6th, we had conversations about potentially obstructing justice or defrauding the electoral count. we ll have much more on her testimony in just a moment. back here in madrid, multiple developments this morning on the first day of the nato summit. president biden, he s participating in several meetings with nato allies including a highly anticipated sit-down with the turkish president next hour. so far, the alliance has announced a significant strengthening of forces along the eastern flank. formally invited finland and sweden to become members after overcoming turkey s opposition and naming china in the strategic concept, as it s known, their mission statement. confronting russia as the brutal invasion of ukraine drags on. poppy? we ll take you back to jim in madrid in just a moment. let s begin this hour though with more on yesterday s damning january 6th testimony. our capitol hill reporter melanie zanona with me. you have reporting, significant developments. walk us
i m jim sciutto reporting from the nato summit in madrid in spain. and i m poppy harlow in new york. right now, we are closely monitoring the supreme court where the justices are set to release new opinions this morning. we ll bring you those as soon as we get them. we are also following stunning testimony from the hearing yesterday. cassidy hutchinson painting a picture of a furious donald trump on the day of the insurrection. she testified the president wanted to join those who marched armed to the capitol. this despite warnings from white house counsel pat cipollone. 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. do you remember which crimes mr. cipollone was concerned with? in the days leading up to the
something to the effect of, mark, something needs to be done, the flood will be on your f-ing hands. reporter: the committee is hoping these hearings inspire pat cipollone to come forward. congresswoman liz cheney, a republican, continues to try to make direct appeals to him. she tweeted just this morning asking him to come publicly testify. and that this is in the greater good for him to come forward but so far, he s resistant. we ll see in the coming weeks. great reporting, thank you. let s discuss with david gergen. good to have you. thank you, poppy. good to be here. such an important perspective because of all the men i just mentioned that you advised through all of those years. what did yesterday change? i think yesterday really set
coming weeks. we don t know when. we don t know who they re going to call, or do we? we do know there s going to be two more hearings. the committee is continuing to push for another witness and that s pat cipollone, the white house counsel. he continues to be sort of a white whale for the committee and easy to see why. that s because hutchinson testified he had maejor concern about the potential legal implications if he went to the capitol on june 6th, saying they would be charge with, quote, every crime imaginable if they did. take a listen to what else cassidy hutchinson had to say about pat cipollone. i remember pat saying to him something to the effect of the rioters have gone to the capitol mark, we need to go now. mark said he doesn t want to do anything, pat, and pat said something to the effect of, and very clearly said this to mark,