Rep. Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday morning that Democrats cut a video he showed during his opening statement at a hearing Tuesday with the Attorney General William Barr before it was over.
“They didn’t let us complete our video, they didn’t let him answer questions …,” said Jordan, a Republican from Ohio.
“Did they disconnect from the video?” host Steve Doocy asked.
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“Yes, it wasn’t all the way. We had more to show. They didn’t let him answer the questions. And there was a point where they didn’t even let him take a bath,” Jordan replied.
The House Judiciary released the full video to their Twitter account on Tuesday after Jordan’s opening statement. A comparison between the video released by Republican Judiciary Committee and the hearing tape shows that the 10-minute video was cut about two minutes before its conclusion.
At the time, the video shows a woman with a sign saying “Good Cops Quit” as protesters break the windows of an Amazon store in the background, and then a person yells at the individual filming to “hang up the phone. ! ” She then shows a cardboard police officer wearing a burnt Klan hood in effigy as one person holds a “Black Lives Matter” sign nearby and others applaud the burning out loud.
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There’s also a movie of a looted 7-Eleven, arson fires, and other stores looted for high-priced items, including an 85-inch Sony television.
The video, according to the president of the Judicial Committee of the House of Representatives, Jerrold Nadler, DN.Y., was out of service. He said they had not provided adequate notice that they were going to play it and criticized its duration.
“I hope Mr. Jordan never complains about the length of my opening statement,” Nadler said after Jordan’s video was cut. “I will insert the committee’s audiovisual policy into the record of this hearing. And note that the minority did not give the committee the 48-hour notice required by that policy.”
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Nadler then went on to Barr’s opening statement.
As racially charged protests have swept the nation in recent months after the death of George Floyd in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department, for which one officer was charged with murder and three others charged as accessories, the handling of such protests by the Trump administration under scrutiny. Democrats, including Nadler himself, challenged Barr on Tuesday about how his department has handled the protests, many of which have turned into violent riots, especially those outside of a federal court in Portland that has essentially been under siege for months. .
“[U]Under his leadership, the department has endangered Americans and violated their constitutional rights by flooding federal police on the streets of American cities, contrary to the wishes of state and local leaders in those cities, to repress the dissent forcefully and unconstitutionally, “Nadler said in his opening statement. In Portland specifically, the city prohibited its police from working with the federal police.
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But Barr, later in the hearing, responded to criticism of the use of the federal police to defend the Portland court.
“Federal courts are under attack. Since when is it okay to burn a federal court?” Barr said.
He continued, “If someone went down the street to Prettyman’s Court here, that beautiful courthouse we have right at the foot of the hill and started breaking windows and firing industrial-grade fireworks to start a fire, drop balloons. kerosene and start fires in court, okay? Is it okay now? No, the US Marshals have a duty to stop that and defend the courthouse, and that’s what we’re doing in Portland. We’re in the tried, defending the court. “
Fox News’ Ronn Blitzer contributed to this report.
