00:00...showed people photos of President Trump with half-naked young women.
00:05When you're the one who was taking money from one of Epstein's closest confidants, I believe,
00:11I could be wrong, correct me, Reid Hoffman, who was with Jeffrey Epstein on multiple occasions,
00:18and the senator sitting right next to you tried to block the flight logs from being released.
00:24Yet you're grilling me on President Trump and some photograph with Epstein?
00:30Let me ask you something else.
00:31There's been public reporting that Jeffrey Epstein showed people photos of President Trump with half-naked young women.
00:39Do you know if the FBI found those photographs in their search of Jeffrey Epstein's safe or premises or otherwise?
00:50Have you seen any such thing?
00:53You know, Senator Whitehouse, you sit here and make salacious remarks once again trying to slander President Trump.
01:00Left and right.
01:01When you're the one who was taking money from one of Epstein's closest confidants, I believe,
01:08I could be wrong, correct me, Reid Hoffman, who was with Jeffrey Epstein on multiple occasions,
01:14and the senator sitting right next to you tried to block the flight logs from being released.
01:20Yet you're grilling me on President Trump and some photograph with Epstein?
01:26Come on.
01:27The question is, did the FBI find those photographs that have been discussed publicly by a witness
01:36who claimed Jeffrey Epstein showed them to him?
01:41You don't know anything about that.
01:44Okay.
01:46Thanks, Mr. Chairman.
01:48Madam Attorney General, let me ask you this question.
01:50Were you consulted by the White House before they deployed National Guard troops to cities in the United States?
01:59I am not going to discuss any internal conversations with the White House.
02:05You won't even say whether you talked to the White House about this?
02:08I am not going to discuss any internal conversations with the White House with you, Ranking Member.
02:14I noticed that.
02:15What's the secret?
02:16Why do you want to keep this secret?
02:18The American people don't know the rationale behind the deployment of National Guard troops in my state.
02:24The word is, and I think it's been confirmed by the White House,
02:27they are going to transfer Texas National Guard units to the state of Illinois.
02:32What's the rationale for that?
02:33Yeah, Chairman, as you shut down the government, you voted to shut down the government,
02:37and you're sitting here, our law enforcement officers aren't being paid.
02:41They're out there working to protect you.
02:42I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump.
02:46And currently, the National Guard are on the way to Chicago.
02:49If you're not going to protect your citizens, President Trump will.
02:53I've been on this committee for more than 20 years.
02:56That's the kind of testimony you expect from this administration.
02:58A simple question as to whether or not that a legal rationale for deploying National Guard troops
03:03becomes grounds for a personal attack.
03:05I think it's a legitimate question.
03:08It's my responsibility.
03:09She refuses to answer as to whether she had any conversation with the White House
03:13about deploying National troops to my state.
03:16That's an indication, I'm afraid, where we are politically in this place.
03:19Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
03:20Attorney General Bondi, good to see you.
03:22Welcome.
03:22I've been listening closely in this hearing, and I've heard over and over from my Democrat
03:27colleagues' concerns about targeting political enemies, and they've accused you of all manner
03:32of things and the current president.
03:33I've also heard them said, and I just wrote it down because I wanted to be sure I heard
03:37it correctly.
03:37I've heard them say that Joe Biden never targeted his political enemies.
03:42Joe Biden never directed his attorney general to target his political opponents.
03:46Huh.
03:48That's interesting because I could have sworn that yesterday we learned that the FBI tapped
03:54my phone.
03:56Let's look at it.
03:58We've got a list.
03:59Tapped my phone.
04:00Tapped Lindsey Graham's phone.
04:02Tapped Marsha Blackburn's phone.
04:04Tapped five other phones of United States senators.
04:08Gee, it sure looks like targeting political opponents to me, and yet I haven't heard a word
04:13from that side of the dais about any concern whatsoever.
04:17We've got nothing but concerns today, but no concern at all for a Justice Department that
04:24is tapping the phones of sitting United States senators because who knows why?
04:30They don't like them.
04:32They're members of the opposition party.
04:34They're Republicans.
04:35They're conservatives.
04:36You've seen this document, Attorney General Bondi.
04:38What was going on here?
04:39Who ordered this?
04:40Who ordered the tapping of the phones of United States senators?
04:46Senator Hawley, I cannot discuss the details of that right now for very good reason.
04:52You're going to do a thorough investigation into this, I trust.
04:55Is that correct?
04:56We will be looking at all aspects of this, and I have talked to Director Patel at length.
05:00And you're going to figure out who was involved in this, who signed off on it, who knew about
05:06it.
05:06You're going to get to the bottom of all of it.
05:08Is it correct?
05:09Yes, and I've spoken to Director Patel about it, and he is committed to doing this.
05:12Well, I can tell you, we already know many of the details.
05:15We already know that this was ordered by the special prosecutor, Jack Smith, who reported
05:19directly to the Attorney General of the United States, Merrick Garland, and we know that
05:24Jack Smith was on his witch hunt because he was directed to do so by the President of
05:30the United States, Joe Biden.
05:32Let's just remember.
05:34Let's take a walk down memory lane.
05:36April 2nd, 2022.
05:38The New York Times.
05:39Garland faces growing pressure.
05:42The Times says as recently as late last year, that would have been 2021, Mr. Biden confided
05:46to his inner circle, he believed former President Trump was a threat to democracy and should
05:50be prosecuted.
05:51It goes on to say that Garland, that the Biden, rather, was frustrated with Garland and wanted
05:56him to take decisive action against Trump.
06:01Here's what we're talking about.
06:03Trump, of course, was a private citizen at the time.
06:06So he appoints his own hitman, Jack Smith, who goes after the President, former President,
06:13who goes after members of this body.
06:15You know, the thing about it, though, that really strikes me is, is that it didn't stop
06:19with members of the United States Senate, did it, Attorney General Biden.
06:23It didn't stop here at all.
06:24I mean, just as egregious, maybe more so than tapping the phones of U.S. senators, is this
06:29memo that I know you've seen before.
06:30Let's just look at it again.
06:31This is an FBI memo from the same time period, I might add, from the same time period in which
06:39the Federal Bureau of Investigation attempts to recruit informants into Catholic parishes
06:44in this country.
06:45So here you have an administration that is activating the FBI against its political opponents and
06:50tapping the phones of United States senators.
06:53Can I just say that again for my colleagues, for the benefit of my colleagues on the other
06:57side of the dais?
06:58Tapping the phones of United States senators.
07:01This isn't hypothetical.
07:03This isn't maybe what will you do in the future.
07:05This isn't, oh, gee, can we imagine the situation?
07:08This happened.
07:10This happened.
07:12And this happened.
07:13The targeting of Catholics in this country because Joe Biden and his FBI didn't like
07:18Catholics who went to a certain kind of mass.
07:21I mean, good God in heaven.
07:23What is happening to this country?
07:26What happened under Joe Biden?
07:28Or then how about this?
07:29The infamous school board memo.
07:31Where Merrick Garland, at the direction of the White House, issued a memo activating the
07:36FBI's counterterrorism division against parents who attended school board meetings and had the
07:43temerity to ask what their kids were being taught.
07:46And some of those parents were treated like this.
07:48Let's just remember.
07:49Let's remember how parents were treated.
07:51Treated like this man.
07:53A parent at a school board meeting, I think in Virginia, who was drug out of the school
07:59board meeting.
07:59He's bloodied there.
08:01You can see it.
08:02And what was the response of Joe Biden's DOJ and FBI?
08:06It was to issue a memorandum saying that people like this ought to be investigated by the
08:12counterterrorism unit.
08:13And unbelievably, they were.
08:16They were.
08:17Or how about this?
08:18Let's remember Mark Houck and the pro-lifers who were prosecuted for what?
08:23For going to a clinic, an abortion clinic, and praying on a sidewalk outside the abortion
08:29clinic.
08:29This is Mark Houck and his beautiful family at Mass.
08:32This man, at the direction of Joe Biden's FBI, this man had an FBI SWAT team come to his
08:40door in the early morning hours with his beautiful children there, terrorizing them with weapons
08:46drawn.
08:47He was then arrested and prosecuted.
08:51Unfortunately, a jury acquitted him.
08:53This is what was happening under Joe Biden.
08:58United States senators spied upon.
09:01Former presidents, the political opponents of the president at the time, targeted, prosecuted.
09:06Pro-lifers targeted, prosecuted.
09:09Catholics targeted, prosecuted.
09:1292 conservative organizations put under surveillance, targeted for potential prosecution.
09:18Gee, I don't know.
09:19Would you call that an example of weaponization, Attorney General Bonney?
09:24Do you think that's a fair characterization?
09:28Senator Hawley, that is the ultimate weaponization.
09:31And weaponization under Donald Trump has ended.
09:34It has ended.
09:36Harmeet Dillon is running our civil rights unit.
09:38And she is doing an incredible job.
09:41No longer will parents be targeted.
09:45No longer will parents who care about whether their elementary school children have to read
09:52a transgender book be targeted and told they cannot have any say in their child's education.
09:59That has ended under this administration.
10:03People can worship freely, whether they're Catholics at synagogues or Muslims.
10:08Everyone can worship freely.
10:11That was the ultimate weaponization.
10:13They were targeting Catholics.
10:15They have been targeting so many American citizens throughout this country.
10:20And Senator Hawley, you have been a champion of this.
10:23And thank you for being a champion of that.
10:24But under Donald Trump's watch, it has ended.
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