for the fbi. perhaps even defunding the special counsel s office. they re also talking about dragging and counsel jack smith. perhaps attorney general merrick garland before congress with the subpoena. if possible as well. there is several things they are currently contemplating. some are through the appropriations process. remember some of the most powerful things that congress can do is through the power of the purse. by restricting funding. then other things on the other hand are through the investigations peace house republicans have the power to do that now. one more thing i ll say over in the senate. senator j.d. vance. freshman senator. he is holding up all justice department nominees until he gets promise from merrick garland if he will not politicize the department of justice. he hasn t defined what that
i want to do it the way our founding fathers believe we should have starting in 1776, that it is the people of this country, where every person s voice and vote counts equally. that is how we decide who governs this country not by a federal administrative police state. i challenge my fellow contenders in this race with this commitment letter to say that we will pardon trump on january 20th, 2025. steve: so there you have got vivek calling on all of his opponents in the republican primary to promise, go ahead. be very vocal. come out right now and say you, like i, will pardon donald trump if he is convicted. ron desantis has not addressed the pardon specifically, but he started to outline plans to essentially overhaul the department of justice and the fbi. senator j.d. vance says he will block most nominees for the doj in response to the unprecedented political prosecution and persecution of donald trump.
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president. senator j.d. vance announcing that he will block all doj nominations over trump s indictment, going nuclear saying, quote, if merrick garland wants to use these officials to harass, we will grind his department to a halt. of course, not discussing at all the nature of the allegations themselves and the seriousness of them. manu raju is outfront live from capitol hill. you ve been talking to so many republicans on capitol hill over the past few days. so you ve seen how they started responding. you ve seen the evolution in some cases. are you seeing a change in tone now that the president s been arraigned, now that they ve all had a chance to really read the indictment? republicans are very much divided over don erin. you did see in the initial aftermath of the news in the indictment late last week and after the indictment was unsealed, many of those supporters rushing to his defense. but after they came back to capitol hill over the last couple of days, i ve had a chance
forums. ceo of turning point usa, charlie kirk, also addressed a target situation saying the only thing we understand is force, pain is a teacher. right-wing darlings like candace owens echoed him, saying quote, don t show up at target unless you are a pervert. even republican senator j.d. vance tweeted that target is quote, waging war on its conservative customer base and says he would be boycotting target. the rage monger-ing use eagles all the way to the top. as i have pointed out before, muslim extremists as bad as it was, is, never had the support of one of our two major political parties, and a big chunk of our media. what it comes to the domestic extremist of today though, they are indulge by the gop, and incited by the folks over at fox. the hypocrisy, by the way, is breathtaking. the conservatives who love to engage and don t stay histrionics whenever a homeless person shop lives a loaf of bread from a san francisco grocery store, those same