subpoenaed to the grand jury two people from the white house counsel s office including the white house counsel himself, but what is standing in the way of getting all of the information that prosecutors want are claims that donald trump is trying to make about executive privilege where he s trying to protect statements that were made to him or that he said on these crucial days that are being investigated. so those claims of executive privilege, that s potentially leading to a court fight where the justice department will try to get access to those statements through these witnesses and that s what these talks are about, lining up the justice department team and trump s team, talking to one another, potentially they could be pitted against each other if this does go to court, but the big picture here is that criminal prosecutors right now are definitely interested in doing fact-finding and locking down what they can about what was said in the white house either by trump or t
following the headlines. natasha, first to you. this is a change from the white house. the white house is pushing back very hard on what it says is inf en inflammatory behavior by china. they said please don t up the ante here. now they re making public the fact that they have in fact summoned the chinese ambassador to the u.s. to the white house to essentially give him a dressing down about china s provocations against taiwan in recent days. they had said numerous times that they expected that china would have some kind of reaction to this visit by pelosi, which was extremely offensive to the chinese. but the white house has been, you know, kind of willing to respond in a meaningful way now to the chinese activities that we have seen around taiwan, which are really escalatory and are the most that we have seen in decades. so what the white house is saying now is that they re reiterating to the chinese that this is unacceptable, that the u.s. position on taiwan has not chan
issues. and here in wyoming, you know, we have same-day registration. it is the right of people to register whatever party they want to register as. and my message is one for all wyomingites, i represent every single person in this state and i believe that there are thousands and thousands across our state that fundamentally understand why it is so important to have somebody that will abide by oath of office. there might be democrats that would vote for cheney. yeah. remarkable. you said men are running the world and it is not going well. do you think those in the u.s. are ready for women to run things? sure. i think that one of the things that have been very moving for me over the course of the last year and ha half has been the reaction of women and not just the women who have testified, although we ve seen the incredible bravery of people like cassidy hutchinson and sarah matthews and ruby freeman and shay moss and carolyn edwards. it takes real bravery to stand
angeles. and new day continues and new day continues right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the worldment of it s friday, july 15th and i m brianna keilar with john berman this morning. the secret service denies doing anything malicious after a government watchdog report claimed the agency erased text messages from january 5th and january 6th and that it did so after oversight investigators had requested them. the secret service claims any lost data was due to a planned tech migration and that the texts investigators wanted were not among those that disappeared. it s the latest example, though, of the agency assigned to protect the president coming under scrutiny for its actions on january 6th. joining me now is donald trump s former acting white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney. he later served as special envoy to northern ireland but resigned from the post following the capitol attack. thank you so
right now more than 85 million americans are under excessive heat warnings and advisories and in the northeast, the heat forced organizers of the boston triathalon to postpone the event. new york city s triathalon will go forward as scheduled tomorrow but there will be changes to ensure safety of participants. cnn sdoval is in new york with more on how the city is trying to keep people cool. reporter: you may say it is july, it is supposed to be hot. but meteorologists are saying by the time we finally get some relief here in new york possibly next week, new yorkers will have experienced temperatures above 90 degrees for seven straight days. the last time that was experienced was back in 2013. the national weather service predicting the dangerous july heat wave is far from subsiding. after blistering parts of the nation s south this week, forecasters expect temperatures in the northeast will soar above normal for this time of year. i sat outside here until ten to 4:00 thi