Jim Jordan: It appears AG Garland 'misled' Americans during congressional hearing
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Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, R., sounded off on Attorney General Merrick Garland, who now faces calls for resignation after a leaked email showed the FBI had created a system to track parents who posed potential threats at school board meetings. Jordan called for Garland to be brought back before Congress to testify on the new developments.
Jordan explained on "America’s Newsroom" that the email reportedly went out to FBI agents the day before the attorney general testified in late October.
"We asked Chairman Nadler yesterday, ‘When will you bring back the attorney general to answer questions?’" Jordan said.
"After all, it sure looks like he misled the American people when he gave the answers that he did," Jordan continued.
Jordan told Fox News’ Bill Hemmer that Garland told the House Judiciary Committee that "nothing of the sort is going on."
"He tells us that. Testifies to that. Tells the American people that. At the same time, just 24 hours earlier, this email had been sent out," he said.
Garland said during the October 21 House hearing that he couldn’t imagine a circumstance that would warrant labeling parents as domestic terrorists, as the National School Board Association suggested doing.
"As he made that statement,...
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