abe assassinated during a campaign speech by a man with a homemade gun. and a new report shows the u.s. jobs market stayed strong last month despite high inflation and recession fears. this hour what the numbers could mean for the u.s. economy and for the biden administration. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. we begin this hour with a highly anticipated testimony of former white house counsel pat cipollone to the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. let s go straight to capitol hill. our reporter melanie is on the story for us. what do we know, first of all, about the testimony of this key witness? do we know if cipollone has been cooperating or not? reporter: well, pat cipollone has been testifying for eight hours and counting now behind closed doors and he has left several times throughout the course of the day to meet with his own down in separate side
higher labor costs to prices that we pay as consumers. so that sort of adds to the inflationary pressure and that s what has some economists concerned. thank you very much. just into cnn right now, the billionaire elon musk has told twitter he wants out of his deal to buy the social media giant. musk agreed to purchase twitter for $44 billion earlier this year, but musk has since raised concerns over the deal saying without any apparent evidence that there are a greater number of bots and spam accounts on the platform than twitter has said publicly. we ll watch this story together with you. coming up, abortion and inflation front and center in the senate race in a key battled ground state. details when we come back. it all begins s with the most innovative technology, like thehe new miracle-ear mini. available exclusively at miracle-ear. so small no one will see it, but you ll notice the difference.
closed doors and he has left several times throughout the course of the day to meet with his own down in separate side room. we spotted a fresh round of coffee being hauled into the meeting room. but cipollone did not answer questions from reporters about whether he is answering questions in a substantive way or exerting executive privilege. we do know that pat cipollone was concerned about executive privilege particularly as it relates to his conversations with donald trump. but it would seem that the committee is making some headway here given how long this interview is going, wolf. and certainly cipollone is one witness that former president trump would have preferred not, repeat, not cooperate with the committee, vietnam? reporter: absolutely right. he was a firsthand fact witness to a number of pivotal episodes leading up to january 6th and on january 6th. in fact, sources tell cnn that he was in and out of the dining room on january 6th with donald trump during those critical
the paradegoers who survived the carnage from the july 4th shooting in highland park, illinois. this as funerals for some of the victims actually began today. let s bring in cnn s josh campbell who is in highland park for us. first of all, tell us about the 8-year-old little boy who was paralyzed as a result of the attack. what s the latest on his condition? reporter: wolf, you know, even as investigators continue to look into the motive of this shooting, the shooter s victims are still trying to recover. they include 8-year-old cooper roberts, who we talked about last night. he was severely wounded in this parade shooting, suffering a severed spinal cord. he is now paralyzed from the waist down. we heard a short time ago from a family representative who said that today for the first time since the shooting he has regained consciousness, he is off a ventilator. he is still in an incredible amount of pain. we are told that as he regained consciousness, he was asking those around him i
you can see the cnn original series patagonia life on the edge of the world this sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. and on sunday morning you can join cnn s state of the union, jake tapper is going to be talking to illinois governor j.b. pritzker, new mexico gov new hampshire governor and congresswoman zoe lofgren. i m kaitlan collins in for jake tapper on this friday afternoon. thank you so much for joining me. our coverage continues right now with my friend wolf blitzer in the situation room. happening now, one of the most important witnesses yet goes before the january 6th select committee. what does former white house counsel pat cipollone saying right now behind closed doors? also tonight, a stunning and rare act of gun violence in japan. the former prime minister shinzo