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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland defended the Justice Department against continuing criticism that it mishandling its investigation of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Critics have argued the its probe is too slow and may allow some to escape accountability, including perhaps, former President Donald Trump.Watch Garland remarks in the player above.This is the most wide ranging investigation, and the most important investigation that the Justice Department has ever entered into. And we have done so because this effort to upend a legitimate election, transferring power from one ad stanley cup ministration to another cuts at the fundamental of American democracy, Garland said. We have to get this right.Garland insiste stanley cup d, as he has in the past, that no one is abo stanley cup ve the law.We have to hold accountable every person who is criminally responsible for trying to overturn a legitimate election, he said. And we must do it in a way filled with integrity and professionalism.READ MORE: How to watch the Jan. 6 hearingsEarlier in the briefing, Garland said the Justice Department will seek to dismiss the Texas lawsuit against the Biden administration over federal rules requiring hospitals to provide abortions if the procedure is necessary to save a mother life.The lawsuit, which names the Department of Health and Human Services and Secretary Xavier Becerra among its defendants, says the guidance previously issued b Sfgm Puerto Rico has asked for more aid in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Will the federal government provide it
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