vice president harris clashing in a major way last week how african american studies in slavery basically is taught in florida s public schools. the new standards from florida s board of education includes language about how, quote, slaves develop skills which is some in instances could be applied for their personal benefit, closed quote. i want to play the back and forthright now. adults know what slavery really involved. it involved rape. it involved torture. how is it that anyone could suggest that in the midst of these atrocities, that there was any benefit to being subjected to this level of dehumanization? i thought it was absolutely ridiculous. it s totally outrageous. these are the most robust standards in african american history, probably anywhere in the country. she s going to come down to the
and interfered in our elections because they believe in doing so will help trump get elected in 2024, and that is the goal of republicans today. republicans claim that the fbi has been weaponized. the personal attacks on director wray, and the repeated calls to, quote, defund the fbi, these are not victimless acts. they re a clarion call to anti-government extremists and that call is being heard. last year director wray faced multiple credible death threats. fbi employees faced more threats in the months after the mar-a-lago search than they had in the entire prior year. the problem has gotten so bad that the fbi has decided to stand up an entire new unit dedicated to combat threats to fbi agents and staff. it is far past time that the republicans realize the consequences of their actions. they may want to downplay trump s behavior and blame the fbi for his downfall, no matter what they say, trump risked the
you to read the words for yourself in their entirety. when you compare his actual words to mr. jordan s characterization, you ll understand why i feel like this hearing room has become a theater. frankly, it goes from many things that we will hear from the republicans today. you can expect to hear that the fbi is retaliated against conservative employees and has a deep-seeded conspiracy to support liberal candidates and ideology. these claims are based on the words of several individuals, and people that some are laughably calling whistle blowers. evidence shows these individuals were suspended for violating policies. one provided an interview to russian state-owned media. another leaked information about an ongoing investigation placing fbi agents and witnesses at risk, and another said he wanted to use a senior fbi official as, quote, target practice. chairman jordan invited some of
summary of mr. d antuono s words are a vast mischaracterization of what he actually said. here s just one example. chairman jordan has claimed that mr. d antuono said he had, quote, no idea, end quote, where the mar-a-lago investigation was run out of the fbi s washington field office instead of the miami field office. what the chairman hides is seconds later mr. dan antuono explains, the venue is here, washington, d.c., that it is not out of the ordinary for washington to be the lead in running the investigation and that it has the most experience and knowledge in, w working pub, corruption cases and the experts in investigations mr. jordan did not share the full record to the american public because it does not fit his chosen narrative. my staff has a redacted full testimony release, and i urge
at this particular time. director wray, are you aware that the maga republicans have repeatedly called for the fbi to be defunded? i have heard some of that language. in fact, republicans on this very committee have said that your institution should be dismantled, isn t that correct? well, i think certain members have. and one member even tweeted, quote, defund and dismantle the fbi, end quote. another told fox news that, quote, republicans should defund the bureaucracy, end quote. and a third told the press that he thinks the fbi, quote, needs to be split up and moved out into pieces, end quote. those are direct quotes and only a small sample of what s out there. can you briefly describe for us what the effect would be on our national security and on our