If you go online and search, how to buy math, the U.S. Attorney General wants tech giants

to flag you.

The lead starts right now.

Attorney General Merrick Garland grilled on Capitol Hill today from classified documents

to abortion rights, fentanyl to rising crime, the wide-ranging topics have put Garland

on the spot, and five close calls in 2023, and it's only March 1st.

The latest, a private plane came only 565 feet from a jet blue flight loaded with passengers

at Boston Logan.

Are these frightening encounters happening more often, or just being reported more often?

Plus, protests turning violent, the face-off between police and anti-Nets and Yahoo demonstrators

in Israel has crowds there call for a national day of disruption.

Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper, and we start today with our politics lead and two

high-profile hearings on Capitol Hill in one room, President Joe Biden's in battle pick,

to lead the federal aviation administration.

Finally, had his confirmation hearing after being picked nearly eight months ago, Republicans

pressed Phil Washington, a 24-year army veteran, about his limited experiences with aviation,

pointing out that he's worked as an airport CEO in Denver for less than two years.

That hearing comes just hours after CNN learned about another near collision involving

a passenger plane at Boston's Logan Airport, less than 600 feet away from potentially crashing.

And it comes, as Attorney General Merrick Garland faced off with Republicans in a separate

room on Capitol Hill.

This was his first time testifying in front of a divided Congress.

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