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congress. merrick garland answered questions about everything from gun violence to tech giants to child labor and much more. he gave an early sign that he would not go into detail about some of the justice department's most politically fraught investigations. >> that includes the classified dork found at the home of current and former president -- >> it requires as much as possible we speak to our work and our filings in court so we do not jeopardize the viability of our investigations and the civil liberties of our citizens. >> as expected, the attorney general received his toughest questions from republicans. texas senator ted cruz slammed garland for failing to arrest any protester opposed to the overturning of roe v. wade who demonstrated outside the homes of some supreme court justices. >> in my judgment, the department of justice has been

politicized to the greatest extent i've ever seen. >> i vigorously disagree. i believe the men and women of the department pursue their work every single day in a non-partisan and appropriate way. >> there are thousands of monday and women who do that. i hear from agents of the fbi who are angry that it is treated as the enforcement arm for the dnc. have you brought a single case against any of these protesters threatening the justices under 18 usc section 1507. have you brought one? >> you asked me whether i sat on the hands. quite the opposite. i sent 70 united states marshals. >> let me try again. has the department of justice brought even a single case? it's not a give a speech on the other things you did. >> the job of the united states marshals is to defend the lives -- >> so the answer is no. >> garland said the decisions ab

arrests are made by the officers in the field. cnn's evan perez has been following this. as fiery as back and forth goes, you saw it, that was at fiery as the ag gopt got. we saw a lot of incoming from republicans and democrats. >> this has been a wide ranging hearing with a number of subjects that touched on everything from hunter biden's laptop to taylor swift lyrics in reference to the ticketmaster -- the investigation of whether ticketmaster is abusing its power in the marketplace as far as an antitrust investigation. but you hear there from both senator cruz and from josh hawley. you hear the attorney general trying to push back against some of the accusations from republicans that they're claiming there are two suss ste systems of justice in america, one for conservatives and one for liberals. it's a theme you see over and over throughout this hearing

from the republican side of the aisle there. there was, however, a little bit of agreement. you heard from the attorney general expressing concern about the fentanyl crisis and certainly what could be done about it. here is an exchange with senator lindsey graham who is asking about whether it's time to designate the drug cartels that are causing some of this crisis, whether it's time to designate them as terrorist rups. listen. >> mexican drug cartels, should they designated foreign terrorist organizations under u.s. law? >> the same answer i gave before. they're already designated in any number of ways and sanctioned -- >> would you opposes some of us trying to make them foreign terrorist organizations? >> i wouldn't oppose it. again, i want to point out there are diplomatic concerns. we need the assistance of mexico in this.

>> i should note that this is an issue that some republicans have been pushing for some years, even during the trump administration the justice department under the trump administration opposed this idea simply because of some of the issues that it would cause with mexico. you can see the hearing is still on going at this hour and there's a lot more questions coming to the attorney general fast and furious from the republican side especially. >> evan perez, thank you. joining us are two former members of the justice department, andrew mccabe is cnn's senior law enforcement analyst who served as fbi deputy director. jennifer rogers is cnn legal analyst and a former federal prosecutor. jen, i'll start with you. what stood out to you? the attorney general didn't lose his cool. but harsh questioning coming his way. >> it's important for the a.g. to go to congress when he's called there. this happened very infrequently during the trump years. it's good to see merrick garland

answering questions. they're legitimate questions. i'm glad to see he went. no real surprises. they want to know about hunter biden. they want to pick at him and push at him in a variety of ways. i haven't heard that interesting, to be honest with you. he's answering as i expect him to answer. getting the blowback i expect. no surprises so far. >> which is the goal. you want to go in with the headline you want to make and not come out with any that your opposition or perceived opposition want to make, right? >> victor, the goal i assume is, and i know it is while i was there, the goal is survival. you know you're going to face very tough questions. you know you're going to face questions that are designed not to elicit responsive answers or substantive answers. they're really questions posed to give the senators an opportunity to push the nair offensives they i have are important, political narratives, whatever that might be. you find yourself boxed into

these corners where articulating a clear substantive answer is just not possible. that sort of combat goes on while you're in the hearing. if at the end you're able to get up and walk away and get back to your office in one piece, it's a success. >> wow, if you can get up and walk away. >> the bar is that low. andy, the crux of the questioning had to do with domestic issues, from fentanyl, gun violence, social media, hunter biden. there was a question i took interest with, and that came from lindsey graham. he asked how difficult it is to designate russia a state sponsor of terror. how difficult is it? >> well, there's a number of procedural hurdles you have to get over. the designation of state sponsors of terror happens in the state department so that something not actually under the

authority of the attorney general. there are diplomatic consequences in doing that. it also opens up other opportunities on the criminal investigative and prosecutorial side. you can start to use statutes like the material support to terrorism statutes and go after people and prosecute them for providing assistance to the newly designated entity. i guess that would be the russian government. there are definitely up sides in terms of expanding prosecutorial authority, but there are downsides on the diplomatic front. that's in the state department's area. >> there was an interesting exchange, jen, between the a.g. and democratic senator sheldon whitehouse where he asked about if it's time for the doj to revisit some of the office of legal counsel opinions, specifically the one he highlighted that now justice ketanji brown jackson talked about and criticized that those who are very close to the

president, his closest advisers have absolute immunity, precludes them from appearing for testimony even before congress. is that something they should revisit? and is that something that there is a groundswell that the a.g. may have to respond to? >> i haven't heard the groundswell yet. this might be the first step in that. this is an interesting question. you don't want them to revisit the olc guidance every time the administration changes. you want this to be based on law and not on politics and who is sitting in the seat of government. at the same time things do change. if you have an olc opinion written some time ago and judges have rejected it, they've said this is not legally sound, it does seem to me there's some cause to look at it. garland is such a cautious person, so deliberative. hopefully he'll start to think about this. if he finds there are olc opinions that need a second look, i think he should be open to looking at that. >> and an institutionalist. >> very much. that's why he pushes back a

little bit. he wants doj to be inviolet and not have its opinions questions. i think if there's cause to do it, he'll be thoughtful about that. >> andy, let me ask you about reporting that came out today that talks about the disconnect and some of the tension amongst fbi agents and the doj as they were going into the probe and the search of the former president's home in mar-a-lago looking for those classified documents. the reporting suggests the fbi had been hoping to take a more measured approach and perhaps not as aggressive. prosecutors ultimately got their way. i'd love to get your thoughts on what came out of that report and what you make of it. that's "the washington post" reporting, i should note. >> that's right. fascinating reporting in the post today. i should start out by saying it's not unusual that the department and the fbi see things differently, particularly

in a case that's being investigated with so much attention and there's so much pressure on both sides. there are often arguments about the best tact to take, whether that's access to a witness or evidence through a search warrant or even arrest procedures, things like that. in this case i think it's remarkable what you're seeing, if the reporting is accurate, and that's a big if, what they're saying is that there was significant reluctance on the part of some folks in the bureau to move forward with the search because essentially they were afraid of the fallout, the fallout on the agency and the fallout on individuals for conducting that sort of provocative step that involved the former president. they even refer to it in the article as the crossfire hurricane hangover. people are very wary of seeing what happened to bureau leaders and people like me after having been involved in investigating the former president and we're still targeted to this day.

the concern i have, and it was my concern back when i was in the fbi and making some of these decisions is when you're investigating someone who is a political figure, that is not a political act if you are following the facts and the law, you're doing your job. when you choose not to take some investigative step of a political figure because you're concerned about the political fallout and the potential blowback, that is injecting politics into the work of the fbi and the department. so as hard as it may be in those moments, knowing the sort of retaliation they may be subjected to -- and i completely identify with all that -- it's still absolutely essential to take the steps you know are legally required and in the best interest of justice and meeting your obligations as an investigator. i'm glad they executed the search warrant. we all know now that was certainly the right thing to go. >> andy mccabe, jennifer rodgers, thank you.

right now a desperate search for survivors is under way in greece. you eke looking the mangled wreckage. at least 38 people were killed and more than 70 injured. >> more than 350 people were on the passenger train when the collision happened. several cars derailed and caught fire. cnn's elena joe koes is following this for us. greece's prime minister is saying tragic human error caused this crash. what do you know about the investigation so far? >> reporter: i mean just seeing those images is pretty shocking to see two trains on the same track going in opposite directions that resulted in this collision. the prime minister saying mainly human error, the station master of larissa train station has been arrested and has been charged as well. we have the transport minister that has resigned.

actually most telling, when he resigned, he says they knew they inherited a railway system that is not up to 21st century standards. they've tried with every effort to improve this reality, but they have failed. that's resulted in this bad incident. right now the prime minister promising they will leave no stone unturned in figuring out what went wrong. but the sense here is that the passenger train was moved onto the wrong track, and no one noticed, and it traveled for 15 kilometers at 166 kilometers an hour, resulting in the collision. take a look at cctv footage that captured the moment of collision. you see a fire erupting, fire that burned 1,300 celsius, a fire so intense it was difficult to put out. as we say now, 38 people losing their lives. we're hearing from health officials that the only way to

identify the dead is through dna testing. this is after a three-day holiday period. it was ash monday, and many young students, university students getting back from t thessaloniki. it was a well-known fact there were major failures on the railway system in greece that hadn't been upgraded. >> 30 kills and 70 injured. elena, thank you. mayor lori lightfoot becomes the city's first mayor in 40 years to lose a re-election attempt. ahead, the major concerns that weighed on voters. trump allies are privately pressuring house members to throw support behind them. some of the most loyal members of the maga wing seem eager to

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just one term. the race is largely seen at the barometer on how americans feel about crime. >> a democratic who ran on tougher crime laws will advance to the runoff. paul valles will face cook county commissioner brandon johnson. cnn's omar jimenez joins us from chicago. we knew this would be a tough battle for lightfoot. this recally was surprising, 17. >> reporter: i talked to mayor lightfoot halfway through her term. she said people don't feel safe. literally nothing else matters. this election felt very much like the embodiment of that. she was the city's first black woman to be elected mayor. the first openly gay mayor as well. now she's set to become the first full-term incumbent in 40 years not to win re-election as

mayor in chicago. this came on the other side of what she described as a once-in-a-lifetime set of challenges, from the peak in the pandemic, jumps in gun violence that we saw not just here but places across the country. ultimately that came down to last night where she conceded. take a listen to some of what she said. >> i am grateful to the millions of chicagoans who came together as we made tough decisions, saw the struggles of our frontline workers and beat back a deadly pandemic. >> reporter: she also touted a message she made on the south and west sides of the city which brought her a lot of support in this, but clearly not enough. as for the two candidates who are projected to go through, it's looking like a battle between the police union and teachers union. paul vallas is a former head of schools in philadelphia.

he's got support of the police union. brandon johnson, cook county commissioner, former teacher who has the support of the teachers union. take a listen to them as they celebrated their projected victories. >> we will make chicago the safest city in america. >> two months ago they said they didn't know who i was. well, if you didn't know, now you know. >> reporter: johnson obviously excited. he talked about wanting to end the tale of two cities, so to speak, in chicago where one side of the city gets investment and the other side of the city not as much. we're headed to run auch because neither candidate got that 50% threshold. it will be april 4th we figure out who the next mayor of chicago will be. >> a lot of themes in those two candidates and in that race. omar jimenez, thank you so much. joining us margaret tall

love and alice stewart. welcome to you both. margaret, let me start with you. if we have it, let's put those percentages up for the race last night. mayor lightfoot not only did not advance to the runoff, she came in at about half of the percentage of the top finisher here who focused a lot, margaret, on violent crime. what's the message beyond chicago? >> well, victor there is a national message and national warning to hear. voters, the way voters decide whether their democracies are working for them depends heavily on whether they feel safe at home. that depends heavily on how they perceive crime. crime is a potential real problem for democrats running for office and seeking national office in the next couple years. i think this is a combination of

two stories. if you look at the mayor's results, it was the challenger further to her left -- if you take commissioner jones' percentage and hers, that roughly equals the front-runner, mr. vallas. you see a split decision here. maybe one of the lessons is, if you're going to run and you're a democrat, don't get crosswise with the teachers union. you have a candidate who not only faced blowback from crime and all the covid hangovers, but someone ultimately seen as an out of towner with no core base, clashed with the teachers union and had a vote split by a candidate to her left. that plus crime i think made for a very, very tough road. >> that class with the teachers union became a national headline repeatedly. chicago is one of the last major cities to open their schools during the pandemic. alice, how do you see republicans, if at all,

responding to this, and perhaps is there a way they use this to their vag? >> bianna, look at that. 17% for the incumbent mayor is a resounding signal from voters in the windy city that her policies were a complete failure for them. the main issue is safety. crime has been up 41% in the last year under her leadership. there's a lot of trickledown effect from rising crime. you have civil unrest, fears of public safety and also the economic impact of this. we had large corporations exiting chicago for other cities and states because they said that had a difficult time recruiting top talent, fearing to come to chicago because of the safety impact. not to mention her policies dealing with the economy and how she dealt with covid, had a tremendous economic impact on the city. that also is another factor that voters said it's time for new leadership. we're also seeing these two candidates that are going to run for re-election. this is going to be a very hotly

contested race, but more than anything, republicans can take away from this, when you have policies that make people feel as though they are not safe. it impacts the economy. you cannot recruit top talent to the cities. that's a winning message for republicans moving forward, focusing on crime and the economy and education, is a good way to look to 2024. >> alice, republicans ran, especially in the house, on the trinity of crime, the border and inflation. where is the crime legislation? who is the big city republican mayor who is getting it right? we hear a lot of republicans say that these democrat-led cities are seeing so much crime. who is getting it right? where is the legislation focused on that, alice? >> the main focus, victor, is on supporting police. we're seeing that at the state level and the city level across the country. supporting the police, making

sure they have the resources and necessary training they need in order to get the job done. look, to make this work, this is a bipartisan effort, republicans and democrats working together to help the police respond to crime, respond to the community concerns and making sure that the tools and talents are there and in place and necessary. while i know that not all democrats supported the defund-the-police idea, some did. that had a detrimental impact on many democrats moving forward. the key takeaway is to support the police the best they possibly can and make sure those in these cities, whether chicago, new york or whatever city, there are consequences. the democratic soft-on-crime policies do not work. >> margaret, let me ask you about cnn reporting here. in interviews with roughity two dozen members of the extreme maga wing of the republican party, these are people close to the trump administration at the

time, and questioned as to whether they're ready to throw their support behind the former president. they're not quite there yet. what do you make of this? >> you're right. they're not there. speaker mccarthy isn't engaging on preferences. the head of the freedom caucus says i've got other stuff keeping me occupied. really good reporting from cnn. i think what's happening is two things. one is that you're seeing real concerns insight the right flank of the caucus, if he's merges as the nominee, he might have trouble winning re-election rather than a different gop for 2024. there's a lot of enthusiasm for governor desantis from that section of the base, and they want to see if he would be as strong as a declared candidate that's been road tested, as head looks like now as this candidate in waiting.

you saw freedom caucus members go down to florida, spend time with him, come back and say they're excited about that. anecdotally, i have a good friend who travels to florida several times a year for family. one of her political barometers is a land holder off one of the major roadways who always has property festooned with trump posters and they change every couple years. she just got back from florida and those signs were replaced by desantis flags and posters. >> posters and flags. margaret talev, thank you so much, alice, thank you as well. they can't link any mysterious illness the havana -- >> tiktok with a -- what every parent needs to know. that's next.

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bearings are monitored. >> the head of norfolk southern will appear before the senate environment and public works committee. that's happening next thursday. a new u.s. intelligence report says it's unlikely the mysterious illness known as havana syndrome is caused by a foreign adversaries. officials familiar with the findings tell cnn they simply don't support the theory that the strange health incidents resulted from some sort of weapon deployed by a hostile government. >> cnn's kylie atwood is at the state department with the latest. this is a significant development given they've been grappling with this mysterious issue and ailments people have been suffering for years. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. this is after two years of intensive work by the intelligence community looking at the question of who or what caused these incidents now known as havana syndrome. what they found is that they weren't able to link any of

these cases to a foreign adversary. that is why they are coming to the conclusion that it's unlikely that a foreign adversary was involved in these havana syndrome incidents that we have seen affect u.s. diplomats and u.s. spies around the globe dating back to 2016 when there was that cluster of incidents in havana, cuba. it's important to note that they're also say there's no credible evidence that a foreign adversary has a weapon or a collection device that would be capable of carrying out these widespread incidents. that's really important here because there has been kind of the believe that there's some foreign at sayer that has this weapon targeting u.s. officials and the finding now is that that isn't the case. now, what we are hearing very definitively from the director of the national intelligence comm community, from the director of the cia is this finding doesn't undermine the experiences that these diplomats an these spies

had. they really did have real experiences, but it's just a plethora of factors that led to these experiences, such as environmental factors or health factors or social factors, such as us reporting on these incidents, that led to these cases being reported and these cases being experienced. i think it's important to note, though, that some of the folks who were victims of this are a bit frustrated today. they're saying, if it's not a foreign adversary but i was told by a professional, medical professional that i have a diagnosed traumatic brain injury, then what did cause this? it was interesting to hear from u.s. officials who talked about the breadth of their investigation here. they talked about looking at incidents and looking at what was happening around those incidents, what was happening in the walls, the cars that were passing and finding things they didn't expect to find such as hvac systems that weren't working, or mice connected to computers that were creating some discrepancies in the area.

so they did not find, again, a foreign adversary was linked to this. they're saying essentially there's not one reason for these incidents. there are questions about the future of this investigation with admiral haines saying this must endure. we're waiting for specifics on what that looks like going forward. >> plenty of questions left to answer. kylie atwood, thanks so much. tiktok announced it will set a daily screen time limit for users under 18. this is one of the most aggressive moves yet by the platform. >> cnn's brian fung is here with the details. tell us about this news from the company? >> victor and bianna, i would describe this as more of a soft limit than a hard limit. here is how it works. the platform is saying that after 60 minutes of screen time. teenagers using tiktok will be presented with a notification telling them, hey, you've been

on for an hour. this notification can be dismissed by entering in a pass code. it can even be disabled entirely within the settings of the app. so teenagers using the app can opt out of this feature. those that do, if they use the app for more than 100 minutes, the app will tell them, hey, you might want to consider setting a daily screen time limit for yourself as a custom feature. now, all of this is aimed at trying to establish some friction in the platform, trying to get people to use tiktok by thinking twice sometimes if they're using it for a long time. the thought is by making this the default setting, many users will simply go along with it, and maybe that will result in some reductions in screen time and potentially better mental health. the question is whether or not all of that is actually going to work or do anything. i think the jury is still very

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people are in areas that are no longer accessible. >> russia's heavy shelling led one ukrainian official to say they are just breaking this city into molecules. cnn's alex marquardt is in eastern ukraine. alex, what is the current situation in bakhmut? >> hi, bianna and victor. it's not looking good for the ukrainian forces. that city is surrounded on three sides by russian forces as they continue to attack in and around the city. we just got a battlefield update from the commander of the 28th brigade which has been fighting in that city for quite some time. they say they've been repelling attacks all day long, and particularly on the western site side of the city. it's clear that the russian forces are trying to encircle it. this commander saying it's increasingly difficult to hold the city and they are paying a very heavy price in doing so. no decision, he says, has been

made yet by the command on whether or not to pull out of the city. that would be seen as a strategic withdrawal to save some of the fighters who have been fighting there so valiantly for quite some time. the russian forces have been pressing forward with mainly mercenaries and conflicts from wagnerment we understand from a military spokesman that it is now the more experienced fighters from wagner that are making this push, and they're doing so with every kind of weaponry imaginable. we've seen air strikes from the russians, drone strikes, artillery, the fighting is in close quarters, street to street with small arms. it's extremely intense. according to president zelenskyy, this is the fiercest fighting in the country so far. victor and bianna, what happens next? ukraine needs to make a decision whether it's worth holding on to the city of bakhmut. if russia were to take it, it

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new developments in that tragic car crash in january that killed a university of georgia football player and staff member. police say star defensive lineman jalen carter is now being charged with reckless driving that killed dylan willic and chandler lecroy on the night of their championship parade. cnn's nick valencia is on this story. nick what do you know? >> victor and bianna, it's sure to an impact on the crash and beyond police are still investigating killed his former teammate devin willock and carter and lecroy was effectively racing one another. police say they were driving in a manner consistent with racing when they left the downtown athens the morning of the crash. investigation shows that

aggressive drive and alcohol and racing were part of that crash. the evidence demonstrated that both vehicles swrichd between lanes, drove in the center turn lane, drove at opposite lines of travel, overdrove each other and in an attempt to outdistance each other. police, the police investigation found that lecroy, the teen staffer driving the team vehicle her car reached 104 miles per hour prior to the crash. we did reach out to jalen and his agent and mother but each declined to comment. and jalen carter did release a statement on his social media that said in part, it is my intention to return to athens to answer the misdemeanor charges against me and make certain that the complete and accurate trieth is presented. there's no question in my mind when all of the facts are known that i will be fully exonerated of any crime wrongdoing. at last check, carter is still notty police custody. victor, bianna.

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scientists are out with the new warning after the just-released data shows an arctic sea ice has reached record-low levels for the second year in a row. >> cnn's chief climateologist has more. >> victor and bianna, when it comes to layovers, i've gone

through a few in my life, tip of c catagonia, we're seeing the gentrification of del fuego. this is where you catch a ship around the chilean natural park. i'm here to hang out with headlines being made by antarctica that has caught attention these days. this is a new record set when it comes to sea ice extent at the summer. they peak summer about february 21st down here. and that's usually when the sea ice has drawn back the farther. it grows in the winters, in september, shrinks in the summers. last year, it set a record when it got down to around 700,000 square miles. that's a 90% drop from a high back in 2014. and now, this new record shattered that. so it's an alarming trend that shows the vulnerability of the south pole to a melt that would

increase sea level rise from miami to new orleans up to shanghai. so many weather patterns, ecological systems. there's so much to learn, scientists aren't sure how much is attributable to man-made change. the south pole has been yo-yo'ing, even as the north pole h beemelting at an alarming rate. now is the regular flag, the prescription for this, for generations of the fuels that burn and creating this blanket around the planet and heating up life as we know it. it also probably means pulling gig da tons of carbon out of the sea and the sky to try to level this off and stop, you know, the ultimate horror show which is tipping points that can't be stopped. so, that's the latest numbers out of antarctica, hopefully, i'll bring you back positive stories about whales, our big friends in the deep. until en