“Did they disconnect the video?” hosts Steve Doocy.
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“Yes, that’s not all. We had more to show for it. They wouldn’t let him answer questions. And there was a time when they wouldn’t even let him take a break in the bathroom,” Jordan replied.
The House Judiciary Posted the full video on its Twitter account on Tuesday after Jordan’s opening statement. A comparison between the video posted through the Republicans’ Judiciary Committee and the tape of the hearing shows that the 10-minute video cut about two minutes before its completion.
At this point, the video shows a woman holding a sign that says “Good Cops Quit” while the mutineers ruin the windows of an Amazon store in the background, and then a user yells for the movie guy to “lower his phone”! It then shows a cardboard police officer dressed in a flared Klan hoodie while a user holds a “Black Lives Matter” sign nearby and others loudly applaud the fire.
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There’s also a film of a looted 7-Eleven, fires and other retail outlets looted for expensive items, adding an 85-inch Sony TV.
The video, according to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N. Y., inadmissible. He said they had not realized enough to reproduce it and criticized its duration.
“I hope Mr. Jordan will never complain about the length of my opening statement,” Nadler said after Jordan’s music video: “I will go with the committee’s audiovisual policy in the mines of this hearing. And note that the minority did not give the committee the 48 hours of accomplishment necessary through this policy.”
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Nadler then proceeded to Barr’s opening statement.
While racist protests have swept the country in recent months following the death of George Floyd in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department, for which a police officer charged with murder and three others charged with complicity, the Trump administration handled the protests here under scrutiny. Democrats, adding Nadler himself, challenged Barr Tuesday about how his affiliate handled the protests, many of which turned into violent riots, especially those who left behind closed doors in a federal courthouse in Portland that has necessarily been under siege for months.
“In addition to its leadership, the branch has endangered Americans and violated their constitutional rights by flooding federal law enforcement authorities on the streets of American cities, as opposed to the willingness of state and local leaders in these cities to forcibly and unconstitutionally suppress dissent,” Nadler said in his opening statement. In Portland, in particular, the city has banned its police from competing with federal law enforcement authorities.
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But Barr, later in the hearing, responded to the complaint of using federal law enforcement to the Portland court.
“The federal courts are an attack. Since when is it appropriate to set fire to a federal court?” said Barr.
He continued, “If we go down the street at Prettyman Court here, this lovely courthouse we just had down the hill and we start breaking windows and firing industrial-grade fireworks to light a soft fire, throw kerosene balloons and start throwing fireworks in the courtroom, are you okay? No, The American marshals have a duty to stop that and protect the court, and that’s what we’re doing in Portland. We’re in court protecting the court.”
Fox News’ Ronn Blitzer contributed to this report.