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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 ...

Park? >> that's also true. >> we know what happened when people of highland park when they gathered for a fourth of july parade. a gunman stood on the roof of a building and fired 83 rounds into the crowd in 60 successes. even the armed good guys, the policemen who were there trying to protect the public had trouble locating that person and sadly, could not have the time to respond to what he had done until it was finished. when he was finished and there was an 8-year-old cooper roberts who will be paralyzed for life. there was a young man, a 2-year-old, aiden mccarthy who became an orphan bec...

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...