think about this, the house judiciary committee subpoenaed don mcgahn, the white house counsel for president trump. the litigation over that subpoena too two years before there was a silts -- settlement. it wasn't even resolved after two years. obviously two years is out of the question. that's the pace at which the legal system operates. i think the trump people realize that tyke is on their side. >> what do you make of this latest statement calling the 2020 election the real insurrection. does this taunt show exactly why the committee needs to investigate the january 6th attack? >> you know, it's also part of a big process going on, led by the former president, which is the normalization of what went on on january 6th. yesterday we talked about former vice president pence saying, well, you know, this wasn't such a big deal. the entire republican party is falling into line with this really obscene idea that this was some sort of legitimate political protest on january 6th, instead of the criminal insurrection that it really was. the former president said is precisely that, it was merely a p

judiciary committee, have you become familiar with the public reported details about the case? >> g.a. garland: i have read about the details. >> greg: that's good, think of her how was his performance? before i don't think you can say the name merrick garland without thinking about the history. at that time, he was seen afters this person who was so wrong because he did not have an opportunity to have a hearing. everyone has expected that as attorney general he would be this evenhanded and careful attorney general. the problem for merrick garland is that the events make it look otherwise. even at the national school board association sending out this memo, then the back story, and "they have been going back and forth with the white house. we are upset with what's been going on in meetings, and people are under assault or in danger." over the weekend, from friday, the letter goes out. monday, there is an announcement that the fbi will be watching all of this. now, under scrutiny and questioning, merrick garland goes "i based it on the letter from the national school board assoc

judiciary committee, but that left the law in a mess. the court of appeals, their three-judge panel, says the house has no statute to base a civil action on to enforce a subpoena, unlike the senate which does have such a law. the house has done nothing about correcting that. the house does have inherent powers. again, they've done nothing to exercise those inherent powers. there's a resolution that was introduced by ted lu, congressman from california in the last congress which could fix that where the house could, indeed, hold somebody in contempt and then fine them as long as they remained in contempt and it could get quite expensive for somebody who didn't comply. i'm not sure, pam, why the house isn't getting its act together and making these things very effective when they do subpoena them. >> that was cnn contributor and former nixon white house counsel john dean speaking with our pam brown. >>> u.s. health experts are cautiously optimistic that the country may be turning a corner on the pandemic. hospitalizations, cases and deaths

today during the house judiciary committee, merrick garland sidestepped a question about his intentions. >> the department recognizes the important oversight role that this committee, the house of representatives, and the senate play with respect to the executive branch. the department of justice will do what it always does and circumstances, it would apply the facts and a lot to make a decision consistent with the principles of prosecution. >> now, there are however, new signs indicating how serious the feds appear to be about the sex trafficking investigation, involving trump ally and gop florida congressman matt gates. according to the new york times, the justice department has added to tell prosecutors from washington to the team working on that very case. the times puts it this way, the prosecutors, won a public corruption investigator with an expertise and child exploitation crimes, and the other a top leader of the public corruption unit, have been working on the florida-based investigation for at least three months. gates has not been charged with any crime, and has denied all w

but she's quite familiar also, because she sat on the house intelligence committee and the house judiciary committee, where she tried to get former trump officials back then, allies of the president, to talk to congress. so, she knows what it is like to have them defy your authority. but look at, this process is going to take a long time. months, if not years. and that is because if the house passes this and is referred to the justice department, they decide to prosecute bannon, he could tie it up in court for very long time. guys? >> that some of this has been done fairly quickly. that's why all of the democrats are hopeful of. julie tsirkin joining us from capitol hill. thank. you we want to bring in our panel, danny cevallos and democratic strategist and have your political playlist podcasts, emily tisch sussman. welcome to both of you. emily, i want to start with. you it's mention versus everyone. these days, apparently. progressives have shift jested that climate change measures are a red line for them. so, is his opposition going to blow this whole thing up? i >> certainly hope not.

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host: that from the house judiciary committee meeting earlier this week. you can watch the whole thing at c-span.org. as the sun begins to rise on this saturday, october 23, asking you what role parents should play in public education. several responses from social media. elizabeth writing, parents should have complete control over their children's education. anne say, parents should play a role in education but let the professionals that we all pay for lead and do their jobs. the majority are not skilled or educated enough to determine curriculum. it is a shame the extremists are trying to bully the professionals about things they don't know or don't exist. also, try to push a whitewashed agenda to keep our kids ignorant. brenda saying, any parent who does not pay attention to anything your child is taught is asking for trouble. go to the meetings, talk to your school board. parents have been allowing liberal indoctrination for 20 years. pay attention. yes, parents should review school programs in advance. jimmy saying, kids are not government property. y

attorney general merrick garland was noncommital when testifying before the house judiciary committee yesterday. >> the department recognizes the important oversight role that this committee, the house of representatives, and the senate play with respect to the executive branch. the house of representatives votes for referral of a contempt charge. the department of justice will do what it always does in such circumstances, will apply the facts and the law and make a decision consistent with the principals of prosecution. >>> joining us now, reporter. what sort of backlash will they face within the gop? >> i mean, absolutely these republicans knew when they took that vote, they're facing possibly becoming political pariah in their party. they voted against the majority whip, the majority party. they've seen this before. congresswoman liz cheney was on the select committee when she voted against -- i'm sorry. when she voted for the impeachment of the january 6 select committee and continued to speak out against donald trump, she was stripped of her leadership position with the blessing

he's the top republican on the house judiciary committee and author of the upcoming back, "do what you said you would do." as you heard rich edson say, china is not going to cooperate. what is the remedy? >> this is nothing new. china has misled us from the get-go. i came from an interview with dr. burkes. she said china misled us the whole time. who else misled us, dr. fauci. it's amazing -- most people in the country want to know how did the virus start except for china, dr. fauci and the democrats. why is that? look, i hope we get to the bottom of it. the fact that we were sending american tax dollars to this lab, the fact that it's looks like they were doing gain of function research and the most plausible explanation that it leaked from the lab but we don't want to find out and china is blocking us makes no sense. something this serious and taken as many lives as its taken, we need to find out how it started. >> if china is not going to cooperate, do we need them to? we had a guest friday that said maybe we don't. listen to him and i'll get your response on the back side. >> my wo

joining us now congressman ken buck of house antitrust and house judiciary committees. congressman, good to have you back on. your reaction to this report. we have the hearing tomorrow. is there now serious movement to do something about this in congress? >> i think there is serious movement. i think it is really important that the public understands the need for the movement. it is clear that facebook has shown no interest in stopping the predators who use the site. for example human traffickers and drug dealers. they have shown very little interest in the fact that teen suicide rates are going up. that teen girls especially have serious issues when they're using instagram, serious bodily issues and so there are all these, you know, problems that really magnify the monopoly issue that facebook is involved in. if we have five facebooks, we have competitive pressure to make sure that these companies deal with the, really abuses going on. elizabeth: congressman, phase book whistle-blower said, quote, facebook's own research shows that it knows that its content is hateful,

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judiciary committee. in the meantime there is the ongoing biden presidency after all, democrats are working with the white house on salvaging the presidents ambitious the mystic spending plan. today he was back on the road, the simon's hometown of scranton pa, to promote what is now a slimmed down version of his proposal to expand several social programs and address climate change. biden plan to raise taxes to pay for those proposals has now meeting increased resistance from wait for, democrat it later kyrsten sinema of arizona. there was also joe manchin of west virginia. according to new report from other jones mentioned quote, told associates that he is considering leaving the democratic party if president joe biden and democrats on capitol hill do not agree to his demand to get the size of the social infrastructure bill from 3.5 trillion to 1.7 five trillion. manchin has said that if this were to happen, he would declare himself an american independent, and he has devised a detailed exist ravaging for

member of the house judiciary committee, he joins me now. it's good to have you, congressman. the, i think there's a key distinction, congresswoman uses planning in that tweet. cori bush's resolution says incitement. has it been cleared by members of congress? >> it's great to be on your show again. you know, there is a fine point and i think that that's why it's so important to conduct the investigation that cori bush and so many other colleagues called for early this year. i appreciate the reporting done by rolling stone. obviously there needs to be further investigation and of course this was the entire point of the select committee, which we had hoped would be done on a bipartisan basis earlier this year, but we couldn't get enough support from our republican colleagues in the united states senate to do a simple bipartisan investigation of what happened on january 6th. that's why you're seeing democrats lead the way. issue subpoenas that are uncovering day by day the kind of information that we are seeing reported in rolling stone. >> but expulsion from congress, the 14th

member of the house intelligence committee and the house judiciary committee. thank you very much for joining us tonight, congressman swalwell. chairman thompson is saying that anything is possible in terms of where the subpoenas will be going next, but it seems like the january 6th committee does have to calculate how long a fight, a legal fight donald trump would put up over a subpoena. >> lawrence, we should assume that he is going to fight everything. that's what he does. he is a legal terrorist, as we would call him on the impeachment team. we offered for him to come and testify in impeachment number two, and, if you recall, he refused that offer and we believe that showed a consciousness of guilt. and if he makes the same refusal if he is asked for january 6th, i hope the country recognizes the reason he won't come forward is that he's guilty. as it relates to the sedition suite at the willard hotel, yes, we should know who paid for and stayed in that suite at the very least. >> yeah, and apparently there were several of them. let's listen to john eastman

and the house judiciary committee actually passed a package of antitrust bills earlier this summer with the support of several republicans, but it has yet to receive a full vote in the house. now, look, there is bipartisan anger over facebook and big tech right now, but the big question is whether it can actually turn into action. and part of the problem is that even though republicans and democrats agree on the need to rein in silicon valley, they have different reasons to do so and different visions for how to do so. the other big piece of this, laura, is money. big tech is one of the biggest political spenders in washington. they have for a very long time up here, but incredibly powerful and have gone untouched. so we'll have to see whether this actually is different this time around. but proponents of cracking down feel like the tides are finally turning in their favor, laura. >> the lobbying aspect of this really key there. melanie, thank you for your reporting. appreciate it. >> reporter: thank you. >>> the chicago city council poised to vote this week on one of the nation's most

the house judiciary committee passed a package of anti-trust bills earlier this summer with the support of several republicans, i should note. it has yet to receive a vote on the house floor. so, look, while there is bipartisan anger, it is still very unclear whether that's actually going to translate into action. part of the reason is because republicans and democrats, while they agree on the need to reign in silicon valley, they disagree on why and how to do it. the other bigbrianna, is money. big tech is one of the biggest political spenders in washington. this is what david cicilline told me about this. quote, with enormous economic power very often comes enormous political power. and they are spending millions and millions of dollars, flooding this town with lobbyists and campaign contributions, doing everything they can to stop these reforms. this is the reason that battles against monopolies are hard. so we'll see what happens here. i will note that proponents of cracking down on big tech feel like momentum is finally on their side. >> we'll see if it is enough. thank you. >> joi

he told the house judiciary committee said you would know if durham were done investigating the origins of the fbi's look into president trump and russia. last month durham got an indictment against former clinton campaign lawyer michael susman. he pleaded not guilty to lying to the fbi when he passed on a tip about a possible connection with the trump organization and a russian bank. a two-year russia collusion investigation followed and went nowhere. the question is why was he passing along that information and to whom and what understanding did they have any understanding of why he did that. susman says a subpoena to his law form showing that he's not done. let's bring in former acting attorney general matt whisker. what did you think of that moment and what can you tell us about your understanding where this stands and where it's going? >> well, it's very clear the investigation by john durham is still going on and trying to get to the origins of the russian collusion hoax. ultimately the question is how much resources is john durham being given by the department of justice. somehow

it's just amazing. >> don, you know, when the house judiciary committee subpoenaed don mcgahn, trump's white house counsel, it took two years to get through the court. two years. that's the kind of system that we're dealing with here. >> oh, boy. kirsten, let's talk about another tough thing that's happening in another tough week for the biden presidency. a disappointing jobs report. the country barely avoided a default. the debt ceiling remains, right? that mess remains. it's temporary that they -- you know, they're stopping it now, but they're going to have to deal with it in december. and his domestic agenda, if i can get my lips to work right on a friday, is in jeopardy. i mean biden ran as a candidate that could get things done. so how is he going to pull all this off? >> well, look, yes, i mean i think he's trying to get things done. but we also have to keep perspective on this which it's not like he has 60 democratic votes in the senate. he's working with a very narrow majority and with a couple senators who are -- you know, aren't going to go along with his agenda as he's laid

. >> harris: attorney general garland getting grilled by the house judiciary committee. you watched it on fox live yesterday. a "wall street journal" sums it up this way. merrick garland gets schooled. mr. garland provided no evidence to suggest an escalation in the violence against school boards and no explanation for why such facts, even if criminal, are federal offenses. republicans hit garland on any coordination there might be between the d.o.j. and white house before sending out that controversial memo targeting parents at school board meetings. here is how he answered. >> has the white house told you to white the memo? >> no one spoke to me about the memo at all. i'm sure i -- at least i certainly would believe that the white house communicated its concerns about the letter to the justice department and that is -- >> my next question, did you or anyone at the justice department discuss the memo with white house personnel or with anyone at the white house before the memo was sent? >> i did not. >> harris: okay. let's add this into it. new emails show the white hous

judiciary committee or the routine hearing on the oversight department of justice. he'll very likely be asked how he's going to handle some of these cases. you know, he might actually get some greater insight into how this could all pay out. >> it's certainly a busy time right now over on capitol hill. you're also following, of course, all negotiations within the democratic party with the bipartisan sfrur deal and an attempt to get a deal on the larger reconciliation package. it seems like there's been a sense of optimism the last couple of days, but also there's a lot of stuff that needs to get sorted outst. tell us where we stand? >> on tuesday there were meetings. and in these meetings, according to sources in our room, he delivered these assessments of what could go and what could stay necessarily in their social spending package, and this is leading to a bit of heartburn among democrats about things they have to let go. you have the longer extension of the child tax credit or free community college, but emerging from all this and after meetings the democrats he

the attorneys general coming before the house judiciary committee on thursday will be certainly asked about these issues. >> lastly, i need your opinion about what a new gop gerrymandering map in texas is doing. whites in texas make up 40% of the population but now control 59% of the districts. hispanics have 39% but control just 20% of the districts. and blacks make up 12% of all texans, but control a tiny portion of districts. 2.7%. the texas house passed this bill at 3:00 a.m. thursday night, so democracy quite literally is dying in the dark. is there anything that congress can do about this? >> well, part of the freedom to vote act would prohibit this type of aggressive gerrymandering designed to bring about a republican partisan advantage where the demographics of a state, in that case, texas, don't measure up. we also, i think, are going to see litigation filed against this particular map because, as your numbers so clearly illustrate, this is a racial gerrymander that is a classic one and should not pass muster in terms of the constitution. i expect that the courts will hear th

judiciary committee quizzing the ag over his recent memo targeting parents of school students over comments at school board meetings pick of attorney general saying the justice department defends those free-speech rights and the parents are not domestic terrorists but that issue and others may force some explosive moments at this hearing. correspondent david spunt has the other a top story tonight. >> attorney general merrick garland is standing his ground on several hot button topics brought up today from january 6th. one of the recurring themes over several hours today, school board meetings. minutes after the hearing began, it went off the rails. >> mr. chairman, what are our colleagues on the other side of the aisle afraid of? are they afraid of videos of parents? >> the gentleman was recognized for his opening statement, as he finished? >> republicans push to show a video about school board meetings, democrats said no sighting of rule that requires 48 hours notice for video presentations to be shown. attorney general merrick garland in the hot seat answering multiple questions from rep

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let's bring in legal analyst, ambassador norm eisen, special counsel for the house judiciary committee in president trump's first impeachment trial. good morning, ambassador. great to see you as always. so in that first round of subpoenas, there were a lot of familiar faces, steve bannon and mark meadows, but in this subpoena list, not quite household names. you say that shouldn't fool anyone. what's significant to you about these subpoenas? >> boris, thanks for having me back. always wonderful to see you. in building any investigation it's important to identify those who -- because every investigation is different -- played the central role. they're not always big names, but this round of 11 subpoenas includes some familiar ones like katrina pierson and some less familiar ones who occupied critical conduit roles, boris. these are folks who worked in the republican fundraising and political apparatus in the trump campaign and also who are listed as organizers on the papers for the january 6th rally which became inthe crime of insurrection -- incitement of insurrection. i think just as

judiciary committee. republicans have been seizing on this memo ever since it was issued october 4, and they've been falsely saying it was meant to stifle free speech and portraying it as a directive to arrest parents when they speak out at board meetings. simply, this is a memo that tells the fbi and law enforcement to work with strategies to stop threats. merrick garland, thsince this hearing began at 10:00 this morning, has been defeating the memo, saying it doesn't target parents. in fact, parents have been encouraged to have debates. he told senator cotton this, as long as there are no threats of violence, they are fully protected. but the attorney general is also noting the rise in threats in recent months, not just against school board members but against many others. here's what he said. >> it's in a rising tide of threats of violence against judges, against prosecutors, against secretaries of state, against election administrators, against doctors, against protesters, against news reporters. that

the vice chair of the house judiciary committee. thanks so much for being with us. what's your reaction to those remarks we just heard from green? >> well, sadly, i've had to put up with marjorie taylor greene a bit this week. she came in and observed while we had merit garland in front of the judiciary committee. she's not based in the fact or the truth or any sense of the rule of law. any sense of the constinstituti congress. those who voted against the resolution to hold steve bannon in contempt are literally voting against their own interests. against the institution of congress. against our subpoena power as a co-equal branch of government. so miss greene is sadly very misled. does not understand literally her oath of office or what democracy is all about. >> and congresswoman, i don't want to spend too much time on her, but are you concerned about being around her? about your colleagues being around her? what do you make of this? she has this confrontation with congresswoman liz cheney and congressman jamie raskin. seems to happen so much. >> she frequently co

you can begin. >>> house committee on judiciary will come to order. without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. welcome everyone to this morning's hearing and oversight of the department of justice. before we begin i would like to remind members we have established an e-mail address and distribn dedicated to circulating exhibits, motions or other materials members might want to offer as part of our fuld like to submit materials please distribute them and we'll circulate them to members and staff aif you would like to submit materials please distribute them and we'll circulate them to members and staff as quickly as we can. also face conversation are required for all meetings in enclosed space such as committee hearings except when you are recognized to speak. i will now recognize myself in opening statement. good morning mr. attorney general, and thank you for appearing before our committee today. in the department of justice performance as it should it is champion of bill of rights protector of rule of

i am including in the record now the house judiciary committee's -- and without objection that will be included. and continue to work with us because i was thrilled to be standing with leading -- republicans and democrats when we last signed this bill, and saying, see, this is for america. it is not for either political party. it is for america. and that is what we want. now, to answer senator blackburn's question, senator lee will be recognized, then senator klobuchar. center late -- senator lee? sen. lee: thank you. ms. clark, let's talk about what states can do. does california have the authority and should it have the authority to adopt more stringent air quality standards than federal standards without receiving preclearance from the federal government? gen. clarke: this is not an area that i work in. i suppose, but this is not an area that i work in. sen. lee: what about areas protected by the bill of rights? let's suppose a state wants to pass laws dealing with covid-19 that might have the impact of restricting religious freedom by, for example, restricting the number of people

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here to discuss democratic congresswoman madeline dean, vice chair of the house judiciary committee. the house is voting right now we are told that the -- there are eight republicans who have voted along with the democrats to refer the matter of criminal contempt of congress to the department of justice. they include not surprisingly liz cheney, adam kinzinger, but also congressman upton of michigan, meyer of minnesota, gonzalez of ohio, katko of new york, mace of south carolina, and your fellow suburban philadelphian congressman fitzpatrick of pennsylvania. what is your reaction to the vote so far? >> i am not surprised it is along party lines and i am pleased we have at least eight republicans who see the truth, who recognize the essential oversight role that congress plays, and that we should not be fooled with by the likes of steve bannon. so we will refer this matter by way of this vote to the attorney general, to the department of justice, to hold mr. bannon accountable to his subpoena and to make sure that we continue our oversight role into a heinous set of crimes that took p

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. >> harris: all right, we will get back to the house judiciary committee and the attorney general america garland now, questioning from the 46 members bipartisan continues now. >> i certainly did, and i worked on it. >> in that memo you issued a directive to the fbi. you directed the fbi to conduct meetings with leaders at all levels of government across the country, and every judicial district to strategize against an alleged trend of "harassment, intimidation and threats of violence." you didn't cite examples to distinguish legitimate first amendment activity from criminal activity, nor certainly examples of a nationwide scope or severity of such acts that constitute a rise or a spike in criminal activity which you alleged in the memo. certainly not one that would not warrant nationwide action by the fbi. here you relied on knowledge which you relied in part, which by the way characterized of this activity nationwide is domestic terrorism and may be some vague awareness of other news reports. this was not the initiation of the investigation, and frankly, the preeminent law enforcement o

all the republicans on the house judiciary committee have an obligation. we're supposed to provide oversight for the department of justice. merrick garland is the attorney general. he is the top law enforcement official in this country. he should be above reproach. when he sent out the controversial memo on july 4th it raised a lot of eyebrows. his memo to direct the fbi and u.s. attorney's offices to mobilize against parents who have audacity to exercise free speech and protest curriculum at the local school board. this despite the fact it looks partisan, ethics problem has arisen. reported everywhere that the attorney general's son-in-law is cofounder and owner of a company, that gets this, promotes the far left curricula that is subject of many of these parents protest. we need a public report on this. we need an ethics inquiry and we demanded that today. liz: at the same time he aiming federal firepower meant for terrorists against parents making alleged threats to school boards his son-in-law is making big bucks from school boards. one report says $12

judiciary committee but that left the law in a mess. the sort of -- the court of appeals, their three-judge panel, says the house has no statute to base a civil action on to enforce a subpoena, unlike the senate, which does have such a law. the house has done nothing about correcting that. the house does have inherent powers. again, they've done nothing to exercise those inherent powers. there's a resolution that was introduced by ted lieu, congressman from california, in the last congress, introduced it again in this congress, which could fix that, where the house could indeed hold somebody in contempt and then fine them as long as they remained in contempt. and it could get quite expensive for somebody who didn't comply. i'm not sure, pam, why the house isn't getting its act together and making these things very effective. when they do subpoena them. >> i'm curious, because they -- the committee, house committee, did speak to some of the trump former doj officials who were able to speak to his efforts to overturn the election results,

trump's first impeachment, as a counsel to the house judiciary committee. he is now with the brookings institution. norm eisen, thank you very much, and welcome back to the "newshour". first of all, what is your understanding of why this special congressional committee wants to hear from steve bannon? >> judy, thanks for having me back. we know that steve bannon, donald trump's long-time advisor for a time in the white house, estranged, then consulting again, was intimately involved with donald trump's decision to, in my view, incite an insurrection on january 6th 2021. bannon is the one who called him and told him trump had to get back to washington for this. there's been reporting that bannon has partially corroborated that he spoke about killing the biden presidency in the crib, judy, and we know that he used very strong language on his podcast about what was going to happen on january 6th. so, for all those reasons, bannon's fingerprints are on the events of january 6th and he is a critically important witness in his own right, but also to understand th

. >> reporter: now, alex, congressman ted lieu sits on the house judiciary committee. he knows this well because he spent years trying to conduct oversight of the trump administration, so the committee now essentially moving forward with this process of criminal contempt for steve bannon and any other witness who defies a subpoena. they're looking at a form of punishment rather than getting to their goal of hearing from these witnesses. >> okay, julie. thank you so much for that update from capitol hill. >>> now to breaking news out of california where we are getting more information on the status of former president bill clinton as he remains hospitalized for now a fifth day. a person familiar with his condition telling nbc news that clinton's doctors are evaluating whether to release him from the hospital today. just a few hours ago, we saw hillary and chelsea clinton returning to the uci, that's university of california at irvine, medical center where the former president is being treated for a urological infection. monica is following this story from the white hous

judiciary committee passed a similar bill earlier this year. amy klobuchar and chuck grassley are working on a bill to make it illegal for amazon, apple, and google among others to give their own products and services an advantage over those of rivals and amazon is under particular scrutiny after reuters reported that thousands of pages of internal documents revealed a systemic campaign of creating knockoffs and manipulating search results to boost its own product lines in india, which is a key growth market, and an investigation by the mark-up found the e-commerce giant placed products from its own brands higher in search ruments than better rated products from rivals >> we scraped thousands of search results on amazon and found there is no question that being an amazon brand is the most important factor in getting to the top ranking on amazon we used machine learning to do this with a statistical analysis, and the results were clear. >> amazon responding, quote, we do not favor our store brand products through search. there is a difference be

, the house judiciary committee for the first time on thursday, with the topics ranging from january 6th to texas abortion law and the assaults on voting rights, what do you want to ask the attorney general? >> so that is a great question, alex. a lot also depends on what the people before me ask the attorney general. >> good point. >> so i do have a thousand questions i would like to ask merrick garland, so it will depends on what is asked before it gets to me. >> i would suggest, though, those topics are among those consideration, those three that i rattled off? >> yes, absolutely. >> okay, what about "politico," which is predicting a tense and contentious hearing especially with republicans likely to dig in on the hot button issues like the ones around vaccine mandates and crime in major cities. are you preparing for gop fireworks? something you've certainly seen before. >> i'm prepared that radical republicans are going to continue to be extreme and say dangerous things. for example, i commend the department of justice for trying to protect school board members who are threatened

he is testifying right now on capitol hill before the house judiciary committee. he just weighed in on the bannon decision. let's get over to cnn's jessica schneider who's following this for us. jessica, what is the attorney general saying? >> well, this has been a wide-ranging hearing, kate. the attorney general has very much tried to stay on message to talk about the moves that the justice department has made during his seven months at the top. in particular, he referenced the fact that they have doubled the staff of their voting rights section in the past year to be prepared to evaluate this influx of voting rights laws that have been enacted by mostly republican states. at the same time, the attorney general here, he is sticking to this message that he always focuses on. he repeatedly has said the justice department is not political and that its sole goal is to uphold and protect the rule of law. but of course today is that house vote on the steve bannon contempt referral. when the attorney general was asked what the doj will do when this referral is ultimatel

judiciary committee and he was asked about this criminal contempt referral. this is what he had to say. >> there will be people who -- from the democratic party who disagree with my determinations, and you've already heard some of those, and there will be people from the republican party who will disagree with my determinations about our filings in civil cases. that comes with the territory. that's what happens to the attorney general. i'm doing my best to ensure that we make decisions on the facts and the law, and when i said i would protect our people from partisan influence with respect to investigations and prosecutions, i meant that. >> reporter: and so there is going to be enormous pressure on garland and the doj to move swiftly with the prosecution of steve bannon, referred to a grand jury, take it to court, and then ultimately find him guilty so that he -- they can begin the process of trying to get this information from bannon, and along this process, there's always the possibility that bannon and the committee could begin negotiations to get him to

. >>> right now attorney general merrick garland is about to answer questions from the house judiciary committee for the first time. it is expected to be a contentious hearing as lawmakers will likely press him on the enforcement of subpoenas from the january 6 committee as well as the capital riot, voting rights, migrants at the southern border and the ongoing abortion ban in texas. >> cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is joining us live from washington. as jim pointed out, expected to get contentious. i think we're all waiting for a little bit of that. we also have a sense of what merrick garland is going to say going into this. >> the interesting thing about this, this is a standard oversight hearing. this is a chance for committee members on the judiciary committee to question the attorney general about what's happening at the department of justice. you can bet that the attorney general will do everything he can to steer it to a conversation about what the department of justice has done in his seven months at the top and what it will continue to do. in his opening stateme

judiciary committee, attorney general merrick garland pushed back on a "wall street journal" report that he told other justice department officials that he is concerned that jailing some january 6 insurrectionists could further radicalize them. >> my recollection of this is in a completely different context. that is i worry that there will be radicalization in the bureau of prisons when people are -- and this is radicalization has occurred with prison gangs, with white supremacist groups in prisons, and with radical middle eastern groups in prisons. and i was concerned that the bureau of prisons have a procedure for ensuring that that radicalization doesn't spread across prison populations. >> the attorney general faced questions about the department's handling in the prescription drugs of january 6 insurrectionists and the recent uptick in threats of violence against school boards and election officials. and joining me now is the person who asked him about the "wall street journal" reporting, congresswoman pramila jayapal of washington state. congresswoman, were you satisfied with

you can begin. >>> house committee on judiciary will come to order. without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. welcome everyone to this morning's hearing and oversight of the department of justice. before we begin i would like to remind members we have established an e-mail address and distribution list dedicated to circulating exhibits, motions or other materials members might want to offer as part of our hearing today. fuld like to submit materials please distribute them and we'll circulate them to members and staff as quickly as we can.if y materials please distribute them and we'll circulate them to members and staff as quickly as we can. also face conversation are required for all meetings in enclosed space such as committee hearings except when you are recognized to speak. i will now recognize myself in opening statement. good morning mr. attorney general, and thank you for appearing before our committee today. in the department of justice performance as it should it is champion of bill of rights,

i think it's absolutely essential that the six bills that passed out of the house judiciary committee make the floor of the house, i believe most if not all of those bills will pass, the senate is working on those bills also in making great progress. i think you will see a real change in these high-tech big tech area in the near future. >> congressman, thank you for your time, sir. >> president biden's agenda is in danger of being tainted by progressives in the house a separate bills has no chance of being passed. they say that the three-point trillion dollar price tag as way too high, so where do democrats go from here? kayleigh mcenany will weigh in next. ♪ i see trees of green ♪ ♪ red roses too ♪ ♪ i see them bloom ♪ ♪ for me and you ♪ ♪ and i think to myself ♪ ♪ what a wonderful world ♪ a rich life is about more than just money. that's why at vanguard, you're more than just an investor, you're an owner so you can build a future for those you love. vanguard. become an owner. there is no place like home y'all! vanguard. and these people know that there is no

hopefully we'll continue to work together on this and i'm including in the record now the house judiciary committee addressing footing rights act [inaudible] our objective will be included. i'll continue to work with you because i was thrilled [inaudible] i was thrilled to be standing with leading republicans and democrats, and say this is for america. it's for america. now to answer my friends question, senator lee will be recognizing senator klobuchar. >> thank you mister chairman, miss clark talk about four minute with states can do. can california have the authority and should it have the authority to adopt more stringent air quality standards than the federal standards in place without receiving plea clearance from the united states government? >> senator this is not an area that i work in this is not an area that i work in. >> what about areas that are protected by the bill of rights? hastings wants to pass laws dealing with covid-19 that might have the impact of restricting religious impact, like restricting the number of people who may congregate in a church or otherwise? should l

house judiciary committee chair and brian fitzpatrick. like the house passed bill the legislation will modernize and improve the progress we've made. this new version the violence against women act will not only provide funding to organizations and resources, it will invest in critical education and access to services for survivors in rural areas. it will help keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of abusers and provide survivors with the support they need by expanding access to legal services and other programs. we know we will send it to the desk of a leader that is not just sympathetic but wildly supportive of this measure, the man that originally sponsored the first violence against women act, president joe biden now i hiturn to the ranking member grassley. >> thank you mr. chairman and i welcome all the witnesses and guests to the hearing. they voted to reauthorize the grant programs authorized multiple times. when i wasn't able to support a democratic led effort to reauthorize, i introduced my own proposal that would have protecte

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