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it s 11:00 eastern, and 8:00 a.m. pacific. i am ana cabrera in for josé diaz-balart. garland s appearance comes as house republicans recently advanced a bill to hold him in contempt of congress for not handsing over the audio recording of special counsel robert hur s interview with joe biden. 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 from defending democracy. joining us now, ali vitali from capitol hill, and you have been monitoring this all our, and a federal prosecutor and nbc news legal analyst also joining us. for those who are just joining us, what stands out to you so far from what has unfolded so far? think i the point we ended last hour making is the one we should take into the next part of the hearing. i expect the hearing to get back under way in the next few minutes, because jim jordan is a fast walker between here and the hearing ....
Narcotics, and the defense seems to be going for sort of a two-fold approach to defending hunter biden. one, trying to chip away at the evidence saying things like, well, the gun shop sales person, the gentleman named gordon cleveland, viewed himself, his words, as a whale hunter, trying to really push sales on the customers, not surprising, and that s what salespeople do. but then there s some indications that they may have violated their own protocol when they were going through the form that hunter biden was filling out, and for example, box 11, where hunter biden allegedly certificated he was not an addict or user was prepopulated, filled out in advance. now, if he signed the form, he still would have sort of taken responsibility for everything that was on the form, but the second attack it looks like the defense is going for is what i call journal faction. ....