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good to be with you, i'm alex witt in for katy tur. we're right now following breaking news out of washington where the justice department has just announced it will not prosecute attorney general merrick garland for contempt of congress saying in a letter that garland's refusal to hand over audio of president biden's interview with robert hur to gop lawmakers was not a crime. joining us now from capitol hill is correspondent julie tsirkin. so let's interpret what this all means. i guess the implication being this was a political maneuver by congress. >> reporter: first of all, alex,...

Ad-libbing? >> color me skeptical, brianna, the president would actually be winging this meeting. what h.r. mcmaster said publicly might be him being diplomatic towards the president. giving the president his ultimate authority to talk about what he wants to talk about and set the agenda. we know donald trump is not a president who likes to feel constrained or too tightly tethered to restrictions. this could be just his advisors trying to give him as much flexibility as possible. you can bet before this meeting there is a great deal of preparation going on. running down the thing hess can addr...