the doj, unleashing charges against thomas, what was his crime? entering the capital with the coors light. entering the capital while drinking a beer and saying i don't always storm the capital of the united states of america but when i do, i prefer coors light. it seems the doj right now is deliberately trying to, i think, intimidate conservatives, former trump supporter's, from gathering together before this midterm election, infiltrator and the crowd, who knows what could happen, and then your life is over. >> absolutely, laura. the doj has been weaponized and used again support as of the prior president in a way that is really unprecedented in this country. it is the kind of thing you see in third world countries or places where you don't have a rule of law and they put political enemies in prison. some things you haven't even heard about our this doj prosecuting alleged donor violations of trumped owners before the statute of limitations runs out which has not been done in prior administrations. you have subpoenas going out to members of the

some things you haven't even heard about our this doj prosecuting 4-year-old alleged donor violations of trump donors right before the statute of limitations runs out which is not been done in prior administrations, subpoenas going out from the house to members of the republican national committee, having nothing to do with being at the capitol just to harass them and use the persecution of lawyers and advisors of the former president being handled by the doj on charges against supporters like steve bannon and others and at the same time the same doj weaponized and against parents who are standing up for the rights of their children and the doj hunting journalists like james o'keefe, my client who happens to be a critic of this administration and has uncovered corruption. from our doj which was less active and should have been under trump for advancing american interest in civil rights in our courts you have the exact opposite, absolutely biased, out-of-control and there seems to be almost no oversight happening in the house or the senate on these issues. laura: one quick question bef

us it's a practice the doj engaged in many years, and it's not an doj's job to make law. but they certainly give advice to congress when they see something they like congress to do. they hear congress returning the favor, it is nothing improper and no reason the supreme court should hear this case by doing anything other than sending this case -- over to the congressional committee. >> you know, speedy is the operative word here. barbara mike raid, joyce vance, thank you for joining us tonight. coming up in 2021 jurors convicted of killing george floyd and ahmaud arbery and daunte wright. but the act of justice is not yet achieved. michael and eisen will join us next. join us next life opens up. aleve it... and see what's possible. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list event. as a professional bull-rider i'm used to taking chances. but when it comes to my insurance i don't. i use liberty mutual, they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. wooo, yeaa, woooooo and, by switching you could even save 66

it's a practice that doj has engaged in for many years. it's not doj's job to make law, but they certainly give advice to congress when they see something they'd like congress to do. here congress is returning the favor. there's nothing improper and no reason that the supreme court should hear this case or do anything other than send these papers on a speedy path from the national archives over to the congressional committee. >> you know, speedy is the operative word here, barbara. barbara mcquade, joyce vance, thank you for joining us tonight. happy new year. >>> coming up, in 2021 juries convicted the killers of george floyd, ahmaud arbery and daunte wright, but the act of justice is not yet achieved. michael eric dyson will join us next. l eric dyson will join us next provide complete balanced nutrition for strength and energy. woo hoo! ensure, complete balanced nutrition with 27 vitamins and minerals. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. ♪ ♪ ho ho ho! with 30 grams of protein. not again. oh no. for the gifts you won't forg

we've seen doj and the white house waive executive privilege. we've seen people cooperating at a fairly high level. we've seen even this week a guy by the name of straka, an arrested defendant in the january 6th case, the doj put the brakes on his proceedings. he spoke at the rally, he's been arrested, and he's cooperating, enough cooperation for doj to stop what they're doing with straka. other oath keepers are cooperating. we know a high ranking oath keeper was asked by fbi agents, were you in contact with members of congress or their staff. we've heard chairman bennie thompson tell reporters in the last two weeks who authored the texts being released by the committee. he said house members and staffers, the same language the fbi is using when they question oath keepers. i think things are happening. 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

we have the doj pushing, instead of doj worried about parents at school board meetings, worried about the crime going on in these larger cities. again the george soros connection is an interesting one because what they really claim to have that these are d.a. criminal justice reforms hersers. they are not criminal justice reformers. i've done criminal justice reform with president trump to make the system better. they are giving incentive to commit crime. when you have that incentive it causes chaos in our cities. elizabeth: nancy pelosi said she had no idea why i cities collapse into lawlessness when democrats pushed for a year to defund, even abolish police. watch this. >> the fact is there is an attitude of lawlessness in our country that springs from, i don't know where. maybe you do. elizabeth: really? zero cash bail reform? downgrading shoplifting to misdemeanors and felonies in her home state of california? not prosecuting certain crimes? releasing prisoners from jail in her home state too, what do you say? >> well maybe, you know speaker pelosi get out of her gated palace and

it's a practice that doj has engaged in for many years. it's not doj's job to make law, but they certainly give advice to congress when they see something they'd like congress to do. here congress is returning the favor. there's nothing improper and no reason that the supreme court should hear this case or do anything other than send these papers on a speedy path from the national archives over to the congressional committee. >> you know, speedy is the operative word here, barbara. barbara mcquade, joyce vance, thank you for joining us tonight. happy new year. >>> coming up, in 2021 juries convicted the killers of george floyd, ahmaud arbery, and daunte wright, but the act of justice is not yet achieved. attorney michael eric dyson will join us next. michael eric dysol join us next wet and dry coughs. inner voice (sneaker shop owner): i'm surprising my team with a preview of the latest sneaker drop. because i can answer any question about any shoe. but i'm stumped when it comes to payroll. intuit quickbooks helps you easily run payroll in

, for those all over social media who are understandably frustrated with timing and wondering if doj and garland are doing absolutely nothing, i'm an evidence guy and i've seen glimpses in the evidence we've seen that not only is doj not doing nothing but rather, they understand the role of the select committee, we've seen doj and the white house waive executive privilege, we've seen people cooperating at a fairly high level. we've seen even this week a guy by the name of streka arrested defend in the january 6 case, the d.o.j. put the breaks on proceedings because he's been arrested, and he is cooperating, enough for doj to stop what they're doing on streka we know a high ranking oath keeper asked this question by fbi agents, were you in contact with staff members, we heard a reporter tell thompson, who offered the texts released by the committee? he said house members and staffers, the same language the fbi is using when they question oath keepers. i think things are happening, i think merick garland understands domestic terrorism, helped prosecute the oklahoma city bombing, i thin

the median doj agency forfeiture is $2019. half of doj currency forfeitures are under $12,000. the median currency forfeiture by treasury agency is $3720. these figures indicate forfeiture targets everyday people more often than drug kingpins. even worse, the federal system involves a complex set of procedures that is nearly impossible for a layman to navigate. we prepared an info graphic that demonstrates the incredible complexity of the federal process and tom anyways there are to lose a civil forfeiture case, but very few ways to win. congress must act to fix this injustice. congress should eliminate the profits incentive by diverting all forfeiture proceeds to the general fund. law enforcement should not control the money it forfeits. all spending should be done through normal appropriations and subject to legislative oversight. second, congress should abolish the federal equitable sharing program which drives abuse. equitable sharing allows state law enforcement to circumvent state law by sending the forfeitures to the feds. equitable sharing should be abolished to preserv

it wasn't just trump or white house officials or his allies at the doj. it was also members of congress. how does the scope of this compare to watergate? in watergate you have the president and a few people but how does the scope of this one compare to that? >> it's much larger. i think the central mystery and it still is a mystery, who were the operational cord -- coordinators? in this case on january 6th when is the law and constitution designating that is the day and 1:00 is the time when they will certify who won the presidency. so they found that moment a thousand people, how did -- who got 1,000 people together? certainly not donald trump and i would like to know and lots of people. there are names out there we don't know because to do this and execute it is horrifying as it is, it's natha marvel of organization. it just didn't happen and so you need all these communication links and what meadows provided is very significant and they're saying january 6th committee has lots of people cooperating, lots of people to talk to, knock on doors and invite

that set, the doj certainly is not obligated to follow through on congressional referrals. an often when they have the appearance of being political or just amateur requests, doj feels completely at ease ignoring them. >> thank you to the three of you. it has been the satisfying feeling when you lead the cliffsnotes to the 700 page that you need to cover before an exam. courtney subramanian, a b stoddard, and joyce alene vance, i really appreciate your time tonight. coming up tonight, one of the world's top vaccine experts is here to answer a key question about omicron. how long will this search last? and should we be worried about long covid. later our political experts react to the growing fury against senator joe manchin. but is it really such a big surprise? the 11th hour, getting underway on a monday night. on a monday night. [♪♪] powerful skincare ingredients come dermatologist-recommended, and there's a brand that offers them at an affordable price. try olay skincare. olay regenerist, with 99% pure niacinamide provides 5 times the hydrating power of a prestige cr

but the doj is the one who determines that. >> i hope the doj is conducting a vault-like investigation into all of this i know we see no outward signs of it, but, frankly, if it's being done right, we would not be seeing outward signs of it. bob mueller conducted his investigation in a vault. we knew because he was publicly appointed as special counsel to do so. i can't believe they could see a guy like jeffrey clark, for example, a high former doj official, announcing he committed crimes against the united states, and if he was forced to testify truthfully, he would incriminate himself, and the department of justice standing idly by and saying we're not going to investigate the crimes of one of our own former high officials. that doesn't make any sense to me. i think that are investigating. they would have lawyers. talks would occur, leaks would occur. then bewould hear what's going on. there are ways to do this. only presenting the testimony of, firefighter example, fbi agents to at this stage inform the grand jury of what they're learning before they begin subpoenas civilian witness

in, they welcomed doj throwing the weight behind the legal challenges. they're hopeful. the legal landscape and the courts have changed significantly in the last few years that there are still, you know, some pretty big concerns about whether these maps will be corrected or revised, even temporarily in time for the march primary. >> what are the lawyers saying about that? as you know, the supreme court has gradually watered down voting rights acts protections against this sort of thing, going back to the 2013 shelby case. do lawyers for the doj say they have a path given the current supreme court and the current standards established, weaker standards established by the supreme court? >> you know, i think what we saw yesterday from the doj was an acknowledgement that had the supreme court not weakened voting rights act that this lawsuit wouldn't have been necessary because the maps that texas drew wouldn't have passed legal muster under what used to be section five and preclearance of the voting rights act. this challenge is coming at a time that will re

a federal judge upheld the doj's use of this sage statute against two rioters last week. based on that, joyce, could the statute be successfully used to charge the former president? >> like always, alex, depends on the evidence. but it's good news that there's precedent in the lower courts suggesting that some of the january 6th defendants ar properly being charged with this sort of obstruction. the reason is, it would mean if the former president were to be charged, it would be possible to do so without directly linking had imto the violence. of course, there's been a lot of speculation about charges involving a seditious conspiracy which has an element of violence, but this 1215 obstruction charge is more focused and interfering with congress' function in certifying the election and certainly an additional charge doj could consider. the big wild card here is, we don't know exactly what's going on inside of the justice department. there is more than sufficient reason at this point for an investigation to be opened. i would never prejudge whether criminal charges are appr

when a president comments on these cases, is it problematic for doj? does it give credence for the appeals that will come? >> i don't think it's helpful. if i was advising the president, i'd advise him not to make statements like that. the defense raises the issue and says they're not able to get a fair trial because the public has already been told by the president of the united states that you know, their person is guilty. that their client is guilty. i don't know if there's much you know, much credence that would be given to that. not saying it would be successful, but prosecutors don't want to have to deal with that or litigate those issues so it's really best to have no comment. i understand the former president would go much further, but i think the best practice is for the president to make no comment. >> meanwhile, the committee's work continues and i was so struck by the words of one of the people who has now testified. he was the organizer of the rally. so not the violence and riot necessarily, but the rally. his name is dustin stockton. he s

we know doj prosecuted over 700 people. these are ground level people. these are the people who physically stormed the capitol. does doj have any interest, any political will, any prosecutorial will in looking higher up the chain? merrick garland said they would. there is zero public indication right now that doj is meaningfully investigating people at the higher levels of organization. so there is going to be a lot of pressure on doj to take up that kind of investigation in the coming year. >> we have gotten a lot more information in the past year. we have got more information coming from these investigations, but accountability, that's really the key point. marshall cohen, elie honig, thank you very much for all you do and happy new year. >> thanks. >> and "new day" continues right now. >>> good morning to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is thursday, december 30th. i'm kaitlan collins with john avlon this morning. john and brianna are off. good morning, john. >> good morning. >> this morning, we have the u.s. shattering i

i mentioned the doj going after texas. they say republicans there violated the civil rights rules in the voting rights act. >>> plus, this is funny. john meacham was just talking about how we are all media. how is the media doing as it covers a very different presidency? results cut against some right wing complaints and narratives. we have data on that. before the hour is through i am honored to tell you film maker ken burns on "the beat" and democracy in peril. stay with us. superpowers from a spider bite? i could use some help showing the world how liberty mutual customizes their car insurance. ow! i'm ok! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ only in theaters december 17th. tums vs. mozzarella stick ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ when heartburn hits, fight back fast with tums chewy bites. fast heartburn relief in every bite. crunchy outside, chewy inside. ♪ tums, tums, tums, tums ♪ tums chewy bites why give your family just ordinary eggs when they can enjoy the best? e

now whether doj actually charges that is another huge question. i haven't yet seen any appetite by merrick garland or the justice department for taking this up. usually if doj was criminally investigating this they would ask congress to stand down so the fact that the select committee has been so active and busy suggests that doj does not want to criminally investigate this, but it may land in their lap and they may have no choice other than to take a look when the select committee is done with their work. >> remember, the doj is still actively pursuing a lot of the capitol riots, and they have already brought 700 cases against those alleged rioters at this point. thanks so much. appreciate the analysis and conversation. >>> know also want to bring in someone who knows the dynamics inside the trump family, cnn contributor and donald trump biographer michael dantonio. michael, let's go back through the texts that donald trump jr. sent to meadows in the throes of this capitol attack. i quote here. he's got to condemn this expletive asap. the capitol

rosen's instructions and doj policy according to the senate report, mr. clark continued having direct contact with then president trump who offered to appoint mr. clark acting attorney general. during a meeting on january 2nd, 2021, clark told rosen he might be persuaded to turn down the president's offer to have him replace rosen if rosen sent out the proposed letters. after he refused to send the letters, clark informed rosen on january 3rd that clark intended to accept the president's offer to replace rosen. doj leadership threatened to resign if the president appointed clark as acting ag and the plan to replace rosen and proceed with clark's efforts did not advance. so it was this threat of a mass resignation in this period these days before the insurrection. that stopped this from happening and it's another sort of sliding doors moment for me of how close we came. we came really close to a guy named jeffrey clark to being the acting ag. he wrote a letter on doj letterhead telling georgia to do what donald trump told ralphensburger to do, find the vot

, is it a strong case for doj, what are their hurdles? >> they have to prove that there's discriminatory intent and that's a big hurdle. but recognize, this is a passion of the attorney general. he has doubled the staff in the civil rights decision, in the voting enforcement section. he's been very active in louisiana. he's got a lawsuit in georgia. this is the second one, as you say, in texas. and this is the -- one of the major thrusts of his generalship. so they've got to prove a discriminatory intent. there is going to be a lot of evidence uncovered about exactly how these maps were drawn, why it was there weren't the experts there usually are, why weren't there hearings. former attorney general holder has also filed a lawsuit about this so they can work together to uncover the information they need to meet this burden. >> pete, this is not the only place that redraws maps this year. any indication doj is looking anywhere else? >> we don't know that for sure. i think one of the biggest challenges here is the fact that the supreme cour

it went to the doj. they had the ultimate call. we'll see some version of that potentially play out here. i want to direct your attention here to door number 2, which is the fact that we're emerging from this investigative process, what do you think it means that meadows was involved with the details i mentioned and more in the report and that we'll get to? >> i think it speaks volumes about the degree to which he is exposed here legally, certainly politically with trump and why you see some of the backtracking that has occurred in the last week where the man even comes out and denounces his own book as fake news. you just can't wrap your head around that level of crazy. but the reality still remains that legally the former chief of staff finds himself highly exposed here, largely because of his own doing. not just what he said in the book, but more importantly, what he's already given over to the january 6 commission. they have these documents now. those documents corroborate and further along the timeline they've been working on

somebody said january 6th we're doing a great job but the doj should be doing this. we need proof with merrick garland because he has to step up, our republic is on the line. >> our republic is on the line. democracy is on the line and it really damages america's standing in the global community, as well when we see fail, essentially. don, listen, you worked a lot of campaigns. we had a lot of conversations over the years should republicans take back control of congress? i want to remind our viewers this is what happened on that day. take a look at the violence. you see these people fighting law enforcement shouting deplorable things, behaving deplorably and remind people five people actually died on this day. understanding that, now i want you to take a look at the folks defending the actions that took place on that day. >> i knew those are people that love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break a law. >> you didn't know the tv footage was a video from january 6th, you would actually think it was a normal tourist visit. >>

what does it tell you about what decision will potentially be facing the doj? bannon may have been easier. he defied it and he didn't work there. here they have to go after someone that was nominally one of them. >> yeah. i don't think they are going to look at it that way. i think that when you stack it all up, the doj does not want to see itself and certainly none of its members in defiance of the rule of law. you know, the department of freaking justice, come on. seriously. subpoenas don't apply to you? you know, i don't think you are going to see this falling over themselves to give deference to clark's position or to not prosecute him or push up against him if that is what congress wants. the bigger and the more important thing is that the january 6th committee is as serious as it is and it is making it clear whats it intent is. they are strategically creatinga a pincer move that is pushing these people in directions you would not expect. based on what they know, the committee that these folks don't know they know, they have to give a little bit. they can'

but in the absence of anyone else willing to go along with a lie, he gets jeffrey clark at doj. and clark wanted to use the legitimacy of the department of justice to disseminate the lie, to stamp it with doj letterhead, to give it it to georgia's top lawmakers and say maybe you should call a special session to send in your electors. to pressure them to throw out the results of a democratic election and install the loser over the winner. it's the same scheme trump would mention in that phone call to brian kemp. now, of course none of this works. he tries every link in the chain. and with the clock ticking down to the final 48 hours before the electoral votes will be counted on january 6th, with every court in the land having dismissed the allegations of voter fraud as completely baseless, with every single audit that has been undertaken showing the election was free and fair, with literally nothing to sustain this coup plot, we come to a woman named ruby freeman. she is a georgia election worker who was smeared with false conspiracies and viral videos that she and her daughter h

the doj has investigated. i think they ought to charge anybody that violated the law and they need to prosecute anybody and everybody that violated the law. that has been my position all along. i don't think you and i disagree with that. the question is how it is done and whether it is done under the rule of law or whether it is turned into a political witchhunt. that is the problem i have with it. back to your question about the vaccine mandates, look, i made it very clear. i have said it several times on the show this morning. i believe the vaccines are effective. i believe if you can't get the vaccine -- if you can get the vaccine, you should get the vaccine. i believe they minimize symptoms, they keep you out of the hospital and off the ventilator. i believe they keep you out of the grave. i do not believe that it is within the authority of the president of the united states or any other elected official to mandate a requirement that a person get a shot that they might not want to get. i believe personally

is it trickier because that official was at doj as well? >> well, it's not trickier because he was at doj per se, because he was not a direct advisor to the president, there was not a direct privilege claim here. but if he claims the fifth, which he has heard bennie thompson say, we want him to come in on saturday, we're going to have him assert the fifth amendment right, if that's what he wants to do, question by question. the question is, is he asserting it in a reasonable way to try to not incriminate himself, or is it just a blanket effort to create a new way to delay the proceeding? if that's the case, then they'll have a record they can take to the department of justice and ask for it. >> maya wylie, thank you very much. let me tell folks what we have coming up, because it is going to be a wutang kind of day on "the beat." a special guest on obama hip-hop. >>> an officer kills a 60-year-old man in a wheelchair nine times. we have that coming up. r nine times we have that coming up like pulsing, electric shocks, sharp, stabbing pains,

the new administration he's trying to proceed with this or is proceeding with it and i wrote to the doj yesterday asking them to intervene, a violation of federal law, something the trump administration took philadelphia's court over and won that lawsuit. >> did you hear from the doj. >> you see what happens, they do more to stop the root cause of the problem. we know 80% according to the dea, coming to the southern border, you have to stop the wide open border policy and locally we need to stop putting criminals back to the streets, under the bail law those hardened career drug dealers are being released into the street and continue to pray on our citizens. we need to go after bad actors, in long-term recovery. it is unfortunate with a few days left in his administration he continues to put policies people of new york do not want. in addition they are looking to allow 800,000 noncitizens to vote in municipal elections, one parting gift after another, we will stop them on both fronts. todd: increase in crime and drug use. this line from the new york post some that the situation well. th

of course, prosecutions would come from doj, not from the committee. at the same time, we don't see any evidence that they're investigating, we also don't see any evidence that they aren't. and it's very frustrating, increasingly, we need some clarity, some certainty without doj crossing inappropriate poundries to hear from them that they do believe that the people who organized and led the insurrection need to be held accountable, just like the people who physically invaded the capitol on january 6th. we haven't had that so far, and frankly, it puts us in the position, i think, sometimes, of feeling like we're charlie brown, constantly hoping that the justice department will provide accountability, but concern that it won't. the answer is that we're still waiting on that, but a referral coming from a bipartisan congressional committee could be just the nudge that the doj needs, if it's commonly believed that merrick garland is concerned about the appearance of being political, if he undertakes a prosecution of leaders and a former administration, this

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>> it is thursday december 2nd, the doj had a lot to say about parent protesters at local school board meetings across the country but nothing on the deadly waukesha tragedy where violent criminal was let out on bail. >> executive that one bank begging their bosses to cancel a conference in san francisco after watching kebabs carry out mass meeting which shocked the nation. >> we begin with a fox news alert. this advertisement others are paid in vice president kamala harris is leaving, reports of dysfunction of the west wing. >> simone sanders is set to leave at the end of the year. brooke sigmund is live with more on this story. good morning. >> simone sanders who led communications for president biden's campaign is expected to leave the vice president's office at the end of the year. sanders is the second high-ranking advisor to leave the vice president's staff in less than a month following communications director ashley indian. two of the communication staffers, peter felts and vince evans are also reportedly leaving. reports of disorder and friction from the vice president's offic

extreme police brutality -- the doj has kept those under seal. mcbride wants them. so much going on tonight, joseph mcbride joins us now. they do so much for coming on. first, we will break this down for the first part of the story is the people who were on tape encouraging a legality which is itself a crime who have not been charged. what is the status on that tonight? >> tucker: after months of investigation, these people still have not been charged. we have multiple people on the ground, more in particular that we have identified. let me call one of these people out. somebody who was tagged on the internet by capital hunters as red-faced 45. this is a person who is dressed in trumpet gear and maggot gear. he is face painted -- his face is painted maga red. he has a trump hat on. yet he is clearly a law enforcement officer. he interacts in uniform personnel, he interacts with agents in the crowd, he passes out weapons, sledgehammers, polls, mace, some of those things come into contact with protesters who have subsequently been charged with possessing dangerous wea

but in the absence of anyone else willing to go along with a lie, he gets jeffrey clark at doj. clark wanted to use the legitimaty of the department of justice to disseminate that lie, to stamp it with doj letterhead, give it to georgia's top lawmaker and say maybe you should call a special session and sending your electors. to pressure them to throw out the results of a democratic election and install the loser over the winner. it's the same scheme trump would mention in that phone call to brian kemp. now, of course none of this works. he tries every link in the chain. and with the clock ticking down to the final 48 hours before the electoral votes will be counted on january 6th, with every court in the land having dismissed the allegations of voter fraud as completely baseless, with every single audit that has been undertaken showing the election was free and fair, with literally nothing to sustain this coup plot, we come to a woman named ruby freeman. she is a georgia election worker who was smeared with false conspiracies and viral videos that she and her daughter helped ste

the doj should move quickly on this matter. but there is still the looming supreme court offer in terms of the district court said listen, you have a two weeks head start here. former president trump to ask the supreme court to look into the national archives. they are looking at what the courts might ultimately say about the assertion. but they have a clear cut case of validly issued subpoena, and one that was not complied with. >> and just one more weakness in meadows' case, which is he wrote a book about all this stuff. he told the story. he told the world for profit about his communications with the president. you can't do that and turn around and say i -- >> yes, you can. he's doing it. >> laura knows there's a legal concept called waiver. you waive the right to claim secrecy when you write a book about something. >> and it's also called -- >> hoozbah. >> thank you both. >>> so covid slamming pro sports and forcing fee players to miss games. how worried should we be about a winter surge? >> yes, there will be breakthrough

i think even if doj concedes that in all the cases where meadows asserts a privilege that they won't look at those any further, you know, katy, in many of those instances, the way he suggests that the documents are privileged is very speculative and he's probably wrong in many cases, especially about executive privilege. but if you just look at this universe where he has conceded no privilege exists and then turns over the documents, there is no reason to refuse to testify. and, in fact, you can't just say i have executive privilege and not show up. you have to appear when you're asked to testify. you have to listen to each question, and for each question consider whether you can answer it or whether it's privileged. it's meadows' failure to participate and play by the rules that ultimately means, at least in my judgment, that doj will perhaps, after a great deal more time than with bannon and a lot more angst, decide he should be prosecuted. >> leigh ann, i'm still curious about lawmakers and former lawmakers who might get tied up with this who might have had communication with mead

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a lot of questions about, is the doj going to act? how long could that take? we'll have to wait that out is the bottom line. but when you look at the cases being laid out here, you know, methodically by liz cheney specifically yesterday and monday, what more do you anticipate is coming? because this it would seem is really sort of the tip of the iceberg. >> if i can just make one comment first about what president biden said. >> yeah. >> he shouldn't say that. you know, the democrats criticized president trump for years for interfering with justice department decisions. there is no reason for president biden to say that this looks like contempt to him. he should leave those decisions to the department of justice. however, it does look like this investigation has a long way to go and there are potentially lots more prosecutions and the evidence that came out this week only adds to that. two federal judges this week said that the obstruction of justice statute does apply to the attempt to interfere with -- on january 6th. that raises the question of not only the

the doj, you've got to look at who is running everything. the department of justice is supposed to be independent from the white house but if they don't do what the white house wants them to do people lose jobs. that's why the department of justice doesn't go after these different apps. the democrats are in bed with large text, they are running these apps, making money, the large text doesn't care about the lowly united states citizen. they care about the bottom line, how much money they make and that's why the doj did not go after the large tech and all these apps that are able to advertise their services which are illegal services and it is killing our children. laura: operation lone star sense members of the national guard to the border to secure it because it is stretched so thin and there are ten civil rights organizations including the aclu asking the doj to investigate program because they say it is unlawful, racist and xena phobic, what is your reaction to this ask from the aclu of texas during civil rights organizations? >> it is so

i think what liz cheney and other members of congress are trying to do is up the pressure for the doj to take action. officer harry dunn, one of the brave officers who defended the capitol, he said, i can lead the doj on this and whatever comes out, charge or no charge, but i cannot live with them taking no action. >> as you referred to fox news and texts by some fox news hosts like sean hannity, saying meadows trying to urge the president to do something, he writes, can he make a statement? ask people to leave the capitol? hannity addressed this yesterday, defending himself, but his colleague, geraldo rivera, wasn't having it. listen. >> i beg you, sean, to remember the frame of mind you were in when you wrote that text on january 6th and when laura did and when brian did and when don jr. did. remember the concern you had. remember the frustration you had at our beloved 45th president. where was he? >> because i wanted the riot to end. >> why doesn't he say something? but you wanted him -- >> the point is he did. >> se, that's his colleague calling him out. what's your reaction? >> w

it wasn't just trump or white house officials or his allies at the doj. it was also members of congress. how does the scope of this compare to watergate? in watergate you have the president and a few people but how does the scope of this one compare to that? >> it's much larger. i think the central mystery and it still is a mystery, who were the operational cord y-- coordinators? in this case on january 6th when is the law and constitution designating that is the day and 1:00 is the time when they will certify who won the presidency. so they found that moment a thousand people, how did -- who got 1,000 people together? certainly not donald trump and i would like to know and lots of people. there are names out there we don't know because to do this and execute it is horrifying as it is, it's an organization. it just didn't happen and so you need all these communication links and what meadows provided is very significant and they're saying january 6th committee has lots of people cooperating, lots of people to talk to, knock on doors and invite them to come

we got doj bringing 700 plus cases against the rioters. we are going to see public hearings this year from the committee. we are going to get their final report this year from the committee. the biggest single question to me, though, in all of this, john and kaitlan, where is merrick garland, where is the justice department when it comes to the real power players, to donald trump and the other people who are behind the efforts to steal the election, behind the efforts to obstruct congress' counting of the electoral votes, and potentially behind the january 6th riot itself. that to me is the single biggest question as we head into 2022. where is merrick garland and where is the justice department? >> and, elie, before we let you go, i think that is a big question. we're coming up on that one-year anniversary, we're less than a week away. we haven't heard a lot from them. so what do you expect -- should people be expecting something from the attorney general on this? >> i've not seen much from merrick garland that leads me to believe he's lo

and so the doj just sued texas as you know for the same reason, the voter delusion aspects of it. we talk about the consequences of one's action, this is a political statement being made that goes to what is happening in places like georgia and other states that tried to roll back voter protection and voter access. they do not believe they have the winning policies to get people to get elected. so this really, if this is the vehicle by which you're trying to secure your success at the polls, it is antithetical to the voting rights act of 1965, our feelings about democracy, it never should be the case that you cut off access because you cannot win. democracy does not require you get the person you wanted in office, it requires equal access to have the opportunity. so ben affleck, star of "armageddon" and many others, absolutely right hands down when it comes to this area. i hope it translates to congress doing more to fortify the voting rights act. >> he hates asteroids and jerry mandering. >> loves j. lo, though. >> let's do that segment next. >> okay. laura, great to see you. tha

if i were meadows, i'd be worried about doj much more so than what comes from the congress. again, we're going to bring you the contempt vote as soon as it hands. we thought it would have happened by now, but it ought to happen tonight. as it happens, you can't talk about january 6th without talking about or at least thinking about the former president. but something's happening in this country well beyond donald trump. and my next guest will tell us why our nation may be in the middle of a radical shift, an anti-democratic movement. that's next. . >>> we're standing by for a full house vote to hold mark meadows in contempt of congress. one thing is clear, president trump's inner circle and those around it knew that january 6th was a danger to democracy, but that effort to subvert elections is not over. it's taking place in races for positions that most of us have no clue who holds. think local election boards, in some cases, state legislators. you've seen the map of the 19 states that have passed new voting laws, but we rarely discuss what those laws do. so let's change tha

bring harm and violence and shattering families. >> last year doj settled with purdue pharma. department attorneys must decide by a court imposed january 5th deadline whether to oppose a drug injection site in philadelphia called safe house where addicts get high under the supervision of staff. similar places opened in new york city. advocates say it will help control the overdose pandemic. >> i understand that people who are complaining about what's happening in their neighborhoods. but everything we are trying now isn't working. all we see are the numbers increasing. so we have to try something different. >> the trump administration sued to block the safe house in philly opening. the biden administration sides with this because it might open the floodgates for more injection sites to open across the country. david spunt, fox news. >> shannon: the notorious doorbell -- or has returned. an amazon delivery driver risking her own life to stop what if could have been a horrific attack. ♪ i had a dream that someday ♪ ♪ i would just fly, fly away ♪ go with simparica trio it

charles, the doj is suing texas alleging that the republican-led state violated the voting rights act by drawing districts that discriminated against minorities. do you think the doj needs to be more aggressive in challenging these attempts to disenfranchise voters? >> i think they do. i think they are doing a good job, and kristen clark doing the s civil rights division over there, the doj is doing a spectacular job in terms of that litigation and its agenda. i understand that since we have seen shelby versus holder break down basically the vra to nothing almost and section six was completely gutted where preclearance was taken out, there aren't many tools that the doj has to use. what they're doing is they're relying on section two, which is the remaining sort of standing section that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, on the basis of, you know, race or ethnic background, they're using section two as their conduit to get to where they need to go. i don't know how successful it's going to be because there are a number of different ways that they have to establish that it

i'm still stressed that doj chose not to be here. in september i had an opportunity to host law enforcement round tables, kentucky's attorney general daniel cameroon was with us, i think dea had -- dr. gupta, i met with him the other day, i know you're not -- mr. chester, i met with dr. gupta the other day, i was encouraged by the enthusiasm he brings to the job and i look forward to fighting the plague against us. the biden administration's recent proposal doesn't impose mandatory minimums for trafficking these deadly substances. there's debate about what we should do about mandatory minimums but eliminating or not applying mandatory minimums to the scheduling of the analogues. does the biden administration have data or other relevant research it can share with members of this committee that suggest excluding mandatory minimums will lead to less fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances on our streets? >> thank you for the question, congressman. number one, the president opposes mandatory minimums and the administration is committed

it's up to prosecutors and doj, not congress whether they want to charge. prosecutors get referrals all day every day from different sources. however, as a practical matter, a criminal referral from congress, from this committee after all of the evidence that they have uncovered i think would be an incredibly powerful criminal statement that's a very dramatic city to take and it would significantly increase public pressure and political pressure on doj to do something to meaningfully investigate as least to people behind the big lie and january 6th. >> the "times" also looks that the the january 6th committee is looking to change the electoral count act, and how does that play in their work? >> they ought to do this. this act goes back to 187 w46 it was passed and there are parts of the act hard to decipher. this is whaen abled donald trump and others to try to get mike pence to throw the election. they took the act, they put a ridiculous spin on it, but there's enough in it that they were able to argue that mike pence has the authority to throw out elector