The Vogel Group Principal Matt Keelen and Democratic strategist Jim Kessler discuss congressional hearings on politicization and a parents’ bill of rights proposed by House Republicans.
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>> THEY ADVOCATED FOR AND I QUOTE EXPLORATION OF NEW AVENUES FOR TRIP WIRE AND SOURCE DEVELOPMENT AGAINST TRADITIONALIST CATHOLICS, THEIR LANGUAGE INCLUDING THOSE WHO FAVOR THE LATIN MASS. ATTORNEY GENERAL ARE YOU CULTIVATING SOURCES AND SPIES IN LATIN MASS PERISHES, HOW DID IT HAPPEN? >> THAT’S WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING INTO IT.
THAT DOCUMENT IS APPALLING. >> SENATOR JOSH HAWLEY HAD HEATED EXCHANGES WITH MERRICK GARLAND AS REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS DEMAND ANSWERS TO WHAT THEY ARE CALLING POLITICAL TARGETING. LET’S BRING POLITICAL PANEL TODAY MATT, GOP STRATEGIST AND THE VOGUL GROUP PRINCIPAL AND JIM, SENATOR SCHUMER POLICY DIRECTOR. BIG TAKEAWAYS FROM THE HEARING. THERE WAS A DRILLDOWN FROM
SENATOR HAWLEY ON THE FBI’S TREATMENT OF MARK HOU, PENNSYLVANIA PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST ARRESTED WITH WHAT SOME CRITICIZED AS AN EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE. THE FBI DIRECTOR WAS ASKED BY BRET BAIER AND HE DEFENDED IT AND SAID BASICALLY, THE DECISIONS ARE MADE BY PEOPLE ON THE GROUND. MERRICK GARLAND GAVE ALMOST
EXACTLY THE SAME ANSWER IN THIS HEARING. SO STARTING WITH YOU, MATT, ARE THE QUESTIONS SURROUNDING POTENTIAL BIAS IN THE FBI IN HOW THEY ARE TREATING CONSERVATIVES, ARE YOUR QUESTIONS RESOLVED? >> ABSOLUTELY NOT. AS IRISH CATHOLIC WHOSE FAMILY HAD TO FLEE IRELAND BECAUSE OF OUR FAITH I CAN’T BELIEVE I’M
LIVING IN THE COUNTRY TODAY WHERE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FEEL IT IS NEED TO BE TRACKING THOSE WHO GO TO LATIN MASS, TREATING MARK HAWK WITH MACHINES GUNS DRAWN PROTESTING IN FRONT OF ABORTION CENTER. IT’S APPALLING. I LOVE THAT SENATOR HAWLEY AND SENATOR CRUZ CALLED THEM OUT AND THE DISPARITY IN THE DISPENSING
OF JUSTICE THROUGH THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IS APPALLING. YOU HAVE A PLACE LIKE THE PREGNANCY CENTER IN NEW YORK CITY BOMBED BY JAMES REVENGE, THERE’S VIDEO FOOTAGE OF THE ATTACKERS AND THE LICENSE PLATE OF THE ATTACKERS. THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND THE FBI HAVE DONE NOTHING WITH THE FOOTAGE. JACQUI: AND THEN ALSO PEOPLE
HAVE BROUGHT UP DIFFERENT TREATMENT OF, FOR INSTANCE, BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTORS TORCHING FEDERAL BUILDINGS AND SOME OF THEM DIDN’T HAVE DRAMATIC ARRESTS LIKE MARK HAWK DID. PROMPTED A LOT OF QUESTIONS HERE. JIM, DO YOU THINK THAT IT’S FAIR THAT PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT THESE INCIDENTS AND — AND PERCEIVING
A DUAL SYSTEM OF JUSTICE? >> WELL, THE LEFT A LOT OF TIMES DOESN’T LIKE FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND NOW THE RIGHT DOESN’T LIKE FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND I JUST POINT OUT TO SENATOR HAWLEY, THE MISSOURI HAS HAD HIGHEST MURDER RATE IN THE COUNTRY AND JUST LAST WEEK THE FBI GOT 21-YEAR SENTENCE OF
FENTANYL DEALER THERE AND THEY MADE 6,000 ARRESTS OVER THE SUMMER AND BROKE UP 895 GANGS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. SO THE FBI AND FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT DOES AN AWFUL LOT RIGHT AND GET SOME THINGS WRONG AND WE SHOULD FOCUS WHEN THEY GET SOMETHING WRONG BUT LET’S NOT FORGET TO THANK THEM.
THEY ARE SAVING A LOT OF LIVES AND KEEPING A LOT OF PEOPLE SAFE IN THIS COUNTRY. JACQUI: ON THE OTHER HAND YOU HAVE HOUSE REPUBLICANS TRYING TO UNCOVER THE ALLEGED BIAS AGAINST CONSERVATIVES IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND IN DOING SO THERE WERE SOME WITNESSES WHO CAME FORTH TO TESTIFY THIS PAST WEEK
THAT WERE SUPPOSED TO BE ONE THING AND ACCORDING TO NEW YORK TIMES, I WANT TO PULL UP THE FULL SCREEN ON HOW THEY DESCRIBED THEM. A TRIO — EXCUSE ME. TRIO OF WITNESSES BUILT AS WHISTLEBLOWERS FROM PROVIDED NO EVIDENCE OF WRONG DO YOU THINK, SPOUSED HOUSE CLAIMS OF THE CAPITOL RIOT AND COMPENSATED
AIDE OF FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. TESTIFYING ABOUT THE ROLE OF THE FBI AND THEIR AGGRIEVED FBI OFFICIALS. WHO DOES THAT SAY TO THE EFFORT FROM HOUSE REPUBLICANS TO UNCOVER THE BIAS AND THEN YOU HAVE YOUR — YOU’RE TURNING UP STUFF LIKE THIS ACCORDING TO DEMOCRATS? >> JACQUI, I THINK THE HOUSE
REPUBLICANS SHOULD TELEVISED HEARINGS PERSONALLY BUT THE SOURCES FOR THAT PIECE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE WASHINGTON POST WERE UNNAMED DEMOCRATIC SOURCES WHICH WE HAVE SEEN OVER THE YEARS PARTICULARLY SINCE THE TRUMP YEARS UNNAMED DEMOCRATIC SOURCES TURN OUT OFTENTIMES EMBELLISHING THE TRUTH OR TRYING TO BLUR THE
LINES WITH THE TRUTH AND WHAT IS FACTUAL. IT IS GREAT TO HAVE DEMOCRAT MEMBERS OF CONGRESS COME FORWARD AND SAY THEY BELIEVE THAT AND LIKE I SAID I THINK THE HEARINGS ARE OUGHT TO BE TELEVISED AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SHOULD SEE WHAT THE GOVERNMENT IS DOING AND
I DID GET A CHANCE TO SEE THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS GRILLING THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS TO A FAIR ISSUE. TO HIS POINT, FENTANYL IS SOMETHING THAT THE FBI OUGHT TO BE TAKING CARE OF AND THEY SHOULD CERTAINLY NOT BE ATTACKING. ONE CHRISTIAN GROUP OR ANOTHER BASTED ON THEIR FAITH AS OPPOSED
TO LETTING PEOPLE GO WITH BOMBING PREGNANCY CENTERS AND NOT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT. JACQUI: SPEAKING ABOUT PUTTING DAYLIGHT ON CONTENTIOUS ISSUE, THERE’S EFFORT IN THE HOUSE, REPUBLICANS ARE INTRODUCING A BILL THAT WOULD REQUIRE SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO POST CURRICULUM PUBLICLY, OFFER IN-PERSON MEETINGS WITH PARENTS, NOTIFY PARENTS OF VIOLENCE IN THE
SCHOOL, IT IS A PARENTAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION BILL THAT’S A NOD TO THE CULTURAL ISSUES THAT HAVE BECOME FLASHPOINTS AND EDUCATION AND DEBATES ABOUT EDUCATION OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. IS THIS GOING TO GET — ANY DEMOCRATIC SUPPORT, DO YOU THINK AND SHOULD IT IF THE BEST REMEDY
FOR ALL THIS CONTROVERSY IS SUNSHINE? >> OKAY, I THINK WE ALREADY HAVE SUNSHINE. OKAY. SO WE HAVE 99,000 PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN AMERICA. 23,000 ELECTED SCHOOL BOARDS IN AMERICA OR 13,000 ELECTED SCHOOL BOARDS AND 23,000 PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATIONS IN THIS COUNTRY. LIKE LOCALLY THEY ARE HANDLING THIS THING. THEY DON’T NEED LIKE A FEDERAL
COLONOSCOPY ON THIS AND I HAVE A KID IN DC PUBLIC SCHOOLS. I HEAR EVERYTHING. IT IS SO MUCH INFORMATION OVERLOAD ON WHAT I SEE IN THE CURRICULUM KNOW VIOLENT INCIDENT THAT HAPPENS ANY DAY IN THE SCHOOL. SO I THINK THIS IS HAPPENING. IT FEELS A LITTLE BIT MORE LIKE
PRESS RELEASE POLITICS THAN REAL POLITICS TO ME. JACQUI: IS THIS JUST A SETUP TO GAGE DEMOCRATS, YOU KNOW, SUPPORT FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS AND TRY TO MAYBE SET UP A PLAY LEADING INTO THE NEXT ELECTION CYCLE? >> IF I WERE DEMOCRATS I WOULD BE TALKING TO CONGRESSWOMAN AND TRYING TO COSPONSOR HR5 BECAUSE
WE SAW IN THE VIRGINIA GOVERNOR’S RACE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO HOW DAMAGING THIS ISSUE CAN BE TO DEMOCRATS. YOU MAY REMEMBER BACK THEN TERRY MCAULIFFE NOT ONCE BUT TWO TIMES SAID PARENTS DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO GET INVOLVED IN STUDENTS CURRICULUM. I DON’T THINK MOST PARENTS AGREE WITH THAT.
THAT WAS THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR FOR VIRGINIA, PAST GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA AND CLOSE ALLY OF MANY DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS. THAT WAS HIS STATED POSITION AND NOT ONLY DID NOT NOT SATE IT ONCE BUT HAD TO COME BACK AND RE-UP IT 3 TIMES TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE KNEW EXACTLY WHERE
HE STOOD WHICH WAS THAT PARENTS DID NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE PART OF THE CHOICES THAT THE CURRICULUM FOR THEIR STUDENTS — I THINK THAT’S A LUDICROUS POSITION FOR ANY POLITICAL PARTY TO BE BACKING. JACQUI: ARE DEMOCRATS RISKING, YOU KNOW, LOSING SUPPORT BY NOT GETTING INVOLVED IN SOME OF
THESE ISSUES THAT SEEM TO BE DETERMINING ELECTIONS LATELY AND ALLOWING REPUBLICANS TO BE, YOU KNOW, RUNNING THE FIELD AS THE — AS THE PARTY THAT CARES ABOUT EDUCATION, IS THAT A MISTAKE? >> YEAH, LOOK, I THINK DEMOCRATS ARE SHOWING SOME VULNERABILITIES ON EDUCATION. DEFINITELY IN THE VIRGINIA GOVERNOR’S RACE. WE SAW THAT.
A LOT HAD TO DO WITH COVID AND SCHOOLS BEING OPENED AND CLOSED AND THE ISSUES AROUND THAT. MY GUESS IS IF THERE’S A CULTURE ISSUE THAT’S GOING THE DECIDE THE 2024 ELECTION, IT’S GOING TO BE ABORTION BECAUSE YOU’RE LIKELY TO HAVE A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE THAT IS GOING TO BE PUSHING, YOU KNOW,
OUTRIGHT NATIONAL BAN ON ABORTION AND I THINK THAT IS GOING TO TAKE THE TOP BUT ON THE EDUCATION ISSUES, THERE’S NO DOUBT REPUBLICANS HAVE MADE SOME INROADS THERE. JACQUI: ALL RIGHT, I LOVE HAVING THE CONVERSATION. WE COULD GO ON. WE HAVE RUN OUT OF TIME.
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It’s amazing how this real racist still has a job dems need to go
It’s like what would you do for a Klondike bar ! What did he sell his soul for, to be like this?
No Way in Hell, would my children go to public schools in this world of FREAKS!
WWG1WGA!🇺🇸❤😎😡
This guy is vomit. He's saying let the FBI pick and choose how it carries out law enforcement.
Garland is a ….'Putz' !
Garland needs to go !
Anyone and everyone in the office that was involved with the FBI's decisions to do this needs to be removed from their position. No one stood up and said this is wrong. Therefore they were in agreement they need to be removed.
It’s religious targeting just like what the Chinese communists did to Christian’s
Hopefully immediately after 2024 he’s back on the cocktail circuit
Disrespectful human .
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সে কে – ভদ্র ভাবে সামনে আসলে ছেরে দিব।
নাহলে খুজে বের করলে শুট করে দিব এবং তার পরিবার সহ এসিড দিয়ে গলিয়ে দিব।
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বাংলাদেশের প্রধানমন্ত্রী কে বের করে দেন আপনাদের কাছে থেকে
নাহলে জাতিসংঘ উড়ে যাবে।
If they were doing their jobs it would not get as bad as it is over the years . The Democrat city’s are proof. Just look at the city’s that are run by the Democrats. If they weren’t corrupt they would stop the corruption. Bad guys back bad guys .
This is what voters asked for
A total incompetent government that just keeps covering their asssess
Everyone of tgem should be impeached
Where was he when democrats started defund the police
As repulsive a human being as I find Mitch McConnell, for me, his withholding Garland's appointment to the SCOTUS was his sole redeeming action as a Senator.
Any politician who believes parents should not be involved in their child's education needs to look for another line of work.
Americans don’t care about abortions!
Garland is a GOD hating Commie
The DOJ is run by God hating Commies…..
I'm a Christian, Conservative, Republican my Faith my Beliefs my Values in that order. I love justice when it's actually blind. Law enforcement are stepping on the scales of justice and need to be held accountable. I Back the Red White and Blue!
God hates a liar…
Wow, one effing conviction, he should be the Democrats nominations for President, Democrats Fail Up!
Did Merrick cry this time?
Thank God this moron wasn’t appointed to the Supreme Court.
Garland is a smug [email protected]!
A disgusting example of government bigotry. One would think we have left this garbage behind in the 20th century, but no.
The left wants to act like communist and rule and china is ready to clean their clock .but American will pay the price as the left will run and hide .
There's no disparity here. You do the crime and you will do the time. Simply put.
AG Garland is totally opposit of Bill Barr when it comes to integrity and credibility.
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They doing nothing,each state, each county, do they own effort
Kessler is gaslighting!
What’s appalling is FOX PRETENDING TO REPORT NEWS, FOX IS NOT A NEWS CHANNEL, THEY LIE AND MISREPRESENTS THE FACTS!!! I pray you all come back to reality 🙏
Are we go watch cutting out sections and not showing you the whole thing out of these clips for the GOP have their butt handed yet again and oh by the way don't you people at Fox have some checks to write or attacking America and lying to the American people
These Democrats are sale outs to American .
GARLAND IS AS STUPID AS STUPID DOES! AND HE ALMOST MADE IT TO THE US SUPREME COURT??? BUT THAT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A SURPRISE. DEMOCRATS HAVE NO PROBLEM PUTTIING MORONS IN US COURTS. PRES. BIDEN NOMINATED A "BLACK WOMAN" TO THE SC. THAT WAS THE ONLY CRITORION HE NEEDED. AND WHEN GRILLED BY A SENATOR WHAT IS A "WOMAN" , THE NOMINEE COULD NOT ANSWER — BEC. SHE IS NOT A BIOLOGIST !!! WHAT A PINHEAD!!! ALL SHE REALLY HAD TO DO WAS LOOK WHAT SHE GOT BETWEEN HER LEGS !!! SO THEN, WHEN BIDEN CALLED HER A "WOMAN", WAS SHE SAYING BIDEN HAD NO IDEA WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT??? BUT DESPITE THAT DISPLAY OF UTTER STUPIDITY, ALL THE DEMOCRATS VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO PUSH HER TO THE U.S. SUPREME COURT!!! GOD SAVE AMERICA!
Jim Kessler (on the right) is just like most leftists… doesn't want to see or hear anything as long as it isn't an attack on him or his buddies. I bet his kid is in private school, so he does get a report on what is going on in his kid's school in DC. But in the public schools, things work much differently. And maybe he is okay with his child getting graphicly sexualized in the schools, but WE ARE NOT.
Holly is a wast of time, not a single proposal for useful legislation, just witch-hunt and conspiracy theories. Time to cut his pay until he does his job.
I have said the FBI and the DOJ are the most corrupt law enforcement agency in the country they are not to be believed or trusted
Impeach Garland now!!!!
I don't believe in God, but this treatment towards Americans practicing their faith is appalling. Last time I checked, religious freedom is a cornerstone of this great nation.