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
that s a matter of public record. yes. and he s a democrat, indy i m assuming the answer is yes. and henry cuellar, justice department indicted him. he s a democrat to its amount, matter of public record and dana this is a general oversight hearing. so what you re seeing in the room from republicans especially is a series of potpourri really of issues that they want to talk about, whether that is the biden administration does immigration policies. you also have had a series of members who had been asking garland about the release of the audio tapes from hur s interview with president joe biden. obviously that is something that they are continuing swing to push for something that they actually held garland in contempt of congress over the not releasing that tapes. so this is something that we are going to continue watching, but just a series of issues. some of them conspiracy theories coming from republicans as they continue to press the attorney general, dana.
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?
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
merrick garland is on capitol hill slamming republicans about lying about the justice department s is donald trump became a convicted felon ease 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 work, do our jobs free from political influence, and we will not back down from defending democracy cnn s lauren fox is on capitol hill while lauren he still was mild-mannered in the way he approached that. but what he said, we don t hear that very often from him, but he obviously knew what was coming yeah. i mean, this is a about as animated as the attorney general merrick garland gets in these types of settings, but he clearly is frustrated by some of the attacks against career employees, people who he argues