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Gentlemen, and thank you. the gentleman and democratic congressman, erics wall. >> well, of california joins me now, so im congressman. it didnt sound like your statement went over all too well with the opposing side, but more important certainly, what was the upshot of the hearing yesterday? will attorney general garland be held in contempt look, the republicans had in front of them the attorney general of the united states, and he in charge of the fighting terrorism domestically going after pu...

Been raised before. there are interesting issues raised by the article based on the timing of benefits given to folks. its a difficult thing for a prosecutor to prove there was jury tampering based on what was happening and reported so far. i take a moment to examine them further and see if theres other reporting and investigation that follows. its troubling and not surprising. >> troubling, not surprising. more we need to know. the other thing i want to ask, nearly every single republican offic...

Then he also wants to defend his own fbi agents against falsehoods. they have come under attack, especially by trump in recent days, with some additional misleading information about say, the search of mar-a-lago back in august of 2022. so merrick garland, defending the department what this is coming in response to though john is that house republicans, they are still trying to muster and impeachment proceeding against joe biden. they have been digging into the investigation around biden of his ...

>> 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...

That they are trying to defend particular department investigations such as special counsels offices, that they are spreading conspiracy theories about the departments work, trying to tie the justice department to the state prosecution of donald trump in new york that resulted in a conviction of the former president. >> just a couple of days ago and they are also trying to intimidate the work of agents. and people within the justice department by spreading additional malls misleading and false i...

Den, the judiciary and oversight committee voted to hold merrick garland in contempt of congress. at the hearing today he is going to punch back against that. a lot of questions about prosecutions and donald trump, whether or not there is any influence by the d.o.j. when it came to the prosecution of the former president in new york. here is republican missouri senator eric schmidt. >> former prosecutor im deeply concerned about our judiciary system being held hostage and taken advantage of the ...

The breaking news. okay. and just moments, attorney general merrick garland, who will defend the justice department before congress. these are some live pictures from inside the room. house republicans want to hold him in contempt for refusing to turn over recordings of president bidens interview with special counsel robert hur garland is expected to push back though, including on the accusation that the doj is targeting donald trump for political purposes. joining me now cnns lauren fox on capi...

Special council hur of president biden. and he said that the audio would have a chilling effect on future investigation, and that is what he is going to say as he stands before the chief antagonists here on capitol hill, and they have gone so far as to hold him in contempt. i asked speaker johnson about the fate of the contempt vote, and we have seen this before, and we have seen several because of the january 6th committee, and the number of referrals that they have sent if they did not comply ...

On the judicial process itself. it comes as individual career agents and prosecutors have been singled out just for doing their jobs. it comes as baseless and extremely dangerous, false. so its are being spread about the fbis law enforcement operations and it comes at a time when we are seeing heinous threats of violence being directed at the justice departments career civil servants these repeated attacks on the justice department are unprecedented and they are unfounded these attacks have not....