Stephen K. Bamb is joined by Ari Melver and Chris Hayes to discuss the President's role as a chief executive officer of the United States, and why he should run all of the country's law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and DOJ.
00:05:30.000Ever since Watergate, that's been verboten, right?
00:05:33.000That was the whole purpose of Watergate, is to hive off the Justice Department so it could not,
00:05:37.000it would not have any association with the executive branch and particularly the office of the president.
00:05:42.000Well, no one's suggesting a corrupt abuse of office here.
00:05:46.000We're suggesting the vigorous exercise of his constitutional responsibilities, duties, and powers to ensure that the rule of law is vindicated.
00:05:57.000And does it mean targeting someone specifically just because you don't like them?
00:06:02.000You know, you still have the rule of law.
00:06:38.000And, you know, in terms of the appearance of justice, whether or not they are otherwise, you know, oh, they may have a whole bunch of perfect staff.
00:06:48.000But the American people have lost confidence in both agencies.
00:06:51.000And, you know, I was talking to Marjorie Taylor Greene on the way out.
00:06:55.000You know, she made the point her constituents are upset about this.
00:06:58.000And, you know, our friends in the administration want to blame me or Marjorie or others for highlighting these issues and getting people riled up.
00:09:35.000The president is acting as magistrate and prosecutor.
00:09:38.000And when you look at president and people should go and look this up.
00:09:41.000Look at President Washington's handling of the Whiskey Rebellion.
00:09:45.000I mean, Mike, you wouldn't want to be.
00:09:47.000You didn't want to be on the wrong end of George Washington on that.
00:09:50.000First off, people don't know that Hamilton and Washington actually came back and they formed a standing army, made Hamilton a major general.
00:09:58.000And Washington was going to come back and do the going to be commander in chief again.
00:10:02.000He talked about the vigorous prosecution.
00:10:07.000The Aliens Emmys Act that we're using came from that time, the 1798.
00:10:12.000President Jackson Roosevelt used Teddy, conducted antitrust prosecutions or ran them.
00:10:21.000President Reagan shut down a prosecution over national security concerns.
00:10:27.000So this is, you know, and I remember talking to a senior person in the in the prior White House, the Trump White House, someone who's not seen as a friend of the president anymore, but a very former senior official.
00:10:37.000And he said to me, Tom, after all this is done, we need to bring the Justice Department back into our government.
00:10:50.000Let's stop giving the left control of the Justice Department.
00:10:54.000And my theory, my working narrative is our working narrative should be we need to research assert political control of the administrative state.
00:11:03.000Or as the left likes to say over the ministry, political control of the administration state or as the left likes to call it, democracy.
00:11:11.000What what is your top you've sued now the administration?
00:11:16.000I mean, I can't believe I'm saying this sentence who's worked for years in this thing and was we called the People's Justice Department during Obama that have hadn't been for you.
00:11:26.000I don't know where this country would have been.
00:11:28.000You were the one group that was in Obama's freedom of information requests, suing Holder the whole thing, forcing Holder almost into a contempt charge over the gun running situation.
00:18:42.000We're representing her family, her husband, Aaron, her estate.
00:18:46.000And, you know, long story short, we had this unusual court hearing on Friday in which the government and judicial watch on behalf of Ashley's family had to disclose that the settlement has been agreed to in principle.
00:19:01.000So the next step is there will be essentially it has to be finalized and something needs to be signed.
00:19:07.000And so the details as to the amount and other details.
00:20:31.000So we've asked for records about the targeting.
00:20:34.000We got the proverbial hand to the face.
00:20:37.000So hopefully the Trump appointees and or the IRS bureaucrats running the agency think better of it now that we've sued and start releasing information about this, what looks to be political targeting.
00:20:50.000I've never mentioned this, but everything else.
00:20:53.000I also got an audit during those days.
00:20:56.000Never said it before, Fenton, but you can bring it out of me.
00:20:59.000Well, you're fighting. No, everyone was so corrupt.
00:21:02.000This is why Scott Besson, the new crew over there is fantastic.
00:21:05.000But these people are corrupt up to there.
00:22:41.000I do not think the Senate will take out President Trump's favorite U.S. attorney who's doing a bang-up job,
00:22:46.000but we'll know the answer to that question tonight.
00:22:49.000So the Senate Judiciary, which has Cornyn on it, Tillis on it, some other folks like that on it,
00:22:57.000they have to agree with Grassley just to set a hearing.
00:23:01.000This is not voting in favor right now of Ed Martin.
00:23:04.000Just to just to to to notice that a hearing is going to take place or the or the because it's not a public hearing of a I guess the paperwork to go back and forth,
00:23:13.000because on 20th of May, he times out from his his interim or temporary appointment.
00:23:21.000The decision on whether to notice the hearing for Thursday is Grassley's alone.
00:23:25.000But he has to do that three days before Thursday, which is tonight.
00:23:29.000So the question is whether he'll do that over some objections that other Senate Republicans on the Judiciary Committee may have.
00:23:36.000It's important to note that none of them have said publicly they would not vote for Ed Martin.
00:23:41.000And so our hope is that Senator Grassley, the chairman moves forward, puts this on the books for Thursday and does not allow a situation
00:23:49.000where others in the caucus can agree with Schumer, Durbin and Schiff and all of their lies, slanders and slurs to let Ed time out in the dark of night.
00:26:43.000Let your senators on the Judiciary Committee particularly know that Ed Martin is the right man to make D.C. safe and deliver Trump's mandate.
00:26:52.000And if we don't advance this by tonight, we effectively turn over the Senate to Schumer, Schiff and Durbin's hands at a time where reconciliation and everything else is on the table.
00:28:35.000Why millions of people are allowed in this country by the administration that simply don't qualify for asylum.
00:28:40.000Most of them will lose that asylum claim.
00:28:42.000So while they're clogging up the whole system, in addition to those who want to come in legally, while the fraudulent millions of fraudulent asylum claims under Biden administration, there are people in this world who really are escaping fear and persecution from their homeland.
00:28:57.000But they're sitting in the backseat, too, because millions of people cheated the system and come across the border and released the United States that caused a significant backlog in immigration court.
00:29:22.000That's why they weren't in ICE detention.
00:29:23.000Because in ICE detention, they get a hearing within 35 days.
00:29:26.000But if at least millions of the country overwhelm the system so they don't get a hearing in five, seven, nine years, then maybe there's a Democrat administration in power.
00:30:13.000Even President Clinton Obama took steps to secure the border because they understood you can't have national security if you don't have border security.
00:30:20.000No one did more than President Trump during his first administration.
00:30:24.000We handed the Biden administration the most secure border in my lifetime and he purposely unsecured it.
00:30:29.000First president in the history of the nation to do that.
00:30:32.000Look at what President Trump achieved in eight weeks.
00:30:35.000He did in eight weeks what Joe Biden couldn't and wouldn't do in four years.
00:30:39.000We have the most secure border in the history of this nation right now because of President Trump.