operating within the department of justice and through the department of justice is a pretty strong probability right now. so, you know, georgia could be the place trump goes for redemption, but georgia could also be the place where justice comes for trump. >> you mentioned jeffrey clark

of law by department of justice lawyers. that is their focus. their focus is not a broad one. their focus does not include or extend to issuing a public report to inform the public about abuses of power. and my friend from arkansas is right. it can go in if there are allegations of criminal misconduct. and if they've got evidence of the same, they've got to pursue. yeah, they can do that. that does not mean we don't need an inspector general capable of doing the job of the inspector generally. he also made the argument that there is no expertise among and between inspectors general with regard to handling allegations of attorney misconduct. well, if that's true, the same can be said of all other attorneys and all other departments. my friend from arkansas does correctly point out that attorneys within the department of justice, at least some of them, do perform different functions than what we see from attorneys in other federal agencies. that part is true. but that doesn't mean inspectors general assigned to the department

department of justice. nominally in charge of the environment division, which under trump you know when supposed to do anything in. and he got himself all cooked up with esteemed unduly the election. where? in georgia. he has not played the fifth. he's not exactly a principle figure. he's kind of do we be so the likelihood that there are people behind him, steering that letter at georgia as part of that scheme, operating within the department of justice and through the department of justice, is a pretty, strong probability. georgia could be the place trump goes for redemption, georgia can also be the place where justice comes for trump. >> you mentioned jeffrey clark

national drug control policy, the department of health and human services and department of justice and i appreciate the witnesses for joining us today. the administration's proposal would create a classified definition of fentanyl-related substances and permanently place them in schedule one. also create a mechanism to expedite rescheduling or descheduling of substances as needed. and i'm pleased the proposal also includes provisions to streamline registration requirements for all schedule one substances aligning schedule one registration requirements more closely with schedule two requirements will help expedite registration for researchers who want to study schedule one substance and hopefully help to expand research in this space. as we discuss this proposal it is important to remember this is a set of recommendations. this committee is responsible for crafting the actual legislation that will help dramatically improve the lives of many americans. many ideas and proposals to meet this goal. including strategies of strengthen prevention, treatment, harm reduction and recovery ser

national drug control policy, the department of health and human services and department of justice and i appreciate the witnesses for joining us today. the administration's proposal would create a classified definition of fentanyl-related substances and permanently place them in schedule one. also create a mechanism to expedite rescheduling or descheduling of substances as needed. and i'm pleased the proposal also includes provisions to streamline registration requirements for all schedule one substances aligning schedule one registration requirements more closely with schedule two requirements will help expedite registration for researchers who want to study schedule one substance and hopefully help to expand research in this space. as we discuss this proposal it is important to remember this is a set of recommendations. this committee is responsible for crafting the actual legislation that will help dramatically improve the lives of many americans. many ideas and proposals to meet this goal. including strategies of strengthen prevention, treatment, harm reduction and recovery ser

whether that's the role of the department of justice, these are unusual times and we've seen a department of justice taking great steps to distance itself from the trump department of justice and perhaps restore confidence in the idea of this as a more independent administrative body going forward. >> let me ask you, the president came out and talked about the economy and how the economy is doing. it sounds like it may be a shift in messaging. the white house obviously has problems around messaging around the build back better bill and getting that done because of joe manchin. is there a shift in talking about the economy, which a lot of observers are talking about saying there is good stuff to trump it? >> well, the white house would say and the white house officials i talk to say the president has been focused very much on the economy. you can definitely tell the president wants to talk about what is going well at the end of the year when the build back better act is in such disarray. the president wants to talk about of course unemployment being low and the idea there are people able t

justice, we're asking for the department of justice to come in and investigate what was the largest crime scene in u.s. history, 40 square blocks. this crime happened on federal land. this crime destroyed federal property. and we need the president and the vice president whoever met with my clients back in may and june that stated that the federal government would not forget tulsa. we're looking for the department of justice to remember those words and we must have closure. we must get this absolutely investigated and stow those people who perpetrated the masker to name those individuals. >> i think that is important, too. let's name those individuals and let's name the thing that allowed them to allow these individuals to be so violent. you talk about reparations. i want you to take a listen to a conversation i had with the tulsa mayor about his own families connection to what happened in tulsa. take a listen and i'll ask you a question on the other side. >> with you specifically, the family as i'm sure you know enslaved nearly 1,000 people. and you inherited that wealth from the f

i believe the department of justice has to understand what's at stake for the country. again, the washington post today, i believe, there were three retired generals who told the military that they should be prepared in case there's an attempted coup or insurrection in 2024. and i think that's right. listen, if we don't act swiftly and aggressively now, then elections in november of 2022 and certainly the presidential election in 2024 may not look at all like what we've known elections to be in the past. >> how worried are you about that? about that real possibility, the loss of democracy in this country, if we're not following through? >> i'm extremely concerned, you know, as somebody who sat on the intelligence committee, has sat on the intelligence committee since mid 2016, went through both rounds of impeachment, the intelligence committee had a role in those, and then i was at the capitol although i was in my office in rayburn on january 6 and just watching everything happen since then where the price of the admission to republican party now is to buy into the big

randall meadows in contempt of congress and refer him to the department of justice and prosecution. i now yield to a distinguished leader of the select committee for any opening remarks she may care to make. >> we are here to address a very serious matter. contempt of congress by a former chief of staff, the former president of the united states. we do not do this lightly and we had hoped not to take this step at all. for weeks, as the chairman noted, we worked with mr. meadows counsel to reach an agreement on cooperation. shortly before this deposition, mr. meadows walked away from his commitment to appear and informed us he would no longer cooperate. we believe mr. meadows is improperly asserting executive and other privileges, but this contempt today relates principally to mr. meadows refusal to testify about text messages and other communications that he admits are not privileged. he has not claimed and does not have any privileged basis to review entirely to testify regarding these topics. let me give just three examples. first, president trump's failure to stop the violence. o

operating within the department of justice and through the department of justice is a pretty strong probability right now. so, you know, georgia could be the place trump goes for redemption, but georgia could also be the place where justice comes for trump. >> you mentioned jeffrey clark and his sort of involvement in the department of justice. he apparently has pleaded the fifth now in terms of the subpoena from the committee. there are other layers here as well. what we're seeing happen in realtime is the assembling of people that will be willing to do what raffensperger didn't, right. but even before we get to that, we have state governments that are controlled by republican state legislate chores, in texas gerrymandering their maps at the state level. >> yep. >> and at the congressional level an announcement from the department of justice, they will be suing texas over its new map. of course they couldn't block it ahead of time thanks to the roberts court which has gutted the voting rights act and has given carte blanche in a later case to pursue this extreme gerrymandering whic

they would not allow the department of justice to be turned into an arm of president trump's campaign to overturn the presidential election. these leaders told him they would resign, and virtually all other high-level trump appointees at the department would resign, as well. according to multiple accounts, the president's white house counsel, also, threatened to resign. important details regarding all of these events remain unknown. how did this plan with mr. clark originate? who else was involved? how did it progress so far? the american people are entitled to all of these answers, and we need the full story in order to legislate effectively. but so far, mr. clark has refused to provide these answers. as the chairman indicated, in the last hour, mr. clark's attorney has told us that mr. clark would be willing to appear at another deposition, and that he plans to assert his fifth amendment rights against self-incrimination. if mr. clark believes that answering questions about his discussions with president trump and others in november and december of 2020 and january of 2021 could inc

of justice, and then the next question is whether or not the department of justice prosecute mark meadows. it's a more complicated situation than we have seen with steve ban or jeffrey >> th complicated decision and we heard congress luria laying down the gauntlet. if they don't hear from him, it's a true threat to democracy and the rule of law. they're putting that pressure on. thank you very much. ellie honeings with me and our special correspondent jamie gang gel. ryan laid it out. the vice chair cheney laid out three buskts text messages we didn't hear about until tonight, messages from members of congress in the heat of the moment. they've breached the capitol, we're under siege. the texts from fox news personalities showing their stress and fear at that moment and from the president's own son. all of that laying it out. >> the text we had seen earlier today were astonishing. but what we just saw was utterly damning. he's physically with donald trump as this is going down. we're under siege up here at the capitol, someone is going to get killed. potus needs to calm this blank down. i

of justice. that includes any members of congress who had an active role in helping to plan or prepare for the attacks of january 6th. i don't think that there should be any kind of congressional courtesy or custom that's followed that would let members of congress off the hook just because they're members of congress if they actively helped to plan this attack or helped the people who were planning the attack, and also if they were helping donald trump try to steal an election by preventing congress from doing its duty and accepting the results of the 2020 presidential election. >> congressman, are you confident the department of justice is going to follow through with criminal referrals? >> i believe that they will. i believe that they'll take action. i believe that the department of justice has to understand what's at stake for the country. in "the washington post" today there are three retired generals who said the military needs to be prepared in case there is an attempted coup or insurrecti

>> you know, i don't want to speak for the department of justice. they would need a criminal case against mr. meadows in order to advance that. we're now pursuing the criminal contempt, and i think we've laid out the case. whether or not the department of justice is pursuing other matters, they're very tight-lipped. it's not appropriate for prosecutors to discuss who they're prosecuting or who they're investigating. you do that either by an indictment or deciding you don't have a case. and all of that is done to protect the reputation of individuals. so i don't know what they're up to, but this is a separate matter. the committee needs to find these facts not only to report to the american people, but also to inform us as to what further legislative steps we'll need to take to help prevent something like this from ever happening again. we came very close to overturning our democracy on january 6th. it's not acceptable to me or to the american people. >> does this contempt charge feel any different for you personally? i mean, you mentioned in your re

of justice and the department of state, that's not that exotic. i've charged that statute myself as a federal prosecutor for impeding and impairing theist for for instance. it not be. >>> chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney, former senior fbi official and justice department official. chuck, your charity is unpeachable forgive the phrase. and it's always good to have you here. that can. >> much more to come here tonight. stay with us. to come here tonight. stay with us to help block out food particles. so he can enjoy the game. super poligrip. music: ♪ “i got you babe” by etta james ♪ get groceries, gifts, & more fast and easy so last minute guests are the only thing you'll be waiting on ♪ ♪ joy. fully. are you tired of clean clothes that just don't smell clean? what if your clothes could stay fresh for weeks?♪ now they can. downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters keep your laundry smelling fresh waaaay longer than detergent alone. pour a cap of downy unstopables into your washing machine before each load. and enjoy fresher smellin

the memo that was sent out by the department of justice. this is the politicization at the department of justice without facts to support the alleged growing threat and need for federal investigation. specifically targeting parents and parental groups. we now know that the letter, that the school board association release ad statement to its member rescinding the letter saying they quote, regret and apologize. and yet the attorney general has not reattracted this memo. i have a few yes or no questions. has the fbi held any of these meetings directed by attorney general garland. yes or no? >> i don't know that. they were led by the u.s. attorney's offices. i would think it is best directed -- >> in conjunction with the fbi. >> i do not have that -- >> they have held meetings. what's the number. >> i don't know ma'am. we can look into it. i believe the date by today led by the u.s. attorney's office. >> in conjunction with the fbi. >> we will get you that number. -- supposed to be today and coordinated by the 94 different jurisdictions. but i

the mere fact they refer to department of justice does not at all require the department of justice to initiate charges. as an executive branch decision wholly within domain of the department of justice. congress can only make a referral and no authority to prosecute anybody for anything. >> garrett, talk a little about mike pence. his chief of staff marc short is cooperating with this committee. what is pence saying about that? >> pence in new hampshire, random place for someone contemplating, maybe or not, running for president. punted saying, we'll see. short, you mentioned in touch with the committee, and i think the word "cooperation" is one to handle carefully. my sources say that while they're talking to short, they want to make sure he has the goods. that they don't get put in a situation like with meadows. start talking to someone and pull back. pence would be the biggest fish yet certainly. if indeed he decides to cooperate with this committee, but, boy, you want to talk about someone who has both trump issues and potential privilege claims, i can't think of anyone more the c

seen the department of justice taking great steps to distance itself from the trump department of justice, and perhaps restore confidence in the idea of this independent administrative body going forward. >> let me ask you, yamiche, the president came out and talked about the economy and how the economy is doing, it seems like it may be a shift in messaging, the white house obviously has problems around messaging the build back better bill and getting that done because of joe manchin, is there a shift to talk about the economy which a lot of observers are looking and saying, it is actually some good things to trump it. >> the white house would shake, and the white house officials that i talked to said that the president has the open focus on the economy, but you can definitely tell that the president wants to talk about what is going well, especially at the end of the year when the build back better act is in such disarray. the president wants to talk about unemployment below, he wants to talk about the idea that there are people that are able to get jobs in this economy, and that people

as of now the department of justice has apparently chosen not to pursue criminal charges against trump and his allies as my next guest points out. it is a chilling effect on the future of our democracy. "new york times" op-ed which he coauthor he says, to decline from the outset to investigate would be appeasement, pure and simple, and appeasing bullies and wrongdoers. without forceful action we will like any not resist what some retired generals see as a march to another insurrection in 2024. lawrence tribe joins me now. professor, first, i guess, let's start with the argument you're making in the piece along with your co-authors. what do you think the department of justice under attorney general merit merit, former student of yours, should be doing that they are not doing? >> we don't know for sure what they are doing because merrick garland is very good at holding his cards close and he is very good at following the normal rules of not revealing things. but by this time in the mueller investigation a great deal had already happened. manafort and gates had been indicted. papadopoulos

and secondly what kind of my department of justice? in order to get things through with the department of justice, one, he needed a good manager at the top and he had tom clark. tom clark had good people. they were all on the side of the administration, pushing forward. not just defendant what the president had done but pushing forward to move the country forward by common law judges is common law, building on, law. federal district courts, federal appellate courts. he wanted to bring that to true fruition and in that again, he got lucky. he got four nominations, four men on the court who in this respect ended up not just going with the administration but helping to lead their fellow justices to what is right. there is still something we get to brown versus board of education but truman was not in the office at the time. during the truman presidency the court unanimously, consistency without equivocation very clearly written opinions and the literate american could understand, argued two other citizens the constitution guaranteed the r

of justice, and the department of state. that's not that exotic. i've charged that statute myself as a federal prosecutor for impeding and impairing the irs, for instance. and so, while it might not be appropriate for those assaulting cops, it would absolutely be appropriate for those who orchestrated an attempted coup. >> chuck rosenburg, former u.s. attorney, former senior fbi official, senior justice department official. chuck, your clarity is unimpeachble, forget the phrase, and always great to have you here. thank you for your clarity, your help over the course of the week. thank you for being here tonight. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> much more to come here tonight, stay with us. fight back fast with tums chewy bites. fast heartburn relief in every bite. crunchy outside, chewy inside. ♪ tums, tums, tums, tums ♪ tums chewy bites are you tired of clean clothes that just don't smell clean? what if your clothes could stay fresh for weeks? now they can. downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters keep your laundry smellin

the department of justice began looking into the story in 2018 after it got wind of the book. this month, the department of justice said it had decided to close the case because there was not enough evidence to pursuit charges against her who is 87 years old. despite the case being closed, the family of till says it's not going to give up and till continue its quest for justice. joining me is the cousin of mr. till and the co-founder of the emmit till legacy foundation. good morning. you and i have been speaking over the years throughout this entire process. you were very hopeful not for yourself and your family necessarily but for all those people like that young man i spoke to in jackson, mississippi, who wanted to see justice for emmit till. today, that justice has alluded them once again. >> yes. we are very disappointed by the department of justice's decision to close their investigation in the case. that young man should have hope, because i have hope. some of our family members have hope as well. because we know that the woman has not been held accountable for her role

trump white house chief of staff mark meadows to the justice department on criminal contempt of congress charges for refusing to testify to the january 6th house select committee. joining us now live, congressman pete aguilar, a democrat from california. he sits on the january 6th committee. thanks for joining us today. mike pence's former national security adviser, keith kellogg, testified before your committee. he was at the white house in the oval office with trump during the attack. what did he tell you? >> well, i'm not going to get into the specifics of what any witness tells us within their depositions, but what i can tell you is that we're going to continue to ask these questions of anyone who had interaction with the former president on the lead up to january 5th and january 6th. it's important to tell that full narrative and understanding fully, especially as my colleague vice chair liz cheney talks about. the 187 minutes of unaccounted for time of the former president. the time when he could have asked folks to leave the capitol, but he didn't. so we need to understand that, a

where is the department of justice in all of this? claire mccaskill earlier was saying, they might be doing things that we don't know about and i look forward to apologizing to attorney general garland when that time comes when they reveal what they're doing but until that time, what are you doing? what is taking so long? are we right to be asking that question of the doj? >> certainly right to ask a question but in an ideal world the best solution is that the justice department is thoroughly investigating these things and you and i and nobody else knows about it because that is the way law-enforcement investigations are supposed to be. the truth is every time we have fbi agents or whatever say to ask questions you generally hear from the person who is being asked the questions of or their counsel, they talk to the media or something and say, there is an ongoing investigation. we haven't heard that. i respect what matt miller has said. if there isn't an investigation i think that would be unforgivable. if they are saying that there is

this, and not the department of justice? >> yes, that's really curious to me. i think it's a great question. so first principle, the department of justice doesn't need a referral from anyone to open up the case. if the department of justice believes a crime has been committed f they have predication to investigate it, then they can go ahead and investigate it. number two, we think we would see some reflections of that, stephanie, if the department of justice, if the fbi, if the u.s. attorney were conducting a grand jury investigation. there really aren't those reflections, so a couple of things are possible. one is that the department is simply waiting on congress to do its work, but that seems a little bit odd to me. the other is that the department has already opened an investigation and we're just not seeing it or hearing it or sensing it. another possibility is the department has decided not to do anything, which i think would be deeply unfortunate. i'm glad congress is investigating that awful day and everything that le

you have a department of justice who says we will treat these people as domestic terrorism. what impact does it does? it ensures that people realizes that they are over the target and what they are fighting for is so critical to their kids' education and long-term development that they will stay the course. host: the administration argued when that issue had been brought up, the fda -- the fbi and the justice department's role is concerned about threats to educators, how should -- how should they treat that issue? guest: these educators have local police departments that are protecting the local populations, and there has been no evidence of actual violence against schoolteachers. when the school board association that sent a letter to the department of justice and had a long list of evidence that they thought supported their claim, and all of it was baseless. none of it was something that a local police officer or police department would not handle. this is an effort to scare parents from being a part of the political process and i do not think it will serve the purposes of

the department of justice against. everything that's being talked about here, right, we're talking about in a time frame of 10, 15 maybe 20 years ago something on that order is that right? >> even longer. so the -- the indictment spans from 1994 to 2004. that's 25 years -- it's a really really long time ago. so the defense is's argument they've been clear it is what timothy call the 3ms i call the 3ms. it's about memory. >> right. >> they argue that memories change over time. manipulation of those memories by self-interested civil lawyers. they say. and money. the fact that the witnesses, the victims, have changed their story according to the defense lawyers after jeffrey epstein died, and big bucks were on the table from the epstein compensation fund. >> what about the the invocation of donald trump, the pilot mentioned him. and then one of the girls as well. he was not the only famous figure mentioned of course. epstein had relationships with lots of very famous people. tell me about the context for that. >> so the i

of justice, and the department of state. that's not that exotic. i've charged that statute myself as a federal prosecutor for impeding and impairing the irs, for instance. and so, while it might not be appropriate for those assaulting cops, it would absolutely be appropriate for those who orchestrated an attempted coup. >> chuck rosenburg, former u.s. attorney, former senior fbi official, senior justice department official. chuck, your clarity is unimpeachable, forget the phrase, and always great to have you here. thank you for your clarity, your help over the course of the week. thank you for being here tonight. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> much more to come here tonight, stay with us. when you really need to sleep you reach for the really good stuff. new zzzquil ultra helps you sleep better and longer when you need it most. it's non habit forming and powered by the makers of nyquil. new zzzquil ultra. when you really really need to sleep. ♪ limu emu... & doug ♪ ♪ superpowers from a spider bite? i could use some help

this department of justice has demonstrated that they believe in the rule of law, in executing their duties as they should. if we have to move forward with criminal contempt and refer to the department of justice, i have full faith that they will do their job and to the letter of the law. >> all right congresswoman stephanie murphy, thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> i want to show you moment from september of last year of donald trump at the rose garden promoting the new coronavirus testing strategy. >> these new rabid point of care tests are easy to use and return results within just minutes. i would like to ask -- to come up and demonstrate how these tests are performed. he will do this very nicely i think. good luck, hope you don't test positive. [laughs] >> that's a funny joke. you can hear the laughter in the rose garden that day, which would not have been the case if everyone there knew that the president himself had tested positive for coronavirus two days before that event. didn't say anything, next the stunning new revelations that the former president tested posit

the department of justice award for victim assistance and compensation programs and more. with that, since there is space in the back, why don't people sit in the back seats? i know people are focused on spacing these days. >> there are more cases of omicron across the country. can you help tell us what the message from the white house on omicron is? sec. psaki: the president will be addressing the american people tomorrow and we'll talk about what to expect as we go into the which months and detail additional steps we will be taking. the president has been clear that while vaccinated individuals -- he will restate that while vaccinated individuals help, the cases will likely be mild to a cinematic. they will have the tools to protect themselves. a nice and it will continue to drive hospitalizations and deaths. that is not trying to scare people or maybe it is trying to make clear to people in the country what the risks are of not being vaccinated. it is clear we are not in the same place. the beginning of the pandemic things to the extraordinary work to get over 200 milli

running the department of justice. what is your reasonable expectation, honestly, based on what you've seen of garland, for what he would do? >> i want him to be independent. he indicted steve bannon. that was an easy call. i hope he indicts or looks at the laws and the facts with mark meadows. that's his call. i'm not the prosecutor. it's his call. as it relates to donald trump, if there is evidence of obstruction of congress, i hope at least he gets a fair trial at the department of justice. what i fear though, john, i don't want just to sweep this under the rug because it is a former president and don't treat him any more harshly because he's donald trump, but don't do him any favors because he's a former president. >> you talk about history. these text messages, i was a little surprised by the detail that came in. so the last few days has been surprising to me. i was even more surprised yesterday to hear from the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell talk about what he's learned and how he feels about this process

of justice, we know the department of justice is getting a lot of incoming at this point. they're getting it from meadows. they're getting it from trump and others. we've got reporting that shows, you know, that the u.s. attorney in atlanta, right, is being told that he's got to go find some cases. so it's interesting members of congress are doing it as well because not isolated. you say this in a piece you wrote about the committee's scope, that according to one prominent witness, investigators are interested in the relationship between freedom caucus members and political activists who organized stop the steal rallies before and after the election. nobody, committee chair bennie thompson said, is off limits. ashley, in terms of meadows, who you wrote about today, there's two things that are striking here. one is that he seems to be an activity participate in this. you know, there would always be these sort of john kelly stories that would come out, that john kelly was sort of like yes-bossing trump and trying to like, you know, steer away from things. i never know the de

the department of justice to push his policies. and now that's what we expect in both major parties in the united states. it's what we expected of presidents and our presidential nominees. >> seems like it almost came out of necessity because of the state that the court weighs in at the time. i wonder, can you set the stage for us? go back to the end of the roosevelt administration? what was happening on the court that made this special circumstances? >> franklin roosevelt -- unlike trumans nominees to the court, franklin roosevelt's nominees, they are well known by many americans certainly anyone who has suffered through law school. because they are understood as these profound jurors and pillars of the law. but they didn't like each other. and perhaps that goes hand in hand. they did not get along. and it wasn't just a matter of ideology, which it was. they agreed on new deal policy. but they didn't agree on too much else. by that also was a matter of the fact that they personally came to dislike each other. they dislike each oth

the fate of mark meadows is in the hands of the justice department. the house voting overnight to recommend the doj pursue criminal charges against meadows after his decision to quit cooperating with the january 6th committee. just two republicans broke ranks in that vote, both of them members of that committee. representatives liz cheney and adam kinzinger. they joined democrats in the house to vote for the referral. >> meadows, a former member of congress from south carolina -- north carolina himself is the first former lawmaker to be held in contempt, criminal contempt of congress in nearly 200 years. just before last night's vote, the panel unveiled more alarming text messages sent to meadows, including a text from a currently sitting lawmaker as yet unidentified, revealing that lawmakers in the white house discussed plans to overturn the election as soon as the day after november 3rd, election day. we'll have more on that in a moment. here is congresswoman liz cheney. >> some of those text messages, madam speaker, came from members in the chamber

you can't have the president calling up the department of justice. any president of any party shouldn't be able to do that. then the president embargoed, stopped money to congress, republican congress, for ukraine. just stopped it. but apparently on the other side of the aisle, they feel like their job is to be hand maidens in case trump comes back. they don't want to put in the protections now when joe biden's there, who they carry on about as abusive all the time. why not put in the protections now? because you want donald trump to be able to come back and continue these sorts of abuses. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from new york reserves. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. comer: i yield a minute and a half to mr. stewart. mr. stewart: there is so much in this bill to be concerned about. for the last five years i lived through the russian hoax, i lived through impeachment one, i lived through impeachment two. all of which are great examples of provisions in this bill that harm our democracy

but this is where the department of justice needs to be. it's time if they haven't already to open up a much larger investigation into the failed coup, the effort to subvert the election and overturn the election that now we know from katie's excellent reporting, some of these documents coming out from the january 6th committee and a lot of other recordings and conversations and notes, you put it all together, and this has to be investigated by the department of justice for a potential criminal conspiracy. >> and katie benner, based on her public utterances, liz cheney seems to be of that view. i want to read this from your reporting. this is about a republican congressman named scott perry. mr. perry was finding ways to exert pressure on the justice department. he introduced trump to mr. clark, the acting head of the department's civil division who became one of the stop the steal movement's most ardent supporters. then after christmas, perry called donahue to share his voter fraud dossier which focused on unfounded election fraud claims i