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president mike pence has confirmed he testified before a grand jury investigating the attack on the capitol, a potentially major development. i can confirm that i did receive a subpoena for the federal grand jury, and i complied with that subpoena. but under advice of counsel, i can t say much more than that. that was my only appearance before the grand jury. i m not going to comment on what others had to testify or not and what they testified to. he s the highest profile witness known to have testified and signals prosecutors are moving beyond the rioters into looking into the trump administration itself. the new york times and the wall street journal are reporting that a second aide to pence greg jacob testified as well. he countered efforts to persuade pence not to certify the electoral results. let s start with evan perez. quite significant developments here. reporter: absolutely, bianna. this is criminal investigators reaching into the trump white house. ....
president trump. we ll have more on that speech and why he gave it just ahead. plus the january 6th committee releases more of what the former president wouldn t say the day after the insurrection. meanwhile, on capitol hill, covid is complicating crunch time for congress. democrats are running out of time to get things done before a month-long august break. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, july 26th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being here. there are new developments with the justice department s investigation into the january 6th attack. two top aides to former vice president mike pence have testified before a federal grand jury. mark short who was pence s chief of staff and greg jacob, pence s counsel at the white house was subpoenaed by the department of justice, short was with the former vice president during the insurrection. nbc news cameras set up for steve bannon s trial recorded short and his attorney leaving the federal ....
growing cancer on our nation. right wing extremists now targeting the lbgtq community, and not just in idaho where 31 of them were unpacked from a u-haul and arrested, and the first polls are close right now in a south carolina primary as trump seeks revenge against two incumbent republicans. steve kornacki will join us from the big board. and first one of the big misconceptions from the trump presidency, that there were no adults in the room. that s not true. there were plenty of adults and couldn t contain him and didn t want to. the so-called adults are sharing what they really feel about trump s pursuit for power. we re talking about trump s closest allies, his own people narrating the case against him, star witnesses that included none other than attorney general william barr, a man who spent years defending and serving trump, not the american people, but who via video testimony had this to say about the president slize. bogus stuff and based on misinformation, ....
committee has a long way to go. i nknow that our first hearig pierced the sound barrier. americans need to pay further attention because the danger is still out there. i would gladly arrest 30 million individuals rather than have them participate in some seriously disruptive event, which is exactly what they were planning. people here don t want everyone to forget what happened here at the poll tonight in orlando, six years ago. it s senseless. it happens all the time and we just really, really, really need to pay respect for things loo like that. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. an agreement in prescriptionple by a bipartisan group of 1257ders say a gun deal is in the wheels. if it becomes law, it will be the biggest gun reform legislation in decades. this news comes 19 days after a gunman ordered 19 children and two teachers in uvalde, texas elementary school and as much as gun advocates went to see that horrific event, as ....
president, and first lady tour the physical and emotional aftermath of that day. visiting the town s memorial to the slain, meeting with school s principal and superintendent, and attending catholic mass, before sitting with the family of the two teachers, and 19 students killed in last wednesday s attack. america remains in shock, as to what has been revealed about what happened at robb elementary. the growing fire storm over where and how local police failed, corroborated by frantic emergency calls from children, literally trapped in a killing field. and the justice department just announcing today, a federal review of the law enforcement response. but that cannot take precedence over two things. remembrance which is the debt we owe, the grieving and the taking, and action which is the price our society must pay if we truly condemn what happened. so tonight i join the president in his condolence, and i m certain his sanger, because two weeks his anger, because two w ....