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
zola, one of the proud boys, his lawyer sounded like he had an interesting argument to make in terms of defending his client. hi, alex. thanks so much for having me. yes, indeed. as you said, we ve got five defendants, each with their own legal team, and, you know, as a result, you know, it s a crowded courtroom and there are some real characters in the mix which makes for entertaining viewing but was also coming out as a patchwork of legal arguments they re using to defend their individual clients. we have tar owe s lawyer, ricky tarrio who says his climate was scapegoated by the government and they re going after him because he was an easy target because they can t go after the big whale, which is donald trump. or they re trying to use the old line that the proud boys are just a drinking club. they re trying to downply the physical violence aspect of
boys lawyers is saying the riot on the capital was essentially a six-hour inconvenience as far as the work of congress. i think you also tweeted when they showed the clip of pazzola smashing the windows of the capital, the damage wasn t that bad because the windows don t look expensive, according to the lawyer. these are not $1,000 windows. tess, what was the reaction in the courtroom when that argument was made? i mean there were giggles for sure. he was replaying these iconic videos of pezzola using a stolen riot shield to smash the window, and this was the first breach of the capital. you know, it doesn t look any better, the third or fourth or fifth time you ve seen it. so it was kind of hard to understand what this lawyer s line of thinking was. he also played repeatedly the