0 one left there. i thought also perhaps, if you are looking for a friendly juror in this case, the video of the witnesses expressing the love that murdaugh had for maggie, maybe you make the argument that could be effective. we'll see when we get. >> dana: did at the fence trying to raise some reasonable doubt in the case. we'll continue to follow that as they come back from their break. harris faulkner is next. here she is. >> harris: we'll get back to the murdaugh trial, the double murder trial of that prominent attorney in south carolina alex murdaugh. we begin with this fox news alert. attorney general merrick garland's first trip to capitol hill this year and it wasn't easy. four hours of relentless questioning by republicans on the senate judiciary committee. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." those republicans directly accuse merrick garland of politicizing the justice department. investigations into former president donald trump and president biden both happening right now. lawmakers are questioning if the same standards are being applied to each man. some especially hot topics, the targeting pro-life activists while letting pro-abortion vandals go off the hook. verbal attacks on federal judges. it was not a tame affair during that hearing. >> you come across as being very political in the decisions that you make. >> we greatly respect the oversight responsibilities and at the same time we have to protect our ongoing investigations. >> we have had protestors who have been showing up at the homes of supreme court justices carrying signs, picketing, shouting. it is very clear they are trying to influence in one way or another. >> as soon as the dobbs draft leaked, i ordered the marshals to do something that the united states marshals had never in history done before. >> historically federal judges have had a hard time defending themselves. it is not just limited to the outside partisan -- this is a speech by a united states senator calling the judge a life long right wing activist partisan ideologue and anti-apportion zealot. i wonder if you will join me in condemning that sort of attack. >> i'm against divisive rhetoric of all kinds but i do not have authority in this matter. >> harris: john cornyn of texas in "focus" now rounding out that montage. a member of the judiciary committee also you sit on the finance and intelligence committees as well. first of all, what was the highlight of that hearing yesterday with the attorney general would you say? >> harris, i think more in terms of low lights rather than highlights. but i was disappointed. merrick garland served for many years as a federal judge. by all accounts was a fair judge. but he knows that these attacks against the judiciary, whether it's the supreme court or other judges, is unfair and it is dangerous. we know that people perhaps unstable people can be incited to commit acts of violence and indeed it was just last year that justice kavanaugh was being threatened with assassination. i would hope that merrick garland as the chief law enforcement officer of the united states would condemn it but he wouldn't do it. >> harris: it took the president of the united states many days to even mention that was going on. you know, i had just told viewers that a lot of hot topics came up. this was one of them. a new report from the "washington post" says temperatures were flaring over the raid on trump's maier lag owe property. the justice department overruled f.b.i. officials hesitant to carry out that search. it looked like a raid for classified documents. here is the attorney general on that. >> my question is how often do you overrule f.b.i. field agents for political purposes? >> that is not an accurate reflection of what a article says. i can't comment on the y experience, long experience as a prosecutor, there is robust discussion. >> harris: robust discussion. it sounded like it got tempers flaring. what is your take? >> well, the attorney general unfortunately is undermining trust and confidence in the department of justice and the f.b.i. and when people see the different treatment in different cases where president biden is involved or the vice president pence and then president trump, they come to the conclusion in the absence of other information, there must be a double standard. indeed there does seem to be a double standard and it is dictated by politics, which is unacceptable. >> harris: all of that it blew up. everybody knew the raid had gone on, so on and so forth and we sat for months without knowing that joe biden had classified documents in at least one location. it started at the penn biden center named for him. he got a million dollars to use his name for that. it is different treatment. why? >> well, i think unfortunately we don't have an attorney general that has the strength of character and the will to stand up to the politics that are coming obviously from the white house and directing his actions. being attorney general is a tough job because you are the chief law enforcement officer of the government but you are also a cabinet member for the president of the united states. and what we need -- what the american people want and what they deserve is impartial justice administered without fear of favor regardless of whether you are the president of the united states or an average working family. they just do not have that trust because of different treatment like this. >> harris: before we move on because there were so many topics that they got to garland on. since i have you, i have to ask this. you are on the intelligence committee. the first documents. top secret documents that biden had having to do with at least iran, china and other countries, ukraine was one of them. what can you tell us about any connection points that the intelligence committee would look at between some of what biden had and the investigation that's going on with his son, hunter biden, known to make some pretty shady business dealings with 1 or 2 of those countries? >> this is another area where we have been stonewalled by the biden justice department. i and other committee members have a constitutional responsibility to do oversight of the intelligence community to make sure they are following the rules and not abusing the power that they do have, which is significant. and so far we've been stonewalled by the attorney general. he says this is -- he doesn't want to jeopardize an investigation. we would like to know whether president biden's access and carelessness, frankly, with classified documents has jeopardized our national security. we can't assess that without getting access to the documents. this is not a partisan matter. this is something that both republicans and democrats have been clear about and supported by all the members of the intelligence committee seeking access to these document, as is our right. >> harris: you talk about the articles at biden's home parked next to the corvette and his son driving the same car if delaware. senator also putting a.g. garland on blast over the crisis at our southern border and massive amounts of fentanyl pouring into america. lindsey graham pointed at mexican drug cartels as the root of the problem. >> mexican drug cartels, should they be designated foreign terrorist organizations under u.s. law? >> i think that's the same answer i gave before. >> would you oppose some of us trying to make them foreign terrorist organizations? >> i wouldn't oppose it. we need the assistance of mexico in this. >> is mexico helping us effectively with our fentanyl? >> they are helping us but could do much more. >> if this is helping i would hate to see what not helping looks like. >> harris: he said the ultimate decision falls under the state department. you are leading a delegation to the southern border tomorrow. tell us about that and your reaction to what you heard from the a.g. yesterday. >> well, you know, the attorney general says it is not his job, it is the state department to deal with these matters. i'm for giving the federal government every tool necessary to combat the cartels smuggling people and drugs into the united states. as we've said, taking so many lives and adding to crime in communities all across our country. i'm taking a group of senators to the border starting tonight so they can see what i've seen on many trips to the border and listen to the experts, the people who i have learned from, and the community leaders being overwhelmed by this humanitarian crisis. they are interested in getting more information and i'm interested in getting some allies to help us in this fight against this crisis, which is -- sits at president biden's feet. it is the biden border crisis. >> harris: your presence there whenever there is someone with a bully pulpit is so important at the border. it is really too bad the white house won't go and that they won't go more and more and more until they solve it. senator, great to have you in "focus" today. thank you. >> thank you. >> harris: one michigan mom. the senator talked about this a little bit. we'll give you an example how fentanyl is eating us up. one michigan mom lost her two sons to fentanyl poisoning. how bad the crisis is. she gave very emotional testimony on capitol hill earlier this week. you saw parts of this. pointed the finger squarely at the biden administration just as the senator just did. i will talk with rebecca keysling later this hour and get her response to president biden laughing during comments on that powerful, tearful testimony. the white house still doing that new report, still talking about the new report on the origins of covid-19. a lot of people have a lot of questions about it and why won't the white house dig in? >> this administration continues to have too little too late. they simply want to hide the information when, in fact, we have compelling evidence that the wuhan lab, not nature, is the reason why covid happened. >> harris: the press secretary for the white house said the president wants to get to the bottom of this and the spokesperson admiral kirby says there is no consensus where it came from but there are at least two federal agents see the f.b.i. and energy department who say it likely came from the wuhan lab in china. republicans demanding declassification of all that information. some democrats want to keep it under wraps. why can't we all see it? arkansas governor sarah huckabee sanders in "focus" next. 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