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Every defendant would love a special master. Every defendant says, what you just put on the screen, Joy, oh, the stigma of this investigation is hurting me.

You can`t have executive privilege against the executive branch.

A federal criminal indictment is very, very hard for Donald Trump to avoid at this point. He stole these documents, he lied about it, he refused to give the documents back. I think it`s impossible, virtually, for the Justice Department to…

The central tenant of the way in which the Justice Department investigates, the central tenet to the rule of law is that we do not do our investigations in public. This is the most wide-ranging investigation and the most important…

Left unchecked, the Department of Justice will impugn (ph), leak and publicize selective aspects of their investigation.

If it were anyone else, this case would be over.

DOJ only speaks through its pleadings and through its work in court.

The government also developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government’s investigation.

The FBI uncovered multiple sources of evidence indicating that the response to the May 11 grand jury subpoena was incomplete and that classified documents remained at the premises.

Since I became attorney general, I have made clear that the Department of Justice will speak through its court filings and its work.

As the so- called war on drugs enters its fifth decade, we need to ask whether it and the approaches that comprise it have been truly effective. And with an outsized unnecessarily large prison population, we need to ensure that…

Being smart on crime

January 6th is a perfect illustration of all of this happening.

The federal judge has already found probable cause to believe that Donald Trump has committed these crimes.

I had the privilege of serving as special prosecutor in the George Floyd murder. And it`s no secret that people said those kinds of things. We couldn`t prosecute these four cops without there being riots in the street and the like.

Politicians can`t embrace this kind of rhetoric. I mean, it`s a very scary turn for the nation when politics start defaulting to threats of violence if the far-right doesn`t get its way.

While higher interest rates, slower growth, and softer labor market conditions will bring down inflation, they will also bring something to households and businesses. These are the unfortunate costs of reducing inflation. But a failure to…

We’re doing our jobs. We’re going to let the Justice Department do its job.