time from top trump officials inside the department of homeland security. and outrage after republican lawmakers stand in the way of help for veterans exposed to burn pits. catastrophic flooding. at least eight people are dead in kentucky as rescue efforts are underway. cnn is live on the ground. and members of the controversial saudi-backed golf league teeing off at donald trump s new jersey golf course. they will be greeted by the protests of september 11th families . good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. it is friday, july 29th. the dam is breaking. f that from members of the january 6th committee. and there are new developments from both the committee and the department of justice in their investigations into the attack on the u.s. capitol. first on cnn, federal prosecutors are preparing for a court battle to force former white house officials to testify about donald trump s conversations and his actions on or around january 6th. the doj s p
attorney general or there were discussions to install clark as attorney general in the days before january 6th. we want to get to cnn s evan perez. you broke the news on what might have the greatest legal impact here, is that the department of justice, federal investigators, are preparing a case to force trump advisers to testify, basically to get around claims of executive privilege. what exactly is happening and what could this give investigators access to? well, good morning, john. this would give access to some of the closest people around the former president. this is a major step that the justice department is preparing to take, which is something that they didn t even do during the mueller investigation, for instance. and what they re preparing to do is essentially go to court to try to force some of these officials to provide testimony about their direct interactions, their direct conversations with the former presidents in those
whether they may have lied about their assets when applying for loans or paying their taxes. now, when it comes to the potential crime of fraud they re going to need documents, they re going to need witnesses. and we know the former president he doesn t leave much of a paper trail. he doesn t e-mail, doesn t text. so witnesses are going to be key, and all eyes are on the trump organization s long time cfo allen weisselberg. he s exactly the kind of person who could if he wanted to cooperate give investigators the kind of insights they need. he s also currently facing his own tax investigation, which could apply pressure on him and really incentivize him to cooperate. so all eyes on him right now. so, paula, talk to me about the timing of this. how quickly could this move? we know this grand jury has been in panel for about six months. that can be extended. we also know the manhattan district attorney s term lasts a little bit longer thanimate. right now based on the information we
that there are no tapes of the president s conversation of what happens in the oval office. that makes it harder sometimes to collect the evidence you need. but, what there are are e-mails, which did not exist in water gate not the president s e-mails. not the president, he doesn t e-mail and we can draw our own conclusions about why he doesn t. but he that remember is how we found out about donald trump jr. s meetings with the russians. the e-mails could well be a very good source of information. plus, you have the national security wiretaps. you have paul mand ford who we know now is wiretapped. any connections, the russians are wiretapped all the time by the nsa. that could be a proper source for mueller s team to look into. it s true. but absent, i think the e-mails do give investigators a trail
and 2012. he said he brought them for farook as a way for farook to avoid getting any scrutiny from the police and so he s been doing these interviews with the fbi for just over a week now after he checked himself into a mental institution after the san bernardino attacks. we know that he s provided a great deal of information to investigators and they were simply waiting to see how long they could get information from him before they decided to arrest him. all along they knew they would charge him. that was the presumption. it was confusing. this guy bought the guns and so implicated in understanding why did it take so long but explain how investigators have been playing this guy. he waived his miranda rights early on. what did that give investigators they would not have? provided a great deal of information including this idea that he and farook plotted a 2012 attack. this is something that they decided that they weren t going to carry out in the end.