do you think you have a better understanding of him, now that you have written this book? i should note, for people, the book does not start with inauguration day on 2017. it goes back to his family, his roots, his father, fred, who, no offense, sounds like an awful dad to have. do you think you understand him better now, having plunged into his background more for this book? i think there are parts of him that i understand better than before, but the goal had always been, because i come from new york, and i have covered new york politics, and aspects of new york s various systems for a long time, i think the goal had always been to try to show the animating forces. which i understood before, about the world he came from, and what has shaped him, and how he exported that to washington d. c., to the white house, and to the republican party. it lives on in our politics. it was understanding, previously, that i have a richer understanding of certain aspects it s a fantasti
willing to testify before the january 6th committee. what impact if any does testimony could have on his criminal contempt try oh. plus, we will break down what to expect at tomorrow s january 6th hearing. in the next hour, president biden will pass a gun safety law and what it means for the national gun violence epidemic. gun violence activist and father of highland park shooting victim will be with us this morning. meanwhile, it s been one year after a crackdown on protest for freedom in cuba. the crackdowns by the regime continues. we will talk about what is next in cuba s fight for freedom. right now out west, firefighters are working around the clock to contain a wildfire at yosemite national park. we will bring you a live report. report. we begin this morning with the latest on investigation into the january 6th attack on the u.s. capital. attorneys for donald trump stan steve bannon and eight courtroom hearing. he is facing contempt of congress charges for refusi
repeatedly inform it for putin to give it up. we ll have all the details. plus new controversy over a picture that has just surfaced of pennsylvania republican candidate for governor. we ll get into that as well. we re also following a rally in texas. parents of victims of the uvalde shooting taking their message straight to the texas governor greg abbott. and we are following an increasing war of words over the president student debt relief plan, over the after the president blasts republicans over their own loans. just a short time ago, the director of national intelligence is working to review the material seized from trump s former home, and assessing the potential risk to national security if the documents were disclosed. it comes after a committee and it also [inaudible] the parliament of justice offering new insight as to why the fbi seized highly classified documents, on august 8th. the former president took from the white house contain information that coul
in his hush money cover-up pays to terminate the gag order against the former president now that the trial is over, cnn s kara scannell joins us live care. what arguments are trump s attorneys making to the judge? so trump s lawyers have said that since this gag order was put in place just before the trial started, and it was put in place to protect the integrity of the proceedings because trump was prohibited from making any comments on court staff af on the prosecutors, on any witnesses, and on the jury, they re saying that now that the trial is over, the judge should lift this gag order because that was the reason for it to be in place is no longer happening. and what they wrote in the letter as now that the trial is concluded, the concerns articulated by the government and the court do not justify continued restrictions on first amendment rights of president trump, who remains the leading candidate in the 2024 presidential election. and the american people, they re sayi
daniels, he made comments on it president joe biden himself has commented on the verdict and he sight they cite in their letter, even the upcoming presidential debate that you will be moderating is another reason why this gag order should be lifted. so they sent this letter to the judge yesterday. it just became publicly available and we re waiting for the judge s response on this. now, previously a spokesman for the court he said that the order speaks for itself and the language in the order does say it would continue to be in place through the proceedings. exactly when those proceedings are deemed to have end. is the question here, which trump s team is clearly seeking some clarification on? trump has violated this gag order ten times. the judge finding him in criminal content. and finally i am $10,000. so certainly a concern by trump s team that they want to lift this gag order so he doesn t potentially run afoul of violating it. again, now that the campaign is back in full swing, j