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
pull them back in ways, he has revealed himself in any number of cases as a staunch conservative i think in this term. and the epa s case is one of those many examples. how does the how does the education department administer student loans? how does osha deal with covid? how does the securities and exchange commission enforce fraud regulations? all of that is implicated by the decision yesterday. and the potential flight between merrick garland and states which is going to come to a head any day now about how to regulate medicated abortion. unless the congress exp explicitly says it the supreme court is saying it isn t necessarily doable by these agencies. congress doesn t explicitly say anything anymore. they can t get anything any more. now that it s in the hands of the highly functioning congress everything will be fine. thank you for being with us. signs of a growing resistance against russian occupiers in southern ukraine. we have new cnn reporting next.