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as a huge surprise given the well-established history inside trump world of pressuring potential witnesses in key investigations. washington post lays it out like this, quote. evidence across multiple state, federal and congressional investigations points to a similar pattern. trump and his close allies privately shower potential witnesses with flattery and attention extending vague assurances that staying loyal to trump would be better than crossing him. meanwhile, trump publicly blasts those who offer testimony against him in bluntly personal terms offering a clear example to other...

much for the latest. >> it's the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i'm alisyn camerota. >> i'm victor blackwell. we start this hour with the tears and the grief and the stories of terror from capitol hill today as people who have been deeply impacted by america's latest mass shootings testify to the house oversight committee. the youngest voice, just 11 years old, a 4th grader who survived the massacre in uvalde, texas. >> recounting the worst moments that she endured 77 minutes of living hell. she had to play dead. she had to smear her best friend's blood on her to hide from a gunman...

Pat cipollone being another one of them is someone that the president has treated poorly, who the former president has pibb liblg le com pinned and he was assed if a no one any he still remaining, he is coming closer to appearing and providing some sort of written deposition next week to the committee behind closed doors. that being said, i think many moments of cassidy's testimony which was really jam-packed with news beyond this secret service incident that she described having and very clearly described it as a secondhand account from tony ornato, but that meadows was there throughout all o...

Have to talk. >> that's the legal half, quickly, can you give us the political portion of this, gloria. >> the attorneys that i have spoken with, who have represented donald trump in the past in assorted cases have never wanted him to testify because they're afraid. they're afraid that he would not be complete truthful by testifying. so they have always tried to avoid it. remember, even in the mueller case, the president did kind of a written deposition, if you recall. he didn't actually testify. so i think if i were the president's attorney, i would be a little nervous about this. so i'm wond...

Idea of a written deposition? written answers? >> well, i mean, while written answers are helpful, they're not nearly as helpful as sworn testimony under cross-examination in a deposition or at trial. you really can't compare the two. i'm highly doubtful that we're going to learn anything in those written answers that will be helpful. you know, very often those written answers are drafted by lawyers, as opposed to the actual party at issue in the case. so i'm not a big fan of written answers to deposition questions. never have been. >> and whatever happened to the allegation from stormy daniel...