good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister is in northern ireland, trying to win support for his new deal on post brexit trading arrangements. rishi sunak says he s confident that the windsor framework, as the new agreement is called, addresses the concerns of the democratic unionist party. and that it removes any sense of a border down the irish sea, which the dup objects to. he said his deal was not about one political party but about what s best for people and communities. the leader of the dup, sirjeffrey donaldson, said the deal represented progress, but he thought there were still issues with it. the brexitjourney has lasted for seven years. borders have moved to the centre, dominating politics here. does everyone hear that? it s about people. but the prime minister thinks he s finally found a solution. at a factory in county antrim, he told people the devolved governments would have a unique economic advantage, with local businesses having full access t
good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it s thursday, july 14th and i m brianna keilar with john berman. this morning new clues surrounding the pending january 6th witness who donald trump tried to contact. it s an allegation that has been referred to the justice department, not formally, but it s been sent up the chain there. first on cnn, sources say trump tried to call a member of the white house support staff who was in talks with the january 6th committee. that is new. the exact identity still unknown at this point. the witness, though, did not pick up when trump called. this was not someone that trump would routinely communicate with. and this came after cassidy hutchinson s explosive testimony. the alarmed witness contacted an attorney. this is january 6th committee member elaine luria the congresswoman speaking to cnn. we take seriously the safety of any witnesses, anyone who comes forward to the committee and like weiise their privacy. in
let s begin this hour with whitney wild. what is the secret service saying? the secret service is saying that they are giving the january 6th committee a significant document production, but as you point out, a source is telling us that this does not include any of these potentially missing text messages that would have been generated on january 5th and january 6th, 2021. a secret service official told cnn that that s because the agency has not been able to recover any of those records that were lost during a phone migration around that time. one of the things the courses did tell us was that any message that was not uploaded by the employee as a government record, again, would have been lost during this migration. before this phone migration, secret service employees were supposed to manually back up their text messages so if any employees skipped that step or just forgot, this would have been permanently deleted when their phones were wiped during this now we know ill-tim
primary day across america: voters in five states go to the polls tonight. what we might learn about the elections this november and the ones in 2024. plus, kansas becomes the first state to vote on the future of abortion rights. confronting a liar. i wanted to tell you to your face, my son existed. reporter: the mom of a sandy hook victim addresses conspiracy theorist alex jones. they picked the wrong guy to mess with. robbers with an ar-15-style rifle target a liquor store, whose 80-year-old owner greets them with a shotgun. and finally, an n.b.a. champion on and off the court. what this former l.a. laker is doing to raise money for the children of ukraine. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. dickerson: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. i m john dickerson in for norah. tonight, u.s.-china tensions increase after house speaker nancy pelosi s arrival in taiwan. the hig