Nightly News Full Broadcast – Dec. 28 
Attorney General Merrick Garland, who has been threatened with contempt by Republican House members, will respond forcefully on Tuesday by saying he wouldn’t be intimidated.
House Judiciary Chair Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has criticized Garland for refusing to release the recording of President Joe Biden discussing the classified documents found at his home with special counsel Robert Hur. Jordan proposed Monday to eliminate funding for for a new FBI headquarters and for special counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting former President Donald Trump for attempting to overturn the 2020 election and for retaining and refusing to return classified documents after leaving office.
But Garland, a former federal prosecutor and appeals court judge, plans to say in prepared remarks at a 10 a.m. Judiciary Committee hearing that he wouldn’t be intimidated by the move to hold him in contempt. The department provided lawmakers with a transcript of the interview, but said releasing the recording could jeopardize future investigations. Biden invoked executive privilege to keep the recording confidential
