hello. i m victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. we begin with the fight for evidence in the investigations of the january 6th attack on the capitol. the washington post reports that more texts are missing, this time from president trump s senior homeland security officials related to the days surrounding the riot. now it s more than just the secret service that can not produce critical texts connected to the trump supporters who tried to overturn joe biden s win. we re also learning about the latest moves from the justice department as investigators pursue interviews with top officials from the trump administration. cnn is exclusively reporting that prosecutors are preparing for a major court battle on executive privilege. it s the clearest sign yet that federal investigators are focusing on trump s actions and his attempts to prevent the transfer of power to joe biden. trump s former chief of staff, nick mulvaney, who testified yesterday, s
for 9/11 families united who lost her husband tom, who was on the 100th floor of the north tower. your reaction to what you heard there from the former president. nobody has gotten to the bottom of 9/11. that is such a ridiculous statement for him to make. we met with him just two years ago on the 19th anniversary in the white house, specifically asking him to release documents that have to do with the investigations into the kingdom s culpability with 9/11. we had former fbi agents with us telling him how important it was to declassify these documents. and the very next day ag barr stamped state secrets across many of them, so someone in the white house, very close to mohammed bin salman, blocked us from getting the truth when he was president. so what do you think has changed since 2016 when donald trump knew quite clearly well, he believed quite clearly that saudi was connected to 9/11? he did. he came out and said it and we thought this is great, we re going to have a presi
me they could take out. when i went up to him i saw a man jump from the 100th floor. state of shock. you realize it a couple days later. i saw the man splatter on the ground. i went up to pete and i said pete, can we get up there with a helicopter? and pete said my guys can get everybody below the fire. he looked at me like steel eyes like, mayor, don t push me. i m going to get my men killed up there i looked up and realized why the flames shoot out of window. you put a helicopter anywhere near there boom it s going to blow. ainsley: some thoughts going through our mind this morning. saw robb o neil at the memorial. is he walking through the museum. he ends with the shot of the shirt that he was wearing when he was on the other side of the world killing the man who was responsible for this. we re talking about khalid sheikh mohammed he is now going to trial 20 years later. i was talking to a friend of mine last night. talking to a friend of my last night, rudy, she said her husband wa
going up past me i m a little bit slow going up the stepping. actually a gold star mother of somebody that i served with kyle comfort. we didn t know each other for us to meet each other, figure that connection out on the 100th floor as we were just approaching the summit there was a really special moment for both of us and speaks to us what these events are all about coming together. brian: my quads would hurt. you are more sore. i am sore. that s the truth. i don t regret it. those are the moments being mission-oriented guys. that s what we like about it. you don t always like what you are doing it the. you love when you accomplish the mission. brian: they are ripping each other to shreds with sarcasm. something you pick up from the military. thank you very much for yourselves and your service. explain you are in this type of suit calm floj wouldn t work. president trump just landed in london. expect massive crowds of get this protests. these are our allies president makes his way
here s the plan. congressman clingsz has a plan. senator graham has a plan. mark it up. isn t that the isn t that the military mindset? this is what we are saying to them what is taking you so long? why don t you see this crisis? have you three people who spent their careers trying to prevent people from going out and attack us. pretty basic put an obstacle where they want to get to and where they re. brian: optimistic congressman baird we are going to get something done or no? on the border? yes. the bond that i share with the two we have here and the other veterans that we are having in the congress, maybe find some common ground and can accomplish something like that. brian: congressman mast i know you have been busy competed in the tunnel 2 towers what was that like for you. i m sore and tired. group of amazing patriots there. really a heart felt moment for me when i was on about the 100th floor. there was a gold star mother