addition to what congresswoman cheney said, a person with knowledge of the investigation has told me that the january 6th committee has information from multiple sources with firsthand knowledge, so it s more than one place and that they describe what president trump was saying, what he was doing and maybe most importantly what he was not doing during the riot. the source said, john, quote. there s a collection of people with relevant information. so translation, firsthand indicates someone with direct contact or none. it could be someone who was in the room, someone who is on the phone, but bottom line the committee, john, has broken through trump s wall. so if they have broken through the wall, james, who might some of these people be, the star witnesses, full. there s one very public who we know and one witness who has given a deposition to the
congresswoman marjorie taylor greene s personal twitter account is gone. this is what it rookz like when you visit that page. twitter says it permanently suspended the republican congresswoman s account for repeatedly violating its drives misinformation policy. the final tweet before the ban. the congresswoman falsely suggesting deaths linked to coronavirus vaccines. now greene s official congressional account is still up and running. let s get the latest from cnn s doney o sullivan who joins us. we ve talked about this before. how did twitter decide, okay, she s reached the like? yeah, john, to take a step back from all of this, it is pretty remarkable to have a signature member of congress that a company has to find themselves in the position where somebody is so often breaking their rules and sharing their misinformation whether it s about the election or covid-19 that they have to take this step. twitter has this kind of strike policy where they will allow
that s the issue. that is the issue. margaret, when you hear liz cheney talk about just calmly and bluntly we have firsthand witnesses, firsthand witnesses of what donald trump was doing and more importantly what he was not doing. lauren mentioned kevin mccarthy and his letter at the top of the program. do you think he had a sense here in that he had a chance to have a real bipartisan committee. he blew it up. liz cheney and adam kinzinger joined it, the committee surprised a lot of people by methodically going about its work and having its case and you don t have a distraction of some trump ally blowing it up because kevin mccarthy walked away. john, i think mccarthy a year ago made a calculated decision that it was a political imperative for him to stick with donald trump on this and not go his own way and he stuck by that for better or for worse, both politically and substanttively.
block certification of the to 20 election result. the committee investigating the insurrection will hold public hearings soon and they have firsthand knowledge of then president trump s actions during the siege on the capitol. the committee s vice chair liz cheney gave this preview sunday. the committee has firsthand testimony now that he was sitting in the dining room next to the oval office watching the attack on television as the assault on the capitol occurred. we know members of his family, we know his daughter, firsthand testimony that his daughter ivanka went in at least twice to ask him to please stop this violence. cnn s special correspondent jamie gangel is joining with us more details. liz cheney says the committee has firsthand knowledge of what the former president was doing. walk us through what we know. so, first of all, this is bad news for donald trump because firsthand testimony is someone in the rom, firsthand. now what we ve learned is in