you can see from their signs what they re protesting here are the very, very unpopular republican proposals to cut medicare and cut social security. and what mike wallers constituents are doing here tracks with the advice from the new guide. what to do if you have a new republican member of congress. step one, focus on their unpopular ideas and relentlessly tie them to their least appealing ideas or controversies. the guide goes onto say you should use every opportunity to get your member of congress on the record on those issues. and true to form just as the indivisible guide predicted in response to that protest congressman had to go on the record saying he opposes any cuts to social security and medicare. there it is in black and white. they got him on the record. congressman lawler on the record.
new laws that coup proof the u.s. against future maga-style tricks, tactics or outright insurrections. if you re saying, gosh, ari, that sounds new, if there s going to be a big new law why didn t i hear about it? that was actually part of the strategy, which is pretty interesting. our top story is the new transcripts that keep dropping. five more in the past hour. they show the rift between the stone wallers, eastman, clark, stone, no pun intended, and some of those who cooperated, including what may prove to be damning testimony from witnesses in any future criminal trials. take hutchinson who s now blowing the whistle on a trump lawyer who coached her to exploit the fact that the committee doesn t know what you can and can t recall. this is what she says the lawyer said. so we want to be able to use that as much as we can, unless you really, really remember something clearly. the lawyer goes on to tell her, we re taking care of you.
together. we re gathering documentary evidence. we ve already acinformationed that we had to pursue certain phone records. as a way, frankly, of being able to determine who s in touch with whom and when and test whether we re getting truthful testimony or not but also to lead us to new witnesses. let me ask you a bit more there because you mentioned both of these people, and it appears there s two types of people you re talking to. the public stone wallers like steve bannon like you just said. mike schwartz, you just mentioned. the stone wallers want to run out the clock. do you think you ll get enough from the testifiers to show what really happened? i do because, frankly, we re getting a lot of cooperation, and there are multiple sources sometimes for the same important fax. not always but sometimes. indeed, one of the reasons the court of appeals ruled the way it did in the records case is that for some of those records there may not be any other
of these people, and it appears there s two types of people you re talking to. the public stone wallers like steve bannon like you just said. the private testifiers like mike schwartz, you just mentioned. the stone wallers want to run out the clock. do you think you ll get enough from the testifiers to show what really happened? i do because, frankly, we re getting a lot of cooperation, and there are multiple sources sometimes for the same important fax. not always but sometimes. indeed, one of the reasons the court of appeals ruled the way it did in the records case is that for some of those records there may not be any other source, and that may be true for a great many of them. but we are approaching the investigation from many different perspectives. i do think we are putting the pieces together. is it possible because some people like steve bannon would rather go to jail, rather thumb their nose at the law than help
barbara walters, she s retiring. the legendary broadcaster is expected to announce her retirement today on the show she yesated back in 1977. that would be the view. walters began her on-air career on 1961 on nbc news the today show, where she would later become the first woman to co-host in 1974. two years later nbc hired her away to co-anchor abc word news tonight at an unprecedented salary at the time of $1 million a year him wallers, 83-years-old, has been with abc ever since. she s going to announce her retirement as i said on the view. we expect her to announce she will retire in 2014 and she will be sorely missed. with a pioneer, one of my idols, actually. next in the newsroom, your kids may love drinking coke. but the soda giant is vowing some major changes involving that soft drink. we ll tell you about i. [ male announcer ] when gloria and her financial advisor