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it's 11:00 eastern, and 8:00 a.m. pacific. i am ana cabrera in for josé diaz-balart. garland's appearance comes as house republicans recently advanced a bill to hold him in contempt of congress for not handsing over the audio recording of special counsel robert hur's interview with joe biden. >> i will not be intimidated and the justice department will not be intimidated. we will continue to do our jobs free from political influence and we will not back down from defending democracy. >> joining us now, ali vitali from capitol hill, and you have been monitoring this all our, and a fe...

News legal analyst also joining us. for those who are just joining us, what stands out to you so far from what has unfolded so far? >> think i the point we ended last hour making is the one we should take into the next part of the hearing. i expect the hearing to get back under way in the next few minutes, because jim jordan is a fast walker between here and the hearing floor, and so we will pick up at that point. the multiple players you are seeing at play and the questions the attorney general is fielding from both sides of the aisle, and it harkens back to what i saw yesterday when the form...

Thinking that vladimir putin's ambition, whom i've also met, could be stopped with a gimmicky red reset button or calling for the deposal of moammar gadhafi, then ignoring everything going on in libya where we then had a terrorist attack in benghazi, which she has never answered for. >> among the gop candidates, at least, though you just made a good case for you versus hillary clinton, you don't think anybody has the foreign experience you do, even if they're sitting senators, governors who have had tons of time in washington dealing with these issues? you think you're still the better choice?...

Now because they are turning the heat yet again higher on eric holder, stepping up pressure on the a.g. over fast & furious, here is jason chaffetz, calling on democrats to join his side and calling for a subpoena on the hearing floor: >> this country should be impaired by what's happening in fast & furious. my challenge to members on both sides of the ierl is to stand up and have the integrity to say we have a dead u.s. agent, we have a department of justice that lied to congress. where are the guts this this body to -- in this body to stand up and say we're not going to put up with that? >> ...