at stake, it s yet to be quantified if ever it could be. new tonight as well remember that moment that they were talking about in the committee yesterday about somebody trying to encourage a witness to not be forthcoming? well, we ve now learned a trump white house ethics lawyer urged the january 6th committee s star witness, cassidy hutchinson, to give misleading testimony. stay with us. listen, i m done settling. because this is my secret.
former trump white house ethics lawyer. put that together for us and the importance of him and what difficulty he could be and if that was some alleged witness tampering. sure. both these things are really big. they are an example of what we will see in the report. we have the executive summary, a pretty big executive summary. now we re going to see the document for history. things we didn t see that happened behind the scenes are very good examples. we will have ornato. the committee says he was not credible. he didn t recall. there are other people, not just hutchinson, who make clear that trump is irate, absolutely insistent about going up to the rally and make it clear whether or not he lunges for the wheel or not.
committee earlier this week there was a lawyer telling one of their clients you can just say you don t recall things to the committee even if you do remember them. well that witness, turns out was cassidy hutchinson and the lawyer turns out stephen passantino. an ethics lawyer. you can t write this stuff. and sent a statement to cnn insisting he represented hutchinson honestly and forthright with the company. and ultimately, she got new lawyers and in that hearing where she provided bombshell testimony. it s important. we talked about the referrals to doj, a lot of that is not legally binding if they hand over evidence to obstruct or tamper with witnesses in the congressional designation, that s something that doj is going to look at. by the trump pack and others
historic day. we appreciate it. ukraine president zelenskyy will have a busy day on his whirlwind trip to d.c. set to arrive at the white house at 2:00 eastern. he ll pete with president biden in the oval office at 2:30 and then at 4:30 he ll hold a joint news conference with biden and at 7:30 he ll address congress so stay tuned to cnn throughout the day for the latest developments. soon the january 6th committee will release its final report after an 18-month investigation. hearings and bombshell testimony too. plus, a cnn exclusive report on trump s former ethics lawyer who allegedly told the former president s aide to mislead the january 6th committee. if you used shipgo this whole thihing wouldndn t be a thing. yeah, dad! i don t want to deal with this. oh, you brbrought your luggage to the airport. that s adorable. with shipgo shipping your luggage before you fly
they, in fact, recall, you re telling them to lie under oath. so he could be prosecuted under that. could. of course, a potential violation of the attorney code of ethics. ironic that he s a former white house ethics lawyer. but people were taken aback when they learned that the trump pacs were paying for the representation of witnesses. that s not a violation of the ethics laws, but it is, when that attorney starts to advise the client, in a way to protect the payer s interest and not the client s interest. that may be what we re seeing here. it s perfectly okay to not remember a fact. people say i don t recall all the time, because you re questioned for hours and hours on end. elliott, if you re preparing a client to be deposed, and this is what you do. if you have a client being deposed, you don t put them out there without practice. you walk them through things. what do you say to them to explain to them what to say or