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>> 10:00 a.m. merrick garland is expected to give some very forceful defense of the justice department in the face of house republicans who want to hold him in contempt. that contempt proceeding, the republicans on the house judiciary say is over an audio tape that they want to obtain of joe biden being interviewed by special counsel in a classified documents probe around biden that ended up not resulting in any charges that investigation with was closed the republicans want the audio tape, they want on a whole garland in contempt for not turning it over. >> cnn is also suing for access to that audio tape. but merrick garland is reframing this and saying this is about more than just the audio tape that he feels that the justice department is being intimidated or that the republicans want to intimidate garland with this contempt threat. >> and he is stringing together all of the things that he thinks house republicans are doing unfairly that he believes