others not to limit themselves either. well i hope matthew knows we are all inspired, and lucky, i m one of those people who watched that acceptance video. i saw on instagram, i think i watched it 38 times, and i m so grateful to our affiliate in connecticut for sharing matthew s incredible story. and on that note, i wish you all a great great night. from our our colleagues at the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up, late i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tonight, we start with merrick garland. it s no surprise that republicans are not fans of the attorney general. ever since he arrived at the justice department, republicans have repeatedly accused garland of weaponizing the doj. and using it to go after president biden so-called political enemies. here s garland testimony before the judiciary committee in october of 2021. more republican senators had their say about garland s memo on protecting school board members, just to be clear that was a memo on protecting
but housing, they really need to build a lot more housing in that state. yes. and given where they are it s complicated. yes. thanks to you at home for being here tonight. tonight we start with merrick garland. it s no surprise that republicans are not fans of the attorney general. ever since he arrived at the justice department, republicans have repeatedly accused garland of weaponizing the doj and going after trump. here he is in 2021 where the republican senators had their say about garland s memo on protecting school board members. just to be clear, yes, that was a memo of protecting school board members. take a listen. i ll leave it at this, general garland. you have weaponized the fbi and the department of justice. it is wrong, it is unprecedented to this history in our country, and i call on you to resign. thank god you re not on the supreme court. you should resign as a disgraced judge. then in august of this year when the fbi executed a search warra
i see a connection between devolder and red stone? devolder organization is actually a manager in redstone llc. red socially llc, as you mentioned, is this florida company that he has a partner in. so it seems to be that that is a clear connection. there is this thing called redstone strategies that was also raising money during 2022. and they re going out to donors and they were saying, look, we want to raise all this money to do this big media. backdoor cut by all this advertising. and we re going to heat one point $5 million. and they re going to all of these donors at a party given the maximum amount they re allowed to give. they went to the mid said, can you get more? in one case, actually, santos actually seemed to be on the phone. or seem to be the person directly solicited the donor. which is another potential issue in terms of some of the campaign finance implications of this. the panel what they re doing when things were not able to find any records of any actual advertis
redstone strategies which claimed to have the singular purpose of electing george santos, that super pac was raising money but did not appear to be spending it. the fact in fact, the fec has no record of redstone s strategies at all and there do not appear to be any records documenting its donors. the new york times spoke with them. the times found no record of redstone making any ad buys on santos behalf. now, redstone claimed to have raised at least $800,000, which is slightly more than what santos personally lent his campaign. and the source was that mystery company devolder. to recap, redstone is hauling in serious cash, and we don t know where it ultimately went. and another company devolder is
devolder and redstone? well, devolder organization is actually a manager in redstone strategy s llc. now, redstone llc is this florida company he has a partnership in. there seems to be a clear santos connection. there s this thing called redstone strategies that was also raising money during 2022. they were saying, looking we want to raise all this money to do this big media thing. we need $1.5 million. the donors gave the maximum amount they were allowed to give. they went to them and asked them if they could give more. santos seemed to be the person who was directly soliciting the donor, which is another potential issue in what they