as the committee vice chair liz cheney revealed, the panel has alerted the justice department in washington that trump tried to contact a witness in a possible attempt to influence testimony. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re coming to you live from jerusalem to cover president biden s historic trip here. he leaves the white house in just a few hours and arrives here tomorrow. more on this important visit. that s coming up ahead. but first, we want to break down all the new revelations from today s hearing on the january 6th insurrection. what we learned about trump s actions then and now and new accounts of bedlam inside his white house. let s go to our congressional correspondent ryan nobles. he s up on capitol hill. ryan, walk us through all the dramatic evidence that emerged today. yeah, that s right, wolf. the january 6th select committee had a lot to unpack today. they provided spe
what he could possibly have been thinking. but it does give the committee a solid lead to follow up on if they have the investigative will to do so or to refer to the department of justice. well, they did notify the department of justice of potentially what could be a crime, witness tampering. cheney says, jamie, that trump is an adult, not an impr impressionable child, and needs to be held responsible. it was a dramatic statement on her part. she might as well be speaking, though, directly to the attorney general of the united states, right? there s no question about it, that the committee has been keeping the pressure up on the justice department. but i think what s critical here, wolf, is that the committee is doing its job for history, to lay out the case. and as we all know, you hear about prosecutors, it s not