primetime thursday night. we are learning tonight that that person is matthew pottinger, he is set to testify, apparently this coming thursday. he served on then president trump s national security council but. his service came to an abrupt end when he decided to resign in the middle of the riot. one of my staff brought me a print out of a tweet by the president. and the tweet said something to the effect of, mike pence, the vice president and not have the courage to do which should have been done. i read that tweet. and i made a decision at that moment to resign. that is where i knew that i was leaving that they. once i read a tweet. now a reminder of with that tweet said, he wrote in part, quote, mike pence did not have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution. unquote. when trump was out of sight during the riot, of course he had time to slam his own on twitter and did nothing to lower the temperature and you are, let a
hutchinson testifying that lead white house counsel pat cipollone warned of legal exposure if trump followed his supporters to the capitol. we re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we let mat move happen. do you remember what crimes mr. scipollone was concerned about? we had conversations about potentially ubstrucking justice or defrauding the electoral count. hutchinson relaying a second hand account about a defiant trump who wanted to go to the capitol anyway, allegedly even attacking the leader of his secret service detail while in the presidential motorcade. i m the f ing president, take me up to the capitol now. the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. mr. engle grabbed his arm, said sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. we re going back to the west wing. we re not going to the capitol. mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge towards bobby engle. hutchinson telling the commi
he followed escrowing the white house warning china s military drills near taiwan are quote an extreme reaction to speaker pelosi s visit to taiwan. president biden out trying to manage a crisis that s getting more dangerous by the day. he tested negative for covid today. but he will stay isolated in the white house until he has a second negative test. all this comes during a busy weekend here in washington for democrats on the verge of scoring a major political victory as a senate prepares for a marathon voting session on their new spending bill. arthel: straight hit reaction and analysis on china s rising threat when james joins us. live and we have fox team coverage chat is tracking the vote on capitol hill. lucas tomlinson is falling white house developments, jeff paul is at cpac for president trump will speak tonight. alexandria hoff gets us started on the latest taiwan crisis, alexandria. this morning officials in taiwan reported 14 chinese warships and 20 planes cond
bipartisan action on the issues of guns. congress passing that bill exactly one month to the day of that horrific massacre that koured in uvalde, texas. this doesn t do everything i want. it does include actions live longed call for that will save lives. the pride parade in oslo cancelled after a shooting near a gay bar killed two people and hurt eight others. i m pamela brown in washington. you re in the cnn newsroom. for the first time since 1973, american women woke up this morning to this reality. they no longer have a constitutional right to make major decisions about their bodies about reproduction, about abortion. after five justices over turned the landmark roe versus wade decision, protests spilled out across the country today including right outside the supreme court. a short time ago, u.s. capitol police announced they arrested two people accused of throwing paint over the fence pi the supreme court. states are now in power to define abortion laws and 26 stat
everybody. i m yasmin vossoughian in for another hour of news. the january 6 committee may be pausing hearings until september but their investigation is moving full steam ahead. committee members fanned out on the sunday shows making it clear they hope the justice department is listening to them. there is a massive difference between i m going to prosecute the last administration for political vengeance and not prosecuting an administration that literally attempted a failed coupe. i sure as hell hope they have a criminal investigation at this point into donald trump. congresswoman liz cheney dropped what may be the biggest piece of news over the weekend saying the january 6th committee is prepared to consider a subpoena for jenny thomas, wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. we certainly hope that she will agree to come in voluntarily, but the committee is fully prepared to contemplate a subpoena if she does not. i hope it doesn t get to that. i hope she wil