I am not the president's lawyer.
I will add, I am not Congress's prosecutor.
The Justice Department works for the American people.
Our job is to follow the facts and the law,
and that is what we do.
The fix is in. Even with the face saving indictment
last week of Hunter Biden,
everyone knows the fix is in 4 1/2 years.
4 1/2 years the Department of Justice has been investigating
Mr.
Biden. An investigation run by David Weiss.
An investigation that limited the number of witnesses agents could
interview.
An investigation that prohibited agents from referring to the president
as the quote big guy in any of the interviews
they did get to do.
Let me let me just get right to the chase.
Has anyone from the White House provided direction at anytime
to you personally or to any senior officials at the
DOJ regarding how the Hunter Biden investigation was to be
carried out? No.
Have you had personal contact with anyone at FBI headquarters
about the Hunter Biden investigation?
I
don't. I don't. I don't recollect the answer to that
question.
But the FBI works for the Justice Department.
It's. I'm sorry. I'm sorry you don't recollect.
You don't recollect whether you've talked with anybody at FBI
headquarters about an investigation of the president's son.
I don't believe that. I did.
I promised the Senate when I came
before it for confirmation that I would leave Mr.
Weiss in place and then I would not interfere with
his investigation.
OK. Did you ever. I have kept that promise.
All right. Peter Navarro was indicted for contempt of Congress.
Aren't you, in fact, in contempt of Congress when you
give us this answer?
This is an answer that's appropriate at a press conference.
It's not an answer that's appropriate when we are asking
questions.
We are the committee that is responsible
for your creation, for your existence of your department.
You cannot continue to give us these answers.
Mr. Attorney General, my colleague just said that you should
be held in contempt of Congress.
And that is quite rich because the guy who's leaving
the hearing room right now,
Mr. Jordan, is about 500 days into evading his subpoena.
About 500 days. So if we're going to talk about
contempt of Congress, let's get real.
I mean, are you serious that Jim Jordan,
a witness to one of the greatest crimes ever committed
in America,
a crime where more prosecutions have occurred than any crime
committed in America,
refuses to help his country,
and we're going to get lectured
about subpoena compliance and contempt of Congress.
Jim Jordan won't even honor a lawful subpoena.
Are you kidding me? Do you agree that traditional Catholics
are violent extremists?
I have no idea what your what the traditional means
here.
The idea let me just go to church.
May I answer your question?
The idea that someone with my family background
would discriminate against any religion is so outrageous.
It's so absurd. Mr. Attorney General,
it was your FBI that did this.
It was your FBI that was sending.
And we have the memos,
We have the emails. We're sending undercover agents into Catholic
churches.
Both I and the director of this
FBI director of have said that we were appalled by
that memo.
So then you agree that they're not extremists.
You were appalled by that memo.
Are they extremists or not?
Attorney general, I think that are they extremists or not?
Attorney general thing in that memo is are they extremists
or not?
I'm asking a simple question,
say no if you think that was wrong,
are not extremists. No.