george santos is defiant amid growing calls for him to resign over the many lies he told voters. house speaker kevin mccarthy standing by santos even as he acknowledges a lack of trust. we re tracking severe weather right now in the southeast including significant damage from a large and extremely dangerous tornado in alabama. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with this special counsel investigation that s about to get under way. amid new revelations about classified documents found at president biden s home and office. let s go right to our chief white house correspondent phil mattingly. the white house is attempting to defend its response as a new timeline is raising a lot of questions. that s right, wolf. the white house counsel saying they will fully cooperate with the new special counsel investigation and say they believe by the time the investigation is over it will b
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pence let me down. the panel also cited witnessed who described how trump watched tv for hours as the violent assault unfolded and the committee s republican vice-chair said the dam has begun to break as more pieces of the puzzle fall into place and new witnesses step forward. can a president who is willing to make the choices donald trump made during the violence of january 6th ever be trusted with any position of authority in our great nation again? cnn s manu raju is on capitol hill for us. what do we know about the focus of this committee for future hearings? reporter: well, they haven t decided exactly yet how they will split-up those future hearings in september. the committee members told me last night those are still issues that they are still trying to sort out. they plan to use the next month in august when congress is on recess to have more testimony from witnesses behind closed doors. liz cheney indicating that subpoenas have been issued and committee memb
smuggling the precious resource back to russia to finance its invasion of ukraine. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room . let s begin our coverage tonight on capitol hill with new details on the insurrection investigation. we have exclusive new information about when the inspector general over at the department of homeland security first learned of those missing secret service text messages. but first our chief congressional correspondent manu raju is joining us with other news on the january 6th probe. manu, i understand you pressed gop leader mccarthy today on a key conversation with former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. what did he tell you? more importantly, maybe what didn t he tell you? reporter: he said he didn t recall. this is one of the key moments of that testimony that cassidy hutchinson whether she went before the january 6th committee about the concerns and the efforts to s
the scheme going anyway. a former georgia election official telling the panel she and her family paid a horrible price for trump s lies, their lives threatened after the president falsely accused her of ballot fraud. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight the american people have gotten a deeper look into donald trump s attack on democracy through the testimony of state level officials who defied him and wound up actually fearing for their own lives. let s get to all the testimony from the january 6th investigation. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju reports. you re a tyrant. you re a felon reporter: tonight the january 6th committee laying out in stark terms intimidation and pressure campaign from then president donald trump and his allies against state officials attempting to uphold democracy in states where joe biden won. what are we going to do, besides k