hearings on capitol hill where lawmakers are probing whether or not the fbi and doj have politicized justice to attack american civil liberties. this is falling under that brand-new subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government, ohio republican jim jordan. welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two. i m sandra smith in new york. john: sandra, good to be with you. as we watch our colleague, jonathan turley on the stand. two of the witnesses are senators leading investigations into the biden family business dealings. david spunt has been watching the opening statements. he is live ste justice department now. david, what are you seeing? senator ron johnson has paid close attention not only to the department of justice but the fbi. he noted in his testimony, john and sandra, he wrote more than 50 letters to the fbi and doj and said few of them were answered adequately, many were not even responded to. this is a hearing as you mentioned for a new subco
olympics and no gold medal, only one loser in the end, and that is america. and that s where this discussion takes us is looking backward instead of looking forward. where we need to go. john: the history of massachusetts, it was a slave state from 1640 to 1883, and california, 1850, a free state. no slavery in the state of california, but there was african american americans and native americans. what s the right solution here? right solution, equal opportunity going forward in the country. i worry what we are creating is a new form of psychological slavery today teaching kids they cannot get ahead in the country because of the color of their skin. i think we have to embrace martin luther king s message you do get ahead in america, not the color of your skin but the content of your character, and when you teach kids to think of themselves as victims, that s when they actually behave like victims and leave themselves
if you had to give the death penalty as a punishment could you do it? i think we consider whatever the history of massachusetts has and more that this is a death penalty qualified jury that is expected if they feel the aggravating factors are there to order this defendant to death. stay with us. we are a waiting in the upper right hand corner of your screen. those are microphones. we a wait the family members of those killed at the boston marathon and also the survivors of the attack. remember, there were 264 victims that day. we will be right back in just a moment. the pursuit of healthier. it begins from the second we re born. after all, healthier doesn t happen all by itself. it needs to be earned. every day. from the smallest detail to the boldest leap.