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good morning, everyone, and welcome to your "new day." im amara walker. >> and im phil mattingly. and today all eyes are on capitol hill after days of deal-making. democrats get ready to vote on a critical part of president bidens economic agenagenda. well tell you whats in the bill and what it means for millions of americans. >> plus it was a week of twists and turns in the courtroom. now a jury has ordered conspiracy theorist alex jones to pay up to the parents of a sandy hook shooti...

>> the bill includes $369 billion to combat climate change, largest in u.s. history. it gives medicare the power to negotiate some drug prices. it caps medicare out-of-pocket expenses at $2,000 and extended affordable care act subsidies for three years. >> white house reporter kevin livtak looks at what it means. jess, i want to start with you because we have news breaking in the last five to ten minutes, which i think is a good harbinger for your next few days at the capitol, where do...

avlon in for john berman this morning. it is the clearest sign yet that the criminal investigation into january 6th zeroing in on former president donald trump himself. our exclusive new cnn reporting reveals that trumps lawyers are talking directly with the justice department about the events of january 6th. the talks are said to be focused on whether conversations the former president had while in office can be kept from investigators due to executive privilege. >> now, in an intervi...

world. im wolf blitzer and youre in "the situation room." we begin this hour with very encouraging news for the u.s. economy. and for the biden administration. tonight the president is seizing on the much better than expected jobs report as he caps a week of unexpected successes. here is our white house correspondent jeremy diamond. >> today we received another outstanding jobs report. >> reporter: tonight president biden hailing another strong jobs report and promising more relief t...

From the january 6th committee. sources also tell cnn the justice department is priming for a fight over executive privilege, which if they win could open the door to revealing testimony from trumps top aides. >> can the doj pierce that privilege by saying and perhaps going to court to get a ruling that donald trumps -- the conversations are misconduct and, therefore, not shielded by executive privilege. >> reporter: trumps spokesperson firing back that theyll fiercely fight any moves to strike ...

Privilege which if they win could open the door to revealing testimony from trumps top aides. >> can the doj pierce that privilege by saying and perhaps going to court to get a ruling that donald trumps -- the conversations are misconduct and therefore not shielded by executive privilege? >> reporter: trumps spokesperson firing back that trump will fiercely fight any moves to strike down his executive privilege claims. how can any future president ever have private conversations with his attorne...

Misconduct. and so the real question here is, well, two questions, one, can donald trump assert executive privilege, because ultimately it lies with the presidency, not the individual president. and, two, if he does, and if he is able to, can the doj pierce that privilege by saying and perhaps going to court to get a ruling that donald trumps -- the conversations are misconduct and therefore not shielded by executive privilege. >> and precedent would suggest that that would indeed be a reading o...