GOP vs. Garland

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Attorney General Merrick Garland appeared defiant as he fielded questions from lawmakers on a range of topics, occasionally sparring with Republican House members seeking to use his testimony to attack the Justice Department. Plus, the Biden administration is quickly invoking an authority to shut off access to asylum for migrants who cross the US-Mexico border illegally, a significant attempt by President Joe Biden to address head on one of his biggest political vulnerabilities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, the verdict may have been against Donald Trump, but some in the GOP are now trying to put
0:09.7	attorney general Merritt Garland on a kind of trial and we are just minutes away from the
0:14.5	US-Mexico border shutting down the new executive order from the president but
0:19.5	it's not all smooth sailing within his own party, you know that right?
0:23.6	Plus a mysterious bribe in a federal fraud trial that sounds like it's straight out of Hollywood.
0:29.8	$120,000 in cash left at a juror's home with a message.
0:35.0	But quit and get even more.
0:37.8	The story tonight on Laura Coates Live. It's been nearly a week now since a jury of 12th, Trump, of 34 accounts of falsified business records and from the looks of it
0:54.9	Donald Trump's so-called revenge tour well it's well underway. His Republican
1:00.0	allies on the Hill are saying that they are going to stall business in the Senate.
1:04.3	They're going to launch new investigations into the legal cases surrounding Trump and even consider
1:09.7	cutting funding to states like New York. Now it's all talk for now, but the power of the
1:15.3	purse we all know in Congress is very real. Today Republicans took out took
1:19.5	their anger out on this man, the attorney general Merritt Garland, who for several hours, probably the
1:24.9	longest hours he spent in a long time, refuted their claims that the DOJ is being weaponized
1:30.8	against Trump.
1:31.8	Their most popular conspiracy theory? Well the baseless
1:35.8	accusation that the DOJ sent and directed one of its top deputies, a man by
1:42.3	name was Matthew
1:43.2	Colangelo, to join the Manhattan DA's office in their case
1:46.9	against Donald Trump.
1:48.3	Now if you had his name on your bingo board,
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