good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it s thursday, july 14th and i m brianna keilar with john berman. this morning new clues surrounding the pending january 6th witness who donald trump tried to contact. it s an allegation that has been referred to the justice department, not formally, but it s been sent up the chain there. first on cnn, sources say trump tried to call a member of the white house support staff who was in talks with the january 6th committee. that is new. the exact identity still unknown at this point. the witness, though, did not pick up when trump called. this was not someone that trump would routinely communicate with. and this came after cassidy hutchinson s explosive testimony. the alarmed witness contacted an attorney. this is january 6th committee member elaine luria the congresswoman speaking to cnn. we take seriously the safety of any witnesses, anyone who comes forward to the committee and like weiise their privacy. in
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double-layered button downed shirt aficionado, the leaked audio is just a few days before the 2020 presidential election. rewind a little bit and remember with me, a couple of months earlier, steve bannon had been arrested on charges that he had been bilking unsuspecting donors out of their money by telling them theirct donations were goi toward building a wall on the southern border when in fact, the money was going to steve bannon s pockets. bans was arrested on this luxury yacht off the coast of connecticut,ry belonging to an exiled chinese billionaire kind after patrongi of bannon. bannon out on bail is at a meeting with a bunch of the chinese billionaire friends, fine crew of folks who work on a sprawling online network peddling far right disinformation and an activist meeting a few days before the presidential election, bannon is filling themes in on how electi night is going to go down. what trump s gonna do is just declare victory, right? he s gonna declare victory.
the lawyer alerted the committee which in turn alerted the justice department. sources tell cnn that the person was concerned because they are not someone who routinely communicated with the former president. when asked to respond, trump s spokesman pointed to a tweet criticizing congresswoman liz cheney. the committee is not ruling out future hearings later this summer. the chairman pointed to that surprise june 28th hearing with cassidy hutchinson saying quote something could come up. another member of the committee said additional hearings would quote depend on where the evidence takes us, and there was chatter last night there may be a few more set for august. the hearing that is set one week from today will focus on donald trump s actions or lack thereof, while the attack was under way. what many have called a dereliction of duty. joining us now, senior reporter for insider, great to see you again this morning, it feels like every hearing has outdone itself with surpri
move in the middle east this morning. he began a meeting with the prime minister of israel just a few moments ago. we re following that. a news conference is set to begin in about an hour. we ll be monitoring. of course, all of this happening ahead of tomorrow s unprecedented, direct flight to saudi arabia. good morning. a lot to cover this morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, july 14th. joe is off. later this hour, we ll speak with capitol police sergeant gonell, who was forced to retire after the injuries he sustained by the pro-trump mob on january 6th. he s testified before the committee. on tuesday, he embraced one of the rioters and accepted his apology. ahead this morning, former oath keeper spokesman jason van tatenhove, who testified before the committee on tuesday, will also be our guest. he broke from the group in 2017 and is now speaking out about why. willie. a lot to get to this morning. let s begin with the latest on the january 6th investigat