S10 EP182: Hour 2 - Merrick Garland Gets Grilled
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erickson show. I hope it's a wonderful day wherever you are and it's a wonderful day here and you can call it and be a part of it. |
| 0:10.0 | 877-9-97-9-7-9-7-3-7-4-25. Well, you know, one of the fun things about the show, particularly now that I'm doing |
| 0:21.6 | New to 3 Live, I know some of you listen on delay, but the news happens so much this time |
| 0:28.3 | of day that like, for example, I wanted to spend some time on this coordinated campaign against |
| 0:33.6 | Facebook. |
| 0:34.1 | If you saw major newspapers, they almost every single one of them had a front |
| 0:37.6 | page story attacking Facebook and I'll get there but something else has happened |
| 0:42.7 | Merrick Garland has gone to the United States Senate I need to set the stage for you on this |
| 0:52.3 | story so that you know about it. |
| 0:54.2 | The National School Board Association sent a letter to Merrick Garland calling for an FBI |
| 1:02.8 | investigation into parents showing up at school boards. |
| 1:08.1 | The School Board Association claimed that parents were being threatened and bully or they were threatening and they were bullying, they were harassing. |
| 1:16.6 | They were threatening. They were domestic terrorists. |
| 1:20.6 | And Merrick Garland, the Attorney General of the United States Bitt, formed a task force to investigate parents as domestic terrorists. |
| 1:33.8 | Except there's a side of the story we did not know at the time. |
| 1:39.6 | Turns out the head of the National Association of the School Boards coordinated with the Biden White House. |
| 1:51.2 | The daily caller, Chuck Ross, that they got the, through a FOIA, they got a lot of the exchanges. |
| 1:57.4 | And you could see it was the Biden administration that actually helped prepare the letter and included certain language including wanting to call |
| 2:04.1 | parents domestic terrorists there's the Biden administration that did this and |
| 2:08.0 | the National Association of School Boards worked with them on drafting the letter |
| 2:11.9 | and sent it to Merrick Garland now we know that the board never approved it the National Association of School Boards their board never approved it now we know that the board never approved it. |
| 2:18.4 | The National Association of School boards, their board never approved it. |
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