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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doing this? to not contact another witness? or is this about saying to the justice department, you ve got to do something about this? or both? i think it s both, brianna. first of all, you absolutely want to send a deterrent message here if you are the committee. what you nt to let the world know, let anyone who might be inclined to tamper with witnesses know we re taking this seriously, we re sending it up the street to doj. that can be scary and should be scary because witness tampering is a serious crime. there is follow-up investigation that doj ought to do here. on its own in isolation a phone call not answered and not returned is not enough to prosecute anyone for, but there s important follow-up questions that i would have for this staffer. have you ever spoken with donald trump? has he ever reached out since he left office? i know our reporting is that infrequent, but have you ever? has anyone else reached out to you? a lot of times when people try to intimidate witness ors t