From House Democrats. Its such a body blow to our democracy. Just how far reaching was this effort by the Justice Department . Hello, im dana bash in washington where the state of our union is trying to mend fences and build bridges. As President Biden is welcomed back to the club at the g7 summit in europe, he is also preparing for a closelywatched summit with russian president Vladimir Putin as tensions between the two countries continue to rise. The president will take questions from reporters this hour. We will bring that Press Conference to you live when it happens. In the meantime, the president s priorities here at home from infrastructure to Voting Rights have run smack into the reality of a 50 50 senate. And late this week, a stunning new revelation prompted an uproar on capitol hill and beyond. We learned the trump Justice Department seized Cell Phone Data from the former president s political enemies including members of congress. And joining me now exclusively is the House
From House Democrats. Its such a body blow to our democracy. Just how far reaching was this effort by the Justice Department . Hello, im dana bash in washington where the state of our union is trying to mend fences and build bridges. As President Biden is welcomed back to the club at the g7 summit in europe, he is also preparing for a closelywatched summit with russian president Vladimir Putin as tensions between the two countries continue to rise. The president will take questions from reporters this hour. We will bring that Press Conference to you live when it happens. In the meantime, the president s priorities here at home from infrastructure to Voting Rights have run smack into the reality of a 50 50 senate. And late this week, a stunning new revelation prompted an uproar on capitol hill and beyond. We learned the trump Justice Department seized Cell Phone Data from the former president s political enemies including members of congress. And joining me now exclusively is the House
appreciated, we aren t seeing a transformational d.o.j. that i think people had been looking forward to. and that is something that deserves a lot more questions. i want to ask about top democratic house leaders and a dozen of your jewish democratic colleagues issued a statement criticizing your friend be and colleague ilhan omar, congresswoman from minnesota, for what some democrats said was a, quote, offensive and misguided remark that they say equated the u.s. and israel with hamas and taliban, terrorist organizations. she later clarified saying she was not doing that. but i want you our viewers to read what you tweeted in response. you said, pretty sick and tired of the constant vilification intentional mischaracterization and public targeting of ilhan omar coming from our caucus. they have no concept for the danger they put her in by skipping private conversations
organizations. she later clarified saying she was not doing that. but i want you our viewers to read what you tweeted in response. you said, pretty sick and tired of the constant vilification intentional mischaracterization and public targeting of ilhan omar coming from our caucus. they have no concept for the danger they put her in by skipping private conversations and leaping to fueling targeted new cycles around her. first question is, what exactly did your fellow democrats mischaracterize? and are you saying that they are to blame for some threats against her? well, you know, i think i believe that her comments were absolutely mischaracterized. she was very clearly speaking about the icc investigations which name these four actors in two suits. and they named them in context events that happened in