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Department against the barrage of gop attacks. Also tonight, trump campaigns in iowa sharpening his focus on the first republican president ial contest. This as a brand new cnn poll now reveals whos on the ridse and whos sliding in another critical early battleground, talking about New Hampshire. And ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy facing a new disappointment during his u. S. Visit. Sources now say the Biden Administration is not expected to grant his request for longer range missiles when he visits the white house tomorrow. Zelenskyy telling me thats an area that would be a quote, loss for his country during our oneonone interview. Welcome to our viewers around the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. Lets get right to our top story tonight. A verbal assault on the u. S. Attorney general by some of the most hard line republican critics of the u. S. Justice department. Lets go straight to cnns sara murray. Shes got all the fireworks. Some gop lawmakers laid into the Attorney General, Merrick Garland, and he pushed back rather hard. Reporter thats right, wolf, in many ways what we saw today is the preview of the Impeachment Inquiry, the republicans were embarking on, pressing the Attorney General for more specifics, particularly when it relates to a Criminal Investigation into the president s son, hunter biden, and they got what im sure to republicans are very unsatisfying answers as the Attorney General punted on several questions involving sensitive, ongoing investigations. Attorney general Merrick Garland squaring off against his toughest republican critics on capitol hill today. The fix is in. Even with the face saving indictment last week of hunter biden, everyone knows the fix is in. I am not the president s lawyer. I will add, i am not congresss prosecutor. Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee hounding garland for details about the Criminal Investigation into hunter biden. After his plea deal imploded in july, and he was indicted last week in connection with the 2018 gun purchase. After five years, what stage we in, the beginning stage, the middle stage, the keep hiding the ball stage, which stage are we in. Im not permitted to discuss ongoing investigations. Whistleblowers came guard and a judge called bs on the plea deal you tried to get pas. Reporter garland deferring to special counsel david weiss whos overseeing the hunter biden probe. I left it to mr. Weiss whether to bring charges or not, that would include whether to let statute of limitations expire or not, whether there was sufficient evidence to bring a case that was subject to the statute of limitations or not, whether there were better cases to bring or not. Reporter the Attorney General reiterating that he stayed out of the Hunter Biden Investigation. I promised senate when i came before it for confirmation that i would leave mr. Weiss in place and that i would not interfere with his investigation. Has anyone at the department told President Biden to knock it off with hunter . No one that i know of has spoken to the white house about the hunter biden case. Reporter and insisting no one ordered him to bring federal charges against former president trump. No one has told me to indict, and in this case, the decision to indict was made by the special counsel. Reporter the political Interference Accusations are sure to reemerge as the gop controlled cows proceeds with the Impeachment Inquiry leaving garland to fend off threats of being held contempt . Arent you in Contempt Of Congress when you refuse to answer . I have the greatest respect for congress. Reporter and democrats pointing out jim jordans refusal to comply with the january 6th subpoena. Thats quite rich because the guy leaving the hearing room right now, mr. Jordan, is about 500 days into evading his subpoena. Reporter garland beating Back Criticism of the department and career civil servants, some of whom have been named by republicans as they barrel ahead in their probe into alleged political bias into doj. Singling out individual career Public Servants who are just doing their jobs is dangerous. Particularly at a time of increased threats to the safety of Public Servants and their families. We will not be intimidated. Reporter now, when it comes to hunter biden and that gun charge, a judge said today that hunter biden will have to show up in court in person on october 3rd for his initial appearance. He had wanted to appear by video link but the judge said it was important that he not receive any special treatment in this case, wolf. Now to another major faceoff on capitol hill, this one within the ranks of the republican party. The House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy gathering his troops tonight as gop infighting threatens to shut down the u. S. Government ten days from now. Cnn capitol Hill Reporter Melanie Zanona is joining us right now. She has new information about the meeting. What are you learning, melanie . Reporter yeah, wolf, another day, another contentious meeting inside the house gop, and this one comes as House Republicans have been struggling to coalesce around their own plan to fund the government. Leadership was forced to cancel a planned vote yesterday. It was back to the drawing board. They spent the last two days in and out of meetings, trying to come up with a compromise that will get the support of their entire gop conference, including hard liners that would oppose the plan. Wolf, it might all be for nothing. In todays meeting, matt gaetz stood up and said he knows of seven republican colleagues who would not vote for any shortterm Spending Bill under any circumstances. Its unclear if that number is true. After that, another member, randy weber stood up and said all of those seven people please stand up and identify yourself. One of them did, corey mills of florida. It really speaks to the challenges that leadership is facing because they cant afford to lose seven members. If they do, that means theyre going to need to look to democrats to try to fund the government and that could be a risky proposition for Kevin Mccarthy whos being warned by his right flank not to work with democrats or he could be ousted as speaker. Lets take a listening to congressman matt gaetz and what he had to say about the idea of republicans and democrats working together. Now, if republican moderates want to go team up with democrats and sign a Discharge Petition to take over the floor with democrats, well, theyll be signing their own political death warrant, and theyll be handing it to their executioner because it will be the very democrats they act in concert with who will hunt them during the upcoming election season. Reporter so the bottom line here, wolf, is that we are less than two weeks away towards a Government Shutdown, and as of right now, there is no clear solution in sight. Melanie zanona, up on capitol hill, thank you very much. Lets get more on all of these showdowns on capitol hill. Were joined by representative pramila jayapal, chair of the progressal conference. Congresswoman, thank you so much for joining us. As you know, House Republicans spent much of the day today grilling the Attorney General of the United States over the hunter biden probe. Are you satisfied with the way garland answered these questions, and is the white house doing enough, do you believe, to push back on the allegations that the president benefitted directly from Hunter Bidens Business Dealings . Wolf, its good to see you. Look, i think the Attorney General did an excellent job today. He was very calm. He did not take their bait. You know, frankly, he was asked over and over and over again about the hunter biden case, about david weiss. He reminded people of the simple fact that mr. Weiss was actually appointed as u. S. Attorney by donald trump, and he had full latitude from Attorney General garland to conduct whatever investigation he wanted to conduct. And that is consistent with mr. Weisss testimony as well. And so i think that republicans came away with absolutely nothing, but it was sad to me, wolf. I have been on the Judiciary Committee for seven years, and i have just seen it increasingly being transformed into this soap box for absurd, baseless Conspiracy Theories, and i think it is unfortunate because it is undermining government institutions. Its feeding lies to the American Public, and i do think that is detrimental to our democracy. The Attorney General had a lot of good work that he could have talked about, about issues that americans really care about, like gun violence, and, you know, fentanyl, and Abortion Rights, which was what i focused my questioning on. But unfortunately republicans, it was just another wasted soap box for absurd Conspiracy Theories. Congresswoman jayapal, i want to get your reaction to what the Judiciary Committee chairman, jim jordan said about the now special counsel david weiss, what he said earlier this year, versus what he said today. Watch in. Do you think its time for a special counsel in the Hunter Biden Investigation . This was the biggest take away, right, the biggest take away is the u. S. Attorney, weiss, asked for Special Counsel Status, and garlands Justice Department says no. If a special counsel is not warranted here, when is it . He picks the one guy, the one guy he knows will protect joe biden, he picks david weiss. So what do you think changed, congresswoman . S i heard that questioning and i couldnt hear the question. What Merrick Garland said over and over again, which is consistent with what mr. Weiss said, he gave him whatever latitude he wanted and when david weiss said i would now like Special Counsel Status and if you ask me, i think its because republicans were continuing to attack him, and he wanted to, again, be clear, as clear could be, that he had everything he needed from the Attorney General. And the Attorney General immediately said, sure, you can have Special Counsel Status, and that is, i think, whats ridiculous here. These are a bunch of lies, and unfortunately they get attention, and they may confuse some people, but i want to be very clear. The Attorney General and mr. Weiss have been very clear that he had everything he needed. He conducted his investigation in the way that he thought was appropriate and the Attorney General did not have anything to do with any of that. I want to move on to the looming Government Shutdown while i have you, congresswoman. Sources are telling cnn that republican congressman matt gaetz told his fellow republicans during a closed door meeting today that there are seven gop votes to oppose any shortterm Spending Bill that would keep the government going. Whats your reaction to that, and are we actually right now headed toward a Government Shutdown . Well, unfortunately, at this rate, we are headed to a republican shutdown, and that gives me no pleasure to say because a shutdown has terrible consequences for the american people. But the reality is republicans cannot govern. They are in chaos. They are in ruin. They have not been able to govern from the day that Speaker Mccarthy got his speakership, and handed the gavel over to Marjorie Taylor green. He negotiated a deal with President Biden and then he immediately broke the deal. Then he started an Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden to try and preserve his House Speakership. That didnt work, and the reality is now, he cant even pass the eleven bills for funding the government with a majority in the party. He cant get agreement to bring those bills to the floor from his own majority. And they are loaded with extremist, right wing provisions, and so i think, you know, listen, democrats have the same tiny majority in the last term. We governed, democrats in the senate have governed, they have passed all of their bipartisan Spending Bills. It is House Republicans that are unable to govern. Representative pramila jayapal, thanks as usual for joining us. Thanks, wolf. Just ahead, as donald trump ramps up his campaign in iowa, cnn now has an exclusive brand new poll from the first gop primary state, New Hampshire. Were going to break down the new numbers for you. Stand by. 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