pursuit of justice. day one of the administration, president biden signalled to the world through words and actions that our borders are open. and so they were. hope we can all commend the biden-harris administration for their actions to prevent a serious disorder at the border following the expiration of title 42. we know the border s in trouble, we know we have a problem with fentanyl, got-aways, drugs. sad reality is my colleagues on the majority have no interest in any meaningful immigration reform. john: we begin this tuesday with lawmakers sparring over the biden administration handling of the migrant surge at the southern border and allegations that the white house set up border patrol to fail. gillian, good afternoon. gillian: great to be with you, john. gillian turner in for sandra today. this is america reports. subhouse committee is hearing testimony from the dhs inspector general, tasked with staffing and morale challenges with border agents over the
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very different timelines when it comes to the appointment of a special counsel when it comes to the handling of classified documents. merrick garland appointed a special counsel to investigate the handling of some classified documents. his appointment follows the development that a second set of classified documents were found, these in a storage space in the garage of president biden s home in wilmington, delaware. the president s lawyer said it was a small number of documents. watch. on january 5th, 2023, mr. laush briefed me on the results of his initial investigation and advised me that further investigation by a special counsel was warranted. based on mr. laush s initial investigation, i concluded that under the special counsel regulations, it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. as i have said before, i strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity, but under the regulations, the extraord
per perhaps marjorie taylor greene. what should happened to them? should they be censured? should they be removed from committees? what do you think? well, i guess that s a decision for colleagues, right? i mean, my job is to put evidence out there. as i said at the end of that, it s like, i only know of one reason to seek a pardon. because you re worried that you re guilty, that you committed a crime. this is something they have to answer to their constituents. you know, i can t enforce rules of the house or do certain things unilaterally. but i think the bigger point is, listen, america, do you really want your members of congress out there trying to bend or break the law so that they can maintain political power? that is like, anafma to everything we ever learned in history class whether you re in third grade or whether you re a senior. and that s got to stop. it s interesting because you had three trump loyalists, rose and donahue and engel, testifying today. these ar
of big news, joe, on capitol hill. what a significant day. and i will tell you, i was away from the tv for a good part of the day, and started getting breaking news alerts about the hearings, started following some i had to come back, rewatch the entire hearing all over again. it really, yesterday, about as compelling of any hearing we ve seen on capitol hill since the days of watergate. i was young when the watergate hearings were on. i was upset because we had only had four channels then, and i wanted to see the flintstones and mr. ed, but my parents were sitting front, watching watergate. like everybody. and it was so compelling. and you see those clips, and it s history and you don t think you re ever going to see anything like that again. like a movie. but actually, willie, we did see something and we keep seeing, every one of these january 6th hearings. you re looking at history, you understand it, because, again, it drives home the point that maybe we ve