good morning, everyone, and welcome to your new day. i m amara walker. and i m phil mattingly. and today all eyes are on capitol hill after days of deal-making. democrats get ready to vote on a critical part of president biden s economic agenagenda. we ll tell you what s in the bill and what it means for millions of americans. plus it was a week of twists and turns in the courtroom. now a jury has ordered conspiracy theorist alex jones to pay up to the parents of a sandy hook shooting victim. and war of words. tensions heat up between the u.s. and china after nancy pelosi s trip to taiwan. antony blinken s warning it could have major consequences. good morning and welcome to your new day. it s august 6th. amara, we did it last hour. i ll do it again because we re not sitting next to each other. what s the status? three of the four kids are awake. we re on track to an early start. i have access to all the cameras, and i am doing my best not to check because i don t
forward. what do republicans have to say? the republicans offered a bit of a muted response. many not defending donald trump s actions, not yet criticizing what the justice department is doing, taking a wait and see approach. one of those republicans, lindsey graham of south carolina, who told me earlier today that he does not think that trump should be prosecuted. that s just ridiculous for me to comment over what some grand jury may be looking at. i don t see anything to prosecute him over. now, graham himself has come under scrutiny for phone calls he made to the georgia secretary of state in the aftermath of the november 2020 elections. the georgia prosecutor looking into donald trump s actions, has asked for graham to come before the grand jury and testify there. graham himself has said that he will not do that, he s trying to fight that subpoena. nevertheless, you re hearing some defense from republicans but most are saying they re going to take a wait and see a
this is a cnn exclusive. the former president s lawyer is now in direct talks with the justice department for the first time, talks about his attempts to use executive privilege from testifying about their conversations with him while he was president. and we know that pat cipollone and his deputy, patrick filament has both been subpoenaed this week. this may be all about preventing witnesses like don from testifying about everything that they know and you ve got to wonder why the former president is so determined to keep under wraps, when is it? there is more. sources telling cnn that trump s own attorneys are warning him that there could be indictments on the horizon. he is apparently skeptical, and whether they really believe he ll face criminal charges. a lot more to come about who the former president still talking to, even though some of his own advisers are warning him not to talk to those people. he is doing it anyway. in the face of all of that there is this warnin
january 6th. an omnipresent person there. he was involved or present during many of the moments that cassidy hutchison described in her testimony, including this moment. i saw mr. cipollone right before i walked out that morning, and he said something to the effect of, please make sure we don t go up to the capitol, cassidy. keep in touch with me. we re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. manu raju is outfront live on capitol hill. you heard her recount her conversation with pat cipollone. so this subpoena, obviously significant. what are you learning about it? reporter: this subpoena sent today, demanding that he appear before this committee, saying that they have spoken to him in an informal basis, acknowledging that it did happen on april 13th, but now wanting his testimony, especially in light of all the new information that s come out. one of the big things that has come out through the course of these hearings and th
i know there s conflicting information hydration beyond the hype. about dupuytren s contracture. i thought i couldn t get treatment yet? well, people may think that their contracture has to be severe to be treated, but it doesn t. if you can t lay your hand flat on the table, talk to a hand specialist. but what if i don t want surgery? well, then you should find a hand specialist certified to offer nonsurgical treatments. what s the next step? everyone else was working to visit findahandspecialist.com today to get started. get congress back in the session, what did president trump do? at 601, just one minute after the citywide curfew went into effect, he posted his last tweet of the day. after officers engaged in multiple hours of hand to hand combat and over 100 of them sustaining injuries, president tweet president trump tweeted at 601 and justified the violence as a natural response to the election. he said quote, these are the things in events that happened when a sacred