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
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Now todays other top stories. Skies across the world are lit up in dazzling cover from a massive Geomagnetic Storm. There are possible potential disturbances to power plants and spacecraft. In a few hours, the your Row Vision Song Contest kicks off the grand finale in sweden. There is last minute drama. A dutch contestant was kicked out. Swedish police are investigating a criminal Incident Reporting backstage involving a female crew member. Prince harry and Meghan Markle are in nigeria today. They are there promoting the Invictus Games an event that the prince started to help to rehabilitate service members. In moments, the impact of Stormy Daniels testimony and the crossexamination that might have been harder than the defense imagined and trump may owe 100 million from double dip tax breaks, audit shows. I we bid you a good day in new york. Welcome to alex witt reports. We begin with the breaking news. Israel is ordering new evacuations in rafah as it plans to expand the incursion of
algorithms. thank you. senator graham. welcome, attorney general. i ll do something different, i ll try to find consensus where we can and see how far go. do you agree that the wagner associated with russia should be a terrorist organization in accordance to u.s. law? i think they are an organization that s committing war crimes, an organization that s damaging the united states. i think they ve already been designated as a as a criminal on. tco. i want to go up a notch. are you okay with that? i understand. the way in which determinations are made with respect to terrorist organizations come through the state department. they have to make determinations of what the consequence is for countries that have them. do you object to me making them a terrorism i don t object. i defer in the end to the state