the free internet. of course, china s internet heavily censored in. will ripley, thanks. the newest continues right here on cnn outfront. 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 i m trying to assassinate him. 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 will not be intimidated. we will
thanks, the news continues right here on cnn outfront. next, attorney general merrick garland and republicans go head-to-head, flashing over trump s conspiracy theories, including the former president s baseless claim but the fbi was trying to assassinate him. plus breaking news, we are now just hours away from the us, mexico border closing after biden issued strict new border the 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 will not be intimidated. we will continue to do our jobs free from political influence, and we will not back down fro
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
part of some conspiracy to take down trump congressman, what was the real purpose of this hearing? well look i stands italy. the purposes that the judiciary committee is supposed to do oversight of the department of justice and the department of justice makes its budgetary requests through the judiciary committee. but of course, that s not what jim jordan and republicans want to use it for. the purpose of this hearing. as it is with just about everything related to the department of justice, is to undermine the confidence in the department of justice in the fbi to undermine the rule of law because donald trump has been charged with multiple different crimes in multiple different courts. that s the only reason that the republicans object to anything going on in merrick garland s department of justice or in the manhattan da s office, or in the atlanta, georgia da s office. and don t forget aaron. this the arguments you start
that would put a decrease in these people coming in the other thing is that word gets around and the people that transfer them to the border, we also find out and that ll be one of the things that i think will cut the amount of people coming in to our country. so us border patrol mirror trevino says there have been nearly 7 million encounters at the southern border since president biden took office. nearly 7 million are you worried about the long-term impact on the country at large because you see it from the very starting point. but for the country at large of nearly 7 million border encounters since biden took office there s the country even know the magnitude of what s really happened well, we that live in work at the border do see that impact and we know that there has to be steps to improve immigration reform. and i think this is a first step to do so. there s a lot of