happens when there are too many passengers, not enough staff, not enough planes, and not enough air traffic controllers? add in some picket lines and you have the recipe for a holiday weekend travel nightmare. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead. new insight into what the january 6th select committee believes is possible witness tampering by members of trump s orbit. sources telling cnn that cassidy hutchinson told the panel that she was contacted by someone attempting to influence her testimony before tuesday s hearing, and now the vice chair of the committee, congresswoman liz cheney, says the committee is considering making a criminal referral to the justice department. that s according to abc news. today, the committee is now trying to compel testimony from pat cipollone, issuing a subpoena to trump s former white house counsel. testimony revealed that cipollone expressed alarm leading up to and on january 6th about possible criminal behaviors by the presiden
i m having a meeting with a group of governors when i get home on friday. and i ll have announcements to make then. reporter: the president was pressed on the politics at home, after wrapping up meetings with world leaders on ukraine. russia, russia, russia. reporter: western leaders rallying around ukraine, as russia s invasion drags on, but declining to predict when the war will end, only saying their support won t. we are going to support ukraine as long as it takes. reporter: an added cop my c complication, rising energy prices. prices at the pump are higher in every country. we re better positioned to deal with this than anyone. reporter: despite soaring gas prices, biden asserted that the economic pain won t deter the united states from supporting ukraine. i don t know what how it s going to i would, but it will not end with the russian defeat of ukraine in ukraine. reporter: and jake, on that front, he did say the united states is preparing to s
in madrid, president biedenbaching an exception to senate rules for abortion. i believe we have to codify roe v. wade in the law, and the way to do that is to make sure that congress votes to do that. reporter: the president condemning the supreme court for overturning roe v. wade saying it has shaken the nation. the one thing that has been destabilizing is the outrageous behavior of the supreme court of the united states. reporter: biden criticizing one institution, while calling on another to step in. if the filibuster gets in the way, it s like voting rights, it should be we provide an exception for this. reporter: but two senators who stood in biden s way before remain unmoved, with joe manchin and kyrsten sinema still against the threshold that biden suggested. under pressure from his own party to do more, biden declined to lay out concrete next steps on securing abortion rights.