investigator are 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 found out today, do 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 was behind the new york hush money case that may donald trump first ever x president to become a convicted felon. that conspiracy theory is an attack on the judicial process itself. republicans firing back, we ll the department of justice provides to the committee all documents, all correspondence between the department and alvin bragg s office and fani willis also office and letitia james, his office. the offices you referri
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 asked me? for the job? no. garland today refusing to comply with the house subpoena for audio of special counsel robert hur s interview with 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 elderly man with a poor memory, releasing the audio would show cooperation with the department in future investigations. republicans accusing garland of protecting biden as they threatened he attorney general with contempt of congress the big as doj has determined the president is not mentally fit to defend himself and stand trial for his crime. but former president trump is, i say again, that s an inaccurate description of mr
department or the president was behind the manhattan da s prosecution. they understand how the court system works. they know so that the federal system is completely separate and distinct from a local prosecutor s office like that. i m manhattan you know, matt gaetz for his own part as all too much experience in the criminal justice system, being the subject of sex trafficking case so they understand how the system works, but they wish to mislead the public. they want to somehow obscure the fact that they re about to be nominee is now a convicted felon and they re willing to tear down the justice system 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 freetown 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
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 thought they were following trump s orders, not erasure. mano. thank you. california democratic congressman, i m ashamed for you saw briefly amount as report serves on the judiciary committee as a former member of the select committee on january 6, he s more than qualified to speak to allegations about the fbi s role on that day. i mean, i guess i shouldn t be surprised but it is i mean, it s still just strikes me as bizarre that so many house republicans keep pushing a debunk claim that the fbi played a role in facilitating the events in january 6, it is crazy and they know better and they continue to push al
all of them are facing a felony charge related to forgery and the complaint really lays out essentially their alleged involvement in creating this fake elector plot in wisconsin and conversations about how you would pull the fake elector plot off to be able to overturn the 2020 election results. the pressure that they were going to put on former vice president mike pence, essentially how they were going to pull this off off. now of course, these are three names that were allegedly involved in the plot in wisconsin. there s one big name that is missing from this complaint, which is donald trump and the attorney general and wisconsin was asked about whether he had ruled out bringing any charges against the former president in a press conference today. listen to what he said as i said, i m not gonna speak to any specific individual, but the investigation is ongoing and the decisions we make will be based on the facts and the law not on the identity of any individual. are there? now he