swore to support and defend the constitution and, quote, administer justice. all the members of the court, i m pleased to welcome justice jackson to the court and to our common calling. cnn supreme court reporter ariane devogue is with us now. good to see you. before the swearing in, we saw two big decisions from the court. now, let s start on the decision, curbing the epa s powers to fight climate change. what s the impact? right. this was a significant opinion. basically saying, curbing the epa s authority here when it comes to power plants. it was broken down along ideological lines. chief justice john roberts delivering this big blow to president biden, and it comes, of course, as scientists are raising alarms about global warming. what chief justice roberts did is he reversed a lower court that had given the epa broad authority to regulate in this area, so to regulate the entire grid instead of specific improvements at specific power plants, but roberts said, look,
climate change. the high court curbed carbon emissions at the time when scientists are sounding the alarm on the case of dploeshl warming. also today, president biden lashed out over their decision to overturn roe. he supports a filibuster carveout for congress to codify abortion rights. he said that at the nato summit in madrid, where he announced new aid for ukraine. we will discuss this a little later, first, new developments in the january 6th investigation. resources tell cnn that cassidy hutchinson, the former aide was contacted by someone in the former president s orbit to try to influence her testimony. those revelations so damming that the committee has now issued a subpoena for one of the central figures in the west wing, pat cipollone, the former top lawyer at the trump white house. cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles. do we know who was trying to influence tuesday s testimony? reporter: we do not, alisyn. you remember the end on tuesday after hutchin
big sort of culture war issues as well going forward from this court. around affirmative action, elections, and voting rights as well. so the big question isn t what the ideological make-up of the court will be, because i think we know that for years to come. dr conservatives are going to be in the majority. her identity as a justice is still an open question. will she be more like kagan, sort of a compromiser, or will she be more like sotomayor, who is the sort of progressive firebrand in kind of rider on that court. we ll see. but it is a historic moment and that should certainly be noted. but not unitquite the kind of history that she thought she d be stepping into, probably. alisyn, not for nothing, if i may, the three liberals all women, right? are women. a black woman, a latina, and a jewish woman. right.
is that undue influence? you know, on their testimony? probably all of the above, alisyn. i mean, let s just sort of set the bar at, none of this is customary or usual, which is part of the problem. and it does speak to something that i was talking to somebody who was kind of former trumpworld official about this morning, which is that part of the challenge for a lot of people, cassidy hutchinson clearly was one of these individuals, is that people who have been working and especially at the end where kind of the core staff inside trump world, they felt that it was hard to get jobs still being loyal trump trump loyalists. and so, what do they rely on for jobs? they rely on either the trump political arm or people in and
step in that direction. thank you very much for the update. joining us now, michael cohen, the former personal attorney and 76er for donald trump. michael, great to see you. great to see you, alisyn. let s start there, that s what we heard this morning from alissa r. griffith, the communications director in the white house. she said that team trump has been providing and supplying lawyers for the staffers who are testifying in front of the january 6th committee, including cassidy hutchinson before she changed to her own lawyer. as president trump s former personal attorney, what do you think of that practice? yes, this is part and parcel for the donald trump game plan. what you do is you pay for the lawyers. that way the lawyers really aren t dedicated to the client. they re dedicated to the guy paying the bill, which, of