top the hour here on your monday. i m erica hill. and i m jim sciutto. nice to be with erica. right now president biden is in mexico as he prepares to meet face-to-face with the mexico president obrador later today in what is a big week for u.s./mexico ties. biden made his first visit to the u.s. southern border on sunday. enormous political implications here. we met with border officials in el paso, texas. while highlighting the disturbing rise not just in migrants but in u.s. fentanyl deaths. also we are following what is happening in brazil. shades of the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol after false claims of a stolen election. sounds familiar. supporters of brazil s jair bolsonaro smashing windows and clashing with police and breaking into congress and the presidential palace and the supreme court. hundreds have been arrested. meantime, in washington this morning with kevin mccarthy fin finally locking up the house speakership, gop members meeting to select thei
this legislation provides $369 billion in new climate spending, which the white house says should help cut u.s. green there s house emissions by half by the end of this decade. the bill includes new initiatives on corporate taxes and drug price controls. now, if it becomes law, it will join a host of major legislative achievements for the president ahead of the midterms, including bipartisan investment in the country s infrastructure and manufacturing sectors. cnn joe johns is in eastern kentucky following the president. joe, what should we expect to hear from the president? reporter: well, you know, he is here, victor, in his role as consoler in chief, but if his previous remarks today were any indication, he s also promising that the government is going to stick around and help the people of eastern kentucky see this through to the other side. they ve got quite a lot of work to do. the president is now expected to get a tour of some of the damage that we saw here in easte
witnesses who said they were pressured by people close to the ex-president to, quote, do the right thing, be loyal to donald trump, reminding them trump would be paying close to attention to their words. the committee suggests it has many other examples of witness tampering, which is of course a very serious crime. is that what is happening here? and will the doj be looking into this? they believe they could affect testimony of witnesses before the committee. oits a very serious issue, and i imagine the department of justice would be very interested in and take that seriously as well. the two investigations going on, congressional and criminal, are showing signs of clashing again. there s friction over access to transcripts of interviews the committee conducted that the justice department wants. the new york times reporting federal prosecutors were just as surprised by hutchinson s testimony this week as anyone else watching and left feeling blindsided. but at the same
crime? according to three cnn sources t former aide to then white house chief of staff mark meadows told the panel she was contacted by someone in the trump camp attempting to influence her testimony. remember those messages vice chair liz cheney read aloud at tuesday s hearing alluding to possible witness intimidation. the gop congresswoman didn t name names but she relayed accounts of two unidentified witnesses who said they were pressured by people close to the ex-president to, quote, do the right thing, be loyal to donald trump, reminding them trump would be paying close to attention to their words. the committee suggests it has many other examples of witness tampering, which is of course a very serious crime. is that what is happening here? and will the doj be looking into this? they believe they could affect testimony of witnesses before the committee. oits a very serious issue, and i imagine the department of justice would be very interested in and take that seriousl
and costly holiday weekend for july 4th travelers. just how much will drivers have to pay at the pump? good morning to viewers here in the united states and all around the world, it is friday, july 1st. i m john berman with brianna keilar. someone within the trump orbit tried to influence the testimony of cassidy hutchinson. three sources tell cnn that is what hutchinson told the january 6th committee. she was one of the two witnesses who received threatening messages shown at this week s hearing. committee vice chair liz cheney suggested that was only a fraction of the evidence they have related to what she called possible witness intimidation. and the new york times is reporting 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. this is raising more ethical and legal questions about witnesses being pressured and the possibility of trump try