House GOP clashes with Attorney General Merrick Garland over Hunter Biden investigation

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🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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During a contentious House Judiciary Committee hearing, Attorney General Merrick Garland forcefully pushed back against accusations from congressional Republicans that the Justice Department has shown political bias in its investigations into Hunter Biden and former President Trump. Garland told committee members he’s “not the president’s lawyer” nor “Congress’s prosecutor.” Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu took part in the hearing. He tells AC360 if he thinks Garland pushed back hard enough on the allegations of political bias. Plus, since 2010 chef José Andrés and his World Central Kitchen team have been on the frontlines of disasters around the world. They've served over 300 million meals in more than 30 countries. Chef Andrés joins AC360 to discuss “The World Central Kitchen Cookbook: Feeding Humanity, Feeding Hope.”

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0:00.0	Tonight on 360 Fallout, from what became the first confrontation of the Biden impeachment
0:07.0	probe, and the question that follows, did the House Republican clash with Attorney General
0:11.5	Merrigarlin do anything at all to help them make their case?
0:16.2	Also tonight, stunning sexual misconduct allegations from the White House aide who saw so much
0:21.3	on January 6th against one of the central figures of that day, Rudy Giuliani.
0:27.0	And later, chef Jose Andrés, whose world central kitchen does so much for so many
0:30.9	in need, talks to Anderson about his new cookbook and his recipe for hope.
0:35.8	Good evening, John Berman here, in for Anderson.
0:38.8	And today was essentially day one of House Republicans' Biden impeachment inquiry.
0:43.9	It was also day one of many in their confrontation with the Attorney General Merrigarlin over the
0:48.3	Justice Department's handling of the Hunter Biden investigation, the Department's prosecutions
0:53.0	of January 6th, including former President Trump and the alleged weaponization of the DOJ.
0:59.6	Republican lawmakers call what they are doing oversight.
1:02.7	And oversight is important, no matter who is in charge, though exchanges like this
1:07.1	raise questions about their definition of that term.
1:18.8	Attorney General Garland today, before the House Judiciary Committee, it was neither the
1:22.4	only confrontation nor the sharpest, more now from CNN's Sarah Murray.
1:27.7	And believe so, help you guys.
1:29.1	Attorney General Merrigarlin squaring off against his toughest Republican critics on Capitol
1:34.2	Hill today.
1:35.2	The fix is in.
1:37.4	Even with the face-saving indictment last week of Hunter Biden, everyone knows the fix
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