abe assassinated during a campaign speech by a man with a homemade gun. and a new report shows the u.s. jobs market stayed strong last month despite high inflation and recession fears. this hour what the numbers could mean for the u.s. economy and for the biden administration. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. we begin this hour with a highly anticipated testimony of former white house counsel pat cipollone to the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. let s go straight to capitol hill. our reporter melanie is on the story for us. what do we know, first of all, about the testimony of this key witness? do we know if cipollone has been cooperating or not? reporter: well, pat cipollone has been testifying for eight hours and counting now behind closed doors and he has left several times throughout the course of the day to meet with his own down in separate side
it s now over a week after fbi agents descended on former president trump s florida home. new details are now emerging about the criminal investigation that prompted the search. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is following all of these developments, including the high level witnesses who have now been questioned. reporter: tonight, new revelations that former president trump s two top white house lawyers interviewed with the fbi about classified documents at mar-a-lago. white house council pat cipollone and his deputy pat philbin were trump s designated representatives to the national archives when trump left office. they could have insight about what was taken to mar-a-lago and why 11 sets of classified documents remained there until last monday, when fbi agents searched trump s palm beach home. the new details come as the court fight for more information about the search is looming. a federal judge announcing he ll hold a hearing thursday on whether to publicl
understand about january 6th and the conspiracy, the plan to carry out a coup. the hearing centered around the explosive testimony of a single witness, 25-year-old cassidy hutchinson. she s a trump white house aide who did what so many of her colleagues and her bosses, including her direct boss, chief of staff mark meadow have so far refused to do. she told the truth. she cooperated with the panel having sat for four taped interviews before today s testimony. this afternoon in public she made it clear that the brutal unsparing violence that took place at the united states capitol was not just something unexpected, something that got out of hand, as many in the republican party would want you to believe. it was part of a planned, premeditated coup attempt. hutchinson testified that the white house was fully aware that january 6th could turn violent before that day. they let it happen anyway. chief of staff mark meadows was told on the morning of the 6th that the attendees for
travel situation? will it interrupt your summer plans? and pride month targeted. notorious extremist groups getting violent as they take aim at the lgbtq community. are some politicians providing cover and even incitement? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead. the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection is preparing its fourth hearing and they say they will show evidence donald trump was involved in a specific scheme, this one to submit fraudulent slates of electors, presumably in hopes any confusion would throw the matter from congress back to the states. tomorrow s hearing will feature georgia election officials brad raffensperger and gabe sterling. raffensperger is the georgia secretary of state who trump reportedly pressured to find some 11,000 votes so trump could falsely climb he won the state. we re also hear from the arizona house speaker rusty bowers who rudy giuliani allegedly pressured to let the stat
ripped their lives apart, their devastating personal stories were revealed today in the most emotional january 6th hearing yet. plus, new details on trump s highly illegal campaign to pressure state elections officials to install fake electors. just a few hours ago the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection laid out in clear terms just how broad donald trump s thirst for power and how deep his acceptance for violence really went. the committee outlined how trump knew he had lost but plowed ahead anyway with a plan to get what he wanted. part that have plan included a cordnated campaign of harassment where he and his allies repeatedly bullied state elections officials in key battleground states to reject ballots outright while also targeting local election officials with unfounded claims of fraud. privately he and his allies led by an unmoored rudy giuliani hounded officials while publicly waging a smear campaign fueled with lies that led to a wave o