reporting. who is the person at the center of all this? this comes from myself, pamela brown, jamie gangel. this is about a lawyer his work for cassidy hutchinson passantino was an ethics lawyer in donald trump s white house. then he started a political law firm. that firm has been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars this year alone by donald trump s political fundraising groups. and that included, we were able to confirm, payments for passantino repliresent cassidy hutchinson. she got a new lawyer, but became the star witness. now the house is publicly raising concerns about that entire setup. they have other concerns too, john, this lawyer, and it s a long list. this lawyer was telling her not to recall facts she did recall, not to clarify testimony that she believed was inaccurate. and on something that would cast a bad light on donald trump, he
of the united states tomorrow at the white house as expected and may also address a joint session of congress. here is a cnn exclusive tonight. trump s former white house ethics lawyer told cassidy hutchinson, remember she was the star witness of the january 6th hearing, that person apparently gave her the advice to give misleading testimony to the committee. yes, i have set a white house ethics lawyer. so you try to figure that out if you can. i want to start now with cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju is live on on capitol hill tonight. manu, a lot is going on. let s begin with those taxes. when are we going to learn more about these taxes and maybe even see them? yeah. we could actually see these very soon. and it could be a significant amount of information that donald trump has spent years trying to compact and not released to the public saying he was under endless audits, going to battle them in court, turning it over to congress a few weeks ago and now tonight in
good evening, everybody. i m laura coates, and this is cnn tonight. and look, there is a lot going on this evening. and we have with breaking news on capitol hill. we ll begin with that tonight because the all-powerful house ways and means committee, which is led by democrats as you know for now, voting tonight to release the former president donald trump s tax returns to the public. the committee s vote was along party lines, and it s a giant defeat for trump. he s fought for years now to keep all his tax information private citing audits and the like. also tonight a source saying the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is on his way to washington, d.c. at this very hour. he ll meet with the president of the united states tomorrow at the white house as expected and may also address a joint session of congress. and now here s a cnn exclusive tonight saying trump s former white house ethics lawyer told cassidy hutchinson remember she was the star witness of the
here john, with respect to them weight committee is doing its work because the question that is raised for me, if the committee is going to make a criminal referral for this lawyer, having obstructed their inquiry? because if they are not going to do that, then we have this space where we have an individual who is being publicly maligned, and they are not making a criminal referral and so that leaves just sort of, this open area as to whether or not they really think his conduct, or they really have the evidence suggesting that he potentially committed a crime. they haven t made one as far as we know yet. but we do know the doj spoke to cassidy hutchinson we believe, about this. olivia, given your experience with the past administration, this guy was an ethics lawyer. inside the white house. does this comport with your experience of there are adhering to truth? yeah, look at certainly does. i have actually been concern
january 6th hearings. that person apparently gave her the advice to give misleading testimony to the committee. and yes, i said a white house ethics lawyer, so you try to figure that out if you can. i want to start now with cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju who is live on capitol hill tonight. manu, a lot is going on. let s begin with those taxes. when are we going to learn more about these taxes and maybe even see them? reporter: yeah, we could actually see these very soon, and it could be a significant amount of information that donald trump has spent years trying to protect and not release to the public, contending he was under endless audit, going to court to battle them, ultimately turned over to congress just a few weeks ago. and now tonight in a party line vote house democrats voting to move ahead and release these to the public. what we are talking about here is six years of trump s tax returns including tax returns for eight affiliate businesses. we also expect