it s 11:00 eastern, and 8:00 a.m. pacific. i am ana cabrera in for josé diaz-balart. garland s appearance comes as house republicans recently advanced a bill to hold him in contempt of congress for not handsing over the audio recording of special counsel robert hur s interview with joe biden. i will not be intimidated and the justice department will not be intimidated. we will continue to do our jobs free from political influence and we will not back down from defending democracy. joining us now, ali vitali from capitol hill, and you have been monitoring this all our, and a federal prosecutor and nbc news legal analyst also joining us. for those who are just joining us, what stands out to you so far from what has unfolded so far? think i the point we ended last hour making is the one we should take into the next part of the hearing. i expect the hearing to get back under way in the next few minutes, because jim jordan is a fast walker between here and the hearing floor
with what candidate joe biden promised to do if he were elected to office. he wanted to roll back all the immigration policies that were who restrictive at the time, and within the bipartisan border bill democrats already made so many concessions, so many changes, things that the party had not been completely aligned on that they felt that really was the way to signal to the president s allies and lawmakers that the president was really serious that inaction was not an option here and something needed to get done. monica alba and julia ainsley, ladies, thank you so much. stay with us for more on this. democratic congressman from texas will join us and we will ask what he thinks about biden s border plans. up next, we will go to wilmington, delaware, where opening statements are underway