knights on the border good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin with breaking news request late today. today from the former president s legal team to lift the gag order. now that a jury has found him guilty in all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to keep word of his hush money payment to stormy daniels from reaching voters in the 2016 election. as you know, gag order or not, he s already said plenty about the judge. the judge s daughter, and witnesses in the case he s now his lawyers are seeking free rein, seen as keras canal is here with the tails also joining us bestselling author and former federal prosecutors, jeffrey thuban, and retired new york judge joel kahn visor, longtime friend of the trial judge in the case. so what does the trump team want so trump s team is saying now that the trial is over and the gag order that was put in place to protect the witnesses jury from trump s comments now that it s over there saying that the judge should lift t
morning, everyone. you re live in judiciary committee will begin girl and is expected to push back against gop attacks on the justice department. and gop claims i am that the doj is weaponized against donald trump. also, opening statements are underway in the trial of the president s son, hunter biden, on three felony gun charges, but there are already some developments in sayyed that courtroom will bring you and president biden is about to announce an executive order on illegal immigration, cracking down on the flow of migrants or false the southern border. the move is controversial. it s drawing fire from republicans, no surprise, but even from border patrol agents will find out why. but first let s go to paul reaches outside the courthouse in delaware where hunter biden s trial is starting. paul, you ve got some breaking news about the jury, what just happened that s right. even before opening statements got underway this morning, we already lost a juror now, this ju
weaponized the justice department in terms of hiding and protecting democrats menendez cuellar and hunter biden justice department follows the facts and the law now, merrick garland also faced questions from three gop congressman roy biggs, a massive right in a letter to garland in part what they say is in addition, other investigations have pointed to the fbi s possible we ll involvement in facilitating the events of january 6, they cite as evidenced in this letter, a new york post columnist peas from last year about this topic. now, it is important to point out anderson that the fbi director christopher wray, has repeatedly testified, but the fbi had absolutely no involvement in the attack on january 6, the justice department itself as prosecuted hundreds of people, many of whom pleaded guilty, admitted they are wrong, and some of them also, of course, anderson said they came to the capital because they thought they were
back on my respect for the court process on the fact that cases are in. i got under judges and i m just not going to i just can t comment. there s to jordan and his opening comments commented on the execution of a search warrant and said it was different in all these different ways. how many classified documents were found pursuant to that search warrant and how many times that there had been an attempt to get those classified documents and they d been refused to return so i don t know. i don t have in my head the number that s all on the public record including the number of times that efforts were made to obtain through legal process to dock this whole hearing is about weaponization of the justice department in the suggestion that there was somehow your department was involved in the prosecution of donald trump and the state court in new york as far as weaponization of the department goes did the justice department indict senator menendez that s a matter of
public record. yes. and he s a democrat, indy i m assuming the answer is yes. and henry cuellar, justice department indicted him. he s a democrat to its amount, matter of public record so you ve prosecuted democrats as we speak, hunter biden, who is a son of the president, is under trial in delaware and so you have a weaponized the justice department in terms of hiding and protecting democrats menendez cuellar and hunter biden that the justice department follows the facts and the law the prosecutor like cases alike, and we make decisions about different cases in different ways. we do not allow the political party or the ethnicity, or the religion, or the race, or the wealth, or the influence of someone we re investigating to make a difference in our urging