it s monday july 18th. lawmakers have released a 77-page report outlining a series of missteps by multiple law enforcement agencies who responded to that school shooting at robb elementary school in may, including failures to adhere to their active shooter training and prioritizing the lives of the victims. the scathing report says authorities who responded to the scene displayed, quote, an overall lackadaisical approach. and while investigators say they didn t find evidence of malice, they did find, quote, egregious poor decisionmaking. the majority were from the u.s. border patrol and from the texas department of public safety. one texas state representative says the report contains difficult truths. it s hard to hear that there were multiple systemic failures because we want to tell ourselves that systems work. we want to tell ourselves there s one person we can point our fingers at. we want to tell ourselves that this won t happen again. that s just not true. what happe
again we are still attempting to try to figure out and nail down exactly who this testimony is. don, they have been so careful to not release this information. even high-level staffers, people that have very close relationships with the actual members of the committee themselves, have not been looped in on this because they want to keep this information as quiet as possible. we are working to get it confirmed. when we do, you will be one of the first to know. i was joking around with you about you know something. we are always reporting. you know that. you are always on top of it. ryan, thank you, sir. appreciate it. we are now just hours away from that surprise hearing, january 6th committee has slated for tomorrow. cnn s senior legal analyst and former u.s. attorney doug jones. good evening, senator. i don t know why i said attorney. you are an attorney, aren t you? both. i was going so say. absolutely. both. i was right. i shouldn t have corrected myself. t
according to committee vice chair liz cheney, that s just a fraction of the evidence they have related to possible witness intimidation. this morning the new york times reports that trump s political organization and his allies paid for or promised to cover the legal fees of more than a dozen witnesses called to testify in the january 6th investigation. it does raise for some ethical and legal questions about the possibility of witnesses being pressured and the possibility of trump trying to influence testimony that has a direct bearing on him. joining us now is john wood, he was until last week a senior investigator for the january 6th committee, he was a u.s. attorney during the george w. bush administration, he also clerked for justice clarence thomas and he s now running as an independent candidate for the senate in missouri. thank you so much for being with us, counselor. when you were with the committee, what was your knowledge of how the attorneys for some of these
happening in less than 24 hours, a surprise january 6 hearing is now on the calendar for tomorrow. but the house select committee wasn t even supposed to meet this week. what changed? few details are trickling out. but the panel does say, quote, recently obtained evidence will be presented. and it will receive witness testimony. a lot of intrigue there, especially because we know the committee s been closely poring over new documentary footage that surfaced from a british filmmaker who had close access to former president donald trump and his family before and after january 6. a lot more on that ahead, along with the brand-new developments tonight on one of the central figures of the election interference attempt who pleaded the fifth to the committee 100 times. the feds have seized the phone of former trump election attorney john eastman. put your arms up for me. there is the video there. he is being detained. what it could mean for him and potentially former president t
these talks are happening as russia carried out yet one more brutal attack on civilians in ukraine. european allies accusing russia of a war crime for a missile attack on a shopping mall that killed at least 18 people. many more, poppy, missing this morning. absolutely devastating. we re also here in the united states following major developments in the january 6th investigation. in just a few hours, a surprise hearing on capitol hill. the january 6th committee will hear live testimony from cassidy hutchinson, aide to former white house chief of staff mark meadows and sources tell us that concerns for hutchinson s security are the reason this panel has been so secretive about her appearance. we just learned about it late yesterday. let s begin this hour with cnn national correspondent kristen holmes. good morning. what more can you tell us about the scope of hitchutchinson s testimony today, she already testified behind closed doors, but clearly they want more answers in