why not go ahead and do it? why hasn t it been done last week, last month? he s going to have a difficult message to sell when he s over there for climate negotiations. david gergen, always good to have you on. thank you. good to be here. president biden, he ll take questions from the american people in a cnn exclusive. anderson cooper moderates a cnn presidential town hall starting tonight at 8:00 eastern time. right now attorney general merrick garland is about to answer questions from the house judiciary committee for the first time. it is expected to be a contentious hearing as lawmakers will likely press him on the enforcement of subpoenas from the january 6 committee as well as the capital riot, voting rights, migrants at the southern border and the ongoing abortion ban in texas. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is joining us live from washington. as jim pointed out, expected to get contentious. i think we re all waiting for a little bit of that. we also have
was thinking when he was inciting that insurrection, and why when the insurrection started happening he did nothing for hours and hours and let our police officers get brutalized and beat up by the insurrections. looking ahead to attorney general merrick garland who is set to appear before one of your committees, the house judiciary committee for the first time on thursday, with the topics ranging from january 6th to texas abortion law and the assaults on voting rights, what do you want to ask the attorney general? so that is a great question, alex. a lot also depends on what the people before me ask the attorney general. good point. so i do have a thousand questions i would like to ask merrick garland, so it will depends on what is asked before it gets to me. i would suggest, though, those topics are among those consideration, those three that i rattled off? yes, absolutely. okay, what about politico, which is predicting a tense and contentious hearing especially with
moral argument. it would be a missed opportunity for the biden presidency, but also i think for european leaders, were they to not think about equity, were they to the not think about the way in which they could easily mobilize money to then ensure a speedier distribution of vaccines around the world. let s not forget, countries arndt world are looking at the u.s. and at europe and they are seeing how these countries are printing money, how they are putting forward giant amounts of stimulus to resuscitate the economies. they can do the same for the world. thank you so much for that insight. i appreciate it, as always. good to see you. back here at home, the fbi director is still testifying before the house judiciary committee for the first time since the january 6th riot at the u.s. capitol. for the first time since a senate report says profound intelligence and security failures contributed to one of