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new day continues right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, it is monday, june 13th. a man on the inside set to testify in this morning s second january 6th hearing in a surprise move by the committee. donald trump s 2020 campaign manager bill stepien will appear under subpoena to it s a question just how much of a cooperative witness he will be. what does stepien know and what is he willing to tell the committee and the country on live television? the focus today the committee s case that trump s lies about election fraud helped fuel the mob that attacked the capitol. the committee says that trump knew the allegations were bogus. joining me now ellie honing cnn senior legal analyst and a former federal and state prosecut prosecutor. when we saw this witness list come out one name jumped off, bill stepien trump s former campaign manager. what could he testify to? here is the thing, we don t know. this is going to be a surpris ....
Former federal and state prosecut prosecutor. when we saw this witness list come out one name jumped off, bill stepien trump s former campaign manager. what could he testify to? here is the thing, we don t know. this is going to be a surprise to see what he has to say. bill stepien is a highly placed person, trump s white house political director and then he became the campaign manager for donald trump. now, we do have a bit of a clue perhaps in the letter that the committee sent to bill stepien requesting his testimony they wrote, quote, you then supervised the conversion of the trump presidential campaign to an effort focused on stop the steal. that s the big lie. messaging and related fundraising. we don t know where he s going to go, it will be fascinating to see. he s appearing under subpoena. what does that mean and perhaps what doesn t it mean? technically a subpoena means he has to testify, however, we have seen throughout the january 6 proceedings people receive subpoena ....
There does appear to be some element of voluntariness here. he is going to be live here. what s to keep him if he wanted to curry favor with donald trump or trump world from jumping up on the table and saying this whole committee is a big fraud? that s a great question. as a prosecutor you would never put a witness, never mind potentially a key witness on the stand live in front of a jury or in front of a television audience without knowing exactly what that person is going to say. if the person goes off the rails you want to have some sort of transcript or prior deposition testimony that you can use to discipline them and to bring them back into the fold. watch for that dynamic when he testifies today. watch for video of stepien or transcripts of what stepien has already told the committee under oath. exactly. who else is testifying today? alongside stepien we will hear from chris stirewalt the former political editor at fox news. on election night he first made the call c ....