him and he deserves it. he put these people through hell. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is friday, august 5, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where we re getting more revelations in the january 6 investigation including this cnn exclusive. donald trump s lawyers are now in direct talks with the justice department for the very first time. sources tell cnn that they are discussing the claims of executive privilege which he hopes will stop members of his inner circle from testifying about their conversations. we know that the federal investigators have subpoenaed trump s white house counsel pat cipollone and his deputy patrick philbin to answer questions about schemes to overturn the 2020 election and there is more, sources tell cnn trump s own attorneys are warning him that there could be indictments on the horizon. the former president apparently skeptical grilling his legal team about whether they think that he will actually
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that s two months sooner than they had originally planned. now, you know the tradition here. iowa is usually the first state to vote. so it s also thinking about pushing up its caucus. our political reporter, shannon is in des moines for us today. is that going to be the plan? if new hampshire moves up, iowa has to move up. we re talking about december, mid-december, could we go as early as november sthp. possibly not november, but definitely potentially december. i have to tell you, t.j., iowa s republican party is not happy at all with what florida is intending to do by holding this january 31st primary. as you mentioned, iowa is always traditionally the first contest in the presidential nominating season that holds the caucuses. iowa is banding together with new hampshire, with nevada and with south carolina. those are the four states that normally go first, according to the rnc rules. they re banding together and saying, look, we re going to move up our dates together,
why in the world would they do this? well, you can blame florida. florida has decided to push its primary up to the end of january. so now let the dominoes fall where they may. so iowa could possibly want to move their primary to earlier than new hampshire since they are traditionally the first state to vote. iowa, new hampshire, aren t the only ones a little upset over what florida is doing. cnn s shawna shepherd joins me from south carolina. the site of what is the first southern primary. good morning to you. are they talking as well about what they might do and how much they might move their primary up? reporter: they re absolutely talking about it, and they re going to try to make sure that they get their voice heard. they re not happy with florida s decision, and they really want to hold on to that, that title of the first primary in the south and they re going to do whatever they can to make sure that they don t lose that title. we talk about what the states are goi
anthony home. hello to you all. this is your cnn saturday morning. i m t.j. holmes. let s start with new information and a new warning with about the killing of a leading al qaeda figure. the cia use add drone to kill an nwar al awlaki in yemen. they had been tracking him with drones for two weeks, much like they did with osama bin laden. al awlaki is blamed for inspiring the underwear bomber in 2009. the fbi and the department of homeland security warning about possible retaliation in the u.s. they say his death could provide motivation for so-called lone wolf attackers. another part of the story this morning, the question whether it s l it s legal to target a u.s. citizen. he was born in new mexico. that s a question erin burnett asked cia director leon panetta. this individual was clearly a terrorist, and, yes, he was a citizen. but if you re a terrorist, you re a terrorist. and that means that we have the ability to go after those who would threaten to attack the un