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top of the hour here in the cnn newsroom. thanks for joining us. im erica hill. >> im jim sciutto. happening now, attorney general merrick garland on capitol hill to testify before the jen at judiciary committee for the first time here. you see senators cruz and holly. he is expected to be hit with a wide range of questions including allegations from republicans as they said that the justice department is being weaponized against conservatives as well as updates into investigations int...

>> i know youre happy about it. i know you want the money because you have been telling me, whenever you see me, wherever you happen to see me, around town ask, telling me on social media, you need the money. a lot of people do. stimulus payments. up to $1,400 a person. hitting americans bank accounts as soon as this weekend. you can use the money, right? but the president and vice president, kamala harris, heading up a team to go out and sell the bill to the country over the next few ...

Senator. >> before i recognize another colleague i want to apologize in my reference to the dea administrator. her name is ann millgram, and i mispronounced it. for the record i wanted to clarify that. >> thank you, attorney general for being here. i appreciate it. good to see you. methane is probably one of the most dangerous greenhouse gasses we see plumes of it miles long floating across the united states. it takes multiple levels of enforcement, federal, state, local and private to address t...

Phone call, its clear hes offering a trade. you give me this information and you give me dirt on my political opponent and his son and ill help your economy with arms and its certainly a high crime and misdemeanor because the require ime requirementes that the framers gave us is a degradation of the office. >> we could be in a situation where a criminal situation is going in the courts, but that possibly really would force congress hand, right? because then you take away the subjectivity of a hi...

People that are igor fruman who were indicted in that case and they raised questions of counterintelligence concerns that the fbi had. again, were just getting a little glimpse into what appears to be a much broader investigation than we realized. >> evan, thank you very much. i want to go now to former new jersey attorney general ann millgram, an impeachment professor at brown university, corey brukschneider. ann, how worried -- lets start with rudy giuliani himself. again, the presidents perso...

>> i was on the call. i listened to it and it was consist went what president trump has been trying to do to take corruption out. i found that to be wholly appropriate to try to get another country to stop being corrupt. >> everyone is back with me. so, ann, two different situations there, shall we say. we start with pence. hes involved with this whether he likes it or not and from what we understand hes the one that delivered the message of no aid and maybe he didnt understand the whole context...

A vote to authorize the investigation. >> we would if they give us our rights. it depends if they vote and they say you cant have lawyers and you cant ask questions and you cant have anyone present is and all of these crazy things and it really is an unfair situation. >> former assistant director of the office of congressional affairs at the fbi under president bush and ann millgram, former attorney general and doug brinkley, excuse me, cnn presidential historian and evan peres is also with me o...

Breaking news. vice president pence slamming house democrats who are demanding documents from him as part of the impeachment inquiry as to whether president trump pressured ukraines president to investigate joe biden in exchange for aid. pences office saying issue quote, given the scope it does not appear to be a serious request, but just another a dechlt by the do-nothing democrats to call attention to the partisan impeachment. he could be hit with subpoenas like mike pompeo and rudy giuliani w...

Thsh this is a legitimate impeachment inquiry. with all due respect that was about personal conduct and lies about personal conduct that were elevated to a partisan exercise. none of the senior officers of the clinton administration were involved in any meaningful way because it was private conduct. here as ann and carl said its a significant core of the trump cabinet who have to get lawyers, who are fact witnesses and who might be adverse to one another and who will be instructed by lawyers tha...

Legitimate reason. the law says congress asks for any americans tax returns and congress gets those tax returns. >> shall means must. what about getting the state -- trumps state taxes. if congress is able to get those state taxes, will that enable them to get the federal? >> so i think -- i think there is two things. one is sometimes in state tax returns people provide information about federal taxes and so what is an interesting question is what we can learn from the state tax returns. it will...