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top of the hour here in the cnn newsroom. thanks for joining us. i'm erica hill. >> i'm jim sciutto. happening now, attorney general merrick garland on capitol hill to testify before the jen at judiciary committee for the first time here. you see senators cruz and holly. he is expected to be hit with a wide range of questions including allegations from republicans as they said that the justice department is being weaponized against conservatives as well as updates into investigations into trump and biden and we'll take you there live as it happens. the annual cpac conference happens ...

There, a military-style weapon and the rounds and clips available to fire off multiple rounds into innocent crowds just to me makes little or no sense when you read the basic language of the second amendment, and so congress did something, and i want to credit senator corn yn for being a leader in this effort with senator murphy of connecticut to try to pass a bill to make it better. the bipartisan safer communities act addressed issues of straw purchasing which we have discussed before, the terrible death of ella french, a chicago policeman because of the straw purchase made in the state of i...

Supported several years ago? >> i would need to look at that. i don't recall the specifics of it. we've been dealing with the corn yn bill. >> assault-style weapons? what's your position on that? >> no. i think that's frankly semiautomatic is a legal weapon. an automatic is not hence the bump stock ban. i would not be for an outright ban. >> how about raising the age from 18 to 21? >> i think that's a decision best left with the states. looks like florida is going to do that, other states have done that. so to me that's the best approach. >> so we've been talking about obviously gun deaths are...

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