Last week, Congressman Robert Garcia called Elon Musk a dick because actually I think he is a dick.

And this week, the Department of Justice is a petty Justice Department, and now they are going

after Congressman Robert Garcia. And lucky for you

guys, we have with us today. Congressman Robert Garcia, how are you? I'm doing okay. Thanks. Thanks for

having me on. Yes. So it's our understanding after the CNN interview, you received a call from the Washington Post asking you about this letter that

you had not received from the U.S. DOJ and the United States attorney is Edward R. Martin.

Absolutely right. I mean, this is really just incredibly disturbing. Should be disturbing for any

American. Obviously, we as members of Congress

should have the right to oppose an administration that we disagree with. Earlier that day,

I had been in the very first Doge subcommittee meeting with calling it like it is. It's important

for folks to be able to know that Democrats need to be in a fight. This is a fight that we are in for a very democracy.

And the fact that the Trump Department's DOJ now wants to silence members of Congress

because we actually are willing to take on Elon Musk is quite dangerous.

And I think that's something that we're really, really concerned about that the Department of Justice now has essentially said that we cannot use metaphors, that we cannot use figures of speech, that we cannot talk about actually fighting the policies of the Trump administration, and if we do so, we're going to face prosecution. So incredibly disturbing, but we're not going to be silence.

We've got to push back.

This is a moment for us to, I think, be really tough and aggressive.

Okay.

This U.S. attorney, Edward R. Martin, Jr., I did a little light Google search on him,

and I was very not surprised to find out that he was one of the lead organizers of the Stop the Steel January 6th movement.

He posted just earlier this week that he wants to open an investigation into Jack Smith.

He was a defense attorney for a January 6 defendant. And then he gets appointed to

this position and he signs a motion to dismiss and the judge said, you can't, you're conflicted.

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