top of the hour here in the cnn newsroom. thanks for joining us. i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. happening now, attorney general merrick garland on capitol hill to testify before the jen at judiciary committee for the first time here. you see senators cruz and holly. he is expected to be hit with a wide range of questions including allegations from republicans as they said that the justice department is being weaponized against conservatives as well as updates into investigations into trump and biden and we ll take you there live as it happens. the annual cpac conference happens today as we get new cnn reporting about what trump s allies are doing to get house republicans in his corner. for 2024, not all of them are there. sdwloo also ahead, closing arguments are expected to begin today in the double murder trial of disgraced former lawyer alex murdaugh. jurors in that case at the crime scene at this hour. we will take you live to south carolina. let s begin this hour with
something to force them to provide information to search their own platform for sales of illegal drugs. i tell you, i mean i don t want to put words in your month, but i think section 230 has become a suicide pact. we have basically said to these companies you are absolved of responsibility and make money and they re in it overtime. death results from it and we have a responsibility. the committee spoke to it and we may see it differently on a bipartisan basis and i ve spoken to senator graham, and i want to make sure that when we agree it s publicized and we both feel strongly that this committee needs to be a ven ue to take on this issue. i hope we have your support and the support of the president when we do that. you certainly have my support to get the social media companies, whether it s civil or criminal to take these kinds of things off their platforms to search for them, and to not ususe
6th and the people who created violence in the capitol, killed death results. it is also resulting in the same thing happening across the country, with the taking away of voting rights, particularly aimed at certain groups of people, people of color, poor people, people who live in big cities, young people, people who are disabled, elderly people. it has created the same kinds of threats of violence. we have seen officials, these are officials whose only job is to count the vote accurately being threatened by some of these same forces. so we have an obligation to stand up for our democracy, because the democracies at stake here. if people believe the elections can be rigged, if people believe that the elections aren t fair, and legislation throughout the state legislatures is allowed to pass our democracy, and we have strong legislation to deal with those issues, two bills, one of
case they must have concluded the agg assault was not something william bryan did. but when they got to the aggravated assault with a car, and that s scaring the heck out of somebody with a giant vehicle, that can be aggravated assault. and if that can be aggravated assault and if a death results, then you can have felony murder. so the jury did conclude that william roddie bryan was committing an aggravated assault. i thought that was a likely outcome, that they would either conclude that it would be a felony that led to death. explain felony murder. essentially an unintended murder that happens as a result of a dangerous felony. in this case there were several predicate felonies charged. they appear later in the indictment. false imprisonment, aggravated assault. that aggravated assault can be