we'll see how it comes out on appeal but i think it's a missed opportunity by america garland. >> in his right after that, maybe hours. as usual, good to go. and so court of the other things i wanted to ask about is i'm fascinated with this context of the endgame and we seen it with multiple other trump administration officials either into the time in the administration at or after they resigned and they say know what, along i was not game and i push internally you just didn't see it. one of the interesting things is that after president trump lost the election and was cleared, especially while it seemed that bill barr was changing his tune a little bit. he was not going along with the president every decision. and over the course of the administration and it specifically, we have spoken now to bill barr being in the news, recently an article reeves quoted saying that i had suspicions all along that donald trump's voter fraud claims were both should despite the opposite. so my question to you as you initially recommend this book book that it is too late for that, why is it too late a

>> garland: no, sir. it was such an unprecedented threat, i don't think it was ever calculated, so the capability to prevent a ballistic missile attack, it-- it wasn't there. >> martin: did you have a plan for what to do? >> garland: we came up with a plan. >> staci coleman: the only real fense against a ballistic missile attack is to get out of harm's way. >> martin: air force lieutenant colonel staci coleman and the rest of al asad scrambled to evacuate more than 50 aircraft and 1,000 troops before the missiles hit, but the base still had to be manned. >> coleman: we still needed to be able to do our mission. so the first decision was to split our team by combat capability. >> martin: what did you think was going to happen to the people you were telling to stay? >> coleman: the honest truth is, i didn't think that we were going to survive. >> martin: the best shelter was air raid bunkers built during the rule of saddam hussein, but there weren't enough of them. >> garland: and i just remember a very hea

we'll see how it comes out on appeal but i think it's a missed opportunity by america garland. >> in his right after that, maybe hours. as usual, good to go. and so court of the other things i wanted to ask about is i'm fascinated with this context of the endgame and we seen it with multiple other trump administration officials either into the time in the administration at or after they resigned and they say know what, along i was not game and i push internally you just didn't see it. one of the interesting things is that after president trump lost the election and was cleared, especially while it seemed that bill barr was changing his tune a little bit. he was not going along with the president every decision. and over the course of the administration and it specifically, we have spoken now to bill barr being in the news, recently an article reeves quoted saying that i had suspicions all along that donald trump's voter fraud claims were both should despite the opposite. so my question to you as you initially recommend this book book that it is too late for that, why is it too late a

garland: i believe that question because it specifically about phoenix. ms. clarke: our investigation looked into a number of issues. what we are planning to roll up our sleeves and looked at closely is whether or not the phoenix police department uses force unconstitutionally, including the force. whether the department engages in discriminatory policing, whether the department engages in retaliatory conduct by making arrests or using force against individuals engaged in peaceful expressive activities. we are going to look at whether the city and the police department discriminate against people with disabilities in violation of the ada. whether they violate the rights of people experiencing homelessness by unlawfully seizing or disposing of personal property during cleanings or sweeps of encampments, and we are also going to look at the departments policies and training as well as dutch department' has policies and training as well as how they investigate and hold officers accountable for misconduct. failures may contribute to violations of federal law. >>

garland mentioned something similar. before you leave the house, as it were, wherever you are, what is the situation on the ground? that is something we are exploring. >> so people can decide when the best time might be for them to visit and which part of the park to enter, which part of the park to visit. in 2020, zion national park, in my state of utah, was the third most visited park in the nation with around 3.6 million visitors. at times, zion has had to deal with some of these overcrowding issues because that is a lot of people visiting one park. in many cases, a reservation has been suggested as the only solution in spite of strong opposition from most park visitors in local communities and that is something i strongly impose. the east zion initiative can also serve as an excellent test case for what can be done to address these issues without capping visitors or degrading resources. can you tell me a little bit about the efforts being undertaken to disperse visitors to underused assets as part of the east zion in

america garland and said, let's get a little bit more definitive guidance because we have a district court ruling, the trial of organ may be to bring it up to the court of appeals we will have a little bit more sort of definitive nets about where that line isn't whether this falls on one side of the line or the other. could've been a motivation garland bennett think that's close to what she's asking but i think it's possible but i don't think he is case sort of more extreme version of that and some people but garland wants to take the case get a second ruling. he didn't appeal the case, it would be open they would be and we would have the judge kaplan's ruling, not as powerful as a court of the feels ruling but i think that is possible. it is good thought. >> one of the questions audio to nexus from rj to says that bill barr as we know, john carl over at abc news and part of this was where those claims about i didn't think these voter fraud claims were real all along came about previous question is what he believed is trying to rewrite history and do believe he is a future in a futur

>>maker garland calling on entire legal community to take immediate action. >> garland's plea for help comes after the supreme court in favor of landlords preventing them from leases intrudes on one of the most fundamental element of property ownership the right to exclude. >> now that the federal eviction moratorium has ended, eviction filings are expected to spike to roughly double their pre-pandemic levels. >> that wasn't much of a surprise. the president himself predicted the court was likely to rule against him. >> the bulk of the constitutional scholarship says that it's not likely to pass constitutional muster. >> a fight still lies ahead. progressive coming woman who camped out to draw attention to the eviction moratorium cori bush writes we didn't sleep on those steps just to give up now. the high court rules if there is going to be a moratorium it's got to come from congress so speaker pelosi says the house is assessing possible legislative remedies until there is legislation the attorney general is hoping a network of lawyers and law school students will do. >> you can make

what does merrick garland do with this continually accreting evidence of justice-department officials having gone along with these schemes? you can't just be look, whoo, glad they are all out of here. let's make sure we behave differently, now. i mean, you have got to come clean what happened. tell the truth. find the guilty parties. name them. give them a chance to defend themselves and explain themselves, yes. but there has to be some accountability, or this stuff just happens, again. and we are starting to learn it. and it is hideous. um, and some of the worst of it has been revealed over these past couple of weeks, while i was trying to learn to catch striped bass from the shore. don't worry, they were all safe from me. first, we get the justice department, under merrick garland, advising trump's last-attorney general and his last deputy attorney general and other senior officials from trump's last days that they are, in fact, allowed to testify to congress. for congress's ongoing investigations into how trump tried to overturn the election results and stay in power. so justice de

garland said he's not going to block d.o.j. employees from testifying. that should clear the way or at least remove one of the obstacles to people like rosen, donohue, maybe barr, jeffrey clark testifying. finally there was the question, were there crimes there? people can fairly disagree. i believe at a minimum there were various at least potential federal crimes and i think merrick garland has an obligation at least to open a serious investigation and take a look here. >> thank you very much for being with us this morning. >> thanks, john. >> brianna? >>> as we learn more about donald trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, we are hearing from one of his biggest supporters and one of the biggest promoters of the big lie. mypillow c.e.o. mike lindell pushing his latest election conspiracy theory and it is the most bizarre yet. cnn's drew griffon sat down with lindell pushing back on his claims that threaten democracy, his proof of nothing and showing him what cnn uncovered in our own investigation. >> the mypillow guy. >> reporter: mike lindell,

so the transition to biden and merrick garland, it was merrick garland and his department of justice that just, i guess it was in the last month, freed people to testify, no cloud. so i'm going to reserve judgment and try to understand why it is that mr. rosen didn't come forward sooner, but i certainly thank him for doing two things, coming forward now and holding the line when the president of the united states urged him and his deputy to simply call it corrupt and leave the rest to me and my republican congressmen friends. mr. rosen held the line there. >> yes. one last quick question. will we ever see, do you think, criminal charges against donald trump and his top aides? and if not, aren't we saying to americans, to the world, that yes, somebody is beyond the law in america? and also aren't we just risking another coup attempt in the future? >> i don't know the answer to your question. i certainly know that we have many folks looking at criminal charges. it sure seems as though charges should be brought. in many cases and in many levels. what this all opponents out is something

that's the third such investigation as he said launched under garland. joyce vanessa and roland martin are with me now. roll nld, we've been talking about police departments long before the country was talking about it. merrick garland is undo or doing something the trump didn't do, the obama administration had been doing, whether federal supervision or consent decrees or pattern or practice investigations. how meaningful is this in terms of changing policing? we still don't have a federal bill. george floyd policing bill. but does this thing move us forward? >> they actually do, because by having the department of justice come in and putting eyes on these departments and also have monitors they have to abide by all the different rules. the city of cleveland, they've had the issue when mitch landry was mayor of new orleans. they had problems. he called the doj. ramsey called in the dojp unjeff sessions, bill barr abthey said this is hurting morale of police officers so you didn't have federal oversight. this is why elections matter processor. for all the

any minute we will hear from attorney general merrick garland who is told to be making an announcement on a civil rights investigation. we will bring that to you lye when it starts. >>> breaking news from the white house where the administration led by education secretary miguel cardona is going to reveal a vaccination policy. 1 in 5 new cases in louisiana is among children. >> it is going to provide parents, educators and communities the resources they need to be confident and ready for the safe upcoming school year. >> now, earlier at the white house today, the covid response team released new numbers showing that 83% of all counties in the country are reporting a substantial or high transmission rate. and this is all counties. but there's also a spike in vaccinations. 864,000 over the last 24 hours, the most in more than month. >> clearly americans are seeing the impact of being unvaccinated and unprotected. and the response is doing their part by rolling up the sleeve and getting vaccinated. and that is where we start with heidi prybylia, and the director of the national preparedne

people are voting and zombie as presidential and parliamentary elections. president ed garland who is facing a strong challenge from his opposition rival, who's running against him for the 3rd time. it follows a campaign dominated by the struggling economy and the fight against corruption. her with hossa has the latest from pulling station into soccer. with some elections when pulling stations open, you see the lines getting shorter and shorter and shorter, but not this one. people still keep streaming in the lines of getting longer and longer. most people who register to vote in the selection are young people under the age of about 34 more than 7000000 people have registered to vote. in the last mix you looking at about 4000000 people and the people who are voting, of course, the voting for different candidates. the ones of voting for the opposition, the that in the util emma say that he's a business man. he, the economist, he's a self made millionaire. they assume he knows a thing or 2 above the economy. he said he's going to reverse government policy of nationalizing state owned mi

but, you know, i wonder what you think of that argument, if that's why garland is not prosecuting. by the way, this involves -- it's not some distant episode. it involves folks who work for the d.o.j. point being, it is not a past issue, right? because the former president is still pushing these big lies. he's using it to fund and carry out, you know, basically fraudulent recounts in places like arizona, and you have legislatures using this as a pretext to pass new laws. you know, it's not really a past issue for this justice department, is it? >> no. in fact, what concerns me is that this could happen again. you essentially had here the d.o.j. being used to try to carry forward a scheme to undermine confidence in our election. i mean, the justice department is not supposed to be lying to the american public to try to steal an election. i don't believe that merrick garland and his team would do that, and ultimately here to be fair, these -- you know, the justice department ultimately stopped short of it. and thanks in parts to the efforts to resign. we shouldn't be relying on some

but you mentioned merrick garland. it is interesting that it is still an open question whether or not these are open to criminal charges. and that would only be something, and elliott could correct me if i'm wrong because you're the attorney here, it seems as though that would only be something that could be addressed by the department of justice. and so far merrick garland, the biden attorney general, has not seemed to have any interest, any stomach for continuing to litigate this in a criminal way despite the fact that there are a lot of democratic calls for him to do that going all the way up to the former president. so it is -- it is interesting to see how that played out at doj. >> elliott nods in agreement and we have all learned you never correct dana bash. >> that is so not true. >> it is never needed. thank you very much. we appreciate it. >>> just into cnn, with the delta variant raising two big numbers that we just learned moments ago, we'll bring it to you. one giving us reason for hope and the other a reas

is merit garland the right guy to hold donald trump to account? he's been criticized by some liberals for not being too aggressive enough. >> he's the guy we got. that's the horse we're on. he's cautious and smart and good and he's going to go more slowly than you want him to, but he's going. like for example, everybody was angry about oh, he's doing nothing about civil rights and nothing's happening and now what do we know, in the civil rights division, louisville, minneapolis, phoenix, they're all under investigation. he moves more slowly than you want him to, but he does in fact move. >> i hope you're right. thank you so much for your insights tonight. appreciate it. >>> democratic congressman ted liu of california oversees the california department of justice and joins me now. congressman, what donald trump tried to do with the aid of the doj, well some officials in the doj, was to try and overturn the election. he tried to do a coup, did he not? >> he absolutely did. when we did a house impeachment trial, i presented their section on the form

only merrick garland, the attorney general, has to contend with the fact that in the post trump era, like every day, they bring some new revelation about how former officials of the justice department did it how they were complicit. they went along and did their part. it's one thing to break the law that own set of challenges it's another thing to have created a generation of bent law enforcement officials. what does merrick garland do with this continually crazy evidence of justice department officials having to go along with the schemes? glad they're out here let's make sure we behaved differently now. you have to come clean about what happened and tell the truth find the guilty parties and name them and let them explain themselves. there has to be accountability or this stuff just happens again. some of the worst of it is being revealed over the past couple of weeks while was learning to catch fish from the shore. -- they are in fact allowed to testify to congress congress's ongoing investigations into how trump tried to overturn the election results and stay in power. the justice

a letter to attorney general garland. we hope to get a response before the house votes. hr four expansive of the and election administration as general garland's actions have shown, the biting initiation attempt to politicize the voting rights act. we cannot trust them with these new 40's. the backbone of our country is clear. states have the primary authority to administer elections, even federal elections. hr four, along with the biting joa -- doj -- biden doj is an attempt to radicalize elections. it is a power grab, p &. thank you, -- plain and simple. thank you, i yield back. >> we welcome our witnesses and thank them for participating. i will introduce them in after we introduce them, we went -- will go into their oral testimony. we will have questions and after the conclusion of the second panel, russians of all of the analysts. each of your -- questions of all of the analysts. there is a timer in the zoom review that should be visible on your screen. when you get to four minutes, you need to start to wrap up. when

merrick garland has opened the door and saying we're waiving all privilege here. he may decide for personal or other reasons he doesn't want to testify put i hope he will. >> what about the former attorney general bill barr? do you think he will come in voluntarily? >> we have a lot of questions relating to this incident and others during the tenure that he was attorney general. >> will you subpoena him if he doesn't? >> it takes a bipartisan vote to subpoena. i don't know that we're going to be able to accomplish that. people think the senate judiciary committee can send out subpoenas and off we go. it's more constrained. >> how helpful would it be to speak to former president donald trump? >> not sflooil what has are has are r r of o-- >> i guess the thought that we've come to accept it, this president and his bizarre conduct, we came to accept over four years as normal. it's outrageous. when you look back on the richard nixon episode and saturday night massacre people out of principle were threatening to resign. same thing happened here incidentally within the

and garland has been reluctant to do that so far. we'll see if it continues. >> it has to be fertile territory, dana, for the house select committee who i'm sure wants to hear from just everyone anywhere near any of these letters. >> no question about it. because that is what they are doing, you know. wouldn't it have been kind of fantastic for history sake for this to be done through a bipartisan outside independent commission, you know? it probably would have been, but that's not happening. so now what you have is, as you mentioned, the house committee which is largely democrats, two republicans. we won't get into the drama around that, but they are looking into it. we know that. we know that they're gathering this evidence. we know that they're talking to these, to these officials, former officials. by the way, same goes for the democratic-led senate. there are committees there who are looking into it. so we will get more information, but whether or not it is going to result in widespread change like post 9/11, that is tb d. proba

merrick garland, by the way, is not going to win those lawsuits against states over their new voting rules because they mimic the rules in blue states. as to dropping the civil rights cases against governors, including cuomo, for the nursing home deaths, that's only to the executive decision. it does not pertain to the cover-up, and lying to the government and cooking the books about the true numbers of nursing home deaths, as i say, that could well be obstruction of justice. that's a crime. >> sean: a whistle-blowerce actually said that was the reason they didn't give out the numbers. instead of admitting what they knew two months later, this is a bad policy, it's not working and doing the right thing andd adjusting to changing the policy, no, they just decided to cover it up and get a book deal. all right, gregg, thank you. also tonight, while many on the left are suddenly eager to denounce andrew cuomo, others just can't shake their deeple affection for the new york embattled governor. today a likely teary-eyed alec baldwin bravely tweeting "regardless of what you think of cuomo,

40 gop senators now demand attorney general merrick garland make public john durham's coming report on his probe. potential criminal charges could be involved. florida gop governor ron desantis at democrats defund the police push. what he is doing to bolster the police force in the sunshine state. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ elizabeth: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. we begin with the pentagon now struggling to increase evacuations of americans out of kabul airport in afghanistan. flights still not filled to capacity despite an order from the president. this as the uk is sending paratroopers outside of the perimeter of the airport to rescue uk citizens. the u.s. is not doing that. also reports of killings and widespread beatings by the taliban. we have desperate scenes of mothers at the airport handing over their babies to u.s. soldiers. joining us now, fox news senior strategic analyst, he is general jack keane. general, first your reaction, good to see you again, to the reports coming in, the

. >> why isn't the attorney general garland and the justice department doing more to investigate this assault on our democracy? >> again, the body that should be doing the investigating is the inspector general within the justice department because what that role is to do is to find out where there's fraud or abuse or corruption within the department, number one. number two, congress is really the body that can issue the subpoenas, that can call people up to testify, can make referrals to the justice department if, in fact, there is criminal wrongdoing. so i'm not so quick to point the finger at the garland justice department, and moreover, they've already -- the justice department has already said that these former justice department officials from the trump administration can come in and testify, and that itself was a big step because what they've done is given a license to these former officials to come in and talk, which the trump administration just didn't do. >> i appreciate the energy. i heard you had a cold brew before the show, so you're going to be up till like 4:00 in the m

will garland's voice finally be the one to tip the scales for the senate holdouts in your opinion? >> i'd certainly hope so, reverend. the issue is far from dead. we haven't seen enough pressure out there from the biden administration on this. look, h.r. 1 is dead. that was a huge omnibus piece of legislation, manchin and others weren't going to go for it. but we know what they are going to go for, and that is the john lewis voting rights act which is restoring the civil rights act and just common sense things so we cannot have the kind of abuses that are going on in texas that we've seen in georgia. so it's very clear that at least all 50 democrats are on board, and i think they're going to need to see if they can get those ten republicans, and if they can't, this is the issue where they're going to need to revisit the filibuster. but seems to me they at least have to get out there and have some test votes on the most basic protections of voting rights. and i think that's what chuck schumer's got to be doing now. >> well, if they can't go deal with the filibuster on this issue, it

today, merrick garland asked to restore the teeth. and he wrote in the washington post that we must say again that it is not right to erect barriers that make it eligible for millions to vote, and it is time for congress to protect that right. that could come sooner than expected, because chuck schumer told democrats that he would hold votes related to voting before the august recess. and our hill team reports is that raphael warnock and joe manchin did discuss a voting rights act. let's bring in natasha brown who is the founder of the black votes matter fund, and david thomas. and so, natasha, what is happening right now in georgia, because we know that georgia voters hosted the biggest upset in the november elections by choosing biden over trump, and ousting the incumbent republican senators for the senators and then the legislature responded with the sweeping voting restrictions and now as the constitutional points out, georgia is going to take the first vote for fulton county takeover, and fulton county is one of the most democrat

rachel's been reporting on attorney general garland's various tests at doj and the challenges he faces. this is surely one of them. and he's out swinging the bat for restoring the full law and its approach, righting of the voting rights act's preclearance provision were still operative many republican voter suppression laws wouldn't have been allowed in the first place, that's the key preclearance issue i mentioned. if it feels like people are always playing kind of a legal catch-up with these restrictions all over the place, that's not an accident. that's because the supreme court swooped in and made it so the only way to advocate noting voting rights is to be reactive. a new report out today argues this is an inflection point at protecting our democracy and says after reviewing thousands of pages of evidence and a lot of testimony from experts, congressional action is needed. senate democrats suggest a vote is coming on a slimmed-down version of the for the people act written by senator merkley who stood with the texas democrats who have been in washington pushing on the issue. >> th

so i'm not so quick to point the finger at the garland justice department. moreover, the justice department has already said these former justice department officials from the trump administration can come in and testify. and that itself was a big step, because what they've done is given a license to these former officials to come in and talk, which the trump administration just didn't do. >> i appreciate the energy. i heard you had a cold brew before the show, you'll be up until like 4:00 in the morning. >> anything for you, don lemon, i will stay up all night just to talk to you. >> thank you, i appreciate it, elliott williams, everyone. thank you, sir. >>> new york governor andrew cuomo defiant, digging in his heels and resisting growing calls to resign in spite of the state attorney general's bombshell report on sexual harassment allegations by 11 women. the impeachment investigation moving quickly, with the governor asked to submit any evidence no later than august 13. >> people are hurting right now. and they need leaders who can focus and not be in th

attorney general merrick garland and assistant attorney general for the civil rights division just announced that for the third time under this biden administration, they're opening a practice investigation into one of our nation's police departments. thissest investigation looking into the city of phoenix. this is the attorney general making the announcement just in the last hour. >> today we're announcing that justice department is opening an investigation into the city of phoenix and the phoenix police department. the investigation will determine whether the phoenix police department engages in a pad tern or practice of violations of the constitution or federal law. >> joining me now are our msnbc legal analyst and also joining me, msnbc law enforcement analyst cedric alexander. can you explain that part? what does it mean that department of justice is opening a pattern or practice investigation into whether this city of phoenix violated phoenix and the police department violated the constitution? >> pattern and practice investigations are a tool that justice department is authorized to u

merrick garland has opened the door. for personal reasons or other reasons he may decide not to testify but i hope he will. >> former attorney general bill barr, do you think he will come in voluntarily? >> i hope so. we have a lot of questions, related to this and others, during the tenure he was attorney general. >> will you subpoena if he doesn't? >> it takes bipartisan vote to subpoena. i don't know that we'll be able to accomplish that. people think that the joushry committee can send out subpoenas and go. it's much more restrained. >> how help pulverizers would it be to speak with former president donald trump? >> not likely. >> what happens shocked you the most, generally speaking, in terms of what you've seen? you said you've been looking into this since january. >> i guess the thought that we have come to accept that this president in his bizarre conduct, we came to accept over four years as normal. it's outrageous. when you look back on the richard nixon episode and the saturday night massacre, people out of pr

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but is there enough evidence for attorney general merrick garland to bring charges against the former president? let's bring in norm eisen, he served as counsel for the democrats on the house judiciary committee and jeffrey toobin our chief legal analyst and former federal prosecutor with a new cnn op-ed up that we'll talk about a little here called attorney general merrick garland don't prosecute donald trump. okay, why, jeffrey? >> because based on the available everyday there is no crime that donald trump has committed. was his behavior, outrageous, was it terrible, was it something that if he remained in office probably would have been impeachable. but criminal law is different. there are very specific requirements regarding intent, regarding actions that limit what the criminal law can do and so far based on the available evidence i don't think there's anything you could prosecute donald trump for. >> norm? >> well, brianna, it's nice to be back with you and with my old friend jeffrey toobin. what he says is provocative and will wake you up in the morning, but brianna, it's total

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discovery, interviews and what the doj and justice department has done essentially through merrick garland, has been to say, we're not going to assert the public privilege that muzzle those people who would have the information. they decided they're not going to assert executive privilege, which normally has been a roadblock that says, you might want transparency, but we don't have to give it to you. including there was a u.s. attorney in the state of georgia who abruptly resigned. is there a correlation to this big lie that was promoted by this person as well? then you have an even bigger story. so we are at a premature level now to decide that it is not criminal and the investigation should unfold to figure out if it in fact is. either way, the doj is not putting up a roadblock that was up in effect a few months ago. >> president trump has already said he is going to try to stop his former subordinates from testifying. i don't know if he can do that, but he can get these people to go to court. if they go to court, it could delay their testimony for months, and that may be as good as stop

. >> i think the attorney general merrick garland is in a very tricky position especially as more of these revelations come out. now, on the one hand, if it hadn't been for the justice department's decision not to exert executive privilege over these conversations, we may not have known about a lot of this conduct and the efforts by former president trump to directly use the justice department to try and overturn the election, but if you think about the mandate that garland came in with, it was to restore the integrity to the justice department, and once again try and at least in the eyes of the public reinforce that this is an independent institution, and that is part of why when he's been asked about whether or not there's going to be a comprehensive investigation into the previous administration he's pointed to the department's inspector general investigating some of these matter, including efforts to overturn election, but he says he does not want the department to real be behind that kind of comprehensive review because it risks politicizing the work of the career officials ther

have a good day. >>> attorney general merrick garland announcing a pattern and practice investigation into the city of phoenix and the phoenix police department. let's bring in now senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid and senior legal analyst elie honig. paula, in recent history these investigations have come after a high-profile killing. the louisville investigation came after the death of breonna taylor. in minneapolis it was after the murder of george floyd. what's the recent history in phoenix that would suggest that this now comes? >> there have been a series of incidents in the city of phoenix, raising questions about excessive use of force. what is interesting about this investigation in particular is that the assistant attorney general said they're also, in addition to looking at police use of force, they are going to look specifically how protesters are treated, how the homeless are treated, and how people with disabilities are treated by law enforcement. it is not just law enforcement, it is also the city of phoenix. so they will be looking at any patterns, how are

very different under merrick garland than the one before. while there were some profiles in courage here because actually the department of justice refused to break under the relentless pressure campaign mounted by the president, there are also some officials who did his bidding. there should be consideration of criminal charges for them, and others who may have been complicity in this very egregious cause. >> not just the president, but others. we certainly will be waiting for the public details of that report. senator, i know you and your colleagues are especially busy, always but certainly this weekend. i appreciate you taking the time. and the candor. i know it is hard sometimes when you can give the full scope. even what you are able to share with the american people, we are appreciative of. thank you senator we appreciate your time. >> thank you. >>> thousands of bikers in one tiny town. no mask mandates no, proof of vaccination yard. >> yet are they a little worried about covid? we will take you there next. giving you the options and