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>> good morning to viewers in the u.s. and around the world. it is monday, august 1st. john berman is off and john avalon is here with us this morning. >> good morning. >> great to you have. we begin with major news just n cnn reporting that nancy pelosi will be visiting taiwan after all despite china's stern warnings for her not to go. this comes from u.s. and taiwanese sources. it's not clear which day pelosi will be visiting as her asia trip gets under way here. we previously reported that the biden administration privately tried to convince pelosi not to go to taiwan. >> more exc...

china claims taiwan as part of its territory, despite having never controlled it and repeatedly warned against pelosi visiting the island, vowing to take resolute and forceful measures if the visit goes forward. john kirby addressed the trip on cnn last hour. >> there's no reason for the chinese rhetoric, there's no reason for any actions to be taken. it is not uncommon for congressional leaders to travel to taiwan. it is very much in keeping with our policy and consistent with our support to taiwan under the taiwan relations act. we shouldn't be as a country, we shouldn't be intimid...

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 wh...

we are learning the fbi seized the cellphone of a republican congressman in relation to the january 6th investigation. more on that in a moment. but first, just in, the former president is about to be deposed. sometime in the next few hours donald trump will face prosecutors from the new york attorney general's office. this is the culmination of a civil investigation into the trump organization's finances that has lasted for more than three years. investigators are probing whether the trump organization used false or misleading asset valuations in its financial statements to obtain...

he won't get it unless there ever comes a day when he is charged. >> but he does have something. >> exactly. he does have what we call a search warrant. does he have a copy? yes. can he release it? yes. however, there's fairly limited information in this document. it's one page. this is it, this is a sample of it. it tells you where is to be searched, mar-a-lago, what are they looking for. it will say things like documents, papers, computers, it won't guess into specificity usually, who is the judge and when does the fbi have to conduct the search warrant by. however, sometimes there...