Hawley: How many informants do you have in Catholic churches across America?
Garland: I don't know…I don't believe we have any informants aimed at Catholic churches…I don't know a specific answer to your question.
Hawley: You don't know the specifics of anything it seems. Apparently on your watch, this justice department is targeting Catholics, targeting people of faith, specifically for their faith views….it's a disgrace.
Garland: Every bit of evidence we have is that there is no difference between powder and crack [cocaine].
Hirono: Do you agree that white supremacists terrorists pose a significant threat to our country, especially to racial and religious minorities, and the LGBTQ+ community?
Garland: Yes…racially motivated violent extremists, as a group, are the most dangerous of the domestic violent extremist groups, and within that, white supremacists are the most dangerous and the most lethal.
Mr. Biden: Every day, the people of this department [DHS] are also working to protect the integrity of our elections.
Lee: You can tell your department, not a chance in hell we're gonna be authorizing that thing [702 warrantless surveillance] without some major, major reforms. Your department is not trusted because it has been politicized.
Hawley: [According to the Washington Post] the FBI is saying that you [Garland] overruled them when it came to raiding ex-president Trump's personal residence. [reading from article] "Senior FBI officials who would be in charge of leading the search, resisted doing so , as too combative." These field agents wanted to shutter the investigation altogether in early June, but they were overruled by main DOJ. How often do you overrule FBI field agents for political purposes?
Garland: I've skimmed that article, and that's not an accurate reflection of what the article says, and I'm not able to comment on the investigation.
Hawley: I'm reading to you from the article…
Garland: That article does not say what you're saying.
Hawley: It says exactly that FBI field agents did not want to conduct the raid, and they were overruled by DOJ…it doesn't seem to me that the FBI has a lot of confidence in you..they are trying to distance themselves from your decisions.
Cotton: You can't send the FBI to track down anybody who was protesting outside the home of a Supreme Court justice?
Garland: Our purpose here is to protect the lives and safety of the justices.
Cotton: The answer is you are sympathetic to protesters. That you didn't like the decision they were about to issue. I think we all know what you would do if a bunch of conservative protesters were outside the home of a democratic appointed justice to the Supreme Court…you are sympathetic to left-wing protesters.
Blackburn: You told me earlier that you don't know who Jane's Revenge is. They are all over Twitter. I am going to do you a favor. I am going to send you a letter with a whole lot of Twitter and different feeds to help you in that investigation for the Hope Clinic.
Jean-Pierre: [Biden] is proud of having the most diverse group of women at the highest levels of government in US history…the first gender-equal cabinet.
[the most incompetent cabinet in US history]