donald trump s orbit as the washington post is evidence states that a similar pattern, donald trump and his allies privately shower potential witnesses with flattery and attention, extending big assurances that staying loyal to donald trump would be better than crossing him, eight sentiment echoed by his former attorney, michael cohen. he says he received this behavior before he flipped on his former boss. it is a mob style scenario where you want to make sure these people stay in orbit. if you step out of the orbit, understand there are people that are going to potentially do some pretty bad things to you. you put yourself into that spot. a lot of these actions that came at me, i am sorry to say, i am sure she will experience the same. he wants it that way. i want to bring in ally on capitol hill. a national security analyst, and tim miller is a political analyst and writer at large, the author of the brand-new book, why we did it, a travelogue from the republican road
we should point out nbc news has not yet verified that reporting half what we do have this afternoon is new reaction from a spokesperson for mark meadows. joining me now, luke broad january broadwater, matt miller, and joyce vance. luke, who exactly could be picking up these legal fees for at least it seems a dozen witnesses testifying before the january 6th committee? well, there are two funds that are funding witnesses lawyers. one is the save america pac which is run directly connected to donald trump. the other is the cpac first amendment fund which its director says consults with donald trump and donald trump s allies directly to decide which witnesses it will cover. so these are they offer both free legal advice to the witnesses and then also will pay for their attorneys fees if needed. this came to a head this week when cassidy hutchinson said she had to switch attorneys because she felt only with a new attorney could she be more forthright and testify publicly a
Vossoughian in for katy tur. today, new legal and ethical questions about whether former president trump s political organization and his allies are trying to influence witnesses talking to the house january 6th committee. the new york times reporting the trump save america political action committee as well as the people who run cpac are covering legal costs for more than a dozen witnesses according to financial disclosures. we have one of the reporters who broke that story, straight ahead. you don t want to miss that conversation. and those developments of course after committee vice chair liz cheney revealed that at least two witnesses were contacted by people connected to the former president attempting to influence and/or intimidate them. three sources familiar with the committee s work telling cnn one of the people contacted was in fact, you see her right there, cassidy hutchinson, the former top aide torump chief of staff mark meadows who testified, i m sure many of you rememb