jury looking into whether president trump and his allies broke the law when they tried to overturn the 2020 election has finished its investigation. there s no word yet on the panel s findings. fulton county s district attorney will decide whether to pursue indictments. fanny willis started her investigation after then-president trump called the georgia secretary of state to pressure him to find the votes needed for trump to overturn his loss there. the investigation later expanded to include a look into the false claims of election fraud and a plan to use fake electors and a threat against election workers. let s bring in cnn s political correspondent, sara murray, who s been following all this, and legal analyst jennifer rogers. so sara, she was also sara, what happens now that this report is done? what can we expect? reporter: look, the report is finished. the judge said the grand jury has been dissolved after a year of investigating, and look, this is really somethi
again hinted at a 2024 presidential campaign. and on capitol hill, congress is up against the clock. lawmakers have a lot they want to get done before their summer break. good morning. welcome to way too early on this wednesday, july 27th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we ll begin with the latest in the justice department s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. four people familiar with the matter tell the washington post that federal prosecutors have now turned their attention to donald trump. two sources tell the paper that in recent days two top aides to vice president mike pence were asked before a grand jury about their conversations with trump, his lawyers and others in his inner circle who took part in the scheme to replace certified biden electors with a slate of the former president s allies. according to the post, prosecutors have asked hours of detailed questions about meetings trump led in december, 2020, and janua
aides in the trump administration including former chief of staff mark meadows. a spokesman for trump did not immediately respond to request for comment. attorney general garland sat down for a rare and exclusive interview with nbc s lester holt and defended the justice department against criticism it is working slower than the house select committee s investigation into january 6th. look, the justice department has been doing the most wide-ranging investigation in its history, and the committee is doing an enormously wide-ranging investigation as well. it is inevitable that there will be things that they found before we have found them, and it s inevitable that there will be things we find that they haven t found. the justice department has from the beginning been moving urgently to learn everything we can about this period and to bring to justice everybody who is criminally responsible for interfering with the peaceful transfer of power. you said in no uncertain terms t
families by an average of $1,500 a year, put medicare and social security, medicaid excuse me, social security and medicaid, on the chopping block every five years. in other words, every five years, they re going to no longer exist unless they vote them back into existence. i disagree with that. what in god s name are they doing? i ll work with anyone, democrat, republican, independent, who have real solutions and savings for the american people. not take money out of their pockets. the other element i would like to address that has impacts on inflation is lower the deficit. the reason this matters to families is because reducing the deficit is another way to ease inflation. my friends on the republican side like to paint me as the big spender. let s look at the facts. facts matter. under my predecessor the deficit exploded. every single year he was in office. under my plan we re on track to cut the federal deficit this year, by $1.7 trillion. you hear me now. this year, $1
gone. she was hysterical saying they shot her best friend, they killed her best friend, she was not breathing, and she was trying to kill the cops, and i asked the little girl the name, and she told me she said amerie. she was the sweetest little girl who did nothing wrong. she listened to her mommy and dad. she always brushed her teeth. she was creative. she made things for us. she never got in trouble in school. like, i just want to know what she did to be a victim. fellow classmate, matae rodriguez also just 10 years old will be laid to rest later today. at sacred heart church, where the funeral is taking place, there are 21 crosses, one for each of the 19 children and two teachers killed a week ago today, and funerals for 12 of the victims will be held there. cnn s nick valencia joins us from uvalde, tell us what happens happening as this little girl s funeral is starting. reporter: amerie s funeral is reportedly being attended by many people wearing the color pur