doug emhoff is making history of his own. what is your job? as he redefines an old role for a new generation. there s this toxicity, this masculine idea of what a man is. a father. it s the kids initials. i just really wanted a reminder of what s important to me. who with the vice president is marking many firsts. this is very emotional to be able to do this. reporter: while still trying to make time for each other. we re not each other s chief of staff. we re husband and wife. it s the opportunity of a lifetime for the former entertainment lawyer who gave up his job to support his wife. men need to support women. we talk to people in politics and pop culture, and find out what it s like to be them. now being the second gentleman. what s it like to be the first second gentleman? i m only the first second gentleman because the country elected the first woman vice president, so i look at it really mostly in that lens. i m here because i m her hu
teachers at the end of may. and new details about what the 77 minutes of school hallway surveillance video shows. plus, a new covid variant spreading at an alarming rate throughout the united states, and this one is not deterred even by recent infections. so how do the vaccines hold up against it? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and members of the january 6th select house committee now publicly suggesting they will use tomorrow s hearing to draw direct links between the extremist groups who stormed the u.s. capitol and have been charged with seditious conspiracy and people inside donald trump s orbit. we are going to be connecting the dots during these hearings between these groups and those who were trying in government circles to overturn the election. what we heard cassidy hutchinson testify along the lines of trump telling mark meadows, the chief of staff, to talk to roger stone and others, mike flynn, and stone and flynn ha
woman went on to say that not contradicting is not the same as confirming. more on that. and two people familiar with cipollone s testimony says the committee did not ask him if he told hutchinson that they would quote get charged with every crime imaginable, unquote, if they went to the capitol. he would not have confirmed that, apparently, confirmed that statement if they had asked the question. you also heard the congresswoman say that some of what they learned from pat cipollone today will roll out in the future hearings to come. will we be hearing and seeing? remember it was videotaped as well some of his testimony as soon as next week? and will the former president be watching? you got to figure this is one witness that he really, really hoped would not cooperate with this committee. our committee is certain that donald trump does not want mr. cipollone to testify here. i want to bring in ryan nobles here tonight. ryan, good to see you. seven hours, first of all, a
legislators of the state look into this. reporter: beyond the doj probe, a separate criminal investigation into trump and his allies is escalating in georgia, where investigators subpoenaed key trump allies, including rudy giuliani and south carolina senator lindsey graham. the district attorney there says more subpoenas may soon be headed to trump s inner circle. we re going to do our due diligence. reporter: at a separate congressional investigation unearthing new details, like trump s eggeagerness to go to t capitol january 6th. mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure we don t go up to the capitol, cassidy. keep in touch with me. we re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. reporter: those revelations increasing trump s criminal exposure and raising the odds he could face repercussions. we heard there cassidy hutchinson s testimony regarding pat cipollone. he is expected to meet with the january 6
environment. finland takes the step of nato membership in order to strengthen not only its own security, but also in order to strengthen wider transatlantic security. this is not away from anybody. like you, mr. president, said nato is protective, not a threat to anybody. at the same time we must not forget that, at this very moment, the proud people of ukraine are fighting not only for their own freedom and democracy, but for our common security. finland, together with the eu and the united states, stands firmly behind ukraine. so, mr. president, once again, i want to thank you for making history with us. thank you. thank you. mr. president, thank you for welcoming president niinisto and me to the white house. the bonds between sweden and the united states, they are strong and long standing, and as you know, swedes first in your home state of delaware in 1638, and we were one of the first countries to recognize the united states as an independent nation in 1783. since th