Week. Lets get to some of the conversations you might have missed. Lets talk about the debate. In your latest piece you write quote, the most important thing i saw Kamala Harris who was pre blocking, not debunking, was waiting for someone to lie, and hit back with the truth. It is not working politics as much as you would hope it would in saturated lies, but free bunking is explain to people how they are being, or better yet will be related, what the motive is, how the con works, how the lie will be crafted and will function, and for extra credit, who benefits from it and how. In the age of trump, too any of his appointments have been debunked and no prebunked. And she said it at the outset, she said, let me say, you will hear a whole bunch of lies. And as he rolled them out, she explained why they were lies. We have talked about one of the most interesting stories about the ascension of Kamala Harris at the top of this ticket is that she has brought with her a lot of new thinking that
training, bombs and the so-called death list, what a right wing extremist group was allegedly doing right before the capitol riot. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. sri lanka s president and prime minister say they will resign after protestors stormed the residences of both leaders as the country s seemingly endless economic crises boil over. saturday demonstrators broke through to reach the presidential palace calling for the president to leave office. and they also set fire to the prime minister s private residence. his office says that he was moved earlier to secure location. these unprecedented protests come after months of anti-government demonstrations across the country. they must go. it is time for us to think of the country. we left everything and came for the sake of the people. the president and the prime minister and to have a new era for sri lanka. i feel sad that they didn t go earlier. because if they had gone earlier, the
appear voluntarily and answer 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 hearings to come. during pivotal moments, cipollone was in the know and very much in the room, including the oval office on january 3rd shooting down trump s plan to replace the acting attorney general with an election denying doj lawyer. and two sources say he was with trump during the riot itself watching it unfold on television. with me now is former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york elie honig who is also a cnn senior legal analyst. elie, let s be honest here. neither of us were in the room for all eight hours, which would have been great for news, but less good for actual having a life. that said, we have gotten bits and pieces from our reporting from our team at cnn about what pat cipollone was asked about when he may have said. what s your biggest takeaway
government archive who only in 2020 gave thesis really filmmakers access. heinous. hadas, thank you so much for sharing that with us. new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the united states and all around the world, it is wednesday, july 6th, i m john berman with brianna keilar. important new questions being raised this morning about the man accused of murdering seven people at the july 4th parade in highland park, illinois. why was he allowed to purchase guns, the weapons he used or is suspect of using despite specific interactions with police? some new information this morning. investigators say the suspect may have planned the attack for several weeks and that he dressed in women s clothing during the shooting to conceal his identity and facial tattoos. he had had two incidents with law enforcement in 2019, first when authorities were notified about a suicide attempt, and later after a family member reported he had threatened to, quote, kil
purchased five firearms with the help of his father. the suspect has now been charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, two of the fatalities a couple whose toddler was found alive once the shooting stopped. we re going to have more on their story in a moment. vice president kamala harris traveled to highland park to offer her support and to urge the toncountry to act. we have to be smarter as a country in terms of who has access to what and in particular assault weapons. we ve got to take this stuff seriously, as serious as you are because you have been forced to have to take it seriously. cnn s adrienne broaddus live for us from highland park. we re learning new disturbing information about survivors, but also about how this suspected gunman got his weapons. reporter: brianna, we are, and today that suspect has his initial court appearance and the state attorney, eric reinhart, said he will ask that judge today to hold that 21-year-old without the possibi