the administration is under intense scrutiny as it tries to put out firestorm of criticism over a lack of transparency, but president biden says he is fully cooperating with investigators while arguing, quote, there s no there there. all this coming as two senate democrats are calling for a full investigation. former federal prosecutor alex little is standing by with the big picture, but first, let s go to lucas tomlinson live at the white house with the very latest. hello, lucas. reporter: good afternoon, arthel. many republicans asking more questions about the timeline and why the decision was made not to reveal these classified documents before the midterm elections. nobody should be above the law, but what it comes down to here is the deliberate misleading of the american people. again, when did they know, how many people knew, and did they choose to keep it secret from the american people. reporter: now two democratic senators, tim kaine and joe manchin, say they
oath keepers. so january 6th committee members have made claims that they can link members of trump s inner circle to the oath keepers. and new this morning the justice department firing back at steve bannon s sudden about face that he s willing to testify before the january 6th committee just days before his contempt trial begins. trump is waiving executive privilege as he said as bannon has said and waiving should certainly be used loosely here, perhaps in quotation marks so that bannon can testify, but the doj says that doesn t matter even one bit. more on that in a moment. experts obviously believe that never applied in the first place. we do begin with sunlen serfaty who is on capitol hill with more on tomorrow s big hearing. what are we expecting? reporter: certainly a big week up here on capitol hill with two big hearings from the january 6th committee starting with tomorrow. now, tomorrow s hearing will be largely focused on the mob who participated, how did
killers could be stopped. illinois democratic governor joins me exclusively. plus, safe and legal? president biden signs an executive order on abortion rights but says the best options for frustrated americans are. vote, vote, vote, vote. will voters agree with him in november that republicans have overreached ? the governor of new hampshire will be here and unconventional war fair. the justice department says january 6th could have been more deadly. what will the committee reveal in its hearings this week? i ll ask ahead. hello. the state of our union is finding it difficult to relax this summer as we wrap up a holiday, the problems facing our nation sometimes might seem insurmountable. the divide over abortion rights, unease over the economy, an election lie that s getting more entrenched. but i want to start by talking about gun violence. tomorrow will mark one week since the deadly mass shooting at a july 4th parade in highland park, illinois outside chicago. while
as we wrap up a holiday week, the problems facing our nation sometimes might seem insurmountable, the divide over abortion rights, the unease over the economy, an election lie getting more entrenched. we ll talk about all of that, but i want to start today talking about gun violence. tomorrow will mark one week since the deadly mass shooting of the july 4th parade in highland park, illinois, outside of chicago. while shattered families are still grappling with all they lost in that senseless slaughter, cnn is learning more about the warning signs from the alleged shooter that despite illinois s red flag law did not prevent him from buying that semi-automatic rifle police say he used last week. the young man spent time at his father s highland park deli growing up, and police were often called to the home for domestic disturbances between the parents. in 2019 police came to briefly confiscate a collection of knives after the then 18-year-old threatened to, quote, kill everyone
the opposition party is saying that it is not just boris johnson that needs to be replaced, it is all the conservatives. the implication is that they potentially would want to call and push for a general election. so there is pressure on the party who can rebuild the government. one senior cabinet level position was offered to, a conservative member of parliament earlier today who turned it down. it is not possible for this prime minister to rebuild his government and reshape it as last night he was saying he would. this is the scenario, the prime minister expected to come out and speak today, perhaps in the next couple of hours. he s likely to want to frame his resignation, listing his successes, brexit undoubtedly one of them, and likely airbrush out all the reasons for being forced out of his own party. a full government implosion. that s what this really is, in the united kingdom, key ally of the u.s. nic, explain to our viewers the most recent scandals that necessitate