Out front next, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Republicans go head to head clashing over Trump's conspiracy theories, including the former president's baseless claim that the FBI was trying to assassinate him.

Plus, breaking news, we are now just hours away from the U.S.-Mexico border closing after Biden issued strict new border rules.

But why now we're live at the border?

And Hunter Biden's laptop and his own words taking center stage in court today.

Let's go out front.

And good evening. I'm Aaron Burnett.

Out front tonight, I will not be intimidated.

Those are the exact words of Attorney General Merrick Garland,

who came under withering fire from Republicans today.

These repeated attacks on the Justice Department are unprecedented,

and they are unfounded. 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.

The usually mild-mannered garland standing firm for five hours as he was confronted with

one conspiracy theory after the next, everyone designed to show Garland and President Biden

trying to use the DOJ to take down Trump.

Conspiracy theory won. Trump's claims that Garland and Biden were in

cahoots with the Manhattan DA's office in the hush money trial for Trump. Garland,

of course, would have none of that. We do not control the Manhattan Manhattan District Attorney.

And the fact of the matter is that in 2018, federal prosecutors with the DOJ

declined to file charges against Trump. That decision in part because of the lingering concerns

about Michael Cohen's credibility as a witness. And then came conspiracy theory number two.

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