of staff mark meadows. she has been in some of the most dramatic motels of videotaped testimony. she identified the names of several republican lawmakers she said were asking about pardons. she talked about conversations around the legality of the fake elector scheme. she reportedly confirmed accounts that trump reacted approvingly to the chants of hang mike pence. we re also learning that the cell phone video of john eastman last week. you re looking at it as it s unfolding, eastman was there in order to overturn the election. we ll have more on that in a moment. let s bring in jessica schneider on the latest. brianna, cassidy hutchinson has long been considered a crucial witness since up close and personal to those at the white house. and she does have crucial details on what happened on january 6. we know she s been interviewed behind closed doors privately by the committee three times. and now, she will appear at this last-minute hearing in public. privately, we kno
especially is. happening they can t take over the acts that might influence the outcomes of, say, parts of the midterms. so they re rushing against the clock. to me what this speaks to, they think they ve got to get something done now. it s a little vague, 60-day cutoff, 90-day cutoff, whatever it means they don t want to be caught on the outside to make really important prosecutorial decisions on top of the midterm deadlines. i also think it s important, like you say, they get something done from the perspective of whether or not doj is going to prosecute somebody, right? i mean, merrick garland is under a lot of pressure right now to do something, to indict somebody. and i think that this committee s really trying to move to put all of the evidence on the table to say what are you doing. to make a referral, he doesn t have to do it, but i think he s under a lot of pressure to do it. you talked about the different buckets of investigation, laura. the new york times and cnn is
and today, the unc security council is set to hold an emergency meeting. c cnn s salma abdelaziz is live with that. what a horrific strike, salma? absolutely terrible, john. rescue operations are still ongoing. they re still trying to pull survivors out of the ruins of that mall. what we understand happened, according to president zelenskyy, yesterday afternoon, air raid sirens went out at the mall. the mall is nowhere near the battlefield. nowhere near the front line. people started evacuating when they heard the sirens and that s when they were hit by those russian missiles. i know we have the video of fires raging for hours. 18 people killed, dozens wounded and serious fears that toll could go up. now, russia says it was targeting a weapons depot. president zelenskyy is clear, he calls this an act of terror. he s accusing moscow of
sideline of the nato summit. one more thing i would note, too, we do expect ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy to give a virtual address to the nato summit. this is something that we saw happen at the g7 summit as well. we saw him, of course, talking about the time line for the war and really wanting it to come to an end by the end of the year. he also asked for air defense systems including the kind that can shoot down missiles in the sky. so no question when the nato summit happens, a huge, huge goal is going to be talking about how to bring this up, a war to the end, as quickly as possible. yeah, a lot of important work to do that there. mj lee, thank you for covering for pus. for the first time in over a century, russia has defaulted on its foreign debt the historic default has been widely anticipated. but let s bring in cnn s chief business correspondent christine romans to talk about this, because this is a very big deal. this goes to the isolation of russia on the glo
criminal end with the justice department investigation and more will come today at that public hearing today at 1:00 p.m., guys. we ll be watching, jessica schneider, thank you so much. joining us now, attorney at law, laura jarrett, and cnn magazine s errol louis. and sophia ellis, author of the brand-new book be the one you need, 21 life lessons learned taking care of everyone but me. i want to start with the surprise hearing. a surprise in that it was not on the schedule we did not know who was appearing until late last night. cassidy hutchinson described by a reporter she knows everything. the question is, is she willing to spill the beans. the committee said she had new evidence, presumably, there is something there, in addition to what they already learned, in the fact that she sat down for three different depositions, i believe. she s already given us quite a