eastern for cnn newsroom. erin burnett outfront front starts right now i d front next attorney general merrick garland and republicans go head-to-head, flashing over trump s conspiracy theories, including the former president s baseless claim that the fbi was trying to assassinate hey, do plus breaking news, we are now just hours away from the us mexico border closing after biden issued strict new border rules but why now we re live at the border and hunter biden s laptop and his own words taking center stage in court today. let s go out front and, good evening. i m erin burnett outfront tonight i will not be intimidated. those are the exact words of attorney general merrick garland, who came under withering fire from republicans today. these repeated attacks on the justice department are unprecedented, and they are unfounded. i will not be intimidated. and the justice department, they ll not be intimidated. we will continue to work, do our jobs free from political in
yeah, entirely in given all it s happened in the last few years, but i do think that adopting this, which was kinda the sharpest tool in the armory three of that bipartisan senate bill gives him more ground to stand on to say, look, i m taking reasonable steps to secure the border and this allows him i think also a stronger position to criticize some of the things that trump wants to do in a second term. peculiarly, mass deportations and then we ll see what does, especially with this is obviously not targeted as the base of his party. it s targeted at moderate all right. so he needs to win. but van, while biden says he s doing this because republicans wouldn t, as i pointed out, there s been more than 400,000 people cross the border since that bipartisan bill failed, 200,000 migrants have come into new york city since the spring of 20,020 of 2020 to 200,000 ban. i mean, i m just curious and as i said, nearly 7 million since he s taken office, do you think they and that people are g
and then mostly what does, especially with this is obviously not targeted as the base whose party it s targeted at model all right. city needs to win, but van, while biden says he s doing this because republicans wouldn t, as i pointed out, there s been more than 400,000 people cross the border since that bipartisan bill failed, 200,000 migrants have come into new york city since the spring of 20,020 of 2020 to 200,000 van i mean, i m just curious and as i said, nearly 7 million since he s taken office, do you think they and that people are going to see this the way biden wants them to, or are they going to say, look, all these people come in and came in under biden s leadership and he owns that 7 million it s hard to know how the public is going to see it. but i think now he s being accused of playing politics with immigration when the problem is that there s republicans have been playing politics with immigration. the last thing biden wants to do was to move on his own and to use e
deportation, mostly what does, especially with this is obviously not targeted as the base of his party. it s targeted at moderate city needs to win, but van, while biden says he s doing this because republicans wouldn t, as i pointed out, there s been more than 400,000 people cross the border since that bipartisan bill failed 200,000 migrants have come into new york city since the spring of 20,020 of 2020 to 200,000 van i mean, i m just curious and as i said, nearly seven millions since he s taken office, do you think they and that people are going to see this the way biden wants them to, or are they going to say, look, all these people come in and came in under biden s leadership and he owns that 7 million it s hard to know how the public is going to see it. but i think now he s being accused of playing politics with immigration when the problem is that the republicans have been playing politics with immigration. the last thing biden wanted to do was to move on his own and to use ex
this is sam blyth, the wealthy canadian businessmen and distant cousin of boris johnson. back in 2020, he said he wanted to help out the then prime minister financially. he asked his friend richard sharp had to go about it. mr sharp at the time was advising the government and put mr blyth in touch with the most senior civil servant in the country to discuss the matter. but richard sharp was also running for the job of bbc chairman. it is an appointment given by the government, not the broadcaster. mr blyth went on to guarantee an £800,000 loan facility to boris johnson, but mr sharp said he wasn t involved in the financing. the sunday times has obtained a leaked memo to borisjohnson dating from december 20020, two weeks before mr sharp was announced as the new bbc chairman. it dispenses the following advice to the then prime minister: last week, richard