this is on them tonight that we have a lot that we are learning. to top aides to the vice president testified in the doj s criminal investigation on january 6th. and the efforts to overturn our free and fair election. marc short who was chief of staff to then vice president mike pence confirming to cnn that he testified on friday in front of a d.c. grand jury. the new york times in the wall street journal reporting that greg jacobs s general counsel has also testified. and what we are hearing from the january six committee. now maybe an even bigger deal. even more damning. then what they showed us last week. and their final hearing the september. remember they showed us that president of united states, donald trump? the day after supporters attacked the capitol. what does lawmakers in the halls. the police with an inch of their lives. the day after all that. they showed us how he absolutely refused to say the election is over. now the committee showing us more of what donald
former vice president mike pence was asked by a federal grand jury. is this investigation farther along than we thought? president biden says he does not expect the u.s. economy to enter a recession, but what do new numbers from walmart tell us what is really going to happen. and as china gets ready to speak with xi jinping, is china gearing up against taiwan. and for the first time since leaving office does his vision resonate with voters. and new cnn reporting this morning and new revelations that a trooper was on the scene of the uvalde school shooting earlier than previously thought. what the body cam video shows. and did the u.s. wait too long to contain the monkeypox outbreak. dr. fauci is joining us. and will john berman and i be at work tomorrow as the mega millions reaches 900 million. i ll be here. i m not buying a ticket. we start with marc short telling cnn that he testified in front of a grand jury. i can confirm that i received a subpoena from the fe
good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world it is tuesday, july 26th. i m brianna keilar alongside john berman this morning. we re beginning this hour with new cnn reporting that takes us behind the scenes revealing just how close the supreme court came to saving roe v. wade. according to multiple sources chief justice john roberts fought to the bitter end trying to convince his former conservative justices to preserve the constitutional right to abortion. but it was the unprecedented leak of a draft opinion reversing roe that may have have doomed roberts efforts. and the abortion rights drama that testified in april that the draft opinion would soon be published. tensions over the fate of roe were heightened over the course of the leak that diminished whatever chance roberts had to disloch the five votes to overturn the rule. joining us, joan biscupic. joan, tell us how hard he was fighting to bring some folks over to his time. good morning, brianna
though he is not saying much. i can confirm that i received a subpoena and i complied, but under advice of counsel, i can t really say much more than that. that was my only appearance before the grand jury. and there are also reports that second aide greg jacobs was also subpoenaed and test filed. jennifer rogers, how significant is this that two of 9 former top aides have now appeared before a grand jury? well, christine, it is significant for a couple reasons. first of all, they are really important witnesses. one was one of the live witnesses that the january 6 committee brought us and they were very close to the former vice president not testified and they know everything basically that he knows. and we know mike pence was the center of the scheme of former president trump to overturn the election, the linchpin really. so it is important for that reason. and it is also important because it means that the doj investigation is broader than we ve previously known. we k
plus, more evidence of an economic funk. a new data point shows american consumers are getting even more pessimistic, and it s because of inflation. and a split screen day for republicans. trump in washington. so is pence. competing speeches put their rift in the wrestling match for control of the republican party front and center. up first for us, though, a federal grand jury, its highest profile witness, and what it might mean for donald trump and those who helped him try to steal the 2020 election. a former mike pence cheech of staff, marc short, confirm last night here on cnn, that he did receive and did comply with a grand jury subpoena, his first appearance before the washington, d.c., grand jury. marc would not discuss the content of his testimony. but a witness to a long list of episodes including the senior circle of trump allies who pushed a scheme with the home that vice president pence would then refuse to certify the real biden electors. multiple reports say greg