Merrick Garland

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.

I reject your characterization.

The President has no impairment.

I have complete confidence in the President.

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

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.

The Department requests about $38 billion in discretionary sources, an increase of nearly 2 percent over the fiscal year 2024 enacted level.

Democracy was under attack by, and I quote, 'discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary restrictions on access to the ballot.'

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.

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.

It's not -- it's not a pain that's ever going to go away.

I think the report concludes that had the law enforcement agencies followed generally accepted practices in an active shooter situation and gone right after the shooter to stop him, lives would have been saved and people would have…

It is on law enforcement's radar, but clearly something to monitor moving forward.

I would resign before President Biden could ask me.

All that's true and the consequence was a 93-percent drop in the number of U.S. person queries.

I'm very familiar and that's the very reason--

I will not because there was absolutely nothing wrong with the memo as I have testified several times already to you.

Catholics are not extremists. No.

Mr. Weiss was a long-standing career prosecutor who was appointed by President Trump.

Defunding the FBI would leave the United States naked to the malign influence of the Chinese Communist Party; to the attacks by Iranians on American citizens and attempts assassinate former officials; to the Russian aggression; to North…

The idea of threatening their safety or that of their families is just abhorrent.

No, I don't support more crime.

No, I don't support fewer cops on the streets.

Mr. Weiss said he was never denied authority.

He had the authority because I promised that he would have the authority.