keilar. pat cipollone the former top lawyer at the white house has been subpoenaed by the january 6th committee. the committee clearly feels he is a central figure in their investigation. witnesses have testified that he pushed back on the fake electoral college scheme. cassidy hutchinson testified that cipollone warned if trump went to the capitol, quote, we re going to be charged with every crime imaginable. cipollone did meet with the panel informally in april but has been reluctant to do more. now a source tells dana bash he might agree to at least a limited transcribed interview. first on cnn, cassidy hutchinson stands by her testimony in the face of push back from the secret service. the former top aide to chief of staff mark meadows told the committee that trump was so determined to join his supporters at the capitol that he tried to grab the wheel of the beast. the presidential armored vehicle which was an suv that day. and lunged at an agent s throat. committee c
court and nbc justice correspondent pete williams, tom goldstein and kimberly adkins-store. pete, take us through the significance today. we hope to see we hope the supreme court will stream it on the website. we are waiting for that to start. the court said yesterday it would start right at noon. is that because they are streaming it because of the covid restrictions on the court? yes, i think that s part of it. of course, the security environment at the court. the big fence that s around it. it won t be the first time we will have seen one of the swearing in ceremonies on television. the first time they did that was for sonia sotomayor. this will be a scaled back version. members of her immediate family. john roberts will start the process. he will give her all justices have to take two oaths of office. not just the constitutional like you see the president take at the inauguration, but they also have to take a judicial oath. roberts will administer one and stephe
post today. they call him senile. they cite his performance at the debate where he couldn t even remember who he was who he impeached. and an up-and-down week on wall street and fears a recession could be around the corner. and so the question right now is can we bring inflation down without triggering a recession. my answer to that question is i don t know. but up first. new cnn reporting on the fall-out from donald trump keeping reams of classified documents at his beach house in mar-a-lago. cnn confirming the national archives retrieved more than 100 classified documents back in january, some 700 pages worth of material. the confirmation comes from a letter from the archives addressed to trump s own attorneys. we are learning that the archives were so concerned about what they uncovered at trump s home that it asked the intelligence community to assess potential damage, if there was any national security risk posed by how the documents were handled and stored. t
world, it is wednesday, august 3rd and i m brianna keilar with john avalon this morning. good morning? in for john berman. good morning to you. and it is the morning after election night in america where democracy was one of the things on the ballot. primary races in five states setting the stage for what will be some of the most competitive races in november. also another test of donald trump s grip on the gop. in conservative kansas voters sent a dramatic message and a resounding defeat for efforts to eliminate state abortion protections. it s the first time since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade that voters have weighed in on the issue. with 78% of the vote in as of tuesday night nearly 700,000 people have cast ballots in the primary and that number dwarfs the voter turnout in the 2020 presidential primary election. and remember when ex-president trump endorsed an ambiguous eric in the missouri senate race on election eve? well, one of the erics won, cnn projec
harvest and to store what they can, whatever the risks. steve bannon the former aide to president trump faces jail after being found guilty of contempt of congress. speaking to reporters he remains defiant: the prosecutor missed one very important phrase, right? i stand with trump and the constitution and i will never back off. never. never. thousands of people are evacuated from their homes as spanish wildfires continue to rage in the north east of the country. gridlock at the english channel as the port of dover is overwhelmed with traffic and warnings of worse to come. and the more you look the more you discover! how the powerful newjames webb space telescope is expanding our view of the universe. for the first time since russia began its full scale invasion of ukraine in february, both sides have signed up to a major un agreement allowing wheat and corn to be exported from ukrainian ports. it s aimed at bringing down the high price of grain and restoring sup