Merrick Garland: “Yes, so it certainly was an issue everywhere around the country.”

The cases were brought last year. Prosecutor has urged speedy trials, with which I agree. And this is now in the hands of the judicial system, not in our hands.

Sometimes both federal law enforcement and state and local law enforcement takes so long to hire the person...

It's a great program that you created and authorized. We have 400 applications worth about $2 billion.

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.