. >> she's a senior member of the senate judiciary committee. she's familiar with how these things work. you heard her referencing bannon's short time in the white house and why he should or shouldn't be eligible for executive privilege. bannon, if he does deny the subpoena, the committee made it very clear that they will pursue criminal referral and then it's up to the biden's justice department to take that up. >> there may be monetary damage as well. we talked it one congressman who is pushing that in a bill. thank you. >>> president trump rallied in iowa saturday to a crowd of thousands of supporters. it comes on the heels of a new poll that shows his favorability hitting a new high. he called out the 2020 election, alleging fraud and cheating. gary is joining us now. you spoke to the people in that audience. they are singing a significantly different tune about january 6th. what did they tell you? >> the people that attend trump rallies for the most part are the diehard trump support ersz. they may not believe trump lost in november. they f

i'm joined right now by rhode island congressman david cicilline, a member of the house judiciary and foreign affairs committee and vice chair of the progressive caucus and i remind you he was a house impeachment manager in donald trump's second senate trial. congressman, welcome back to the broadcast. nice to see you, let's start with this january 6th committee subpoenas. the committee is saying that mark meadows and cash patel so far engaging with them. steve bannon trying to hide behind executive privilege, no one certain how that would work with him, but no mention of dan ska veen no who politico reports was served a subpoena on friday. depositions are scheduled for all four of them thursday and friday of this week. will any of them actually testify? what's your thought on that? >> well, they certainly should testify. i expect they will ultimately testify. i hope it will happen on the day they are expected to appear. obviously no one is above the law. these are lawfully issued subpoenas by a select committee of the congress of the united states, a bipartisan committee, coming a vi

, 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

. >> 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

. >> fast forward to today, senate the judiciary committee releasing a report on former president trump's plan to pressure the doj to overturn the 2020 election. a house select committee is investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol, an event believed to be fueled by those efforts, and now in a new book, fiona hill has another warning writing in part, for me watching trump's disorganized but deadly serious attempt at a coup unfold during the court of 2020, the clearest and most unmistakable parallels were with russia. fiona hill joins me now, from 2017 to 2019 she served as senior director for european and russian affairs on the national council, and her new book is "there's nothing for you here: finding opportunity in the 21st century." we're going to get to details about the book specifically, but talk about these parallels that you see with russia and when you started seeing them. >> well, unfortunately, i started to see them during my time in the national security council. it became, you know, more and more evident obviously from president trump's own fascination with vladimi

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

thanks to the recent report by the senate judiciary committee we also know that trump made multiple attempts to get in the department of justice to interfere. speaking with the doj, according again, to that senate report, nine times just between december and early january. where he repeatedly asked to initiate investigations, fall off suits on his behalf and publicly declared the 20 2020 election corrupt. the acting attorney general at the time, a man name -- the acting attorney general named jeffrey clark is set to testify before house committee investigating january 6th this week. so we can learn more about the nature of those calls from the president soon. it was not just donald trump in this legal advisors pushing to delegitimized the results of the election. and placing january six in the forefront of their attempts to do so. back in december of 2020, it was reported, the house republican led by abbott trump supporter congressman of alabama, they're meeting with the -- about ways to overturn the election result. again, not our secret, not doing this behind closed doors, in political. an

. >> all right senator sheldon, white house, sit on the senate judiciary committee which we will be hearing testimony tomorrow. thank you so much. >> thank you, chris. >> another day in court for -- this guy caught on camera allegedly assaulting michael fanone and stealing his badge which was eventually recovered after being buried in his backyard. today judge said that man can be released from jail, we'll tell you why that's next. s next the sleep number 360 smart bed is on sale now. it helps keep you effortlessly comfortable by sensing your movements and automatically responding to both of you. and, it's temperature balancing to help you stay comfortable all night. it even tracks your circadian rhythm, so you know when you're at your best. in other words, it's the most energy-building, wellness-boosting, parent-powering, proven quality night's sleep we've ever made. save up to $1,200 on select sleep number 360 smart beds and adjustable bases. plus, 0% interest for 36 months on all smart beds. ends monday. at some point during the fighting i was dragged from the line of officers into the c

that house investigation which is bipartisan over in the house where they're really digging deep, issuing subpoenas, something that we are unable to do unless we have bipartisan support in the senate judiciary committee, they are doing that and moving forward is going to be really helpful. and our report here, which as you know, it uncovered a bunch of new stuff, i think will be helpful to them in that evident as well. >> final question for you is about accountability for jeffrey clark. i want to note there's a letter from the chair, dick durbin in your committee, asking the dc bar to look at clark's appliance with applicable rules of misconduct. why is that important? >> well, you have got a lawyer that was basically not -- in my mind when i look at this report sitting in on a lot of the questioning, when i look at this i think, wow, this is a lawyer that wasn't following the law. he was -- he took an oath in his job. your oath is to protect and defend the constitution of the united states. it's not to be the president's lawyer when you're at the justice department. so when i look at wha

committee. they are doing that. and moving forward is going to be very helpful. and our report here which is, you know, uncovered a bunch of new stuff, i think will be helpful to them in that effort as. well >> final question for you, is about accountability for jeffrey clark, i want to know that there is a letter from the chair, dick chairman of your committee, asking to open an investigation of clark's compliance with applicable rules of professional conduct. why is that important? >> well you have got a lawyer who was basically not, in my line, when i look at this report, sitting in on a lot of the questioning, when i look at this i think wow,, this is a lawyer that wasn't following the line. he took an oath, and his job. your oath is to protect and defend the constitution of the united states. it is not to be the president's lawyer. when you are at the justice department. so when i look at what he did, and the pressure, and what he tried to do, i understand why senator determine believes we

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

judiciary committee and they would not allow a vote. why would they allow a vote? this is not been so popular they knew it would pass overwhelmingly when it is placed on the floor. and when it was after a discharge petition and i had the pleasure to work with her at the very beginning of my own career path 354 -- 24 people great overwhelmingly i would say bipartisan. to get it going in the senate we disrupted the hearings of the 18-year-old vote. and got a promise a cosponsor in the senate or the major sponsor in the senate they would finally hold hearings on it. so in 1972 we won 84 -- eight. these are not close votes. because why? we are way ahead in the polls. people wanted equality for women. but we had to keep fighting. at first he might really, really fast but it got bottled up again and delays, delays, delays. for example were thankful the 3h state ratifying. we should say for about 50 years when it comes up we passed it. they did not come out until the year 2020. now what happened in between? we hear all the time out title vii,

or call the number on your screen. >> john: after a series of votes the house judiciary committee has dabbled a back end so let's join. >> engaging a review of its use of force policies and we've introduced a bill to you banned the use of ketamine and custodial settings on that bill has earned the support of chairman nadler and subcommittee chairwoman jackson lee which i'm certainly grateful and we welcome the opportunity to work with your department on a particular legislation in honor of elijah's memory. on march 22nd of this year as you know my community of boulder, colorado, experienced a chart comic horrific tragedy as a gunman killed ten people at a local grocery store using it ar-15 style pistol which fired modified arm rounds at the pistol brace. the pistol brace allowed the ute shooter to fire an easily concealable pistol with a rifle like accuracy and firepower. an immediate aftermath of this tragedy as you know, i sent the letter to the president and apartment of justice along with 100 of my colleagues requesting that administration use its authority to regulate concealable

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

. >> house judiciary committee you said you were concerned only about true threats. are you going to revise your memorandum to make it clear this applies only to true threats of violence, instead of classifying parents in this country with domestic terrorists suchtimothy mcvey and terry nichols. you said your memo was based on the nsb a letter and the news reports, so you have said there was not a lot of independent research done by you and your staff. if you would please submit to us for the record, the news reports that you're referencing so we will be able to have that as a frame of reference. also we would love to know who actually did write that memo and how they came up with the idea of calling parents domestic terrorists? one other thing i've got for you, do you agree with the supreme court second amendment is a civil right? if so, what is civil rights division doing to ensure it is being protected? >> so back up on some questions, the memo doesn't say anything about domestic terrorism or calling parents domestic terrorists. i do agree second amendment is part

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

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judiciary committee. what is your takeaway? we talked about some of the big issues and critical race theory and d.o.j. intimidating parents in virginia. what do you expect to hear? we've watched these hearings for years, karl. there is a lot of bobbing and weaving and not much substance. a lot of side stepping. what are you looking for today? >> i'm looking for bobbing, weaving and side stepping. merrick garland since taking the job has professed a desire to create the image of his justice department as being a apart from politics. that's what he said the goal was. he has made statements and taken actions that belie that. you put your finger on one of the most amazing ones when we had disputes over the curriculum in places like loudon county, virginia, in which there were ugly words said he sent a message to the f.b.i. i want you to look into this. if there are threats of violence that's a state and local matter. it is not a matter for the justice department and yet he intruded in that. we'll get a lot of

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what more do we need to know about that, what the senate judiciary committee has already referred to? >> what i wish is that we had people that wanted a credible, total -- people on all sides doing this study because i get too much of -- there are too many people, our democracy is being undermined. i was in belleville, michigan, talking to a group of union workers, spent 15 minutes with them. had a good discussion on many things, but at the end of it, they said to me, but we still think donald trump won the election, and that's what worries me. the fact of the matter is we have had state after state has gone in and done audits, president biden accepts what h is a fundamental undermining of people's confidence in their democracy. when that happens, your democracy is in trouble. so we really have to get at the answers of that and how people understand. we have a man that wanted to go back to the white house and a man who was trying to undermine our democracy and that we all have to fight back and which is he undermines people's belief in their government. >> talking about people's belie

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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 was the acting head of the justice department's civil division. 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 and the u.s. attorney's offices around the country. the white house attorneys who were also pr

as back in the spotlight as 5 members of the house judiciary committee threatened to pursue a criminal investigation against the company over claimed the top executives that they are from the top executives rather that they do not use 3rd party sellers information in order to market their own product, this letter from the subcommittee names, former amazon ceo jeff phases and calls on the company to make use of this opportunity to correct the record and provide congress with a sworn, truthful and accurate response. amazons claims that it's marketplace is fair game have been criticized by anonymous employees who have argued that using 3rd party feller data to market identical products under the amazon essential brand. basically, standard operating procedure. amazon responded by releasing a report on tuesday, which noticed that a 3rd party marketplace accounts for roughly 60 percent of its retail sales. and business has been up for sellers with more than 3 point. 8000000000 products sold in the last year compared to 3400000000 products the year before. now we know that whenever it comes t

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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

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

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 senate judiciary committee is making clear recommendations as to how to avoid getting to this kind of cries at some point in the future and that's number one clarifying the ways in which the president, the white house can mun kate with the justice department addings that kind of communication at state level because the guidelines don't currently have that so number one clarifying what constitutes a threat to officials and also here the jt modifying its own policy of not interfering in standing elections so that's very important. you know, i think we grouse a lot in washington about why did this happen? what stops it from happening george bush, and i think it's very important that congress, the body that oversees this make clear recommendations. you know, notably they have not made any criminal referrals here and practically i think they should not, it's early and they should wait until the end of their investigation if possible. >> that's a recommendation when it comes to accountability, that's an important piece of all of this and yet, gloria, republicans are still sticking by for