also ahead for you, tent city, sleeping on the streets, where leaders are making homelessness a crime, but are their tactics only complicating the problem? welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. we start in our politics lead. and strong reaction to the justice department s historic move. a search warrant executed on the home of a former president. taking boxes of items from donald trump s mar-a-lago home, a source tells cnn. the warrant escalates the justice department s investigation into his handling of presidential documents, including some classified material. with many republicans today questioning why the fbi executed this warrant now. at the time, trump himself was in new york, where a single photo outside trump tower today captures the mixed reaction. look at this. one group with a large sign that reads, arrest trump. while another group carried a flag reading trump 24, save america. on paper, trump blasted the search saying in a statement, ag
parade. president biden signing executive orders, but is it enough from the members of his own party? good evening. i m erin burnett. the january 6th committee says it learned from trump former white house counsel today. pat cipollone spending eight hours behind closed doors with the committee. as you can see weeding that marathon session tonight. we know his testimony was taped and we know the committee says it was important. mr. cipollone did appear voluntarily and answered a whole variety of questions. he did not contradict the testimony of other witnesses and i think we did learn a few things, which we will be rolling out in years to come. have you learned any significant new information from him? i think a few things, yes. the answer is yes and obviously nearly eight hours, that is a lot of time with a crucial witness. that is the january 6th committee. as for the justice department s investigation for that insurrection day, a stark warning from the director,
addressed the media calling the attack an affront to democracy and freedom to speech. the suspect, a man in his 40s, was arrested on the spot, in possession of what nhk is describing as a handmade gun. he made no attempt to flee before being swarmed by the security detail. witnesses say abe was shot from behind, he didn t collapse after the first shot, but did collapse after the second shot before receiving cpr. while controversial figure here in japan at times, abe is an incredibly important figure, not only here in japan, but around the world, and news of this shooting has absolutely sent shock waves around the nation, and the world. hours following this shooting, many have taken to social media to say that they hoped at the time that he would pull through with many calling today s shooting a barbaric act that shakes the root of democracy, saying that whether or not you agree with this political stances, violence to suppress political stances is unacceptable. and i mentione
counsel pat cipollone has firsthand knoll of key events before and during the insurrection. let s go to ryan nobody else. he s up on capitol hill. ryan, more than seven hours, certainly one of the longer witness interviews the committee has conducted. tell our viewers what you re learn. that s right. pat cipollone was with the committee for more than eight hours when you take into account the breaks he took. he sat for more than seven hours of testimony. it does compare to some of the more lengthy testimony that we have seen bear fruit for the committee, such as ivanka trump, jared kushner, those were long depositions, then later used in hearings. also jeffrey rosen, richard donahue, members of the department of justice, they also sat for lengthy interviews that the committee was able to use. this would indicate that cipollone was, at least on some level cooperative. there was some concern he may not answer certain questions because of privilege issues. that may be the kay.
economic legislation through the senate. the inflation redaction act represents what would be the largest investment in energy and climate programs in u.s. history. it would extend health care subsidies and give medicare the power to negotiate prescription drug prices. senator schumer says it will close tax loopholes and reduce the deficit by $300 billion. cnn s sunlen serfaty is on capitol hill with the latest on the deal. reporter: good morning. this is certainly a big breakthrough on capitol hill and democrats and the white house certainly breathing a huge sigh of relief this morning. senator sinema coming out and announcing that she is on board, that she s going to move forward with this bill, meaning that democrats very likely have the votes to get this passed through on capitol hill, and this is a major piece of the biden administration with major investments in climate, energy and health care, as well as tax reform. it was on that issue of tax reform where senator