really telling, jake, because it shows that trump is still in command of this party. republicans were afraid to speak up against him. and meanwhile, gop leaders have been absolutely silent, even though they had quite a lot to say in the immediate aftermath of january 6th, and that includes kevin mccarthy, the house gop leader who was cited yesterday in the testimony as being one of the people who was deeply concerned by the idea of trump coming to the capitol on january 6th. yeah. and it s interesting because donald trump has really been taking it on the chin from conservative media after yesterday s hearing. i m not talking about the dead enders on the other chandal, but people in conservative editorial boards and such. tell us more about that. really tough headlines for trump. i want to tick through a few of them. the wall street journal editorial board said, republicans should not look away from the compelling evidence. the conservative washington examiner called tru
[ music playing ] we begin with fallout from the damming and most alarming testimony yet in the january 6th investigation. we have new reaction to what cassidy hutchinson said under oath and the possible criminal consequences for former president trump. we got a new statement a little while ago from cassidy hutchinson s lawyer. reporter: that s right, wolf, this comes as she is receiving criticism from her fellow republicans and those closely aligned with the former president donald trump, hutchinson is not backing down. she stands by all of the testimony that she provided yesterday under oath. and that testimony she provided, washington, it was very damming for donald trump and those close to his orbit. one day after a bombshell hearing featuring former white house aide cassidy hutchinson, tonight one senior how republican telling cnn this testimony will lead to indictment. pointing to white house chief of staff mark meadows and possibly even trump. the january 6th select
devastating video from that attack. what you can tell us? what is putin saying? so this was president putin meeting in turkmenistan with a group of caspian leaders and addressing for the first time this horrendous attack of 18 people killed in this shopping mall. many others still unaccounted for. cnn s own thelma abdul assist was at the site and saw it with her own eyes and yet president putin is maintaining russia had nothing to do with it and russia does not kill civilians. take a listen to what he said. our army does not attack any infrastructure sight. there is no need. we have every capability of knowing what is situated where. well, of course, that raises the question they know what is situated where? why is it they have consistently hit targets?
room. i will see you tomorrow. happening now, former president trump s risk of bridge prosecution may be rising right now after a former white house aide explosive public testimony about his eratic belative i ha behavior january 6th. a senior republican is now predicting indictment. also tonight, nato moves to expand its forces in europe. president biden says the alliance is doing exactly what vladimir putin did not want. this, as new video of a deadly attack drives home putin s brutality, while he keeps making new gains against his war in ukraine. we want cowelcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room.
leading the long effort to stay neutral all because of what transpired over the course of the last 12 months. president biden came to office trying to bring the alliance back together, trying to make the claim that america was back and would lead the european and trans-atlantic alliances to a place they won t with hills predecessors, nobody has forced that, it is clear president putin wanted it, he got the opposite, wolf. obviously, very, very clear, a major blunder on the part of putin to be sure the nato leadership deserves credit for the willingness they are going ahead and doing what they are doing. let s get some more from our chief international cornered clarissa ward. she is joining us from the summit in madrid. we heard, i understand, from putin, himself, he is denying the shocking missile attack on that ukrainian shopping mall that killed a lot of people, showing our viewers the