that jeff clark s new lawyer wrote and addressed to the head of the committee. in this her, the lawyer lays out a real head scratcher for the legal theory as to why he doesn t have to answer the committee s question. it said that clark and other doj officials could actually testify, that letter from trump world august 7th specifically said trump would not take steps to block clark and other senior officials from playing ball. however, clark and his lawyers have taken a slightly tortured read of that letter and are trying to say because some circumstances are difference, because of steps the committee has taken, they re trying to say clark doesn t have to participate. my expectation is that letter would would be a key
federal bureau of investigation, u.s. department of homeland security, u.s. secret service on the assessments regarding the right level risk to public school children, faculty and campuses. that s the exact language that they are using. and yet they want us to believe that there was no targeting of parents. kayleigh: we can all see quite plainly that there certainly was but we need to talk about the power of these teachers unions as you mentioned, it s not just about this issue. it s about the vaccination guidelines and they had their hand in all of this in the biden administration has been playing ball. but to go back to kayleigh s point, the lack of transparency from the administration as a whole. harris: all right, we will get back to the house judiciary committee and the attorney general america garland now, questioning from the 46 members bipartisan continues now. i certainly did, and i worked
trying to look past. i m seeing that republicans from a political standpoint are saying we kind of want to recalibrate this and look at actually what happened and what were the security arrangements on 1-6, whereas democrats obviously want to go back and target president trump and those closely associated with him. somebody we didn t talk about here he was issued a subpoena is mark meadows. the former white house chief of staff and of the reason he s not being held in contempt of congress here is that he has hired outside counsel and he s kind of playing ball. whether or not they eventually get what they need from mark meadows is unclear but they view him as a being at least willing to play and negotiate and maybe there s a question about the scope of that degree. sandra: todd program on capitol hill for us. chadha, we will come back to you as you have the news and as we needed and thank you for all the explainers as well. john: that s a thing about chad, he so come parens if we di
0 another statute, the justice department defends the constitutionality of statutes construed as constitutional. we believe that statute can be, yes. i would like to move on. recently you directed the f.b.i. to coordinate with 14,000 school districts after the national school board association asked you to protect school boards from the imminent threat of parents. along with friends, neighbors and constituents i have attended multiple school board meetings over the last year and have a child in public school yet. very concerned about some of the things going on. yes, some of those school board meetings get heated. are we, my friends, constituents and neighbors, are we domestic terrorists? are we criminals? no. again, i don t know the facts that we are talking about but the only way that you are criminals of the few commit acts in violation of the statutes which would mean threats of violence or actual violence. and i m sure you haven t done that. have states asked for help? the s
don t know much a whole bunch of them and yet we know a whole bunch of people that weren t brought back to the united states, and they are upset. they are really, really upset. i know you know that. i hope that i think you re seeing the reflection of that in their elected representatives and this afternoon we ll probably drill down on some more things but i look forward to the closed session as well, general mckenz, to learn more about august 26th. thank you senator. senator manchin, please. thank you very much, and first of all, thank all three of you. i appreciate your service to our country and i ve never doubted your unwavering commitment to defend our country and constitution. i m having a hard time i m old enough to understand. i remember vietnam very well. i was in line to go there and had an injury in my playing ball at wvu so that didn t happen. anyway, i can t explain to the younger generation, to my children and grandchildren how do we get into this and never get o