grilled, director raised boss, attorney general merrick garland in their battle against what they say is a weaponized justice system targeting the former president mr. trini. 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 many others have reported, there s no evidence the justice department fbi investigators, several federal grand juries and judges are doing anything but their jobs and no evidence that any federal officials influenced new york authorities. the judge or the 12 jurors who convicted the former president but that is not stopping the allegations is seen as manu raju fanned out today. you swear or affirm under penalty of per attorney general merrick garland facing off with his loudest critics on capitol hill. i will not be intimidated. and the justice department will not be intimidated and calling out gop attacks that his department is behind th
treatment of january 6, prisoners three, these three congressman roy biggs and massie, right in a letter to garland in part of what they say is in addition, other investigations have pointed to the fbi s possible involvement in facilitating the events of january 6. they cite as as evidenced in this letter, a new york post columnist peas from last year about this topic. now, it is important to point out, anderson that the fbi director christopher wray, has repeatedly testified, but the fbi had absolutely no involvement in the attack on january 6, the justice department itself has prosecuted hundreds of people, many of whom pleaded guilty, admitted they are wrong, and some of them also, of course, anderson said they came to the capital because they thought they re following trump s orders, not erasure mano. thank you. california democratic congressman adam schiff for you saw briefly in moniz report serves on the judiciary committee there s a former member of the select committee on jan
and do what ever is necessary in the service of that deeply flawed human being. you said that in the hearing that s what you think is at the heart of this, that they re freaked out. essentially over trump s conviction and are trying to figure out how to deal with it absolutely and not just in committee, but so many of them 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 tea 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 peters you have defendants making the
and then if it s a conspiracy theory that will be evident, demo all right. said republicans were playing for an audience of one. there were about to nominate a convicted felon and they don t know how to cope with that. the gop taking aim at garland for appointing special counsel jack smith, who is leading the prosecution against trump in two federal indictments your first choice? i m not gonna go into the question. did you know him before you picked him? i did not. did he ask for the job this is not a job. i don t think anybody asks for. that s not that sorry. but that s not the question i asked you. i said did jack smith asieh not asked me for the job? no. garland today refusing to comply with the house subpoena for audio of special counsel, robert hur s interview was president joe biden over his handling of classified documents in that 388 page report, hurd declined to prosecute biden, citing in part how a jury would view him as a sympathetic, well-meaning meaning elder
so trump s team is saying now that the trial is over and the gag order that was put in place to protect the witnesses, the jury, from trump s comments. now that it s over there saying that the judge should lift this gag order, so they write in the letter to the judge now that the trial is concluded, the concerns articulated by the government and the court do not justified continued restrictions on the first amendment rights of president trump, who remains the leading candidate in the 2024 presidential election. and the american people and they go on to say that they think that there s even a stronger argument now to remove it because president joe biden has made comments on the verdict and has stormy daniels and michael cohen to the key witnesses. so the courts spokesman for the judge just says the order speaks for itself. the da s office has declined to comment i mean, either way, trump has not prohibited from talking about the trial, talking about the verdict is just he s prohibite