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joining me now, congresswoman madeleine dean, vice chair of the house judiciary committee, and a member of the financial services committee, and the progressive caucus. welcome back to "the sunday show." >> good to be with you. >> i have to show you this headline that was in "politico," we'll put it up here. according to -- it is according to "politico," congresswoman jayapal pushed ron complain to not have president biden push for a vote on bif and build back better. did you know about that phone call? >> no, i didn't. i did see the reporting. but i do know that the congresswoman has been working closely with the white house, with the president, i'm sure with the chief of staff to bring forward the arguments of the progressive caucus. i did not know about that phone call. but what i do know is that the president came to caucus on thursday and said we had a deal. and he laid out the entire framework of the deal. he then also went into the infrastructure bill, pointing out the extraordinarily important investments in both bills, how transformational they will be here for the united state

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

judiciary, the house select committee, the january 6th select commit and the failure to secure new voting rights legislation, so in your view is democracy as we know it in danger? >> i think ambassador eisen stated it very eloquently. it's under assault, and we're looking at a moment when we need to decide as a society and culture if we're going to fight back. american democracy has reached a critical juncture. the shadow of january 6th looms large when we talk about white supremacy and voting right. we know this is a major problem in communities of color and we have to see these issues as inextricably tied and we need to see action and leadership from the president on this issue. you're hearing some of that this week and i hope there's follow through because i don't think our democracy can survive more big lies or even the pretense to another january 6th. >> ambassador, how do you see it in the big lie has not gone away. if anything, it seems to be -- the momentum seems to be gaining? >> fredericka, it represents a terrible threat, and one of the things that the freedom to vote act and t

and senate judiciary committee and find out where those bills are, i would like to hear the argument against protects the private information of federal judges, particularly because the number of threats and harmful communications have gone up. i defy anyone to make the argument against it. you and i are lawyers, we will listen to argument against it but i would love to have the hearings and bill, again our condon condolences to you. >> you know, is my faith begins to waiver a little with our leaders, i'll speak this thursday to the students at catholic university of america. and i'm going to talk to them about faith, one thing is for certain, my faith in god has never waivers and my faith that the right thing will happen remains constant. and i thank you. i thank you for your voice and this opportunity to be heard. god bless. >> yes ma'am god bless you to and your husband. trey: former u.s. attorney and normer governor of new jersey chris christie shares his thoughts of the future of the justice system and the republican party, next here on sunday night in america. ♪ ♪ charlotte

several former trump aides are now facing a deadline to answer subpoenas from the january 6th house committee. the group expected to defy the request for documents tied to their communications on the day of the insurrection. >> and also just within the last hour, the senate judiciary committee releasing a damning report detailing how trump and a top doj lawyer attempted to overturn the 2020 election. cnn's senior justice correspondent evan perez joining us now. what more are we learning, what else is new in this senate report? >> well, erica, this report paints a picture of the white house and people at the justice department, trying to fight over what to do with president trump's demands that the justice department weigh in on the election after, of course, after he had lost. we learned from this report that mark meadows, then the chief of staff, repeatedly was calling top officials at the time at the justice department asking them to try to investigate things including the bizarre italygate conspiracy. this is something that essentially says that there was an italian contractor working with

so jeffrey rosen has already offered hours of testimony to the senate judiciary committee and is also to meet with the 1-6 committee. so they have reams of testimony already about these individuals and jeffrey clark is sort of the clutter within doj. i wonder if you can speak to his importance as a witness, david jolly. >> yeah, this is critically important and i think any issues of privilege will get litigated and likely will go against the witnesses who are trying to claim privilege or at least exert trump's brif ledge. this tells me the 1-6 commission is dialing in. they are circling around the president. this is clearly about what did the president know? when did he know it? what did donald trump's team do to help organize and orchestrate and perhaps even fund the events that led to the attack on the capitol? there's no other way to look at the witness list thus far than to say that the chairman and ranking member and the committee, they're circling the wagons around donald trump. they want to know what donald trump knew and when he knew it. >> a.b., to david's point, the committe

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

, 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

joining me to talk about it is a member of the house judiciary committee colorado congressman joe neguse, i'm happy to have you back with me this sunday. i want to get into this him as a lawyer, somebody who has worn a few different hats in congress already. this is quite is showdown, i said yesterday we need to queue the clint eastwood music. we have 35 national archive requests, how should this play out? >> well, good morning, tiffany, it's great to be with you. i think are you right, democracy is at stake and the future of congressional oversight. at the end of the day, if witnesses can defy a duly lawfully issued subpoena without any consequence, then ultimately congressional oversight doesn't exist. it's hard to argue that congress is a co-equal branch of government. so i think it's important for there to be consequences. i suspect that if the select committee, given the statement they issued on friday is taking this as serious as, you know, the gravity of this crisis demands and i'm hopeful that ultimately that they will make a criminal contempt referral to the extent that individu

maria: joining me is a member of the house judiciary committee, and a member of the oversight committee. jim jordan, his book, do what you said you would do on november 20 third. thanks for being here, great to see you. it was a late night. where does it stand with that limit and all the spending proposals. >> you asked who was in charge because it is certainly not president biden, nancy pelosi or chuck schumer. it would seem to me it is joe manchin, the squat and susan rice on capitol hill last night. nancy pelosi didn't know about the side agreement, senator schumer and joe manchin have for months. she found out about that this week. why was chuck schumer hiding that from the speaker of the house? the good news is this thing hasn't passed yet. let's open never does because it is bad for the american people. maria: you would think the squad, aoc, bernie sanders if they don't vote for infrastructure they are blowing up the economic agenda. >> they are holding out for this because this $3.5 trillion plan and the moderates, we will see how it shakes out and what democrats do is fund the g

joining me now, member of the house oversight and the intelligence committee. congressman, thank you for being with us. so many of these stories coming to a head between judiciary committee report and the january 6th work. i wonder if i can just get your views on what congressman kinsinger is saying, that they're willing to consider contempt. >> anyone who refuses to comply with a valid subpoena is subject to jail time and fines under a criminal statute called 2 usc 192. it is very clear that this particular statute authorizes the doj to go after any witness such as steve bannon, for instance, who refuses to come before the committee. and unlike during the trump years, when we couldn't use that statute because the trump administration wouldn't enforce it, i think this time around the biden administration, i'm hopeful, would be willing to enforce it. >> when you hear steve scalise refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of president joe biden in an election that returned him to congress, and you don't hear steve scalise suggest that every house republican who has r

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. >>> also we're keeping an eye on merrick garland's system before the house judiciary committee on the january 6th insurrection and other issues. >>> meantime the fda authorizes booster shots for the moderna and johnson & johnson vaccines as we learn more about the effectiveness of the pfizer booster shot. >>> and we are live on the ground in haiti, as the search continues for 17 american and canadian missionaries, including children, who were abducted by a haitian gang. >>> and on this latina equal payday, take a closer look at the huge pay gap between latinas and white non-hispanic men. >>> we begin on capitol hill, democrats are once again grappling with how to pay for their multi-trillion-dollar social safety net bill, and arizona senator kyrsten sinema is apposed to raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations to president biden and democratic leaders said is key to funding their reconciliation bill. with me is kristen welker and leighanne caldwell. how does the news affect efforts to get the outline of the bill in place by the halloween deadline for a vote on the bipartisan infr

as you'll remember, i was a member and still am a member of the house judiciary committee and we saw the trump administration play this exact same playbook time and time again as they stonewalled congressional investigations. but what has changed, of course, and what is different now is that the department of justice is obviously -- you have an attorney general at the head of the department of justice who i think cares a great deal about co-equal branches of government, separation of powers an ebb suring the constitutional prerogatives of the congress are respected. at the end of the day if witnesses can defy subpoenas without consequence, then congressional oversight really no longer exists and it's hard to make the case congress is a co-equal branch of government in that circumstance. i take very seriously the select committee's language that was in the release today with respect to criminal contempt of congress, a referral to the department of justice. time will tell as to whether or not the department of justice under attorney general garland will ultimately implement that referr

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

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

i am including in the record now the house judiciary committee's record addressing whatever rights and the woody rights act of the senate judiciary committee. without objection, that will be included. and continue to work with us, because i was thrilled to be standing with -- if i could have that photograph back for just a moment before i yield the floor -- i was thrilled to be standing with leading republicans and democrats when we last signed this bill. and saying, see, it's for america. it's not for either political party. it's for america. and that's what you want. now to answer senator blackburn's question -- actually, senator, i am told senator lee will be recognizing. sen. lee: thank you, mr. chairman. general clarke, let's talk for a moment about what states can do. does 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 preclearance from the united states government? general clarke: senator, this is not an area that i work in. i suppose, this is not an area that i w

thursday, merrick garland is going to be before the house judiciary committee for an oversight hearing of the justice department. there is a lot of issues that he is going to be grilled on -- january 6, but also on abortion, texas's abortion law, immigration is a huge one republicans are planning to ask about. a lot happening this week at the hearing level. we have not seen a lot of these hearings. this is going to be a huge week for these to have a centerstage, dominate cable news coverage. host: wanda, michigan, independent. caller: number one -- i do not like either one of these bills. i think they are full of things we do not need. my question is why art date talking about getting our deficit down instead of spending all this money? guest: a lot of people are talking about getting the deficit down, republican in particular. derek has have also been saying we cannot be spending as much as we have been -- democrats have also been saying we cannot be spending as much as we have been. the argument from the way house then they are trying to make this broader social spending package tota

house judiciary committee chair nadler and kmong fitzpatrick. our legislation will modernize and improve the final law and won't roll back the progress we've made. the new version of violence against women act will not only provide funding to organizations and resources that support survivors, it will invest in education and improve access to survivors for survivors in rural areas and those who require culturally specific services. it will enhance protections for native american, women and children. it will help keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of abusers and it will provide survivors with the support they need by expanding access to legal services and other crucial programs. and once we join in passing the -- join the house in passing this legislation, we know we're going to send it to the desk of a leader who is synthetic, not just sympathetic. but wildly supportive of this measure. i can think of no better way for us to do our part in honoring domestic violence awareness month. senator grassley. >> thank you mr. chairman. i welcome eve

individuals like william underwood, cynthia shank, all testified before the house and senate judiciary committees of the devastating impact of mandatory minimum laws have had on them, their families and countless others. i can assure you this legislation is long overdue. i'm excited that the introduction of my legislation now today will become reality and i'm excited to be a part in working with chairman jeffries on this important legislation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. ms. jackson lee: race has been a factor, and we are glad we are moving beyond that. we must pass the equal act. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from new york reserves. the gentleman from texas. mr. gohmert: continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. nadler: mr. speaker, i now recognize one minute to the gentlelady from michigan, ms. tlaib. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from michigan is recognized for one minute. ms. tlaib: colleagues, as

here to react house judiciary committee member and author of the upcoming book "do what you said you would do" fighting for freedom in the swamp congressman jim jordan. good good morning to you recommendation good to be with you,. steve: steve the administration considering paying at least a million dollars per family to these migrant families who were impacted by president trump's zero tolerance policy at the southern border where when a family unit was taken into custody with the kids some of them got separated permanently. >> yeah. i mean, think about this, you are going to pay people half a million dollars who broke the law at the same time the biden administration is getting ready to raise taxes on the hardworking families of this country. it makes absolutely no sense. and you know, i think about this. first you break the law you get amnesty with democrats now they are going to pay you for breaking the law. you think we have a problem in a caravan coming towards the border now and what we have seen over the last several months, wait until the word gets out that you actually get

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to have had footage of what we saw in the senate judiciary committee. the january 6th commission out there still looking at this question. there's going to be i think a good public airing of it. >> in the report you talk about some potential fixes. it does seem as if some of these fixes, it's really limited. you know the law, know the constitution very well. separation of powers. do you really think congress can pass a law that would prevent this kind of communication between the justice department and the white house? >> you know, we're working on that. i've been working this issue for a long time and the white house and the department of justice have for a long time had a rule between the two of them of who is allowed to talk to whom about various issues. it appears they broke those rules this time. it appears, frankly, that they break those rules in every republican administration, and then we have to patch it back together again. that's always been done by rule, memorandum between the white house counsel and the department of justice. there's nothin

committee committee report, you went through things that are true, donald trump nine times reached out to the justice department trying to get them to overterm the results of the election, that's the fraud. it is true he's trying to take out secretaries of state and get governors elects in key battleground so if you have an election and things on the ground turn out differently than 2020. if the electoral college comes to the house and it's run by republicans, people like steve scalise will have a decision to make, people like that. >> i hope it gets back to what the constitution says but clearly in a number of states they didn't follow the election protocols. >> you think the election was stolen? >> they didn't follow legislatively set rules. >> do you think the election was stolen or not? i understand there were irregularities and things that need to be fixed. >> and it's not just irregularities. it's states that did not follow the laws set which the constitution says they are supposed to follow. >> thank chris wallace for trying, repeatedly trying. b, that's not just about 2020. eve

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a 394-page report released thursday by the senate judiciary committee details former president trump's pressure campaign on top doj officials at a january 3rd meeting. at that meeting where former president trump, his white house counsel, and top leaders of the justice department including jeffrey rosen. trump and rosen were on the outs though. the former president wanted to replace him with jeffrey clark, who at that point was the acting head of the justice department's civil division. all the characters there on your screen. according to the report, trump opened the meeting by saying quote, one thing we know is you, rosen, aren't going to do anything to overturn the election. now, the meeting then switched gears to discuss a plan by clark for the doj to intervene in the certification of georgia's election results. you remember that moment. the other doj officials in the room told trump and clark if they resign, or they would resign, if rosen was in fact replaced with clark and that the move might spark mass resignations within the entire justice department and the u.s. attorney's off

. >> 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

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mere hours after he sat before the house judiciary committee last week, the full house passed a resolution finding steve bannon in contempt of congress. in other words,garland's appearance before senate judiciary tomorrow will be his first oversight hearing since it became his department's responsibility and among many democrats, expectation to enforce a congressional subpoena against steve bannon. he might not be able to dodge questions tomorrow, considering what we learned from the "washington post" this week about bannon's involvement about what is being called headquarters for the insurrection. joining us now, our friend neal katyal, former acting u.s. solicitor general, now a georgetown university professor. i was able to sleep after that vote because you assured me that doj would enforce that subpoena. do you believe that will be the case? >> i do. so, i think the justice department has a very cautious attitude in which they examine the stuff case by case but this is a case in which literally the subpoena is about a war on our democracy and a guy who's afraid to tell the truth under

judiciary committee with the attorney general which c-span covered. we covered it live and you can also find that in our latest programs area on the mobile lab, the c-span now mobile app. you may also be able to find select clips from that event as well. download that now, c-span now, it is the mobile streaming app. virginia on the independent line , dugger, go ahead. caller: yes. thank you for taking my call this morning. the main point i wanted to make is about defending the border. i believe defending the border is defending america and american citizens. the most important thing for people's jobs. when you let too many people into this country and too many people competing for the same job, that'll put pressure on lowering wages and affect people's standard of living and quality of life. you ever think when you have too many people in this country, you affect the quality of education. you have to educate everybody and resources have to go to educating and that takes more resources. so you will affect the quality of education of the united states.

joining me right now is arizona congressman, member of the house judiciary committee andy biggs, always a pleasure to see you. thank you very much for being here. you're helping to lead this effort. tell us about this most recent rule coming out of the administration and its impacts. >> yeah, so what they want to do is they want to basically allow an immediate determination that someone is going to be determined to stay in the country and pursue an asylum claim. that's contrary to law. they want to do that by rule and what that's going to do is a couple of things, number 1, you're going to have -- it's basically putting the catch and release program that we are seeing right now on steroids and violates parole limitations of title 8 and detention provisions of title 8 and entice more people to come and that's kind of like the last thing he needs to do because biden, the biden policies continue to entice people to come and when you know that you're going to be turned and released into the country immediately, people -- there's no reason to stay home and so the cartels are advertising all

judiciary committee greg steube thanks for being here your main take away from the hearing with ag. >> doj completely politicized two pictures capitol january 6 incident a couple weeks ago department of interior both pictures protesters forced themselves into a federal government building asking -- those domestic terrorists he refused to answer the question identical boifr by two different ideological groups treats them defl roughed to answer when going to treat them same as those that protested in capitol here on january 6. >> really disheartening to see, every agency or virtually every agency in this government so politicized. first fbi, cia ob politicized irs now talking about the didn't of justice we need to be able to trust doj what with conflict of interest that selling surveys of critical race theory pushing crt in schools. what is the fallout. >> absolutely he should be, and there should be an ethics investigation, into this company his son-in-law is part of, because of ag garland's position a benefit conferred there members of our committee pressed him on that question, aga

judiciary committee this week what do you want to hear? the curriculum decisions involved toxic racist ideology known as critical race theory, and we learned his son-in-law is among those pushing this, and selling producing extremely expensive surveys about critical race theory. should he recuse himselfsts from? step down with conflicts with son-in-law to wife in terms of involvement on some of the things he is pushing. >> i think fbi is, obviously, the premier law enforcement agency in the united states, they have important priorities whether violent crime international terrorism, human trafficking all kind of things that they have to deal with, and the suggestion that somehow now they are going to peel off resources, to focus on school board protests by parents, who disagree with what local school board is doing, is knelt asinine they need to focus on law enforcement the department of justice has no place in this uprising that we are seeing of parents that are concerned about what is happening in local schools, now political violence inv

the senate judiciary committee recently revealed that trump directly asked the justice department nine times for help to overturn the election. the senate report states, "trump's efforts to use doj as a means to overturn the election results was part of his interrelated efforts to retain the presidency by any means necessary." one of trump's lawyers, john eastman, also wrote a two-page memo detailing how trump could essentially stage a coup by getting the electors from seven states thrown out, preventing biden from winning enough electoral votes. on wednesday, former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen testified in private for eight hours with the house committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. the committee is preparing to file criminal charges as soon as today if former trump advisor steve bannon misses a deadline to agree to testify and hand over documents. we are joined now by john -- bannon has been pardoned by donald trump. we are joined now by john nichols. he is a national-affairs correspondent for the nation. his latest article is titled "trump's coup attempt is

you and your colleagues on the senate judiciary committee went after somebody else with the administration yesterday, the attorney general merrick garland and we carried parts of it on fox. during this hour it got really heated. senators demanding to know why the a.g. wants the feds to go after parents and what he knows about the reports p white house coordinated with the teachers union on its letter. let's watch a clip. >> in drafting the letter, the national school board association collaborated with the white house. the white house promptly called you and said sic the f.b.i. on parents in school board hearings. the white house is the prophet. you are just the vessel. >> you have weaponized the f.b.i. and department of justice. it is unprecedented and i call on you to resign. >> dur consider the chilling impact your memo would have on parents exercising their constitutional rights? >> why would you ever release a memo? did you write that memo? did staff write that memo? what would have led you to do this? it is so over the top. >> your directive is shameful. thank god you aren't on the s

that is the purview of the judiciary committee. that's what they're focused on. so they talk about the u.s. attorney down in georgia being pressured to renew for not investigating abnormalities as trump wanted him to. they talk a great deal about this meeting on january 3rd in the oval office that you described earlier, describing it as a murder-suicide pact among senior officials that if the president tried to elevate someone or fire someone, all of them would renew en masse. it's alarming when you dig into it, although i will say chuck grassley said, look, this is the president getting talked down out of a bad idea. he didn't go down this road, so it's not so bad. grassley appearing at a rally with former president trump in iowa coming up in the future. but democrats see what they found in this report as really alarming and are talking about a legislative solution to turn what's been an unwritten rule about interference between the white house and the doj into something much more formalized so you can't have a future president interfering or trying to interfere

. >>> and a new report just out from the senate judiciary committee detailing the extremes then president trump allegedly went to to overturn the 2020 election peter alexander is at the white house. peter, it is the first time we are hearing some of these accounts. >> reporter: lester, that's right. this new report says that former president trump directly asked justice department officials nine times to investigate his baseless claims of mass voter fraud. one key moment, just days before the capitol riot, mr. trump from the oval office pressured the acting attorney general, jeffrey rosen and others, and discussed replacing rosen with someone who promised to pursue those election lies. mr. trump, the report says, only backed down after rosen, his deputy, even a top white house lawyer all threatened mass resignation. a house committee wants to learn more, but the former president's allies, lester, say they will not cooperate. >> peter, thank you. in just 60 seconds, did bullying play a role in the shooting in texas. what the suspect's family is saying >>> and 18 former nba players indicted

the attorney general will go ahead and meet in front of the senate judiciary committee in two days in front of thehe house last week, senate this week going to be in all holds barred -- no holds barred kitchen sink anything they can ask them, expect this topic to come up. >> john: this apology letter adds a little more fish to the broth so we will see how that goes in a couple of days. david spunt at the justice department, thank you. you've got to wonder, did the school boards association react to the testimony and the controversy it sparked or did somebody call them up and say they better take this back? >> sandra: address the root problem of a lot of anger in the school board meetings, parents upset over lack of transparency and in some cases being told that they shouldn't have anything to do with it, there was that mother we had on in the suburbs last week who said she feared speaking out for fear of retaliation because she felt it had reached such a fever pitch. >> john: an issue that ignites passions, no question about that. of >> sandra: small business owners feeling the pinch

the attorney general will appear before the senate judiciary committee on wednesday. expect this topic to come up likely multiple times. back to you. elizabeth: david spunt, thank you so much for your journalism there. joining me from house transportation and infrastructure congresswoman michelle steele. congresswoman, great to have you on. did the white house abuse its powers here? >> i couldn't hear your question? elizabeth: i beg your pardon. did the white house abuse its power to help a special interest group based on misinformation that the n sba admits was wrong? was this a partisan hit job on parents? was this a abuse of power? >> this is total abuse of power because the parents tried to exercise their first amendment. the national school boards association tried to call them domestic terrorists. that doesn't work like that. why attorney general goes out and asks the fbi to go after these parents, these parents are their constituents for the school board members and they have to listen because parents know their kids much better than anybody else out there. i t

joining me now is florida congressman greg steube, a member of the judiciary and foreign affairs committee. is mitch mcconnell caving again to joe biden? >> call me conservative but i don't understand why we would help the democrats when they've been in control of the house, the senate and have the white house since january. and if we're going to increase the debt limit to allow them to spend more money on socialist welfare programs, the democrats want to spend $5.5 trillion on top of a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package on top of the $11 trillion that we spent just in the last 18 months. i certainly didn't vote for the debt increase in the house. i'm not going to support it in the future. washington has a spending problem and until our leaders in washington realize that we can't continue to spend at this level, then we're going to continue to fall deeper into debt. maria: well, it's just extraordinary to me that you and your colleagues are not getting much from this. i mean, sure, we know that the u.s. is not going to default. the democrats can ensure that that is the case without the r

today gop members the house judiciary committee are asking chairman nadler to convene a hearing with deputy attorney general lisa monaco and acting assistant attorney general mark less coto investigate the national security division and their role in all of this. the letter follows a separate letter sent yesterday by all 19 republican congressman on the house judiciary committee to the nsba's board of directors, asking for their assistance in an investigation into the doj and the white house's attempt to use law enforcement to target concerned parents. now one of those signers joins me right now, congressman dan bishop of north carolina. he is on the house homeland security committee. congressman, thanks for joining us tonight, let me ask you before we get into the house's letter, take a look at some of the fireworks from yesterday's senate judiciary committee. listen to this. >> you have weaponized the fbi and the department of justice. it's wrong, it is unprecedented to my knowledge in the history of this country. >> it is about politicization of doj and you decided to submit as a

on thursday, merrick garland will make his first appearance before the house judiciary committee on issues facing the justice department. the homeland security director will appear before the senate judiciary committee. watch next week on the c-span networks or on c-span now. head over to c-span.org for scheduling information. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. >> washington unfiltered. c-span in your pocket. download c-span now today. >> we will hear arguments first in case 2443, united states versus tsarnaev. mr. fagan: may please the court. after watching video of responded by himself personally

attorney general, can you confirm to this committee, as you did earlier before the house judiciary committee, that the purpose of the memo that you were just discussing with senator cornyn is to have meetings to discuss whether there's a problem, to discuss strategies, to discuss whether local law enforcement needs assistance or doesn't need assistance? was that the purpose of it? >> yes, thank you for making that point, senator. i say that in the memo, that the purpose of the memo is to convene meetings with federal, state, and local, tribal leaders, and to facilitate the discussions of strategies for addressing threats, to assess the question and open the lines of communication about those threats. >> thank you. i want to move to some other threats. and that is a hearing that actually senator blount and i had yesterday. it was a bipartisan hearing. we both called witnesses. it was before the rules committee. it was with both republican and democratic election officials. the attorney general of arizona, a republican local official in philadelphia. and they told stories that horrified senato

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

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.

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

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