familiar with his testimony. on tuesday, cassidy luchinson testified he told and lunged add at secret service member when he have told he couldn t go to the capitol himself. what more committee vice chair liz cheney announced they were asking their reasons regularly if anyone was trying to influence testimony and cheney laid out two witnesses said yes. they received calls from someone they knew trying to impact their testimony. one of these people on the receiving end was cassidy hutchinson. we are able to report this is confirming a punch bowl news story yesterday. she s now the star witness who revealed shocking details of complacency on january 6th despite the violence today. the legal risk for trump related to january 6th. more about the calls. the committee has not said who the calls came from with one going to hutchinson. here is one of the quotes, the witness said the caller talked about being a team player. they knew i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing.
15. as of now it s 15. that could change if what we expect to happen happens next week. jim. the x law shorter than that. a shorter time like six weeks. how does that affect thing sns. that temporary restraining order is only in place until july 12th. some abortion clinics were able to resume those procedures, at least for now. that s put some especially since attorney general paxton has put district attorneys in a difficult position. one said he s not moved forward with prosecuting any of these cases because of the tro that s in place but after that expires, then he office will have to make some very difficult decisions. he will be balancing what he legally has to do and also what he is morally obligated to do as well. ultimately, it will be up to his discretion to decide whether or not cases get prosecuted but
trump does read transcript of these hearings. this is obviously a very serious accusation and we re learning to learn more about what hutchinson interactions with r before she agreed to reveal what she knew. cheney did promise that the committee would revisit this sdpl. what is the law behind this? political implications as well. she writes the five minute fix newsletter for the post. if i can begin you as lawyer. so some of the things we hear here don t sound right. what is the legal standard to determine that there was illegal witness tampering? the law is very clear on this, jim. anyone who attempts to, corruptly persuade another person to prevent influence or delay their testimony in is
the developments we have seen so far and the latest developments, do you see a potential connection there on what the focus of the investigation from the doj might be? it s really hard to say, jim because congress and the justice department are such vastly different entities that serve different purposes in the world. congress is pa public, politica en entity. the justice department does most of its work in secret. it s hard to say whether the things are connected at all. they are all happening at the same time and bubbling up to the surface. it s hard the say the justice department doesn t read the same newspaper as we do. at the end of the day they are talking to similar people. it just takes longer. we ll see what comes out. amber, the process from the january 6th committee is a fundamentally political one. it s a congressional investigation and we have big political date coming up in four months time. it s midterm elections when we