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attorney general firing back, rebuking republican claims the department of justice is being weaponized. >> these repeated attacks on the justice department are unprecedented and they are unfounded. >> reporter: in an intense, more than five-hour hearing, garland today defiant, even as he faces the threat of being held in contempt by house republicans for refusing to release the audio of president biden's interview with the special counsel over biden's handling of classified documents. >> i will not be intimidated. and the justice department will not be intimidated. >> reporter: and garland for the first time blasting false allegations that the doj and biden were behind the manhattan district attorney's prosecution and conviction of former president trump on 34 felony counts. >> that conspiracy theory is an attack on the judicial process itself. >> reporter: but republicans accusing the doj of playing politics, clearly angry about the manhattan jury's verdict.