Merrick Garland: “I assure you we don't want to remove the money that we need to fight violent crime to put it anywhere else.”

I have complete confidence in the President.

I think this is the first year we've been able to bring the number up to the number of attorneys we had when I first entered the department.

The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act has been extraordinarily helpful in our effort to combat gun violence.

I'll say what I said, which is that the cases were brought last year, prosecutor has urged speedy trials with which I agree, and this now in the hands of the traditional system, not in our hands.