survive in the way you ve known it if donald trump is gep chosen? it can t survive if he s our nominee. no. i think that he can t be the party nominee. i don t think the party would survive that. i believe in the party. and i believe in what the party can be and what the parry can stand for. and i m not ready to give that up. those of us who believe in republican principles and ideals have a responsibility to try to lead the party back to what it can be. powerful words from republican congresswoman liz cheney on the future of the gop. the january 6 hearings may be on hiatus but the committee is still making news. cheney said there is a chance that the committee to make multiple, multiple criminal referrals of donald trump to the justice department. we ve already learned the next hearing set for later this month will focus on the mob at the capitol including who organized it, and who financed it. good morning and welcome to msnbc live coverage on this monday, july 4th. i m
also tonight, there s growing frustration inside the biden administration right now, as the kremlin refuses to engage with a u.s. offer to exchange brittney griner and paul weelan for a russian arms dealer. i ll speak with a key white house official john kirby. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to cnn s exclusive new reporting on the u.s. justice department s criminal probe into january 6th. federal prosecutors preparing to fight in court to force former white house officials to testify about their conversations with then president trump. our senior crime and justice reporter kaitlan po lance helped break the story here in the situation room. this could be the clearest sign yet that justice department is honing in on trump s efforts to prevent a peaceful transfer of power. walk us through your exclusive reporting. well, wolfe, evan perez and i are learning from several s
prevent a peaceful transfer of power. walk us through your exclusive reporting. well, wolfe, evan perez and i are learning from several sources tonight that the justice department is getting ready to go to court to try to get access to conversations that donald trump had in the white house around january 6th. so the reason this is arising right now is that there were privileged claims or executive privilege claims that were shielding a little bit of what people were hearing from trump in those crucial days, people specifically that we knew have gone to the grand jury before. greg jacob and mark short, two top adviser to mike pence, they testified to the grand jury. we re talking about a possible court fight that could be coming. the justice department is preparing for. that s some legalese and procedural stuff, but this is really a very, very big deal because this puts the investigation squarely in the white house looking at donald trump s statements and actions themselves. it also i
liability. there s some complicated questions here. number one you re dealing with a former president. number two, you re dealing with staff to the white house and the vice president. number three, none of these have been resolved. needless to say when it has come up, it hasn t looked good for the white house. we ll see. we certainly will. is this the clearest sign yet that we ve seen that the former president of the united states may actually be a target of this criminal investigation? well, wolf, that word target is something that usually come into play at the very end of an investigation. we can t say that donald trump is target here. this gives us some sign posting about where we are. it signal that s it is a little early in the investigation. they did get information out of greg jacob and marc short in the grand jury. because this fight would be gearing up, those two witnesses may need to come back later. that there would be things to learn, to help the justice department deci
also tonight, there s growing frustration inside the biden administration right now, as the kremlin refuses to engage with a u.s. offer to exchange brittney griner and paul weelan for a russian arms dealer. i ll speak with a key white house official john kirby. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to cnn s exclusive new reporting on the u.s. justice department s criminal probe into january 6th. federal prosecutors preparing to fight in court to force former white house officials to testify about their conversations with then president trump. our senior crime and justice reporter kaitlan po lance helped break the story here in the situation room. this could be the clearest sign yet that justice department is honing in on trump s efforts to