reporter: so he s going to be pushing for this three-month gags holiday, and basically that would mean a 90-day suspension of the federal gas tax. if you re wondering what that s going to save you when you re actually at the pump, right now the federal gas tax is about 18 cents for a regular gallon and 24 cents for a gallon of diesel fuel. so not really that big of a difference when you re looking at an average price of gas. it is getting close to $5. of course it topped $5 earlier this month. so that s been a big question for lawmakers because getting this done is not just something that the president can do on his own. yes, he s about to call for it any moment now. but it really requires an act of congress on capitol hill to actually get this passed. and you re already see something concern even from democrats in the president s own party about whether or not this would actually make that big of a difference, and if it s worth what it would do. one of those concerns has c
represents mesothelioma victims and their families. if you or a loved one who has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, call us now hey, on inside politics, border, crack down. president biden is unveiling his most aggressive move, yet to stop illegal immigration. it would sharply restrict asylum claims. the goal here is political protection, but so far the backlash is bipartisan plus, i will not be intimidated what words from attorney general merrick garland, who is testifying on capitol hill right now. he s pushing back on the republicans who baselessly accused him of quote weaponizing the justice department against republicans and guns, drugs, and explicit photos. the first way fitness is on the stand right now in the hunter biden trial, and we have new details on the prosecution s case and how personal and uncomfortable it s likely to get for the president s son. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines content inside politics we begin with breaking news, new deta
morning, everyone. you re live in judiciary committee will begin girl and is expected to push back against gop attacks on the justice department. and gop claims i am that the doj is weaponized against donald trump. also, opening statements are underway in the trial of the president s son, hunter biden, on three felony gun charges, but there are already some developments in sayyed that courtroom will bring you and president biden is about to announce an executive order on illegal immigration, cracking down on the flow of migrants or false the southern border. the move is controversial. it s drawing fire from republicans, no surprise, but even from border patrol agents will find out why. but first let s go to paul reaches outside the courthouse in delaware where hunter biden s trial is starting. paul, you ve got some breaking news about the jury, what just happened that s right. even before opening statements got underway this morning, we already lost a juror now, this ju
back on my respect for the court process on the fact that cases are in. i got under judges and i m just not going to i just can t comment. there s to jordan and his opening comments commented on the execution of a search warrant and said it was different in all these different ways. how many classified documents were found pursuant to that search warrant and how many times that there had been an attempt to get those classified documents and they d been refused to return so i don t know. i don t have in my head the number that s all on the public record including the number of times that efforts were made to obtain through legal process to dock this whole hearing is about weaponization of the justice department in the suggestion that there was somehow your department was involved in the prosecution of donald trump and the state court in new york as far as weaponization of the department goes did the justice department indict senator menendez that s a matter of
are just doing their job. one of the first lines of questioning today in this hearing came from matt gaetz, who was going after merrick garland, asking him a series of questions about district attorney alvin bragg and the case up in new york where trump was just convicted and repeatedly what you heard from garland is that the justice department has nothing to do with that meanwhile, democrats are making clear that that is the case, and that this is not about political persecution. because if you look at a set of high profile cases that the justice department has been working on. it includes some democrats who are actually members of this body here in congress and that was the point from steve cohen a democrat from tennessee. here he is as far as weaponization of the department goes did the justice department indict senator menendez?