to the senate s efforts for the association bill. plus, the ripple effects of the kansas bill to protect abortion rights. what it could signal for the midterms. and, what goes around, comes around. alex jones has been ordered to pay more than $49 million to the parents of a sandy hook shooting victim. let s get started. tonight, we begin with breaking news. the senate is in a rare, saturday night session, as democrats work to advance their sweeping health care, and climate bill, towards final passage. passage that could come as soon as this weekend. the bill, and the inflation reduction act, the i. r. a., would represent the largest climate investment in u.s. history. it will make major health policy by giving medicare the power, for the first time ever, to negotiate the prices of certain prescription drugs. the package is the product of painstaking negotiations, and it would give democrats a chance to achieve major policy objectives. ones that they sought for decades. they c
do you know, it s hard to believe, it really hard to believe sitting here actually when the war started, when the bombs started. it was six months. it has been six months since vladimir putin launched his murderous and entirely unprovoked war on ukraine, six months of death raining down from the sky, six months of innocent men, women, children slaughtered. six months of people driven away from homes, schools, churches, hospitals and shelters bombed. we remember it. it s still going on. it s unimaginable and going on today. missile strikes across the country. but this is how it began. watch this. here is our breaking news, vladimir putin announcing a special military operation claiming to protect donbas. matthew chance will join us. i just heard a big bang right here behind me. i told you we shouldn t have done the live shot here. wow. six months. right when it started on this program. just couple minutes from now. cnn reporters risking their lives in the war zone bearing
government is corrupt, elections are rigged and that people who hold different political views are bullies. up first, the investigations into the january 6th insurrection. the justice department asking a judge to reveal who is paying lawyers representing members of the oath keepers, and if that person is the former trump attorney and conspiracy peddler, sydney powell. the january 6th committee faces a will they or won t they moment? oronado attacking the credibility of what some of what hutchinson testified to earlier this week. specifically, he denies telling hutchinson that donald trump lunged for the steering wheel inside the presidential suv after being told on january 6th he could not go to the capitol and could not join the rioters. hutchinson stands by her committee, and the committee says they are they are deciding whether or not to bring him back under oath and in public. do they want to hash this out in public or see it as too risky. reporter: there s a lot of
victory. and the short, she referred to their, former pence chief of staff, marc short, who testified before the grand jury, the federal grand jury. greg jacob as well they are on the right of your screen. served as a top lawyer to the former vice president. he also testified. which doesn t confirm the prosecutors are planning to make the former president s campaign to pressure mike pence into doing his bidding part of the case against him, but short and jacob s testimony, also with wet griffin just said, might suggest is, as does the washington post reporting yesterday that federal prosecutors have asked hours a detailed questions about the fake elector scheme. news of cassidy hutchinson s cooperation is also suggested because what you can tell prosecutors about former president appearing willingness to turn a mob, some of them he knew to be armed, on the capitol, and then refused to call them off. consider what she s already said to the house select committee. i was in
counsel pat cipollone has firsthand knoll of key events before and during the insurrection. let s go to ryan nobody else. he s up on capitol hill. ryan, more than seven hours, certainly one of the longer witness interviews the committee has conducted. tell our viewers what you re learn. that s right. pat cipollone was with the committee for more than eight hours when you take into account the breaks he took. he sat for more than seven hours of testimony. it does compare to some of the more lengthy testimony that we have seen bear fruit for the committee, such as ivanka trump, jared kushner, those were long depositions, then later used in hearings. also jeffrey rosen, richard donahue, members of the department of justice, they also sat for lengthy interviews that the committee was able to use. this would indicate that cipollone was, at least on some level cooperative. there was some concern he may not answer certain questions because of privilege issues. that may be the kay.