the headlines and we are talking in big letters. this is the big font spelling out the new possible legal jeopardy the former president trump finds himself in this morning. cassidy hutchinson a once loyal and trusted insider painting a damning portrait of a former president that was unhinged before and during the capitol attack. she describes a volatile and irate president who knew members of the crowd at his rally were armed and he still wanted them to march to the capitol. i was in the vicinity of a conversation where i overheard the president say something to the effect of, you know, i don t effing care that they have weapons. they re not here to hurt me. take the effing mags away. let my people in, they can march the capitol from here. this morning you will hear from an array of attorneys including several former federal prosecutors who will explain the significance of that testimony. a kogd to hutchinson former white house counsel pat cipollone warned about the crimi
captions by vitac www.vitac.com that s it for us. let s hand it over to laura coates and cnn tonight. laura? anderson, thank you so much. i m laura coates and this is cnn tonight. look, i ve got to get right to it. i know we re supposed to think about politics and other notions today. but i ve got to tell you about alex jones because i ve been thinking about it all day since i heard and watched that testimony. alex jones spent so many years trying to get people to believe in his conspiracy theories, to pretend that sandy hook, the tragedy never even happened, that the precious lives that were lost, they somehow never even existed. he even said at one point that the parents were actors. obviously that s not only cruel, it s absurd because it did happen. and they obviously existed. well, you know, there might have been a kind of poetic justice that occurred today because something else he claimed never existed, text messages and communications about sandy hook. well
with over to laura coates, anderson, i m laura coats and this is cnn tonight. and look, i gotta get right to it i know we re supposed to think about politics and other notions today, but i gotta tell you about alex jones because i ve been thinking about it all day since i heard and watched that testimony. alex jones spent so many years trying to get people to believe in his conspiracy theories to pretend that sandy hook the tragedy never even happened and the precious lives that were lost, they somehow never even existed. he even said at one point that the parents were actors. obviously, that s not even cruel, it s absurd. because it did happen. and they obviously existed. well you know, there might have been a kind of poetic justice that occurred today then. because something else he claims never existed, text messages, communications about sandy hook. well it turns out they also exist. the attorney for the parents of one victims suing alex jones for damages over his defamat
expecting their fourth child. teigen making the emotional announcement on her instagram page saying the last four years have been a blur of emotions and she breathes a sigh of relief every day she hears a heart beet. of course, this announcement comes nearly two years after she suffered a pregnancy loss at 20 weeks of their third child. so congratulations to them. and new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it s thursday, august 4th, i m brianna keilar with john avalon in for john berman. good morning. good morning. so this morning the new cnn reporting suggests the criminal investigation into the january 6th insurrection is getting ever closer to donald trump himself. sources say patrick philbin former deputy white house counsel has been subpoenaed by the department of justice. that comes on the heels of his former boss, white house counsel pat cipollone, also being served with a grand jury subpoena. as one of the
lost data was due to a planned tech migration and that the texts investigators wanted were not actually among those that disappeared. let s bring in former federal prosecutor and lead counsel in the first trump impeachment trial daniel goldman, he is now running for congress in new york. daniel, what do you see here? what we know is that a homeland security inspector general asked for these text messages and now we are learning from this homeland security inspector general, it s a letter from this person, saying that they were destroyed according to them after this request. what does that tell you? well, first of all, let s remember these letters are not written lightly to congress. i am sure that the inspector general notified the secret service that they would have to send this letter if they did not get better compliance and they didn t, but more importantly and to the point, there are a lot of questions that this raises. they claim that it was a phone migration system