eastern for cnn newsroom. erin burnett outfront front starts right now i d front next attorney general merrick garland and republicans go head-to-head, flashing over trump s conspiracy theories, including the former president s baseless claim that the fbi was trying to assassinate hey, do plus breaking news, we are now just hours away from the us mexico border closing after biden issued strict new border rules but why now we re live at the border and hunter biden s laptop and his own words taking center stage in court today. let s go out front and, good evening. i m erin burnett outfront tonight i will not be intimidated. those are the exact words of attorney general merrick garland, who came under withering fire from republicans today. these repeated attacks on the justice department are unprecedented, and they are unfounded. i will not be intimidated. and the justice department, they ll not be intimidated. we will continue to work, do our jobs free from political in
want to go straight to evan perez, our senior justice correspondent and avenue were there in court today. so you heard all of this, you saw hunter biden react, yo well, to have hunter biden s voice fill that courtroom, you could see the jurors were playing playing, paying very close attention. they will taking notes, they were observing every single thing that was coming from that audio book. but prosecutors also spent hours going through a text messages, photos, video from his icloud and fbi agent was on the stand trying to explain their efforts to try to try to verify that these were indeed text messages from hunter biden where he s talking to his drug dealers, talking to people who were around him, and you saw some of the ron motion from at least one juror who was wiping away tears and seemed overcome with emotion at some
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way more extreme than what arizonans want. m lookor, i support a ban on very late term and partial birthans a abortionnt and most americans agree with that. that would jus t put us on par with other civilized nations. mark kelly , the only countries that support his no limits extreme abortion policies are china and north korea. joining me now is mastro supt republican senate candidate in arizona, blake hisextreme , then doubt that abortion has the roe vs. wade decision, hasroe vs. but i think it s very interesting and smart that you ve gone on the offense. i think it might be a lesson to other candidates. fense. i her candidates. fense. well, thank you, rachel .other and you re exactly right. yo well, thau we have to play o. look, i m the underdog in this race, but we always knew it wask going to be tough. we always knew that mark nat kelly , he s going to raisemocr tons of money.aticd him. he s got the whole national yeah, that s whole national right. his so he s going to outspend u
when it looked like he would not have the votes. the two others resulted in acquittal in the senate. there has never been a vote to remove. what do you view as the stakes if it were to go forward?yo well, the stakes are pretty high because of the question of whether we re goingau to accepts ato society that it s okay for president to get away with the things that donald trump has done. and so whatld the senate needs do is seriously consider the charges. and if somehow they reach the conclusion or a majority of them or, you know, less than two-thirds, which is all it takes, to reach the conclusion that the president really didn t do these things, which is pretty hard to t believe on the facts, then i suppose that would be grounds for acquittal. what i really think is grounds for business is the senate not to take to the view this is allu just fine, that what the president did is somehow business as usual or that it is permissible under the