AG nominee Garland calls Jan. 6 “the most heinous attack on the Democratic processes that I have ever seen and one I never expected to see in my lifetime.”
He pledges "to give career prosecutors who are working on this matter 24/7 all the resources they could possibly require.”
AG nominee Garland says the Trump admin.'s policy of separating migrant families at the border is "shameful."
"I can't imagine anything worse than tearing parents from their children," he says.
WATCH: AG nominee Garland recalls his family fleeing “anti-Semitism and persecution” as he testifies:
“The country took us in, and protected us. And I feel an obligation to the country to pay back, and this is the highest, best use of my own set of skills to pay back.”
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President Biden marks 500,000 lives lost in the U.S. to Covid-19. msnbc.com/live
Pres. Biden: "Today, we mark a truly grim, heartbreaking milestone. 500,071 dead. That's more Americans who have died in one year in this pandemic than in World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined. That's more lives lost to this virus than any other nation on Earth."
President Biden reflects on the 500,000 lives lost to Covid-19: "We often hear people described as ordinary Americans. There's no such thing. There's nothing ordinary about them. The people we lost were extraordinary. They span generations. Born in America, emigrated to America."
The origins of D.C. come from our constitution, which called for a district "not exceeding 10 miles square" to be the seat of our federal government. (2/8)
Per the Constitution, the district is under the jurisdiction of Congress. It does have a mayor, but Congress can override city decisions. (3/8)
Dr. Fauci discusses the state of the coronavirus pandemic. msnbc.com/live
"Enjoy the Super Bowl, but don't do it with a large crowd of people in your house," Dr. Fauci says about Sunday's big game.
"The best way you can prevent the virus from evolving and mutating is to prevent it from replicating," Dr. Fauci says on Covid-19 vaccine and variants. "Double down on public health measures to prevent the virus from going from one person to another: The masking, the distancing"
President Biden says admin's national pandemic plan launches a 'wartime' effort: "When I say 'wartime,' people kind of look at me like, 'wartime'? As I said last night, 400,000 Americans have died. That's more than have died in all of World War II...This is a wartime undertaking"
President Biden says executive actions aim to extend masking requirements to interstate travel, testing and quarantine requirements for those flying to U.S.