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witnesses from a criminal grand jury. >> and hurricane fiona takes aim at canada while another storm takes forms and could be headed for the united states. welcome to "the lead," im pamela brown in for jake tapper on this day. we stop with a secret court battle be waged by donald trumps lawyers. sources are saying the attorneys for the former president are fighting to keep witnesses from testifying before a federal grand jury about trumps te tee attempts to overturn the election. our...

to protect china. take the ba banking sector. wall street decided to fall in line behinds black lives matter after george floyds death that they railed against america racism and social media posts. they went on to commit billions to promote racial justice. ended up being in large case a giveaway to racial hucksters coast-to-coast. but when pressed on chinese abuses? >> would you condemn the ongoing abuse at the hands of the chinese party? >> condemn is a strong word. >> so is and slav...

protect china? take the banking sector, for example, it was just years ago when the big wigs of wall street decided to fall in line behind black lives matter, remember? and al sharpton, all that. that was after george floyds death that they railed against american racism. in social media posts. and then they went on to commit billions to promote racial justice, ended up being in large , say, giveaway to racial hucksters coast to coast. >> but when pressed in congressional hearings this...

the illegal server taking the fifth, i think its disgraceful. have you seen what is going on in front of congress? fifth amendment, fifth amendment, fifth amendment. horrible. horrible! >> the lawyers are deposing trump in a civil investigation by the new york attorney general. shes looking into the donald trump organizations allegedly misleading of lenders and insurers and tax authorities by providing inaccurate financial statements. add this to the list of legal troubles facing the f...

>> welcome to "the lead." im dana bash in for jake tapper. we begin with our politics lead. donald trump today invoked his fifth amendment right in a deposition with a new york attorney general who is investigating the trump organizations finances. this deposition lasting more than five hours. in a lengthy statement, the former president claims he had no choice, saying hes the target of an unfounded politically motivated witch hunt. this from the man who once asked if youre innocent, w...

kai kaitlan, the white house does not tell the press corps when the president is tested. . >> they tell us when but not how often. so we will get updates when he goes on a foreign trip, as he did left week to the middle east with us. they told us he tested negative departing for that. when we tried to pin them down on how often, is it every day, every other day, they have left gray area. its a question for this week. look, he took a test on tuesday. it was negative. he did not take a t...

trump taping that video on january 6th and struggling to condemn the violence. and the blistering heat baking over 100 million people in the u.s., countless others abroad. and there is still no letup in sight. lead. joe biden testing positive for covid. the 79-year-old president who is fully vaccinated and received his second booster shot in march just released a video saying that hes doing fine. >> symptoms are mild, and i really appreciate your concerns. but im doing well. >> white h...

returns to primetime, promising to present its most compelling evidence to date, detailing the three plus hours that trump failed to about while the capitol was under attack. republican committee member congressman adam kinzinger released clips of trump aides describing what the president was doing as the violence unfolded. >> was the president in that dining room the whole time that the attack on the capitol was going on, or did he ever go, to your knowledge, to the oval office, the w...

scotland where queen elizabeth ii now lies at rest at the royal familys official scottish residence. as the queens coffin arrived following what was a six-hour journey from her balmoral estate, crowds of mourners and admirers packed the streets to pay their respects. this is or was the first leg of an eight-day journey to her final resting place in england. the public in london will also be able to pay its respects to the queen starting on wednesday afternoon at the palace of westminst...

remains will be joining her. hes in the general vault underneath the chapel now. so it is going to -- its a multi-part commemoration and each part is going to be equally dramatic and i think the crowds in london and windsor are going to be extraordinary. >> right. >> when george vi, when he had the lying in state in westminster hall, in 1952, there was something like 305,000 filed by the catafalque an i think were going to see way more than that. >> sally, thank you. sally smith, isa s...