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count act. the first official legislative response to donald trump s attempt to overturn the legal and legitimate win. reporter: this is the law that governs how that happens on the day of congressional certification when donald trump tried to pressure mike pence to disregard state certified electoral results. something that constitutional experts would be illegal but there s am big ewety in the law and senators are saying they re close to change how the law actually governs that process on that day. one of the issues they agreed on is to make it crystal clear the vice president s role is ceremonial. he cannot disregard the state s election results but there are other issues in discussion, including making it harder to make it senators and house members to object and force votes how to disregard the results come out, all of which there s fresh optimism after the discussions that s have gone on for months that the deal could happen and announced in the senate next week ....
attempts. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, july 21st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. we begin with tonight s eighth hearing from the house january 6th committee investigating the attack on the capitol. it is set for 8:00 p.m. eastern and is expected to last about two hours. the committee says it is likely to be the final of this round of hearings. but more are likely to be scheduled around the release of two reports later this year. the committee chair bennie thompson will lead the hearing and he will do so remotely after testing positive for covid on tuesday. the hearing will focus on what the committee calls a former president trump s dereliction of duty. and a minute by minute account of what happened inside the white house between trump s rally at the ellipse and his tweet finally telling the capitol rioters to go home. the washington post is reporting this morning that the public could see outtakes from trump s janu ....
texas state senator and get his reaction. it s sunday, july 10th. thank you for waking up with us. president biden is defending his decision to visit saudi arabia when he travels to the middle east this week against criticism and controversy surrounding that trip. the president will meet with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman but, remember, as a candidate for president biden vowed to make saudi arabia a pariah. now, as president, he says his visit to the country is critical to u.s. security. in his op-ed in the washington post the president also touched on saudi arabia s role in dealing with a spike in energy prices. he writes, quote, today saudi arabia has helped to restore unity among the six countries of gulf cooperation council, has fully supported the truce in yemen and is working with my experts to help stabilize markets with other opec producers. the president s trip has come under criticism because of saudi arabia s role in the killing of journalist j ....
to deliver that mandate in person was not just because i wanted to do so, but because i felt it was my job, my duty, my obligation to you to continue to do what we promised in 2019. johnson is vowing to stay on until conservatives pick a new leader. the brash prime minister desperately tried to stay in power but dozens of his top ministers resigned in the last 48 hours, calling on him to step down. johnson survived a no confidence vote last month over the revelation that there were parties being held at downing street during covid lockdowns. there were also recent revelations that johnson knew about sexual misconduct allegations against the conserve thetive lawmaker before he promoted him. at the center of the controversies that brought him down, concerns over the prime minister s integrity. let s take you now to 10 downing street in london with cnn s north carolina robertson. he s got breaking news. nick, you were there when johnson announced that he was resigning. h ....
white house officials zeroing in on efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and with us now, state attorney from palm beach county, dave air renburg. as we learn that the talks are happening, executive privilege featuring prominently here, remind us what would not be covered protected by executive privilege? executive privilege is designed to protect the republic, not the president. and so it should not apply to a former president, but there is it some ambiguity. but it is not to cover up a crime. especially a crime involving the attempted overthrow of the united states government. but you will see that some people in trump world will invoke it and trump will certainly invoke it because he wants to delay things. he can essentially win by losing in the courts if he can delay matters long enough. and so that is why the department of justice is being proactive and aggressive to try to get out front and try to limit the ability of trump world to claim this executive privil ....