we have a lot for you this hour, and we re following several major stories. president biden is about to sign a pact act, a major piece of legislation aim at expanding resources and benefits for millions of benefits exposed to those burn pits and other toxic substances. we ll take you live to the white house in just a moment for the signing. and it is just an extraordinary legal week for former president donald trump as he faces several major investigations. right now former president trump is sitting for a deposition with the new york attorney general s office, and this is in connection with a civil investigation into his businesses finances. it does come just two days after the fbi search his florida home known as mar-a-lago. the justice department was concerned trump had not returned sensitive documents. we have former details about how the president may frame his defense. let s begin this morning at the white house where president joe biden is about to sign that extra
experienced the family members of the people who experienced those toxins including as you spoke to rosie torres about the widow and daughter of heath robinson who was a combat medic who died of a rare form of lung cancer. they walked the halls of congress trying to make this happen and those two are going to be introducing president biden before he signs this today. yeah. we will bring those remarks, john, to everyone live because this was a 13-year fight, a battle just to get in the doors, into the offices of members of congress to make this happen. thank you. president trump is sitting for a deposition with the new york s a.g. office. k kara skinnell, and this could be a long time coming and what questions the president will
testimony that trump gives today as part of their investigation. the stakes here are very high. as you noted, this has been an extraordinary legal week with the fbi executing a search warrant in mar-a-lago on monday and then an appeals court saying the house ways and means committee can receive the former president s taxes and he s been trying to shield those taxes from anyone trying to be the former president to not release them after being elected? a big week and a lot of investigations that he s facing with the house january 6th investigation as well as the justice department s investigation into the activities around january 6th and efforts to interfere in the transfer of power. alex? poppy? six different probes as we just showed the viewers. kara, thank you for the details on this one. the fbi s search of mar-a-lago came after authorities believed the former president or his team had not returned documents that they had requested or other materials that were the property of th
cnn s kara skinnell spoke exclusively with alvin brad. tell us, what did he tell you? yeah, pam, so i spoke with alvin brad who will take over office on january 1st. now we still have about two weeks here and waiting to see if the current district attorney cy vance jr. will make any kinds of announcements on this ongoing investigation. but brad will take over january 1st. he ll get briefed by the staff on this. and from my interview with him he said he has no plans to disrupt this ongoing investigation. he s had two top prosecutors who have been working on the case to stay on. one of them, according to sources, has agreed to stay. he worked on the case from the beginning. he is involved in the courtroom presentations, and he argued it up to the supreme court. brad also said that he will get briefed on this. he ll bring his own experience as a former federal prosecutor to bear in this investigation. and he said he may even add attorneys to the team if he
failings. mueller never brought charges against anyone in trump s orbit for clueding with the russians to influence the election. remains to be seen if mueller found any direct evidence of collusion or obstruction of justice, it may be detailed in the confidential report delivered to the attorney general. now, justice department guidelines say you can t indict the president of the united states, but of course we don t know what all is in mueller s report. don t know if the president could have been implicated in inappropriate behavior or illegal activity. that s the position barr is in now, figuring out what to divulge to congress. maybe it won t be a difficult decision. maybe he will find the president did nothing wrong. we ll find out the principal conclusions that are about to be released. stay with us. dana bash is with us, kara skinnell is with us. how much will we learn about the mueller report once principal conclusions are released and