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morning, everyone. you're live in judiciary committee will begin girl and is expected to push back against gop attacks on the justice department. >> and gop claims i am that the doj is weaponized against donald trump. also, opening statements are underway in the trial of the president's son, hunter biden, on three felony gun charges, but there are already some developments in sayyed that courtroom will bring you and president biden is about to announce an executive order on illegal immigration, cracking down on the flow of migrants or false the southern border. the move is controvers...

Investigations. so that is what the contempt fight is over. and right now, merrick garland says, no, remember though, even if the audio tape does get produced publicly at some point, perhaps under a judge's order, maybe potentially there is this history of public ins picking these types of battles with cabinet officials including in the biden administration, but also dating back to eric holder as the attorney general, who was held in contempt for the first time in a long time starting that process where an attorney general is guest on by the opposing party. in congress, just as a way to make a...

It flooded that i.t. room at mar-a-lago, not damaging any of the video tape that we know of, but clearly something that was quite suspicious that has happened. at that point in time last year, kaitlan, that was when this was the heart of the obstruction investigation. the justice department was not trusting at that time donald trump and his attorneys that they had turned over all of the classified records in his possession at mar-a-lago. they were headed toward a contempt fight in court in the fall. we also know this happened after the fbi search of mar-a-lago. so, a point in time after that f...

That's when the pool was drained by this maintenance worker, and it flooded that he room at mar-a-lago. not damaging any of the videotape that we know of, but clearly something that was quite suspicious that has happened. and at that point in time last year kaitlin that was when this was the heart of the obstruction investigation. the justice department was not trusting at that time, donald trump and his attorneys that they had turned over all of the classified records in his possession at mar-a-lago. they were headed toward a contempt fight in court, in the fall. we also know that this happen...

The committee's subpoena, an also made it clear that he had already provided documents that weren't even asked for. all he requested in return was that you, as chairman of this committee, give him your good faith commitment that we would move toward resolving this contempt fight. martha: darrell issa responded basically that that didn't answer the question of what he was subpoenaing, and that he was not willing to move beyond this fight, and doug mcelway joins us now live outside the white house with more on this. >> reporter: good morning, to you. there is no press briefing scheduled for toda...