my career in law enforcement, i would be hard-pressed to think of a time when so many different threats to our public safety and national security were so elevated all at the same time. but that is the case. as i sit here today those threats he told a senate panel include the potential for coordinated attack like the march ices k masker at a russian concert hall last march. computer ransomware attacks and the fentanyl epidemic that was one hearing and scary though the specifics where everything else about it was fairly typical by contrast, over on the house, sayyed it was anything. but as republican members of the house judiciary committee grilled director raise boss, attorney general merrick garland in their battle against what they say is a weaponized justice system targeting the former president mr. attorney general. there s no blinking. the fact that for the first time in american history we do have a presidential administration is working to put its opponent in jail well, as
attorney said hunter didn t have much interest in buying a gun and the salesmen lead hunter to guns while he was browsing other items at least one juror was seen dabbing her eyes during the defense opening and during the testimony of the first witness an fbi agent the jury heard long portions of hunter biden s memoir, which he narrated detailing his addiction to drugs i possessed a new superpower, the ability to find crack and anytown at any time, no matter how familiar that terrain it was easy prosecutors also introduced electronic evidence, including the infamous laptop and text messages from several devices some of those text messages said to be about his efforts to get drugs and meet with dealers in 2018 were also shown to the jury in one text, hunter allegedly wrote asap, if you can, another reading, can you come this way now? and a text from another
true? they know that the hearing is essentially rigged for this kind of showmanship but they also know that when they get out of the car to walk up there walkway, their neighbors are looking at them and wondering like, is that the justice department that joe works at is that the fbi that bill serves in and it affects morale? especially because they take this so seriously if you, if you listen to merrick garland s last words in his statement, he said, i will not be intimidated and the justice department will not be intimidated. we will continue to do our job free of political influence or fear and that is what they re counting on its, it s you think works. i mean, do you think they are intimidated well, i think that it has an effect when you re working on a case and they tell you, you follow the facts, the case is the boss. don t worry about politics when you, when you see your political masters, your elected
in fact when they were holding merrick garland in contempt, a couple of weeks ago, they had many members absent, some of which were absent because they weren t manhattan standing outside the courthouse, essentially paying field t once again, to donald trump they hope to avert a conviction now that there are multiple, multiple convictions, they re just tearing everything down and doing such enormous damage you ll one of the questions i didn t have a chance to ask merrick garland today is what s the effect in courthouses around the country? undoubtedly. and i ve heard this from prosecutors. you have defendants making the trumpian argument that they re prosecutions r0, which aren t there a hoax there, a sham attacking the fbi and the same language that donald trump, it is enabled on the committee are using and this is really undermining the rule of law everywhere the level of dysfunction in these hearings. i mean, we ve seen look for for a long time. we ve seen in
they expect that trust and confidence in the fbi and the justice department. and this foments, these doubts, these are sworn oath taking career civil servants. i worked in the fbi. i dealt with the department of justice every day. these are people who as i did, worked for republicans, worked for democrats. and will work for republicans and democrats today. and to the fbi academy, a sheriff gave me an expression a long time ago and he said, if you re going to go wrestle with a pig, you re both going to get mud on you. the difference is the pig likes it when these people go before congress and they take that oath to tell the truth, the people asking these questions they don t have to have the truth. the question is the stunt do do you talk to people in the doj, the fbi? i m sure. all the time. does this have an impact on morale oh, it does. and you know why they know that. what s being said isn t