we just did an extensive segments this week on voting rights, what s happening in arizona with the audit. there s a lot of work for the department of justice to do the civil rights division during bill barr and jeff sessions as opposed to matt whitaker s tenure as attorney general. so there s a lot to do to pull the department up. it s already happening and it s going to i think defy they ve been dear friends of mine but i m going to be pushing them from the outside as government lawyers and i m gonna be in my role as a civil rights lawyer. i have absolutely no doubt about that whatsoever and it is heartening to hear you say and to hear you say it with that smile on your face knowing how much you mean it. cheryl eiffel, legal defense and educational fund it s a really big day today. thanks for being here.
extraordinary women that will be bringing this wealth of civil rights experience into the department of justice. so i think we will see a lot more changes happen. they have their hands full. it s not just policing, let s be clear. you just did some extensive segments on voting rights, what s happening in arizona with the audit. there s a lot of work for the department of justice to do the civil rights division that was essentially stood up during bill barr and jeff sessions and i suppose matt whitaker s tenure as attorney general. so they have a lot to do to pull the department up. it s already happening, and it s going to intensify and while both bonita and kristen have been dear friends of mine, you should know i m going to be pushing them from the outside, because they re going to be in their role as government lawyers, and i m going to be in my role as a civil rights lawyer. and we re going to be pushing them to do more. i have absolutely no doubt about that whatsoever. and it is
clear. you just did some extensive segments on voting rights, what s happening in arizona with the audit. there s a lot of work for the department of justice to do the civil rights division that was essentially stood up during bill barr and jeff sessions and i suppose matt whitaker s tenure as attorney general. so they have a lot to do to pull the department up. it s already happening, and it s going to intensify. and while both bonita and kristen have been dear friends of mine, you should know i m going to be pushing them from the outside, because they re going to be in their role as government lawyers, and i m going to be in my role as a civil rights lawyer. and we re going to be pushing them to do more. i have absolutely no doubt about that whatsoever. and it is heartening to hear you say it and to hear you say it with that smile on your face, knowing how much you mean it. it is a really big day today. thanks for being here. i appreciate it. thanks so much, rachel. good night.
for obstruction of justice. she gave the justice department until yesterday to release that document or appeal her ruling. late last night, after we were off the air, the justice department told that judge they are going to appeal her ruling, they will still fight to keep secret that stuff about bringing federal charges against trump and how the justice department came to its decision on those matters. and, listen, i understand why bill barr and the trump justice department wanted to keep secret their reasoning about whether or not to bring federal criminal charges against trump. that s easy to understand. why is the justice department under joe biden doing the same thing, though? right? i m honestly not sure. i don t know. you don t know either. anybody telling you they know for sure either doesn t know for their work for merrick garland, which they shouldn t be talking to you about this. but i ll just finish with this,
the justice department under merrick garland making the decision to appeal this judge s ruling, to try to continue to keep secret the document that trump s justice department prepared about whether or not to charge him with criminal obstruction of justice. the first thing to know about the justice department now appealing the judge s ruling and fighting to keep this document secret, the first thing to know about it is that the brief filed here, the reasoning explained by merrick garland s justice department is humiliating. it s abject and humiliating. throughout the brief filed with the court late last night, the justice department, the current justice department is just crawling and scraping about how they didn t mean what they said and how sorry they are, that it looked the way that the judge thought it looked but they didn t mean it to look that way, and now in retrospect they can see how misleading their previous statement seemed to the court when barr was attorney