote to president biden about the rise of threats by parents to school board officials writing these heinous actions could be the equivalent of a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes. >> not in a million years did we dream that one day we would see the justice department treat american parents as domestic terrorists. >> but garland said his memo doesn't use the words domestic terrorism or patriot act. >> i can't imagine any circumstance in which the patriot act would be used in the circumstances of parents complaining about their children, nor can i imagine a circumstance whe

that probably includes your daughter, merrick garland. did you do that? you can be sure that no one is investigating that question tonight. instead they are promising to go after people to designate people domestic terrorists. a mother who has fought back against the indoctrination of her kids out of school in philadelphia. thanks so much for coming on. you have made a particularly eloquent case for a while the school should just teach your kids academics. how does it feel to be designated a domestic terrorist for demanding that? >> that is funny that when i was on your show the first time, i was a concerned parent and look at what happened within a year. i was elevated to the status of domestic terrorist by the doj and the biden administration. this is indeed appalling, outrageous, insane that the doj is weaponizing the fbi to oppose the policies and actions of the school board. this is something that should be very worrisome to every single parent in our country. >> tucker: and the media are defending it. this maybe the low point that i've ever seen in

that probably includes your daughter, merrick garland. did you do that? you can be sure that no one is investigating that question tonight. instead they are promising to go after people to designate people domestic terrorists. a mother who has fought back against the indoctrination of her kids out of school in philadelphia. thanks so much for coming on. you have made a particularly eloquent case for a while the school should just teach your kids academics. how does it feel to be designated a domestic terrorist for demanding that? beco that is funny that when i was on your show the first timed look at what happened within a year. i was elevated to the status of domestic terrorist by the doj and the biden administration. this is indeed appalling, outrageous, insane that the doj is weaponizing the fbi to oppose the policies and actions of the school board. this is something that should be very worrisome to every single parent in our country. >> tucker: and the media are defending it. this maybe the low point that i've ever seen in 30 years of watching. i hav

but merrick garland didn't say that. and in the very subject line of this memo, he speaks of the need for a partnership between doj, the u.s. attorney's office, the fbi, et cetera, et cetera, in trying to lend some sense of protection to the climate. do we really need to wait for some school board member to have harm done to them before we then wake up and say, my god, why didn't we act sooner in this particular case? so, garland is on the side of right. and, brianna, you referenced having interviewed school board members. i had a wonderful public k through 12 education. and in my school district, the community in which i was born and raised, they recently had a school board meeting, it was so large, they had to put it in my high school auditorium, not the normal venue, after a meeting on masks, one of the school board members resigned after being given a police escort and said i can no longer take the threats to my life. guess what, it pays zero to be on the school district where i was born and raised and educated. so t

merrick garland in the hot seat on capitol hill thursday. republicans on the house judiciary committee peppering the ag over his recent memo focusing on parents and students over their conduct and comments at school board meetings and beyond. the attorney general said he defends the right to free speech and that the parents are not domestic terrorists but that issue and others made for heated moments in that hearing. rick has a story for us. speak out and two and a half weeks after warning of an increase in threats of violence against school administrators, attorney general merrick garland appeared before the house judiciary committee defending department of justice against criticism that the government is unfairly targeting parents. >> when did you first review the data showing the soap called disturbing uptake? >> i read the letter and we've been seeing over time -- >> i didn't asked -- you read the letter. that is your source? >> that letter is a september 30th plea from the national school boards association to president biden. to "inves

why not answer the question, merrick? did you seek an exemption or not? what you have two hide? of course there is not going to be a resignation, no one in the biden administration does. the world is imploding in front of our eyes, all around us, and joe biden's poll numbers have never been worse and here they are pretending everything is fine. it is not fine. afghanistan, no, that is not fine. learned last weekend, still hundreds of americans abandoned behind enemy lines. gas prices $1.50 more a gallon, everything you buy and every store you purchase anything, you are paying more for. grocery prices nationwide shortages, supply chain issues, covid-19, more deaths in 2021 then 2020. depressed labor market, prices at the southern border, enemies all over the globe that hate us and bolden, china, russia, north korea, iran, more hostile, more aggressive than ever. and back here at home, biden's build back better new green deal socialist spending bill would only exacerbate all of these economic problems. a look at this new government study. trillions of dollars in government assista

>> the doj is getting and merrick garland led by merrick garland is getting involved in this issue because this is a replay -- the beginning of a replay of the obama biden justice department, which was highly politicized. the doj was used as a political weapon. i point to the irs case under obama and biden. merrick garland is trying to clean up what he has been saying he kept repeatedly saying even to senator cotton, this is not about parents at school. it's about violence and threats of violence. cotton says that's not what your memo says. he's trying to sweep up what he's done so far. i want to quickly point out that -- the first amendment protects speech unless it unambiguously calls for the use of force that the speaker clearly intends which would result in the likelihood of violence being real and eminent. that's the standard that he's not talking about. >> harris: i wonder if we'll hear from fbi agents about this. i don't know. i don't know what their recourse is, maybe they're parents and saying we have so many things to do. wouldn't that be a fascinating interview to watch? meanwhi

. >> good evening attorney general merrick garland round of questioning by senate production over his plan to have the justice department essentially investigate parents upset about how their children's schools are being run. that story is coming up. it's fiery but first tonight, president biden is struggling to get members of his own party on board with his massive tax and spending plans. and while the biden administration continues to send the message of confidence that both bills will pass, key elements are now being stripped away on capitol hill. and the pay fors that have been talked about for these bills are changing by the day. sometimes by the hour. we have fox team coverage tonight jackie heinrichs at the white house with the administration's action to the ongoing back and forth and the legislative stalemate we begin with congressional correspondent chad pergram with the drama over the democrats' latest move a tax on billionaires good evening chad, and we are hearing that this tax billionaire's tax may be out? >> it's hard to tell the chair of the ways and means committee ric

did people seek merrick garlandn testify today? they have two types of people they appoint in this administration, radical marxist kooks and evil types. here you have merrick garland that doesn't know anything that is going on. sthere was a real insurrection f the interior department last week. merrick garland was unaware of it. how is he unaware of it? they pushed through, they injured a police officer, nobody gives a damn. when the portland courthouse, a federal courthouse was attacked night after night with fire and all kinds of stuff, when the police were under attack, who nancy pelosi called stormtroopers, merrick garland says "well, that is not domestic terrorism because nobody there, it was happening at night." meanwhile, they got your parents. liz cheney concerned about that? not in the least. now we have a big problem in this country, ladies and gentlemen, we have a rogue presidency, we have a rogue department of justice, we have an out-of-control democrat-controlled house. by three votes. the democrat-controlled senate. 5

today, biden's attorney general merrick garland completely humiliated on capitol hill. and rightly so, from the moment that he has been sworn in garland turned that doj into a partisan political weapon. you might remember first, he targeted georgia's completely legitimate and very accessible election integrity laws that frankly didn't go far enough all while ignoring delaware's very restrictive election laws and we can't forget the 5,000 plus years joe biden represented delaware, he never once lifted a finger to make voting more accessible in his home state. by the way, georgia, 17 days in-state early early in person voting. none in delaware. every precinct drop box in georgia. none in delaware. both states require voter i.d. garland's doj now encouraging law enforcement to investigate parents that speak out at school board meetings and outside, you know, groups, comparing them to domestic terrorists. it involves parents critical of some of the curriculum like critical race theory. the mistreatment of children including that one father whose daughter, you know, allegedl

lawrence, merrick garland is probably concerned about the independence of the department. he doesn't want to look like you're bringing political prosecutions against the former administration. but he also has to be concerned about the message it would send if he does not bring a case and lets steve bannon get away with giving congress the finger. nobody likes to be hauled in front of congress of the united states and forced to turn over documents and submit to a deposition. why would anyone else show up if there are no consequences? >> jennifer, when we see the committee moving to the stage of criminal contempt as quickly as they have, it is another public declaration by the committee in effect that we know how urgent this is. we know that if we don't move immediately we can lose all of the ground here that we have and the time can run out. we heard committee members today saying that they are in some negotiations with some other witnesses but if they get the feeling that those negotiations are just a delay game, they're going to hit them with the criminal contempt also. >

>> pretty high confidence in merrick garland. this is his first opportunity and perhaps his legal career in the last 25 years to act in a way that's non-judicial. he can take a side and go hard at it. well, that lens have shifted, he's in a fashion where he can take a clear position here, there is a clear position on all things related to january 6th, via congressional subpoenas which we are dealing with the instant case or the overall much larger umbrella attempt towards democracy in the interests of one donald j. trump. his personal feelings of not being on the supreme court aside here, he's not doing the right thing. i think that it's fairly non controversial to be passionate and pursue justice in light of what happened. i expect a lot out of merrick garland. >> the governor of texas continues his push to prove he loves trump the most. s push to e loves trump the most (man 1) oh, this looks like we're in a screen saver. (man 2) yeah, but we need to go higher. (man 1) higher. (man 2) definitely higher. (man 1) we're like yodeli

here's how merrick garland responded. >> did you see guidance as required? >> this memorandum is aimed at violence and threats of violence. >> excuse me, did you seek ethics counsel before you issued a letter that directly relates to the financial interests of your family, yes or no? >> this memorandum does not relate to the financial interests of anyone. it is against -- >> i take that as a no. mr. attorney general, will you commit to having the ethics committee review the case and make the results public? >> this memorandum is aimed at violence and threats of violence -- >> i understand you're talking point. you're not answering my question. >> tucker: what a repulsive little sleaze ball that guy is. he six the fbi on people who criticized his family's business. he six to the fbi on people who criticized his family business, that is what he did. and he won't even admit it. with the group parents defending education, the group has released a woke consultant report card saying panoramic education received millions of dollars. give us a sense of what this com

here's how merrick garland responded. >> did you seek guidance as required? >> this memorandum is aimed at violence and threats of violence. >> excuse me, did you seek ethics counsel before you issued a letter that directly relates to the financial interests of your family, yes or no? >> this memorandum does not relate to the financial interests of anyone. it is against -- >> i take that as a no. mr. attorney general, will you commit to having the ethics t committee review the case and make the results public? >> this memorandum is aimed at violence and threats of violence -- >> ihi understand you're talking point. you're not answering my question. >> tucker: what a repulsive little sleaze ballpo that guy i. he sicced the fbi on people who criticized his family's business. he sicced to the fbi on people who criticized his family business, that is what he did. and he won't even admit it. asra nomani is with the group parents defending education, the group has released a woke consultant report card saying panoramic education received millions of dollars. give u

host: what do you want merrick garland to do? caller: i want him to investigate trump's actions after november 3. he called election officials in the states and told them to commit perjury. where was merrick garland? what is this man doing? absolutely nothing. how useless is this guy? guest: i am coming to a similar opinion, if the opinion is, listen, we need him to step up. i agree these are serious, potentially criminal allegations or problems. keep in mind, we have seen hundreds of regular americans who showed up on january 6 and physically stormed the capital. they are being held accountable. they are being criminally investigated. some of them are being sentenced. they are having to hire lawyers or get public defenders that are overworked. they are having to pull into their own pockets and take from their family budgets to provide criminal defenses. that is on the backend, the people that showed up. what about the people inside government? that is what the judiciary committee is looking at. i agree merrick garland should be

discussin on c-span, judging from merrick garland's behavior, apparently saw the crime or any you're saying that your concern that merrick garland is not suited for attorney general at this stage of our history printed reports and can there be a more blurring the lines between the biden administration and the department of justice merrick garland and rick saying what will it take to get biden to replace merrick garland at the doj and trump this group are going to get through this unscathed. and few other comments and calling and and carolina pretty. >> good morning and thought i would like to make a suggestion for questions and comments because i was an election judge and no with the laws are needed about so i want to express. and give you suggestions on c-span but anyways about the laws that the republicans are making, you don't need these laws, the trying to secure it with id, we run so many laws just for id and if there was all this voter fraud, how come nobody has been charged of. if i saw you rob a store, board million 20 other people so you never gets arrested, nobody has been

did people seek merrick garland testify today? they have two types of people they appoint in this administration, radical marxist kooks and evil types. here you have merrick garland that doesn't know anything that is going on. there was a real insurrection of the interior department last week. merrick garland was unaware of it. how is he unaware of it? they pushed through, they injured a police officer, nobody gives a damn when the portland courthouse, a federal courthouse was attacked night after night with fire and all kinds of stuff, when the police were under attack, who nancy pelosi called stormtroopers, merrick garland says "well, that is not domestic terrorism because nobody there, it was happening at night." meanwhile, they got your parents. liz cheney concerned about that? not in the least. now we have a big problem in this country, ladies and gentlemen, we have a rogue presidency, we have a rogue department of justice, we have an out-of-control democrat-controlled house. by three votes. the democrat-controlled senate. 50

attorney general merrick garland on capitol hill as we speak. lawmakers will grill him on everything from immigration and the border crisis to abortion laws, covid mandates and his threats against educators. i'm dana perino. bill hemmer is off today. good morning trace. >> trace: i'm trace gallagher. the nation's top law enforcement officer appearing for the first time before the house judiciary committee facing tough questions from both sides of the aisle on a long lils of hot button issues. committee member mike johnson told us earlier about some major concerns. watch this. >> millions of americans and all of us, all the republicans on this committee deeply concerned that president joe biden and attorney general merrick garland have weaponized the justice department. inserting the d.o.j. into culture war matters and using it to attack republican-led state initiatives. eroding constitutional norms along the way while they try to push these far left policies. >> trace: david spunt is live at the justice department with more. good morning. >> goo

as soon as they got the letter they sent it to merrick garland and told merrick garland to sic the f.b.i. on our parents. and call them if not explicitly and implicitly dangerous domestic terrorists. and to try to chill -- it did have a chilling affect on parental involvement and parental activism with respect to what their kids are learning. what's ironic, we have tens of thousands of kids today who are more likely to grow up and commit a crime than to own a home or get married. and why? a big part of the problem is lack of parental involvement. what is our president and attorney general doing? they're trying to diminish the involvement of parents in their kids' schools. you can't make this stuff up. it is -- shame on them. they ought to put a bag on their head. >> dana: senator, thank you for previewing the hearing for us. no doubt a lot of questions. democrats get a chance to ask them as well coming up in the next hour. thank you so much. >> bill: we'll be watching 10:00 a.m. it starts on the hill. deadly moving set shooting involving alec baldwin. there will be an announcement we exp

merrick garland like my sheets when i was a teenager, hung them out to dry. anyway, my theory is -- i'm all over the place today. obama gets his news from cnn so he doesn't get half the news everybody else covers. he doesn't know about crt, doesn't know the first thing about it, doesn't know about the rape allegedly covered up by the school board and this letter that was a direct threat against parents do you can spot a cnn viewer, somebody that is writing on low information like merrick garland. it's all the same. did i make any sense? >> dana: so much sense. >> jesse: especially about your bedsheets. >> dagen: it is a loser to try to stifle the speech of parents which is what they are doing, it was a threat not backing off of the memo that merrick garland wrote but critical race theory is taught and promoted in virginia schools and there is plenty of evidence that terry mcauliffe is lying about and they are telling that to the parents who see it firsthand. >> dana: never understand why the administration doesn't take yes for an answer or get out of the situ

last week ag merrick garland wanted to deploy federal law enforcement to combat parents of the school board association to domestic terrorists, dan crenshaw brought this on twitter, they are trying to intimidate you, do not listen to them. the department of justice has disputed claims of intimidation is misinformation, the department's efforts are about reading out criminal threats of violence not about any particular ideology. garland does have a link to schools, according to a 2018 new york times article his daughter married the cofounder of panorama education according to the company is her 1500 school districts encouraging social emotional learning by administering surveys and conducting data analysis to providing hands-on coaching and support. some parents find the company's emphasis on equity and inclusion in the classroom similar to the highly debated critical race theory, according to the company panorama is not connected to crt and it's not a tool reteaching crt. the surveys have also sparked some concern. >> big tech is data mining our children. with surveys in screeners and

today during the house judiciary committee, merrick garland sidestepped a question about his intentions. >> the department recognizes the important oversight role that this committee, the house of representatives, and the senate play with respect to the executive branch. the department of justice will do what it always does and circumstances, it would apply the facts and a lot to make a decision consistent with the principles of prosecution. >> now, there are however, new signs indicating how serious the feds appear to be about the sex trafficking investigation, involving trump ally and gop florida congressman matt gates. according to the new york times, the justice department has added to tell prosecutors from washington to the team working on that very case. the times puts it this way, the prosecutors, won a public corruption investigator with an expertise and child exploitation crimes, and the other a top leader of the public corruption unit, have been working on the florida-based investigation for at least three months. gates has not been charged with any crime, and has denied all w

the question here is why did merrick garland do this? it is alarming. justice does not move that fast unless the white house tells them to move that fast. politicization of the department of justice. >> john: i was about to play sound byte number six here, merrick garland responding to question about whether or not this memo had a chilling effect on parents. listen here. >> you are intelligent and accomplished lawyer and judge, you can answer the question. did you answer the chilling effect this sort of threat of federal prosecution would have on parent's exercise of constitutional right to be involved in children's education? >> don't believe it is chilling anyone's rightss. it is about threats of violence and recognize constitutional right to make arguments about your children's education. >> john: same time, merrick garland did not know about this, u.s. attorney for state of montana issued memorandum, josh hawley points to, upon which people could face charges. does it have a chilling effect or not have a chilling effect? >> of course it has a chilli

merrick garland did not give birth to your kids. they are yours, not his. but they don't acknowledge that anymore. so they are happy to use armed agents of the state to enforce their ideology, and they have to, because that ideology is deeply unpopular with most americans. now, why did the doj issue this letter? because they received a complaint from the national school boards association, huge donors, of course, the democratic party in the complaint cited citizens who were upset over the teachings of "critical race theory and masking of children," which is medically unnecessary. the group wrote to the biden administration and said some of the actions against the school board "could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes." oh, so school administrators are now a protected group. if you disagree with them you're committing a hate crime, not voicing an opinion, which is constitutionally protected. no, it's an act of violence to disagree with them, let's get specific. according to national school boards association it is things like t

what do you think of the job that merrick garland is doing? caller: i think you should be on the supreme court, myself. being attorney general, let me speak on this matter. you know, you have these republicans who think they should be able to go to colleges, get up on college campuses and everywhere else and practice and preach hate speech. they think that crt is something bad that shouldn't be talked about in high school? they want all the rights and freedoms, they want to have the right to speak, but at the same time they don't want to hear nothing about children being taught black history in our schools. i mean, how are you going to talk about wanting all this freedom of speech but don't want anyone else speaking? isn't it somebody's right to be able to teach black history and american school? host: freddie, indiana. read, ocean shores, washington. we will go to you, next. good morning. caller: it's an interesting topic. i just called in to make a brief comment about the distinction between what the memo was. i wash the hearing, i look out

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that's what merrick garland would should say. singing the fbi on parents on the basis of nothing more than a politicized baseless letter that was probably ginned up by the school board association activist friends white house and the department of justice is an outrage. brian: yeah. let's talk about another outrage. one of the worst things to happen to america over the last few years is can this no cash bail. in a push they say bow to minorities who can't afford to bail themselves out of jail when they say middle class and up class can't afford to bail themselves out of jail. they said no more cash bail. which means you have a certain amount of time to put charges on somebody. if you can't keep them there, immediately overwhelmingly they get out and commit another crime. before can you process paperwork. it's gotten a disaster for the state and now maybe for a country now it could be coming our way. quote gender equity no cash bail. we will work to end cash bail. reform our pre-trial system. recognizing the harm these procedures

will merrick garland prosecute bannon? >>> and president joe biden about to face voters in cnn's town hall. anderson cooper is getting ready for that up to hall right now and will join me next. let's go outfront. >>> good evening, i'm erin burnett. we are less than one hour away from cnn's town hall with president biden. anderson cooper will join me in just a moment for a preview. you can see that live location there in baltimore, maryland. first, we have breaking news. the fbi just confirming the human remains found in that florida nature reserve are indeed those of 23-year-old brian laundrie. the news coming exactly one month after we learned that laundrie's fiancee, gabby petito, was murdered in wyoming by strangulation. tonight we're also learning about a crucial piece of evidence that could shed light on how petito died. a note booker discovered near laundrie's remains we're learning tonight is possibly salvageable, according to a source. leyla santiago is live. i know you had a chance to speak with an official from n

merrick garland did not give birth to your kids. they are yours, not his. but they don't acknowledge that anymore. so they are happy to use armed agents of the state to enforce their ideology, and they have to, because that ideology is deeply unpopular with most americans. now, why did the doj issue this letter? because they received a complaint from the national school boards association, huge donors, of course, to the democratic party in the complaint cited citizens who were upset over the teachings of "critical race theory and masking of children," which is medically unnecessary. the group wrote to the biden administration and said some of the actions against the school board "could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes." oh, so school administrators are now a protected group. if you disagree with them you're committing a hate crime, not voicing an opinion, which is constitutionally protected. no, it's an act of violence to disagree with them, let's get specific. according to national school boards association it is things lik

senator ted cruz, let's start with merrick garland, really? parents have no right to have a say abouthe their children's education. why don't we just hand at the kids over to the government, let them raise them because that apparently is what they want. >>uc in any crisis someone's character is revealed and covid has showed the character of the democrats. they are authoritarian. there is no decision about your life they will not try to control whether that is a vaccine mandate regardless of her choices, gavin newsom trying to order every school kid in california to get a vaccine, regardless of their parents's wishes, or whether it comes to silencing free speech. you know, the attorney general's memorandum this week, directeder the fbi and the department of justice to go after parents who are going to school boards, who are expressing dismay that critical race theory, the toxic stew of lies that divides us based on race, that teaches kids that america is inherently racist and all white people are racist, that seeks to turn us into hating each o

october 4th merrick garland established a task force. on the 13th -- less than a week. on the 13th the president of the national school board association was appointed to a federal committee overseeing education. and then you had the apology just about a week and a half after that for their language. in the meantime everything was in motion within a few weeks but they bragged in emails that they were in discussion with the white house and the department of education for weeks about this issue and it wasn't an organic letter that arrived and went to the white house first and then to the d.o.j. that sounds to many people like a collusion to get a particular result that would then allow the d.o.j. to do something federally that normally it would not be allowed to do because this is local issues. they needed it to be either hate crimes or domestic terrorism to trigger the ability for the federal government to act and that's what that letter was supposedly doing. >> harris: a couple points there. normally not allowed to do that and twice as fast. when you put those two thing

senator ted cruz, let's start with merrick garland, really? parents have no right to have a say about their children's education. why don't we just hand at the kids over to the government, let them raise them because that apparently is what they want. >> in any crisis someone's character is revealed and covid has showed the character of the democrats. they are authoritarian. there is no decision about your life they will not try to control whether that is a vaccine mandate regardless of her choices, gavin newsom trying to order every school kid in california to get a vaccine, regardless of their parents's wishes, or whether it comes to silencing free speech. you know, the attorney general's memorandum this week, directed the fbi and the department of justice to go after parents who are going to school boards, who are expressing dismay that critical race theory, the toxic stew of lies that divides us based on race, that teaches kids that america is inherently racist and all white people are racist, that seeks to turn us into hating each other o

that said, merrick garland has a really important decision here. that could be the most direct, quickest and really the only route to compel these people to testify. >> if they did testify or eventually they are compelled to testify, they could take the fifth amendment. tell us about that. . >> yeah. so they have a trump card of sorts here. no pun intended. the fifth amendment. any person has the right to take the fifth to remain silent. we've seen that done in congress before by oliver north in the '80s, founder of enron kenneth lay, mark mcwire in the steroids investigation. the only counter move is congress can immunize the witnesses meaning you have to testify now. we're not going to use it against you in the future but you have to testify now. the problem is it makes it essentially impossible to prosecute these people. that's what happened with oliver north. he was immunized. he testified. he was then convicted. but a federal court threw out the conviction because they said, hey, congress, you immunized him. sorry, you can't prosecute him late

>> that will be up to merrick garland. if the committee follows through, and they've made very clear they intend to, then it will shift over to merrick garland to make the decision, does he charge the federal crime of contempt of congress. and a lot of people are asking that question. my question is, how can he not? when you look at the fact here, steve bannon has zero legitimate basis. he's saying executive privilege, he's saying attorney/client privilege. those things have no application to someone who is not an attorney and was not part of the executive branch. if merrick garland chooses not to charge this, where does that leave the committee, where does that leave congress, where does that leave our balance of powers, where does this leave the justice department? this is a moment of truth for merrick garland. >> we know the strategy of trump world is to delay at all costs, usually that's extending litigation. the m.o. was to sue people until they run out of resources or run out of time, they would run the clock out. is

attorney general merrick garland. it all hits very close to home. >> he is putting the national security division, which is supposed to fight global terrorism into local law enforcement meetings to look into what is going on at school board meetings for the fbi to comment when this is going on. can you put it altogether? >> is just amazing but you got to give her a lot of credit she is such a good warrior on behalf of these parents, she is one of them. she's no slouch is a former wall street journal reporter, so much stealth and one of the things she's dead up here is the obvious conflict of interest between the attorney general of the united states and his son-in-law who is responsible for providing this quote unquote service to the school board to the tune up let's just pick fairfax county in virginia over $2 million has basically come from federal covid cash to fairfax county to panorama education and of course merrick garland's son-in-law. in eight normal justice department what that would mean is the attorney gen

attorney in d.c., not to merrick garland himself. take us inside the room per se. does the u.s. attorney pick up the phone and call garland, tell him i just got this referral? how does it work with a prominent and potentially thorny case? >> so technically the case goes to the relevant u.s. attorney, in this case, the u.s. d.c. attorney. i led a famously independent u.s. attorney's office, the southern district of new york, often called the sovereign district of new york. each u.s. attorney's office operates with some degree of independence from the rest of the justice department and from the attorney general. my office more maybe stridently than others. given the weight of the matter, the focus of the nation on it, i can't imagine the u.s. attorney in d.c. who i know who is an honorable prosecutor would be doing that without consulting with merrick garland. whether garland picks up the phone or the u.s. attorney picks up the phone, someone will and there will be a discussion about it. >> preet bharara, thank you. >>> president biden holding talks with both sides of the split. a

republicans try to get merrick garland to admit he's sending fbi s.w.a.t. teams to bust pta bake sales. he characterized it this way, he said the cumulative effect of all this ranting and raving was to leave the unmistakable impression that republicans were defending the intimidation of inconvenient local officials. do you think it's important to have a distinction between parents who are angry and show up and are using their first amendment rights, and those who would actually threaten violence? it makes it look like republicans are actually saying that you should be able to intimidate local officials. >> we know that no one is in favor of violence but what we are protecting his freedom of speech and the right of parents to be involved in the education of their children, their right to petition their government, these are people who are elected to represent them on these local school boards. when parents have questions about curriculum, about mandates, about material that is in the library, about the safety of children in school, of course they should be a

are you saying that would like to see merrick garland step it up? >> look, either merrick garland steps it up or needs to step out. the attorney general of the united states, the post-ipo most important thing is to protect the constitution of the united states. he's failing now because he wants to stick to some norms. there is no norms when there's an almost coup of this country. there are people out there that should be prosecuted and merrick garland needs to be leading the team that does it. right now the sentencings they're trying to hand out to people that were caught on january 6th in the capitol are slaps on the wrist. i don't know what merrick garland is thinking he's able to accomplish this, but he's showing true weakness in a moment when we need actually true strength. >> i want to ask you about something i saw recently. you were recently featured in an hbo documentary called "four hours at the capitol" where you share in a very unfiltered way what you went through on january 6th. let's take a look and talk about it. >> i was an infrantryma

questions about how attorney general merrick garland will testify comes up tomorrow. meantime the ongoing biden presidency after all and democrats are working with the white house on salvaging the president's domestic spending plan. today he was back on the road, this time in his hometown of scranton, pa, to promote a slimmed down version of his original proposals to expand several social programs and address climate change. he planned to raise taxes to pay for those proposals is meeting increased resistance from, wait for it, democrat senator sinema. and there's drama around joe manchin, he told associates he is considering leaving the democratic party if they do not agree to cut the infrastructure bill from $3.5 trillion to 1.75. he has said he would declare himself an american independent and he has dedised a detailed strategy for his departure and today there was a colorful response to the point. >> it's -- spelled with a b, capitol b. >> the white house did get an assist today on one aspect of its domestic policy. fda has authorized booster shots of both the j an

paul: may be soon coming to the united states, the attorney general merrick garland weighing in on the culture wars putting fbi and federal prosecutors in the middle of local school boards paul: viral videos of tense confrontation between parents and school boards across the country over mask mandates and critical race theory attorney general merrick garland released a memo directing the fbi and u.s. attorneys to meet with leaders to find ways to address the disturbing spike again school administrators, school board members, teachers and staff, the directive comes days after the national school board association wrote to president biden asking the fed to consider a threat at school boards to be equivalent of a form of domestic terrorism and suggesting parents be prosecuted under the patriot act we are back with dan henninger, kim strassel and paige writer will ask, kim why do you think merrick garland did this the school boards are not usually the realm of the justice department. >> i think the biden administration is getting a lot of pressure in terms of organizations like teachers un

merrick garland needs to make his own decision. he has lots of good reasons to rule as norm eisen says. but it's got to be the ruling of the department of justice without any undue pressure from the president of the united states. >> so, laura, steve ban's lawyer has asked the committee to delay tonight's vote for at least a week because of trump's lawsuit, right? which was filed last night. right? when trump is -- is suing to prevent, you know, 45 unknown documents from coming out from the national archives to the committee and bannon's lawyer's saying, okay, we got to wait to see how that goes. and the committee needs to wait on that before, you know, talking to bannon. the committee denied their request. so, does that -- does that change this at all in terms of do you think they'll be successful at getting more delays because of trump's lawsuit? >> the -- the committee should have denied his request because remember when you get a subpoena, you have an assertion of privilege if it's valid, you have got to prove it. but it doesn'

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merrick garland is a very effective lawyer. and he and his team and the u.s. attorney and the district of columbia will make their own decisions. we will not try to push them, lobby them, sway them. we saw enough of that during the trump administration. we will continue to use other tools in our tool belt here to try to get the testimony of everybody that we have subpoenaed. the vast majority of people we have approached have come in voluntarily or have accepted the subpoena or in good faith negotiation right now about rendering their testimony. we're not fooling around. this is a responsibility everyone has. with he don't have a special class of people who happen to know donald trump who are somehow above the law. >> have trump's attorneys been in touch with the committee about any concerns they may have about executive privilege? >> well, they have sued as, as you know, but they have not tried to intervene in steve bannon's case specifically. and they brought a suit against the committee. and that might be a great forum for different subpoenas that are in th

but as you point out, this was theater where merrick garland was really a prop more than a witness so that some senators -- some republican senators could campaign for president. some republican senators, like grassley, could run for re-election. but it all had very little to do with merrick garland. >> what does it say that grassley's suggesting the justice department is politicized when the former president whom grassley is clinging to for re-election tried nine times to get his justice department to undermine the election according to this committee's report? >> well, this is sort of the fantasy world in -- in -- in which we live. but, you know, anderson, it's really important to remember why we are talking about school boards at all. because it's about white supremacy and that's on the rise in the republican party. the reason school boards are controversial is that some school boards have dared to teach that, you know, civil rights and african-american rights have not been so great in this country over the centuries. like, when we had slavery and when we had jim crow. and that has