in the u.s. and around the world, it is friday, july 1st. i m brianna keilar with john berman. we are now learning that cassidy hutchinson told the house january 6 committee that she was contacted by someone in trump world attempt to go influence her testimony, that is what three sources told cnn. hutchinson was one of the two witnesses who received threatening messages shown at tuesday s hearings. members of the committee suggested the two examples that they presented were only a fraction of the evidence they have related to possible witness intimidation. we have learned that forming white house deputy chief of staff tony ornato met with the january 6th committee twice earlier this year. ornato has come under scrutiny after hutchinson testified that he told her about trump lashing out in anger and lunging at a member of his secret service detail demanding to be taken to the capitol on january 6. now a secret service official who spoke on condition of anonymity told cnn orn
according to committee vice chair liz cheney, that s just a fraction of the evidence they have related to possible witness intimidation. this morning the new york times reports that trump s political organization and his allies paid for or promised to cover the legal fees of more than a dozen witnesses called to testify in the january 6th investigation. it does raise for some ethical and legal questions about the possibility of witnesses being pressured and the possibility of trump trying to influence testimony that has a direct bearing on him. joining us now is john wood, he was until last week a senior investigator for the january 6th committee, he was a u.s. attorney during the george w. bush administration, he also clerked for justice clarence thomas and he s now running as an independent candidate for the senate in missouri. thank you so much for being with us, counselor. when you were with the committee, what was your knowledge of how the attorneys for some of these
familiar with his testimony. on tuesday, cassidy luchinson testified he told and lunged add at secret service member when he have told he couldn t go to the capitol himself. what more committee vice chair liz cheney announced they were asking their reasons regularly if anyone was trying to influence testimony and cheney laid out two witnesses said yes. they received calls from someone they knew trying to impact their testimony. one of these people on the receiving end was cassidy hutchinson. we are able to report this is confirming a punch bowl news story yesterday. she s now the star witness who revealed shocking details of complacency on january 6th despite the violence today. the legal risk for trump related to january 6th. more about the calls. the committee has not said who the calls came from with one going to hutchinson. here is one of the quotes, the witness said the caller talked about being a team player. they knew i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing.
house now. mj, let s start with this meeting happening right now. it s notable that only allies are joining this call. yeah. that s right. we are about to see president biden turn his attention to this news that absolutely rocked the country last week. of course, the supreme court s decision to overrule roe v. wade. this is a decision that the president himself had referred to as outrageous. what we are about to see moments from now is the president holding a virtual meeting with nine governors across the country. these are governors hailing from states that span the country all the way from the west coast to the east coast. i think we have a list of those governors. if you look there, governors from the states of new york, colorado, illinois. the state of washington. what we expect to see in this meeting is basically a discussion between the president and these governors on what the federal government can do to try to help these individual states as they try to work out wh
are seeing a new round of trouble. more than 300 flights have been canceled today and more than 2,000 are delayed. pilots are protesting around the country. they say they are overworked and understaffed. it s been extremely frustrating. our pilots continuously step up day in and day out to get our passengers safely to their destinations, and the cumulative effects of these fatiguing schedules is adding up. and despite the high gas prices, it will also be a busy weekend on the roads. aaa predicts an all-time record, 42 million americans will hit the road, driving 50 miles or more for independence day. gas prices are dropping slightly, but they re still high. the average price per gallon of gas at $4.84. cnn s pete muntean is at reagan international airport and leyla santiago is at a gas station in miami. airlines have been bracing for this. how are things shaping up so far? reporter: this is the biggest test yet for airlines since they started to recover from the depths