at the justice department. their continued presence would seem to ensure that the biden appointees would have a full understanding of the investigations. do you have any reporting that suggest that the current leadership knew what their role was in seeking subpoenas and whether there s recourse against the individuals you name? i m sure that the folks now running the justice department for biden knew something about this because schiff and his staff were told about this back i believe in may. and that would have come from the biden justice department. i think that this case highlights something that we often sort of miss about the justice department. that is, that while there are a lot of political appointees who obviously run the place put there by the president there are these career prosecutors that are dedicated to these cases and that aggressively go after them. same prosecutors working on the cases worked on similar ones
and it s a question of getting i think the commentary that austin has gotten from the services was from the trump appointees and he may be waiting to hear from the new biden appointees who are service secretaries in order to make his recommendations, which he said he would make by the end of the month. there is a timeline on this. we ve been showing the woman who is at the senator of much of this as you ve been speaking and in the last couple minutes she s actually talked with joint chiefs of staff head general milley who said that he reiterated basically asking him to reiterate his support. he said he is completely open-minded to significant change and said that is true for most of the senior leaders in uniform. i imagine this is a significant difference from what you heard when you were over the army? it absolutely, of course, is. i m not sure that they re planning to take it to a civilian side, which would mean
criminal investigation of postmaster general louis dejoy. and to, we now have a president who will not comment on anyone who is under criminal investigation by the fbi. and we have an administration in which no one will comment about someone who is under investigation by the fbi. white house press white house press secretary white jen psaki will not see a word about it. that is not the way it was in the previous administration. the administration that made louis dejoy the postmaster general, after he contributed over 1 million dollars to donald trump. our first guest tonight cannot comment on the criminal investigation of the postmaster general, because president biden has appointed her to the board of governors of the u.s. postal service. which has the power to remove the postmaster general and appoint a new one. amber mcreynolds is one of the three new biden appointees to the nine member board of
dodged the question, saying he would like the investigation to just play out. again, it is ultimately going to be up to that board of governors. we ll have to see where this investigation goes. abby philip joins me now in studio. as kristen just noted, biden can t remove dejoy. it s up to the board of governors. democrat of new jersey wrote a letter to the three biden appointees that he added to the board of governors, urging them to vote dejoy out, adding he s corrupt to the core, dejoy. self-inflicted nationwide delays j justly warrant his expeditious removal so that the board may appoint in his place a qualified and competent postmaster general prepared to lead with bold solutions to save our post
Senate Confirms Vanita Gupta To Civil Rights Post Despite GOP Attacks
After months of Republican attacks, Vanita Gupta was confirmed Wednesday afternoon as associate attorney general. Vice President Kamala Harris was available to break a tie, but Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) voted to advance Gupta s nomination to a full Senate vote earlier in the day, then followed up in making it a 51 to 49 vote to confirm. Gupta is the first woman of color and the first civil rights lawyer in this role.
Gupta is eminently qualified: She headed the Justice Department s Civil Rights Division under then-President Barack Obama and is the president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. But she s a woman of color who has focused her career on civil rights, which means Republicans see her as an enemy.