he spent hours today with the select committee and the staff. we are following news on a potential witness, lawyers for stewart rhodes telling msnbc he wants to testify but there is a catch. we will tell you what it will take if the committee was the head of the oath keepers to go public. a new ruling between congress and donald trump. the ruling coming in on if the house committee can get their hands on the former president s financial records. plus, president biden at the japanese embassy here in washington, d.c. ameer, signing the condolence book for shinzo abe, who was assassinated on the campaign trail today. we have that coming up. i am hallie jackson minor in washington with a lot to go into this afternoon. with me is our panel. we know a little bit about what has gone down. he has been described as cooperative within the parameters of protecting executive privilege for the office of general counsel. take that from source for, you know, corporate , if you will,
overturn the election results. that man is donald trump s top white house lawyer pat cipollone. he sat down for a transcribed interview under oath with investigators this morning. as far as we can tell, that interview or that meeting is ongoing at this hour. punch bowl news reports this about the parameters of today s testimony from cipollone, quote, sources tell us that the select committee does not have an agreement about what investigators can or cannot ask him. prior to hutchinson s testimony the panel had discussed an arrangement with cipollone for an on the record interview, but cipollone backed away from it, sources tell us. cipollone is expected to claim executive privilege over conversations he had with trump, but there is plenty that the committee is interested in outside of that category. for example, we expect cipollone will be asked about conversations with former white house chief of staff mark meadows. the possibility that cipollone could provide gamechanging i
january 6th, that day and actually the hours. i think a lot, what we will see, also, what we are being told by the committee, of course, we have been asking about tuesday s hearing. do they have a hearing in the committee? they are saying, witnesses that that hearing will be based, in part, on what cipollone tells them today. this is, you heard it a little bit in what a source told msnbc as far as the cooperation of cipollone, the idea of executive privilege in trying to protect those conversations. how much of a claim 10 cipollone make? how much does this play into that discussion? i think the big picture is he was on team normal. within the confines of what is allowed and what lawyers say is allowed, he is someone who will generally want to get the story out. he will still want to respect his client s privilege, you
government is doing what they can from all of what we have learned about in hearing from the white house, hearing and working closely in the government to get this done. we are doing all we can, you know? we want brittney to feel as safe as possible. of course, one her home. i feel like, especially with this recent call with the president and vice president are cherelle that they doing that. you ptalked about reverend sharpton who will be at this rally. he wants to try to visit with other faith leaders and brittney to try to see her at some point this fall to see how she is doing and let her know that the u.s. and the president have not forgotten about her. do you think that will happen? what is your level of confidence and why would that be important who recently wrote