justice is protected by the constitution. there s growing evidence that equal justice in the u.s. is being replaced with a system of selective prosecution. agencies are targeting citizens they re supposed to protect. under president biden the justice department mass prosecuted his direct political rivals, no better example than donald trump federally indicted. to be clear can you disagree with trump s actions and believe what he did was wrong. i did. but this is the president s main opponent. his al it s like steve bannon peter navarro rudy giuliani have been targeted and maybe that s all right and proper. in the interest of democracy to question it. many believe these agencies have become unaccountable and too powerful. so, i watch with interest the questioning at the house judiciary committee today. you preside over the fbi. it has the lowest level of trust in the fbi s history. people trusted the fbi why j. edgar hoover was running the place and the reason is because you
jim jordan might be the most punk they accuse of f.b.i. targeting conservatives, pro-life groups and catholics and parents attending school board meetings and also questions about the hunter biden investigation, allegations of f.b.i. collusion with big tech to block social media posts related to hunter biden s laptop prior to the 2020 election. the story that continues today. dana: aishah hosni is outside the hearing room. we have analysis from andy mccarthy and chris swecker and first we ll go to david spunt. you are at the justice department. i imagine that christopher wray is not looking forward to this testimony but something that he has to do and he will defend the men and women of the f.b.i. in his opening statement. hi. this comes at an interesting time right now with the f.b.i. in the news. director wray wants to focus on the f.b.i. he sees. that is what he will call it in his opening statement. one of the big topics that will come up is the hunter biden investi
impossible. eric holder thinks it s possible. as attorney general, he used to be in charge of the bureau of prisons. so finally we have someone who knows more about this than i do, which is pretty easy to find. those are some logistics i would like to hear about, lawrence, so i will be tuning in. finally, we re gonna have that discussion. i m eager to do it. at long last. i will stay tuned. thank you. this day began with the announcement of the emmy nominations, honoring some, but not all, of the very best work done on television in the last year, which makes it a fitting day to consider how much damage television has done in some of the places where we are allowed to point our cameras. i am speaking, of course, about what television has done to the congressional hearing as we approach the 70th year of television coverage of congressional hearings. this hearing has turned into absolute chaos. that happened at 11:39 a.m. today, 69 years after the first televised co
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