right parties look like. they know what we re dealing with. a far right white party. they re hopeful but even in america you think it s over? it s not over. and continue with that idea. juanita, we re going to play some sound from eric swalwell. the trump administration was using apple an other resources to investigate text messages and emails of democratic members of congress. we re going to play this sound and i want your comments on the other side. i was notified, don, by apple that they did seize my records. it s wrong. this is what they do. they smear and they try and clear. we ve seen this through the justice department by donald trump, whether it was the reason he was impeached by trying to go
of course, saying congress just has to pass a law is a little like saying in a couple of weeks in a gym i can be simone biles. although there is a bill to expand from 9 to 13 justices, it has little chance of success because you can be sure mitch mcconnell will do anything not to give president biden a chance to appoint new justices and ruin the conservative majority that mitch has worked so, so hard for. first, by stealing a supreme court seat from president biden when justice ka she a died. then by helping getting a man accused of sexual misconduct onto the bench, then by jamming through amy comey barrett s confirmation just eight days before the election of 2020. you ll remember that around barrett s confirmation the calls for the next democratic president were getting louder. he wasn t a fan of the idea of actually expanding the court and refused to come down strongly one way or another. this april he created a 36 member chamber, a commission to study possible structural changes to
i thought it was a nice speech. i didn t hear anything specific that he was going to do. it gave me real susan collins energy. i am concerned about voting rights. from what you re hearing on the ground from writers and activists and voting rights individuals across the country, how have people responded to what merrick garland has said? so far this has not been a great week for the doj and looking like a progressive turn from what juanita correctly pointed out was basically the arm and fist of donald trump in the last administration. yeah, jason. well, look, with so much attention on the dw7, some of what happened in merrick garland s speech may have gotten lost in his speech yesterday. one thing he did say was they were going to be expanding the civil rights division which i think did hearten some of the organizers and activists who i talked to who are looking for avenues of redress through the federal government, especially because the for the people act is certainly waning in cong
he played dumb. what do you mean suggest when we know trump tweeted about these types of things. so what they did is weaponize the doj and they did it not only for to dig into phone records of members of congress but their families and children in some cases and that is the authoritarian behavior that oddly would not surprise the american public but definitely confirms that trump was abusing his power. you re right, there are still people in the doj who were part of these biweekly briefings where they talked about these investigations and what that says to me is that merrick garland is getting all of the tea from them. tell me what you did, when you did it and once this is all investigated they absolutely need to be held accountable because merrick garland, we know he follows the rules, but i also need him to clean house so that this does not continue under his watch. i want to follow up with that with you, erin. so merrick garland gives a speech this week. hey, we re going to do t
after vice president biden or just other efforts through the muller investigation. i support chairman shiv s call for an inspector general report into not only this conduct but other conduct that was corrupt by donald trump. so, juanita, we find out that the previous administration was literally spying on members of congress, hopefully probably trying to get some sort of information it can use to black mail them. what does that say about trump, we know it was terrible, but about the department of justice and what we may need to do today to hold some of the previous members of the department of justice accountable for what they were doing in the past administration. look, this just confirms that sessions and barr served as trump s attorneys and they weaponized the doj for whatever trump wanted. all i can keep replaying is the exchange from vice president harris, then senator harris, has trump suggested you investigate any political individuals?