somewhere enjoying himself in the sun somewhere. happening now, in the newsroom, former white house counsel, pat cipollone spending seven hours with a january 6 committee, what we are learning about his testimony and how it could shape future hearings. the biden administration is celebrating a better than expected jobs report that economists say that could spell bad news for the effort to tamp down inflation. plus, deal or no deal. you on my skier to walk away from his bid to buy twitter, the company s board has to say about that. newsroom starts right now. a very good morning to you, it is saturday, july 9, and we are so happy to be with you this morning. up first, a key witness testifying before the january 6 committee, for more than seven hours. three different sources familiar with pat cipollone s testimony, describing it as very important, and extremely helpful. pat cipollone remember was among the handful of people who spent time with then-president trump as the
In gaza. What was the evidence behind israels claims that hamas was in the building. We have new information and were going to take you inside of the meeting between the a. P. And the israeli ambassador to the u. S. With reps from both sides coming up. Plus Propublica Bombshell about the taxes of american billionaires, but what about the course of the information. Were going to get into the ethic debate with a top editor from propublica, coming up. But first gagging the news media. There is a big meeting coming you on monday at the Justice Department and it effects all of us because it is about the first amendment. For several weeks weve learned how the trump era doj spied on the press and pursued leakers to do so. First we learned about the secret seizing of Phone Records from reporters and then the gag orders against the New York Times and cnn. And now there are still so many questions out there. Recenttories have also shown how democrats on capitol hill were also targeted by trumps
has fallen short. dan joins me from london. appreciate it. so dan, this comes down absolutely, yeah, this is fast turning into sorry, go ahead. this comes down to a private contractor. they were tasked with providing security for the games, so what s the concern now? where did they fall short? well, they basically haven t been able to guarantee the number of guards that they were contracted to provide at various different olympic sites. we re going to turn up on time. we haven t quite drilled down to the bottom of exactly why that is but we re told it s something to do with scheduling problems with software problems, basically that they can t insure that the people they trained will turn up at the right place or that the people have the right accreditation or can get to one place or another. logistical problems bike this private security firm who last wednesday told the government, look, we can t fulfill the contract of supplying 10,000 guards. you re going to help