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
oath keepers. so january 6th committee members have made claims that they can link members of trump s inner circle to the oath keepers. and new this morning the justice department firing back at steve bannon s sudden about face that he s willing to testify before the january 6th committee just days before his contempt trial begins. trump is waiving executive privilege as he said as bannon has said and waiving should certainly be used loosely here, perhaps in quotation marks so that bannon can testify, but the doj says that doesn t matter even one bit. more on that in a moment. experts obviously believe that never applied in the first place. we do begin with sunlen serfaty who is on capitol hill with more on tomorrow s big hearing. what are we expecting? reporter: certainly a big week up here on capitol hill with two big hearings from the january 6th committee starting with tomorrow. now, tomorrow s hearing will be largely focused on the mob who participated, how did
we are learning the fbi seized the cellphone of a republican congressman in relation to the january 6th investigation. more on that in a moment. but first, just in, the former president is about to be deposed. sometime in the next few hours donald trump will face prosecutors from the new york attorney general s office. this is the culmination of a civil investigation into the trump organization s finances that has lasted for more than three years. investigators are probing whether the trump organization used false or misleading asset valuations in its financial statements to obtain loans, insurance benefits, also tax benefits. kara scannell who has been all over this story for years joins us now. great to see you. so the former president being deposed. what can we expect today? it s a big day and a long time coming. sources tell us that donald trump will be deposed today, will face off with the lawyers from the new york attorney general s office and, you know, this is som
he won t get it unless there ever comes a day when he is charged. but he does have something. exactly. he does have what we call a search warrant. does he have a copy? yes. can he release it? yes. however, there s fairly limited information in this document. it s one page. this is it, this is a sample of it. it tells you where is to be searched, mar-a-lago, what are they looking for. it will say things like documents, papers, computers, it won t guess into specificity usually, who is the judge and when does the fbi have to conduct the search warrant by. however, sometimes there is an attachment to this and that can tell you here are the crimes that prosecutors allege may have been committed. so donald trump does have that document, but it will not give chapter and verse. another important document that donald trump has will answer the question of what did the fbi take from mar-a-lago. now, this is called a return. it s basically an invoice. it s a receipt. the fbi will sa
and new day continues right now. so the hearing the january 6th committee has been building up to tonight in primetime. i m john berman, brianna is off, chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is here. they really have been building up to this. we have a huge day ahead of us. people are waiting to see what are they going to say about that black hole of time of what happened on january 6th in the oval office. and they say they have new information. the focus is going to be the 187 minutes during which former president donald trump was at the white house and this mob of largely trump supporters storming the u.s. capitol. the committee will present a minute by minute account of what they call donald trump s dereliction of duty. what he did not do despite pleas from his aides, allies, his family. you are going to hear that phrase dereliction of duty we expect quite a bit. tonight is also going to feature never before seen outtakes of this moment where former pre