so this is just into cnn, a source confirmed to cnn a federal grand jury investigating january 6th has subpoenaed former white house counsel pat cipollone. abc news s first report that. cnn has now confirmed that as well. abby philip, david chalian, mark philip, david axelrod are all back with me here. thanks so much for joining. this is big news. what s say you, david chalian? i think we ve seen over the last couple of weeks this escalation in this grandeur process, that is separate any part from all of the doj investigations and prosecutions into those that actually storm the capital and broke into the capital. this is now, and has been, we ve seen as pence aides have been called it and what have you, getting into the inner sanctum. we don t get more intersect and then the white house inner council, who we know through testimony given to the january six committee, was running down the hall to the oval office to try and stop meetings from progressing, who was trying to get
closed captioning, brought to you by mesobook.com. this is just in to cnn. the source come from the federal grand jury investigating january 6th has subpoenaed the former white house counsel, pallone. abc news was first to report that. cnn has now confirmed that, as well. abby phillip, david axelrod, all back with me here. thanks so much for joining. this is big news. what say you, david? i think we have seen, over the last couple of weeks, this escalation in this grand jury process. that is separate and apart from all of the doj investigations and prosecutions into those that actually stormed the capitol and broke into the capitol. this is now has been and we have seen as aids were called in, what have you, the inter-sanctum. we don t get more inner sanctum than the white house counsel. right. we know, through testimony given to the january 6th committee, running down the hall to the oval office to try and stop meetings from progressing, who was trying to get the
strained relationship between china and the united states. and on capitol hill, kyrsten sinema is in the spotlight. the arizona senator is staying sigh leapt on whether she will support a major bill for her own party. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, august 3rd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we re going to begin with that major victory for abortion rights. voters in kansas have rejected an effort to remove the right to the procedure from the state s constitution. this marks the first time abortion rights was put to a vote since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade back in june. with the november midterms coming up, the kansas vote signals that abortion could be an energizing issue. according to an associated press estimate, turnout for yesterday s primary far exceeded other recent contests with about 900,000 kansas voters casting a ballot. president biden celebrated the win, writing in part, this vote makes clear what
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