Merrick Garland: “I share your concern about the increase in violent crime in Missouri and across the country.”

These repeated attacks on the Justice Department are unprecedented and they are unfounded.

I will not be intimidated, and the Justice Department will not be intimidated.

If we could cut off fentanyl crossing the border using these new technologies, that would make an enormous dent in the dangerous poison that is flooding our cities.

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.